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Should we allow creating posts like ".NET News Daily Issue" in this community? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I don't want to be rude and I don't accuse people posting these kind of links here of having bad intentions, but I personally find them kind of annoying. There is too much of them right now and it's hard to even start a discussion, when there is no information in the title on what's actually inside.

I believe we should stick to "one topic, one post". What do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I personally find them kind of annoying

So downvote them and/or scroll on by. As long as I keep getting more upvotes than downvotes I'll keep posting them, for those who do want to read them (the people who are upvoting). There's a lot of good content in them. Not sure what your objection to them is, other than no-one else has been posting anything else for weeks.

There is too much of them right now

There's exactly 1 per day. As pointed out by someone else, no-one else had posted anything else at all for weeks.

I believe we should stick to “one topic, one post”

Each one has literally dozens of stories in it. Feel free to start posting separate links for each one if that's what you want to see. I myself don't have the time for posting dozens of links each day. Contrary to what someone else seems to think, I am a person, not a bot, sharing relevant links I see each day. The upvotes I'm getting show it is appreciated, and here we are.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I myself don't have the time for posting dozens of links each day

I don't want to discourage you from contributing here, because I believe you are acting in a good faith, but... the amount of information you post is unfortunately way too much for this small community.

Maybe try to select just one article that you personally find most interesting, and post it instead?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

I'm glad you are posting links you find interesting, that what I come here for, to see links that people find interesting.

What I don't like is the form of it. You are pasting links to news aggregator inside news aggregator. This form kills discoverability: in other communities, you can scroll through list of topics and more or less learn just from headlines what is happening. In this community - you can't. It also kills discussion - when I comment, I need to paste link to the article I am referring to, because otherwise it would be impossible to tell which story I am referring to.

I might of course ignore it, but I believe it is not neutral to the entire community. Many such posts in a row might suggest to new users that mostly bots are in here, in effect discouraging them to stay. That is why I think we should not allow such links in here, but I'll leave this decision to moderators and I'll accept it whatever they decide.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Makes sense to me. Though I'll wait for more comments, and input from other mods, before taking any action.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure what exactly you mean, but the most recent post in this comm before yours is three weeks old. Maube there's someone prolific posting that I have blocked, but I'm not sure that less posts would be good.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It looks like this when I enter this community:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Like the other commenter responded, I blocked them ages ago. Which means you're right, imo. If the community mod is around, those posts are awful spam and that account should be warned at a bare minimum.

No actual details without click-through, barely any comments, just those posts. And there's no way there's enough .NET new to justify a new article every damn day.

Edit: looks like the site is just an aggregator of other blog's RSS feeds, dressed up "pretty" into daily posts that are almost entirely lists of links. Regurgitation.

At the very least, the account posting those needs to be clearly labeled as a bot account (the account owner can check that box in the account settings).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

I blocked them ages ago because of that.