Stephen Alfred Gutknecht
Professional in social media since 1985, created / sold social media server apps at age 15. Traveled the world to study media ecology.
“Finnegans Wake is the greatest guidebook to media study ever fashioned by man.” - Marshall McLuhan, Newsweek Magazine
Way back in October 31st 1517 finally one of the clergy got so fed up reading the damn book that they said, “Sin Boldly” and said… read here, verse Romans 11:32 … romans1132.com
The book is so full of contradictions and that’s the power. It cuts both ways.
are they cigars, I can’t tell
It’s the spam filtering, and they consider people spamming any link… and each subreddit can set the spam fitler higher or not. This was going on long before Lemmy and I’ve seen it even with BBC links.
Edit 4: The Shadow-Ban doesn’t seem to work on r/help but definitely on r/hfy.
I’ve seen this come up with a large number of links on Reddit that were even to BBC website. It comes down to the subreddit settings on spam filtering…
I think the whole process of automatic hiding of spam filtering for user accounts is a bad-faith experience. People on Reddit are infamous for not actually reading links and wanting bots to bring in text and such, and I think a lot of the anti-spam measures cultivated this for a very long time.
One thing that crowdsoucing never was very good at was spam filtering… because too many would sell out and buy upvotes/likes on Twitter/Reddit etc.
Agreed. It is urgent that we teach Neil Postman’s “media ecology”. The junk noise garbage shit Internet sucks, and enough is enough!