Bartman
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Someone joined the site recently and began posting new threads with links to this item or that item, curiously enough they were all from banggood.com. Banggood is a part of the landscape so I'm not about to ban links to banggood.com but I will say you've got to know what you're buying and understand the risk that you might be throwing money away on cloned items or items that will show up broken or inoperative.
What got the person banned though was that he was hiding referral links in the links he was posting. Referral links are links that have the person's account info buried in them that will generate income for the person when you click on the link. Watch how it works, I type one thing so you think the link is going to one place but bury the real link so you go somewhere else. The place you go might be where you think you're going but the referral will be invisible to you.
So you see this and think someone's hooking you up with a link to a site that provides what you're looking for
http://www.mcmaster.com/#hex-nuts/=10u38jh
but when you click on it you end up somewhere similar or somewhere else completely.
You can be careful about clicking links by right-clicking on the link and then selecting "Copy link address". Paste it into the URL line of the browser you're using and, before you hit enter, compare the link in your URL address bar with the link text that is displayed in the post. if they're different then you're being redirected somewhere other than where you think you're going.
For what it's worth, I could load up the site with referral links and make a bunch of money but I don't. Every time I mention something I could direct members of the site to a vendor that pays me to send them traffic but I don't. I think it's dishonest and wouldn't disrespect our members or the site by letting greed drive my decisions.
So that's the scoop on referral links. People using referral links here at MultiRotorForums.com will be banned as I find it to be incredibly dishonest. After all, are you being referred to an item in response to a question because it's honestly a good item or because the person referring you to the item want's to make a percentage off of your purchase?
Thanks for reading!
What got the person banned though was that he was hiding referral links in the links he was posting. Referral links are links that have the person's account info buried in them that will generate income for the person when you click on the link. Watch how it works, I type one thing so you think the link is going to one place but bury the real link so you go somewhere else. The place you go might be where you think you're going but the referral will be invisible to you.
So you see this and think someone's hooking you up with a link to a site that provides what you're looking for
http://www.mcmaster.com/#hex-nuts/=10u38jh
but when you click on it you end up somewhere similar or somewhere else completely.
You can be careful about clicking links by right-clicking on the link and then selecting "Copy link address". Paste it into the URL line of the browser you're using and, before you hit enter, compare the link in your URL address bar with the link text that is displayed in the post. if they're different then you're being redirected somewhere other than where you think you're going.
For what it's worth, I could load up the site with referral links and make a bunch of money but I don't. Every time I mention something I could direct members of the site to a vendor that pays me to send them traffic but I don't. I think it's dishonest and wouldn't disrespect our members or the site by letting greed drive my decisions.
So that's the scoop on referral links. People using referral links here at MultiRotorForums.com will be banned as I find it to be incredibly dishonest. After all, are you being referred to an item in response to a question because it's honestly a good item or because the person referring you to the item want's to make a percentage off of your purchase?
Thanks for reading!
