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To play devil's advocate, I feel like most social platforms ban or limit most aspects of self-promotion or solicitation to other social platforms (whether out o

To play devil's advocate, I feel like most social platforms ban or limit most aspects of self-promotion or solicitation to other social platforms (whether out of self-interest or otherwise). Even Twitter for a brief while did this with Mastodon links back at the end of 2022. I think most users of course don't like this as it feels like censorship, but on the flipside if I built a community and felt like users were joining my site just to try to solicit my community members to jump to a competitor, I'd probably not be too happy with that.

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bhaak 3y ago
You want to google "anti-competitive practices". Though I don't think Reddit is doing that right now. We would hear this happening a lot more if this was implemented site wide. It's more likely that the mods of the specific subreddit have updated their own Automoderator rules to filter such posts.
- Suppafly 3y ago
  I agree, without being able to read the linked the article, I assume this was a subreddit specific thing that happened. If that's the case, it's probably a good thing. I'm in a few subs where people constantly post links to alternatives and it floods the feed with useless posts. I understand that the lemmy situation is somewhat different as reddit is being a pain right now, but in general it's a dick move to go into a community and start spamming links to a different one.
- throw16180339 3y ago
  The user linked to the comment in the thread (https://old.reddit.com/r/newsokunomoral/comments/148y47z/reddit%E3%81%AEceo%E3%81%8C%E5%BE%93%E6%A5%AD%E5%93%A1%E3%81%AB%E6%8A%97%E8%AD%B0%E3%81%AE%E3%82%B5%E3%83%96%E3%83%AC%E9%96%89%E9%8E%96%E3%81%AF%E9%81%8E%E3%81%8E%E5%8E%BB%E3%82%8B%E3%81%A8%E4%BC%9D%E3%81%88%E3%82%8B/jo39b2i/ https://old.reddit.com/r/newsokunomoral/comments/148y47z/red...). It would appear as [removed] if it was removed by mods, a mod bot such as AutoModerator, the spam filter, or it was posted by a shadow-banned user. [Removed by Reddit] means that it was removed by Reddit's Anti-Evil Operations. I'm a mod elsewhere and the text matches other comments that AEO has removed on my sub.
  - bhaak 3y ago
    It looks like the AEO removed it although I think as a normal user you actually can't distinguish if it was actually removed or the user just used that text. Great job at development, as usual, by Reddit. But the modlog on new reddit should have a reason why it was removed and the actual text before removal. So the mods on that subreddit could verify that claim.
rurp 3y ago
You say "even Twitter" as if that company is a paragon of ethics and even-handedness. If a place has to coerce people to stay in it, that's an awfully damning move. Well run communities don't need to do that because people actually want to use them over the competition.
- eggbrain 3y ago
  To be clear I agree with you -- a large platform trying to coerce its users to stay is indeed a bad move. I'm also not trying to put Twitter on a pedestal here, mainly just trying to indicate that this isn't necessarily an "only Reddit" thing, but something other social platforms often do. I could believe, however, that it could be hard to distinguish angry users that are protesting and telling people to move to another site because the platform / community is poorly run (as is the case with the current Reddit protest), vs potential "bad actors" that are hoping to capitalize and steal users to their own site even if communities were run perfectly. In the former case it's justified, in the latter case even if it doesn't draw users away it is probably still, at best, spam.

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bhaak 3y ago

You want to google "anti-competitive practices". Though I don't think Reddit is doing that right now. We would hear this happening a lot more if this was implemented site wide. It's more likely that the mods of the specific subreddit have updated their own Automoderator rules to filter such posts.

Suppafly 3y ago
I agree, without being able to read the linked the article, I assume this was a subreddit specific thing that happened. If that's the case, it's probably a good thing. I'm in a few subs where people constantly post links to alternatives and it floods the feed with useless posts. I understand that the lemmy situation is somewhat different as reddit is being a pain right now, but in general it's a dick move to go into a community and start spamming links to a different one.
throw16180339 3y ago
The user linked to the comment in the thread (https://old.reddit.com/r/newsokunomoral/comments/148y47z/reddit%E3%81%AEceo%E3%81%8C%E5%BE%93%E6%A5%AD%E5%93%A1%E3%81%AB%E6%8A%97%E8%AD%B0%E3%81%AE%E3%82%B5%E3%83%96%E3%83%AC%E9%96%89%E9%8E%96%E3%81%AF%E9%81%8E%E3%81%8E%E5%8E%BB%E3%82%8B%E3%81%A8%E4%BC%9D%E3%81%88%E3%82%8B/jo39b2i/ https://old.reddit.com/r/newsokunomoral/comments/148y47z/red...). It would appear as [removed] if it was removed by mods, a mod bot such as AutoModerator, the spam filter, or it was posted by a shadow-banned user. [Removed by Reddit] means that it was removed by Reddit's Anti-Evil Operations. I'm a mod elsewhere and the text matches other comments that AEO has removed on my sub.
- bhaak 3y ago
  It looks like the AEO removed it although I think as a normal user you actually can't distinguish if it was actually removed or the user just used that text. Great job at development, as usual, by Reddit. But the modlog on new reddit should have a reason why it was removed and the actual text before removal. So the mods on that subreddit could verify that claim.

rurp 3y ago

You say "even Twitter" as if that company is a paragon of ethics and even-handedness. If a place has to coerce people to stay in it, that's an awfully damning move. Well run communities don't need to do that because people actually want to use them over the competition.

eggbrain 3y ago
To be clear I agree with you -- a large platform trying to coerce its users to stay is indeed a bad move. I'm also not trying to put Twitter on a pedestal here, mainly just trying to indicate that this isn't necessarily an "only Reddit" thing, but something other social platforms often do. I could believe, however, that it could be hard to distinguish angry users that are protesting and telling people to move to another site because the platform / community is poorly run (as is the case with the current Reddit protest), vs potential "bad actors" that are hoping to capitalize and steal users to their own site even if communities were run perfectly. In the former case it's justified, in the latter case even if it doesn't draw users away it is probably still, at best, spam.