MEDIUM is banning Bounty dedicated account

44_crypto

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Quote from: Patatas on March 22, 2018, 08:07:05 AM

Great step taken by Medium.Their servers were unnecessarily clogged by broken English speaking bounty whores.I love anything and everything that makes lives of the bounty hunters miserable.I wish even facebook and instagram takes the same steps and stops crypto related promotional activities such as bounties.

Quote from: buwaytress on March 22, 2018, 04:57:04 AM

There's a space for everything and those fake ICO review sp don't belong on Medium. It is unfair to those who actually do write about projects objectively... But actually, I think those are safe from suspension the way I see it.

Bounty whoring should not exist on any social media platforms.I have no idea how to explain how much I hate bounty whores.

Oh common, Patatas I hope you're not as grumpy as you seems to be:)

Tell us the truth, besides hating bounty hunters, have you ever made any attempt to steal X-mas? Or at least, have you tried to poison a neighbour's cat, because he didn't let you sleep? ;p

People involved in bounty campaigns are useful, another way, nobody would pay them even a broken penny:) You can hate them or not, but until there is no better way for promotion, they will survive.

jonland22

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Medium is clearly maintaining its cleanliness as they should have notice the spam of ICO and campaign related posts, there's a lot of way of earning through cryptocurrency i don't understand why people keeps on putting a lot of time on bounty campaigns.

boy130

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Probably for the best, I've seen people literally copy and pasting the entire whitepaper and putting it on Medium, it gets pretty much zero views and does not for anybody.

I think the rules should be relaxed for original content, or for well known writers however.

zentcoin

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Well, that's kind of predictable that Medium has taken measures like Google and FB.
Actually I find these rules quite reasonable as there is so much scam and copy&pasted articles. I really like medium, that's one of my favorites blog platforms. And that would certainly help to improve the quality of the content and protect the readers

Fatunad

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Quote from: Kemarit on March 23, 2018, 10:23:56 AM

Quote from: thurlowweed on March 22, 2018, 12:18:32 PM

This is sad to see. I do see changes in the future though. Sites like Steemit are catching on (although I personally don't like the platform) and I believe that we'll see many more coming to life in the future. Of course, getting the amount of users like Medium, Facebook, Twitter & Google (the last 3 for advertising) will take some time, but I also feel that we'll see rapid growth in some of these platforms from the crypto users and supports, which in turn will bring it to the masses.

Sorry that your account was banned, that is bullsh*t.

I think it was banned for good reasons. As what has @Patatas has said, maybe it has something to do with bounties. Specially that there are non-English posters there who are really putting up that no one really understands because of broken English or even worst to scam people out of their hard earn money. It has nothing to do with the free speech or something. Sometimes you need to know where you stand, and at this point, looks like Medium is really fed up and says that they need to put a stop on it otherwise it will ruined the online publishing platform or social journalism that they established.

They do already know that their reputation or image would be mainly affected if they let this spamming would continue.They are already done with this why they do already made an action which isnt really surprising.For those people who do loves to spam for the sake of ICO then their days are already over.If Medium would find out of ICO spam then expect on what would be the consequences.There are already lost of accounts being banned due to this,they havent say a word towards this but on nearest presumption then this might really be the main reason.

ad_playing

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I think those are lot of scammers around so medium think to start filtering ICO article, but until now my article seems Ok hope to be for long. I believe some strong reasons are applied by medium for banned.

hahay

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Surprised, I just found out that more and more are banning crypto and I have not really figured out exactly what the reason is for so many then ban about crypto simultaneously. I guess because there are so many shady ICOs out there. Shocked

jhenfelipe

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Quote from: cryptohacker29@ on March 24, 2018, 09:30:35 AM

I too have a account on the medium i didn't receive any email about it. Do you have chat with the support team on medium. Ask them whether it is true or not.

If you'll read the posts above yours, you'll see the reference link I've shared, it was directly from Medium help center. Definitely, it's true. It seems that they did not send emails for this change. I have a medium account too and did not receive either an email or notification.

cryptohacker29@

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I too have a account on the medium i didn't receive any email about it. Do you have chat with the support team on medium. Ask them whether it is true or not.

Winderer

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It's blogging platform, so we could expect something like that.

jhenfelipe

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Medium don't want unofficial posts about crypto on their platform anymore; there will be less spam, less scam because of their requirements. At least users will be sure that the blog/announcement came from the official company which is a good thing.

For the link of reference (since not mentioned in the main post) : https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000646167-Cryptocurrencies-on-Medium

Quote from: draculaaa on March 22, 2018, 05:47:44 AM

[...] Notwithstanding the rules are clear and forbidden bounty articles without exceptions.

I'm not sure if some account will not be suspended, they mentioned: "depending on context"

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Posts and accounts which do not meet these standards may be considered spam and are subject to suspension, depending on context.

