A word about advertisements.

[Dessgeega]

I'm seeing a whole lot of advertising going on in my square. I can sort of understand artists attaching their twitter to posts, visibility and all that, though it's still iffy at times. My grand complaint though, is people that blatantly advertise their youtube and twitch channels. That wasn't allowed on Miiverse for obvious reasons and it shouldn't be allowed here to make posts that are essentially saying "Hey come here and give me views and money!"

I'm going to keep reporting every such post I see and I advise others to do the same.

 

[Nuddlmaus]

You mean ingame right? Yeah i really hate this cheap advertising.

 

[Dessgeega]

You mean ingame right?

Yes, in the in-game square.

 

[Flareth]

Didn't realize this was a widespread thing. I've seen, what, maybe one blatant self-advert? Everything else is either furries or gender politics.

Though admittedly I'm not sure what the issue is beyond the spam factor. Annoyance? The game's integrity?

 

[Dessgeega]

Spoiler: IT BREAKS THE RULES

That aside, I've seen quite a few, and yeah, it's kind of annoying.

 

[swimmingknife]

My favourites are the people who don't say anything other than "Follow me on twitter!" followed by their handle. I mean, say what you want about the youtube and twitch shilling, at least there's an implicit promise of some kind of substantive content. If all someone has to offer me is a twitter handle, odds are they probably don't post anything especially interesting. If people are going to shamelessly self-promote, they can at least put some effort into it.

 

[NBSink]

I can understand that people are posting their twitter accounts when they asking for a selfie (I'm playing that game in that other role: Take Screenshots and share them with the person who asked for a selfie on twitter). But I don't like people just posting their youtube and twitch accounts for views... Sending the twitter account without doing some kind of art is bad too.

However: The Miiverse replacement is using twitter/facebook. So it's kinda logical that people would start posting there account here...

 

[MissingNumbers]

However: The Miiverse replacement is using twitter/facebook. So it's kinda logical that people would start posting there account here...

Yeah, that's more or less the only thing I'm doing. I make sure my post is still substantial, but I stick my twitter handle in there as a watermark of sorts.

 

[Spaceswitchmars]

I've seen a bunch of these. So far, I've only been reporting posts that seem to be discriminatory . I'll add these to this list because you're right -- no need for that stuff.

 

[Lyn]

Is there actually any rule against it in Splatoon 2? I haven't done it, but I don't think Miiverse still applies.

 

[Dessgeega]

Is there actually any rule against it in Splatoon 2? I haven't done it, but I don't think Miiverse still applies.

There's a reporting category specifically for advertising, and Nintendo is still Nintendo, so it's a pretty safe assumption they don't want squidkid posts being used in this fashion.

 

[NBSink]

I don't have anything against people who are using that a a watermark. Especially for post like those "Take a Sellfie with me". On the other side I never saw someone with "Follow me on Twitch/Youtube/Twitter" but I may start reporting those posts...

 

[Debbie]

Because of this, I'm going to assume it's still banned. Understandable since there are kidlings in the Square...

 

[Dessgeega]

Let me revive this thread with a perfect example of the problem. Look at this. It's blatant advertising and a tacit request for money. No art, or clever writing, or anything of value. Disgusting.

 

[SqidVishus]

Yip, it's blatant and I report those too. I also report squidbaggers. Every. Time.

 

[Agent Z]

Let me revive this thread with a perfect example of the problem. Look at this. It's blatant advertising and a tacit request for money. No art, or clever writing, or anything of value. Disgusting.

I usually just see something small like a massive piece of art with a small Tumblr link hidden in the bottom. I didn't realize it was getting this bad. The worst ive seen was a twitch stream link. I'll keep an eye out for anything like this.

 

[Spaceswitchmars]

Let me revive this thread with a perfect example of the problem. Look at this. It's blatant advertising and a tacit request for money. No art, or clever writing, or anything of value. Disgusting.

And only a B in tower. I'm not giving money to someone who is a B in tower.

 

[Metaru]

Let me revive this thread with a perfect example of the problem. Look at this. It's blatant advertising and a tacit request for money. No art, or clever writing, or anything of value. Disgusting.

Did you go to the Patreon or Twitter page?
Seems like this person does atleast something, not much but its still a content creator.

Nothing is wrong with this, If I was a content creator and livestreamed S2 I'd have my twitch link for sure also have my name as my twitch url.
How is having a twitch link a bad thing? It supports a streaming in getting more views and will also get more people watching S2.

You see people with their Twitch name in-game too, is that also bad advertising?
Absolutely not. Welcome to the age of everybody wants to stream and get famous.


I dont' see why this is a huge deal to you.
It's not promoting hate, is not breaking the ToS of the game and from the guidelines which nintendo has given us.

 

[Либра]

Did you go to the Patreon or Twitter page?
Seems like this person does atleast something, not much but its still a content creator.

Nothing is wrong with this, If I was a content creator and livestreamed S2 I'd have my twitch link for sure also have my name as my twitch url.
How is having a twitch link a bad thing? It supports a streaming in getting more views and will also get more people watching S2.

You see people with their Twitch name in-game too, is that also bad advertising?
Absolutely not. Welcome to the age of everybody wants to stream and get famous.


I dont' see why this is a huge deal to you.
It's not promoting hate, is not breaking the ToS of the game and from the guidelines which nintendo has given us.

Nothing wrong with using the same username across different platforms. If your nickname is unique and recognizable then more power to you.

And at least to me there's nothing wrong with adding a (small) twitter handle to your artwork or otherwise productive or creative post. Just plain advertisement on the other hand is cheap and even a link to "patreon" is the worst of it. Whenever I see these posts I report them for advertisement. If you want to advertise your products, make it less "needy". Give us something in return first. I don't want the plaza to turn into an advertising board - I want the plaza to be a canvas for creative artworks or funny posts, or discussion starters.

But again, can't stress this enough, regardless on how I view these small twitter handles, objectively they fall under advertisement which are against the ToS. There's even a checkbox for that. Not sure if they will follow suit if someone will report your over your small twitter handle but obvious advertisement without anything other than your Twitter/Patreon/whatever will get you in trouble.

 

[Debbie]

Let me revive this thread with a perfect example of the problem. Look at this. It's blatant advertising and a tacit request for money. No art, or clever writing, or anything of value. Disgusting.

I haven't seen anything like this yet, probably because by the time I start playing people like you have found them all. I'll keep my eye out though.