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Linking to external sites when posting sales

This is a discussion on Linking to external sites when posting sales within the Problems/Complaints/Suggestions forums, part of the BCA WEBSITE category; I was wondering if we were allowed to post a link to an external site when posting things on the ...

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    Kiwi is offline Junior Member
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    Question Linking to external sites when posting sales

    I was wondering if we were allowed to post a link to an external site when posting things on the misc classified (or any classified, for that matter).

    If it's a lot of pictures... Would it be ok to have an external webpage that shows what I'm selling instead of posting all the pictures and information in the thread?

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    Some forums won't allow urls posted at all but you will find many links here to other sites outside of the classifieds. The reason it isn't allowed on other sites particularily in a classified section is the unknown content of that said site.
    Quite a few years back my wife and I modded on a big membership site and it was't allowed at all. With many people posting it was quite a job for moderators to check the site out completely before allowing it. That site tried it for a while and the site owners didn't like the results.
    Some reasons why some were removed from that (family oriented) forum:
    Sexual content or a site that had sponsors catering to 'adult' members, also content that was considered to be in direct competition to the host site... we discovered some links were actually posted by members of a competing site and in those cases it was considered spam. People were posting links that were obviously strictly a commercial venture, some in direct competition to the site sponsors. It was free advertising. A few members who had it in for the host site for some reason banded together and posted links to sites with all kinds of...ermmm.. crap
    It was a tremendous amount of work to verify that the content of the links complied and we found that the time involved was better spent on other mod duties.

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    I was thinking of linking it to a blog because I'm planning to post the pics of the stuff I'm selling there... it's just easier...
    I guess I'm going to give it a try and if the admins/mods don't like it, I'll remove the link, haha.

    Thanks for the reply =D

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kiwi View Post
    I was thinking of linking it to a blog because I'm planning to post the pics of the stuff I'm selling there... it's just easier...
    I guess I'm going to give it a try and if the admins/mods don't like it, I'll remove the link, haha.

    Thanks for the reply =D
    I have done something like that here in the past, and nobody seemed to mind.

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