[ANN][ICO] Authorship - Making the Internet More Free and Accessible For Authors

[vanalli]

FWIW, I've received my bounty tokens now. The real issue is that a large number of you don't seem to understand what the problem was here: people have lied, cheated and generally failed to understand even the simplest of instructions/statements. Are most of you 12 years old or something?

[MartinTheWanderer]

This is why we can't have nice things

I got my tokens, very happy and I didn't do anything dishonestly, just had my family sign up.

I actually figured something like this would happen in the end because there's always selfish greedy scammers/idiots ruining it for the rest of us, who just can't help themselves but create a bunch of BS accounts and take advantage of free tokens, those are the real people to blame here.

IMO the guys behind the ICO, they tried to do a nice thing and gain some promotion from it, it's probably cost them more than it's been worth now and they totally underestimated the people who may take advantage of such an offer within the crypto community.

I totally understand and share your sentiment.

Yet:

• people are cunts. It is known. If you allegedly want to build a platform of that size, you'd know that as well. If your affiliate program can not filter out the scam artists, you just have to swallow it, not give everybody the finger, errrr, three free books... 
• it did not cost them anything. They created Ether tokens, it is not like they are handing out gold coins that they had to pay for previously... And they collected a handsome sum of Ether. People promoted this ICO like crazy (even some of the cheaters), so Authorship raised a lot more money than without that bounty program, AND they now have a huge list of emails, names and ether addresses they can use/sell
• even IF they were convinced the majority of referral signups was fraudulent... even IF the technical difficulties were as they stated in their email earlier... it would have been wiser to be silent. Now people think Authorship tried to wiggle out, AND that they are significantly less competent than we thought before... 

[sandler425]

FWIW, I've received my bounty tokens now. The real issue is that a large number of you don't seem to understand what the problem was here: people have lied, cheated and generally failed to understand even the simplest of instructions/statements. Are most of you 12 years old or something?

Did you fill out the withdrawal form?  

The issue you don't seem to understand is that Peter told us we would get our tokens regardless of whether we filled out the withdrawal form.  

Nobody who has failed to fill out the form so far has gotten his/her tokens yet, it seems.  So did Peter fuck up the information again or are those who didn't fill out the form just done last?

[Wekkel]

Are most of you 12 years old or something?

Probably, but that does not explain the erratic decisions of the team.

Finding out that perhaps people made bogus accounts to claim some ATS is no reason to run into disaster like this. Who decided in this mess at Authorship?

[mrpiano]

I filled form a few seconds after ico finished but it is not first come,first serve. I got confirmation for my payment, i only register one time, i share on webboard, i warned users never register more than one, i showed them how to create ethereum on mew, after ico finish, i warned my ref to fill form, they all different ip, different ethereum wallet, different location, different computer, all traffic from webboard, my webboard link has more than 1700 views, i contact with Peter for payment he said all ok, can get payment, what result now? 3 free books? Not get any payment ( 3000 ATS ) i bought from ico more than 2ETH, all was good, Peter support and replies but they not respect my efford, because of many scammers, because of double payment i get nothing. I believe some users same as me, and i believe some scammers already got payment.


Users who didn’t receive their free ATS yet, I am sorry to inform you that all distributions have been suspended.

the system to avoid abuse had to be implemented sooner rather than later, the people who did the job well have been mocked.

[vanphummo]

Why 0 ETH ?

https://imgur.com/a/idkMK


Can you help me ?

[teribhenkochodon]

What gas price should I select if i want to transfer these tokens? And how much ether should I have in my wallet to transfer?

[Sotaborn]

Are most of you 12 years old or something?

Probably, but that does not explain the erratic decisions of the team.

Finding out that perhaps people made bogus accounts to claim some ATS is no reason to run into disaster like this. Who decided in this mess at Authorship?

Why wasn't the fraud being culled/canceled/looked at along the way? Instead of being sprung on all the users suddenly as an excuse of sorts.


I understand the confusion as I've read all of the following today:



1. Cancelling bounty program/Ceasing Payouts + Book Coupon


2. All accounts that earned over 1000ats will be paid


3. No need to file withdrawal form


4. Everyone is getting paid again + 3IP rule

[Wekkel]

Indeed: in 1 day.

