I'm not talking about paid for posting, as in signature campaigns.
I'm referring to posting in or starting a topic in a certain way, because a third party pays you, to promote a particular POV or subject in the way they dictate, whilst you pretend to be posting voluntarily.
Paid for proxy posting, I guess.
I've come across it a fair bit on BCT. Invariably the third party paying for the posts has a scammy reason, basically because no one would say what they want to have said of their own free will.
It was quite common during the Cloudthink saga and I left negative trust for the mouthpieces and the script writer, on the basis that anyone who will put their name to anything simply for money is potentially highly untrustworthy to deal with and impossible to believe.
The mods deleted one or two of those posts iirc, but the paid-to-post aspect was obvious and exploited mainly off BCT, although organized on it.
Then again more recently, the MMM Global scam has been making it a condition of qualifying for 100% per month interest (!) that members perform certain internet tasks, one of which is to post favorably in social media etc.
These tend to be mainly poor english one liners "Mavrodi is Marvellous" but there are some with 'content': I report them as paid-to-post spam and the mods delete them.
Two recent examples made me open this thread:
Whilst rifling thru the trash a.k.a. browsing "Investor Based Games", I was reading about Ore-Mine's collapse and came across this post
It's a shame that ore-mine shut down, so many people trusted them and yet so many people got scammed.
Luckily there are some honest ponzis out there. For example, for over a month I've been using Flexybit.com and have doubled a significant amount of bitcoin. The website is super easy to use and they don't tell you that they will double any amount, but that it is a gamble. Also, if you read one of the questions in their FAQ, it states "Honestly, will you run with the pot?" and the answer is "Honestly, though that is not our plan, but you should always assume that we will!"
Really flexybit is one of the only transparent ponzis out there. Of course you should only gamble what you can afford to lose on ANY ponzi website, but for some of you who are looking to receive a recompensation from your ore-mine losses, perhaps you should try flexybit. I know I have!
Luckily there are some honest ponzis out there. For example, for over a month I've been using Flexybit.com and have doubled a significant amount of bitcoin. The website is super easy to use and they don't tell you that they will double any amount, but that it is a gamble. Also, if you read one of the questions in their FAQ, it states "Honestly, will you run with the pot?" and the answer is "Honestly, though that is not our plan, but you should always assume that we will!"
Really flexybit is one of the only transparent ponzis out there. Of course you should only gamble what you can afford to lose on ANY ponzi website, but for some of you who are looking to receive a recompensation from your ore-mine losses, perhaps you should try flexybit. I know I have!
and just marked it down as an ambulance chaser, but then had a look at Flexybit's giveaway thread. JavaLove is there, claiming his payment for posting
Here's my entry for round 14:
Posted the friendly and positive message of Flexybit here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.13599866
(just wanted to clarify, this link does take you directly to the post however because I was at the bottom of the page it looks as if I am linking the post above mine. I am not. I am linking the post at the bottom made by "JavaLove")
Here's my deposit address: https://flexybit.com/user/3NtmNuZThPDKLJfCN3XwB9dVBcrgdPbD7y
Thanks again Flexybit!
Posted the friendly and positive message of Flexybit here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.13599866
(just wanted to clarify, this link does take you directly to the post however because I was at the bottom of the page it looks as if I am linking the post above mine. I am not. I am linking the post at the bottom made by "JavaLove")
Here's my deposit address: https://flexybit.com/user/3NtmNuZThPDKLJfCN3XwB9dVBcrgdPbD7y
Thanks again Flexybit!
a 'friendly and positive' post, which Flexybit confirm they pay to be posted on BitcoinTalk
actually I was thinking about some boards beyond bitcointalk . org. Posts on bitcointalk are worth only 0.001 btc 
since we are represented here already.
since we are represented here already.The second recent one is the MakeBelieve/suchmoon drama referred to here in Meta
I have no view on this and if I did, various knife sharpeners would be climbing all over me as a shill etc. because of the bit of + trust I have, so I'm not going there and it isn't the point of this thread.
The aspect of it that is relevant here is where pay-per-post is being offered to post something which would not normally be posted by that person, as in this related topic
So, a two part question really
1) Is a post made solely for payment to specifically push a POV or service acceptable, or is it reportable for deletion?
2) As some have already been deleted and some not, where is the dividing line between acceptable and unacceptable?
Thanks.