Topic: Tipsters are cancer to the Gambling sections (exceptions apply). - page 2. (Read 1764 times)

The sad part is,even though I have tried reporting posts from the Gambling/Tipster threads,no action is ever taken.To be specific check out this user Zilara(or whatever his name is) ,posts multiple times in a row with signature in less than 24 hours.I reported him around 5-7 times,no action was taken.I gave up.The case is similar with the user hermansh0 (which I called out last week) no action is taken,he's still on the spamming spree,40 posts a day.

Tipster thread is a goldmine.
Very easy way of scoring a lot of posts in a gambling section which is paid double in most
signature campaigns. As long as tipsters are allowed in gambling section, that kind of posts
will clutter the boards.
Special non-gambling space for those tips is necessary, bet it will get less crowded than.
Right, referral links should be also eradicated or at least strictly and clearly forbidden, just like on other boards. Double standards are a no go! 

A section for pointless gambling discussion would be great.

i dont even notice the tipsters its more the dumb questions people ask in that section so yes a FAQ sub section please

I would gladly welcome that change.

Personally I don't mind ref links in the tipster threads as a least they're putting some effort in and offering you some advice (you don't have to take it or click on the links), but I've warned people before for unnecessarily multi-posting so if you report those they will get deleted and if they continue a ban etc. Maybe a Tipster section / discuss about gambling sub could be created. That would then clear up a lot of the crap from the Gambling section.

So, I don't really know what you need to call yourself a "tipster", but frankly, I think my little niece could do the same job those guys do.

There's a huge amount of tipster threads currently clogging up the gambling sections and most of them (not all) are just cheap excuses to spead referral links.
Apparently, that's no problem with moderation.
Despite the fact, that referral links usually are a huge no-go, they seem to be acceptable for tipsters, if they just make up a reason why team X wins game Y.
Naturally I would be going by the (unofficial, I'm well aware of that) forum rules and just report most posts with a ref-link in them.

Previously, they all (or at least most) got deleted. With tipsters, this seems to be differently. Here, I disagree. I consider those tipsters and their threads mostly worthless, and as a result spam, even more ref-spam, if they include their reflinks like most do.

Let's have a look at some of the crowd. I'll be starting with Zilara12, a nitrogensports.eu affiliate.
The user currently runs 3 active threads in the gambling section, one for dota2, one for csgo and one for league of legends.
Despite the fact that these all violate the newly added marketplace rule in which reasonably similar offers have to be united in one thread (all are esports tips, that's rather close to each other, isn't it?), let us have a look at the content of these "tips" they share, take this one.

And now we'll single out the ref links

Now let's do the same again, just this time, let us search for acutal constructive content.

And that's it.

That post is mostly bullshit, either overloaded with ref-links, or with crossreferences with the other tipster thread by the same user, filled with the same ref-links.
Contentwise, that is very, very little. On top of it, the users craps on all marketplace rules, for example the 24 hours bump rule. I'm gonna use default forum time here and only focus on the LoL thread.

July 03, 2016, 01:04:03 PM - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.15453943
July 03, 2016, 11:06:10 PM - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.15459472 ("Update")
July 04, 2016, 06:49:33 PM - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.15469055 ("#19 LoL Prediction")
July 05, 2016, 02:10:59 PM - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.15477932 ("Update")
July 06, 2016, 11:20:03 AM - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.15488034 ("Update")
July 06, 2016, 08:53:48 PM - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.15493743 ("#21 LoL Prediction")
- here's the first time the 24 hour bump rule gets kept-
July 08, 2016, 10:24:33 AM - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.15512071 ("#22 LoL Prediction")
July 08, 2016, 02:15:24 PM - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.15514361 ("Update on #22")
July 08, 2016, 11:37:48 PM - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.15519180 ("#22 LoL Prediction")
July 09, 2016, 02:48:09 PM - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.15525337 ("Update on #22")
July 09, 2016, 02:55:38 PM - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.15525420 ("#23 LoL Prediction")
July 09, 2016, 09:46:10 PM - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.15529574 ("Update on #23")
July 10, 2016, 01:04:04 PM - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.15535912 ("#23 LoL Prediction")
July 11, 2016, 09:34:04 AM - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.15545140 ("#24 LoL Prediction")
July 12, 2016, 11:33:48 AM - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.15557506 ("#25 LoL Prediction")
July 12, 2016, 01:47:51 PM - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.15558836 ("Update on #25")
July 13, 2016, 09:14:47 AM - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.15567629 ("#26 LoL Prediction")
July 13, 2016, 12:04:07 PM - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.15569283 ("Update on #26")
July 14, 2016, 12:27:48 PM - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.15581695 ("#27 LoL Prediction")
-once again a 24h+ wait-
Today at 02:16:46 AM - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.15599863 ("#28 LoL Prediction")

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If we're talking about a spam problem this forum has, that right there is certainly a part of it.
"Tipsters" running 3 seperate threads full of ref links and bumping each of them almost twice as often as they'd be allowed.