It's ok...really! People will say what they want.
Although the ban took me by surprise, I have learnt from this experience. I would have thought that people would get a warning first but that simply isn't the case. Had I been warned by a Mod, I would have immediately stopped and reassessed the situation.

Anyway I'm going to enjoy my 2 week vacation now and when I come back, I won't give anyone the chance to call me a spammer again.

Fact is I only posted a few times in gambling as I ran out of things to contribute. As far as people stating that I was spamming the entire Marketplace board, I truly believed that my responses were genuine but I see that since I was part of a signature campaign, it appeared that I was doing it to boost my post count.

All I have to say about that is this question:
Why didn't I attempt to join a campaign two years ago?
If I am so desperate to "spam" to earn BTC, I should have done so back then.
I only joined because I figured I could collect some pocket-change while posting.

I will also state that I am the owner of an incentive site which costed over 8 BTC (today's value) to acquire and I have paid out over 20 BTC (today's value) in payments thus far.

So please, give me a break with the spammer nonsense!

Just to correct you, nowhere did I ever post any "plus one" posts.



I did read the OP and he clearly stated that the prize was 0.1 BTC!
Perhaps, I approached every thread post as if I were having a verbal conversation with someone.
Maybe my approach isn't "forum-appreciated", so in future I will change that.
Funny thing is the OP didn't have any issues with the comment.



So now there is something wrong with congratulating someone?
No the issue is not that it is a "fluff" post...it's that I'm wearing a campaign signature while doing it.
Noted, next time I want to congratulate someone...I'll do it in a PM.



So much for your doubts...just like everyone who doubted that my responses were genuine but are all so eager to vilify me.





So I wanted to make my posts look presentable, so that it would help me score that A+
Since, you get them by writing sentence after sentence without much formatting, I'll try your technique.



Now you are making assumptions about what I intend to do or not!
You are insinuating that I wrote that post just to fill an extra post count for the signature campaign.
How do you know that I didn't intend to contact that individual and perform a trade in the near future?

Had I intended to SPAM the forum for the signature campaign I would have probably been banned a week ago!
I disagree with every single person who has accused me of spamming.
While I don't appreciate it and am offended by it, I will accept the judgement of the powers that be and will adjust my campaign approach in the future.

I have decided that if I am reinstated, I will try to continue with the campaign as I see a way for me to do so without breaking the forum rules and I can guarantee that my posts will be extremely relevant this time.
I also won't be making a lot of posts unless it is truly warranted.

As far as gambling is concerned, I have not gambled in 2 years but miraculously, I have just found an old gambling account of mine with a lot of cash in it which I haven't touched since. 
So I will be posting in the gambling section.

Note that I am NOT asking to be unbanned. If the Mods see it fit to keep me banned for 14 days, that's fine.

I honestly wasn't aware of the forum rules concerning these matters and that's my fault.
What I would like to say is that if I made these posts but was not part of a signature campaign...nobody would even care!

During the previous week's campaign, I didn't make any posts less than 3 lines but I took a look at your post history and saw a number of 1 and 2 line posts that accounted for your plus 100 posts.

I then followed suit.

I know that you have a lot of quality posts as well but I don't think my 2 liners were any worse than yours.

I woke up this morning to see that I've been banned as well.
At first I thought that it was a conspiracy, but apparently, as it turns out, people are of the opinion that since I joined a signature campaign...I became a spammer! 

After being a member of this site for 2 years without incident and never once having joined a signature campaign until now, I find it utterly ridiculous that I could be considered as such!

Anyway, as it was pointed out to me, I have made a number of shallow or insubstantial posts recently.
While those posts were on point with and highly relevant to the topic, I must agree that I have severely diluted the quality of my posts.

Whether, I am allowed to continue my campaign or not, I don't really care at this point, as it isn't worth destroying my reputation over.
I'll just post according to what's truly relevant to me.

What do people expect anyway?

Just how many times can someone uniquely address variants of the same questions over and over again?
Or post in topics like "gambling" when I'm not a gambler?

I have read posts from the people who posted the most in my signature campaign and their post quality was far from perfect in my opinion!

But whatever...

I'm a Bitcoin Trader first...this ban won't hurt me financially at all...only my ego!

Nuff Said.