I've started noticing these appearing in a few places around the forums - when did they start up, and are they really necessary? They're particularly confusing in the hardware forum, where people often make suggestions of specific components and having autogenerated links in there as well might make it appear that someone is suggesting a product when they're not.
Any way to remove / disable them? Or are they a vital part of the "pay for Hexus' servers" fund?
It's a necessary evil for paying the bills, IE the cost of running the site & forum, as you guessed. No way I know of removing them I'm afraid.
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Originally Posted by Blitzen
I will find out if there's a way of restyling the links to make them more obvious as not "normal" links.
However, I'll have to make some inquiries.
The service we're using is experimental.
OK guys, thanks for the information
I've not noticed them, can anyone link to an example?
Was about to create a new thread on this, glad to see someone finding it an inconvenience. At least they're not popups too. Any word on Skimlink restyling yet Steve, please?
No word yet, partly due to the fact that I hardly ever see them, although I did see some today!
I've now had an opportunity to analyse them properly and, although in the current testing release of the software, I don't have complete control over their appearance via CSS, I have updated them to appear in a different colour to standard links.
Hopefully when Skimlinks release the full version, I will be able to do something a little more subtle, but still sufficiently informative.
Thanks Steve, good to know this hasn't been forgotten
Ack, yet another advert to ignore
Can't Hexus just offer an ad-free subscription pretty please???
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This is bunny and friends. He is fed up waiting for everyone to help him out, and decided to help himself instead!
Has anyone got a thread that has some examples in it?
I've not seen any at all since this thread appeared
Links in green: http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-hardwa...ggestions.html
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TAKTAK.co.uk
Funkstar (27-08-2010)
Anyone else getting US links?
I have Amazon.com and newegg.com on that page. as well as ebay, which may well be a US auction.
My IP resolves to somewhere around Leeds and is definitely identified by other sites as being UK based (even though it is a large US oil company that owns the IP)
I'm getting misco.co.uk and amazon.co.uk
Post Counts and Other Rewards, Rules, Folding@Home, Fans: Push vs Pull vs Push-Pull, Corsair PSU OEMs.
TAKTAK.co.uk
and im getting PC World
and im also getting, that when i refresh the page, different skimlinks appear on different things. sometimes theres 2 on that page TAKTAK linked, sometimes 4, or anwhere inbetween. and they point to different sites each time i click refresh. all UK links BTW.
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