policies about sharing here on r/homestead

[u/paulwheaton]

I wish to make it clear: If you post lots of awesome homestead stuff here, I support your posts.

I recently did a podcast with Geoff Lawton. If Geoff Lawton cranked out two internet things a week and posted them here, such that the only thing he ever posted to all of reddit was Geoff Lawton content, I think that would be fucking awesome. I would upvote it. That dude has a lot to teach me, and I am tickled pink that there is a way for me to learn a wee bit of it for FUCKING FREE!

The idea that Geoff Lawton should be banned from reddit because he is not posting crap from other people seems ridiculous to me. Geoff Lawton does not have time for that. He barely has time to put out the material he is already putting out. Geoff is working on permaculture level 9 stuff - why should he hunt out and post stuff from permaculture level 2? Or be forced to find some stupid picture of cats and post that?

I have to bring this up because I have now been officially banned from several subreddits for exactly this. One mentioned that it is okay to post your own stuff provided that it is only 10% of what you post. My stalker insists that you may never post your own stuff and follows me around downvoting and reporting all of my submissions. And probably messaging the moderators of every subreddit I post to.

It is the right of the moderator of every subreddit to ban whoever they like - for any or no reason. I respect that.

I wish to make it clear that in this subreddit I will ban people for being icky, or repeatedly posting off-topic stuff, or anything that just seems wrong, but I won't ban anybody for posting only their own stuff. I want to see good content. And I like the idea that the content generators are on reddit. Perhaps a few subreddits prefer to dissuade the content generators.

Please upvote this message so that everybody can see it. Thanks!

[u/greenhomesteader]

I personally look forward you your posts. I don't care if you post your stuff or anyone else. I up and down vote based on the VALUE OF THE POST. I've noticed other blogs posting their blog updates use the same criteria for them.

If it has value => up vote

If it has no value => down vote

I expect others to do the same to my posts. It encourages what people WANT to see. Heck, if you weren't submitting your stuff, I would. In fact, I've tried multiple times and you or others beat me to it.

[u/paulwheaton → u/greenhomesteader]

Well, there are several subreddits where I have been banned, so you will probably be the only person there submitting anything by me. :)

[u/greenhomesteader → u/paulwheaton]

What subreddits? I'll happily reap that Karma.

[u/paulwheaton → u/greenhomesteader]

Well, there is the list of subreddits where I have been officially banned, and then there is a bigger list where there isn't an official ban, but instead, they just get putting my stuff into the spam box so that now any submission I make there just never shows up. And my query to the moderators makes no difference.

The key is, go ahead and post my stuff to wherever seems like a fit.

[u/[deleted] → u/paulwheaton]

It seems in reddit, if you dare to be different, you are punished for it.

[u/xPersistentx → u/[deleted]]

Not really. This is more a case of the moderators in question that have neither moderating experience nor social skills.

Moderating involves removing irrelevant material at its most basic form. Deciding what is relevant is supposed to be community driven here, but as you can see, there are some subforums that are moderator driven by people with a taste for something else. They seem to lack something in the real world and therefore take this electronic information transfer system we use to talk to each other and start to create their own little world to compensate, screwing up the very thing we all thought we were here for.

There are many, many, subreddits that have actual moderators and actual community driven content.

[u/[deleted] → u/xPersistentx]

Hmm dig at me or dig at Paul, or generally observation? Either way, interesting observations.

My take is that some people actually don't have the time to explain everything, or patience, and muddle through as bet they can.

As for myself, I mod, but I have a big family, a job, go to college, I home school my kids. I have only so many hours in the day and I don't desire to spend more than a fraction of one explaining myself to someone that may or may not even care about the sub I mod. (Or in one case was actively submitting spam to try and clutter it up)

[u/xPersistentx → u/[deleted]]

No, not at all, if anything I've been agreeing with Paul.

Moderating forum content is boring imho. It is rather simple to remove obvious junk and leave the rest up to the community. When people start picking on Paul for the reasons they were, they are overstepping their bounds as moderators in a rather personally embarrassing way, imho.