I joined some time ago and I did watch the posts. Recently someone asked where they could meet local hikers and I replied that they should look at local yahoo groups. Shortly after that I received a link to a group to meet fellow backpackers so I went back to PB and posted a link to that site. The next day I went back to PB and both posts were deleted. I looked at eh FAQ and found out that links were not permitted. No links was bad enough but a general reference to yahoo groups was over the top IMO. I figured that they could run their little kingdom without me and I have not been back since that time. The site was not that good anyway.