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Title: I reckon more warnings are necessary to protect newbies from ICOs Post by: bbc.reporter on February 11, 2018, 02:46:26 AM The altcoin subforum has become a sea of shills that are adamantly bombarding that subforum with new ICO threads everyday. To make matters worse, they also have made farmed accounts to bump those threads, trying to make it look like there's interest in them.
I reckon it's necessary that thread starting posts from newbies should include red warnings in them in any altcoin subforum. Title: Re: I reckon more warnings are necessary to protect newbies from ICOs Post by: etherflip on February 11, 2018, 02:50:18 AM How about Newbies can't post threads except for in Meta and beginners?
Title: Re: I reckon more warnings are necessary to protect newbies from ICOs Post by: JBVNG on February 11, 2018, 03:55:37 AM I would appreciate limiting newbie thread posts. The shill is unreal
Title: Re: I reckon more warnings are necessary to protect newbies from ICOs Post by: TheUltraElite on February 11, 2018, 05:50:49 AM The altcoin subforum has become a sea of shills that are adamantly bombarding that subforum with new ICO threads everyday. To make matters worse, they also have made farmed accounts to bump those threads, trying to make it look like there's interest in them. I reckon it's necessary that thread starting posts from newbies should include red warnings in them in any altcoin subforum. The Altcoins sections are flooded with shills from every corner of this universe. They think themselves as MeKnowEverything about crypto and start spreading FUD everywhere. The social media are the breeding grounds of shills - I have tried to warn people many times in several places not to trust the social media because its full of shills a good example of which is the reddit channels. Anyway back on discussion, there are some ICOs which are using ICO Bumping services to make them look legitimate and create a false sense of popularity among the viewers so as to get more attention. They can be reported to the "Reputation" section for DefaultTrust to check and neg tag these accounts appropriately those which are associated in this "ANN Shill Bumping" Title: Re: I reckon more warnings are necessary to protect newbies from ICOs Post by: actmyname on February 11, 2018, 05:58:49 AM How about Newbies can't post threads except for in Meta and beginners Newbie jail should come back.Let me add another board to that mix: Technical Support. Beginners & Help is too much for most people who hang around in the technical sections to deal with, so this would be a better compromise (for those that are just concerned about some problem in bitcoin). Anything in Marketplace shouldn't matter. If a Newbie wants to sell something, then let them buy a Copper Membership. ;) Title: Re: I reckon more warnings are necessary to protect newbies from ICOs Post by: magneto on February 11, 2018, 07:03:55 AM The altcoin subforum has become a sea of shills that are adamantly bombarding that subforum with new ICO threads everyday. To make matters worse, they also have made farmed accounts to bump those threads, trying to make it look like there's interest in them. I reckon it's necessary that thread starting posts from newbies should include red warnings in them in any altcoin subforum. Agreed. Especially if the OP of the thread is known to be operating or participating in paid thread bumping in the past, or is a newbie/junior member that just registered their account for posting the ANN thread. I reckon something like a disclaimer that we see for newbies who send us PMs would work fine. The altcoin subforum has become a sea of shills that are adamantly bombarding that subforum with new ICO threads everyday. To make matters worse, they also have made farmed accounts to bump those threads, trying to make it look like there's interest in them. I reckon it's necessary that thread starting posts from newbies should include red warnings in them in any altcoin subforum. The Altcoins sections are flooded with shills from every corner of this universe. They think themselves as MeKnowEverything about crypto and start spreading FUD everywhere. The social media are the breeding grounds of shills - I have tried to warn people many times in several places not to trust the social media because its full of shills a good example of which is the reddit channels. Anyway back on discussion, there are some ICOs which are using ICO Bumping services to make them look legitimate and create a false sense of popularity among the viewers so as to get more attention. They can be reported to the "Reputation" section for DefaultTrust to check and neg tag these accounts appropriately those which are associated in this "ANN Shill Bumping" The thing is, newbies sometimes don't even know how the trust system works. That's why I see a lot of people handing over their savings to known scammers. Title: Re: I reckon more warnings are necessary to protect newbies from ICOs Post by: romani245 on February 11, 2018, 09:39:57 AM I reckon it's necessary that thread starting posts from newbies should include red warnings in them in any altcoin subforum. Not the worst idea in the world, but sure sounds like an eyesore. How about Newbies can't post threads except for in Meta and beginners? Sounds like Meta will become an eyesore too. :P Based on the new merit system, maybe newbie restrictions should extend to Jr. Members as well. So, you need a minimum amount of merit to escape newbie jail. How about Newbies can't post threads except for in Meta and beginners Newbie jail should come back.Why was it taken away to begin with? |