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

[alzander]

Guess I missed the post where Peter said all distro is over. Understand there were some 'scammers', but there has to be a way to get details on why we were listed that way as I absolutely wasn't.

[mistdew]

sure ! Scam 100% , i have not get paid for the bounty campaign
maybe "8158 token holders" is their own.

here is what i received from their email
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Hi everyone,

The tokens distribution for our bounty campaign has officially ended.

Everyone received their ATS tokens if there were no more than 3 registrations from the IP they registered with. We believe that multiple registrations from the same IP is a sign of fraudulent leads and suspended all such accounts.

There are 8158 token holders: https://etherscan.io/token/0x2dAEE1AA61D60A252DC80564499A69802853583A

 

We would like to apologize for the delay in sorting things out and take the time to address some of your concerns.

Our major issue with the bounty campaign was the fraudulent registrations.

Thousands of such registrations were entered into the system despite our best efforts to prevent this.

Steps we took during our bounty campaign to prevent such registrations:

-Enforced double opt-in on registrations

-Kept track of registration IP/confirmation IP, if they don’t match suspend the account.

-Kept track of the number of visitors each referral link accessed and disabled account where there were no visitors through the referral link but were showing an increasing number of referrals

-suspended accounts were the ETH address used by cheaters was the same, even if accounts had different IP addresses

-suspended account where name/email contained easily identifiable random data

-suspended account registration once a certain number of registrations happened from the same IP address

Despite our best efforts to filter through fake referrals, a high number of them still managed to get through and that was clear to us when the withdrawals form was completed. As a result, we’ve decided to suspend all accounts where there are more than 3 registrations from the same IP.

All payments to qualifying accounts have been completed....
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This is nonsense if true. I've not received this mail yet even though I received confirmation for withdrawal and subsequent mails. They have to go back to work and sort many genuine people out.

[S-triple-C]

Congrats to all who received their ATS. See you in Polo or Bittrex and I will be buying the dumps  

[Okuzgozu]

Whats going on in this ico. Topic always on top, I read some messages but i didnt understand anything. Its like a chaos goin on

Read the latest email from them.

No i wasnt part of any bounty in this. I was just wondering whats goin on in this ico cause its always on top of announcement. As i can see they made a bounty but they screw it up so people pissed off

[demoncity]

I repeat JUST IGNORE THIS PROJECT

This is all :

-suspended accounts were the ETH address used by cheaters was the same, even if accounts had different IP addresses

https://etherscan.io/token/0x2dAEE1AA61D60A252DC80564499A69802853583A?a=0x8f35ffe6637d15967ef91ae56b957bf2ba57f340

It's incompatible

[lotfiuser]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2185901.new#new

[Midgarosormr]

Guess I missed the post where Peter said all distro is over. Understand there were some 'scammers', but there has to be a way to get details on why we were listed that way as I absolutely wasn't.

What is hilarious is that, if I were flagged as being a cheater for some reason, I even corresponded with them via e-mail about the source of my referrals early on in the bounty -- even linking them to the Reddit thread and receiving an a-okay in response!

They know that my referrals are legitimate, and we all were pretty much screwed over by this.

[hunnykaushal]

I repeat JUST IGNORE THIS PROJECT

This is all :

-suspended accounts were the ETH address used by cheaters was the same, even if accounts had different IP addresses

https://etherscan.io/token/0x2dAEE1AA61D60A252DC80564499A69802853583A?a=0x8f35ffe6637d15967ef91ae56b957bf2ba57f340

It's incompatible

We will ignore you  

[marados]

Just look at the latest transactions going on... You can clearly see that some of the scammers that they are so fighting against got their ATS token, and honest people with no refferals at all didnt even get their.. I mean how is that even possible and fair...

[jungchanhae]

This is for those who were saying that they will complaint to exchanges 

Exchange listing

We’d also like to announce our investors that this entire bounty situation has been discussed with several exchanges, and been told this is a general thing that happens with all ICOs bounties: you can never please everyone and cheaters are a nightmare to deal with messing things up. We are happy to have pleased 8158 token holders. Once things settle and everyone realizes that the distribution is over we’ll be submitting our listing requests as requested by several of you.

80% of the token holders are mostly authors and publishing industry members who look forward to our next year official launch. We would like to thank them all for their vote of confidence as they are an important part of the upcoming platform.

what does it mean, bro. i still don't understand clearly. Can you expain it to me. Sorry because of my bad english!

[bitbollo]

From the last update-email:

Hi everyone,

The tokens distribution for our bounty campaign has officially ended.
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Dear Peter from Autorship, I know you're working high to promote your token, but I didn't receive any payment, despite I have used only one personal computer, for one email, with one IP! Why I didn't get payed? I am sorry but this is a terrible mistake if you're not good enough to separate scammers users from honest one.
Let me know WHY I didn't receive your bounty , or maybe some explanation are good as well

ps I don't have any referral

[maxinamum]

wow so disappointed about this project. I had around 10k ats from bounty campaign, successfully filled withdrawal form. But now I received nothing.
Hmm I don't know if it's a scam project,  but I am scammed by Authorship team right now.

[hunnykaushal]

This is for those who were saying that they will complaint to exchanges  

Exchange listing

We’d also like to announce our investors that this entire bounty situation has been discussed with several exchanges, and been told this is a general thing that happens with all ICOs bounties: you can never please everyone and cheaters are a nightmare to deal with messing things up. We are happy to have pleased 8158 token holders. Once things settle and everyone realizes that the distribution is over we’ll be submitting our listing requests as requested by several of you.

80% of the token holders are mostly authors and publishing industry members who look forward to our next year official launch. We would like to thank them all for their vote of confidence as they are an important part of the upcoming platform.

what does it mean, bro. i still don't understand clearly. Can you expain it to me. Sorry because of my bad english!

From where you are and what is your native language ?

[MaryAngela_Fantocci]

Due to the current situation in the US and China, does this coin have a chance to been listed at Poloniex and Bittrex?

[sommii]

Smells like another scam-shit. Why am I not surprised.   GG WP ATS   enjoy free cash you have for ICO and run away  

[serggg]

Where are my tokens? I had 2 referrals from different IP. Where are my tokens? My address 0xACCCd8Da136F7E85F251a8609992C005fb6f6b01. Waiting.

[billy.ryoko]

Some people received twice, but I still have not received my token, otherwise my friend said that he want to
withdrawal today, but your website withdrawal page is closed.

  

[kkent]

wow so disappointed about this project. I had around 10k ats from bounty campaign, successfully filled withdrawal form. But now I received nothing.
Hmm I don't know if it's a scam project,  but I am scammed by Authorship team right now.

Many people received confirmation messages that said their accounts were cleared and yet they were never paid. Peter and Authorship are just going to ignore that fact and move on. They know that if they release enough statements saying that all legitimate people were paid they can flood the market and make everyone else look like pissed off cheaters.

[Piggy]

Didnt even get the free 75 token, what a joke

[kprell40]

I didn't receive my Tokens either

But what I can see they want us to do all the work for them by bringing people to the site promoting it then don't pay out

Just be careful on the next ICO   You do all the work promoting it make YouTube videos and then don't get paid for your time
Oh well let's move on I guess
  
At least I didn't lose nothing  but time

Now I see why China has banned ICO