Hello, new forum user here!
First of all, I feel like reading the frustration and past experiences of other creatives here in this thread made me more well informed about the situation. I did use the promo threads thinking it'd be another way to share my comic (aside from other social media), but maybe it is better to direct the forums towards more of actual discussion or writing and comic creation rather than promos.
People here offered all sorts of interesting ideas, I think that maybe there could be a pinned promotion thread where is the only place where people can just promote their comic, and otherwise the forum wont have promotional threads (not that you can't talk or share your comic in other threads, obviously, just not posts dedicated to promotions)... Anyways I'm glad this was brought up, being new in the forums and a little shy, I didn't know it was something that bothered other people here, so I apologize!