Submitted 11 months ago by Saki@monero.town to meta@monero.town
Monero.town /post/1144305
There are 4 reports saying this is spam, and it is indeed cross-posting link spam, and feels excessive.
The thing is, Monero.town doesn’t forbidden ads, and freedom of speech is important even if what is said is unpleasant for me or for someone else. Thoughts?
A policy like r/monero’s makes a lot of sense. It’s like the tolerance/intolerance paradox - you can’t be so anti-censorship that you let randos flood a space and drown out everyone else’s voice (thus censoring everyone else). There’s a line between informative and abusive posting frequency.
Right. Idealism doesn’t always work.
In this specific case, though, it feels unfair to suddenly give them a severe punishment, as they didn’t do anything against the rules when posts were made, monero.town had accepted their posts for a few months, @maltfield were 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 I’ve posted spam.
If someone thinks that an article is not relevant to the community in which it was posted, they can downvote it. That’s what the button is for.
I can see your points but see @admin’s 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 don’t 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 didn’t want to delete your posts easily and somehow they’ve been kept. Ultimately, though, admin has the final say.
Can you elaborate on the phone-friendly point? I posted it in markdown and the source article’s website is responsive.
Current Status 2023-11-19 23:00Z (Any comments would be appreciated)
Even in these instances, not all of their posts were removed. For example lemmy.ml/post/4403541 from 3 months ago was well accepted, and is still kept. Maybe @maltfield is not a “pure spammer” and we can discuss with them in a civil manner, ask them not to overdo it.
The said user even got (2-month?) bans from certain instances. I wouldn’t like to ban/block a fellow Monero supporter from monero.town. At the same time I don’t want people from other instances see monero.town as a “bad” place. (Hopefully people are rational enough not to assume @maltfield represents typical Monero users/privacy advocates.)
Some other instances did not (yet?) remove @maltfield’s posts in question. E.g. our friendly instance !privacyguides@lemmy.one still keeps yesterday’s BusKill post: lemmy.one/post/6940197
I PM’ed @maltfield ~8 hours ago, explaining the situation, asking “Speak up now if necessary.”
Thanks for PMing me. I’ve left my comments here
iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 11 months ago
…They are selling a magnetic USB cable as a Killswitch?
If that’s true… Yeah… Fuck that.
Saki@monero.town 11 months ago
Similar posts by the same user @maltfield were accepted in the past: monero.town/post/131992 monero.town/post/131986 monero.town/post/478694
The idea itself could be interesting and thought-provoking. Personally I wouldn’t like to be oppressive, removing posts easily; but this time, monero.town/post/1144305 it seems somewhat excessive too. Any advice? I’m new here, though technically a mod. @monerobull@monero.town @rottenwheel@monero.town
rottenwheel@monero.town 11 months ago
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I’d 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.