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.

  • gina
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    1 year ago

    The ones I’ve been reporting have all been lemm.ee users and it is a violation of the lemm.ee rules to use your account to advertise on lemm.ee or any other instance. I don’t know how other instances are handling it.

    I actually don’t know who gets the reports I’ve been submitting, either, so I’m not sure if it’s doing anything.

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      1 year ago

      Oh, and I also suspect the user(s?) doing this is using other accounts to upvote the posts.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, that’s what I was figuring as well. This is one downside to not allowing downvotes… they would get buried pretty quickly if we could downvote them.

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          Oh that’s funny, I forgot beehaw didn’t have downvotes. I actually can downvote and see the downvotes, but maybe those are just going off into the ether.