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Stinky The Clown

(68,481 posts) Fri Jan 19, 2018, 02:23 PM Jan 2018

Why are posters allowed to spam their own blogs with links back to it? [View all]

I'm sure you all know who I am talking about. A thread gets posted with a title that looks like you want to read it. You go to the thread and there is a link. Not to anything about thread title, but a link back to the poster's now website/blog/twittertwat/whatever where, presumably, what was suggested in the OP may be.

I have alerted as spam on this poster and they never seem to get hidden. Does that mean the DU community is okay with being spammed? How is this not against the TOS?

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Why are posters allowed to spam their own blogs with links back to it? [View all] Stinky The Clown Jan 2018 OP

I am also not happy with posts having no content other than a link. Yonnie3 Jan 2018 #1

Agreed SCantiGOP Jan 2018 #2

I do not clink n links where ... left-of-center2012 Jan 2018 #3

Full ignore is effective, but I wish we had better a way to deal with it. n/t dixiegrrrrl Jan 2018 #4

Blog flogging used to be against the rules. n/t FSogol Jan 2018 #5

It did? The DU homepage has a blogroll. demmiblue Jan 2018 #6

The rule as against people who only promoted their blog and did not perticipate FSogol Jan 2018 #7

I think Skinner is okay with it... Phentex Jan 2018 #8

I was just going to ask about this same thing - as these nothing-burger posts get more plentiful I Kashkakat v.2.0 Feb 2018 #9

I don't even notice it anymore aikoaiko Mar 2018 #10

All I see is three stupid words - "link to tweet" Theres no not-noticing it! But then I have my Kashkakat v.2.0 Mar 2018 #11

What annoys me is that this person does not engage in anything else except to post Kirk Lover Mar 2018 #12