I guess I don't see the need for a vote when nothing prevents the information from being concurrently posted at the place the question is asked and on another site to aggregate as a FAQ. If the reason for posting links versus the actual information is to accomplish the latter, concurrent posting seems to me a very simple solution that is most beneficial to the community. It preserves context and makes the information accessible at multiple locations. Win-Win!

I have done this frequently...post a solution to a problem here, copy text, and then paste it into a new post on my blog for posterity.

Nik

AFAIK, no AdSense TOS are being violated by including the DotNetNuke Project ClientID in the search URL. I will verify this again with our AdSense rep and report back if there are any caveats.

BTW, this is similar to the search box in FireFox which generates a URL like this:
http://www.google.com/search?q=dotnetnuke&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

Nik

Google will ban your account in a heartbeat once they see traffic coming in from sites that break Google's TOS.  There's plenty of unsavoury sites that run DNN so this will only be a matter of time.

As regards people linking to their own forums, products, skin goodie bags etc, it would be nice if the poster very clearly pointed out it was a self link  or even a link to which they had a commercial interest. Otherwise I don't see the harm.