Use of a shortening site in posting links

[Jet Cash]

I set up a shortening service on my domain G8S, and I use it sometimes when posting. It is useful for checking stats and a few other things. I noticed that a post had been deleted for cloaking (not one of mine). Does this mean that I should avoid using this when posting on Bitcoin Talk? Here is an example which links to this forum without any tricks.

http://g8s.com/bittalk

[SFR10]

Does this mean that I should avoid using this when posting on Bitcoin Talk?

Only if your violating the following rules (which is not the case), meaning you're free to continue with it.

4. No referral code (ref link) spam. [1]

5. No link shortners that requires users to view an ad.

[hilariousandco]

That rule is more to stop people ab/using spammy paid ones and people hiding refferals or malicious links so you should be ok.

[Jet Cash]

Losing ref links is one of the secondary consequences of URL shortening, I'll make sure I don't do it here. I tend to use it mainty for shortening the massive URLs generated by my picture hosting site, and they don't have affiliate codes in them.

Thanks for the clarification