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 doesnāt 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 donāt want to remove anything unless really necessary. The lack of guidelines about ads in monero.town means, the OP didnāt do anything against the rule(s).
I couldnāt remove the new one in !moneromarket https://monero.town/post/1142415 Not sure if @[email protected] thinks itās bad enough, either. Monero is censorship-resistant, meaning we tend to hate deleting someone elseās speech/expression just because itās 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.
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A policy like r/moneroās makes a lot of sense. Itās like the tolerance/intolerance paradox - you canāt be so anti-censorship that you let randos flood a space and drown out everyone elseās voice (thus censoring everyone else). Thereās a line between informative and abusive posting frequency.
Right. Idealism doesnāt always work.
In this specific case, though, it feels unfair to suddenly give them a severe punishment, as they didnāt do anything against the rules when posts were made, monero.town had accepted their posts for a few months, @maltfield was never given a warning; some users even found Buskill interesting/fun and posted positive comments at first.
Sorry folks, just seeing this. Obviously I do not think Iāve posted spam.
- I only post at most one link per month. I have no idea how one could consider publishing content that infrequently to be spam.
- I post once in every relevant community on lemmy. Again, thatās not spam; thatās the nature of the fediverse. As thereās so many āworld newsā communities, I am pretty annoyed when users donāt take the time to post a link to an important news story to all of the āworld newsā comms.
- 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. Thatās what the button is for.
I can see your points but see @adminās 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 donāt 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 didnāt want to delete your posts easily and somehow theyāve 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 articleās website is responsive.
Iāve already sent you (in PM) everything I got. One report reads, āReason: spam, unreadable on mobile. seriously guys, do better.ā Not clear what they meant by āunreadable on mobileā but perhaps your post was too long or having too many big pictures, movies, etc.
Itās not like Iām 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 adminās comment, which makes sense too.
ā¦They are selling a magnetic USB cable as a Killswitch?
If thatās trueā¦ Yeahā¦ Fuck that. Thatās spam and a shitty company.
Similar posts by the same user @maltfield were accepted in the past: https://monero.town/post/131992 https://monero.town/post/131986 https://monero.town/post/478694
The idea itself could be interesting and thought-provoking. Personally I wouldnāt like to be oppressive, removing posts easily; but this time, https://monero.town/post/1144305 it seems somewhat excessive too. Any advice? Iām new here, though technically a mod. @[email protected] @[email protected]
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Iād be in favor of removing it, for what it is worth. A follow-up direct message might be a good idea as well.
We might consider adding a third rule, perhaps? Wonder why we both got assigned as moderators. I think the community creator deleted their account before doing so.
They double-posted a new one https://monero.town/post/1142415 in !moneromarket.
The only applicable rule is āNo spamming or off-topic ads.ā Maybe we can remove it from !privacy, while keeping it stay in !moneromarket (up to admin/its mods), to which this ad more properly belongs?
- Positive: This BusKill thing, also sold via ProxyStore, may be legit (it does what it says it does). https://shop.proxysto.re/conf/914 Sketchy but mildly interesting. More or less related to privacy and Monero, itās not totally off-topic in !privacy; their ads were accepted in !moneromarket a few times already.
- Negative: Their ads are cross-posted to ~10 communities and repetitive though infrequent; having the nature of spamming.
Thoughts: Iād against the idea of āpowerful moderationā where self-righteous mods check every post closely and easily remove ones they donāt like. Also, āreported by 4 usersā shouldnāt be a general criterion. If it was, a malicious person having 4 accounts could try to kill any post this way. In this specific case, reports are most probably genuine & really appreciated.
In addition to being vouched-for by ProxyStore, we also have the green check box on Monerica. If you have specific criticisms of our product, please let us know. Mostly weāve got āyouāre a scam because everything blockchain is a scam.ā ā but I would expect better from the monero community.
Not sure how providing journalists, activists, human rights defenders, crypto traders, etc with open-source hardware kill cords makes us illegitimateā¦
Posting the same thing to 20 different communities is spam imo, even if they arenāt all on our instance. Stuff like this can get your entire instance banned from federating with others, i donāt think this should be supported and the people here seem to agree. There hasnāt been a rule so far but we should probably add something similar to r/monero where you can only advertise every 2 weeks as well as limiting reposts to your own community and a limited amount of others (so cakewallet can post to the cake community and monero for example).
Since youāre the admin, you have the final say, obviously. @maltfield is a fellow user of monero.town. Apparently their posts were well received once ( https://monero.town/post/478676 https://monero.town/post/132041 ) then became a bit too repetitive and (perceived as) spammy.
we should probably add something similar to r/monero where you can only advertise every 2 weeks as well as limiting reposts to your own community and a limited amount of others
Sounds reasonable.
Current Status 2023-11-19 23:00Z (Any comments would be appreciated)
- Some of these posts by our fellow user @[email protected] were removed by mods in several instances (lemmy.ml, lemmy.one, lemmy.world, etc.). Modlogs:
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Even in these instances, not all of their posts were removed. For example https://lemmy.ml/post/4403541 from 3 months ago was well accepted, and is still kept. Maybe @maltfield is not a āpure spammerā and we can discuss with them in a civil manner, ask them not to overdo it.
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The said user even got (2-month?) bans from certain instances. I wouldnāt like to ban/block a fellow Monero supporter from monero.town. At the same time I donāt want people from other instances to see monero.town as a ābadā place. (Hopefully people are rational enough not to assume @maltfield represents typical Monero users/privacy advocates.)
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Some other instances did not (yet?) remove @maltfieldās posts in question. E.g. our friendly instance [email protected] still keeps yesterdayās BusKill post: https://lemmy.one/post/6940197
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I PMāed @maltfield ~8 hours ago, explaining the situation, asking āSpeak up now if necessary.ā
Thanks for PMing me. Iāve left my comments here
