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Topic: Advertising spam is not allowed - page 13. (Read 653983 times)

newbie
Activity: 2
Merit: 0
August 14, 2014, 07:41:51 AM
My main account (minerpools) was just banned for 7 days, just for posting one liners to let people know when a pool was up.

So, mods, if you're going to charge a fee, do it, but be clear about it, don't start telling us we can't do our job for no apparent reason.
legendary
Activity: 1372
Merit: 1022
Anarchy is not chaos.
August 13, 2014, 11:09:07 PM
if coin has ANN thread and all pools/services advertise there its way betteer than each of them makign new topic. this way 1 coi nwould be 10 topics. is that really better?

the other very real problem is that pools fall by the wayside everyday and I can pick at least 10 coins right now where the OP has links to pools that are not even in existence any longer and the devs are long gone, but yet the coin still has a very active mining community and there's no one around to update the OP - so I want to know HOW us pool owners are going to let the miners know we have a new (and sometimes) THE ONLY POOL AVAILABLE TO MINE A COIN IF WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO POST A MESSAGE MENTIONING OUR POOL?


WANNA ESPLAIN THAT TO US?

Huh


Exactly. As I said, this rule is arbitrary and capricious. Granted, this is a privately held forum, but if it were subject to any sort of common law test, this rule would be found by any court, even the Kangaroo courts in the United States, as overbroad and deliberately operating in restraint of commerce. In short, under any theory of common law that I've ever heard of, this is ridiculous.
sr. member
Activity: 266
Merit: 250
August 13, 2014, 08:33:26 PM
if coin has ANN thread and all pools/services advertise there its way betteer than each of them makign new topic. this way 1 coi nwould be 10 topics. is that really better?

the other very real problem is that pools fall by the wayside everyday and I can pick at least 10 coins right now where the OP has links to pools that are not even in existence any longer and the devs are long gone, but yet the coin still has a very active mining community and there's no one around to update the OP - so I want to know HOW us pool owners are going to let the miners know we have a new (and sometimes) THE ONLY POOL AVAILABLE TO MINE A COIN IF WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO POST A MESSAGE MENTIONING OUR POOL?


WANNA ESPLAIN THAT TO US?

Huh
legendary
Activity: 1526
Merit: 1000
the grandpa of cryptos
August 13, 2014, 07:27:12 PM
if coin has ANN thread and all pools/services advertise there its way betteer than each of them makign new topic. this way 1 coi nwould be 10 topics. is that really better?
sr. member
Activity: 266
Merit: 250
August 13, 2014, 06:19:13 PM
Advertising spam is not allowed, this includes mining pools, gambling services, exchanges, shops, etc. Mining pool ops should make a thread within the Mining section of Alt Currencies. Most OP's already link to pools available so advertising your pool is unnecessary and leads to too much spam. Exchanges, shops, gambling sites, etc, should make a thread in the Marketplace section of Alt Currencies.



I own and operate Lifeforce.info pools and I did what you asked and guess what? - you guys deleted the thread....

what's up with that?

and I do agree with your decision to stop the spam - many pool operators have consistently hammered thread looking for free advertising - that's why I pay money to have my banner ads run on various sites promoting my pool.


here's a great article: http://altcoinherald.com/bitcointalk-lowers-hammer-pool-advertising/
full member
Activity: 318
Merit: 100
August 13, 2014, 08:20:01 AM
my bad, won't happen again, It was just an announcement, it concerned altcoins. Looked like a proper venue. etc.
legendary
Activity: 2688
Merit: 1240
August 11, 2014, 01:40:53 PM
I think actually that twitter stuff works quite well.. You can also do support via twitter as people message you directly, you get coin recommendations over twitter etc..

be sure to have a look at my sig, i'll always keep you updated with all the latest suprnova stuff !

Since I consider Twitter to be very much akin to the mental equivalent of ebola Zaire, that won't help me any. But personal preference aside, the rule is arbitrary and capricious.


Made my Day Wink
legendary
Activity: 1372
Merit: 1022
Anarchy is not chaos.
August 10, 2014, 09:55:31 PM
I think actually that twitter stuff works quite well.. You can also do support via twitter as people message you directly, you get coin recommendations over twitter etc..

be sure to have a look at my sig, i'll always keep you updated with all the latest suprnova stuff !

Since I consider Twitter to be very much akin to the mental equivalent of ebola Zaire, that won't help me any. But personal preference aside, the rule is arbitrary and capricious.
legendary
Activity: 2422
Merit: 1451
Leading Crypto Sports Betting & Casino Platform
August 10, 2014, 06:54:20 AM
I think actually that twitter stuff works quite well.. You can also do support via twitter as people message you directly, you get coin recommendations over twitter etc..

be sure to have a look at my sig, i'll always keep you updated with all the latest suprnova stuff !

I'm glad you found a workaround. I hope mods won't consider posts like this one (ex. catch up with me on twitter, link in my sig) advertising and just delete them.
legendary
Activity: 2688
Merit: 1240
August 10, 2014, 06:39:06 AM
I think actually that twitter stuff works quite well.. You can also do support via twitter as people message you directly, you get coin recommendations over twitter etc..

be sure to have a look at my sig, i'll always keep you updated with all the latest suprnova stuff !
legendary
Activity: 2422
Merit: 1451
Leading Crypto Sports Betting & Casino Platform
August 10, 2014, 06:30:23 AM
Do you mine?

