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Often, I get spammed by "friends" whom I have varying degrees of friendship with. Some are complete strangers. They will write to me and give me all their affiliate links. Some will just give me the links without any opener while others would write a flourish statement of how they are helping me by giving me their affiliate links - so much so that I am unsure whether I should just fall down on my knees and thank them. The rare few politely ask if I might be interested and if yes, if I would please get back to them. I like this last category the best. If you ask me nicely and I am keen, I will write back and actively ask to have your link. I feel this should be the way to do things despite a somewhat lack of efficiency for the "friend". When people push things to me just because they have my contact, I get put off. Even if I happen to be interested, I usually make it a point to remove their affiliate IDs and sign up from the root site. How about you?

Just a sec I'll send you my affiliate links

LOL oh gosh I hope that was a joke

I sure hope it is LOL.

So true & i couldnt agree more Lord. lots of people do that here,constantly either ading people to get referrals,which is either sending PMs or leaving links in comment box.Best is they try to make out they are doing you a favour..NOT its all for their own selfish needs.Those people probably sit & do nothing & excpect us to do it for them.Just because someone is on our list, that does not automatically mean we want their links. Saying all that tho there are people who do it the nice way. That is all

>> Best is they try to make out they are doing you a favour. This is what disgusts me most. You can make it out as if it is good for me but just give me the root link. Then it would be a different story altogether since you are not giving me your affiliate link which obviously benefits you.

I had to agree that the most annoying think that people ever do here was adding links to my comments box. Cause we cannot deleted a post in a comment box here. So i just remove my comment box once and for all.

Yep true true Lord. Hc you can delete your own comments. Its the wee bin you click on !!

@hcpoirot: That's why I disabled comments on my profile page - after seeing what happened to my friends'.

Its nice to share with friends, but most people do it in a way only to make you a refferal and gain by it? I do the same as you! Sign up from the root site if I think they only want to use me.