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> Post your own blog on reddit, mignt as well have committed a war crime. Many subreddits are fine with posting a link to your own content, as long as you obse

> Post your own blog on reddit, mignt as well have committed a war crime. Many subreddits are fine with posting a link to your own content, as long as you observe the 10% rule mentioned in the Reddit wiki: for every one link to your own content, you should be posting 9 links to content you are not affiliated with. You should also be participating in the discussions on the subreddit instead of just linking and running. When you see how many e.g. travel subs have been overrun with links to people’s own YouTube channels, so they can pursue the dream of being influencers, it is easy to understand why there is little patience for flagrant self-promotion.

tayo42 3y ago
ive heard that rule and in hindsight, i think it was a bad idea for people to stick with that. 90% is arbitrary to start with. what is wrong with self promotion anyway? Its no different then ads, which we've mostly accepted. Its at least a person that wants to try. Reddit is a link aggregator. The average user doesn't run an adblock. We have people writing massive reddit posts instead of just writing their own blog. why do people do this? In the case of travel, you make it seem like there is a bunch of deep content being posted otherwise. travel sub reddits are pretty bad. r/Travel is anyway dominated by pictures and low effort posts, for karma I guess? For any discussion, if you go off the accepted ideas you'll be met with hostility and closed mindedness. travelnopics was made and its barely alive. digitalnomad and solotravel are filled with escapist fantasy and insecurity posts.
- zem 3y ago
  > Its no different then ads, which we've mostly accepted. I don't know which "we" you're talking about; at the very most some users tolerate ads as a thing they can skim over while looking for the actual content they want to read. having self promotion where the actual content should be defeats the entire purpose of the site.
  - tayo42 3y ago
    The world of internet users besides the minority that blocks ads. Unless you pay for reddit? Exclude those too. Self promotion isn't evil, idk how people expect anyone to share content they create other wise. Reddit has up and down votes, if the content isn't good, no matter the poster it doesn't get up voted. Bad content sorts it self out
    - zem 3y ago
      self promotion in and of itself isn't evil, but drive by self promotion in a group you do not regularly participate in is pure spam. we used to allow it on /r/indianfood on the theory that on-topic selfish promotion would be fine, and it nearly killed the subreddit with low effort youtube and blog spam blindly cross posted to a ton of groups. also I am convinced that while the majority of people don't block ads, pretty much no one values them or wouldn't make them magically disappear if they could.

tayo42 3y ago

ive heard that rule and in hindsight, i think it was a bad idea for people to stick with that. 90% is arbitrary to start with. what is wrong with self promotion anyway? Its no different then ads, which we've mostly accepted. Its at least a person that wants to try. Reddit is a link aggregator. The average user doesn't run an adblock. We have people writing massive reddit posts instead of just writing their own blog. why do people do this? In the case of travel, you make it seem like there is a bunch of deep content being posted otherwise. travel sub reddits are pretty bad. r/Travel is anyway dominated by pictures and low effort posts, for karma I guess? For any discussion, if you go off the accepted ideas you'll be met with hostility and closed mindedness. travelnopics was made and its barely alive. digitalnomad and solotravel are filled with escapist fantasy and insecurity posts.

zem 3y ago
> Its no different then ads, which we've mostly accepted. I don't know which "we" you're talking about; at the very most some users tolerate ads as a thing they can skim over while looking for the actual content they want to read. having self promotion where the actual content should be defeats the entire purpose of the site.
- tayo42 3y ago
  The world of internet users besides the minority that blocks ads. Unless you pay for reddit? Exclude those too. Self promotion isn't evil, idk how people expect anyone to share content they create other wise. Reddit has up and down votes, if the content isn't good, no matter the poster it doesn't get up voted. Bad content sorts it self out
  - zem 3y ago
    self promotion in and of itself isn't evil, but drive by self promotion in a group you do not regularly participate in is pure spam. we used to allow it on /r/indianfood on the theory that on-topic selfish promotion would be fine, and it nearly killed the subreddit with low effort youtube and blog spam blindly cross posted to a ton of groups. also I am convinced that while the majority of people don't block ads, pretty much no one values them or wouldn't make them magically disappear if they could.