A sudden influx of advertising and referral links

@Asylum (47893)
Manchester, England
October 4, 2015 9:52am CST
As we are all aware, advertising is strictly disallowed here, especially in the form of referral links for other programs. Naturally there shall always be someone who joins the site and uploads that kind of material in the hope of gaining some traffic before the post is removed, but it seems to be a growing trend recently. I appear to have encountered a few over the past day or so, which I immediately reported of course. I find it very annoying that people will stoop to such levels in order to try to benefit by a few cents or so. I do hope that all members make a point of reporting such posts in order to eradicate the practice as much as possible. This type of junk simply clutters up the site and detracts from the value of Mylot.
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3 responses
@Bluedoll (16774)
• Canada
5 Oct 15
It would be fun to be able to delete them. Be gone. Take that. See yah! Bye bye looser. See me, now you don't. Take this, you spammer you, die! Okay, it would be fun for a while.
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
5 Oct 15
I think that many of us would love the option to do that, although we both know that it could never be.
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
5 Oct 15
@Bluedoll Yes, we do have the option to delete comments in our own posts, which I assume is to enable us to tidy up the post if lots of spam or irrelevant comments appear. Sadly, the Admin cannot trust that all members would use the option to delete someone else's post responsibly and I would probably be abused.
@Bluedoll (16774)
• Canada
5 Oct 15
@Asylum Oh, I don't know. Anything is possible. You can do it on your own blog. It's fun showing 0% respect for spam. People on the other hand can receive a big welcome.
• United States
21 Nov 15
Referral links are fine when they're allowed, but when they aren't, it's really annoying to see them.
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
21 Nov 15
I have no problem encountering them on sites that accept them, but as you say it is annoying when they are posted somewhere like Mylot.
• United States
21 Nov 15
@Asylum Yeah, it's definitely annoying on here, since most people know they aren't allowed on here.
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
21 Nov 15
@ReViewMeMedia Most of the people who post them simply do not care. They are only interested in having the link displayed as long as possible before it is deleted.
@jstory07 (134443)
• Roseburg, Oregon
4 Oct 15
Thank is the thing to do. So we do not take away from this good site.
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
4 Oct 15
Exactly, many sites have fallen into disrepute due to such material not being dealt with adequately.