Sure, you're not the only one. But I would suspect most people didn't care.

With all due respect, by "people" it's just you. Yeah, some others in here have expressed discontent at this but they did it with a single comment, or moved on by now. Out of however many were actually pinged, it's probably not a notable amount of the overall.

I'd like to add that despite me not really seeing this as an issue, I didn't actually set this up. I was aware of it possibly happening, and saw no problem with it (I didn't know how it would look when/if it did happen - it could've been done via DM for all I knew). But that goes my involvement in it. And no, the instance of "community completely changing url and moving" is practically the only instance in which I would ever not mind or support something like this, so it won't be happening for just any future or hypothetical pinned post.

I genuinely don't get why someone's notifications are so sacred to them to this extent. This was a one-off event that was done purely to get people migrating over to the new community. Which it seems to have done. Some people aren't bothered by it, presumably because they did subscribe here.

I don't consider a one-off targeted notification as spam. You don't have to "listen" to anything. You can just click 'x'.

When did I say you have to subscribe and follow this community?

It scraped comments, not subscribers. You commented here before.

Well movies and TV was dead anyway, but it had (has) 2.5k subscribers. There's no way to actually gather up enough of those people at all without some kind of mass ping. Which would annoy people all the same.

In the event of the transition, television will be promoted heavily. This particular community, moviesandtv has clearly seen better days. I used communities to promote ObscureMusic and quidlupled its activity (going from like 30 subscribers to over 165), and have had other people posting due to this.

They will do it so long as not doing it greatly increases the amount of busywork, spam moderation and troll moderation.

Sure, but it offers at least some protection.

The traffic on Reddit is massive for highly populated subreddits. And these subreddits that restrict low karma account activities aren't doing it for any profit motive.

I understand Lemmy isn't really big enough for this to be a concern here.

This may not be an inherently bad thing given that low karma accounts tend to be trolls.

!trailers should be, imo, on the sidebar of showsandmovies.