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i said the word angle grinder in a sentence and it turned that into a link to angle grinders on amazon, which then makes it look like i am recommending that angle grinder
misleading and finding it quite intrusive
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Agreed, I was just about to grumble about the same thing. Unless you hover over the link first you don't know whether it's supposed to be there or not. Understand if it is being done to generate some ca$h monies for the cause, but it's a bit spazzy and intrudes upon my viewing pleasure. Here's an example from LowStandard's exciting Jago build... ... where the word 'suspension' sends you off to Euro Car Prats.
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Argh, it eated my suspensi0ns too now....
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agree on revenue generating, this is not my gripe. i think its mainly the loss of control of what i am writing, plus they look exactly like the intentional "tagging" system for instance pOG or HoTWire
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Last Edit: Apr 5, 2016 9:45:48 GMT by darrenh
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Will turn it off... turned it on to experiment with it and see what it did. Looks like it could certainly generate enough revenue so I could afford to pay to remove the ads. However as this is a user content site it does seem a bit intrusive (I was hoping it would be obvious the links were not from the original user (like a little icon or something with them)).
Removed.
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Last Edit: Apr 5, 2016 10:38:22 GMT by HoTWire
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fair enough HoTWire i know what you mean too, on virtual bulletin board it just makes the vigilinks a subtly different text colour
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fair enough HoTWire i know what you mean too, on virtual bulletin board it just makes the vigilinks a subtly different text colour Yeah I'll probably turn it on again later today and see if I can style them separately (if it gives me enough classes etc. to work with), also its suggestions weren't insane which is nice. I've been on some sites where the links are on a number of words unrelated to the site and take you to mental things. I don't want to annoy people though
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yeah lol, like if you type lemon and it links to lemon scented kitchen surface cleaner
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yeah lol, like if you type lemon and it links to lemon scented kitchen surface cleaner Turns out RodsnSods use it and I could check there to see that it does decorate the link with enough stuff for me to be able to style it. I'll have a play again later. If I can make it not as obnoxious I'll trial it for a period. No point doing it if it doesn't work If I can't get it to not be obnoxious I'll stick with what we have.
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I don't find the adverts intrusive I would ratrher have them than interfering with the text itself Anyway i haven't noticed it so maybe it's turned off
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