I'm curious what everyone thinks about the posts that have shown up here that are simply a link to purchase an item on Amazon?
These posts are coming from users that don't have any other engagement other than these posts. This does not seem like a good-faith effort to engage with the community, but rather a cheap attempt to generate clicks and sales.
I would like to see these posts banned, but I'm curious how the rest of the community feels.
The following people get a report when content is reported:
The community of the reported content
The instance administrator for the community of the reported content
The instance administrator for the person who reported the content
The instance administrator for the person who was reported
This makes my queue a mess at times, especially because federation is not instant and many apps cache content. I've had people on Beehaw report content on Beehaw that was already removed hours ago. When someone spams a bunch of content across communities on the fediverse (such as today with a prolific spammer) we can sometimes have dozens of reports for the same user because of all the reports generated above.
I’ve been reporting them. It seems that a lot of the posts contain affiliate links, so it’s someone trying to make money from that - not because they wrote the books that are getting posted.
Some have been banned, but they keep coming back. Some may be bots, but not all - I saw at least one come back with a hateful response when called out.
The ones I’ve been reporting have all been lemm.ee users and it is a violation of the lemm.ee rules to use your account to advertise on lemm.ee or any other instance. I don’t know how other instances are handling it.
I actually don’t know who gets the reports I’ve been submitting, either, so I’m not sure if it’s doing anything.
Sometimes it's useful, just don't use THEIR links. :) LOL. Just reported like 4 of them.
Someone posted the other night that America's Test Kitchen has a cookbook that covers all 23 seasons of the show, so I opened my Amazon app, found it on my own along with the matching Cook's Country book and bought both of them.