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I just discover that medium no longer wants bounty hunters on their platform again. many bounty-related accounts have been suspended lately and today I check their rules and I found out they have added this to their rule.
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Why do these social media do not like cryptocurrencies? The first is Facebook, then Twitter, and now the Medium, they have all taken drastic measures to limit the publication of ICO content articles.

Yeah it's an interesting trend. I didn't think much would come out of FB/Twitter/Google but Medium is often used for crypto content so this is pretty bad news.

Because they care about their platform, lets take this thing to consider. How if that ICO we promote turn out as a scam project ? how if that ICO stole all your invested money and run away, they help promoting even just as a hosting. So they want to prevent bad thing happend by not even let any ICO get promoted at their platform. But this is only my opinion, you still can see a official ICO medium page though even the bounty campaign related channel at that project being suspended.

Yes they're just playing it safe and don't want scam on their platform, so it makes sense from their pov

I have seen many suspended medium accounts, the average account is about cryptocurrency.
however, I also have a medium account and its content is full of cryptocurrency, until now my account is still usable and safe with no problems at all, and also many other accounts.
so we can not conclude that account suspended because medium cryptocurrency, there must be other factors.

I guess their government has asked them to do this. The first is facebook, twitter and now the medium. All social networking sites now ban ICO. And it is very difficult to promote the ICO.

Yes I wonder what the next site will be that bans ICO and crypto ads. I think Medium was one of the most important ones though.

Medium published ban on ICO and cryptocurrency advertisments at the same tine as google. You've just missed it. So if you post about how good is blockchain technology and etc. you are perfectly fine. But if you post somethng like "buy this ICO token for 10x gains" your account will be suspended. The same thing may happen to you on YouTube nowadays.

because I see many bounty articles in the medium that present the same information but in different languages, even many who use a translator machine just to follow the bounty

Let's face it, content or comments made by bounty hunters isn't the best quality, rather just regular spam with no value. Of course there are exceptions, sometimes very creative people take part in bounty campaigns, but they are minority. So this rules are understandable, Medium team is trying to keep the quality high on the platform.

I think better place for crypto bounty content is now Steemit, since more and more projects are making social campaigns on this platform.

Sadly, it is true. Sometimes, the main purpose of those articles are just so they can earn their stakes in the medium bounty campaign. Some even resorts to plagiarism and or they just copy paste a portion of other people's work. In my opinion, medium made a very good decision because this will lessen the spam in their site. I also believe that medium is a platform in where well-written articles that aims to INFORM the public such as informative announcements or articles coming from he dev team of legit ICO teams should be posted.  It is not a place to advertise a company or a business. I

Is this for real? Can you give me a link to these terms and conditions? Seems unreal to me, that they would explicitly put "bounty campaigns" in their rules, because that seems like discrimination to me. Oh well, another day passes with everyone against crypto, but mind this, we will have the last laugh, I am sure of that. :)

FYI: I still see sponsored posts related to ICOs in Facebook. It has been going on for a month now. I think it's bullshit, nobody will reject money. Also in Twitter I still see some ads.

Maybe in Medium, they will enforce a ban because they don't benefit from it at all.

It will be good for the quality of the medium platform, bounty campaigns should be designed in such a way that they should not allow spamming and flooding, i personally think that is counter productive and does more harm to the campaign than benefit.

Because of the spams and copy pasting contents on the medium just to participate these bounty campaigns,you shouldnt be using these platforms instead create your own website and there you can put all of your writings if you are into translations,or anything related to your bounties so that you wont lose everything that you have.

First Facebook, then Twitter and Google and now Medium :(. Looks like they have united against bounty hunters. I still continue to participate in facebook and twitter bounty campaigns, and I can't imagine that it can be closed one day. Maybe ICOs will find another platforms for advertising their projects.

That's how we are losing options to get some coins without investing initial fiat but hard works. Twitter, Facebook, Medium everyone seems don't want the crypto hunters. Still, you can use them, just don't overdo anything. For example, do not use your account only for clapping crypto article. Instead, write something better for the community, limit your clapping, give time and read before clapping, medium is very intelligent to optimize its users. This should keep your account safe on the platform.

Because the bounty hunters are doing shitty copy pasting to the whole platform,like what we have know in this forum!that is why you are going to get less platforms that you are going to use.Spams has lessen here that is why the merit system was implemented to this forum, as far as i can see restrictions could open some good opportunity in the mraket.

