I was wondering why the Reddit deals were no longer being shown here, especially the $1300 Dell PC with RTX3080+7700x.
It turns that bot was banned. I don’t think there’s any explanation available, guess bots are just not welcome in this instance?
Anyway, it was a great run, but guess Reddit couldn’t be replaced in the end.
Mods and admins need to feel that rush of power of hitting the ban button. Doesn’t matter if it destroys the platform. Look at the mod log, it’s disgusting.
The joy of lemmy is you can move instances and have different admins, if thats how you feel. You can even host one yourself
Did the repost bot carry an actual ad? I know - don’t blame the messenger - but I’m sure I saw one the other week.
I think it might be the Windows licenses that felt like an ad. It was removed from reddit I think so I can’t confirm.
If the bot is unbanned, it should be easy to make a whitelist of domains, but even then there could things falling through the cracks (like sketchy 3rd party Amazon/Newegg/Walmart stuff). A whitelist would also not be inclusive of small platforms (like the Staples resale website where people can get legit workstations for 200), and would take a lot of effort to build if we include direct sellers (Dell, Lenovo, Samsung, Apple, etc).
Blacklist might be better, but it will not account for new domains where most of the ads/scam happen. So it would be high maintenance.
So not sure what’s the best that can done.