I love the newbie army that knows what's what.
Just a few quick corrections. People are not being kicked for wanting to discuss (ie: complaning about the unfairness of life) lower tier, the full structure and amounts sold were disclosed two months ago and was discussed to death. People buying at $5, $7.5, $10 already knew all this if they spent more than 5 minutes researching before putting money into the project.
What will get you banned is discussing price and exchanges repeatedly after asked not to. This is also not a new development it has been the policy from the very beginning, as SALT is an US based company have a bunch of lawyers advising them, trying their best not to be a security and to follow any law and SEC guidelines.
Due to regulatory compliance, there are few topics we cannot comment on and will delete questions regarding:
- exchanges and secondary markets
- future appreciation of Memberships
- speculative value of Memberships
This message or some variation of it were posted countless times in the last months, if someone ignores that, they should be banned.
Few more things. All ICOs controled by whales, deal with it. The only difference is that most of the times the pre-sales are a lot less public (although granted the discounts are usually much less steep), but people with money and connections will get better deals, that's life.
Complaining about how the team were allowed to buy at a low price is very funny when in contrast most projects just allocates a good portion of the supply to give out to the team for "free". Not to mention various advisors, partners, exchanges, etc that most of the times also get free coins. Yet, here they paid for it.(Also 50% of the tokens bought by the team is vested for a year.)
It's all about context. If you hear about a crowdsale where avarage people got in at drastically lower price, you should be very wary, because ICO flippers will run like hell with that kind of profit within seconds that it hits the exchange. But when the team, investment groups, exchanges, future partners, etc bought up most of the cheap stuff, well they will much more likely to hold. Just look at the exchange action so far. Yes it didn't open at $10-$15-$25 price level, but why would it when ppl who didn't get to invest their pocket money whine about it endlessly and spread missinformation for days? Those people were predicting massive dumps, thus keeping the initial price low. Yet what happened? The dump was minimal, much less than it usually is after a new ICO coin gets on an exchange. Why? Because most of those early investors are not interested in a quick profit, not even for the current 10-12x, as they know exactly what they invested in, and they have patience.