Kemarit

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Quote from: thurlowweed on March 22, 2018, 12:18:32 PM

This is sad to see. I do see changes in the future though. Sites like Steemit are catching on (although I personally don't like the platform) and I believe that we'll see many more coming to life in the future. Of course, getting the amount of users like Medium, Facebook, Twitter & Google (the last 3 for advertising) will take some time, but I also feel that we'll see rapid growth in some of these platforms from the crypto users and supports, which in turn will bring it to the masses.

Sorry that your account was banned, that is bullsh*t.

I think it was banned for good reasons. As what has @Patatas has said, maybe it has something to do with bounties. Specially that there are non-English posters there who are really putting up that no one really understands because of broken English or even worst to scam people out of their hard earn money. It has nothing to do with the free speech or something. Sometimes you need to know where you stand, and at this point, looks like Medium is really fed up and says that they need to put a stop on it otherwise it will ruined the online publishing platform or social journalism that they established.

privatum

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Thanks for pointing this out - one of our posts was suspended and we were wondering why

Quote from: draculaaa on March 21, 2018, 08:33:56 AM

My account was suspended for the following new rule introduced in Medium politic:

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Medium Support
General
Cryptocurrencies on Medium

Agatha Thursday at 17:23
Coins, tokens, ICOs and other payments related to blockchain technology have seen a growth in popularity over the last several months. There has been a subsequent proliferation of information on Medium around these topics.
For consumers
Medium does not approve or verify user-generated posts or accounts before publishing. As with any financial transaction, we urge you to protect yourself and your money with at least the following steps:
Thoroughly research the information, company, and seller using third party sources before engaging in any transaction.
Verify you are dealing with the company itself (not an impostor).
Navigate DIRECTLY to trusted sites before initiating any payment.
If you have any doubts whatsoever, do not engage in transactions.
Further reading:

Know the risks before investing in cryptocurrencies (FTC.gov)
Cryptocurrency Scams: What to Look For (Inc.com)
Here are 3 signs a cryptocurrency is a fraud (Mic.com)
How To Spot A Bitcoin Scam (Forbes.com)
For companies announcing ICOs, coins or tokens
While Medium is not in a position to independently verify every coin, token, or similar announcement published, we are instituting the following requirements for product and sale announcements and accounts related to these topics.

Posts and accounts which do not meet these standards may be considered spam and are subject to suspension, depending on context.

You must:
Include a link to your active project domain in your user account bio.
Use an email address from that domain as your registered Medium account email.
Verify your email address with Medium if you have not, and maintain that email account actively.
Link at least one consistently-branded social media account (Facebook or Twitter) to your Medium account. That social account should also link out prominently to the same domain as is included in your Medium user bio.
Include a prominent about page with up-to-date contact information on your project website.
Include only one wallet address maximum in a post.
You may not:
Use an anonymous email address which is not linked to your project domain. (e.g., gmail, protonmail, mail.ru, etc.)
Advertise or participate in bounty campaigns, pump and dumps, reviewing for reward, or other forms of brigading or inauthentic activity.
Include naked links or shortened URLs in your posts.
Use or re-use content templates with slight modifications across multiple posts and accounts.
Include multiple wallet addresses (or similar) in a post.

You are in time to migrate on Steemit or other similar platforms

Nwankwobtt

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This is really bad. Coming at a time when medium has been massively adopted by crypto enthusiasts. Steeemit is not even helping matters with its tedious registrations

moynul2050

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Quote from: hurry_hore on March 21, 2018, 11:09:33 AM

There have been lot of medium account banned, I do not know why the reason. But I guess more of them created the copy paste articles, perhaps your account is suspected by medium for that reason.

this case is happening and very annoying.
how the medium knows that the contents of the article is the result of plagiarism.
do they use bots to detect unqualified articles?

thurlowweed

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This is sad to see. I do see changes in the future though. Sites like Steemit are catching on (although I personally don't like the platform) and I believe that we'll see many more coming to life in the future. Of course, getting the amount of users like Medium, Facebook, Twitter & Google (the last 3 for advertising) will take some time, but I also feel that we'll see rapid growth in some of these platforms from the crypto users and supports, which in turn will bring it to the masses.

Sorry that your account was banned, that is bullsh*t.

eternalgloom

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What kind of blog did you have there? Could you share a link, we'll still be able to view it through waybackmachine...
I can definitely understand that Medium wants to ban posts that are misleading or generally spammy, which is exactly what most of these ICO promotion posts are.

You can go over to Steemit, but you'll get downvoted if you post low quality spam...

Patatas

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Great step taken by Medium.Their servers were unnecessarily clogged by broken English speaking bounty whores.I love anything and everything that makes lives of the bounty hunters miserable.I wish even facebook and instagram takes the same steps and stops crypto related promotional activities such as bounties.

Quote from: buwaytress on March 22, 2018, 04:57:04 AM

There's a space for everything and those fake ICO review sp don't belong on Medium. It is unfair to those who actually do write about projects objectively... But actually i think those are safe from suspension the way I see it.

