I wouldn't be against it necessarily but it probably wouldn't do much to stop scams. If it was just a bitcoin or so they'd just take the gamble and pay it as they know they'll be able to take in more. It also might lead people in to a false sense of security. I thought about some sort of fee to be able to launch a coin in the alt section though just to stop all the lazy shitcoins, and especially for those crapcoins that run signature campaigns and do absolutely nothing at all to stop spam.
So the alternative, i.e. doing nothing is better? Classic policy nowadays.
As you know I don't make polices round here.
I'm afraid that shitcoiners would find ways around such policy by slightly tweaking the scam model and calling it something else, unless you restrict any altcoin ANN threads. Even then they would probably find a way to separate fools from their money (think DAO).
Call it whatever they wanted but they wouldn't be able to list it in the Announcement board at all without paying the fee. In the past I've thought about maybe letting Alt coins have their own sub board for a certain fee. I'm sure the bigger/more serious coins would prefer this and it would be cheaper and easier for them then creating their own forums.
I wouldn't be against it necessarily but it probably wouldn't do much to stop scams. If it was just a bitcoin or so they'd just take the gamble and pay it as they know they'll be able to take in more. It also might lead people in to a false sense of security. I thought about some sort of fee to be able to launch a coin in the alt section though just to stop all the lazy shitcoins, and especially for those crapcoins that run signature campaigns and do absolutely nothing at all to stop spam.
How about a launching-bond which is refundable but have terms such as : 1. Signature campaign spam tolerance should not exceed 15%, in case of failure to comply, 20% of bond will be deducted to the amount to be refunded. etc.,
How would you decide when a campaign crosses the 15% spam threshold? Many campaigns would complain and argue about conflict of interest if they didn't get their bond back for whatever reason. I think pretty much all alt campaigns haven't done enough about spam and many of them don't do anything at all. Their entire business model seems to be centred on getting as many people as they can to spam their advert all over the forum for little to no cost to them. The only time I'm ever made aware of these crapcoin ICOs is when I see hoards of one-line spammers carrying their adverts so it sadly works in that regard but they shouldn't be allowed to continue this way.
