I am sad to see how this forum has devolved. It used to be a place for people offering actual services - programming, web development, consulting, legal services. Now that is gone almost entirely and what little there is gets buried in a flood of "get rich quick" schemes. I am glad to here the sig campaigns have been cleaned up a bit, and my focus is not on them specifically, they are just one example that came to mind. What bothers me more are the other things I laid out in my email like captcha cracking, or paying people to sign up under referral links in MLM schemes, etc. These things are possibly illegal, definitely against the terms of use of the sites they attack, and just general asshattery.
Do we want this forum, and bitcoin in general, to be known to the world as the reason every blog post everywhere gets flooded with spam because any spammer can buy 2 dollars worth of some BS altcoin, make a post here, and get 10,000 captchas cracked so they can spray their fake viagra posts all over the internet?
-AndrewBuck
Topic: Cleaning up this forum - page 2. (Read 895 times)
I am not saying the sig campaigns are scams themselves, but it is hard to find more than a handful of posts here that are not "make money doing nothing" kinds of things. The fact that we have hundreds of those going on leads to just a flood of posts that have almost no value to the forum, just so people can up their post count on their campaign.
There is nothing much you can do about it,can you ? Campaigns managers have been successful reducing the spam in the last few months after implementing strict hiring policies.We'd only see it's been further reduced in the coming days.You can always report the shit posters to their campaign managers or report them to the moderators.Btw,I don't understand what exactly you're ranting about,the spam on the forum or the obvious scams ?
There are a lot more obvious scams, like ponzi schemes operating here. Scams are not moderated and it is up to people to be careful.
If you want to dig through the services section, you will still be able to find jobs. Years ago, you didn't have the micro earnings section. That way, this board is a lot more cleaner now.
Years ago, this was a place for people to find honest work and be paid in bitcoins.
If you want to dig through the services section, you will still be able to find jobs. Years ago, you didn't have the micro earnings section. That way, this board is a lot more cleaner now.
I am not saying the sig campaigns are scams themselves, but it is hard to find more than a handful of posts here that are not "make money doing nothing" kinds of things. The fact that we have hundreds of those going on leads to just a flood of posts that have almost no value to the forum, just so people can up their post count on their campaign.
-AndrewBuck
-AndrewBuck
There is a lot of scammy, and potentially illegal, services being offered here and very little response from the moderators or the community to call this out.
and less of the "best new signature campaign - earn $$$$" kind of nonsense?
So you mean signature campaigns are potentially illegal and scammy? 
I am really surprised there are not rules about what kinds of things can be posted and that stuff that is obvious scams continue to be offered with no reprisal.
Yes,scams are not moderated and it's left upto the members to find out if they're not getting scammed.Partly I am just ranting and venting my frustration, but it saddens me to see how this forum has devolved over time. Years ago, this was a place for people to find honest work and be paid in bitcoins.
I still find honest work and get paid in bitcoins.As said,it's upto you to decide if the job is rightful thing to do.
I would like to put out a call to others to see if there is interest in cleaning up this subforum. There is a lot of scammy, and potentially illegal, services being offered here and very little response from the moderators or the community to call this out. I am really surprised there are not rules about what kinds of things can be posted and that stuff that is obvious scams continue to be offered with no reprisal.
Partly I am just ranting and venting my frustration, but it saddens me to see how this forum has devolved over time. Years ago, this was a place for people to find honest work and be paid in bitcoins. Can we maybe have a bit more of that and less of the "best new signature campaign - earn $$$$" kind of nonsense?
-AndrewBuck
Partly I am just ranting and venting my frustration, but it saddens me to see how this forum has devolved over time. Years ago, this was a place for people to find honest work and be paid in bitcoins. Can we maybe have a bit more of that and less of the "best new signature campaign - earn $$$$" kind of nonsense?
-AndrewBuck
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