And this looks like ref spam:
It is. I don't really get why you quote it instead of deleting it though.
Shinjo's post history is filled with the same ref spam. That explains the explosion of streaming threads, they earn from it.
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It's a giveaway that doesn't even say what they're giving away.
Personally, I think plain announcements of streams without any further in-thread content are pointless and spam.
Agreed. They can post this in the site's main thread if they want people to switch to twitch. Now they're just using Bitcointalk to get more traffic