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.
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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 was never given a warning; some users even found Buskill interesting/fun and posted positive comments at first.
…They are selling a magnetic USB cable as a Killswitch?
If that’s true… Yeah… Fuck that. That’s spam and a shitty company.
Similar posts by the same user @maltfield were accepted in the past: https://monero.town/post/131992 https://monero.town/post/131986 https://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, https://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
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.
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.
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).
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.
Current Status 2023-11-19 23:00Z (Any comments would be appreciated)
- Some of these posts by our fellow user @maltfield@monero.town were removed by mods in several instances (lemmy.ml, lemmy.one, lemmy.world, etc.). Modlogs:
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Even in these instances, not all of their posts were removed. For example https://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.
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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 to see monero.town as a “bad” place. (Hopefully people are rational enough not to assume @maltfield represents typical Monero users/privacy advocates.)
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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: https://lemmy.one/post/6940197
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I PM’ed @maltfield ~8 hours ago, explaining the situation, asking “Speak up now if necessary.”
