/r/Movies 2020 State of Affairs: Self Promotion and Spam. If you have your own blog/YT channel/website - read this!

Hi guys. So, we've banned a lot of spammers lately, which isn't too uncommon, but it seems more and more frequent that we're getting users who.... don't really understand what spam is.

By the /r/movies definition, which is slightly more loose than the reddit site-wide definition:

spam is when you submit from one source so much that more than 20% of your total submissions come from it.

The users have a real wishy-washy attitude toward spam. Literally anything that is OC is reported as "spam," but that doesn't mean it gets removed or breaks any rules. Users are okay with self-promotion as long as users like the content, basically, but the rules apply to all, regardless of reception. Can't say, "Oh 74% of my submissions are from MovieGenius9000's youtube channel, but I get upvotes so it's allowed." Not how it works, karma will not save you. And once you're banned, that account is gone forever. We do not unban spammers. We have nearly 20 mods, we're not super interested in tagging you guys and making sure you kept your promises. Accounts banned first, and if the site gets pummeled again - the source website goes on our blacklist.

The general outline:

• If you're gonna self promote, only 1 out of every 5 submissions can be be self promotion: Pretty self explanatory.

• You need to participate in /r/movies as a regular user: Don't just submit 4 random links just so you can circumvent the previous rule. You need to participate in other threads that have nothing to do with you.

• Adhere to all of our other rules: They can be a minefield, but you get used to them soon enough.

• This dank meme: If you do this, you might flag yourself for an immediate ban.

• Always remember the classic Reddit quote: "It's cool to be a reddit account with a business, but it's not cool to be a business with a reddit account"

• Selling stuff in this sub is prohibited under any circumstances: If your OC is a movie resource or a website that has ad revenue that's fine, but you can't ask for donations or traffic or PayPal or Bitcoin and if you are posting fan art you are not allowed to link to a source where any work is for sale.

• If your OC is just repeated blogspam from bigger outlets, it will be removed: We've been getting this lately. Major film new sites will always take priority over smaller websites simply paraphrasing articles, even if you submit it before the original article gets submitted by someone else. If the article begins with "as reported by [insert other publication]," just submit the other publication.

This all sounds doom and gloom, but in all seriousness we encourage and appreciate your OC, but please be aware that there are rules that you need to follow first.

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And if anyone has any automod ideas on how to nuke these repost bots, I'd like to hear it :)

Submitted May 20, 2020 at 10:48PM by girafa https://ift.tt/2ZsuIZb