A number of brand new accounts have popped up shilling their paid for applications.
Is this within the rules? Is the community happy with this? Could mods clarify this in the rules?
Either allowing advertising, or banning it entirely.
my point is - there is a difference between an open source homegrown project that might be useful, vs closed source paid for projects from brand new accounts
some replies are misunderstanding, somehow.
I am against
brand new accounts who:
- first post is a brand new project
- project is closed source
- project will cost money
- is asking for free testing
- the post is literally an advertisement
DM, a meta thread, or even a post in YPTB is always an option, I’m not sure what other options on feedback are sensible/realistically available.
A meta thread posted by a member of the community, and the discussion that followed, is what brought this up to the forefront in the first place.
Sounds like a reasonable set of options!