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Originally Posted by Connallmac
Agreed. Moderators should lead by example.
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We do. Look, like it or not, posting an affiliate link and then saying "this is not an affiliate link" is lying. It may have been inadvertent; I'm quite prepared to accept that it was, but it was, nonetheless, a lie. Especially coming hours after a specific request NOT to post affiliate links. If you don't actually KNOW what is or is not an affiliate link, it's a bit silly to just copy a link from a deals site (where a little thought will tell you that EVERY link is going to be an affiliate link) and then make a specific statement that it isn't one. That was the reason for the moderator comment. Not the inadvertent posting of an affiliate link, but the specific and erroneous statement that it WASN'T an affiliate link. This looked to the moderating team like a deliberate attempt to mislead our members and to flout the new rules, and was in fact reported to us as such by a number of MobileRead members.