https://monero.town/post/1144305

Bicoin Black Friday: BusKill (Open-Source Hardware Dead Man Switch) Announces 10% Discount

There are 4 reports saying this is spam, and it is indeed cross-posting link spam, and feels slightly excessive but not extremely so (?).

The thing is, Monero.town doesn’t forbid ads, and freedom of speech is important even if what is said is unpleasant for me or for someone else. Thoughts?

Edit: Since someone has appointed me as a mod in !privacy, where https://monero.town/post/1144305 is, I can remove it, except I don’t want to remove anything unless really necessary. The lack of guidelines about ads in monero.town means, the OP didn’t do anything against the rule(s).

I couldn’t remove the new one in !moneromarket https://monero.town/post/1142415 Not sure if @[email protected] thinks it’s bad enough, either. Monero is censorship-resistant, meaning we tend to hate deleting someone else’s speech/expression just because it’s subjectively disagreeable.

Given that Monero is money after all and some for-profit services are useful for its users too, probably commercial posts (ads) should be allowed in general, if not excessive. And BusKill ads are not excessive in terms of frequency, like only once a month.

Perceived link spamming (self-promotion) advertising SimplifiedPrivacy has been also noticed by many including myself, which has been like once or twice a week, and explicitly questioned here ( https://monero.town/post/1085883 ); but many (including myself) think these posts can be useful nevertheless, the poster being knowledgeable.

  • maltfield
    2·
    1 year ago

    Sorry folks, just seeing this. Obviously I do not think I’ve posted spam.

    1. I only post at most one link per month. I have no idea how one could consider publishing content that infrequently to be spam.
    2. I post once in every relevant community on lemmy. Again, that’s not spam; that’s the nature of the fediverse. As there’s so many “world news” communities, I am pretty annoyed when users don’t take the time to post a link to an important news story to all of the “world news” comms.
    3. Obviously many communities found value in my posts, as can be seen by the upvotes.

    I make an effort to only post to communities that I think the article is relevant-to. But If someone thinks that an article is not relevant to the community in which it was posted, they can downvote it. That’s what the button is for.

    • SakiOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I can see your points but see @admin’s comment below: if you massively cross post using your monero.town account repeatedly, Monero.town itself might be blocked by other Lemmy instances. So please don’t over do it. One compliant was that your post was not phone-friendly.

      As long as you only post in Monero.town infrequently, that should be fine. As you can see, I didn’t want to delete your posts easily and somehow they’ve been kept. Ultimately, though, admin has the final say.

      • maltfield
        1·
        1 year ago

        Can you elaborate on the phone-friendly point? I spent a long time translating it to markdown so the contents would be lemmy-native and also the source article’s website is responsive.

        • SakiOPEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’ve already sent you (in PM) everything I got. One report reads, “Reason: spam, unreadable on mobile. seriously guys, do better.” Not clear what they meant by “unreadable on mobile” but perhaps your post was too long or having too many big pictures, movies, etc.

          It’s not like I’m personally criticizing you or your post. But the fact remains that several people were unhappy with it and that the admin has the final say, so I suggest you read admin’s comment, which makes sense too.