[wp-forums] Affiliate links

[Phu]

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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