[wp-forums] Affiliate links

[Lara at Anubis Marketing]

I see no problem with removing affiliate links of any kind. Regardless of
whether or not the poster states their intention or not.
These forums are no place to try to make a buck... Be it with services or
affiliate links or otherwise.
We've cracked down on people offering their "services" - this should be
equally (if not more severely) punishable. It's the same thing as that one
guy who went around spamming posts for phones... Just because his was a
direct link shouldn't make a difference.

~ Lara

Remove and warn; adding affliate links in this way is manipulative and bad
form; if a company did it, you'd call it spam. Besides, a lot of hosts have
rules banning such acts (undisclosed whoring of affliate links in public
forums).

On 4/27/06, Podz <podz at tamba2.org.uk> wrote:
>
> I just moderated a post which had a link in.
> The link was an affiliate link but this was not indicated anywhere.
> I have not the slightest problem with doing what I did.
>
> The rules do not cover affiliate links at all.
>
> My feeling is that our forums are not the place for affiliate links 
> UNLESS this is spelt out in crystal clear language ("If you click my 
> link and buy something then I get x$$$$"). I do think we have users 
> who will not know how these things work and in such cases an affiliate 
> link exploits their ignorance. I think that's bad. In fact I still 
> think they are bad - the "Who is the best host" threads are full of them
sometimes.
>
> Ban?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> P.
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