[–] InnocentBystander ago
Have you ever heard of google? They specialize in making adds match content. You can't piss on this site for doing the same thing as all the others (that you don't bitch about).
And besides, who cares if the ad is on topic or not? How does that make any difference?
I don't see anything wrong with the site. It meets our requirements. You have not shown anything about it that violates any rules, or causes any problems.
So please do not harass the users with half-baked objections and attacks.
If you see a real problem, discuss it. Randomly shitting on good users is not going to be an effective way of getting your point across. Especially when it seems that the only thing you contribute is abuse.
[–] trippin_balls ago (edited ago)
Guideline 1:
"..or advertising is not allowed in any capacity."
So I click on the link, the first thing I see is 3 ads, all about a handgun. After 15 seconds of advertisement I get a video with the perfect situation for exactly that handgun, self-defense from some maniac with a machete, literally hacking through the door. Do you see how that looks like blatant advertisement?
That being said, after I just refreshed the page I got an ad for a sniper rifle, which is clearly not related to the video and pretty useless indoors. So yeah I was too quick to accuse /u/Codewow of spamming but that's what it looked like from where I'm sitting.
And 'abuse', really? That's pushing it.
[–] InnocentBystander ago
The video was not an advertisement. That rule does not mean that the site can not have ads. You know that, don't be pedantic.
No. I don't. I don't care about the site, as long as it does not break rules. The video itself is clearly not an ad. The site does nothing that you don't see on Youtube.
I'll continue to try to explain if you still don't get it. But you do not come across as a dummy, so I think you are willfully missing the point.
Did you try to engage him in a conversation about whether this was acceptable? Or did you just attack and sling mud?
I think the word 'abuse' applies.
I apologize if I am being a bit harsh with you. But it really bugs me when I see contributors get chased off by confused, mistaken people that attack when they should discuss. I doubt it will be a problem in this case, but consider if you started submitting posts. Would you continue to post if you were getting random hostility like your comment?
Sometimes contributors get sick of that kind of behavior, and all of Voat loses when they get chased off over a silly misunderstanding, or someones agenda. And it is almost always someone with a very low scp that does the chasing.
So please, in future, do your homework first. And then try discussion before belittling them.