FAQ Commerce: Proposed Guidelines

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Thamer Al-Herbish (shadows@whitefang.com)
Sun, 4 Apr 1999 11:56:17 -0700 (PDT)

I think my original post lashed out a little to hard. Here's a
better logical view of it:

1) If amazon.com or anyone else asks you to put a link up bear in
mind that they may not neccesarily be good for your readers.
Their prices may be higher, their quality may be lower.
Regardless of how much you make, you're not "helping" your
readers by pointing them to a one company, you are helping that
one company. So add links to more companies.

2) If you are selling a product that is relevant to your FAQ put it
in a list with other products and accept submissions from readers
for their own relevant products.

3) A grey area is when you know your FAQ quality will improve thanks
to some commericial augmentation. Add the augmentation, put a
little explanation. Try to adhere to the previous two guidelines
as well.

4) Finally give a standard disclaimer, because yes some FAQ readers
may be as dum as a door nail I think this is an OK assumption.

These are recommended guidelines I came up with. I hope they fair
well.

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