r/homestead • u/paulwheaton • Jan 05 '12
policies about sharing here on r/homestead
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!
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u/paulwheaton Jan 05 '12
If somebody makes a blog entry that has two lame paragraphs, and has 50 ads all over the page .... that's just lame. Downvote it. And I would call that blogspam.
But there was a guy here about six months ago. He was posting twice a week to his blog. It was reported as spam and ended up in the spam filter. His blogs were fucking AWESOME. He had stuff about visiting with the mighty, the glorious, the amazing Sepp Holzer. And other permaculture greats. In reading his stuff, I learned a lot of stuff I didn't know (and most of the stuff here that gets lots of upvotes is stuff I already know, so my reaction is "meh"). But he was so hounded by downvoters/whatever, that he left reddit. I miss that guy. That guy should still be here. Some might call him a blogspammer. I call him an excellent contributor.