I’m not the only one having difficulty navigating to the new BLF User Negotiated Deals section.
Use browser bookmark?
Thanks 1dash1 for the suggestion. The thing is, I don’t really want to implement any more changes for the time being, since BLF users (myself included) are somewhat averse to change. Also, I prefer for the BLF User Negotiated Deals to be under the Commercial Seller’s Spot since those deals are often to a certain degree more commercially driven than the BLF custom lights.
I understand why the system was set up the way it was.
I just have a different point of view of what the need is.
Exception taken, your Honour. :face_with_monocle:
if i may beg a bit….
the possibillity to use “filters” on the “Recent Posts” page would be great(est!)
- hide / show subforums
- toggle “show only threads with updates or new posts”
I’m really sorry that this doesn’t seem to really be possible at the moment. I tried playing around with this a bit, and it didn’t work very well.
Wasn’t there a rule that affiliate link must be followed by non-affiliate link!!!
It’s optional, now that affiliate links are restricted to two specific categories, users should realize that any threads in those categories probably have affiliate links.
Oh, ok thanks 
That greatly sucks! They should always provide a Non Aff link!
That's 2 steps back in my opinion.
Your logic is flawed. 
the real Problem is (and always have been):
some shops do not use afflinks, but count the sales by the used codes.
so you never had the chance to “unaffiliate“ your order on other shops as banggood.
80% of the “groupbuy“ or “best price again“ or whatever deals you clicked did benefit someone.
- you may feel tricked now…
Sb searched a way to make that more balanced again and tried not to penalize only banggood affiliates.
+ 1
+1 they should be banned for good. That would also bring some relief in flood of threads with buy this-buy that content.
Not only this ^ but it literally costs you NOTHING to click an aff link, so in cases where there is not a non-aff link, what have you lost? And, if aff-links are so bad, you still have a choice of simply NOT BUYING the item, or of buying it somewhere else. Trying to FORCE your hatred of aff-links into law is something you should go to some other forum for. IMHO, there is no place for that here at BLF.
Yep. Gratitude, daily.
Thanks for the reminder, hank.
Elaborate
I completely agree. This definitely invites more abuse with a blind eye deliberately turned away from managing it. We already have far more than our share of members who skate on the cusp of vague BLF policy for their own personal monetary gain and other benefits. The primary complaint of members against aff links is that BLF provides a safe harbor for these unscrupulous activities, where most other forums expressly forbid it. Its gotten far out of hand and detracts from the value of information provided on this forum.
At the very least, can you please make it mandatory that all aff links must be accompanied by non-aff links, regardless of where they are posted? Some specific verbiage in that regard would be greatly appreciated.
That was officially a rule! I also dont udersatnd why they can now post affiliate links without a non-aff link.