Barring Amazon referral links

Dustangle

Right now, on the Grabbit forum, some !!!! !!!! has posted a !!!! referral link within a perfectly good tip.

Presumably she or he has done so to make money out of us. We want to keep the tip but we want them not to make a profit out of us.

Why can't this site automatically stop such links? See if you put up a post with sweariewords, like !!!! and !!!! and !!!!, the system stops the word from getting posted, so why can't they put a similar stop on such codes?

wannasave_2

Dustangle wrote: »

Why can't this site automatically stop such links? See if you put up a post with sweariewords, like !!!! and !!!! and !!!!, the system stops the word from getting posted, so why can't they put a similar stop on such codes?

It shouldn't be beyond the wit of the web techies to ban any url that has
a -21 in it, as that is the dead giveaway that an Amazon link contains a referral.

Dustangle

wannasave wrote: »

It shouldn't be beyond the wit of the web techies to ban any url that has
a -21 in it, as that is the dead giveaway that an Amazon link contains a referral.

I've just seem how much money this person tried to make out of us. If Amazon sold 200 pairs of shoes on the basis of that link, her or she willl have made 9.25 per cent - that's £46.

mountainchrisriver

If you spot them report them to the abuse team for removal... :beer:

Former_MSE_Andrea

Just to let you and others know we've taken action on this so hopefully you'll either have seen this happen less in the last few days or, where someone's tried to do it, the link won't work.

For the moment what we've done is a trial to see if it works so we may need to reverse it but hopefully it'll be permanent.

Andrea

rebeccaj

the Amazon referral links are still managing to get through though http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1408643

I've reported it.

savemoney

Yes that's a referral. Most of the time I suspect the link has been lifted from another web site contain the Amazon link rather than a spammer

rebeccaj

rebeccaj wrote: »

the Amazon referral links are still managing to get through though http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1408643

I've reported it.

amazingly the post is still there even though reported directly to abuse at 1.30 :eek: