Post #346570

:tootcat: To answer a question from a report this morning: we instaban any accounts that are just straight-up commercial advertising. I even added this as a "server rule" last month or so, but they don't seem to have noticed. To be clear: self-promotion is fine, selling stuff via fedi is fine, and even officially representing an organization or company, under its name rather than the name of the human running the account, is fine -- as long as the account's purpose is positive engagement and not just ad copypasta. There's a lot of theoretical grey area between those two, but fortunately not a lot of actual examples -- adbots almost always do certain things and are very easy to spot. #TootCat