In the sub I helped mod, it was a necessary way to reduce spam. Our rule was simple - no links to storefronts.
link to reviews, link to release announcements, blog posts / devblogs - fine! link to steam or etsy or whatever - nope.
without this nuance, it quickly devolved into a few folks flooding the forum for personal promotion. with the nuance, they'd have to create content - blogs, reviews etc., - that would actually be worth visiting instead.
YMMV, and I think this also very subjective depending on the kind of creators involved.
At this point, DDG is basically Bing, which heavily regulates piracy. Most often searching for a list of scrapers won't even result in a search return. I know 1337 is pretty blacklisted.
You should be using something like yandex.com for your search queries as they are one of the last ones I've seen that still return pretty unfiltered results.
DDG/Bing, Google, Ecosia (Bing), Yahoo, all of the US based search engines have long filtered torrents or websites known for piracy. Places like steamunlocked or steamrips have also been removed.
I always thought these rules were not very well thought out. If I want to share something I made that happens to be something like a YouTube video then it's suddenly self promotion and I need to find ~9x as many posts to share. That's a good way to get a bunch of really worthless articles shared that nobody wants to see.
I'm also experiencing this bug, regardless on which theme I set (Breeze, Breeze Dark, Breeze Dark EndeavourOS, Breeze Twilight). The folder icon is the only one with this problem, and only when the window has focus
If you love a creator buy their merch, sub their patreon, mail them a coupon for a free sandwich, but for fuck's sake DON'T buy youtube premium to try and support them.
I lack the money to buy something from every creator I watch (literally over 100 channels subbed to), and premium genuinely does pay them more than ads. Sure, like half is going to google, but it's definitely the easier way to support the creators that does actually pay them.
Yes, but if I was only doing it for no ads, I'd rather just use ad block. Instead, I'm doing to to support the creators I watch in the laziest way possible, because I'm letting Google do all the work to spread the money out.
I think it's fair enough. If they accept your spam then they have to accept everyone else's spam too. No it doesn't make any difference that your stuff is free. Reddit subs are usually for discussion not marketing; there are channels to spunk your adverts down and you should use those instead of trying to insert them into discussions. No it doesn't make any difference that your free stuff means you don't have a marketing budget. We all know today's free stuff is tomorrow's subscription stuff, and yeah I can already see you're about to scream at me that you don't ever intend for that to happen. But the simple fact is if your stuff takes off then you're going to have to make more time for it but free stuff isn't going to pay your bills and you're going to have to start raising cash one way or another.
What you should be doing is to continue being a positive contributor, and put your promo stuff on your "about me" page. Anyone who is interested enough in you will look at your profile, see your stuff and maybe then consider engaging with your products.
Forget the 10% ratio, remember the rule NO MARKETING, and then everyone will be your friend again. The 10% rule is not intended to say "you can spam this much and no more", it's to allow people to talk about actual products they like (that others have made) and point to them without those pointers being misconstrued as promotion.
"...votes..." No, the rules are for preventing spam, the voting is to highlight high quality posts over the low quality stuff.
"...billionaires..." What an odd strawman. Business of all sizes from freebie shops like yours up to Microsoft are NOT ALLOWED TO SPAM chatrooms. You're likely to see more stuff about billionaire businesses simply because they're bigger, not because they have some privilege you don't.
I mean come on, there are enough fucking adverts everywhere without discussion groups being full of that shite too. Advertise in advert channels. Chat in chat channels. Don't mix the two. Of course you're proud of the stuff you've made and that's a good thing, but there is a time and a place for promoting it and that place is NOT a discussion group.
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