I do not care much (I invested like 0.5 ETH in this) but Authorship team:

Print out the posts of today, read them aloud in your entire group and make sure that each of you understands what went wrong here.

Seriously.

[sandler425]

Are most of you 12 years old or something?

Probably, but that does not explain the erratic decisions of the team.

Finding out that perhaps people made bogus accounts to claim some ATS is no reason to run into disaster like this. Who decided in this mess at Authorship?

Why wasn't the fraud being culled/canceled/looked at along the way? Instead of being sprung on all the users suddenly as an excuse of sorts.


I understand the confusion as I've read all of the following today:



1. Cancelling bounty program/Ceasing Payouts + Book Coupon


2. All accounts that earned over 1000ats will be paid


3. No need to file withdrawal form


4. Everyone is getting paid again + 3IP rule

Because Peter has about as much conviction as a child and was changing his mind to please literally everybody in the thread without thinking for himself.

He also had a personal little vendetta against one cheater, completely ignoring other people's legitimate concerns along the way just so he could post more spiteful messages against that one guy, until we reminded him he's representing a company not posting on 4chan.

That's why this was so confusing today.

[jjcp1984]

But I never fall back on these tokens traps, they say they pay you to campaign and then they leave with stories of ip and that I, I just like to promote their tokens for free .... SCAMMMMM

[KristianSH27]

I hope I'm in the remaining 10%.

[Juudai]

Received all my tokens! Thank you Authorship team!

[sandler425]

I hope I'm in the remaining 10%.

At this point I'm just going to fill out the Withdrawal form even though I don't need to change my ETH address because it looks like they aren't sending out the tokens without it.

I hope they send the rest out soon.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

I just want this guys to pay me my earned tokens, I did a lot of work, promoting on Facebook, posting on Twitter, whatsapp groups, telegram,  bitcointalk, I was kicked out of some groups I posted in for spamming, I spent 90 percent of my time and data explaining to interested prospects what authorship and ATS is and how they can register successfully, I mansged to earn only 1060 ATS token, I was happy cus I didn't join the campaign on time, now it's time to pay, I don't get paid, most of the people I referred already told me they've been paid, Peter said payment is first come, first serve, I filled the withdrawal form on time, yet my payment was jumped, I only have one account, no body else registered with my ip, what is the fault now..? Am just not happy with the way this thing is going, how am I sure am among the remaining ten percent when payment is first come, first serve, this is not good authorship

[sandler425]

I just want this guys to pay me my earned tokens, I did a lot of work, promoting on Facebook, posting on Twitter, whatsapp groups, telegram,  bitcointalk, I was kicked out of some groups I posted in for spamming, I spent 90 percent of my time and data explaining to interested prospects what authorship and ATS is and how they can register successfully, I mansged to earn only 1060 ATS token, I was happy cus I didn't join the campaign on time, now it's time to pay, I don't get paid, most of the people I referred already told me they've been paid, Peter said payment is first come, first serve, I filled the withdrawal form on time, yet my payment was jumped, I only have one account, no body else registered with my ip, what is the fault now..? Am just not happy with the way this thing is going, how am I sure am among the remaining ten percent when payment is first come, first serve, this is not good authorship

This. That's all we want Authorship. Please give us our tokens.

[mrpiano]

I do not know if they ask for the chips if they are not worth anything, there is no exchange that works with ATS 

[WrittenEmotion]

Peter should get his Authorship email privileges removed. Shit reflection on Authorship. You guys need a new PR guy.

[Destroyer1333]

I really hope that I'm in the remaining 10%.

[MrThanh]

ahh ... omg are you telling me that if my referal have 3 referrals from one IP  im suspended ? i got lost here ?

It has nothing to do with referrals. If more than 3 people registered from the same IP as yours the account is suspended.

well nice cuz there is only me registered from my IP and i still didn't receive my tokens after i request withdraw  

but check here some lucky guy who is not a scamer got his and few other  https://etherscan.io/token/0x2daee1aa61d60a252dc80564499a69802853583a?a=0x8f35ffe6637d15967ef91ae56b957bf2ba57f340

Wow, at least 11 people share this wallet? How can this pass through to be paid?