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I think affiliate links should be banned or restricted from this instance (self.main)

submitted 2 years ago by SymbolicLink to c/main

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I noticed this Wealthsimple Community pop up in my "active" list today.

Clicked in and noticed its empty, but the sidebar contains a sneaky affiliate link for the moderator of that community.

Same thing with the Wealthsimple Trade Community.

I think this sort of activity should be banned from here tbh, definitely at the mod level.

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[–] Rodeo -2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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.

[–] Woofcat 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Shadow 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah this is my thought too.

Is someone posting a YouTube video they made and are monetizing, advertising? Where do we draw the line?

[–] SymbolicLink 1 points 2 years ago

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.

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