If you cover something in your FAQ in which you have a financial interest,
you might consider recruiting someone to serve as virtual outside director
for the FAQ, a person with no financial interest for or against your
financial interest [maybe against is OK] who would advise you on the
even-handedness with which the topic in which you have an interest is
presented.
Create a de_facto fairness review board from the community the Periodic
Posting arises out of. Even if it is a committee of one (other) person.
Get their permission to list them in the FAQ as who to take fairness
complaints to if the maintainer is not responsive. This should be someone
the general reader will believe you cannot manipulate. That's easier to
achieve if you are an individual or small business.
Al
At 11:56 AM 4/4/99 -0700, you wrote:
>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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