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Is It Me???

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Is it me, or is it becoming more common in these forums for people to post links to their own moneysaving forums?

I was having a click round yesterday evening and in the space of half hour, I came accross four links to recently set up forums seemingly along the same lines as this one, except for the fact that they had very few or no members. I started noticing this a couple of weeks ago and it seems to be getting worse.

I can understand the desire to increase traffic to a new site/forum, but it doesn't seem right to me that people are coming in here and trying to divert members to their own forums. On one of the sites, it seemed as if half the moneysaving ideas were just copies of links posted in these forums.

I was going to post the links to the forums to back up what I'm saying. Then I thought, all I would be doing is advertising the sites. Which is exactly what I think some people are up to in here.
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  • trafalgar_2
    trafalgar_2 Posts: 22,309 Forumite
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    "On one of the sites, it seemed as if half the moneysaving ideas were just copies of links posted in these forums. "

    Can't comment on the rest but not all links/ideas in here originate here either..............so it's bound to happen,isn't it:confused:
  • Rex_Mundi
    Rex_Mundi Posts: 6,312 Forumite
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    Can't comment on the rest but not all links/ideas in here originate here either..............so it's bound to happen,isn't it

    Fair comment.
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