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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023
  • Self-promotion posts advertising their product requires community participation, or they will be removed. No more than 10% of your posts or comments may be self-promotional, or your post will be removed. **F/LOSS Exception**: If your post is about a project that is completely open source & can be self-hosted *in full* without payment, your post is exempt from this rule.

    How about

    Promotional posts advertising a product requires community participation. If more than 10% of your history is promotional it will be removed. F/LOSS Exception: If a project is completely open source and can be self-hosted in full without payment, it is exempt.

    Edit: we’ve come full circle. Let’s just do ‘don’t be a shill’ and be done with it…

  • Promotional posts require community participation or they will be removed. No more than 10% of your posts or comments may be self-promotional, or your post will be removed. **F/LOSS Exception**: If your post is about a project that is completely open source & without any paywalls, it will be exempt from this rule.

    To me, this says, if you’re posting something behind a paywall (F/LOSS or not) they’re going to look at your post history. If you’re a shill, it will be removed. If you’re someone who self hosts and just wants to talk about self hosted apps, you’re fine.

    Said another way, if all you do is post promo content it’s not welcome here. If it’s a one off then post it.

    Look, if you don’t like the rule, make a suggestion to the mods on how to make it better. The spirit here is we all love learning and using new tools paid or not. If you want to share something new to you, like Plex, I’m 100% sure its fine. Post, promote what you love, start a conversation around Plex. The problem is if you only ever talk about Plex and promote it. It gets old FAST and it’s not a community I want to he apart of.

  • Yeah, I understand that. I was suggesting saying the same thing without the exception wording. In the end, it doesn’t stop us from talking about paid software. I use Plex, etc, etc, it’s the promotion that’s the problem… That being said, maybe I’ve misunderstood non_burglar’s complaint. Unless they are a closed source dev looking to promote.

  • Please, Please tell me you’re not in Canada. This sounds similar to a job I interviewed for. I’ve been a Linux guy for 14+ years and it sounds like they’re moving me on to next round for a windows job. If you are in Canada, I’m desperate so you’ll have help soon.

    Otherwise, the main takeaway here is don’t work yourself into the ground. Do your 7-3 and go home to relax. Don’t study, don’t think about work, just RELAX. They said themselves they’ll pay you to learn, mistakes are okay, and they know youre a Jr. who is learning.

    From this job you should learn windows, learn how to set professional boundaries and stick to them. Dedicate an hour or two once a week to apply to other jobs. It’s not important but you don’t want to stay there. Don’t burn yourself out. Good luck.