ive heard that rule and in hindsight, i think it was a bad idea for people to stick with that. 90% is arbitrary to start with. what is wrong with self promotion anyway? Its no different then ads, which we've mostly accepted. Its at least a person that wants to try. Reddit is a link aggregator. The average user doesn't run an adblock. We have people writing massive reddit posts instead of just writing their own blog. why do people do this?
In the case of travel, you make it seem like there is a bunch of deep content being posted otherwise. travel sub reddits are pretty bad. r/Travel is anyway dominated by pictures and low effort posts, for karma I guess? For any discussion, if you go off the accepted ideas you'll be met with hostility and closed mindedness. travelnopics was made and its barely alive. digitalnomad and solotravel are filled with escapist fantasy and insecurity posts.
> Its no different then ads, which we've mostly accepted.
I don't know which "we" you're talking about; at the very most some users tolerate ads as a thing they can skim over while looking for the actual content they want to read. having self promotion where the actual content should be defeats the entire purpose of the site.
self promotion in and of itself isn't evil, but drive by self promotion in a group you do not regularly participate in is pure spam. we used to allow it on /r/indianfood on the theory that on-topic selfish promotion would be fine, and it nearly killed the subreddit with low effort youtube and blog spam blindly cross posted to a ton of groups.
also I am convinced that while the majority of people don't block ads, pretty much no one values them or wouldn't make them magically disappear if they could.
In the case of travel, you make it seem like there is a bunch of deep content being posted otherwise. travel sub reddits are pretty bad. r/Travel is anyway dominated by pictures and low effort posts, for karma I guess? For any discussion, if you go off the accepted ideas you'll be met with hostility and closed mindedness. travelnopics was made and its barely alive. digitalnomad and solotravel are filled with escapist fantasy and insecurity posts.