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How can I effortlessly spawn new, unused URLs to the same question on Codidact?
I'd like to submit links to unanswered Codidact questions, to Reddit, in order to try to get them answered and popularize Codidact.
Although some SubReddits forbid submitting a link already published to any subreddit in the past — to fight spam — the snag is that on many SubReddits, my submitted link never appears because
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moderators forget to approve the link,
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or I don't have enough karma points and the post automatically is filtered out and removed from view.
Then my submitted link never gets published on the subreddit, thus I'm not spamming, thus this is principled and ethical.
This isn't a hitch for Stack Exchange posts, because I can append integers. Reddit admits the following as unique URLs.
https://math.stackexchange.com/a/3619240 https://math.stackexchange.com/a/3619240/1 ... https://math.stackexchange.com/a/3619240/50
But this fails for Codidact questions.
https://powerusers.codidact.com/posts/282135/1 yields "a 404 NOT FOUND" page.
This is not something we support, technically or ethically. You're more than welcome to promote content on Codidact comm …
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I'm not familiar with Reddit, and don't know what you mean by "submit links". However, it seems this other site has cer …
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I'm not familiar with Reddit. Still, reasoning generally: "nobody ever sees my submitted link" doesn't imply that the …
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I'm not familiar with Reddit, and don't know what you mean by "submit links". However, it seems this other site has certain rules, and your question here is about how to circumvent them.
You have no right to do that. Whether you think the rules are silly or not, it's their call to make. Think about how we'd feel if another user exploited a coding quirk on Codidact to do something we clearly state is against the rules.
We don't want Codidact associated with sneaking around the rules on other sites. This question should be closed for the same reason we close questions like how to fool for-pay software to run without having paid for it, or how to break a law without getting caught.
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