Actually giveaway really helps miners to get interested on a new coin. Truly, i have learnt more about the coins through their giveaway thread with a lot of useful information and newsletter. Some of them really helps me to find out potential coin and get my interest to mine it. I SELDOM NOTICE A NEW COIN IF I DONT GET ANY CANDIES AS THERE ARE LOTS OF """GOOD""" COIN IN ANN.
Anyway, I am not sure why the owner do not want to make a subforum and specifically handle such "so high volume" of threads. Storage Cost? Efforts? If the real cost is very low and it is purely admin do not want to make it as he is not paid too much and he is too tired.
Why dont utilize such large amount of audience and post some advertisement on that subforum???
My brief daydreaming idea: (two cases)
1. Giveaway thread holders pay to Bitcointalk
Each Giveaway thread sets a upper bound. Users can only post a new giveaway in a certain period of time. If giveaway holders want to raise the upper bound or increase number of giveaway thread in a certain period of time, they have to pay certain fees to Bitcointalk.
2. Third party advertisers pay to Bitcointalk
Everyone who post a new reply, instead of waiting 6 or 8 minutes, they have to watch 3 advertisement and each of them are 20 seconds (Just like those btc-clicks) before the giveaway participants successfully post their replies.
(ie Write reply, click "post reply", watch advertisement, reply sent out). While it benefits users by the writing time shorter, it also helps bitcointalk earns money and cuts spam replies.
PS: I will prefer 1 min total advertisement instead of 6 minutes waiting time in my point of view
After all, purely banning the giveaway and dis-attracting hundreds of new users (or any users targeting on giveaway) is a waste. Sometimes threats come with opportunities (sorry for my bad translation). Have a look of those dogecoin giveaways.One giveaway is already above 1500 post. If you charge those advertisers per advertisement, it will be a huge amount of gold. Surely, getting giveaway already becomes famous for bitcointalk. I know the insight or vision of bitcointalk may not be like that. You may want to hold valuable discussion in this forum. Yep, you could do it just by simply separating us into subform.
After that, you can keep your clean and formal and peaceful discussion of alt-coin in the main section and potentially make a big money on sub-forum. And we got our happy giveaway.
Win-win situation. Why not?
To KeyserSozeMC, the admin is not saying you cannot hold a giveaway. Just you have to hold it offsite and post a link there. I guess this may be your last resort. You may establish a new forum or using other social networking platform and just post a link in bitcointalk.
One more point: this removal really disadvantages those dev-teams without offsite forum and any technical skills in that area. IF YOU DONT KNOW HOW TO MAKE A WEBSITE OR FORUM, YOU CANT HOLD GIVEAWAY XD.
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