this change is exactly because there was so much ambiguity with #paid-media
So there are 3 categories that new posts could fall under
- free link included by the scripter
- free link not included by the scripter, but they don’t mind if someone else shares it in the replies
- free link not included by the scripter, and they don’t want anyone to share a free link
The problem is that tagging based on (2) becomes invalid once anyone shares a link in the replies. So the new rules around no-free-links only targets case (3)