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I run several large subreddits, and we remove this sort of spam.
No links were allowed? Some subs are super strict, like /r/Startups and that's ok. I still participate and find a lot of value in them!
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Lurking for weeks is not being part of community.
sigh I was assuming you'd fill in the blanks. Join, lurk, upvote, comment, post. The process takes/took several months. My first post was not "buy this now!" it was "I built this for you, what do you think?" I couldn't have been more polite, respective and meek.
You know like the rite of passage for sorority they make you drink something nasty and now you are one of them? That is just to make fun of people and see who is bigger looser that does what others ask him to do.
If you look at responses in this thread there are couple mods in there replying. They are bashing main post here as well. Because if you are not interested in growing community but just drive by dropping something that is not it. Just getting to know how they communicate seems like what psychopath would do.
Investing in process like that is never going to be a good business strategy. That is why most companies just pay the ads.
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Rather depends on the subreddit. I subscribe to most of the VR subreddits. /r/vive has really strict moderation whilst /r/oculus has barely any.
> /r/vive has really strict moderation whilst /r/oculus has barely any. Which do you think has a better community, and do you ascribe that result to the moderation?
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I'm a big fan of the idea that it's ok to be a person with an account and a company, but not a company with an account. The dynamics of the latter situation feel very wrong - the goal should be to make online interactions as human as possible. Obviously I don't know the details of the situation and certainly don't know the mods reasoning, but from your description if they banned you because of your username that soun…
And for a third perspective: I run a sub called r/ClothingStartups and the day I took it over -- it had been dead -- people began self promoting. I decided to embrace that and set rules about how often they could do that. I made that decision in part because I was homeless for a long time and while homeless I participated a lot on Metafilter where people would squee at me for "caring" about them and giving everyone g…