Comment on Rule 2 Clarifications and New Rule proposal I’ve gotten through (I believe) a

• curbstickle@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Would spamming low effort comments to fill a quota then fall under the spam bit, not necessarily self promotion bit?

  Yup! Especially if they get reported for suddenly blasting out low effort comments which would put them on “mod radar” as it were.

  I have no dog in this fight either since all of my projects are open hardware so nobody cares anyway because it would cost money to build it and test it out 😂

  I dunno, plenty of us do stupid things with our money to try out something we want….

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• IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Would spamming low effort comments to fill a quota then fall under the spam bit, not necessarily self promotion bit?

  Possibly, but there’s equally gray area that what counts as low effort spamming and what actually contributes to the conversation. For example I’ve replied to comments “I’m using X to do Y” with “I’m using X too and I’m happy with it” to give an opinion to possible solutions. That kind of comments are easy enough to throw out and, if the “10% rule” is interpreted strictly, it isn’t really obvious if they should be considered as “improving your ratio” or as a part of actual conversation.

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