How to make a Summary for Review Thread (Gear/Plants/Seeds/Books/Films/etc)

I have a few questions about making a book summary.
On line 13 of the template, there is a bunch of code after the YouTube link. Is all of that supposed to be included? What does it do?

Is there an affiliate link for Chelsea Publishing? An old post mentioned requesting a link from Destiny, but that was many years ago.

Do we still add Amazon links for other countries, or just the .com in the template?

I can answer a couple of your questions.

Nikki Roche wrote:On line 13 of the template, there is a bunch of code after the YouTube link. Is all of that supposed to be included? What does it do?

No, that code shouldn't be there. All you need is the YouTube link.

What's odd, is that when I tried to edit that code out, it doesn't show up on the edit screen. So I'm not sure how it got there or why. Nicole wrote the original post, so maybe she has an idea. Nicole?

Is there an affiliate link for Chelsea Publishing? An old post mentioned requesting a link from Destiny, but that was many years ago.

Not that I've found. Hopefully, someone may  have the answer.

We do have affiliate codes for Amazon US, CA, and UK. That's one reason we add those links. Here are the codes:

Amazon.com  rs12-20
Amazon.uk   rs12-21
Amazon.ca   ?tag=permies06-20

The one for Amazon US is automatic, anytime someone clicks on the link. I'm not sure about the other two.

The codes are added after the book number in the url, for example - amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN/0865718326/rs12-20

Do we still add Amazon links for other countries, or just the .com in the template?

I add them:

1. for any affiliate revenues we might accrue
2. as a courtesy for members in other parts of the world. If they order from their regional Amazon, they don't have to pay VAT type fees.

I've been adding Amazon AU as well (maybe someone can sign us up for an affiliate account there(!) because we have so many member who live in Australia.

A lot of people don't seem to like Amazon, so it's always good to include other buying options as well. Usually the publisher's sales link, one from the author's website if they have it, and maybe for one or two other book seller sites as well.

Hi, since it is very common to not follow the correct format when doing a review, I think we can put a reminder in the summary.
What about adding this line at the bottom?

Warm reminder.
For a valid review, begin your post with the sentence: I give this (whatever) # out of 10 acorns. where # is your score.

reminder, the very first line of the review post has to be "I give this (whatever) # out of 10 acorns"
Or the review won't count