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Excessive cross-posting

Today I've seen a post cross-posted to 8 Indie Hackers groups. It's not the first time there have been so many cross-posts.

Any good reason for cross-posting to more than 2-3 groups?

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    I believe I removed those, can you confirm? If it's more than 2 I usually remove unnecessary ones.

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      Thanks, I confirm the extra ones are gone.

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    People are desperate for a little bit of visibility, it's crazy.

    A few months ago I joined a telegram group with IHers and I was shocked that people were PMing me asking for upvote and comment. Like really, why would you try to gamify IH, It makes no sense.

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      Yeah, I've noticed that in pretty much all creator venues.

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    I must say, sometimes I wish to be able to post the same topic to multiple groups.
    Example: this post was best suited for the GumRoad community but it has ~100 members, so it went to another post.

    As a subscriber to the newsletter, it would also be valuable to generate increased attention to the posts that share a lot of the communities I am in.

    So maybe one could have the capacity to post to 1 of the main communities (+1K followers) and 3 or 4 smaller ones, just as tags work...

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      I haven't seen any noticeable different in reach or engagement in posting to Indie Hackers groups with under 1-200 members vs the main feed.

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      I'd definitely say it's spammy and disrespectful towards the community. Seems like a scummy marketing tactic rather than genuinely trying to provide value.

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          Sorry, I may have misunderstood your original reply then. I was under the impression that you're in favour of these tactics 😄

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      Yeah, drawing, um, extra attention did come up as a possible reason 😀

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