Comment on On Greed

wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• inimzi@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I am new and excited to be here. Unlike almost every article posted, mine does not include ads in the article, nor does the website have any ads. There is no product or service sold directly or indirectly

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• Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And so what? To be honest, what’s wrong with self promotion?

  But is the article interesting? Maybe this is the important thing to consider and comment about.

  At least if they self promote they do it in the open and not hiding hypocritically

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  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I didn’t say anything about self promotion because I don’t usually have issues with that.

    This isn’t self promotion. As I said, this is pure advertisement.

    Self promotion would be someone who is or has been engaging with the community or the wider fediverse at all that does something like “Hey, I did some research on this topic and there’s some things I think people should know about it so I wrote a blog post. Let me know what you think!”

    This also isn’t just out in the open. Why would this person set a different display name on their account unless they wanted to add a small delay in people catching onto this? Instead of a direct “this is the site I run”, their profile has some weird promotional wank about the site and a link. It’s not direct and up front.

    Just… any attempt at bare minimum effort to indicate that this person had any intention of actually engaging with the community instead of dropping a link and running would have made this more palatable.

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    • Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Display name? I see inimzi as posting user and its pretty clear to me this user is related to the posted website. Advertising means revenue, where is it? This seems self promoting to me.

      I am guilty if the same sin I guess with my self hosting wiki.

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