Bounty whoring should not exist on any social media platforms.I have no idea how to explain how much I hate bounty whores.

arwin100

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This kind of counteraction made by medium totally affect those ICO who have good developments on their side but we can consider this as good point since it can drive out those ICO scammers to use their service but lets hope that this banning issue with medium will not get any huge effect to the price of bitcoins aswell with crypto's.

digaran

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They have the resources to crackdown on cheerful scammers, here only the community is voluntarily doing that. soon theymos will have to do the same.
Every street beggar now has his own coin, they have gone full scam. no team, project. pre-mine and then ICO.

draculaaa

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Quote from: buwaytress on March 22, 2018, 04:57:04 AM

I've got no issues with that. I think there are plenty of alternatives for bounty hunters... Medium is really built to help projects use their blogging platform as an integration into their own websites and a good community to start with. LinkedIn should do the same... It feels really spammy these days looking at my Medium and LinkedIn feeds.

There's a space for everything and those fake ICO review sp don't belong on Medium. It is unfair to those who actually do write about projects objectively... But actually i think those are safe from suspension the way I see it.

Well, I never copy and pasted and I posted the only project that I considered good and valuable. Notwithstanding the rules are clear and forbidden bounty articles without exceptions.

buwaytress

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I've got no issues with that. I think there are plenty of alternatives for bounty hunters... Medium is really built to help projects use their blogging platform as an integration into their own websites and a good community to start with. LinkedIn should do the same... It feels really spammy these days looking at my Medium and LinkedIn feeds.

There's a space for everything and those fake ICO review sp don't belong on Medium. It is unfair to those who actually do write about projects objectively... But actually i think those are safe from suspension the way I see it.

Stonetium

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Quote from: morningtime on March 21, 2018, 11:44:13 AM

Wow, what is going on in Silicon Valley? They're not cracking down on free speech, they're cracking down on free enterprise.

Think is just a temporary fix. They don't want to be tied into fraud

Danish Mohiuddin

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True hapend to one of my chaps.

vv181

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As stated in the thread Medium didn't completely ban any cryptocurrencies related, but instead, they want full information about the project itself. I believe it because they didn't want the unknowledge people to contribute or participate in any shady cryptocurrencies project.

morningtime

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Wow, what is going on in Silicon Valley? They're not cracking down on free speech, they're cracking down on free enterprise.

vicko27

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Behind The Curve

I was active in the MEDIUM a few months ago, and I've written some articles about bounty campaign reviews and blockchain technology. hopefully the medium supports me, because I use my main email address that has been aged and email is very active. I also share articles I wrote on facebook and twitter, and all my social media accounts are very active
this is my medium account: https://medium.com/@wahyuprasetyo

hurry_hore

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There have been lot of medium account banned, I do not know why the reason. But I guess more of them created the copy paste articles, perhaps your account is suspected by medium for that reason.

drmarcobelli

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It was expected to be honest...
People are really just spamming copy pastes and stuff for bounties.
Now if someone wants to write about an ICO on it's own, will be suspended lol

draculaaa

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My account was suspended for the following new rule introduced in Medium politic:

Quote

Medium Support
General
Cryptocurrencies on Medium

Agatha Thursday at 17:23
Coins, tokens, ICOs and other payments related to blockchain technology have seen a growth in popularity over the last several months. There has been a subsequent proliferation of information on Medium around these topics.
For consumers
Medium does not approve or verify user-generated posts or accounts before publishing. As with any financial transaction, we urge you to protect yourself and your money with at least the following steps:
Thoroughly research the information, company, and seller using third party sources before engaging in any transaction.
Verify you are dealing with the company itself (not an impostor).
Navigate DIRECTLY to trusted sites before initiating any payment.
If you have any doubts whatsoever, do not engage in transactions.
Further reading:

Know the risks before investing in cryptocurrencies (FTC.gov)
Cryptocurrency Scams: What to Look For (Inc.com)
Here are 3 signs a cryptocurrency is a fraud (Mic.com)
How To Spot A Bitcoin Scam (Forbes.com)
For companies announcing ICOs, coins or tokens
While Medium is not in a position to independently verify every coin, token, or similar announcement published, we are instituting the following requirements for product and sale announcements and accounts related to these topics.

Posts and accounts which do not meet these standards may be considered spam and are subject to suspension, depending on context.

You must:
Include a link to your active project domain in your user account bio.
Use an email address from that domain as your registered Medium account email.
Verify your email address with Medium if you have not, and maintain that email account actively.
Link at least one consistently-branded social media account (Facebook or Twitter) to your Medium account. That social account should also link out prominently to the same domain as is included in your Medium user bio.
Include a prominent about page with up-to-date contact information on your project website.
Include only one wallet address maximum in a post.
You may not:
Use an anonymous email address which is not linked to your project domain. (e.g., gmail, protonmail, mail.ru, etc.)
Advertise or participate in bounty campaigns, pump and dumps, reviewing for reward, or other forms of brigading or inauthentic activity.
Include naked links or shortened URLs in your posts.
Use or re-use content templates with slight modifications across multiple posts and accounts.
Include multiple wallet addresses (or similar) in a post.

You are in time to migrate on Steemit or other similar platforms

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