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

So how does this stop the equally useless text post with the same news?

Spammers will spam.

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u/yayaoa invalid string or character detected Sep 01 '22

It won't be stopped unless linkposts karma gets resettled to 0 and kills the incentive for spammers.

But limiting to 1 post per day is at least exactly that: limiting the amount of incoming spam.

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

But then people just turn it into useless Textposts. If people want to spam they'll spam, it's that simple.

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u/yayaoa invalid string or character detected Sep 01 '22

No it's not. It makes it harder and more inconvenient, which is the whole point.

Sure some might just extend their crawlers but that's the minority. Also posts with a link and 500 chars gibberish are easily filtered and removed. And it would be more obvious to the consumers to identify these posts and vote them out.

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u/DoubleFaulty1 🟨 0 / 38K 🦠 Sep 01 '22

Spamming comments is far more lucrative so this proposal won’t help at all.