Hello MNHQ - a question about automatic links please?

[rhondajean]

Seems that quite a few of us are now having names of online shops come up as automatic links.

Eg(and fingers crossed these work!

Argos
Next
Marks and spencers
Wilkes
Toys r us

Can you confirm if this is a new addition to MN or are we all infected with something nasty?

Thankoo!

Thank you once again, you crazy women for making me giggle loudly, especially loved the mumsnet netmums link, how confusing could that be?
As always, I state marketing is evil and should be banned. Full stop!

differentnameforthis That is brilliant, thank you!! Everything looks so much tidier now!

Thank-you for looking at this MNHQ :)

I do like being a member of a site which listens & sets such store by user feedback.

Just my tuppenth ... I'm really glad you've stopped doing this, MNHQ. It's exactly the same as a common spyware/virus toolbar thingy, which my browser catches once a month or so. I've ended up trying to remove it when it wasn't there, thanks to your skimlinks

As it happens, I get quite annoyed with skimlinks as it often fails to load properly and impairs my Mumsnet experience (pages hang, fail to complete, etc) but that's just a nuisance. When you're letting advertisers alter the content of posts it's just baaad.

So don't sign up for it again, please!

Chopstheduck

No problem :)

Thank you MNHQ. Happy to have a discussion on other ways to help you generate revenue.

How about a sponsored silence with a whole day of not posting. Some people on here would raise millions slight exaggeration if they managed it :o

Thank you for the update, and also the listening.

I do like that about this place.

Asda

not converted :)

MNHQ
Re your post waaaay up thread

No it isnt useful
Yes it is intrusive

HTH

And the commercialisation of words I choose to post which may or may not be names for a shop/company is vile and tacky.

It would be better if mnhq focussed on making it easier to link rather than this automatic shit.

How could it be easier?