Topic: Report your 'on-forum altcoin giveaway' rule breaker here (Read 888 times)

At the moment it looks like basically every ICO is doing a givaway which they erroneously call "airdrop", since they are airdropping just 0.01% of their supply or so, which is what falls under the definition of givaway.

True, but that's only allowed on the Services board if it pays in Bitcoin. Altcoin payments aren't allowed there.

Every signature campaign also asks to post your application, asking for proof of authentication on bounty section is not considered as "low effort" posting . imagine it was a signature campaign and the manager were asking to post your application with one difference, in sig camps you go and post all over the forum but in an airdrop you simply skip the posting part and get paid.
All I ask is for a review and if it was really breaking the rules I have no objection, also I think the ban period is 14 days?

It was in bounties section and it was an airdrop asking for users to post the proof of authentication.

Reference:

Deleted airdrop thread: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php%3Ftopic=4587458.0

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So actmyname was banned for breaking the rules,correct? Mods, can you specify the ban period, if you wouldn't mind?

Why do you tear a piece out of the general text and imagine it as a problem?

We have a campaign in Telegram groups where the participant needs to publish our news in their groups, we need this message to identify the participant. In the general rules, it looks like this:



We sent our rules to the global moderator "mprep" for verification. he said that everything was fine.

Why did you delete the image in your profile that you are from the Bounty Portal?



I ask you to draw the attention of the global moderator to what is happening.

Project Destrem originally launched its bounty on the Bounty Portal. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bounty-destream-decentralized-global-financial-ecosystem-for-streamers-4434197


But after we realized that there are no live participants, transparency in bounty hunter reports, proper administration of the campaign bounty. The project moved to the Bounty platform.

Payment for the Bounty Portal services was made in full.  https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/tx/e0df5993f3da14f8cb04d46883c501b19dacba5febb36a757a53ecfc6b600c86/

Bounty portal sent us a report on which we had to take into account the work of bounty hunters in the new bounty. They sent us an Excel document in which there were more than 1800 bounty hunters.


We have a skype conversation with manager of Bounty Portal


Now they delete their messages


The group, where this correspondence was, was deleted today

Of these bounty hunters of Bounty Portal came only 16 people that confirmed that they participated in the old campaign. All the rest we consider are bots that do not do any good for the project and for the crypto community in general.

Apparently Bounty Portal is very offended and wants to harm the conduct of ICO DeStream

Dear moderator "mprep"  please take our report in to account . check bounty portal accounts:  "alani123", https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/pugman-325061 and https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/bountyportals-1061976 .  Perhaps they are deceiving people and their clients. They promise to make a bounty and attract hunters, but for their work they use only bots. It is possible in this way to steal tokens than the people's attitude to crypto currency, ICO, bounty hunters

This page has been saved to the web archive. Deleting images or messages from a branch will not result in a result:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180720125511/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4666612
 

After reviewing the case about "actmyname" I think he was banned by mistake, I don't think that they were asking people to post their addresses and asking for proof of participation should be OK only if the airdrop thread were posted on bounties. since all of those threads were nuked I can't recall whether it was in bounties or not, if it was in bounties then we could consider the thread as a signature campaign where people post their applications.

If that thread was on ANN board then a mod could've just moved it to the bounties board like every other thread being posted on wrong sections.
I would like for a mod to again review the case of "actmyname" please because I think there has been a misunderstanding.

We could say that they were airdropping for anybody supporting their project via social medias. kind of like what most of the ICOs and bounties do.

  the spammers aren't giving up... Third time the above campaign re-surfaces:

This time it's a different OP than the original. Perhaps a ban is warranted for evasion.


Edit to add some context:
Obviously the #join messages are still played out as a 'must' to join the campaign in order for the thread to get bumps.
It's a misleading practice to help promote threads as it clearly has nothing to do with bitcointalk when it comes to tasks like telegram so it is obviously not required, yet some dishonest managers use it for bumps, and it also leaves space open for automated bumps as under this format there would be no way to distinguish between human of machine posts.