I think it's pretty obvius that he doesn't. But even for someone who does not trade/mine actively, it should be pretty obvius to see that there's an unreasonable part in this rule.
sr. member
Activity: 364
Merit: 250
August 10, 2014, 06:12:52 AM
Just returning to tell the mods here to go fuck themselves.

You have made it easier for large miners to push smaller ones out by making it nearly impossible to show people when a pool is up.

Fucking idiots. 

No one here likes it and it's obvious.
I like it, because I was getting really tired of all the pool "advertisement" in the Announcement threads. It was crazy, distracting and, well, spam.

Do you mine?
copper member
Activity: 3948
Merit: 2201
Verified awesomeness ✔
August 10, 2014, 05:06:49 AM
Just returning to tell the mods here to go fuck themselves.

You have made it easier for large miners to push smaller ones out by making it nearly impossible to show people when a pool is up.

Fucking idiots. 

No one here likes it and it's obvious.
I like it, because I was getting really tired of all the pool "advertisement" in the Announcement threads. It was crazy, distracting and, well, spam.
sr. member
Activity: 336
Merit: 250
August 09, 2014, 11:01:10 PM
Just returning to tell the mods here to go fuck themselves.

You have made it easier for large miners to push smaller ones out by making it nearly impossible to show people when a pool is up.

Fucking idiots. 

No one here likes it and it's obvious.
newbie
Activity: 41
Merit: 0
August 09, 2014, 01:48:16 PM
I hope site gets cleaner from spammers.
legendary
Activity: 1372
Merit: 1022
Anarchy is not chaos.
August 09, 2014, 12:21:01 PM
I usually don't comment on the rules, as most of them are unobtrusive. But it seems like this one is specifically for the purpose of restricting pools from being seen. You all claim to want decentralized networks, but then do whatever you can to centralize. This isn't the only instance I can think of, but this one is egregious.

It would be FAR BETTER to warn a pool op if they were overdoing it. Getting devs to update the OP is at best a random exercise, and, Bad Bear I'm looking at you, you people know that to be true.

This is a rule like so many "exectutive" decisions that was made without any thought to the consequences, or else was something deliberately done to retard commerce.
global moderator
Activity: 3794
Merit: 2612
In a world of peaches, don't ask for apple sauce
August 09, 2014, 07:49:52 AM
If the admin cared and actually wanted a solution rather than just bitch and moan until we all piss off (they can pretend they aren't telling us to do so, but clearly they are) they could get off their lazy buttocks and install any of the copious mods available for SMF, such as Good Post/Bad Post, auto anti spam, bot protect etc. They either chose not to give a shit to this method, or are too incompetent. Personally based on using an out date SMF, and not changing the branding etc, my money goes with incompetent.

Give users the power to do the moderation and we will see what people actually want. I pity to foolish admin who thinks any sized army can moderate a modern forum. This is not sparta (they may be the downy hunchback however..)
Even though this forum is using an older version of SMF, theymos has added a lot of aditonal coding in the backend to provide security. He has fixed numerous security vulnerabilities, added the Trust system, the activity counter and various small snipets of codes here and there.  Installing SMF mods only brings more possible exploits and overall decreases forum security. Updating to the new SMF version would mean that all of the old issues have to be recoded for the new version and tons of effort would have to be dedicated towards finding seurity issues only present in the new version.

BTW, if you didn't now, there is a new forum software in the works: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=167.0. Regarding moderation by users: there is a "Report to moderator" link on every post and thread and the fact that only a dozen or so users report actual spam threads and posts, has shown that not all people aren keen on moderating and/or know what is considered spam.
full member
Activity: 208
Merit: 100
August 09, 2014, 06:50:45 AM
If the admin cared and actually wanted a solution rather than just bitch and moan until we all piss off (they can pretend they aren't telling us to do so, but clearly they are) they could get off their lazy buttocks and install any of the copious mods available for SMF, such as Good Post/Bad Post, auto anti spam, bot protect etc. They either chose not to give a shit to this method, or are too incompetent. Personally based on using an out date SMF, and not changing the branding etc, my money goes with incompetent.

Give users the power to do the moderation and we will see what people actually want. I pity to foolish admin who thinks any sized army can moderate a modern forum. This is not sparta (they may be the downy hunchback however..)
newbie
Activity: 15
Merit: 0
August 09, 2014, 04:25:55 AM
a few days were missing, last seen is that you can leave 1 message in the thread coins me someone can confirm this?Huh and then Lediirina again gave ban.
1 message (real advertising on the run coins )
2 when you restart problem coins it was reported in the forum thread pool that stopped (to create a new wallet dev)
3 at the request of the same developer has updated purse and said in the thread that we started and BAN



Now added a new coin on the pool and wrote to the dev, but he is in no hurry to add us to the OP what to do right Huh

Need clear rules on the first page of this discussion, and then everything will be a little better

now I do not understand what some are banned and others not

and how to add your pool on a coin in which the developer doesn't want to do HERE FORUM ON these INTERESTS? (separate pools and dev)

sorry for my English
full member
Activity: 137
Merit: 100
August 09, 2014, 01:59:09 AM
Yes.totally agreed.next step is for scammers!
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