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Oh My Good Lord. You're doing random links from my posts!!!!!?!

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EdMcDunnough · 03/10/2012 20:53

I just wrote something about tyres here and it turned my word 'e b a y' into a LINK!?!

WTF? I didn't do that! Is this going to turn into one of those forums where every other word is a link to some shite you never wanted to advertise look at in the first place?

What is going on??????? Shock

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IwishIwasmoreorganised · 04/10/2012 19:47

Thanks.

I appreciate the need to generate income. Keep the links but make them a different colour to those that posters add on purpose.

Everyone's a winner!

PropositionJoe · 04/10/2012 13:25

Thank you.

Really though what were you thinking

ToothGah · 04/10/2012 11:56

Great news, just hope the re-think is permanent!

JollyToddler · 04/10/2012 11:39

Thanks :)

Tee2072 · 04/10/2012 11:31

Cheers Justine! You DA BOM!

::really can't pull off things like that and should stick to English::

MaryZed · 04/10/2012 11:26

That's great Justine.

I admire your wish to make money out of the site (and letting us use it for free) and I know it probably seems to you that we whinge at every little change, but this obviously was a bigger matter than you first recognised, so I for one really appreciate the fact that you are looking at it.

Smile
Thumbwitch · 04/10/2012 11:25

Phew!

Original poster
EdMcDunnough · 04/10/2012 11:18

Ho yess SmileSmile

Justine, that is SO good to hear. Thankyou.

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JustineMumsnet · 04/10/2012 10:59

Hi all,
There's another thread which I posted on here discussing this.

Clearly you're not happy! And there's a problem with it, if folks think it's malware so we'll take it off for now and have a re-think about it.

Thanks for all the input.

FireOverBabylon · 04/10/2012 10:40

Guillible Babylon signing up for duty......

SnotandBothered · 04/10/2012 10:39
Blush
BigFatLegsInWoolyTIghts · 04/10/2012 10:38

Sorry Fire Blush I knew someone would fall for that.

JarethTheGoblinKing · 04/10/2012 10:35

Snot - I think that one was a joke Wink

SnotandBothered · 04/10/2012 10:28

Have just done the hover over the coke thing Shock

HQ this is crap - not even linking to 'official' sites - just random, inappropriate shite - you can't really endorse this???? Confused

FireOverBabylon · 04/10/2012 10:16

Not sure this is working as intended for MNHQ - has anyone hovered over bigfat's coke hyperlink? Alas, it is not to the drinks company Wink

atacareercrossroads · 04/10/2012 10:08

I've just spent ages checking for malware. This is beyond shit mnhq :(

PropositionJoe · 04/10/2012 09:58

This is nasty. If you insist on doing it, mnhq, I think you owe it to us to make it clear exactly what will link and what will not. A list like the list of acronyms, so those who do not want their words turned into product endorsements can avoid it.

In the meantime I will just mistype everything. I'm guessing twatrose won't convert, but you all know where I mean (which is actually quite unhelpful to that brand, as I actually support them and get all my groceries there but you have forced me to refer to them in disparaging terms to avoid your new form of shite).

Likewise I never use the c word on here or irl, but I will say cuntingsainsburys on here just to avoid you linking from my posts.

HTH

JarethTheGoblinKing · 03/10/2012 22:53

Ha! God, I'm always linking shite on 'ere. Must have made millions for MN - my invoice is in the post Grin

GolfOscarLimaDelta · 03/10/2012 22:49

Personally I must generate lots of income when on my phone.

I'm constantly scrolling to the bottom of the thread and hitting the adverts on there!

I just hate how it's using us chatting to generate income for companies we may not want to promote ourselves :(

BigFatLegsInWoolyTIghts · 03/10/2012 22:41

coke

kekouan · 03/10/2012 22:41

and feck orf with yer Hmm Mintyy.

kekouan · 03/10/2012 22:40

But... surely when there are links on here (to amazon, for example) MNHQ get a kickback? I know I did when I had amazon links on my site? Confused

I must have posted a thousand links to amazon over the years... must have generated oooh... £6? Grin

TheDoctrineOfSnatch · 03/10/2012 22:40

Weird, all links off. Though my phone wants to write Biden - guess it supports Obama.

TheDoctrineOfSnatch · 03/10/2012 22:39

Boden

eBay

Amazon

Mintyy · 03/10/2012 22:38

Because automatic linking to a site or brand looks like you as an individual is endorsing that brand. WHAT is the problem in understanding that? Would have thought it would be perfectly obvious Hmm.