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I tend to agree that they should not be allowed, but how would everyone feel about an exception if they're obviously called out?
I think of communities like churningcanada on reddit for example, where affiliate links / referral codes are intentional and wanted by the community.
IE, something like:
I think this is fair. I'm not necessarily against referral links in communities where that's an expected and desired part of what people are looking for from it.
Advertising has no place here.
If you want to contain it all in a specific place that can be blocked, okay. But if the instance starts allowing people to just post advertisements like that, I'm gone and it's getting blocked.
So you're saying if lets say GCPGrey moved his community here, he couldn't have links to his store here or other material as that would be "bad".
Let's get real here, Advertising is going to happen, donations are going to happen. If you don't like that you're going to have a hard time on the Internet.
Like I said, if it's all contained in a community I can si.pky block, no problem.
If ads are allowed across the whole instance, I will change instances and block the whole instance.
I'm here to look at content, not be persuaded to spend money.
I'm not an admin, but I think an instance wide rule against links anywhere that are affiliate links would be insane and maybe you should go.