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 @admin@monero.town 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.
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.
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.
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.