DTV Transition Guy

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Hey Jesse,

Please try once more - if not this is out of my hands and Omar will have to help!

Yale

Omar,

I almost forgot. There seems to be something wrong with my account. It won't let me post in the forum or add new products. I would still like to contribute and add products even if I'm not permitted to submit my link.

I don't discount the benefit that's occurring to our site. And your links are to actual reviews, not just template content. Otherwise you'd be a regular spammer and this wouldn't be an issue at all :)

The reason why we're limiting the number of links, despite the benefit we also see is that this behavior can EASILY lead into rampant abuse. Not necessarily by you, but some hypothetical "DTV Reviewer Guy" does some competitive analysis, sees your site has links from ProductWiki, and then comes and adds a ton of his links to the site. Then "DTV Buyer Guide" comes in, does the same thing, etc etc and very quickly it's just a battle against spam.

And I'm not saying this out of a fear of the unknown, we've had this happen in other areas before and so we're applying lessons learned to save the community future hassle. It's unfortunate that the abuse and stupidity of some ruins things for others, but that's just the nature of the game, and I'm sure you're familiar enough with the Internet to know what I'm talking about. There's a reason why "nofollow" exists.

If you want to plead your case to the community though, then I recommend starting up a discussion on the ProductWiki forums and make an argument for it. Otherwise, the policy as stated will stand, and your subsequent links will be removed.

The other way you can make your site more allowable for links, is to improve the quality of the site and the content.

Omar,

Thank you for contacting me about this issue. I just got your message today and understand, I will not add anymore links until I get a word from you about it.

I however did add 1 link today before I got this message so I am sorry about that. Thanks again for contacting me.

In my opinion my reviews are very useful and are a huge help to people on the web. They have been so useful that I have been featured on a U.S. Senators site, Fox 4 news in Kansas City, a local ABC affiliate in Utah, and should be appearing in the Denver Post this weekend. I am really excited to get the word out about the digital transition and help people to get the best converter box for their situation.

Thank you for contacting me regarding this matter!! Please let me know the ultimate outcome of it.

Thanks!
DTV Transition Guy