Topic: Scam Accusations - What's The Way Out (Read 198 times)

I’m not sure if it’s because of the wording in the OP, but the hypothetical scenario laid out is self-explanatory. Having a limited set of resources is no excuse for being sloppy, and least of all for building a window display to the underlying project based on copy/paste scenarios. I mean, investing has a lot to do with trust, reason to be, and potential, and those factors are shattered by being sloppy.

A project that wants to sell itself to unknown investors should consider from the start which are the relevant marketing and project features, and amongst the former, having clear, honest exposure through communication channels (such as a website and social media channels) is paramount.

Once trust is broken with the community, it is bound to be extremely difficult to rebuild, lest the project is inherently seen as something outstanding itself in potential, and the copy/paste you mention be something very minor (i.e. not project related, but something along the line of TOS or similar, which tend to be alike, although normally supervised by a legal department or adviser, and not the guy creating the website).

I thought when I read the title, Im gonna read certain or particular project that has been caught and how they are trying to fish out. More like a click bait

But to answer you, its pretty hard when your project got accused for scam and there is evidence such as plagiarism or any fake stuff out of your content. These type of content has been strong proof of hoax and scam so the chances you can still save it is prettt low.

If the design is amateurish, that's one thing but...


Plagiarizing is never okay and deserves to be punished. Saying it's justified because of lack of resources is akin to saying that robbery is justified if the robbers are poor. If they can steal content, they can steal users' funds, so saying that it's a scam is completely justified. If teams don't have the funds to even start a project properly, then maybe they shouldn't start one at all. If they couldn't even be bothered to invest in their own project, why should others? Not saying that insufficient funding = scam project, but how much the team is invested in their project reflects on their commitment to it, which could also explain why scam projects are typically underfunded.

Anyway, I don't think anyone will accuse projects of being a scam just because the website is poorly designed for as long as there aren't obvious red flags like plagiarism, lies, etc. Either way, scam accusations aren't a one-way street; you're free to prove accusations against you wrong.

Well, they should have realized in the first place that the forum doesn't tolerate scams and there are diligent and helpful people here that will do to expose them. In relation to UI/UX that will vary because you may have the best design of a website but secretly there are plagiarized contents, fake team, fake addresses, unlikely premine coins, etc., those will vary don't just look how beautiful or how poor the design is but be more vigilant on what's inside of it.

Buying a template is okay especially if most of the team are not that technical in terms of web development but just buying it to fraud people was the worst thing they will do. If they just focus on designing the site and no progress made especially on marketing aspects and always just posting these kind of hopeful announcements suspect them early that it will lead to scam, people need progress.

I don't give a damn about a crypto project's website. Look at this forum - it doesn't have the most modern UI, it's not even very mobile-friendly, yet it presents a lot of interest to me and a lot of other people here.

If a project doesn't want to fall in the scam category in my eyes, then I'd want to see progress. If there's no progress, no development, it means the project is likely left in the dust. Satoshi left Bitcoin too, right? Well, after he did, an entire community from all around the world came in and started developing the coin we know and use today.

Because there are so many thousands of projects nowadays, there are only a few (probably <10%) that still stand out and present some interest and would continue to develop and make progress even if the team behind them would leave.

We don't need more BTC forks, we don't need more shitcoins and tokens that are just copycats of other coins with a different name, supply etc. We don't need ICOs either. If you have a great idea in this community, people will support you.

If there's no development, that shows how much the team truly cares about the project they've initiated. Nobody gave Satoshi $1 to start developing Bitcoin, and yet here we have it thriving as the king. Nobody gave a buck to the devs behind the first cryptos after Bitcoin, and yet most of them are still standing with so many dozens of thousands of developers making progress. ICOs and BTC copycats are all just a joke.

Though you are somehow right, there were projects that have website designs that are minimal yet wasn't scam (I cannot exactly remember what projects I've seen in the past that had a good run but I somehow remember that there was).

But it is indeed that poor Website User Interface and User Experience often connoted as scam due to lack of effort in making the most and common way of promoting and showing other's the project and its content in a web-based medium. And if ever a project do really have a small start, they could at least take their time studying or practicing or saving money for making a good website. And, at least have some integrity that they are doing it so to really make a good project.

This is it exactly, you see they cut costs hard which means they don't have much funds which means they are amateurs playing "professionals".
This is signal to be careful in giving them your hard earned money.
If there is some investor first, that gives $1 000 000, website looks professional right away and you know someone seriously verified this project to give them $1 000 000

The beauty of a project begins from his unique design. A website design indicate the skill of project team developer.
But in most cases with low amount of resources to fund a project, The team just simply buy a template and
Higher a cheap developer for modification of template. Hence throwing off the potential aspect of that particular project,
leading to various declaration of project as Scam, Even though the project is not actually pointing towards the direction of scam.
But due to unprofessional Website Design, Many of the forum team members will simply agree to its motive,
Of project being a scam. Couple with the fact that Website Content matters a lot in every aspect of a project,
Just like the project team, Same way it hold a significant aspect towards an investor. plagiarized or copy paste
from other website are usually consider to be stolen content. Hence it destroy the gravity of the project totally.
Even though it could be consider as lack of resources to fund the project.  

My Question now is What step or action, should a project team take, if their project falls into this section or category of scams, In relation towards proving the public wrong. Please don't keep Quiet, Share your thoughts and idea, Its very necessary...