A few rule changes on community's reaction: Elon Musk personal rants, overzealous advertisement posts, non-essential crypto news effectively disallowed | Ask in DM before posting product reviews or ad

Non-essential crypto news covers crypto advertisement, insignificant news that does not affect legit users like XMR/ETH/BTC holders or darknet users, posts relating to garbage like Brave browser and its coin, and so on. Due to the multiple kinds of crypto posts that pop up, this rule will be applied subjectively on a case-by-case basis.

Community complaints about Elon Musk were raised here. https://lemmy.ml/post/7186058

A lot of ad and spam posts appear regularly, which need to be squashed. This will be enforced more heavily from now on.

Sometimes legitimate products are advertised, which should be allowed to post. This will be checked per case basis, and unless asked for permission, all such posts will be removed without notice.

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So tired of Elon bs posts. Thanks
- This. People who are freaking obsessed with the dude can keep the spam to themselves, that way it's actually possible to avoid having five tons of Elon's mental diarrhea shovelled at your face all the time.
Thank you so much!
- Fun fact, after these rules were made, some obsessed maniac went and downvoted every single post and comment I made in the past week or two. Some people are mad 🤣
  
  I do have a bunch of comments with just one or two downvotes and no explaination (the other responses are rather positive). Might be similar case lmao
  
  I saw your profile and helped balance it out.
  
  Some people are manchildren I swear to god
  
  But seriously, thank you
This is a great ruleset. Thank you for cleaning up the discussion
Great changes
¡Gracias!
please add "articles" from the verge, they're ~~mostly~~ 100% what is described here.
One question I have is how many posts would be allowed to come from one user at a time. Would it be unlimited or less then 5 etc
- Case by case is good enough for Lemmy's current scale. A spammer or mass poster would be obvious.
Brave browser has its controversies, but occasionally it does make good strides in privacy too, e.g. see this part of the blog: https://brave.com/privacy-updates/
- Brave
  
  Brave Browser is funded by DoD: https://np.reddit.com/r/privatelife/comments/fe34ls/exclusive_brave_browser_funded_by_dod_contractor/
  
  Brave traffic detected with Cryptocompare despite BAT rewards disabled: https://removeddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/gr8nue/
  
  Brave also has a known history of whitelisting Facebook and Twitter trackers, and has a crippled adblocker that does not work on Brave's "acceptable" advertisements.
  
  Brave Browser hardcoded their crypto partner Binance referral links (https://twitter.com/cryptonator1337/status/1269201480105578496) alongwith Ledger and soon-to-be-compromised Coinbase (https://decrypt.co/31461/coinbase-wants-to-identify-bitcoin-users-for-dea-irs)
  
  NEW LINKS
  
  https://sick.codes/sick-2021-109/
  
  https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/13527
  
  Even Facebook and Apple have "privacy" webpages on their websites. It means nothing. Actions and consequences speak louder than words.
  
  Even Facebook and Apple have "privacy" webpages on their websites. It means nothing. Actions and consequences speak louder than words.
  
  So you'd not post either if they update their privacy policy or privacy tools (for better or worse)?
  
  All I'm saying is that it is okay to limit some kind of news that don't add any value, but those that do, should be posted, regardless of what the opinion on the company itself is.
  
  This community is about technology. Brave Browser is technology.
  
  Are posts about Brave Browser going to be disallowed because the most vocal members of this community don't like it?
- Unfortunately this community is no longer viable for unbiased technology news, as evident by the moderator's comments.
  
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