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Re:Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments by romanticreptile on Saturday April 22, 2017 @03:05AM (#14171460)
Is there any risk of a subreddit getting banned by the spam filter because all posts link to a single domain?
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Re:Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments by rnhmjoj on Saturday April 22, 2017 @10:32AM (#14172692)
I don't think so. There are subreddit (ab)used for even sillier thing than that: see RedditStorage[1] for example.

[1]: https://github.com/rossem/RedditStorage

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Re:Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments by chubot on Saturday April 22, 2017 @03:15AM (#14171495)
Nope, you are free to do whatever with your own subreddit, e.g.:

https://www.reddit.com/r/oilshell/

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Re:Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments by wazanator on Saturday April 22, 2017 @11:06PM (#14176242)
It's actually still against the rules

> Even in your own subreddit, just submitting links to your own site/stuff can get you banned [0]

It's what leads to people getting shadow banned and not understanding why

[0]https://www.reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion#wiki_can_i_just_ru...

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