Mods should be stricter with this type of activity. Since here it's been evaded as much as three times perhaps a ban is warranted.

Seems like the bounty manager from above didn't learn their lesson, same rules broken again:

Thank you very much for the clarification.
But I think we've got a serious issue here based on the above case... An entire bounty management platform is breaking the rules with all of the campaigns they manage. And they've had it as standard practice for a long time.

EVERY single campaign ran by bountyplatform.io has incentivization for those "#join" posts. Their system is made to track tasks automatically & requires registration with forms and yet they mislead users to believe that they have to make those #join posts on bitcointalk for their work to count on any bounty, even though the work tracked has nothing to do with bitcointalk.

Users just post their username which is against the rules as clarified above, resulting in a ton of spam and bloated threads. From my understanding, they provide their platform as a service and as a result, dozens or potentially hundreds of campaigns are currently in violation of the low effort rule.

Most campaigns listed on their site explicitly asks for #join posts, others get such responses even without asking likely both due to the memory of users as well as bot promotion. Some examples:



And the thing is, even if the thread's text doesn't explicitly ask for such post, the platform's rules supposedly require it and it's listed on the 'rules' for each campaign on their website. See:

Generally just reporting the giveaway itself is enough. Also, posting "#join" in itself is not bad - plenty of threads use the "#join" format for applying to non-low effort tasks (e.g. signature campaigns).

How do you prefer them to be reported? Reporting one post at a time through the report button takes me a lot of time, and feels boring enough to quickly give up. Barely any of them use a "normal" forum name, most look like they're generated by bots. And bots won't care about temp bans.
I can report them, but if a report just leads to that one post being deleted, it doesn't seem worth the effort. If they get nuked, at least that account won't do it again.

In the past 5.5 days, 3194 Newbies have posted "#join". In the past 15 hours, there were "only" 248 Newbies who posted "#join":
     1. Artax
     2. Gabrielpao
     3. yrick2015
     4. tritran88
     5. hasanal963a
     6. Valeriy56rus
     7. jhonz26
     8. ReginaBELLE
     9. busjay
    10. qquynh553
    11. daabass
    12. suryasuryo00
    13. Aflozy
    14. Houssam96
    15. happyprofit
    16. tommater
    17. TheRabbitRun

   241. Wazaaahhhhh
   242. RAJEEV8111
   243. ravitomar1981
   244. trRone
   245. Nemoy
   246. mohd aarif
   247. TopGunDa
   248. donchard

If it matches the "low effort task" definition (outlined here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/incentivizing-posting-via-low-effort-tasks-likes-follows-etc-is-not-allowed-3953664) then yes. In this case, they not only incentivised posting via low effort tasks but also incentivized posting in their (now trashed) ANN thread.

Just to be clear, is encouraging this type of 'join' message allowed? I've seen it all over and it is always followed by loads of spam while serving no purpose.

Trashed and issued temp bans for all of them, thanks for the heads up.

The "no altcoin giveaways" rule is more elaborated upon in the stickied threads in Bounties (Altcoins) as well as the ANN sections. Also, if you want to report an on-forum altcoin giveaway, the best way to do so would be via the "Report to Moderator" link on the bottom right side of the page.

There are certain managers that abuse this with all of their campaigns.

I think it's an obsolete rule? well correct me if i'm wrong. But airdrops are blatant on bounties section, and I think it's equal to telegram campaign. Does this mean they're going on a loophole? By making airdrops = campaign?

Since there is no report thread on 'on-forum altcoin giveaways' so I made a new thread to list all the on-forum altcoin giveaways that needs to be nuked.
Based on the (unofficial) forum rules made by mprep number 15. Though, I'm not sure how is this rule work, but seems like this rule is only work for the airdrop thread(no bounty) which have to be commented #joined or something.
And also statement from theymos

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