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[META] Are paid for, closed source projects, being advertised on this community, appropriate? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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A number of brand new accounts have popped up shilling their paid for applications.

Is this within the rules? Is the community happy with this? Could mods clarify this in the rules?

Either allowing advertising, or banning it entirely.

my point is - there is a difference between an open source homegrown project that might be useful, vs closed source paid for projects from brand new accounts

some replies are misunderstanding, somehow.

I am against

brand new accounts who:

  1. first post is a brand new project
  2. project is closed source
  3. project will cost money
  4. is asking for free testing
  5. the post is literally an advertisement
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[–] 43 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"Lurk for a while before posting," has been a standard rule of netiquette for at least the 30 years that I've been using the 'net.

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  • [+] -13 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I would tend to agree with that. Maybe OP didn't think of that.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    They did think about that, apparently you did not. Did you not see that they specifically said "brand new" accounts? Or are you talking about the most recent OP that posted an ad to beta test closed source software?

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