Timeline for What constitutes an affiliation disclosure?
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| Feb 2, 2021 at 9:18 | comment | added | AdminBee | ... the question raised by the answerer whether the affiliation statement on the profile was sufficient, because I am certainly not in a place to make that call. I completely concur with this answer and again, I think the OP responded to my concern very reasonably and did not do anything wrong. | |
| Feb 2, 2021 at 9:17 | comment | added | AdminBee | Also FWIW, it was me who reviewed the mentioned answer and recommended the disclosure statement. Again, this was not meant to indicate any wrong behavior, but the formulation (and a link originally pointing behind a registration wall), indicated a specific commercial tool that implied an affiliation, so I recommended via a comment (now deleted) that such an affiliation, if any, is disclosed - just to ensure the post is "beyond doubt of spam". I then checked the answerer's profile and saw that such an affiliation actually exists, which is why I called a moderator for a clarification on ... | |
| Feb 2, 2021 at 7:53 | comment | added | GhostCat | Well, I dont trust that "reached 4 million people" anyway ;-) | |
| Feb 2, 2021 at 7:49 | comment | added | Tinkeringbell Mod | @GhostCat out of how many people that look at your posts? ;-) | |
| Feb 2, 2021 at 6:54 | comment | added | GhostCat | not many people ever visit that ... do we have real statistics about that? I get plenty of comments that indicate people had a look on my profile. | |
| Feb 1, 2021 at 15:34 | comment | added | terdon | For what it's worth, as a mod on the site where the answer that prompted this discussion was posted, this answer pretty much sums up how I feel as well. Also, just to clarify in case anyone misunderstands: the OP did nothing wrong here. On the contrary: we pointed out the issue, the OP first fixed it and then came here for general guidance. | |
| Feb 1, 2021 at 15:12 | history | answered | TinkeringbellMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |