• @jetA
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    138 months ago

    By your own words you were posting in somebody’s forum, but you did not care about participating in the forum, you are just using their forum as a form of Google SEO.

    That makes you a bad faith actor, and the moderators were correct remove your content from the forum. You did not genuinely want to participate, grow, or be a member of their community.

    • @interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlOP
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      -118 months ago

      I absolutely do not care AT ALL about that forum, the only reason why I was even there is because they were the most relevant link for “security key steam login”
      Just like I absolutely do not care, at all, not even at little bit about “https://lemmy.ml/c/steam”, this is just where the discussion is happening at this present moment.

      • @jetA
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        8 months ago

        Then don’t be surprised when moderators remove you when you don’t want to actually be a member of a community. The forums are there for the community. They’re not there for a Google SEO

          • @jetA
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            48 months ago

            It comes down to what people’s goals are: people run a forum, a discussion platform, because they want to see a community thrive. They want to see people interact. They want to be part of that interaction. Either through social means, or special interest, or aligned goals. They want a community.

            Moderation fits into those goals, because it keeps the conversation relevant to the community that is being grown. Moderators are curators of a garden.

            The internet is filled with totally unmoderated content, that would be your random blogger website that Google also indexes. The reason there’s value in the communities is because of the moderation, because of the focus, because of being kept on topic, because of the spam removal. That’s why Google sees those results as more relevant. That’s why you want to be there.

            Usenet and blogs exist right now, without moderation… you could use them

      • CommunityLinkFixerBotB
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        38 months ago

        Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !steam@lemmy.ml