**MULTIPLE** Sales Threads Issue

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But Freeme is one of us! Fair go! Freeme contributes a lot to BLF besides just deals.

What really is over the top is spamming my YouTube channel. I spend so long making videos its hard because i stutter so i have to stop and start so much and they just spam me!

This is a forum has a sub forum that is made for posting deals.

This guy aye lol

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l may have posted deals years before GB and BG came to this site, but technically l don’t belong with the other gentlemen you mentioned for l am never an affiliate of ANY vendor, product links l give are all direct links.

l am here for the hobby, and l just enjoy organizing or sharing codes.

Regarding the two number one offenders I completely agree with you djburkes. It’s very passive aggressive, and something I consider quite wrong in this society. Not to mention what everydaysurvivalgear just posted is certainly not going to make me less upset.

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Freeme, I usually don’t see your posts or M4D M4X’s posts a lot but upon looking at the forum this morning, there were quite a few about the same deals that the other guys were posting. It was all Gearbest related stuff with the same deals just different affiliate links. Like I said you contribute to the forum, you’ve done reviews, and you show great lights that we can’t see anywhere else…it was just the fact that there were so many different posts about the same stuff.

I don’t want to offend or upset anyone…I just want the forum to be used for what it is…not for what a few want it to be used for.

I agree with others on this, Freeme does contribute a lot to this community in the deals & savings for the lights hes gotten codes & discounts for. ( i have been appreciative many times for saving a bit of cost through FreeMe’s links. :+1:

Hi there,

You all probably know that I'm not a fan of creating more rules to solve problems. But the guidelines for affiliate linkers weren't very easy to find, and it's possible that some aren't even aware of their existence. So I slightly re-worded the guidelines for affiliate linkers (no major changes) and created a new post, which also now prominently appears in main BLF menu right below "Commercial Sellers". The guidelines for affiliate linkers now state the following:

This is a pretty good framework, and it tends to work. Freeme already explained what happened and apologized for it, and he has shown a willingness to work with the BLF community and respect the rules, so I would consider his case handled for now. As for the other offenders, I simply prefer to moderate the situation on a case by case basis, and I always try to take into account your (collective) opinions on who is breaking the spirit of the above guidelines.

I was recently made aware of Fin17 re-posting all of his deals into a new thread for no reason. I sent him a warning PM that he will be banned if another violation occurs, and I will follow through on it.

I hope this helps. Thanks for bring up the topic.

Thank you very much…I’ve seen it a lot lately and I’ve seen a few threads over the last couple of months about it so I figured I’d chime in :person_facepalming: I just don’t want new members or people browsing to get the wrong impression of BLF. I take pride in this forum as it is the greatest!!

First time I”ve ever wished to see the blink feature used on a web page.

Freeme and Madmax bring the real hard to get deals. I’ve run 2 group buys in the past and they are a pain in the backside. Even if I got a few percent as a finder’s fee (which I did not) it’d still not have covered my time doing it.

Whenever I look at “new posts” I get at least 4-5 affiliate posts. this is very unfortunate and I believe the situation is getting worse. The affiliate sellers should have a way of showcasing their codes and links, but the way it is done right now is very confusing. It can happen that on a random day several posters will update their threads at the same time.

Would it be ok to put them in a subforum where they are not shown in “new posts”? Thanks.

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No problem, I understand your good motivation, and thanks again for bringing up this necessary topic.

Sounds good, thanks for being willing to make changes.

In the case of Fin17, I have instructed him to stop posting new deals as new posts after his most recent antic.

This would be great. I have no idea how hard it would be to implement, or if SB even has the time/inclination to do it, but the “Recent Posts” area could use some filtering. Its one of my favorite features of this forum - a way to keep up with everything that’s happening here without having to click through a dozen sub-forums looking for new activity, but the ability to filter out the areas I’m not interested in would take that feature to a whole ’nother level.

This is an option, but I’d prefer to give affiliate linkers a bit of time first to see if they can come up with an alternate solution by making some changes to their style. If you still aren’t seeing improvement after a few weeks, please resurrect this thread or PM me, and I’ll take another look at it. Thanks!

Just looking at the recent posts page a couple of minutes ago there were 11 sales threads out of 25. That’s heavy.

I’m kind of new around here, and understand the concerns, but disagree. My 2cents…

The deals are something I luv to browse thru often. Some are short lived and almost to good to be true.
Just got a $13.53 convoy c8 with xml2 with fin’s discount. I’ve bought hosts that cost close to that… I thank Fin for making that possible.

Keep the deals coming, show all of them, many of us love to browse thru them just to see whats available and whats new out…

They really don’t get in my way, and are easy to avoid. You don’t have to open up a thread you don’t want to read…? and its really not to terrible an effort to click on page 2

JMO

I think this is a good and fair solution :+1: