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> You tried to use their site to promote your site and they banned you? What is wrong with that? As long as your aren't spamming or trying to ruin the experien
by mej10 11y ago
> You tried to use their site to promote your site and they banned you?
What is wrong with that? As long as your aren't spamming or trying to ruin the experience for others, why the fuck should it matter that you post your site to a subreddit that would be interested?
Also, people do this literally all the time in subreddits. Like, ALL the time. Wonder what was different in this case.
- sliverstorm 11y agoAs far as I know they try to deny self-promotion because it leads to a flood of people posting crappy content because it will make them money, rather than good content because it is good. It's definitely sometimes difficult to enforce & sometimes poorly enforced.
- lqdc13 11y agoThere was a case of theoatmeal.com a long time ago. They supported the user submitting content even though it was his own.
- Consultant32452 11y agoThe guy who runs the youtube channel Smarter Everyday has his own subreddit and promotes it regularly.
- RubyPinch 11y agoto be fair, both oatmeal and smarter everyday didn't start a community on reddit, wait for it to grow, and then try to divert that community into their own sites (as planned all along)
- Consultant32452 11y agoI think one key difference, as far as Reddit is concerned, is that for things like Smarter Everyday the "relationship," if you could call it that, probably drives more of Smarter Everyday's traffic to Reddit than it pulls from Reddit over to Youtube. People go to Reddit to talk about SED videos and suggest content and ideas because it's a better communication platform than Youtube provides. This is, of course, totally in line with what you're saying.