so for this question

I'm not sure why a hole saw wouldn't work ... ?

@Aaron The "5 inches deep" part might be a problem. You'd have to drill a bit, remove the slug, drill a bit more, remove the slug...

@ton.yeung "If a large percentage of your posts include a mention of your product or website, you're probably here for the wrong reasons." This is the key.

I'll do everything I can to save good answers, but if you're looking for free advertising I'll be like...

If you want free advertising, try Facebook, Twitter, etc.

yeah but most hole saws can do at least a couple of inches I thought

so certainly not the end of the world

A hole saw will only drill about an inch deep, so you're chiseling out the slug ~5 times. With a forstner bit can go straight through without stopping.

@ton.yeung So basically you feel like users should be paid for their answers?

The purpose of the site is to be the go-to source of information on a specific topic. Driving traffic to other sites, hardly feels like a good way to achieve that goal.

Unfortunately, users looking to drive traffic to their site don't often provide good answers. It usually fits the form of outright spam, or here's a taste, now read the actual content here.

If a user posted awesome answers, but also slipped in a relevant link to their own site (from time to time). There probably wouldn't be a problem.

I'm obviously not a mod on this site, but am on a few others, and that's exactly the way we treat folks on them - if they are posting valuable answers that can stand alone, then they are valuable members of the community. The odd link elsewhere is fine.

It's when they are obviously only here to drive traffic to their own site that we get annoyed with them

@ton.yeung Evening!

@ton.yeung Do you have any specific examples you can point to, or is this all hypothetical?

I'm of the mind that links are money. So if you want to make money from the site, you'd better do some damn fine work for it.

If you earn your links, nobody will have a problem with it.

@ton.yeung self promotion is ok, but good content is even better

@ton.yeung Currently trying to figure out whether or not I can spend the time to do a good job redoing an entire bathroom into a wet room with walk in shower...or whether just to pay a professional. I want to, and I know I can do it...but the time trade-off. Grrrr