If you are a vendor or are in a wedding related business, you are NOT allowed to post, comment, direct knotties to your website or business or solicit on the message board. I would advise that you don't even make a user name.
If you are a vendor or involved in a wedding related business and are posting about your business on the message board, your post will be removed and you will be banned immediately. Once you are banned, your posts will not be viewable (except to you) going forward.
From The Knot's Community Rules:
- No soliciting of any kind on the message boards or in the chat room -- it is neither allowed nor appreciated by the community. If you are interested in advertising opportunities, please contact salesinfo@theknot.com - Wedding professionals involved in a wedding-related enterprise cannot post any information on The Knot message boards, even if offering services free of charge.
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To make our Community a better resource for our Knotties, vendor reviews are allowed to be posted on the message boards by brides. In addition to this, vendors have the chance to respond to negative reviews posted on our message boards via The Knot. This allows brides and vendors to give both sides of the story and for brides to plan their wedding with more accurate details.
Brides -- you are able to post all vendor reviews on our forums, but keep in mind that they must be factual, thoughtful, and free of profanity and character assassination. If your review doesn't meet these guidelines, the review will be removed.
Vendors -- you can now respond to a negative post so that brides can hear your side of the story. If you're a vendor and see a post you'd like to respond to, please do the following:
1. Draft your response and be sure it too is factual and free of profanity and character assassinations.
2. Send your response, along with the URL of the post, the name of the board, and original poster and date, to vendorresponses@theknot.com.
3. We'll review and post your response if it's warranted and meets our Community Guidelines.
4. If the original post doesn't meet our Community Guidelines, it will be deleted.
5. The post will be locked after the vendor response is posted. Any further discussion should be made via email to The Knot.
Please be sure to email us your response and don't post the response yourself, as we will remove it. Questions or comments? Please email messageboards@theknot.com.
Any member of our community, including a bride, involved in a wedding related business must adhere to the same rules as wedding professionals and are not permitted to post on The Knot message boards about their business/affiliation. (This includes links in signatures, references in bios, disclosing your occupation, etc.)
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the moderator.