ok, I didn't know about this leak today. that doesn't look good. Nevertheless, I don't believe that giving a negative trust to campaign participants would solve anything: they are (as myself for example) not related at all to the site, and have no influence or involvement in how such a site runs their business. I bet that in most cases people are attracted to a campaign because of the possibility to earn BTC, not because of how good or bad the site is. Hands up who thinks differently, I bet there won't be more than just a few, if at all. It is like saying that people using Bitcoin are knowingly promoting crime, because someone bought drugs or weapons using Bitcoins. It is very easy to call for group responsibility without actually addressing where the real issue is.
It is a bit of moral dilemma whether participants should be held accountable for the actions of business they're promoting. Personally I don't think that "I'm only here for the money" is a good excuse for promoting dishonest/scammy business. Then again, participants may not even be able to judge whether accusations are legit and if so, whether it was intentional or just a result of mistake or incompetence.
That is exactly my point. Rating of a campaign should focus more on whether the payments are provided timely and as promised and whether the campaign is not encouraging people to post scam. Moral dilemmas should be separated from the campaigns rating in here, as otherwise we are walking into very thin ice territory. As a signature campaign participant, I have no interest in the services of the company I advertise as such, and that is exactly my case with bitcoin.ag. I also have neither means nor time to check whether the site advertise is perfectly clean and ethical, every time I join a new campaign. I do a quick scan and that is it. Unless there is a hard evidence and then I don't join or quit, I agree. But in the end of the day, I am only providing platform for an advertisement and should not be seen liable for the actions of the company I advertise against other users. that is out of scope of the agreement that is included in the signature campaign deal.
I believe it should be almost entirely up to the personal decision of the user, whether it is ethical to advertise a company or not.
I would be in favour of giving negative trust (with prior warning) to participants who continue to promote straight-up scams, i.e. when the business operates with the main purpose of scamming people, but I have mixed feelings about doing the same if the promoted business was likely set up with good intentions, but keeps failing on issues like customer service/security/dealing with personal data etc.
Perhaps setting "I'm not endorsing advertisement in my signature" as personal text by participants wouldn't be a bad idea...
here I agree, provided we have a good definition of a straight-up scam site.
Looking at the least of the signature campaigns we have here, one could say, hold on, there plenty of similar accusations against yobit.net exchange for example (see appropriate thread in this forum), yet this campaign is not red marked. I didn't have time to google now the other campaigns, this is just the first example out of my head.