Because crypto is a threat.  One of the main principles behind crypto in general is decentralization.  This is a threat to their business models.  Privacy is trending now and anything that lets you hold on to more of your data is deadly to them.  If Facebook didn't track so many points of data they wouldn't have anything to sell to corporations, governments or other entities.  Regular people aren't their customers, it's the people that buy your data.

I have my account banned, and then I restored it, really had to delete all articles. So medium is not the area on which now stands something to write.

to avoid scams on their platforms

Nowadays there are many large platforms that block crypto advertising. It's not clear on what grounds they are doing this and what are their plans for a crypto market. There is evena version that digital giants are preparing some blockchain project and want to enter the market on better terms by holding it's development.

They are too scared on being blamed that they are connected in cryptos, anyway when cryptos and ICO built its name and proven trusted, they will sure accepts it again.

I have to agree with Medium in this, because they need to take care about quality on their website and not get too many content from shillers and fake claps, etc.

I think that Steemit is a much better platform for blogging about cryptocurrencies. It even uses cryptocurrency as an integral part of the way it operates. The only reason I still keep a Medium account is that so many cryptocurrencies are using it to inform their followers about developments. The only thing about the Medium platform that I like that Steemit does not have is a daily email with the recent articles of the people I am following.

i think they don't have a direct benefit from what is happening there. secondly is that they wanna protect their site very well.

as you can see on the rule it is very clear on why they are doing this. and this is because they want to make sure the website is free of spam messages and also content that is misleading or scam project promotion which can lead them to trouble. if you read medium post about bounty well you will understand many articles are full of irrelevant and similar posts which is being targeted to drive traffic to token sales website. you know also that many ICO which have turn out to be scam (e.g denaro, Sym) are being paraded by bounty hunters on medium as good project to invest into.

If they ban spammish posts of low level bounty hunters I can understand, but banning the whole sector of cryptocurrencies would be a violation of so many "rules" of a free society that they would deserve a storm of flame.

I think, because it is unprofitable for them that other companies and users envy them. Now a lot of bounty hunters.

imo medium acts mostly because of quantity and quality of content published by bounty hunters. It's growing pains of bounty community, in future one couldn't publish bad content and get money imo. I didn't know about Steemit, why not move there...

If they dont want us, we will not use them. I think Steem is better than Medium. You can also make money at Steem.

Everything has an alternative now. Let's not hang out in one place. As we value them, they are trying to kick our ass, or trying to use us as much as they can. So we should know how to kill the monsters we created when the time comes. They must be our slaves, we are not theirs!

It has predicted to me When it comes to the hundreds spam, and copycat articles have generated every day through the bounty spammers, and medium wants to keep its forum on the quality of the discussion.

Those dumb persons only care about to write a crap article through copy and paste from existing sources.

Yep. Problem not in medium but in 'dumb persons' exactly. And those persons get paid by another 'dumb persons'. I think problem is here

Recently, I notice that they are waging an open struggle against the crypto currency. Facebook, twitter, google medium, and other platforms try to prevent advertising of crypto currency. And this is done as if by agreement. But there are not any intelligible explanations. If they are fighting, they are afraid.

@Encelad. No. Bounty hunters are low quality spammers who control many farmed accounts and who are only posting for profit, not for meaningful discussion like this forum.

I can accuse you of being a farmed account and I would be more than 30% correct because there are so many of them now.

Just to be precise here - Medium did not ban all crypto related accounts, the blogs of blockchain projects and enthusiasts are still there. This is just related to annoying spam of mindless bounty hunters making posts or comments without any merit or quality. So overall this is the good thing for Medium and all who use it.

Its clearly all about the spams which is why we shouldnt be letting those hunters to ruin all the opportunity that we might have,cryptocurrency topics are be much spammy than any other topics in medium,as these people are flooding the medium with plagiarised contents which is why it is better to be regulated or restricted than destroying medium's content for good.

Because ICOs will do anything to sell their token even if the content is not true or just a hype. There are also bounty participants make a false information that could risk the investors money.

