I Am Not Allowed to Post My Content on Reddit(techblog.bozho.net)
techblog.bozho.net
I Am Not Allowed to Post My Content on Reddit
http://techblog.bozho.net/i-am-not-allowed-to-post-on-reddit/
2 comments
my reasoning of whether something is spam or not does not change other people's reasonong whether something is spam or not, but to claim something is objectively spam is a bit too much. Apparently the notion of "spam" differs.
Twitter is constant self-promotion - you constantly share your thoughts and views. And somehow that's fine and you get followers. Is tweeting spamming? Besides, see the other comment with the chart attached.
Twitter is constant self-promotion - you constantly share your thoughts and views. And somehow that's fine and you get followers. Is tweeting spamming? Besides, see the other comment with the chart attached.
You're right that everyone defines spam differently and that you can't give spam a singular objective definition across the board nor was that my intention with what I wrote above. What I did try to say was that every community has a policy of what they define as spam and it's not uncommon for most to share the common view (at least communities I've been apart of) that self promotion is and can be viewed as spam.
Using Twitter as a counter example doesn't fit here because as a company they don't share that view but apparently the subreddit you reference in your original post does
Using Twitter as a counter example doesn't fit here because as a company they don't share that view but apparently the subreddit you reference in your original post does
Fun fact: original content (that's clearly identified as such) gets twice as many upvotes on Reddit in average than non-original content: http://i.imgur.com/3iudvZ8.png
Methodology behind the chart: http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2rv76z/oc_r...
The 10% rule is archaic, from a time where undisclosed self-promotion was rampant. Now that it's hitting false positives, it needs to be revamped.
Methodology behind the chart: http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2rv76z/oc_r...
The 10% rule is archaic, from a time where undisclosed self-promotion was rampant. Now that it's hitting false positives, it needs to be revamped.
when in doubt, consult the data :) Thanks for sharing.
As a side note, the frequency of offenses does not dissolve whether spam is spam. You can say it doesn't do harm as a whole but that shifts the argument away from the fact that spam is an ongoing effort most people try to avoid from happening at all.