Reduce spam and scam by accepting only Bitcoin for signature campaign.

[The Cryptovator]

Main reason for spam on this forum is signature campaign. Bitcointalk is big promotional place for cryptocurrency. Almost 90% ICO are using bitcointalk for bost their business. I will not bother about other campaign  because it's not forum related.
I want share idea for signature campaign. Because it's directly related with this forum. There are no regulation for bounty. Even no regulation for signature campaign. All ICO using token for signature campaign. Currently we can see many exit scam ico and also ongoing scam ICO with fake team.
I know bounty can't be regulate and we can't prevent also scam too. It's impossible to prevent. But we can reduce it happen on this forum.

If all managers required Bitcoin for signature campaign payment via escrow, then I think spam and scam both will be reduce. On this forum more then 80% post and reply due to requirements of bounty managers or ICO team.

Then those are scammer they will not pay for it. Because there will be huge payment. So it's better point for forum and member's.  Forum will be spam free and member will get real payment.

No manager can do this alone. If I avoid manage ICO without Bitcoin payment for sign camp. then another manager will agree. So all manager should follow same thing.
For this I think here should be a manager community. No any official manager community here. Even we build a unofficial manager community I think we can reduce spam and scam.
At least some one should make sound against scammer/ spammer. Don't let them scam easily.
Community is best way for do it.

I just share my thought to prevent spam on forum. I don't know it is possible or not.

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[The Sceptical Chymist]

If all managers required Bitcoin for signature campaign payment via escrow, then I think spam and scam both will be reduce.

I wholeheartedly agree with this suggestion, as I've seen a few campaigns/bounties/whatever scam their participants by not escrowing the funds for same.  There's really no reason not to, and no reason why the project developers can't hire a good campaign manager and have things run right.  People should treat any bounty/campaign that hasn't escrowed funds with extreme skepticism and think twice about joining it.

As far as requiring this, I don't think that's something Theymos is looking to enforce.  There have been a lot of really good suggestions about how to decrease spam and to keep ICO projects in line, but they've apparently fallen on deaf ears.  You do realize that scams aren't even moderated here, right?

[vphasitha01]

Actually there is a nice ongoing conversation regarding this hot potato which started by "d5000" and even he suggested the solution(s) including suggestion of OP.

Solutions?

- One could restrict campaigns, e.g. only allow campaigns that pay out in Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency that has an independent blockchain and is not an ICO token.

So I think it is better if you can give your thoughts at there rather starting new thread.

btw IMO is if forum staff can collect "fee per spam post" from bounty managers will ultimately reduce the shitposters and most importantly bounty managers take their job seriously when doing a ICO bounty campaign.

Thread link>>>https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4500659.0

[actmyname]

btw IMO is if forum staff can collect "fee per spam post" from bounty managers will ultimately reduce the shitposters and most importantly bounty managers take their job seriously when doing a ICO bounty campaign.

How would this be done? By the number of reported posts a candidate has? But then you would also need to add/remove people to different campaigns and there are dozens if not hundreds of users jumping into signature campaigns on the daily.

It doesn't seem scalable. It's a possible temporary solution but will also require a lot of effort on the part of mods.

[vphasitha01]

btw IMO is if forum staff can collect "fee per spam post" from bounty managers will ultimately reduce the shitposters and most importantly bounty managers take their job seriously when doing a ICO bounty campaign.

How would this be done? By the number of reported posts a candidate has?

Yes. That would be a great way to starting a new way of looking this spam problem. I think we don't need every spam post per fee at the first phase of introduction, but can introduce a threshold spam post count where we could put a fixed fee which gradually increased with the number of spam posts.

It doesn't seem scalable. It's a possible temporary solution but will also require a lot of effort on the part of mods.

I am a believer of this famous quote " A journey of a thousand mile begins with a single step" of LAO TZU.

[gensol]

I agree with you on this. I think it will not only reduce spam and scam, it will also help the hunters have a more liquid currency and know for certain how much their services were really worth. Take for instance some bounties pays 30 days after ICO and most times during this period, the token price might have tanked very much. The loss is always on the hunter.

[Welsh]

I don't think what they get paid in matters much to them at all. In fact I would argue that getting paid in Bitcoin is a lot more lucrative than any shitcoin out there. It's the fact that campaigns which pay in Bitcoin generally have stricter guidelines for what ever reason where as bounties seem to let anyone join them.

In fact there as been a few bounties in the past that paid in Bitcoin, and that resulted in spammers signing up, and doing what they do best. I'm not entirely sure why the Bitcoin services section is a little more well run than the altcoin campaigns. I would probably guess that it's because there are more reputable companies that are advertising there, and paying in BTC.

Whereas bounties a lot of the time are paying in coins/stakes which are worth zero at the start of their campaign, and everyone, and their mother is currently creating a altcoin, and wanting cheap and effective advertising.