This is especailly exciting, because The Bookmarketer already has been used to create over 60,000 bookmarks. This will greatly increase Plime's exposure.

Hi Amabaie, Please note that Plime is NOT for people to who are looking to increase traffic to their Blog or Services/Goods websites.

Spamming or Splogging Plime is NOT ALLOWED.

Thanks for understanding!

And cause a lot of spam.

Um...exactly what is the problem? This is a story of interest to Plime users specifically more than most stories are. This is not spam, and I am not just flying by and dropping a link. The very fact that I added Plime to The Bookmarketer is a pretty clear indication of this. Sorry, but I really do not understand at all.

I don't see why this is being downvoted. It was topical to Plime and it wasn't yet used for spam yet.

I understand it might be in the future, but let's not punish people before they have done anything wrong.

It will be eventually, tho... We keep a look out for the spammers that do find Plime on their own, now with this, it will exponential the amount of Spam and Blogs that do hit Plime... provably too much for us to handle...

Besides, why would you want to see the Content of Digg and Farc here on Plime as well?

That's not new, interesting and weird... that is the lazy way out...

I'm not saying I'm looking forward to seeing spam here. However, I don't think it's fair to punish someone in advance. The downvotes are not meant to preemptively ban someone and downvoting amabaie's link and comments to accomplish that is not cool (and won't stop other spammers who use that bookmarklet anyway).

I was downvoting because I don't agree with this post. I wasn't punishing or banning amabaie for posting this.

I didn't agree with it and gave my reasons why I didn't agree with it in my first and second comments on here.

I believe I am allowed that much, yes?

Edit to add: I upvoted amabaie for creating this post to offset the karma, but I still don't agree with this post...

I downvoted but upvoted amabaie's creation so no karma would be lost.

I'm afraid that this would be an invitation to spammers. Jax, we're just trying to look after the shop.

Edit: I've reversed my votes to give this a chance to be seen by others.

OK, fair question...would you rather Plime be taken off The Bookmarketer? I find it hard to believe I am asking the question, but if the owners and /or the community find it detrimental, what would be the point of even including Plime in the service?

BTW, KerOBero, no offence was taken. Please don't think that. Just a little stunned. :-)

I'm confused, I thought we weren't supposed to allow self promotion? This is amabaie's own blog, isn't it? I understand how this isn't spam.

Should I allow similar posts in the future?

I can just see it now, though... The only thing that made Plime unique is because the content was SO unlike the content of Digg, Farc, Del.icio.us and those other sites...

Now with Plime being in the Bookmarketer (if you can please do remove it) every Tom, d**k and Harry is going to see something cool and post it not only on Digg, Farc, Del.icio.us and now Plime...

Now, if wanted to see stories posted on Farc, Digg and Del.icio.us I would go to those sites, not Plime.

I come to Plime to find interesting links, cultivated and pruned by everyone...

Not stuff posted on those other sites...

And the spam and blogs... don't forget those... I don't come to Plime to see those either...

We encourage new members to come and check out Plime and see it for what it really is, a community of individuals with interesting perspectives. To cultivate friendships and share stories, links, pictures, videos etc.

Not as a place to increase their own website traffic. Which would cause MAYOR conflict to those who are new, don't read the FAQs, don't understand the site and get frustrated when they submit their own content and get banned...

That's fine...

This is a post and discussion directly about Plime. I'd say the community relevance and interest (as evidenced by this discussion it's raising) is important enough to the community that it's fine if the blog owner submits it.

Since when have we not welcomed news about Plime? Amabaie found us and thought enough of us to spread the word. We should be grateful. After all, this is not a private club. We know how to deal with the spammers, as well as the Diggers and Farkers. Amongst them, we may find a new best friend (or at least a really cool Plimate), and isn't that why we're really here?

I don't want it taken down. The fear of spam from this might be unfounded. If it means a few good users join, why would we risk not getting to meet them

How about if we see spam from this becoming a problem, then we request it's removal instead of preempting it.

From a business perspective Plime needs more exposure, not less.

I'm quite against "automatic" submission forms, but not automatically against people submitting content so long as they have the opportunity to read the rules about what is OK.

I have no idea who was downvoting it. I wasn't singling you out, but I think the post was in the -60s when I saw it, which is unnecessary to delete a thread and indicates people trying to just pile on the negative karma, without considering this would hurt someone's account, (and not just protect the site).

Sorry if it seemed I was questioning your specific motivation.

i can see the business end of it, but its not fair to allow one blog cause its about plime and automatically downvote others cause its by the same user/ website. Sometimes it seems only an upvote is more fair so every submission has a chance to flourish if more than 5-6 people find it interesting. Instead 1-2 people down vote it and its gone: to the deleted stack.

I couldn't have said it better myself. This isn't a private club, we shouldn't be trying to keep people out on the possibility of another spammer finding Plime. We know how to deal with those types very well, and it's easy to do. Let's welcome this guy, it might get Plime some good exposure.

This kind of crap will kill Plime if not checked.

Small village mentality is not what Plime needs to expand and go on to greater things.

Unfortunately some members 'schoolground', cliquey mentality will not do any good for the vibe of Plime and will only serve to chase off newcomers, newcomers who will provide revenue and hopefully links, discussion and new blood.

I understand long term members of Plime being worried that Plimes uniqueness and the cosy feel will be compromised but if Plime doesn't grow, embrace change and new members and the wider web then it will fail monetarily and there will be no Plime full stop.

/rant

Right.

I'm sure there probably was the same feeling at Worth. I've been a member of Worth for more than 6 years. I've seen it grow from a small startup idea to the absolute best Photoshop site on the net. It got that way by the immense numbers of new members with a variety of talents that raised the quality bar and through the dedication of some of those members to give of their time and talents.

New blood is essential for the growth of sites like Worth and Plime.