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META: Posting Links to Buy Things (tkohhh.social)
submitted 1 year ago by tko@tkohhh.social to c/food@beehaw.org
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I'm curious what everyone thinks about the posts that have shown up here that are simply a link to purchase an item on Amazon?

These posts are coming from users that don't have any other engagement other than these posts. This does not seem like a good-faith effort to engage with the community, but rather a cheap attempt to generate clicks and sales.

I would like to see these posts banned, but I'm curious how the rest of the community feels.

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[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

These are spam. Please keep reporting these, we ban the users from the site and remove the content.

[–] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

On a side note, have you considered affiliate links to support the site? I'm usually against them, but if it would help the site and they are genuinely good products that everyone here supports, then I wouldn't be averse to using them. Although I believe affiliate links are not as lucrative as they used to be.

[–] tko@tkohhh.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's some interesting questions being raised about the report function over here: https://tkohhh.social/post/10726

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The following people get a report when content is reported:

  • The community of the reported content
  • The instance administrator for the community of the reported content
  • The instance administrator for the person who reported the content
  • The instance administrator for the person who was reported

This makes my queue a mess at times, especially because federation is not instant and many apps cache content. I've had people on Beehaw report content on Beehaw that was already removed hours ago. When someone spams a bunch of content across communities on the fediverse (such as today with a prolific spammer) we can sometimes have dozens of reports for the same user because of all the reports generated above.

[–] tko@tkohhh.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for clarifying this. I'm going to post this information over on that thread just for visibility. Thanks again!

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Haven't considered anything outside of donations at this time. We post regular financial updates, here's our most recent.