Years and years ago, Walkaboutsverse was a problem. He would post the texts of his poems multiple times. I think he sometimes posted the same poem as often as ten times in some cases. So, I allowed him to post his poems once, and only once, in threads that were collections of his verses - and then to link to them where there was a need to refer to a poem. That's always been the deal at Mudcat - you're welcome to post things once, but not multiple times. We've also tried to discourage people from posting messages that were just links without explanation.
This is, after all, a discussion forum and not just a collection of links and copy-paste stuff.

Multiple postings of the same thing are just annoying, and smack of self-promotion instead of actual communication.

-Joe-