Well, I don't actually think that DeepOnion is really SCAM. But it's more like SPAM.
The coin itself might be decent one, okay. The whole idea to move from ICO to complete premine with fake POS is questionable, but that's your right. Since most coins were distributed that shouldn't be a real big issue. It definitely does not look like top coin to invest but whatever.
But the advertisement part is pretty awful. Seriously, these signatures tells "Get Your FREE Coins NOW!" "No ICO, No Crowdfund" that should mean "fair", looks catchy, buy actually you can't get coins for free. Well, actually another signature campaign, nothing extremely bad at this stage. Rank restrictions, activity restrictions - that are still okay, nobody needs inactive accounts in campaign. But the manual acceptance of accounts by some unknown criterias is extremely suspicious and disappointing. One step further, these happy accepted ones can get tokens worth for $2000/month. It is pretty great, but only for these luckies. For everybody else it is nothing more than mockery. These were around 700 people that got bounties over all the time. Is that mean "Get Your FREE Coins NOW!"? For me it is "free gambling". Okay.
But the next part is complete disaster. You propose for everyone else BUY these coins, because there's no other way to get non-dust amount of them. Other option is start advertising right now for free and hope you can pretend to re-apply the campaign. With only one attempt for account. Chances are obvious now: there are 285 accepted and 694 rejected accounts.
And what should do these 285 luckies? Alright, they should post at least 10 supportive messages per week, actually advertisement. 2850 ad-messages per week. More than 10000 over month. Even the top projects don't deserve that amount of noise. What to tell about in 10k messages? They all will be almost identical and meaningless. Most of them are defensive one. You call it strong community, but I call it as it really is - spammers.
It is not SCAM for those who participate. Ignoring the fact that they can freely move only 10% of their bounties. $200/month are still money. But who will buy tokens for these $200? Right, the ones from bitcointalk who are rejected from, again, "FREE Coins" campaign under pressure all of these "supportive" messages. Just because there's no other places where DeepOnion has too much advertisement. Is it SCAM for them? In case the coins will grow in price, probably no. But the growth of price mostly depending on, again, effectiveness of advertisement on btalk, and since all is already spammed with it, there's no significant area to expand. Yeah, that worked good for a month or two, but what next? Since this audience is exhausted, the rapid price drop is almost inevitably due these are no actual price supporters. Considering these remarks you may make your own conclusions. Probably all of this is pretty normal for good projects in these times.
WOW you nailed this right on the head! This should be stickied for all deeponioners to read!
I, myself, had a bad experience with DeepOnion. And with much consideration, I am leaving the program.
I applied for airdrop and was rejected for suspicious activity. This suspicious activity was that although I have owned my BCT account for a year, I have only been actively using it for a month, so they suspected it was a bought account. Whatever.
So I have been going around for over a week with this SHITTY signature to try and bolster my credibility to reapply. I reapplied via their support ticket system and went back and forth with an admin about me joining the airdrop. I told them I own several branded accounts with the cryptodoll name, to prove I own this account legit.
You know what they said to me?? And I QUOTE:
"As you say that you have good community following, we expect you to support the community in return to the airdrops.
Can you please show your support? Unless you actively show support to the community your account will not be reinstated.
Use your twitter, facebook,etc power to spread deeponion please" . . . . WTF?!?!?!
So now, they are essentially BRIBING me to spread DeepOnion propaganda throughout ALL of my social media accounts to qualify for an "AIRDROP"
The AirDrop is supposed to be a FREE COIN GIVEAWAY. But this is EXTORTION for FREE advertising!!! And even if I did all of this, this DOES NOT guarantee me any airdrop!!! And I cannot spend all but 10% of my coin holdings even if I did qualify, where I would have to promote this propaganda bullcrap for weeks and months!!!
And the most FUCKED up thing of all, when I applied, I followed all the directions 100% to a tee, and they still denied me, keeping me on the chain for free signature advertising!!!
DeepOnion, YOU STINK!!!!