Topic: Why not force bounties off site? - page 2. (Read 359 times)

As long as it’s posted on a single thread then it’s still not harmful in the forum. Besides that PoA is the way of bounty manager to counter those user that cheating using someone else work since there work involves other service like social media. I think it’s really useless to apply it on Bitcointalk service thread since the user post itself is enough to authenticate their work compared to bounties which involves other account outside forum

You need to wait a few years to get to know the principles of forum administration. Many people been where you are, done what you are doing, the official answer is: "as long as they are confined to their bounty threads, let them earn if they can," whether the projects are scam or not, that depends on DT gang to enforce some common sense.

They are worthless but there is no discussion about these bounties they are just there to get money and post the same thing over and over again. I included some examples above after you posted but there are many accounts that post the same exact message across 100 different bounties. How is that not spam?

You can't, there are no rules to prohibit users here from participating in Bounty campaigns, that's their right as long as they comply with the rules that apply in campaigns or forums.

10,000 posts, 8,000 activities, without any Merit, that's their expertise in making a good contribution here, the Bounty board is indeed a field for token hunters, that's their right, that's why users here often mention the name 'Freedom'. Don't be surprised if you see many users who have the freedom to post authentication there.

Now you see Bounty boards are worthless, but if you go back to the 2009-2016 era, these boards are the most popular boards here and much hunted by people here, so just leave them as long as they don't break the rules.
Can't penalize users based on posts only (authentication) or they only know bounty board.

how is posting identical information across 100s of topics not spamming? If any one did that in other areas of the forum they would have been banned. It is the lowest quality posting you can do. As I said most are using auto reply scripts because their posts are seconds from each other.

What happens when other Bitcoin services start requiring proof like the bounty board? Are we going to allow that? Proof of authentication posts make no sense it is a way of generating replies and making their project look more popular because they can verify that someone has shared their content through their website and it would not create spam on a 3rd party forum. We do not owe these projects any thing and they all end up in scams. We are enabling these projects to gain popularity from the lowest quality of posting that is legal and benefit from that while the forum gets nothing. There is no discussion from these members and they add no value to the forum.


100s of this:




the search engine result of bitcointalk is:
I see a common theme that says 'discussion' and while there might not be any mention of altcoins in that description there is a focus on discussion. Yet bounties have 200 pages of these types of posts above.

I saw the thread and I see no reason to bring up such thread and I did not comment, the bounty hunter is on different platform for his work, not this forum. He is only using this forum to get the work and also to post the links of what he has done on another platform. It is entirely different from someone that is a shit poster or spammer.

Actually what’s the problem with that account? It’s not spamming on different thread and his post is mainly on bounty thread. I don’t see the point on discriminating them if they are not spamming on other boards.

The account statistics only shows that the user is not interested on ranking up. There’s a much shitty board that is still a active.

I think bounties are the biggest problem the forum faces and we are not doing enough about it. Look at this topic by thebeardedbaby: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/5700-posts-1000-activity-0-merit-still-newbie-ver2023-plagiarist-ha-ha-5440036

It shows 1 member that has over 5000 posts in the bounty board and they have not contributed outside of that. That is 1 example but I bet there are 1000s of members abusing the forum because they are not just abusing the bounties they are abusing the forums. They are signing up here with the sole goal of earning but they do not do it honestly in that topic the member was found to have been abusing the bounties with multiple alt accounts and I bet the 1000s of other members who are doing the same are abusing it with multiple accounts.

The forum activity is much lower then it appears because we have members like this with who knows how many alt accounts abusing bounties probably with auto posting scripts. I propose we put restriction on the bounty board and only allow discussion of the bounty and no proof of authentication posts. If we do this the spam disappears over night. 


At the moment we are allowing proof of authentication posts which offer no value to the forum and is legal spam. It goes against every other rule that the forum has. We want quality discussion and we try to do that with every other rule but the bounty board is given a special privilege and we allow very low quality members get away with it.

Can we please stop this?