My Medium account  has been suspended. I still do not understand why they blocked it without warning. Even without notifying that it is blocked, I learned by chance.
What should I do to unlock?

two of my medium accounts were suspended with alot of pending articles. what a waste. some how i am afraid that this will affect to twitter facebook and other bounty related social media accounts. then our bounty hunting campaing will be surely vanish and Dev team invest those money for any other marketing strategy. RIP us

It is a surprising news. These platforms treat crypto as a threat but I think these can co exist with crypto.

I agree. If I am the owner of medium. I will done that long time ago. lol   :D

This is bad news I think. What if telegram is next, I mean who knows, there could be reasons why they specifically ban the discussion and promotion in bounties.

They think ICOs as threat not the crypto currencies so they were restricting advertising anything related to ICOs will be banned there but you can post anything about the crypto currencies becuse in there rules no where stated that posting about cryptos were not allowed in their platform.

so disappointing. But this is answered all those questions why the medium account get suspended without warning. I think steemit will be a nice place to do that.

The situation with the medium is very strange. When I register an account there, they ban it in a few weeks, while all I do is just follow the projects I need. At the same time, there are many accounts that write blogs about crypto projects, thus they participate in bounty and nobody bans them. Can someone explain to me what is going on?

I think they are trying to rid out the spammy article wrote by some of bounty hunters and bring backed the credible ones, its not a surprise since medium was based in United States and they are very aware of their national laws that implemented well. But if your account is not looking suspicious and its not spammy in content. I think its okey and no need to be alarmed!

i think why medium suspending account because they all breaking rules for airdrop and giveaway 

I still use medium every day for bounties with no issue

I don't like medium and this reason is not the main here. This platform is not clear and suitable enough for the crypto to my mind and twitter or facebook are better there.

I was blocked about 9 months ago because I posted 2 articles (ICO Reviews) and they suspended me.
So, dont worry, switch to Steemit - much better platform, crypto friendly and also here you can something earn by posting :).

Medium is not so signifacnt platform for the crypto in the far-sighted orienting so I think that it will lose its popularity soon. Crypto must work with more platforms that have a larger tolerance.

i just lost my my account in medium after posting an Article that has nothing to do with ICO.
This is the 3 account i am loosing to medium. Quite terrible.
the first account was due to OVER CLAPPING. 50+ CLAPPING FOR a bounty article.
The second is for a bounty article.
the third Account is for a different post.

Honestly i am confused with medium.

Their rules is very clear. if you are into bounty hunting you are not wanted clearly on the platform no matter how clearly you try to rephrase your article in order not to be caught, this will surely happen one day and the worst scenario is that sometime you may not have gotten your reward before your account get suspended and ones this happen all contents you have written become irrelevant and in accessible publicly. the best you can do is to quit using the platform if you are hunter period

The social networking site like medium is not directly gain any type of profit from these account and they have maintain the standard by over clapping on bounty and crypto related article.

But indeed, recently many projects, even non-fraudulent ones, cannot bring their project to a successful conclusion.  The reasons may be different, but first of all everyone thinks that they want to be deceived.  And against the background of all this, the above-mentioned sites, in which there was information about bad companies, are losing their reputation.  To avoid trouble, they try to struggle in different ways for the purity of the information published on their sites.

The reason is very simple. Most of the ICO projects will not be successful. The developer team only wants to make money and not build the cryptocurrency industry. Therefore, the media prohibits cryptocurrency advertising as an expected event.

I think the fraud of the ICO project has caused concern and ban on these media because their customers have become victims of scams!

Even though I believe some of your statements. I hope you know there are still some initial coin offereing related content on medium in which the publishers are not banned. For such publishers to be allowed without ban it goes a long way to show that medium might be interested in legit and plagiarism free content which I believe only few bounty hunter do. Alot of hunters write poor review to get token and that is the reason why it is easy for many of them to write in more than 5 blogs.

Most likely, the blocking of accounts is due to the fact that recently there have been a lot of projects that set themselves only one goal to raise money and no further project promotion is planned.  Bounty hunters who perform tasks of such dubious companies in social networks without knowing it make advertising, thereby helping not honest ICO.  Sites that host such ads are annoying and they are likely to want to get rid of such actions by blocking accounts.

I think one of thr reason for this ban is that most bounty hubters write article which are similar to paid shillings and it lioks like a financial advice.  The best way to write and avoid medium ban is to write based on the technical prowes and opnion of the peoject and not as a financial advice

Regardless I believe it depends on the type of ncontent you published on their page
I have an existing medium account from 2018 that is doing quite good

I rarely make publications there though

I checked now and my account is not suspended, however I will pay more attention to my behavious as a bounty hunter from this moment. Thanks for information!

