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Title: Giveaway board Post by: phelix on August 27, 2013, 07:33:55 AM That would be nice to
Title: Re: Giveaway board Post by: whiskers75 on August 29, 2013, 08:57:14 AM Yeah, or just a "free BTC/altcoins" board.
Title: Re: Giveaway board Post by: Welsh on August 29, 2013, 09:43:04 AM It would be nice to get rid of them annoying off topic threads. But, I would ignore the giveaway board as it normally involves a lot of scams.
Title: Re: Giveaway board Post by: btcton on August 29, 2013, 07:50:03 PM This has been suggested a lot of times and has always been ignored.
Title: Re: Giveaway board Post by: Peter Lambert on August 29, 2013, 07:54:57 PM That would be nice to get rid of these junk threads. Could you give examples of which junk threads you are talking about? Title: Re: Giveaway board Post by: greyhawk on August 30, 2013, 08:31:22 AM It would be nice to get rid of them annoying off topic threads. But, I would ignore the giveaway board as it normally involves a lot of scams. It would make a lot of sense to insta-ban anyone offering a giveaway. None of these things are kosher. Title: Re: Giveaway board Post by: Peter Lambert on August 30, 2013, 01:20:57 PM It would be nice to get rid of them annoying off topic threads. But, I would ignore the giveaway board as it normally involves a lot of scams. It would make a lot of sense to insta-ban anyone offering a giveaway. None of these things are kosher. What things are you talking about? Title: Re: Giveaway board Post by: greyhawk on August 30, 2013, 01:31:10 PM It would be nice to get rid of them annoying off topic threads. But, I would ignore the giveaway board as it normally involves a lot of scams. It would make a lot of sense to insta-ban anyone offering a giveaway. None of these things are kosher. What things are you talking about? Giveaways. Title: Re: Giveaway board Post by: Peter Lambert on August 30, 2013, 01:37:26 PM It would be nice to get rid of them annoying off topic threads. But, I would ignore the giveaway board as it normally involves a lot of scams. It would make a lot of sense to insta-ban anyone offering a giveaway. None of these things are kosher. What things are you talking about? Giveaways. Why would you want to ban people for generously giving stuff away? Maybe an example would help here ... Title: Re: Giveaway board Post by: greyhawk on August 30, 2013, 01:40:19 PM It would be nice to get rid of them annoying off topic threads. But, I would ignore the giveaway board as it normally involves a lot of scams. It would make a lot of sense to insta-ban anyone offering a giveaway. None of these things are kosher. What things are you talking about? Giveaways. Why would you want to ban people for generously giving stuff away? Maybe an example would help here ... You should know by now there is no generosity without hindsight on these boards. "Giveaways" have thus far primarily been used to spread pump-and-dump scamcoins, to acquire address lists of easily duped fools to mark them as viable targets for later scams or to establish false trust to get people to install trojans. Here's the latest: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=283953.0 Title: Re: Giveaway board Post by: Welsh on August 30, 2013, 01:50:10 PM Don't get me wrong there are a lot of 'Legit' giveaways, but they normally don't involve "5 BTC free" and stuff like that. They re normally small amounts. Would anyone give away $600 worth away for just free? That's why I normally tend to avoid these types of threads.
Title: Re: Giveaway board Post by: phelix on August 30, 2013, 07:02:50 PM Some giveaway threads are ok but most are a pita. So let's stuff them all in an altcoin subboard. Maybe also a board for launches.
Title: Re: Giveaway board Post by: b!z on September 02, 2013, 07:38:22 AM It would be nice to get rid of them annoying off topic threads. But, I would ignore the giveaway board as it normally involves a lot of scams. It would make a lot of sense to insta-ban anyone offering a giveaway. None of these things are kosher. What things are you talking about? Giveaways. Why would you want to ban people for generously giving stuff away? Maybe an example would help here ... You should know by now there is no generosity without hindsight on these boards. "Giveaways" have thus far primarily been used to spread pump-and-dump scamcoins, to acquire address lists of easily duped fools to mark them as viable targets for later scams or to establish false trust to get people to install trojans. Here's the latest: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=283953.0 Section rules + a sticky would stop that. A giveaway board would let people give away items/services instead of putting them in Marketplace. |