I am new on this site and have been reading posts made by others to learn more about how things work. Sometimes I click on ads on those pages. (not my own)

I came upon this post about clicking on each other's posts and was really surprised by the comment made in answer to the post which seems to say that we are not allowed to click on ads on this site at all.

Of course we can not click on ads on our own bytes and blurbs.

And clicking just to be clicking is abuse and is wrong.

However, I dont see why I should not click on an ad on this site as long as it is not on one of my pages when I see one that I am interested in learning more about.

There are frequently some very interesting ads being served on these pages and I dont think that Adsense intends that we never again click on a Google ad once we sign up as a publisher and receive publisher code.

When I became a publisher, I did not stop being a consumer.

Sometimes I sign up for things or purchase things, sometimes not, just as I would if I clicked that ad on someone else's site. That is not cheating.

In my opinion, clicking on ads is an area in which we need to use judgment and click on the ads that interest us and that we would click on if we were on another site, excepting of course, those ads served on our own posts.