May I ask you to stop post links to wasabi?
Promotions are forbidden on our forum.. If you would be not you, I must send you to indefinite vacation, please do not force me to do so, I do not like it. And please remove links, if it’s not so hard. Tomorrow I will be forced to remove them myself.
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Promotions? Really??
@Alexey may I ask you to show some respect to our highly appreciated forum member @jammerdan. @jammerdan is always providing new ideas to the company and to his fellow forum members. These links are no promotions in any sense, please learn from it and keep feeding us with your outstanding technical knowledge.
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You are misinterpreting me so let me be clear on that: My links are not promotions. They highlight areas where I believe competitors are innovating or doing something right, and where in my opinion Storj could improve or could learn from. I’m trying to provide constructive feedback that is verifiable, not advertise for others.
I don’t care about the links themselves, but I do care about the URLs, as they provide a way for others check the information I am referring to quickly and without much effort. Unfortunately you have chosen this community software that converts URLs automatically into links or even totally get disfigures them.
If you are really concerned that the link target will profit from being linked to and Storj might suffer from it - which I believe is absurd - then I had already suggested to add nofollow automatically to outgoing links. But you did not want to do that.
Well, here is another suggestion: External domain link blocklist - #10 by Canapin - Feature - Discourse Meta
If you implement this snippet - hopefully this is still working - then you can maintain a blocklist of domains, that do not convert into outgoing links. So you would be able to add domains of Storj competitors or any and every other domain you don’t want to get linked to an the text would not convert into links. But obviously the URLs would remain readable as text so that anybody could copy and paste them and therefore an informed and productive discussion would be still possible.
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Even I understand your intentions, but the problem in crawlers and AI bots, they make it look like a promotion. We do not promote other clouds on the Storj forum, sorry.
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It is your forum, you can do whatever you want.
I know you help wherever you can and are always supportive, showing a lot of patience with all the users here.
But in this case, I have to honestly say that STORJ should exercise a more lenient approach.
Here we have a user who repeatedly tries to offer support, who may ask critical questions at times, but also brings in many great ideas and suggestions.
And you want to block his content—which clearly provides suggestions for improving the product and which no one here understood as advertising—and are even threatening the user with a suspension?
Sorry, but this is really not how you should treat long-time supporters who almost always contribute constructively to the project.
Just my 2 cents.
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if you really want to include links, send them privately that’s solve the problem
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As Alexey already said, its not about silencing or criticizing or disrespecting Jammerdan’s post. Its about knowing how web crawlers work, how SEO works, how backlinks work, how Google ranks posts when a “keyword” is searched.
You have to understand, since Storj is known in the decentralized storage world, making posts that include links and/or names of competitors would rather show the competitors brand/name under decentralized storage even though they don’t have such product. This is why many companies that have a forum do not allow links to competitors.
We all know Awesome Alexey has ALWAYS been polite and taught us many things over the years. I personally have learned a lot from him. Here, Alexey is 100% correct to remove the links.
I would again reiterate to learn more about SEO, backlinks, web crawlers, search engine ranking in order to understand why such things matter. I would even like to add, posting links for competitors is part of Black Hat SEO.
Even you can guess that this code snippet might not work if there is an update to forum’s hosting provider or discourse itself. There is a chance that things might break with “hard coded” domain names. So such a solution is hard to implement.
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@Alexey is correct on this issue of external links to certain sites
@nerdatwork is also correct on this issue.
This is not the first conversation we’ve had about this issue of links and the answer always remains the same because the answer comes from policy.
The Forum has policies against posting these types of links for reasons other than personal expression of Community members which Alexey and nerdatwork explained very clearly.
The Community members are welcome to make their points and comments without posting direct links that have been identified as problematic multiple times in multiple conversations.
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