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Couldn't you just post articles here.  Why make us look somewhere else? 

-- Roger

Having a separate blog is ridiculous. It wastes enough of our time looking for information in this totally disorganized Associates Discussion Board.

If you want to do something helpful to Associates, assign someone to review and improve this board. You need separate sections for Your Announcements (not the "reports are late drivel"), Problem reports by Associates, and Enhancements desired by Associates. The sections you have are insufficient.

You have no organized means to collect such feedback; that costs your Associates time, and prevents you from having a good feedback stream. As a result, both your Associates and you are earning less money, and wasting valuable time.

I have tried twice to report problems; not the major problems of tracking not working (thankfully you do address that), but other things that should be fixed. In both cases I got a response that said my suggestion was being forewarded to the Associates Program. Yeah right.

Your Associates Program is very much like any software product. Until you provide information in an organized way, and accept feedback in a way that is productive for us and for you, your product will continue to be less valuable than it could be.

We'll post a link and the blog article headline on the discussion boards in this folder each time it is updated; so, you all can simply click to it if you would like to read the content.

You're missing the point.  There's no need to create another web site. Blogs may be the lastest fad, but that doesn't mean you have to create one and force us to jump between two web sites.  Just post any articles of interest here.

-- Roger

That's interesting. Is that because they are more actively moderated, because they have fewer members (the amazon.ca board gets about one post a week...), because Americans are rude, or for some other reason?

What do you suggest would improve things here?

Harold

I disagree with that -- if they actually update the blog, it could be interesting. I spend all day clicking from site to site and one extra click makes no difference to me.

Extra clicks do make a difference to me.  And having to move between sites with differing navigation and styles and all makes a difference. There's no need for Amazon to continually create new web sites.

Please excuse a little ranting, but Amazon seems to think it has to jump onto the bandwagon for every every fad.  Every time I visit Amazon.com I'm assaulted by "Plogs" and videos and "tags" and mouse-over pop-ups and other crap that have nothing to do with shopping.  Amazon's site used to be a good example of how to create a site.  Now it almost qualifies for a "permalink" at webpagesthatsuck.com.

In spite of the silly scoring system (MrRat is a newbie????!!!), the AWS Developer Connection (http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/index.jspa) is an example of what we need for Associates. Articles, references, and the forum are all integrated into one place. (Please forget that AWS has a separate blog.)  Instead of starting a blog, why can't Amazon migrate Associates Central to something like that?

-- Roger