Topic: Giveaway threads are not allowed - page 44. (Read 1044382 times)

They did: OFF SITE


so have fun.  the rest of the site can enjoy the peace and quiet, without the donours and ops footing the bill for giveaway spam, "i'll pay you for your sig" threads, and other bullshit which adds nothing to the site except to the noise and server bills. We can't even have a conversation here without having to sort through 8 or 10 freeloaders bumping giveaway threads for coins i don't and will never give two shits about.

That 70% of traffic was paid spam, it isn't needed or wanted. I understand people will be upset because they can't pay people to spam their threads and that hurts their bottom line, and they don't care about the consequences to people who actually want to discuss things, but y'all are going to have to get over it, and stop being such drama queens.

Giveaway King, lol.

Such nickname, such signature, such attitude.


Half of the views this topic has are coming from my followers.

i Reported a Person for days straight and even Pm'ed a Admin not a single response the guy is still swearing and talking shit 24/7

oh noooooo the economy colapse!!!! the banks are shuting down our altcoinz!!!!! omg what to do!!!! riot!

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/petitionpoll-make-new-section-for-giveawaystasks-434671

I've seen places without spam... How is that possible? Oh.. I know.. They know how to deal with it without shutting down 70% of their traffic...


exactly what most of us are talking about... I know a couple of users on this forum which are only trolls and scammers, nothing good out of them comes out, and I know they were reported to moderators over and over again and that just fuels them more and more because they know moderators won't do anything about it so they come back as bigger jerks every f-in time...
Who cares anyway.. I don't need giveaways and I don't need this forum, but this is just stupid and owners/admins are only one to blame (I know it's not an easy job but it is a JOB and if you can't take it, stap away, somebody can)...

Stop being such a gangster.

''before the whole alt currencies section gets deleted'' <= Wont happen, ever. Capone.

It's staff's mistake, not people's mistake. They could make a new sub-forum AGES ago, instead of closing threads.

Most of the admins/mods are lazy, bored to move their little finger. That's what happens.


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Make a new section for giveaways.

Couldn't you organize a poll and ask if people would like to have a subforum or totally get rid off the giveaways?

No, it promotes spam, it's detrimental to actual discussion, and brings nothing at all of value to the forum. It's never been allowed on the forum in general, they are restricted to games and rounds. Alt currencies was different because there was no games and rounds/giveaway forum. I've thought about this as well but didn't care enough to do anything about it, but since theymos did, I support it fully. Y'all need to stop spamming the forum before the whole alt currencies section gets deleted, it's getting to be more trouble than it's worth. I liked the alt currencies section once upon a time, but it's completely and utterly worthless at the moment because of all the spam.

TLDR If your announcement thread has a giveaway in it, it will be locked.

+1

+1 for giveaway subforum.

If you ban these posts, so you can lose many people that visit this forum for altcoins, lose the biggest cryptocoin community.
Stop being the world No. 1 cryptocoin forum, if you leave only bitcoin, because it's "only bitcoin talk", not any other sha256 (devcoin, no-no), or scrypt(litecoin, no-no), or quark or something else algorythm.
If you want to say that you only "bitcoin forum", than leave only bitcoin cryptocurrency, don't use double standarts please.
Nowdays it's the biggest forum of all cryptocurrencies, and all information about this focused in one place. And it's good.
Thing that you want to do, shatter this info on many sites. It's not good to open tens sites for news of giveaways, or games, or faucet

So we can think more:
1) Today you ban giveaways.
2) Tomorrow you ban discussion about altcoins and leave only announcement.
3) Day after tomorrow you ban all altcoins on forum ?
Think it's way down.

Also you can exclude altcoin subforum from recent posts list, don't think that it's hard. You must have programmers, that can do it easily.
If you do not have enough moderators to watch on new posts, you can take them more from community.
There many ways that can be done for the comfort of all us.
Dont understand why you don't discuss this step with big community earlier, but put us before a fact ?
Don't understand profits of this strange step.
I understand "reserved posts" ban, but not this.

You're one of the worst spammers on here at the moment. Maybe they will set up a subforum, you could try sending theymos a donation

This.

Im here primarily for the altcoin section, but the giveaways for trivial amounts of today's NewAltCoin don't have much value and make it substantially harder to get to the useful posts in the AltCoin section.

For all the people who want the giveaways - have you noticed that its the same people on everyone?  And that those people will know about your coin anyway?  It's a preaching to the choir situation.  If someone sees a giveaway, they've very likely seem the announcement and know about your coin.

An [ANN]  thread really is all the promo needed on BitCoinTalk -- you'd  get more results putting your promo efforts just about anywhere else on the intertubes.

1.) There are so many of these stupid threads that it is very hard to have a discussion on any non-spam-giveaway thread topic because the giveaway threads take up the whole page and people post in them every 5 seconds keeping them at the top.

2.) Many of the giveaways don't deliver what they promise.

3.) If it hasn't happened already, someone is BOUND to start using this as a platform to make a malware-infected wallet, do a "giveaway," and get thousands of suckers to download it just to get a few free coins.

At first I did a few giveaways and thought it was an interesting concept, but when I saw that crap that is going on now... like these tards demanding that posters vote them onto cryptsy or give them a referral, and all the ones where people didn't even actually get the giveaway funds... it has become a shit pit let's be frank.

Giveaway threads are not needed to market and promote a new currency and guess what - anyways we would be WAY BETTER OFF if they STOPPED RELEASING A NEW DAMN CRYPTOCURRENCY every day.

There's a lot more to marketing than giveaways, the boards are too clogged with them. I wouldn't mind a separate subforum but it doesn't look like it's gonna happen any time soon.

I think this is a very bad idea and I do not support it. I personally feel as though giveaways are very important to altcoins and deserve their own subforum. Please reconsider or at least let the community vote to decide the outcome.

Thank you

Another angle to consider for the profiteering part of the yay-voters here is that 99.9% of these altcoins are directed towards BTC-turnover and trade, some of which comes from direct $$$ put into BTC for acquiring another altcoin. Promoting altcoins promotes BTC. There's something fundamentally backwards about forbidding people to share resources.

There's a ''search'' function. Use it : )