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user-inactivated  ·  2908 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Overenthusiastic tagging of #spam in #rpg

Well, if the "community" is made up of as self-important, self-appointed guardians of community-interest as Odder. I'm OUT.



thenewgreen  ·  2908 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I have a sincere question, this is legitimately to gather information so if you could please answer honestly, that would be awesome.

What is your intent when posting to Hubski? Is it to get traction for your website, is it to try and garner discussion around your content? Is Hubski a place you spend any time at beyond posting your content? How many other aggregators do you post your content on? Do you follow anyone or any tags on Hubski? If you were an active member of the Hubski community would you assume that a user that only posts to one site that has the same name as his/hers and has never commented is a spammer?

I think anyone should be allowed to post content so long as it's not overtly offensive. I also think the community has done a pretty good job of dilineating between what is an is not spam. They seem to have perhaps gotten it wrong here though.

Good luck with your site. I know it takes a lot of work.

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user-inactivated  ·  2908 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Both (and frankly, DUH!).

Browse through the global feed but only after posting.

As many as I can.

Nope.

Of course not, that's idiotic.

Passively adding in the "overtly offensive" caveat is very disingenuous btw when it wasn't a part of the discussion to begin with.

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thenewgreen  ·  2908 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Passively adding in the "overtly offensive" caveat is very disingenuous btw when it wasn't a part of the discussion to begin with.
What are you talking about? I believe that no content should be dissaloud on Hubski unless it is overtly offensive, which yours clearly is not. How is that disingenuous? I think if you spent any time in this, very real community, you'd know that I'm a lot of things but disingenuous isn't one of them.

Given your description of how you use Hubski, I find it comical that you posted that you are "OUT" in a way that assumes it's our loss.

Still, best of luck to you. Maintaining a site with original content is a helluva lot of work.

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user-inactivated  ·  2908 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes it would be your loss as would the loss of any other member. If it gets made to hard to stick around then its simply better to leave.

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mk  ·  2908 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hang in there. Your posts are hardly offensive, and I don't think marking them #spam makes for a good solution.

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