Thank you for your comment in pointing that out @Dungeon_Master
Thank you @HeelsLover69 for giving excellent examples of helping clarify why links are often shorten and cleaned up
@Astramax I’m glad it appears you have somewhat apologized for your comments here towards @Dungeon_Master @HeelsLover69, @anon39026496 but it appears you still seem to have a problem with me or my posts
Please let me address that:
I understand your concern about affiliate links, but none of us are using affiliate links for so called ‘sneaky/shady/malicious’ reasons, and its wrong to accuse someone of doing so without any actual proof in the first place
Please try putting yourself in my shoes, as I am trying to do with you
Let me please point out:
Your statement above about amazon links are completely incorrect:
Since you used an example of a post I made here to try to help a fellow user = https://discuss.eroscripts.com/t/osr2-sex-robot-for-sale-website-is-up/6250/200?u=realcumber
A simple quick google search would have shown you this:
https://medium.com/feedium/how-to-tell-if-a-link-is-an-amazon-affiliate-link-9869aab25ecf
There is no affiliate ID tag in my link, all I did was go to amazon, searched for the stand, then pasted the link I found - you can try it yourself, you will get an identical looking link which has info that just shows how the link was searched for
I do have other referral links (just like all SLR script vendors do) but as you mentioned, it has no effect on the buyer whatsoever - in fact it can actually give the interested buyers special discounts going through the certain links I am able to provide
If you are referring to my links in places like here: https://discuss.eroscripts.com/t/poll-all-toy-device-owners-out-there-lets-get-a-toy-count-and-find-out-which-is-most-popular-14-toys-listed/30221 - then absolutely I would rather use my own links if I can to direct guys to which toys Im referring to asking about
Would you give free advertising and profits to big companies if you had a choice when you can earn something back just for linking them?
In that post I’m not even trying to influence guys to pick one over the other, which I would completely understand your concerns if that were the case - because people can for sure mislead others based on a biased incentive
But all I did was list basically every toy that is worthwhile out there, and send guys also non-affiliated links where to find the toys in the list as well
The first Toy I list and always list in my posts and that poll is the OSR2
If I cared about affiliate links earnings from toys always first, would I really place @Tempest 's link and @M0SAIC’s site to buy from constantly above all the others in my posts?
- " TempestVR’s OSR2 = Recommended Seller = OSR2s For Sale - Flexible Pricing "
If you were to create an affiliate account and I was interested in buying something you found, no question I would rather click and buy it through your link rather than just giving that money fully to a big faceless company, and I would thank you for helping me find it
@Astramax - Thank you for helping support any paid scripts that interested you, but please can we try to be more respectful to one another?
I consider all the paid scripters here my fellow colleagues, and I feel the same with all of the users here on this forum
We’re all just regular guys here trying to get by in life, and can easily get along if we just try a little
FYI - I’m an independent contractor, just like they are, I just spend alot more time doing this work in order to be able to try to make a living more than minimum wage out of it
My earnings come the same way script vendors do
I rely on script sales and affiliate links to support myself and my family, just like they do
If you click on my links and end up supporting me, I truly appreciate it and I’m happy to keep up the work and keep helping people with my time
If you would rather not, of course you don’t have to, but please be respectful about it
It should be easy to see who you want to support with any links they offer by simply looking at their profile picture in their posts of comments - most of us have pretty unique icons
I try to have thick skin online, but I have to admit that I found your accusations quite hurtful, especially since the very opposite is true of me
Over the years I have helped countless people here on this forums and elsewhere, including scripters and countless random users, for countless hours publicly and via PMs and behind the scenes - I am not just some ‘random’ guy - I’ve been around forever with tons of experience and knowledgeable recommendations that people trust in and I hope to never let that trust down
Again, I get your concern, but in the future lets please just make comments based on facts instead of throwing around harmful accusations, so we can keep Eroscripts (a site we are all passionate about) continue to be a positive and respectful place