Hi GameDeals Community,

I noticed HF Games posted 11(?) deals for Galaxy Trader during their time in GameDeals. They seem to be focused only on their games and not other games from other developers. I seen other communities allow creators to promote their work as long as they post content outside of their own. I like that idea and believe it could help a community grow. I propose that we change rule #9 to the following.

Developers/Publishers may post their game sale if they post two other game sales not in their portfolio. 2:1 ratio.

  • If there are more upvotes than downvotes, rule 9 changes to the above.
  • If there are more downvotes than upvotes, rule 9 gets removed.
  • if there are less than 10 users voting, nothing changes.

This poll will close on 2025-11-14 04:00 UTC.

Let me know what you think.

Update 2025-11-14 06:05 UTC: Poll closed. 21 upvotes; 7 downvotes

  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    21 days ago

    I think it’s fine if they post their own, as long as they disclose, and don’t continuously post the same sales over and over.

    A deal is a deal after all, even if it’s a deal explicitly by the same person posting it.

  • TwilightKiddy@programming.devEnglish
    3·
    21 days ago

    From what I understand, the purpose of the community is to find discounted games. Even if the developer/publisher is posting about a discount on their own product, they are contributing to this exact purpose. Making them work for the ability to post will probably only turn them away. Also, this system may encourage people to create throwaway accounts for posting their own games.

    Making it a public poll also feels bad. Obviously there are more non-developers here who won’t be very considerate of what such a change means for the developers.

    Current Reddit version of the rule practically boils down to “disclose yourself, engage at least a little bit, don’t flood”, which more or less tries to prevent any harmful behavior. The proposed change instead turns it into a rule that forcefully makes developers work for the community they are already contributing to.

    On the other hand, if you want to discuss @[email protected] specifically, they already broke the rule. This account was clearly created to post promotions for their game exclusively and does not engage with any community they post to nor openly discloses who they are (should be fairly obvious judging by the username, but still).

    And there is another point to be made. Rules are not accessible fully on Lemmy and you need to know that this is a copy-paste community from Reddit to know the rules. Instead of changing them, I think it’s a good idea to make the rules fully accessible here first.