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:
How bout an affiliate linker being required to be a contributing member for at least 6 months to a year, with a 200 post count, before they come spam the forum? Content over Spam
SB FTW!
the deals that M4D M4X and Freeme post are the same as the ones the big vendors post. Im happy for Martin to get a commission, as he has been helpful to me personally.
its the Vendors that are promoting multiple reviews and affiliate posters. They all go into the Commercial Sellers Forum, we do not have to read them.
Its the front page of BLF that puts them all on the first page due to constant updates.
The solution is to not have posts from the Commercial Sellers forum on the front page. Or to use the subforum links directly, and not use the BLF home page, as it is full of Spam from Vendors and their affiliates
Well, as I mentioned earlier, we COULD implement a lot of bulletproof rules, but that creates a more draconian and less enjoyable environment, and a lot more administrative load when it comes to enforcing those rules.
Or page 3,4,5,6,7,8,9….
Give it a couple of years 
Personally I detest advertising.
If I want something then I will look for it, I don’t like people trying to make money from me everywhere I look.
Don’t get me wrong, some guys here do a great job getting us deals and I don’t mind them being rewarded for it but I would like the sales stuff to be in a place I have to willingly access.
This is an enjoyable hobby for me, not a shopping experience.
This site is a very significant source of sales. Vendors have a strong interest in Social Media Marketing through this site.
the whole issue is the Home page of BLF is a list of new posts from all subforums, including the Commercial Sellers Forum.
BLF could modify the way the Home page is setup, so it does not list post updates from the Commercial Forum.
or, we could skip all the spam posts if we do not use the BLF Home page as a way to access the SubForums.
It is very simple actually
Aff linkers update their OP only an updated OP is not seen ad “updated” and upped to first position of front page.
When USERS post in a thread (like asking M4DM4X for a code) the thread is updated and I bet the good ones (we know who they are) are seen on the front-page more often.
This would take wind out of the sail for several new posts with deals for aff linkers, still have them have their threads but exposure comes from BLFers not aff linkers
I don’t know how programmable the forum is, but if it were possible, how about if there was a “Non-Commercial sales/Affiliate Links Recent Posts” button under the “Recent Posts” button? Just a thought.
Is it possible for individual users to filter out other users so we don’t see their posts?
We already had that, unfortunately that feature disappeared. I really liked that.
The best way to keep what you like current is to post in the threads you like. I’ve been watching my favorite threads fall pages down for years for one simple reason, inactivity. Lots of “reads” but too few posts. If you want to contribute, start by saying something.
I also wish there was an ignore feature on this forum, but that would not stop Commercial Spam from showing up in recent posts, its a totally separate issue.
That feature did exactly that. Forum can be setup in a way that commercial posts wouldn’t show up for recent posts. At least that is how I remember it. I wonder what happened to that feature.
What is my crime?
Every day I am working to get the best deals from Gearbest store manager.
So, I get 3-5-10 deals every day and place the coupon codes in my topic.
What does happen next? After a short time, coupons are copied to other forum topics.
(In the official Gearbest topic also publishes the coupons I received. Sometimes they forget to do it)
I approve that 70-80% of the coupons in my thread were received by me PERSONALLY from the Gearbest manager.
I can confirm this - I still have Skype correspondence.
The remaining coupons are from other sources, not from the BLF.
Concerning my second topic.
On March 8, I was given 31 holiday coupon with very good offers.
I thought they deserved a separate topic. And half a day did the design of the topic, I drew images with logos, etc.
Yes, I see that I was wrong. But is this a crime?
Please be fair!