https://monero.town/post/1144305
Bicoin Black Friday: BusKill (Open-Source Hardware Dead Man Switch) Announces 10% Discount
There are 4 reports saying this is spam, and it is indeed cross-posting link spam, and feels slightly excessive but not extremely so (?).
The thing is, Monero.town doesn’t forbid ads, and freedom of speech is important even if what is said is unpleasant for me or for someone else. Thoughts?
Edit: Since someone has appointed me as a mod in !privacy, where https://monero.town/post/1144305 is, I can remove it, except I don’t want to remove anything unless really necessary. The lack of guidelines about ads in monero.town means, the OP didn’t do anything against the rule(s).
I couldn’t remove the new one in !moneromarket https://monero.town/post/1142415 Not sure if @admin@monero.town thinks it’s bad enough, either. Monero is censorship-resistant, meaning we tend to hate deleting someone else’s speech/expression just because it’s subjectively disagreeable.
Given that Monero is money after all and some for-profit services are useful for its users too, probably commercial posts (ads) should be allowed in general, if not excessive. And BusKill ads are not excessive in terms of frequency, like only once a month.
Perceived link spamming (self-promotion) advertising SimplifiedPrivacy has been also noticed by many including myself, which has been like once or twice a week, and explicitly questioned here ( https://monero.town/post/1085883 ); but many (including myself) think these posts can be useful nevertheless, the poster being knowledgeable.
Current Status 2023-11-19 23:00Z (Any comments would be appreciated)
Even in these instances, not all of their posts were removed. For example https://lemmy.ml/post/4403541 from 3 months ago was well accepted, and is still kept. Maybe @maltfield is not a “pure spammer” and we can discuss with them in a civil manner, ask them not to overdo it.
The said user even got (2-month?) bans from certain instances. I wouldn’t like to ban/block a fellow Monero supporter from monero.town. At the same time I don’t want people from other instances to see monero.town as a “bad” place. (Hopefully people are rational enough not to assume @maltfield represents typical Monero users/privacy advocates.)
Some other instances did not (yet?) remove @maltfield’s posts in question. E.g. our friendly instance !privacyguides@lemmy.one still keeps yesterday’s BusKill post: https://lemmy.one/post/6940197
I PM’ed @maltfield ~8 hours ago, explaining the situation, asking “Speak up now if necessary.”
Thanks for PMing me. I've left my comments here