Thanks for the comment.

I don’t count those two things as being similar in any meaningful way. That is, what I talked about and book sellers placing books that they make them a bigger profit at the front of the store. Please note that I didn’t criticize them paying people to post about their videos on their own websites. That’s a different issue. In such a case, they are paying someone to post about their product on their own website - something that the person they are paying owns or is responsible for.

What I take issue with is when someone steps into my site that I own and that I am responsible for and purposely violates my guidelines and disrupting my community. I dislike it even more when they try to act like they aren’t affiliated with the link or when they try to pass themselves off as more than one person. In such a case, not only are they violating my guidelines, but they are lying to my members and I will put a stop to it. Using your example, this is more like if I owned a bookstore and someone stood in the front inside of my shop and sold books, without asking me.

Thanks,

Patrick

I understand your points, my question to you is how does this differ from a book store putting a new release they want to sell a lot of copies of (incentives form publisher) right in the front of the store. The book store is helping to manufacturer interest by positioning the book right there. Very similar to what these companies are doing - manufacturing interest - to help their clients get noticed.