Reddit Bitcoin Centralizes All Bitcoin News - page 2.

Keyser Soze

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Quote from: rampage101 on October 16, 2014, 12:19:48 PM

Hey guys, I started a Bitcoin News website 2 months ago with some friends who are also Bitcoin enthusiasts.

One week ago, we got permanently URL blocked, and IP address blocked from posting on Reddit Bitcoin. Our traffic numbers have tumbled since then, we have lost nearly 70% of our traffic since this ban.

What we discovered is many people are only going to Reddit Bitcoin for news. Reddit Bitcoin is heavily censored, and is now an additional central point of failure for Bitcoin.

Oh come on, Bitcoin's success does not rely on Reddit. Stop being butthurt that you broke Reddit's rules and they banned your site as punishment.

rampage101

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For what it is worth, there are multiple CoinDesk articles almost every day on Reddit Bitcoin and this is not considered spam.

If the articles we write suck, then they will get down-voted anyways. Should it not be people voting on there?

Or you would like a moderator who knows nothing about Bitcoin decide what the Bitcoin news is?

rampage101

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Quote from: NRF on October 16, 2014, 01:33:13 PM

Why should the rules not apply to you guys as well?

We are asking that our URL be unblocked, not so that we can spam again, but that if a reader of ours wanted to post they can. Right now, none of articles can ever reach Reddit Bitcoin again, and submitting one of our articles will get your Reddit account banned too.

Don't know if you have noticed, but places like WIRED magazine have their articles submitted to over 10+ subreddits and nobody says this is spam. Why is that? I am not saying we are the same as Wired... but I do not think it so unreasonable for us to submit our articles to Reddit Bitcoin only.

Where else should we share the articles then? We've tried every other social network and the traffic is tiny compared to Reddit.

Nobody thinks it is an issue that most people just get their Bitcoin news from Reddit only? And the fact that this is a heavily censored medium?

NRF

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Why should the rules not apply to you guys as well?

remotemass

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ASMR El Salvador

I repudiate such a blocking, of this site, without any warning from the subreddit moderators.
I support this cause.

rampage101

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We were submitting our articles there because this is the main place people are getting Bitcoin news. Yes, we broke the rules of spamming there, but our URL is permanently blocked with no warning from them, so nobody can ever submit one of articles there.

Do you think it is a problem that people are getting are only getting news from Reddit Bitcoin?

One post to Reddit gets more traffic than posting here and 10 other social networks combined. We are trying to figure out how to reach people interested in reading about Bitcoin.

BittBurger

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Quote from: rampage101 on October 16, 2014, 12:19:48 PM

we have lost nearly 70% of our traffic since this ban.

So this proves you were spamming Reddit for site traffic, and the block stopped that.

-B-

rampage101

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Hey guys, I started a Bitcoin News website 2 months ago with some friends who are also Bitcoin enthusiasts.

One week ago, we got permanently URL blocked, and IP address blocked from posting on Reddit Bitcoin. Our traffic numbers have tumbled since then, we have lost nearly 70% of our traffic since this ban.

What we discovered is many people are only going to Reddit Bitcoin for news. Reddit Bitcoin is heavily censored, and is now an additional central point of failure for Bitcoin. I think we need to get the news back on Bitcoin Talk!

You can read the full story of how my website got banned here:

http://bitcoinpricelive.com/bitcoinpricelive-banned-from-reddit/

Thank you for reading.

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