ken
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Maintaining Konform Browser and some other bits and bobs.
- Comment on [META] Are paid for closer source advertising appropriate? 2 weeks ago:
Sure but that doesn’t mean that this community should provide that commercialization venue.
- Comment on [META] Are paid for closer source advertising appropriate? 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like a reasonable set of options!
- Comment on Rule 2 Clarifications and New Rule proposal I’ve gotten through (I believe) a 2 weeks ago:
If you work for a company or own the company you are still making a self- promotional post for a company, and the rule applies. So if the exact same post is posted by a friend instead it’s suddenly accepted? Why is self-promo meaningfully less desired than third-party-promo if they have similar results?
You seem to be vastly in the minority. Might be! That one’s framed as just personal preference and not policy suggestion :)
So a more restrictive rule? More restrictive in one sense (what content and what’s ok to “promote” for) but more allowing in another (you can talk about something even if you work there).
- Comment on [META] Are paid for closer source advertising appropriate? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for replying, sounds like this is going in a better direction.
Whichever side the ruling falls I think that feedback channel would be very good. Just having a way for a submitter to ask from mod(s) why the submission was targeted might be the difference between a them turning into a great contributor vs either just leaving or starting to play circumvention games.
- Comment on Rule 2 Clarifications and New Rule proposal I’ve gotten through (I believe) a 2 weeks ago:
I think this is even more problematic. Why is it better that I shill for a company I’m getting kickbacks from rather than one I’m responsible for? Besides, this just lead to submarining and people pretending to “have just come across this project, what do you guys think?”
- Comment on [META] Are paid for closer source advertising appropriate? 3 weeks ago:
I would like some clarity on general self-promotion of open source projects as well. As in, points 1-4 don’t apply and 5 depends on your definition of “advertisement”.
I’m bringing this up because I (once) previously attempted to share a project^1^ I maintain on here. I did take some effort to include some context and discussion points for selfhosters in order to make it more tailored and stay safe on Rule 3. It was quickly removed by mod. I tried reaching out to one of the mods to try to understand what was wrong. They were friendly and said they weren’t involved and would forward to the relevant people and since then I haven’t heard back.
^1^: FLOSS, no commercial or otherwise proprietary parts or links, 100% human