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People enrol voluntarily in campaigns, being the Forum a media where they coexists, but in no way does it get involved other than by providing some tools to the community, to help create a layer of vigilance and alert through the Trust System and Scam accusations (+ community posts).
Comparing a person that voluntarily takes-up on a campaign, with a slave is pretty cynical. One can opt-in and opt-out at any moment, move on to the next, and even call out whatever names on wishes to the campaign’s “masters”. Pretty far from slavery I’d say.
Anyhow, what is likely more frequent is the campaign not paying any member at all, or doing so in a token that is pretty much worthless when and if it hits the market. It’s not just a Newbie thingy.
I often wonder who are the real recipients of all these social media campaigns. I mean who would send this sort of (mis)information to friends and relatives beats me. Most likely one ends up sending the Tweets and such to other people who are immune to that sort of spam, being probably into the same game themselves. It’s probably a pretty endogenous experience with a lot of ignore on the incoming messages in the spirit of keeping up the number of required followers.
I must confess I gave it a go once to try to understand the basics of what is was about. I found it pretty much belittling and uncanny, sending Tweets and such to a bunch of people I followed with a dummy account, whom I did not know not care for. Not my piece of cake.
Having said all that, yes, people should stand up to those campaigns that play with foul manners, and the more that do so the better. Ideally, Campaigns should have something to loose, and for the most, it’s not prestige that they are after but rather extensive visibility paid with a token that cost them a few dollars to create. If real cash (or better still BTC) was at stake, things would probably be dealt with in a more professional manner, being more cualitative than quantitative in the communication, and aiming at a real target audience and not just a circle-jerk tweeting spam circus.