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Using sites that happen to also sell... The way I sorted that on my own spiritual forum at the time was WHY these were linked.
If it was CONTEXTUAL and to ADD to a conversation, it was fine.
If it was only to SELL I'd delete it.
NEVER had a problem with it. It was crystal clear, and only a handful newbies over the 6 years I ran my forum who tried to do so anyway. Easily sorted. It wasn't like suddenly loads of people abused it.
If I'd start another forum -hypothetically speaking- I would do the EXACT same thing. For the sheer reason it is almost impossible to have decent content on your forum without this.
Plus, it takes lots of time for mods and admin to check out every frigging link now.
With 'my' way of doing it back then you can already tell by
- context
- who posted it. Someone only trying to sell usually only had 1-2 messages.
It truly is a very easy way and it would enhance the quality of these forums tremendously, the value of the info for others would increase.
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