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As 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
by sliverstorm 11y ago
As 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.