Topic: Advertising spam is not allowed - page 23. (Read 570496 times)

hallelujah

HALLELUJAH

>>Why should someone have to go to the mining section and look through each post to see if they can find a pool that happens to be set up for a coin they are interested in mining?

 I guess the coin creator can create an announcement tread for their coin and start another Coin thread in the Mining Section for their pools. Then you would just look for the coin you want to mine and all of the pool would be listed in that thread.

I'm also in favor for one pool post in the thread when they come online the first day of mining. Not one post a week later after the coin has been being mined.

Supported.

Yup, twitter is the way.

thanks for the info, fixed !

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I've simply updated my main pools page (https:///www.suprnova.cc) where you find all Suprnova Pools and also added Twitter..

So if you add these too things, you'll always get the latest suprnova pools and news.

just advertise your pool in your sig, like every other adv

This is NOT a solution.  When a coin launches miners want to know what pools are available for THAT SPECIFIC COIN.  Why should someone have to go to the mining section and look through each post to see if they can find a pool that happens to be set up for a coin they are interested in mining?  The information they are looking for is not about the pool, it is about the COIN.  Therefore, the information should be posted in the COIN thread.  I am not a pool operator, but I am really frustrated by this new rule.

It's not nearly as convenient.  I RARELY go to the mining section, and I don't look at people signatures .  It would just be better if I could see one post of the pool.

The argument still stands. This grants greater powers to scam devs.
Pool owners would be more concerned about protecting their rice bowl rather than miners.
After the Elite wallet switcheroo last week and your resulting losses, I'm surprised you'd be in favor of this.

Pool owners are still allowed to create a thread in the alt mining section.
There is also the signature space.

I am not a pool OP and have no intentions to become one.  I still think this rule is mostly unjustified because if I wanted to mine a coin, I usually look at the advertisements on the thread.  I rarely look at the OP because the dev usually never updates the post.  I think pools should be allowed one post in the thread that advertises their pool, but then the rest of the rules can be followed.

uh, it was setup like that and no scams were prevented...

Great argument, in parts.

This give scammy devs additional leverage. Pools will have to toe the line or risk being excluded from the OP.
Scam devs are not interested in creating a well-spread hashrate - even a single pool would do for them.
Especially one that doesn't highlight suspicious codes. The past week alone, I've seen three pools giving alerts on weird codes, like this one.
A layer of protection against scam coins is now removed.

 
I have a pool myself and I think it is the right decision.

There are some older coins whose original dev has vanished but the coin is still going strong. The people who have taken up the development do not have access to the OP many times and so new pool information cannot be added except in later posts. I know they should probably have started a new thread when the dev abandoned the coin, but there are many older, good coins out there where all of the current pool information is in later posts, just for this reason.

he is willing to spend $20 a year to advertise....

hahahahaha 

We already have Mining (Altcoins) board. Pool owners should do their announcements there.


If you want more exposure you can bid on forums ad space.

As a pool op I still think this is bullshit for the reasons I mentioned in previous posts.

Sending a PM to the dev/announcer is a crap shoot.  Maybe he'll add it to the OP, maybe he won't.  The only thing guaranteed is that he won't do it fast.  This gives the devs control over what pools are "blessed" enough to be advertised, and us operators who put in the effort to setup a pool might get screwed by not being listed in the OP.  I see a thread where everyone is complaining that all the pools are down, so I bust balls and get one setup - and have to wait on the dev to announce it in the OP?  Maybe never even announce it at all?  Bullshit.

This also opens the door for shady launches where one pool gets 100% of the hashrate, this will of course end up being the pool of the dev's choosing, since being the first one to post "We are up and running" in the thread will no longer be allowed.  So, if I stay up until silly o'clock in the morning to make the launch and be first pool available it might just be for nothing, if the dev decides not to pay attention to his PM's, or decides he likes a different pool better and announces them first.  Bullshit.

During launch, shit happens fast - pool ops need to be able to post status updates and advertise that their pool is working.  Devs already have enough to do and should not have to babysit PM's and continue updating the OP for pool updates, and miners shouldn't have to keep checking back on page 1 to get those updates either.

Banning *ALL* advertisements because of a few spammers is cutting off your nose to spite your face.  Don't ban the entire practice of advertising pools - do your job: moderate, and ban those abusing the forum.  If it's a problem (and I agree it is) then try something else, for example:

- Ban the users blatantly and constantly spamming their pools (they are easy to find)
- Limit pool advertisements to 5 lines of 12pt text or less and one 80x80 px image
- Require pool operators to pay a modest annual fee ($20 or so?) allowing them to advertise
- Any combination of the above

Yes - you heard me - I am willing to pay for the right to advertise.  I'm sure others are as well.