A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
LeN, none of the sidebar threads show up in the Message Center, even if you're subscribed to them. (But they will be in your "read new" list, if you navigate that way.)
Really? Mine do.
Terminology problems. Only subscribed threads will show up in the "Discussion Threads" column of the Message Center. However, threads in the "Site Administration" column will show up in the Message Center whether one is subscribed or not. It only makes a difference when hitting Read New.
[eta] Message Center is the page, not the center column. The site administration threads never appear in the center column unless a stompy actually moves them there (like the closed Bureaucracy threads).
Gotcha. I think of message center as everything I see on the page, hence my confusion.
Where do Buffistas shop online? Would it be useful to pick a few top sites (amazon, B&N, wherever), set up affiliate programs that send money to our lovely moneyperson, iffen anyone uses those links?
We can keep them on the links page, or wherever's useful.
Sure. I buy oodles of books through Buffista recs anyway.
Where do Buffistas shop online? Would it be useful to pick a few top sites (amazon, B&N, wherever), set up affiliate programs that send money to our lovely moneyperson, iffen anyone uses those links?
I made my latest Amazon purchase through the Buffista affiliate link currently in existence. I would continue to do such things on a regular basis (I've been rotating between TWoP and tvshowsondvd.com, when I remember).
if you have amazon links, I will use them.
CDBaby? I seem to recall several people buying CDs there recently (like, within the past year, maybe).
So far I've found pages for:
I'm seeing a Buffistas Purchase Power link that has credited click-throughs for any number of merchants.
eta: (Geek-speak warning)
A parser that is looking for a particular list of domains in a post can easily fix the link up so that it inserts a certain referer-id into that link, without disturbing the other request data appended to the link.
The ethical thing is bugging me a bit, about that. I suppose a message like "Your Amazon link has been fixed up to give the Buffistas a commission." could be appended to the post, to assuage that concern.
further eta:
… completely indecipherable, I suppose. What was a survey of popular purchase sites that might benefit the Buffistas becomes something full of web-geek esoterica. Sorry. Code-oids speak a different language.
