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What a shit this "new" way of promoting ico!

Marketing managers of ICOs, are u really thinking this way contributes to development of your project? NO. Your useless shitcoins are being perceived like usual SPAM. It's even more awful than Avon samples from desperate women.

Thanks for the listening to.

What is so wrong in sending promos? If its free why not? Just like how they are giving airdrops I really think that is not a different way in giving them to the people, And if you don't like their shit tokens then I think you can sure ignore what is their trying to promote? Is it really that hard to just ignore it? And why lumping this to AVON and desperate woman? Do you really have issues in promoting or people that just want to make a living? I really think it is OK to have as many token there is even if they don't have any value for now Because someday they will be listed in some exchange and you will be surprise with its value, Or if not at least you can have a piece of their token, I think that is the effort of the developer in making it.

I agree that these promo tokens are a PIA.  I dislike people hijacking my wallet with junk coins.  I for one will not invest in any project that attempts this type of spamming technique.  We need less spam not more.

They are marketing it that way and if you don't like those tokens simply ignore it.

It doesn't look good on your address when you are searching it?

Because I hate everything intruding in my property. When I first time faced with it, I was wondering whether such tokens will have any value in future. The answer was no. Obviously, this is a cornerstone reason of my discontent.

Yes, I understand my wallet and any data once uploaded in WWW are public domain. I just give a feedback, my irritated reaction to this promo case.

I have a lot of this weird tokens in my wallets, that have no value (yet) and have been sent to me for doing nothing. I think we can classify them as spam easily. But you never know. Just leave them in your wallets, maybe they will be worth at least for a drink someday.  ;D

I agree it is quite anoying and I don´t think is efficient in terms of the money you have to spend to deploy all those tokens that will mostly be ignored. There are better ways.

Yeah i have also received few promo tokens that are nothing but dummy tokens, i think icos should never send such tokens without prior permission or they should only send such tokens who have applied for them, i think this type of promotion is nothing but spam.

Its very bad that projects think sending a few units of tokens to thousands of people means that they will get more recognition.
What this does is give them a short term high circulating supply that results from people dumping the Tokens and them the price will be worse than before.

If you do not know how to choose quality projects that implement road map plans, then this is your problem!

Many earn their living here

If they not sell it “right now” they have a risk not sell it “never” in 99%. All is simple.

Yes, my advice is only to ignore it because it is very disturbing in the progress of cryptocurrency now many are harmed by ordinary ICO projects, so be quiet and ignore not to complain here because they don't care and who you really are to tell all ICOs not to promote to you and it turns out they don't care, this is an effort they have made for a long time and need big money, if it is obtained for free it is very fortunate that you may be from one coin or a partial token good? it can happen and again if you don't want to ignore all promotions that come to you.

Hah. The first time I got promo tokens in 2017, I didn't know why I got them (I thought someone had sent the tokens to me by mistake; it wasn't a thing back then, mind you). I have a couple of few tokens that are worth $77.34 at the time. I know it doesn't help with projects' recognition, but who would turn down free tokens (especially Ethereum and ERC20 based ones)?

Most times, I receive such tokens and I will ignore them, so I will suggest you ignore them too, it does no harm to your wallet and you won't lose anything having them on your wallet and you can't stop them fro sending such tokens in the future, so best thing just ignore and focus on the real tokens you have gotten.

Thats new coin and the developer wants the coin to be known, so developers hire bounty hunters or others to help with promotion. If you dont like it just block it, unfollow it, igrone it Make it simple. I think you need refreshing. Make yourself comfortable. There are good coins and shit coins, Always do research so you are not deceived by shit coins

Just wondering whether you have already put you wallet address (or some body sold your data) earlier in some free airdrop sites.
Air dropping is a good way of promotion of your coin, why do you think it will not work?
Change your wallet if you are getting so much airdrop in it and so much bothered about it.

Maybe you should be more observant in choosing or participating in projects that you will follow.

I have received a few of these promo tokens into my Ethereum wallet.  it's a very intrusive and pushy way to advertise.  I'm not a huge fan of this.  I hope it does not become a trend moving forward. 

Problem of spam is most important for crypto to solve overall. And I think it will happen. It won't be one ideal solution for everyone but it will be some options. These promo tokens will be useful when teams will give the value to their customers. For example discount on their product/service.

To be honest I have never heard about promoting by sending free tokens without even owner's(of address) participation in this. And sure, I think this is the worst advertisement ever used in crypto  :-\

Are you mad? as long as these tokens are free that you did not spend effort, time and money to receive these shit coins then there is nothing wrong with this promotion strategies. It will always depend on us if we welcome this market strategy or not but i think no need to get mad and be angry that might affected our health and emotions. Check the BP then :D

I am also in the situation like you. After doing some Airdrop and Bounty, my email has received lots of promo mails about Airdrop and Bounty everyday, and some of them are scams with purpose to steal my wallet account

Lol. You're right and I express my rejection to this strategy. Is it really that hard to understand?

what do you think?
I don't think there is a problem for me personally, things like this even though they don't have value but can decorate your wallet address.
and hopefully someday it can become something valuable in the future.

Of course no one likes spam. But if you do not like, do not read spam, do not buy tokens and Avon products. it's our choice. we choose for ourselves what to do, what to read, listen or buy.

This is their strategy of making their ICO popular to people. Out of a thousand people who got the token for free i think only a little percentage of them felt like you do and they will not change their style of promotion because of that little percentage that don't like. Just ignore.

this is the same as airdrop, but without does not work or not apply, but gets coins. I've got it, just like you. coins with low exchange rates. but during 2 months, the coin becomes pretty good. and there is no harm in doing promotions like that.

I guess you're right. Look, I'm also one of those who were very much annoyed and irritated when they interfere my property. That is why I understand where are you coming from. Though, some are being glad in that way that ICO promotes their tokens, but most of their tokens are shitcoins and useles.

Really! These promotional tokens are already tired. Almost every day I see new, unhelpful tokens on my wallet. I think that such actions can not attract the attention of any investor, but only annoy him.

You said it well. As long as it does not cost me anything, if there is someone willing to send me anything that is free then by all means I will let it be. Giving away free tokens has already been a hallmark in cryptocurrency and people are so willing to do some tasks if required just to get the tokens available for them now many of them can just be shitcoins but there can be a few which will live up to their promises. There is nothing wrong with handling samples as long as there is nobody is being forced to accept it. We all live in a world where marketing strategies are everywhere and we can be targeted all the time by means of advertising...this is the reality we have to accept and we all have the power to say no without going berserk about it. I always people who are handing me samples or anything for free as I love freebies too and I know marketing.

Sure these are the worst, that possibility of sending tokens without any particular acceptance criteria is really nasty, but I guess is a little price to pay for freedom.

Ethereum too should add the rule to add trustline before accepting any tokens. Where users has to manually add a token to accept it for receiving (and sending).
As the most of the ethereum address are public in various ways, people are sending useless tokens to everyone. Which clutters the wallet and make the interface difficult to use with useless listings.

totally support this idea