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Originally Posted by anamardoll
I'm not saying that's what you mean by pointing out your threads aren't affiliate linked, but just to say that I"m not comfortable with this situation. Catlady calls it the "marginalizing" of the affiliate posters and I kind of agree.
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Eh, I'm just annoyed with posters tending to go around wailing like it's the end of the sub-forum and that everyone will desert the place for lack of listings.
And I think it doesn't give
anyone here enough credit, to make a kind of assumption that the only reason that affiliate-linking MR members would post freebies would be for the prospect of maybe getting some money back for their time, or that MR members in general wouldn't step in to help out their fellow MR members find deals and freebies as usual in spite of multiple proofs to the contrary which one can see in the current new coupon/deals/freebies listings even now, the latter of which Arcadata him/herself has been posting without his/her usual affiliate link.
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Originally Posted by anamardoll
I'm just not at all comfortable with these lists of who does and doesn't use affiliate links and who does and doesn't deserve karma. 
I give people karma if they post a book I like and want. Not because of whether or not they use an affiliate link. |
My suggestion regarding karma for Susan wasn't based on whether or not she used affiliate links, but for the fact that for quite some time now, she's been seeking out and posting both conventional and offbeat freebie finds for everyone to enjoy, whether it be in new threads or as updates to existing ones.
She does it with a great deal more consistency than I ever have; I freely admit I'm pretty lazy about updating freebie threads for extra stores even after I've gone and gotten a copy of the book there so likely some people here are missing out on their preferred store because of that.
Of course, if she happens not to have posted the kind of book you like and want, then obviously you haven't benefitted from her ongoing work and then the karma would be superfluous rather than appreciative.
And now if you'll excuse me, I think I'm going to go update a bunch of Christian fiction threads for Kobo versions which will expire at the end of the month which I've known about for over a week now but haven't bothered to alert my fellow MR members because I've been pretty lazy.