P2P methods are usually preferable, especially for those who are inclined to protect their privacy, but direct interaction is not the safest and is but always feasible for regular transactions.
There are P2P platforms in place to enable one transact safely while protecting their privacy, one of them is bisq.

I guess they can make an argument for that, and it seems the OP is playing around the grey area to gain publicity on this thread. Searching for a campaign manager does not need lots of infographics about the project or website links for the project, the link to the main ANN thread was supposed to suffice.

With the lots of extra information, the thread looks a lot like on which should be in the altcoin section and then a seperate thread made to search for a manager.

There cannot be a separate board for every niche tooic, especially if it's about altcoins, cause the forum is majorly Bitcoin oriented. The altcoin discussion board is the most appropriate section for posts related to NFTs as they are considered altcoins and your post would not be acted on by mods, except it is low value or for some other reason, if topics in relation to NFT becomes very popular there, then a push for a child board can be made.

Increasing the number of your posts does not put you in a better position to get merits, only the quality of your posts matter. Making the effort to post more than you can, could even be counter productive, reducing the quality of your posts as you are trying to create more.

Posting naturally is one of the best methods to maintain quality, reason why most campaigns either put a low post requirement or no requirement at all, allowing members posts the way they can.

Do you live in Chicago or only purchased the Bitcoins there? Many countries have a very high level of corruption with little or no respect for the rule of law, so the state where you were arrested would help your case a lot.
Also, this forum cannot directly help you, all members can do here is to give advise; If stone PMs you with offers to retrieve your funds, it is likely a scam.
• Your first approach would be to get an expert lawyer and explain your case to him/her,
• If you know the address of your funds you can use that to monitor whether it has been moved or not,
• In the event you recover your funds, make multiple backups and do not carry wyour seed phrase around.

This is the reason there is a incentive in place, miners get the coinbase reward for every completed block and thus encourages them to not attempt to cheat the system as it is far more rewarding to simply mine.
Also, an attempt to cheat the system through.a 51% attack would be quickly discovered and the shady chain would be dropped, so someone who invested millions of USD into buying mining hardware to own over half of the hashrate would be quickly discovered should or when they attempt an attack on the network.
The consensus to drop a shady chain is an example of the decentralization of Bitcoin.

The fact that the Bitcoin community is still made up of a 'few' people means those who know about it now are early adopters, putting them in a good position for the future. All new innovations diffuse slowly into the society, happened to internet, which is now everywhere in the world. Bitcoin is at the stage the internet was many years ago and has huge potential for growth both in users and value.

I voted for $100k or more, but it doesn't matter really, price speculations are unnecessary in th long run. Just buy and hodl.

Bitcoin is a digital currency and nothing more; it has a lot of distinct qualities that makes it stand out, such as decentralization, immutability, borderless, etc, these are what attracts holder to the network, it also has it's drawbacks and limitations which are what the Bitcoin improvement proposals seeks to solve.

Viewing it as a currency that it is helps to keep one grounded and allows them to make neutral decisions, any other ideology is counter productive; Bitcoin cannot save economies and countries, it cannot bridge the wealth gap either and there's the element of risk for investors, so one has to be cautious when buying in.

If avatars were still allowed by the forum, campaigns would not want to go for the easy-on-the eys designs, but the heavily animated ones which they believe would attract more attention. You can see this by checking many sites today, which depends on flashy animated designs with blinkering ads.
Disabling animated signatures seems to be the best option to keep the forum sane for viewers.

The purpose of this forum is to discuss Bitcoin and related topics, signature campaigns and advertised spots are a bonus to give visibility to certain websites.

Jr member is the minimum rank to wear a signature and if a user is trying to earn as soon as they get 1 merit, it looks very like they want to milk the forum; Focus on the primary goal of the forum, join helpful discussions and grow your knowledge base, these would prevent a user from spamming should they eventually join a campaign and increase their chances or ranking up

The user stats shows Loyce at the #2 spot on merit ranking - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=topusersat
The list is a not very current, as the merit count of some users are off, but it shows that sometime recently that was the ranking, and judging by the difference in merits on the list and on LoyceV's profile, #2 is the correct ranking.
BPIP also shows the same ranking with more updated figures.

I can imagine almost everyone with hands of steel at one point or the other sold their Bitcoins too early or traded them for a shitcoin which they expected would increase in value far more than Bitcoin and ended up losing out in the long run. Almost all the altcoins which I have ever held are not trading on ay exchange at this point, with zero value.
Holding Bitcoin is risky, but altcoins are pretty much gambles or wild guesses on which could rise within the short term as almost all become valueless in the long run

One of the popular piece of advice is to only invest amounts that you can afford to lose; Going all into Bitcoin sounds very novel, with dreams of getting multiples of your investment, but there's a level of risk to it. Your risk could pay off in the long run, but as an investor, regulating your level of risk is very important.

Buying and holding  Bitcoin seems a better approach.

There are already rules for spam with appropriate punishment for violators;

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About your suggestion; While deleted post usually means it's spam, making a general rule regarding that may not be advisable. Some users complain of their bumps being deleted wrongly or their replies getting deleted mistakenly for some other reason that isn't spam.
I believe it's best to handle each case uniquely, rather than taking a general approach.

There have already been tons of threads on this particular topic, and many on the forum would advice you use the search button before making a topic to avoid hackneyed ones.

A spam free era is impossible in my opinion, whether it's a forum or a social website; it is impossible to control 100% the content being posted, and users always find motivation to spam, it could be signature campaigns on bitcointalk, or fraud attempts on YouTube or Instagram.

It's been a while I saw a URL with a hyphen between letters, it makes it a bit more difficult for the users and could be a reason for the reduced visibility, Regardless;

This of itself is already a red flag and enough reason to stay away from the exchange, especially if they do not offer any unique service that's lacking on other exchanges. If they request personal information, that is another huge red flag

Your thread was probably reported by another user to be in the wrong board or to be potentially a scam message, and the mod acted on the report. The other deleted thread was a duplicate of the initial one.

Here is the view of the deleted thread and the replies - https://loyce.club/archive/topics/535/5351778.html

I can just imagine the number of users who would input their own personal Bitcoin address and send rather than the proxyban address, if you asked to confirm through a screenshot, that can be easily faked and doesn't count for much.

Op could have honest intentions, but it is a huge undertaking for any member to try and verify while risking their funds and they could be accused of opening routes for previously banned members to re register on the forum.

Newbies getting merits for their first reply or post is not very uncommon; Within 24 hours will be more so because a new member could genuinely have nothing to write about in their first few hours on the forum, except they have been browsing through as a guest for some time, besides this, one would need to time to get acquainted with the new sphere they are into.

Older members would have it easier as they have built a habit on the forum already.

The first recorded price for one Bitcoin was less than $0.01, some sites out it at $0.0008. If we put that figure into context;

• Bitcoin multiplied about 6 million times to get to the current all time high,
• From this current level to $300,000 would be a ×8, which seems pretty small and very probable, considering the price history of bitcoin.
• And from that point to a million dollars per coin is only about ×3.33