Re:The Best Books I Read in 2015
by tlrobinson on Monday December 07, 2015 @05:03PM
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Perhaps, but taking a famous person's list of books and reposting it with affiliate links and no disclaimer is definitely crossing the line in my book.
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Don't think I might have upvoted it, but it does represent a minor convenience.
Re:The Best Books I Read in 2015
by manish_gill on Monday December 07, 2015 @08:23PM
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Why? I'm genuinely interesting in your line of reasoning.
Profiteering in comment sections pollutes the incentives for commenters. Sure the links were useful, but they were much less useful than a person providing a really insightful comment about a typical article that shows up here. I don't want one person making monetary gain over another.
If only there was a system where we could somehow crowdsource deciding which comments are "really insightful" and which are not...
> I don't want one person making monetary gain over another.
Seems like that shipped sailed a long time ago: there are a lot of people who link to their companies, offer jobs, and that kind of thing here. Making money is not a bad thing - spamming is.
If anyone's interested, I hereby offer to spend the entirety of my ill-gotten affiliate gains on beers if anyone ever visits Bend, Oregon.