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this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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Advertising has no place here.
If you want to contain it all in a specific place that can be blocked, okay. But if the instance starts allowing people to just post advertisements like that, I'm gone and it's getting blocked.
So you're saying if lets say GCPGrey moved his community here, he couldn't have links to his store here or other material as that would be "bad".
Let's get real here, Advertising is going to happen, donations are going to happen. If you don't like that you're going to have a hard time on the Internet.
Yeah this is my thought too.
Is someone posting a YouTube video they made and are monetizing, advertising? Where do we draw the line?
Yeah I think that would be an OK case and these specific things can be up to the moderators of communities. I know that some communities require mod approval before self promotion is allowed, so I think in the CGP Grey community case it would be a non issue.
I think starting with a super specific rule around affiliate disclosure as proposed would be good enough to avoid this particular problem.
Like I said, if it's all contained in a community I can si.pky block, no problem.
If ads are allowed across the whole instance, I will change instances and block the whole instance.
I'm here to look at content, not be persuaded to spend money.
I'm not an admin, but I think an instance wide rule against links anywhere that are affiliate links would be insane and maybe you should go.