It's fair to lower the pay rates but I prefer a fixed payment in terms of USD atleast and not BTC as the price of BTC fluctuates a lot. Currently it's $370 and my campaign pays 0.0007 BTC as of now which is fair but what if the price goes to $300? Also, I don't think the campaigns shouldn't lower the rate as if tomorrow BTC is worth $1000, I get paid 0.001 BTC/post which means I'll get $1/post. It's not affordable unless there is a restriction of 25-50 posts.
With every big price jump or drop it will either will be a lower payment or bigger. I also think it is fair though.
If the campaigns would have 50 max posts, alot of people wouldn't be interested anymore, or they will collect alt account ansd then spam.
Has there ever been an increase in payments? I've never seen one and I've been here for over a year. I've seen payments drop and drop. And the price over that time has gone fro $600 down to $200 and now up to nearly $400. The payment moves and price moves aren't correlated if you draw them out on a graph.
Back in the hayday of when PD signature campaign was still around senior members received .001
BTC per post and Hero members received .0012
BTC per post, and you were able to make up to 4.4
BTC per month (all of this is IIRC). The price was ~$500-$700 when PD closed. Around that same time, you could get a fixed rate deal earning .1
BTC in exchange for 50 posts over a month.
Since then per post prices have risen roughly 10%-15% or so, however for campaigns that pay the most were often very selective in who they accept, so anyone couldn't randomly join and start spamming away. The practice of paying higher rates but being selective as to who can join the campaign was something that Carra23 started, and for the most part her campaigns have been very successful.
I believe that marco may have raised rates several months ago, however I think that was in response to dwindling enrollment, and not lower BTC prices
Marco raised the price to 0.001 for Full members and I remember this as I was one then. It was only for a week when the bot was launched and then it reduced back to the rate of 0.0009 and then he further reduced it by 0.0001 BTC per post for all members That was the time many did leave the campaign but some still felt it was a good rate due to the no cap limit.
Marco now selects users depending on their post quality and reviews them as well. I was never screened before joining the campaign as I joined when the bot was launched but now I've seen users who have been screened. Even other campaigns like yours and few others are looking at the posts of users to test their capability but some still feel they aren't being paid what they deserve.
IMHO, posting on a forum shouldn't be considered a job and we shouldn't considered that we are doing something big as advertising for a website. It's an incentive and campaigns are to decide what they can afford to pay the users. If they start over paying the users, they will need to shut down and then there may be no campaigns on this forum. We should appreciate them rather that be harsh. If we look at other forums, some pay their users as low as $0.05 and when you reach the minimum amount of cashing out, they shut down.
