Post #3482390
2026-06-22 23:27 UTC
Promo posts are purely promotional by the people who made them - not a discussion post or anything, basically a post thats an ad.
With Plex it would be like the Plex marketing team coming in to post about the new features of Plex version whatever and the $10 discount on the new $750 lifetime pass.
It would not be something like:
How do I get Plex to see my media correctly
My family are always seeing a relay message on Plex and its low quality
Etc.
The rule is only about those self promotional, sales style posts.
So I’m going to go ahead and try to update the rule for clarity now.
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@non_burglar@lemmy.world 2026-06-23 03:03
Yeah, that tracks fine. It’s the recent one where a person told this group about their app, asked if anyone was interested in beta testing in exchange for full paid app access for free. I don’t think that person posted in bad faith. But the crowd here acted like an absolute mob, calling him names, telling him to f*ck off, etc. That was handled poorly. And I don’t think your rule would address the abuse part, regardless of how much “community interaction” you made a requirement. That’s my problem with these new guidelines, they don’t address the venom people have towards folks for not much justifiable reason. You can’t just bend to what the crowd wants, sometimes they want blood.