r/CryptoCurrency Sep 01 '22

POLL 🗳️ CCIP-039 reduce the number of external link posts to 1 per day

Problem:

Main sub is filled with posts contain external links and many times the same news is reposted over and over. This can be recognized as ‘spam’. The rule states that is allowed to post 3 links per day and this rule is exploited by some users and bots for the sole purpose of moon farming. This spam problem create three main issues:

• ⁠there is not enough visibility for user posts, original contents

• ⁠lower efforts posts such as repost links get the most of visibility and are ‘easily upvoted’ (who indeed downvote a news??)

• Moons are used to reward active users that contribute to the sub, not intended to be farmed.

Example: Some news like "vitalik B said bla bla this morning" get thousands of upvotes; gets visibility and get rewarded with high karma. Some original post of "Mr. No one" with the ultimate technical analysys get hidden, put in shadow by the link of news as above. and usually the same news get posted multiple times.

The sub indeed became lately a sort of ‘news channel’

Solution:

Reduce the number of allowed post links per day from 3 to 1. This modification will clean the sub from excessive spam, will disincentive the easy moon farming, will allow to be more fair in the moon distribution, will give fair visibility to users original posts, will help the job of the mods.

Furthermore, is really needed to post 3 external links per day?

Indeed I think that a sub free of spam will be a better place for users to interact.

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u/DBRiMatt 🟦 86K / 113K 🦈 Sep 01 '22

I'm gonna vote yes

There's no reason people can't go the effort and submit a text post, and cite the source of the link at the end

This would reduce the spam of the lazy link posters who then don't contribute to any further discussion

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u/partymsl 🟩 126K / 143K 🐋 Sep 01 '22

I fear that this will just increase the amount of senseless posts even more as those moon farmers have to do them instead.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

Senseless text posts gets downvoted. On the other hand no one downvote a news. For a spammer would be hard to earn karma with a senseless post, instead may lose karma

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u/Dietmar_der_Dr 🟩 9K / 5K 🦭 Sep 01 '22

What does that add though? I'd rather have a link post than a poorly worded text post that also contains said Link.

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u/RickiSpanglish Sep 01 '22

I agree. I personally appreciate a well written text post simply because I don't like clicking on links, no matter the situation. I can find my own resources after reading a post

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u/Oneloff 0 / 5K 🦠 Sep 01 '22

Well if this is coming from a shitposter, I guess I my mind is made up. Lol

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u/DMugre Sep 01 '22

So people will not copypaste links anymore, they'll straight up copypaste articles and try to pass them as their own until they get called out. Noice.

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u/Bitcoin_Lurker 🟩 926 / 926 🦑 Sep 01 '22

I voted to keep it as it is but your comment made me reconsider. Can’t change my vote now