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20 sats \ 16 replies \ @Public_N_M_E OP 31 Jan 2024 freebie \ parent \ on: Daily Discussion Thread ~Music Saloon Music
Here's hoping they don't get fed up before i break even on territory fees.
That would require a lot of spam in your territory. I don't know if that would be a good trade off.
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Yeah... I'm unsure if I've thought this through very well.
I thought by disabling links only posts id avoid this, but I wonder if it's possible to customise posting fees or could be possible to customise posting fees. Example make link only posts 1k sats to post. I'd doubt the bot program is intuitive enough to check posting fees before spamming a link. And I think a link would be it's first go to post type. A sort of if link then post as link, if no link post as discussion. Kind of thing. Perhaps @ekzyis could help with that concept? Making it cost different per post type?
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Different price levels is an interesting idea. I haven't given it much thought.
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Wanna spam links, sure but pay me a premium for it as it's not the kind of content I want in the territory. Want to discuss a specific link. Feel free that's much better.
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To be honest, I stopped posting in ~Music on Day 18 of my Z2Z series since that was the day where link posts were disabled. I just wanted to share music (and that's usually just a link) to then include it in my Z2Z post. I don't think music requires discussion. Since I like lyrics, I included lyrics in my link posts. But I think not even that is required.
I saw ~Music as a territory to just listen to music that other stackers recommended. I think ~Music is one of the territores were link posts actually make total sense. The title is automatically fetched and if it's a YT link, a player is also embedded. So as a "loyal customer" for 17 days, I felt a bit betrayed, lol. Especially since I didn't understand why since my link posts seemed to be welcome until then.
But since it's your territory, you can of course do what you want. Just wanted to mention this. :)
But different fees for different post types sounds interesting. I might be willing to pay a higher fee for link posts as a compromise between your and my interests but I didn't start to use the discussion posts to drop my links since that's obviously what you don't want.
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I am sorry to hear that my decision to try and combat link spamming made you feel betrayed. That was never the intention behind it, I enjoyed your z2z series as it was real content. What I was trying to combat was bot accounts causing issues with spam.
I fully respect and understand your point of view on it. And as a customer you have every right to bring this to my attention. It's unfortunate that I hadn't foreseen the trouble with pulling link posts from the options for legitimate customers whilst trying to deincentivise bot/sat farmers.
You do highlight a really good point in that sometimes discussion isn't necessary, it's just good to share something with someone without needing to say much more. I am curious how many other customers or potential customers have been put off because of the lack of link support.
Perhaps a poll would help. I can live with link farmers and bots if real customers also benefit.
Perhaps the way around this is for me to actually take up moderating the territory. I had hoped it would self moderate by it's users. But perhaps I could bring back links and any obvious spamming accounts just get moderated out and their posts deleted?
Can only ask the community and see what they feel. But I hadn't considered the impact it would have on legitimate accounts like yourself and for that I can only apologise.
Another idea might be variable fees per user. You could set a base fee and if someone is posting consistently good content, you might want to give them a discount. If someone is posting consistently bad content, you might want to make them pay more.