I'm just casually voting away, doing my thing once per hour (I might make another account or two eventually), and waiting til I'm at say 20 votes before I post on cryptocoin talk.
However, in regards to voting...
I have introduced a friend, and donated him 0.01 btc to get started on mintpal, and do his first few trades. He has done several trades and still doesn't have voting privileges. Does anybody know exactly how many trades, or how much in trading fees must be given before you get voting privileges?
I helped a friend get a Mintpal account and was given voting rights after 6 trades including 1 sell. It totalled less than .03 BTC so I'm not sure if their is a minimum value or not - I would like to hear if you can do it with less. Apparantly Mintpal removed a bunch of votes from different coins for abusing the voting system. The only rule I could find was that you couldn't use a bot, but I read on another forum that anyone that had multiple accounts from the same IP had those votes taken away (I don't know if they are just guessing that this is what happened or not). Does anyone know what the exact rules are?
In the Venture Capital world, it’s called “The Golden Rule” He who holds the gold, makes the rule.” I found that out one time when I attempted to get some VC funding. It can get quite frustrating because they can change the rules any time.
I was able to get an account for my wife qualified after 4 buy/sell transactions. IP address was not an issue but she needed her own email address. I have very good experiences with Mintpal and have high regards for them. I support their efforts to crack down blatant abuse using bot. We should do things the honest ways even if we have to work a lot harder. DNotes is almost ready for prime time. Getting DNotes listed on Mintpal is an important milestone in our road map. You guys are doing great. We appreciate that very much.
I transferred .05 Bitcoin to MintPal, and after 3 buys (spending almost all the .05 Bitcoin), I was allowed to vote. I did go in after a few days and empty the account to send to AllCoin so I could buy some more DNotes......I am still being allowed to vote with a zero coin balance.
Smokey