Topic: Paying someone for posting on ANN thread is against the forum rule or not? (Read 425 times)

I don't consider this as a disguise paid bumping service. Normally paid to bump is considered when a thread gets bumped multiple times in a day with shit posts and those posts usually come from brand new or newbie accounts. And we all know how it looks, we have seen this in bounty board.

In this case, they asked "Only one review per day can be published". So it doesn't go against the forum rule which is "one bump every 24 hrs"

On the other hand, posting the review in bounty thread will be a waste IMO because bounty thread will be lost at some point.
Sometimes we see peoples posting in service discussion board asking for reviews of x sites, so if a user looking for [banned mixer] review then he/she can check the ANN. Just my point of view!
Though these reviews will not be considered as Trust Review, these reviews can be considered as Technical, How good the mixing is, User-friendly or not etc. Trust cannot be bought, this has to be earned.

Anyways, it seems they have changed the rule.
1. IMO they are paying for user testing and the review. Posting on ANN was a requirement.

2. We all know Bitcointalk community doesn't give value to lower ranks reviews unless the member is reputed, they will think a self-made review. Senior+ rank requirement is not an issue

3. Rewarding for someone's time is not bad, and you can also say they are giving free service for reviews from trusted members.
Paid bumping is not allowed in the entire forum. It's a thing to discourage and should take necessary actions against those threads.

Paid bumping services are never allowed if they violate the rules:



1 bump per 24 hours is allowed, more than 1 bump per 24 hours is not allowed.

So this rule only apply for ANN threads on altcoins section?

What if someone using paid bumping services on the other ANN threads like exchanges or service announcements?

Will moderation allow it to do?

^ Yup, you are correct this one ([banned mixer]) is under Marketplace > Services. The one I gave as an example is only valid for Tokens (Altcoins), Marketplace (Bounties) and Announcements (Altcoins).

Look at what board that is: Alternate cryptocurrencies > Announcements (Altcoins).

Look at the sticky ones: Incentivising posting within one or more threads is not allowed.

I understand this as you are not allowed to get paid for making a comment/replying in their thread, more specifically announcement threads.

Earlier this week I reported some shitcoin - Borocoin (BORO) asking people to leave constructive comments under their ANN, it was trashed right away by mods.

I do not see any rules here that says paid ANN bumping is prohibited.

I guess it is frowned by community because it is generally used for shilling and promoting scam projects.

I read through the thread and I don't see anything wrong with it for a few reasons.

1) Is that they have a limit to how many times/members they will accept


2) They are not allowing a free for all. 1 person per day can write a review, they do not proceed to the next reviewer until the previous one finished


I would feel differently if they were requiring multiple reviews or mandatory replies about their experience, or multiple per day with no end. The reason other threads are trashed is they are telling people to just post there or comment on the project with no regard for quality or purpose. That encourages spam and shitposting, for visibility. This is a paid review which could be positive or negative, and is just looking for essentially a beta test with higher rank members and a quality review.

There is no rule stating users cannot be paid to post an announcement thread.

I would say the majority of new projects pay or recompense trusted members here for launching their ANN thread.

Remember, the ANN thread is just part of the marketing of a project, used for discussing its details and interfacing with the community.

Looking both sides, from the owner point of view, it makes more sense to get feedbacks visible on your ANN thread than on a bounty thread.
Also, he isn't interested to get unsubstantial posts, (hence the 300 characters requirements) but real content.

For the forum, it doesn't generate shit posting it does the opposite. It could be considered in the grey line but I have seen many services doing the same and it was fine. Especially compared to what we usually got with the shit bumping services.
Sometimes we see the hell everywhere while there is no need.

They are paying to post something on their ANN thread,Isn't it?

Why senior+ rank because they want to show their service as more trusted among the higher rank members.

They can give free service for the trusted members and can get vouch for their service but asking someone to post on their ANN and paying for that looks ANN bumping (IMO).

Well it was stated there to put an honest review so meaning you can either post something gokd or something bad in their own ann thread. There is no problem so far as to what I have seen in this process though it could lead to bias reveiw because one were getting paid on it.

Anyway, I do not think that reviews were really necessary for a good project does not need to hire because satisfied users will just going to put a review on it even if you will just ask them to leave a review on the service they made.

yes, they are paying people to test their mixer and write a review
but they are asking testers to post reviews on their main ANN thread under Service Announcements subforum
isn't that considered as a disguise paid bumping service?

although not an excessive bump, I still think it looks like a disguised bumping
because they schedule only one reviewer every day in ANN thread
others usually ask testers to post reviews in the same thread under Services subforum without scheduling

Maybe or maybe not...


I don't know why there is a rank limit but the reason could be that senior+ review is reliable and the community will respect that. Just a guess!


If you test a service or product then you need to provide a review (they are paying for the review) and they want the review to be posted in their ANN thread. So if anyone participated to test their service and don't post the review then why they should pay? This is what I understand.

I've seen many companies/websites pay users for reviews. It's allowed.
What isn't allowed, is insubstantial posts, or giving people an incentive to post in a thread paid in altcoins or tokens.

They're only asking for one review per day, that's very reasonable.

My guess is to avoid users like Fedor07, who just run with the money.

Probably because they think Sr. Members are more trusted than newbis they dont wanna send 0.0015 btc to a newbi and have them run off with it

Also, you really didnt read their post, because you dont have to make the post to get the payment. because they send you the btc first so you can test the mixer. you get the payment before you post ;p

I don't see the issue, they are paying someone to use their service and post their honest review on their ANN thread. Its a little gray line they are playing on. I think reviews of the company should be in a rep thread or something smiliar not the ANN thread but to each their own

Its pretty sure they are paying for reply. Why below Sr. Member rank can't test their mixer? And why its necessary to require make reply on thread in order to get payment?


However, I have reported to moderators, let them handle it according to forum rules.

They are not paying to post on ANN thread, they are paying to test their mixing service.
So when someone will test their service, they will need to post an honest review. I said "honest" because that's what the community expects.

ANN bumping is forbidden according to the community guideline.

I dont think this is against the rules. It is against the rules to pay members for posting/bumping an ANN thread. But in this case they are paying members for testing their service and posting a review and giving them feedback.

Just what the title says,I m not sure it is okay to do in this forum or not.Because in the past I had seen many signature campaign threads were trashed due to their requirement on posting in their ANN thread so paying to get an review on the ANN thread feels same for me.

Thread what I am talking about : Get paid for testing bitcoin mixer [banned mixer] and leave an honest review about us