The other day I was trying to post a listing on ActiveRain.  I'd just put the listing into vFlyer and was going to post the HTML that vFlyer recommends here to get it some exposure.  (vFlyer does a pretty good job of easily and neatly laying out an HTML flyer).

Posting the listing happened pretty easily, but then I noticed I wasn't getting points for it.  I tried including it in a group specifically about promoting one's listings, and that didn't matter.

I had read the other day that listings weren't being featured on localism, but I hadn't known they weren't getting points -- if indeed, that's what happened.

After a little while, I tried removing the vFlyer code and writing a "meta" article like this one, but still no points.  The article was public, not members only, and the settings looked like they always did on any other lame posts like the one with the clown in it here recently.

So I got to wondering what the deal is on posting listings here, and why it seems -- maybe I'm misreading it -- that there's something in the ActiveRain code with what would appear to be a prejudice against properties.  I know there is a predeliction against them among the bloggerati, but I consider that just an affectation -- I didn't realize it had been institutionalized.  And to be sure, there's still a chance this is a PEBCAK issue ("Problem Exists Between Chair and Keyboard"), but I just wanted to see if anyone else has run into it.