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Deciding about post types going forward (self.general)

submitted 1 year ago by ElectroVagrant to c/general

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Recently we've been seeing some pretty obvious spam, which I & others have been clearing out, but there's also been simple link posts to articles that aren't quite spam yet don't have any body text to suggest what the intent is. Presumably to start a conversation, but I'd like people's input here before I make any firm decisions on the matter.

Would you prefer that we require link posts to have some additional body text to better start conversations, or disallow link posts in favor of the relevant links being only in the body text (i.e. what you're reading now) that more clearly starts & guides the conversation? Or something else?

Let me know in the replies and I'll adjust the rules accordingly and make a new locked/pinned post to make these changes more apparent.

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[–] TheSpookiestUser 7 points 1 year ago

Given this community is General Discussion, I think it should be required for submitters to put forth their own text to start said discussion. I think allowing link posts is fine but OP must include text in the post describing what the link is and what they think about it.