We’ve had to create a new sidebar rule, we won’t be enacting it retroactively because that just doesn’t seem fair, but going forward:
- Rule 7: We didn’t USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you’re posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.
19 articles still seems like reasonable usage to me. Spam or abuse would probably be a bit higher than that and likely include off topic and duplicate links.
That was the question I put to the other mods… “Heyyy… we don’t exactly have a rule for this, 19 seems like a lot…”
We collectively decided on 10, but this is all new, it might change!
The prime focus is making sure no single user dominates the front page. How big the “front page” is varies by app though.
RIP MICROWAVE 😭
LOL Microwave DOES post a bunch, but not to the point where we get reports on it. Not to where we look at the front page and see:
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(username)All his posts get me to engage a ton. They’re very informative on current medical system issues. I had a gripe with them at one point about being inflammatory but I was wrong, the sources are usually of extremely good quality.
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I dunno. I personally have no problem with someone just copying what’s posted on Reddit here.
At least until there’s more engagement.
Posting full articles is probably not great, but the number of posts per time unit probably shouldn’t be limited unless it’s causing a technical issue. It’s news content. That’s why we’re subscribed.
Maybe poster is out of work right now, following the news closely, posting what seems important. Surely 10-100 important news items happen each day.
In my opinion the volume of posts isn’t the problem, but copy pasting full text from a site is the issue.
Copy/pasting the full text of an article breaks the rules at the lemmy.world level, that’s already been accounted for in the Sidebar rules.
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Is this about that account called “nonaturalgas” or something? Anyway somehow that one always felt off . So good job.
Correction: it’s name was naturalgasbad and he was also banned. Some other poster stated he posted several pro China articles a day.
No, they only posted twice that I’m aware of.
This one isn’t about the quality of the links, the links themselves appear to be fine, it’s just the sheer volume.
To give you some idea, I moderate some smaller communities and I personally feel like I’m dominating the conversation if I post more than 3 links in a day…
Roll over to World News and I see 19… 🙄
They told me they were banned because they kept citing the Ad Fontes Media Bias Chart and the mods here preferred the Media Bias Fact Check ratings.
Please don’t assume their gender. This is basic etiquette.
Let’s see if we can make this place better.
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Let’s say, for the sake of argument, the person taking over the front page was some tankie from hexbear, post after post of “Communism good, Democrats are Right Wing” etc. etc. etc.
The articles posted may be from a variety of sources, but their selection by the same person represents a singular point of view.
A community serving 33,000 members shouldn’t fall victim to a singular point of view.
Or, in lighter terms “Hey, give somebody else the chance to post…”
Hey, give somebody else the chance to post
They do have a chance. 🤷♂️
But I hear you on the point-of-view argument. 👍
