What to do with users like this? Advertising in posts - page 2.

Bttzed03

legendary

Activity: 2114

Merit: 1150

https://bitcoincleanup.com/

There are some users doing the same in boards like Altcoin Discussion.

"I was looking for.......and then I saw website xxx"
"My friend told me about website xxx"

or something like that.

Quote from: Harlot on October 29, 2019, 11:40:38 AM

I don't say that I lile what we have now but I think site promotions regarding sites related to artivles, news, blogs are harmless as long as it's relevant and not about the main purpose of the thread.

At least they can tell a little about what's in the article and then write something like "you can read the full article at website xxx".

Jet Cash

legendary

Activity: 2814

Merit: 2472

https://JetCash.com

I think OgNasty may have awarded the merits because he thought the thread might create interesting discussion, and that is something that merit sources should do. Unfortunately being a merit source is quite an onerous and unpaid responsibility, and we don't have time to research all of the posters we review. The only thing that we can do is to put the posters on ignore, but something has to trigger that action ( such as all caps titles, or quote pyramids

).

hugeblack

legendary

Activity: 2702

Merit: 4002

If he writes that news and the wording in the subject is good, I don't think that can be considered spam.
Therefore, the ruling differs from one user to another and it is better to give a temporary ban as mentioned by @Welsh.

Quote from: tmfp on October 29, 2019, 10:06:21 AM

I actually left that account negative trust due to the scams it was promoting in these sneaky posts.
At the same time another legendary was meriting them.
WTF.

I do not think that you will search the history of user posts before sending Merits. that topic (alone) does not seem to be a Spam topic> Maybe those who gave Merit admired the content of the article.

Deathwing

legendary

Activity: 1638

Merit: 1329

Stultorum infinitus est numerus

Quote from: dkbit98 on October 29, 2019, 11:28:30 AM

Well I proposed not allowing newbies to post outside links or create topics, but I was attacked by some oldtime members...
like it would some kind of members right violation or something idk

No. This would kill almost all of the announcements threads. The whole problem is not Newbie's posting links. There are a lot of helpful newbies helping each other out there. The problem is some websites, mostly news and/or site that you can purchase coins from with a lot of commission do this. The best way to deal with this is just nuking these specific accounts who keep doing this.

Harlot

hero member

Activity: 1806

Merit: 672

I don't say that I lile what we have now but I think site promotions regarding sites related to artivles, news, blogs are harmless as long as it's relevant and not about the main purpose of the thread. But for posts with links involving money then this should be heavily moderated as they are illegaly promoting something outside of the signature area. Yes website links for articles are also promoting their site but as long as it's relevant to Bitcoin and crypto I think that we should give them a pass.

dkbit98

legendary

Activity: 2212

Merit: 7064

Well I proposed not allowing newbies to post outside links or create topics, but I was attacked by some oldtime members...
like it would be some kind of members right violation or something idk

Deathwing

legendary

Activity: 1638

Merit: 1329

Stultorum infinitus est numerus

There are a few of those in the Turkish section and every time I see it, I immediately report them. It is so damn annoying to see, several lines of somewhat comprehensible information and just a read more link to their own website.

They have levelled up recently though, I've seen one of the sites giving a tutorial on how to buy Bitcoin/Ethereum etc. with Credit Card (very short, few lines and sites with no detail whatsoever) and then linking their own site so that you can purchase there.

If there were to be rule implemented to combat this, I would be all for it.

tmfp

legendary

Activity: 1932

Merit: 1737

"Common rogue from Russia with a bare ass."

I actually left that account negative trust due to the scams it was promoting in these sneaky posts.
At the same time another legendary was meriting them.
WTF.

Welsh

staff

Activity: 3304

Merit: 4115

Quote from: dkbit98 on October 29, 2019, 09:29:40 AM

I don't think this post you reported is promoting anything, that news website is not his probably,
and no need for all members to write long and boring posts as they would mostly be edited copy/paste.

But maybe he should move some of his previous post to proper sections.

It doesn't have to be their website, though. These posts are still very low quality. Some of his posts are literally "Alright". Although, apparently the user has written up a review on the website that they're constantly posting about;

Quote from: Prateek_sharma on September 13, 2019, 07:34:28 AM

Hey Everyone!

I wrote up a nice Lbank review. I would love to hear your thoughts on the lbank exchange and their features.

Take A quick look at: Lbank Review

Please let me know if you have any questions about the Lbank review!

Almost every single post is pushing that website, and for the ones that aren't promoting the website they are very low quality posts. Plus they aren't even participating in the threads that they're posting. Thus, I would deem that as the only reason for posting; to advertise the website, and would fall under this guideline:

Quote

24. Advertisements (including signatures within the post area) in posts aren't allowed unless the post is in a thread you started and is really substantial and useful.[9][e]

dkbit98

legendary

Activity: 2212

Merit: 7064

I don't think this post you reported is promoting anything, that news website is not his probably,
and no need for all members to write long and boring posts as they would mostly be edited copy/paste.

But maybe he should move some of his previous post to proper sections.

Welsh

staff

Activity: 3304

Merit: 4115

I'd say temp ban due to most of their posts being of low quality, and obviously trying to push a website with their low quality posts too. Its up to the global moderators what they deem temp ban worthy though. If they were at least putting some major effort into the posts before linking their website then I could understand this not being so black, and white. However, that certainly isn't the case here.

The global moderators probably deal with 1000s of reports a day, and it might take them a little while to get through all of them. Especially, when handling bans.

Lucius

legendary

Activity: 3234

Merit: 5637

Blackjack.fun-Free Raffle-Join&Win $50🎲

I often see users promoting their websites by posting one line of text, or others who do the same thing by posting a wall of text with their links in it. I report them to moderators as advertising, especially if it's a forum user who does this systematically.

Three days ago I reported one user who is doing promotion of his news site for months on this forum, report is still unhandled and this is a bit odd when looking at the post history of this user. I wonder why things like this aren't punished instantaneously and with temp bans? This would certainly be a clear message that such behavior is not acceptable.

Reported post : Bitcoin Price Analysis: What Has Triggered 30% Surge?
User Post History : Prateek_sharma

Another example of how to promote exchange by posting something relevant and useful :

Breaking Down FUD on Halvings/Promoting My Exchange Edit: // thread deleted.

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