Turn off the ability to add hyperlinks and use words instead? Is that what comments were intended for anyway? Seems a bit convoluted, but limiting comments, to comments, would be fairly natural. It'll get subverted anyway, but likely affects. A policy could say don't use hyperlinks, feel free to say where to go. Which would be an interesting policy to technically enforce, and still have the discretion to operate on.

A bit of self-promotion does not hurt anybody. Stop whining and skip such comments. The assault on self-promotion on Reddit has already buried countless good projects and startups.

I see more of these comments now but it's not enough that it's bothered me. I wonder why our experiences differ.

Downvote and/or flag and move along.

Downvote and move on

Set RoboDogs on the swine. But a RoboDog needs a hostile and violent OS, checkout this shitty project I vibecoded on GitHub ....