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 doesn’t 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 don’t want to remove anything unless really necessary. The lack of guidelines about ads in monero.town means, the OP didn’t do anything against the rule(s).

I couldn’t remove the new one in !moneromarket https://monero.town/post/1142415 Not sure if @admin@monero.town thinks it’s bad enough, either. Monero is censorship-resistant, meaning we tend to hate deleting someone else’s speech/expression just because it’s 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.

  • Saki@monero.townOPEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    They double-posted a new one https://monero.town/post/1142415 in !moneromarket.

    The only applicable rule is “No spamming or off-topic ads.” 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, it’s 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: I’d against the idea of “powerful moderation” where self-righteous mods check every post closely and easily remove ones they don’t like. Also, “reported by 4 users” shouldn’t 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.

    • admin@monero.townM
      21·
      1 year ago

      Posting the same thing to 20 different communities is spam imo, even if they aren’t all on our instance. Stuff like this can get your entire instance banned from federating with others, i don’t think this should be supported and the people here seem to agree. There hasn’t 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).

      • Saki@monero.townOPEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Since you’re 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.

    • maltfield@monero.town
      1·
      1 year ago

      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 we’ve got “you’re a scam because everything blockchain is a scam.” – 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 illegitimate…