Cool! Yay, Jesse! Yay, jengod!

Also, Cindy, I should probably clarify that I wasn't apathetically and somewhat sluggishly opposing your suggestion, I was apathetically and somewhat sluggishly opposing Victor's. (I think, Victor's.) Putting it front-page, was what I was opposing, though not very vehemently.

Anyway, I guess I should verbalize a little on why I get squeamish. There are two aspects, one valid and one quirky. The first is that I'm proud of our existence as a donation-based, advertising free board. The Amazon affiliate program, while a) free money and b) relatively unobtrusive, is still advertising. I don't want to look at Amazon's corporate name, or have reinforced its brand placement, every day. This would apply to any affiliate program, or other advertising.

The second aspect is a just-me thing, and it's very old. I personally dislike Amazon and would not buy from them if I could avoid it, because of the one-click patent mess. It's just a geek thing, but it's one I feel pretty strongly about, so the lower profile our pimping Amazon can be, the better. Would I feel better about it if it were bn.com or half.com or whatever? Probably, but then see objection the first.

Now, of course, if people are already buying from Amazon, that's great, no problem. And if those people want to give buffistas free money that's great, and we should make it easy for them. But, I feel, not at the cost of giving up our mindshare.

Victor's suggestion, of course, was just a donate-here link, which is not advertising, but not overwhelmingly needed at the moment, so back to, eh, regarding that.

I should probably clarify that I wasn't apathetically and somewhat sluggishly opposing your suggestion, I was apathetically and somewhat sluggishly opposing Victor's.

Hee! And gotcha.

We're only a little more than 100 posts away from needing a new Buffy Quotables Thread.

In honor of the deathmatches:

Buffy Quotables 2: Two quotes enter, one quote leaves.

Oooh, amych, I like.

But, um, we're just under 1000 posts away from needing a new thread. That'll take a couple of days.

Victor's suggestion, of course, was just a donate-here link, which is not advertising

And I like this idea for the sheer convenience and remindery-ness of something I might otherwise forget (Amazon/free money)

Love the title suggestion, amych!

For practice last week I set up a "donate" link for my paypal account on my caps site. I don't really expect any donatons, but I did wonder how easy it was.

Peasy.

The paypal site walks you through and generates the code you need and you just slap it where you want in your website.

But, um, we're just under 1000 posts away from needing a new thread. That'll take a couple of days.

I'd like to buy a zero, please. (Sorry guys.)

Would it be evil of me to suggest deathmatching possible titles for the quotables thread?

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