What's the difference between Marketplace (Altcoins) and Speculation (Altcoins)? While the contents of both of them often discuss the same topic.

Marketplace (Altcoins) -  On-forum sale of goods and services either altcoin related or sold for altcoins. This includes bounties, advertisement campaigns, dedicated ICO threads, announcement of external giveaways (that do NOT require posting on Bitcointalk), etc. If your cryptocurrency token is more of a traditional investment (e.g. stocks, shares) rather than a new coin, the ANN thread belongs here.

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Speculation (Altcoins) - Discussion about altcoin prices. This includes discussion about portfolios ("what altcoins are you holding?"), price predictions ("is coin X going to reach 10$ next week?" or "why is this coin's price so low?") and general speculation ("are the altcoin markets crashing?").

what is this ?

It is good that the altcoin giveaway related post volume and program are put under control in other to avoid insubstantial post or spamming the forum. I check the OP page of this topic and I found out that this rules was created since January 27, 2014. I would like to know if this rule is still active due to what I'm seeing lately.
 

Giveaways = airdrops or not?

Why is cryptodao adverising here then? They transfered money from my wallet to other one and not replying since 2 weeks. This is SCAM. @cryptodev2014

Q: Why haven't you banned <insert scammer username here> who is an obvious scammer?
A: Possible (or real, not for me to decide) scams are not moderated to prevent moderator abuse. If we start picking out which ones we call "scammers" and ban, we would make a lot of decisions based on biased opinions.

yes I have had people come into my thread and blatantly post about their product.

Is there a place I can report this? it's quite off-putting, thank you

Is this officially implemented? , so it means that .. threads will be more focusing on signature campaigns advertising. In my opinion it was really nice to share knowledge on how your going to earn alot btc through different types of transactions and strategies.

And Do you investigate on who is advertising scam ?

People will be banned if reported for scam enough.
Things are watched pretty tightly here from my experience !