[submariner]

Personally, the affiliate/affiliate seeker posts never bothered me. Very little of the content in the Zoo has ever been actually related to playing online poker. It has always been more about what is going on at various sites, which have what bonus, where the fish are, monitors, taxes, etc. It seems to me that discussions of affiliate issues/deals fits in with that.

I would not have gotten Party affiliate/rakeback if it were not for these types of posts, because I would not even have known such a thing existed.

I understand that they are considered spam. But spam is in the eye of the beholder. To me, these posts are no different (being-spam-wise) than the posts announcing the OIC (just advertising a poker site to me), or posts about some big name person making a deal to play at/work with a poker site
(just advertising a poker site to me), or anything to do with BW or casino whoring (just advertising an affiliate site to me). BTW, I don't have any problem with any of these. To me, half the stuff in the Zoo is spam or borderline spam. I just think it's strange to call all these things ok but get all outraged about affiliate posts.

Since there is obviously a large demand for these types of posts, it seems like the logical solution would be a separate forum or subforum.

Obviously, all this is just personal opinion. This is a privately owned, for-profit website, and if it is in the best business interests of the owners to not have these types of posts, or if that's just what they prefer, then that's all that matters.