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META: Posting Links to Buy Things (tkohhh.social)
submitted 3 years ago by 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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[–] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I’ve been reporting them. It seems that a lot of the posts contain affiliate links, so it’s someone trying to make money from that - not because they wrote the books that are getting posted.

Some have been banned, but they keep coming back. Some may be bots, but not all - I saw at least one come back with a hateful response when called out.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I haven't been reporting since it's not clear that it's a violation of any rules. I guess that's what I'm hoping to clarify with this post.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    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.

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