In message advertising links?

[Grench]

These are 'new to me'.
EGR valve
catalytic converter

I did not make those as advertising links. Apparently that is something the system is now doing.

I understand the needs for additional revenue resources, but there is no way to distinguish those links from a user-created and intentional link for additional or important content to the discussion.

Would it be possible to have the automatic advertising links appear as a different color than links that the poster put in the message themselves? Please? It would help alleviate confusion.

Thank you.

 

[woody]

These are 'new to me'.
EGR valve
catalytic converter

I did not make those as advertising links. Apparently that is something the system is now doing.

I understand the needs for additional revenue resources, but there is no way to distinguish those links from a user-created and intentional link for additional or important content to the discussion.

Would it be possible to have the automatic advertising links appear as a different color than links that the poster put in the message themselves? Please? It would help alleviate confusion.

Thank you.

odd you just noticed, it's been active for 6+ months....

I'll see if there is a method to change the link color...feature is updated constantly by the developer, so hopefully that's an option.

 

[woody]

and now, silver...will tweak colors a bit...

 

[Grench]

Thank you - I appreciate it. Pretty much any color would be fine so long as it isn't the same default color used in the page &/or user links.

 

[Grench]

Nicely done Woody. I especially like how the link pop-up now states how it got there.

So - do you get anything off of click through on the embedded links or just for making them available? I.e. should we all make a point to 'click through' on things that are even remotely interesting?

Thanks again!

Grench

 

[woody]

Zero on the click thru, it's an automatic Affiliate program...basically, it looks for keywords and links to possible products...if you buy, the site earns like $.01...haha

 

[yooper]

Mine are showing up yellow, same as standard links. I also only noticed it recently, and I'm pretty observant. Something changed recently for sure.

 

[Altaf]

Mine are showing up yellow, same as standard links.

ditto...

 

[woody]

Can you link an example page?

Possible that your browser is caching the CSS styles...or, since these are all served via CDN, that the caching there hasn't updated.

What OS/browser too?

 

[yooper]

The keywords I am seeing linked are tires and cylinder head.

When I first post this I won't see them linked but if I reload the page they will show up as links. If I quote my post the link code is not in the quote. If I block api.***.com/api/* they go away.

 

[yooper]

I now see "tires" and "cylinder head" as yellow links in the above post. There's your example page. The link is to ebay using the keyword as a search term, which is a pretty worthless eBay search. It doesn't bother me and is easily blocked.

Firefox 9.0.1 under Mac OS 10.6.8

 

[woody]

'tires' and 'cylinder head' in your post are a pale blue to me, barely noticeable as links...but EBay is still the 'forum' link color, which it should not be.

I'll contact the developer on Monday and see what is/isn't working and why...it's simple CSS codes, but why they work fine for some and not others is a mystery...

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My Macbook Air under Safari shows ALL of them pale blue...under Chrome, Ebay is shown incorrectly...

With my Dell and Windows 7, Chrome still shows EBay incorrectly...Firefox shows ALL as yellow (incorrectly), IE shows all correctly as pale blue, and Safari shows all correctly..

so, simply put, use Safari

 

[yooper]

Using Safari under Mac OS: EGR valve, catalytic converter, tires, EBay, and Dell are all pale blue links.

'cylinder head' is a brighter blue link that is double underlined and it pops up a Honda motorcycle ad when I mouse over it. OK that's pretty annoying.

I don't like Safari though.

 

[woody]

ohh...hmmm....thanks for the notice on 'cylinder head'....thats supposed to be filtered from all Star'd members...I'll hunt more into that...

I just repositioned the color code, and it's now rendering correctly on Mac/Chrome...possible it was just too far down the CSS list...strange...

 

[woody]

re-test:

ebay
amazon
tires
honda motorcycle
motor


now the 'number per page' limits are hit...haha...none show

 

[woody]

For the Kontera doubleunderline, I switched up the code...was calling as a false (if-then-else code) rather than a true (if-then code)...managing as a true code should make it more reliable.

Kontera is one of those ads that only requires you to register on the forum to have it disappear...

 

[woody]

HA...fixed...at least on my end...

had to also update the a:visited.vglnk CSS to display the same pale blue...otherwise the forum css overrode to the orangish default....
Let me know if you catch anything else...tkx

 

[yooper]

All pale blue now on Mac OS Firefox and Safari. Kontera double underline gone.

 

[woody]

<whew>

Thanks for helping me thru it!

 

[jonharis]

I too only just started noticing these as well. definitly not for last months, maybe 6 days. Kind of distracting to speak honestly. for $0.01 is it worth it? Silver star buys removal of links perhaps? I too understand the need for revenue and if it is what it is than it is what it is. Links in firefox 9.0.1 (windows 7) show light blue (good color choice) while the rest shows in white.