Amazon.com takes action at annoying self-promotion (?)

The forum "Welcome to the Meet Our Author's Forum" (http://www.amazon.com/forum/meet%20our%20authors) appeared about 4 hours ago with the following message:

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Amazon Community Team says:
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First we would like to say "Welcome" to our new forum. The `Meet Our Authors' community is designed to give authors a space to engage with one another and promote their latest and greatest works. This will also provide a great chance for customers to talk to the authors.

With the advent of the new community, we will no longer allow self-promotional posts in other communities. Starting on Saturday, May 14th, all "shameless self promotion" activity will be limited to the `Meet Our Authors' community. Promotional threads outside of these forums will be removed.

The whole thread, I took that from:
http://tinyurl.com/6dywaeq

Warte schon gespannt darauf, wann amazon.de nachzieht - falls es stimmt. *crosses fingers*

Jupp, die sind maechtig am Aufraeumen, was auch gut ist. Bin selber zwar auch Autor und damit dann betroffen, aber das ist schon okay. Wenn die threads erstmal active sind, werden die auch in 'activste discussionen' auftauchen. Dann koennen Leser selber entscheiden. Es gibt eben noch eine Menge die vielleicht schreiben, aber wohl nicht lesen koennen und ihre plugs ueberall platzieren wo geht. Sehr nervig.

I'll post the link again: There is a separate "Meet Our Authors" forum on Amazon.de now.

http://www.amazon.de/forum/Triff%20unsere%20Autoren/ref=cm_cd_t_rvt?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx2MZ41GO2AGX4Z

Hey cool! Danke für den Hinweis.