Aside this, most social media usually does not like cryptocurrency, Facebook started it first all account created for the promotion of cryptocurrency and also for the fact that they are not benefiting anything from these acts, most of these social media has already monetized the use of their platform and will not really promote your product without you paying for it and looking at many of these crypto pages, they don’t pay to promote their projects which makes them not to benefit from it because if they were fully against cryptocurrency, how come many of them are now beginning to introduce theirs too.

Medium, Steemit are trash. Let´s use Publish0X together, it is created by Bounty0X developers, so let´s support a bounty platform what we are all using!  8)

When activities like this happen to curb some actions and no matter the period of such actions, it demonstrates the lack of capacity of numerous projects and platforms to deal with a mass adoption! The exchanges are the ones that most demonstrate this lack of capacity. If Medium received any percentage of these bounties, they would not struggle to ban it last year! How are things these days?

The onslaught started in 2018 when medium management felt that bounty hunters spam the forum and thereby making the core readers of medium blog which are mostly not into cryptocurency irk. It led medium to take the drastic measure. Kindly use cryptocurrency friendly forums such as steemit.com, minds.com and LinkedIn.com. They all have large viewer base too

simple reason for medium is not benefit from cryptocurrencies project, without cryptocurrencies we will not visit medium yeah. will gradually realize and will continue to let cryptocurrencies on him web and will be continue to run like other social media facebook twitter

things like that are common in a media or forum. if it is considered spam, scam, bully, racist, it will definitely be banned permanently for disturbing other users. therefore, we must be careful when on social media, because social media is used by all people in the world and one of them may be offended and can report us.

I thing there will be some other factors too as only crypto related topics or bounty programs articles may be not the main subject as per medium rules.

That's the main subject why medium has been banned a lot of accounts that related to the bounty or ICO promotion. Most of them are only copy-pasting from another person and that's why medium was putting really strict rules to its platform.

From my side, I guess medium suspending bounty hunters (Not All I think) is because so many of them plagiarized the content, and that's make medium become low quality social blog.

Yes, right, I also asked this to their email, they said they would suspend the copying account that was not available or filed an appeal.

I think the major factor to why they frowned at bounty campaign is the ranking of a thing they mentioned about, I don’t know much about how medium operates full but I think they have a ranking system and reward put in place too for making use of their social media platform just same way bitcointalk does, bitcoin talk was specially created for things like this, so campaigns participation might be valid for criteria Bitcointalk used in also ranking while medium feel is not accepted or applicable to their.

I just still see it has witch hunting too, probably they don’t have any way they can benefit from cryptocurrency like other i.eface book, and see no reason why their platform should also be used for what they don’t benefit from.

I had 3 accounts blocked on the medium. although I wrote articles about many projects, but not just KLAPS. I don't like a medium

Medium succumbed to the general trend to ban cryptocurrency, which took place in the spring of 2018. Many bounty hunters lost some rewards due to this sudden ban and were forced to use resources such as Steemit, Newbium and others.

I had problems with Medium and I contacted the stuff.
They explained me that if you are posting identical and similar content (like ICO reviews), your account is going to be suspended, as it is happening since more than a year.

Plagiarism is not what makes bounty hunters account to be banned. According to the medium rules which were attached to this thread, stated that bounty campaign is not wanted on the platform. So it is very clear that ones you are a bounty hunter and you post a blog to support a campaign, you will be banned from the platform. You may be thinking how do they discover this, but I think they actually build an algorithm to detect this and ones you are detected, you will be blacklisted before being finally blocked. Not only bounty hunters but any account that promotes bounty campaign

Medium must be unserious too, so they want to be using people too free to supply content for their site at no cost and they will still not have anything to do that will benefit them.

Yeah many of my friends accounts have been banned. But my account was spared, I don't know why and am not complaining. I have decided not to post any articles on medium again to avoid my account being banned. I even avoid clapping for my friends project review articles.

Its not a must to use medium or any social media website for promoting projects ,if they don't want it then they don't really want it on their website ,newbium is better and so is steemit but I really hope medium will have a second thought about this crypto article bans