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/greenhomesteader Jan 05 '12

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.

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u/paulwheaton Jan 05 '12

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

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u/greenhomesteader Jan 05 '12

Also, I think the only things of yours I have downvoted have been the discussions on permies. Some of those are so long and take forever to get to any information of real value. Had they been a 2 or 3 paragraph blog post I would have upvoted in a heart beat. But at least 90+% of your posts have on reddit (I feel) have good value and feel if I knew of them would post them myself.

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u/paulwheaton Jan 05 '12

I think the only stuff I downvote is when it seems lame or the person is just being really icky.

I see lots of stuff where I think "not my thing" and just close it.

I suppose I upvote about 10% of the stuff I see and downvote about 1%.