Originally Posted by
AlohaDaveKennedy
The other group that self promotes are the FTers with signature referral links.
It's astonishing and sad to see the number of personal referral links that are permitted on this board.
Originally Posted by
Tiki
The worst thing is that while we more experienced FTers know them for what they are, the newbies they rope in from other sources have no clue that their main skill is copy-pasting and actually THINK these bloggers are bona-fide travel experts.
Funny, just recently I privately commented to another FTer that I thought a formerly underground deal would be copy/pasted to a blog based on a single post, and it was done within 24 hours!
The problem is that the blogs simply disseminate information and take the credit (and benefit) for (and from) the community behind it.