Posted: Apr 04, 2020 3:27 pm
Thommo wrote:[Reveal] Spoiler: compressedMike_L wrote:Cito di Pense wrote:Mike_L wrote:
You're right. I don't have to. But if I first came upon it at RT.com (a news source for which I'm happy to generate traffic) then I see no reason to go searching for it elsewhere.
The point is, nobody else does, either. If you want to make yourself look like a spammer, keep at it. Until you can't.
So linking to an on-topic news article is 'spamming' if you happen not to like the platform?
And who is "nobody else"? You speak for all of Ratskep, do you?
You can address the topic (US steals medical equipment from trans-Atlantic ally)... or not address it. Or you can try for a thread derail (again). And you went for that last one. Good for you!
Spamming is doing the same thing repetitively, you surely cannot be suggesting this pattern only persists in that one link or one thread.
For the record the topic is "The New And Coming Plague" (whatever that means) and your own post used this as its own subject line, as I'm sure you're pefectly well aware.
Yes, it could've been posted in the 'Trump COVID-19' thread or the even the 'Masks' thread (since it was masks that were swiped)... where it would doubtlessly have gotten the same sort of response... because "RT bad" and all that.
The question raised in respect of that post is whether this direction of plugging Russian propaganda from more than dubious sources happens often enough to be called "spamming".
I suppose I could've posted a link to the Guardian article or to a BBC one, but I didn't feel like plugging UK propaganda.