Leighton Travels wrote: ↑Sat Aug 29, 2020 11:23 am Just caught up with this thread. It's always interesting to see people's responses to shared links. Thanks to the people who contributed to this thread and to those who got in touch to support the site. People really seem to get their knickers in a twist over self promotion. I spend a ludicrous amount of time writing travel articles, which of course I want people to read. I make little money from it, just about enough to cover my costs. I'm not "selling" anything. I'm in this for the right reasons, I just want to produce good travel content. I won't allow adds on the site and, at the end of the day, it's just shared information. I share it exclusively on my own platform so that I have full control over the design of my articles. I also want them to be as visually engaging as possible. People like Kung Fu Hillbilly, whose criticisms come with a tiring sense of inherent superiority complex, get so hung up on the fact that I want people to click on my site. So what? The assumption that I don't want to communicate with people any other way is false. Every day I contribute to various sites, comment threads and forums. I just don't have the time nor inclination to do that on every platform I'm involved with. It's an article, read it or don't read it. If you like it, maybe read some more. If you don't, give me a miss. If an administrator wants to block me from the site, that's their right. In the meantime, I'll just keep chugging away doing what I do. Thanks again everyone.