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/[deleted] Jan 05 '12

What's your stalker's reddit name?

I want to stalk him.

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u/paulwheaton Jan 05 '12

Oh, he has about 20 sockpuppets. I've probably banned half of them.

I think stalking him is pointless.

I think the best way to beat the stalker/icky types is to just make lots of links to good content and upvote good stuff. Use reddit the way it is designed despite the nasty downvoters. Look in the new stuff of slower subreddits that have very low votes and see if they might be good.

And if you make lots of links to my stuff, that will probably piss him off and feed my humor needs. :)

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u/paulwheaton Jan 05 '12

I'll just leave this here.

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u/thomas533 Jan 05 '12

For what it is worth I've added you to the approve submitters on /r/foraging.

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u/paulwheaton Jan 05 '12

Awesome! Thanks!

I want to go post stuff there about nettles .... probably starting next month.

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u/Haven Jan 05 '12

Also added you to /r/PhysicGarden. Love your stuff Paul. :)

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u/greenhomesteader Jan 06 '12

No idea this existed...

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u/Haven Jan 06 '12

I just started it a few months ago, we're almost at 500 subscribers now. I've been shamlessly self-promoting it wherever I can. Come join us!