Self Link Bans
I got to thinking that maybe we're a bit too hard on selflinkers that were either too lazy to read all of the guidelines (do you read every software agreement when you install something?) or failed to see it.
If someone is posting spam or trying to game the system, that's one thing, but most of these probies who get banned for selflinking are doing so out of ignorance of the guidelines.
What say you?
If someone is posting spam or trying to game the system, that's one thing, but most of these probies who get banned for selflinking are doing so out of ignorance of the guidelines.
What say you?
12 Comments
burdturglerThere is a big warning that pops up before you submit your first video that you have to click in order to submit.
blankfistTrue, true.
ponceleonAs someone who got banned after my first submission because of this very issue, all I have to say is: Ban them! BAN THEM ALL!!! BAAHAHAHA!
kulpimsI agree with blankfist - we're complete bastards in that regard
dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
I don't have a big problem with it - these are drive by posters looking to generate buzz for their video.
The reason they don't read the big letters - is because they don't care.
We're just a site on a list of sites to pump video to. Someewhere after Digg, Reddit and Fark.
blankfistI digg your reddit, fark.
gwiz665*ban
damn drive-by poster.
siftbotblankfist cannot be banned because star accounts are immune to banination - ignoring ban request by gwiz665.
SarzyPeople tend not to read rules. Honestly, about a year or so before I joined the sift for real, I started an account and self-linked (without knowing that it was an offense). The account disappeared and I had no idea why. A few months later, I did it again. Again, I didn't realize it was an offense, though this time I managed to catch it while it was still in sift talk, and the whole self-linking thing was explained to me. I was still banned, of course.
when I started this account, it was with the intention of self-linking. I had made a short film for a contest on youtube, and if it had made it as a finalist, I would have needed votes to win. So I figured I would start an account and submit a few random videos, and then no one would be the wiser when I submitted my own film. Ultimately that short film wasn't selected as a finalist, though by then I was hooked on the sift.
I would lean towards not banning self-linkers, but just discarding their self-linked video and giving them a warning. Most probably have no intention of being a part of the community and will disappear anyway, but I would imagine that at least a few might like to stick around.
And to be perfectly honest (because I think I'm pretty safe from being banned at this point
Which is to say that not all self-linkers are all that bad -- well, at least a few of them probably aren't assholes like me.
rottenseedI'll be damned if we come after a website called "fark"
burdturglerI am a complete bastard asshole but I will continue to hunt down and ban self linkers without mercy.
videosiftbannedme>> ^ponceleon:
As someone who got banned after my first submission because of this very issue, all I have to say is: Ban them! BAN THEM ALL!!! BAAHAHAHA!
>> ^burdturgler:
I am a complete bastard asshole but I will continue to hunt down and ban self linkers without mercy.
Yeah! What he said!
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