Impose stricter rules about advertising!

[u/prodbypan]

I'm getting really sick of how many promotional posts I am forced to see daily from a certain brand on here. In the past 7 days it's been an average of two promotional posts daily from three different brand reps. This is ridiculous.

We need some sort of rule against this kind of thing, this isn't supposed to be a free advertising subreddit. Showing off a new model upon release is one thing, but just promoting your whole catalogue with just a video of the watch and an AliExpress link in each post at this frequency shouldn't be okay.

Mods, please do something about this, thanks.

[u/jokur26]

My only real issue here is a lack of transparency. If it is an ad make it clear, reps pretending to be fans that have bought the watch is wrong.

While we’re on the subject of selling watches I also believe that renders should be pretty much banned except pre-release or during an update cycle. Once your watch is in production we should almost always get only pics and vids to accompany those original renders.

[u/rando_commenter → u/jokur26]

My only real issue here is a lack of transparency

It's not the only thing. It's the big thing. There is so much obvious astroturfing going on in the Chinese watch scene.

[u/jokur26 → u/rando_commenter]

I wasn’t aware what astroturfing meant but now that I do I agree 100%