I noticed this Wealthsimple Community pop up in my “active” list today.

Clicked in and noticed its empty, but the sidebar contains a sneaky affiliate link for the moderator of that community.

Same thing with the Wealthsimple Trade Community.

I think this sort of activity should be banned from here tbh, definitely at the mod level.

  • ShadowM
    4•1 year ago

    Yeah this is my thought too.

    Is someone posting a YouTube video they made and are monetizing, advertising? Where do we draw the line?

    • @SymbolicLink@lemmy.caOP
      1•1 year ago

      Yeah I think that would be an OK case and these specific things can be up to the moderators of communities. I know that some communities require mod approval before self promotion is allowed, so I think in the CGP Grey community case it would be a non issue.

      I think starting with a super specific rule around affiliate disclosure as proposed would be good enough to avoid this particular problem.