I really hate to do this but I had to move the post ("Ebates Deals") about the affiliate links off the board. This kind of stuff is bad and inappropriate for N-R for several reasons:
1. It hurts our site's reputation with search and makes us look shady.
2. It's one member making money off of other members without delivering a service or good, but using N-R's hosting to facilitate this. We run no advertising here and we don't take donations and this stuff abuses the non-commercial aspect of our site. Other ad-heavy Defender forums rewrite the affiliate IDs in these links to capture the commissions but we don't do that shady shit. It's better for N-R to just prohibit them entirely.
You can still link to good deals on the 'net here, provided that you aren't collecting a commission and of course, you can always sell stuff directly in the classifieds.
If you spot any affiliate action here, please flag the message.
Thanks for understanding.
1. It hurts our site's reputation with search and makes us look shady.
2. It's one member making money off of other members without delivering a service or good, but using N-R's hosting to facilitate this. We run no advertising here and we don't take donations and this stuff abuses the non-commercial aspect of our site. Other ad-heavy Defender forums rewrite the affiliate IDs in these links to capture the commissions but we don't do that shady shit. It's better for N-R to just prohibit them entirely.
You can still link to good deals on the 'net here, provided that you aren't collecting a commission and of course, you can always sell stuff directly in the classifieds.
If you spot any affiliate action here, please flag the message.
Thanks for understanding.