I've talked about this problem on various occasions with guys that do it.
I believe they feel it is necessary.
In other words if they don't jam it down your throat as much as possible they will lose traction / adoption etc.
But that is silly.. Good things don't need advertising.
Things go viral for a reason.
I think many of these coins would fall off the face of the earth if it wasn't for their spamming though.
It seems like a play of desperation (for attention)
And once they let up the coin will sink.
Most of these coins are limping along close to death.. Monero, Bitshares, NXT etc.
We all heard of them and if i wanted to buy NXT etc i would have done it looooong ago.
So what is the point trying to be sly with advertising ?
There is still the same small amount of users (a gradually shrinking crypto user base)
It's preaching to the choir.
It's like those guys think if they nag you enough you will go to your bank and take it $2,000 to Monero or something LOL
And what is with the inconsistency with moderation on this matter ?
I for example had one single topic i made on Jackpotcoin and every once in a while i would bump it with new info.
The last time i did that i posted 1 comment saying the dev was launching a major wallet update.
Then shortly after mod's deleted my topic.. citing Advertising
And my topic was like almost a year old and it was never a problem until randomly one day..Then take Blocknet for example.. the sleazy douches here bought into it early and then complained to mods i think
and get some topics made about it deleted.. such as i made a topic about the dev claiming he was going to sue me.
No other topic would be more appropriate to post here then that.. bam! deleted.
They claimed i made too many topics.
But there was a lot to the Blocknet launch including a web of deceit that stretched all over.
They went out of their way to removes topics that were the sole place for info.
And they let the topics run long enough so people posted lots for weeks then way later killed them off when no one was looking.
Then have a look around..
Seen any Bitshares, Monero, NXT shilling and spamming ?
And yes i can see some topics from that group that ARE deleted but there is still TONS perma-bumped to page one 24/7 *blatantly.
You can see a log of Moderator actions here in case you guys didn't know.
I think the toleration of what constitute spamming / advertising here is historically extremely inconsistent and suspect.