tomgosse wrote:First time poster, no introduction, just promoting a link to his you tube channel. I did not report it, but I did send him a private message reminding him of the self-promotion policy. I tried to be polite. If I'm out of bounds doing that, please let me know.
The video is not selling anything, but has a link in it's comments to a facebook page that does have some items for sale. I have no idea what the purpose of the video is. His French accent is worse than mine.
A quick Google search on his name indicates he is a developer of a conlang.
I appoligize if I'm making this topic more confused than it should be. I may be falling into the, "What about this?," trap.
Yeah, there's a lot of borderline posts from new users in the Resources room. As a general rule, feel free to do any of the following:
- Just hit the report button and say, "This one looks a little spammy."
- Write a short review saying, "This looks like an overpriced, inferior version of existing product X," if you feel inspired to do so.
- Say, "Hey, that's an awesome idea and I've been looking for it for years."
As moderators, our goal is to keep the forum interesting and useful for the community, and to tempt other language learners into joining. This means we'll remove most of the ads for crappy products, and occasionally offer more leeway to awesome stuff. But if the community is having fun talking about an especially awful product, hey, whatever amuses folks. (Like I said, we can always just lock the spammer's account and delete their links, if it comes to that.) Basically, if a new user shows up and promotes a product without asking permission, we reserve the right to respond in whatever way we think is most interesting for the community.
As for the huge drive-by spams, honestly, people probably don't even need to report those, because we'll notice them the next time we log in anyway and just nuke the user and delete all their posts. But what we do find
really helpful is when folks help us notice the "sneaky" spammers; the folks who make five short posts and then start mentioning their Chinese language school in threads where it's
almost on topic. Those we won't necessarily notice on our own, and reports are super useful.
