I'm lowering payment for people with the smaller signature to 0.0001 per post. Users who still have the normal sized one will get normal payment (0.0003)
For the purpose of being as fair as possible any posts you made between the 18th-26th will be worth 0.0003. It is your job to add up the posts during that time period. Payments will still be sent on the 17th of March.
At the end of this term I'm going to re-evaluate payment strategies and likely pay for activity instead of post count. It is my understanding that these changes were made due to the heavy spamming being done by many users of these types of promotions. While the majority of people are legitimately posting and being relevant/constructive there are quite a few bots and spammers who have pushed the site staff towards changing their signature policy. PrimeDice 3 is coming out in about a week with a full fledged affiliate system, I'll likely allow participants to edit their links to their personal URL for some extra incentive.
Regards,
Stunna
Not gonna lie; I'm gutted by the severe payment decrease, but I don't really blame you for lowering the payment drastically as the ads are tiny, but you've gained my respect yet again by choosing to honour payments from the 18th to the 26th (although shouldn't it be the 17th for most of us? - although I might've actually submitted my new term half way though the day (I'll check)). I doubt there's many sig providers that would've done this or compromise as much as you have whilst remaining as fair as possible.
One thing I am concerned and confused about though is paying by activity and how it can that work:
I think that's a fair change, the vast majority of the spam is definitely from Jr member/member accounts. I restricted my promotion to 50+ activity for the last two rounds but it doesn't take very long to get 50. I did make some attempt to disqualify spammers but it was pretty much near impossible to thoroughly look into individual users. What would kill spam completely is probably basing the payments off activity which I'll look into doing if I continue this promotion. If you'd like me to stop doing this entirely I'd be totally willing to cancel it, there are already many competitors though.
Basing it off activity wont really work for you or users. The advertisers who have offered deals based on activity before have quickly been exploited and shut up shop. The Ritz Grand Casino deal did this by paying people upfront and more for the higher activity you had. People signed up and made little to no posts and some users were buying (or trying to buy) higher activity accounts just to claim the payment (one guy was actually banned for hassling users via PM to buy their accounts). If you paid per activity earned that month all people need to do is post twice in each two week period then they've got their full 28 activity for that month. As I've said numerous times before, a simple solution would be to just crack down on spammers and treat them how you would any other spammers with or without a signature deal. The community can police the deals themselves. Just report spammers and abusers to either the mods or sig providers and they'll be dealt with appropriately.
If you do go by activity it's probably either not gonna be worth it to you or us depending on how much you actually pay. I think you can only really either pay a little for not a lot of advertising or a lot for very little as people will just take the money and wont make many posts or the bare minimum to get the activity, and I can't see there being much of a middle ground or one that is fair or worth it to both parties, but it'll be interesting to see what you come up with. Same goes for all the other deals too and how they change and adapt to this. I can't see that new Ritz deal keeping his 0.0005 per post now even if he did pay out. I suppose we'll see either today or tomorrow if he does.
One suggestion I'd make is having the following (or something similar) payment options per post:
Member: 0.0001
Full Member, 0.0002
Senior Member: 0.0003
Hero Member 0.0004
Just my 0.00000002
BTC.
I actually joked about doing that before, but I'm sure it'll almost certainly get us banned if we did it. Would be funny though haha.
