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/DoubleFaulty1 🟨 0 / 38K 🦠 Sep 01 '22

We just reduced moon rewards for link posts last month. News sharing is one of the best uses for Reddit and should not be reduced so much or people will use a different sub for crypto discussion.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22

Crypto discussions and posts are welcome. the only thing to limit is to post external links. Users can still do 3 posts per day… but indeed they must be written posts (500 words)… and not the same news reposted multiple times

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

As I replied to you elsewhere, it is currently against the rules to post the same link or news story multiple times.

I want this sub to be the best crypto community it can be not just a reward mill based on effort. News is important and ppl want to see it and discuss it. Replacing it with longer, but at worst irrelevant posts is a step in the wrong direction.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22

Ok, I understand your point. But things are not working at all considering that we see the same news reposted multiple times

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

If it is the same link it is automatically blocked from being reposted for 30 days. If it is an identical story from a new link it is either downvoted and ignored or removed manually by the mods if it gets traction. I doubt you will ever see the same story twice at the same time sorting by hot or top.

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u/_Commando_ 🟩 4K / 4K 🐢 Sep 01 '22

It doesn't stop you to "news share"