Originally Posted by
Adam1222
And the commercial nature of FT is certainly a valid topic of discussion in my book. The specific issue here is whether an ordinary reader reading a post about how great an event like FTU Is understands that the blogger has a direct financial stake in selling that event. There seems to be a conflation here between my call for transparency and a suggestion that all for-profit behavior is bad. I never said the latter. If every blogger who wrote about FTU and stood to make commission off ticket sales had the clear disclosure you identified, I truly would not have an issue with the blogger posting about FTU.
I agree that it's easy to just say "Disclosure – I receive a commission if you buy tickets through my link" or words to that effect. Transparent and simple. Fair enough to be disappointed in a lack of that.
Last edited by eponymous_coward; Nov 28, 2017 at 3:19 pm