Are company accounts allowed?

Question

Earlier this year this question was asked about whether a company account is considered spam if they aren't explicitly advertising in their posts. That question was status completed as it was about a specific answer and not a broader question. Joe Strazzere asked if companies are permitted to register and provide answers, but I didn't see any real discussion besides mention of the Doxygen account on SO.

I recently came across the user Careerasaurus.com whose profile is very clearly advertising their website. However, the answers they have given so far have been generally good, one accepted with +5, and none of them have linked or advertised their site. They aren't doing anything obviously bad, but I still feel that they are using The Workplace to promote their own site, which doesn't sit well with me.

Is registration of a company account allowed? Does it fall under spam, even if they aren't doing anything overtly spammy?

Answer 1

Reminds me of this - https://xkcd.com/810/

But more seriously, the main thing is that there is a clear company affiliation disclosed. Promoting a product without disclosing the affiliation is the main problem (assuming the answer is meaningful/good to begin with - low quality answers should be dealt with).

For example, a bad answer might be:

check out this website - it can help Careerasaurus.com

Or even a longer answer which basically is promoting that site without disclosing the relationship between the poster and the site.

Given that the user is clearly affiliated with the site, I think it's actually a good thing to have them named what they are - it makes that affiliation more clear, for every post they make.

Realistically I think it probably would be great for Workplace if other career related sites had users contributing high quality content.