Do not invest based on the "telegram community"

[ajeef]

Back in 2017, many ICO projects pride themselves of having one of the biggest telegram community. Some of them would market it as a proof or sign that many investors believe in their project. People who have been around all know that most members there are airdrop/bounty hunters who only joined to qualify for the reward.

I also saw one post earlier asking for telegram group members and one of the condition the buyer posted is that it "needs to look real".

Anyway, this post is just a reminder to beginners in crypto. We don't want you to fall for these tricks to lure you into investing into their projects.

Yeah some bounty hunters are asked to be promote their project on their telegram groups and saying good things to the projects. While the crypto newcomers and just joined the telegram group will look into the chats and thought the project is real good, but the newcomers are not doing research to the project yet. This things are happens oftenly.

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[fuer44]

Back in 2017, many ICO projects pride themselves of having one of the biggest telegram community. Some of them would market it as a proof or sign that many investors believe in their project. People who have been around all know that most members there are airdrop/bounty hunters who only joined to qualify for the reward.

I also saw one post earlier asking for telegram group members and one of the condition the buyer posted is that it "needs to look real".

Anyway, this post is just a reminder to beginners in crypto. We don't want you to fall for these tricks to lure you into investing into their projects.

indeed like that, the telegram group from the bounty is on average a bounty hunter or airdrop which is their condition to join. so it's not a problem, for me it's only natural when there are bounty telegram groups that have very many members and most of them are airdrop or bounty participants. the fact that you will invest or not is up to you. but while the group still looks active and the admin gives good responses, there's no harm in asking questions and then can start investing.

[meliodas]

Telegram communities or any opinions from different online communities should not be a solid basis for investing. Investing is all about doing research and clarifying all of the things before you put your hard earned money into something. If you are only basing on the opinions or suggestion of other people then definitely in the near future, you will be screwed up.

[bitcoinposts]

we should invest based on telegram promotions in crypto we should follow our own analysis most of the telegram groups are fake

[makolz26]

Telegram communities or any opinions from different online communities should not be a solid basis for investing. Investing is all about doing research and clarifying all of the things before you put your hard earned money into something. If you are only basing on the opinions or suggestion of other people then definitely in the near future, you will be screwed up.

Most of them are just paid chillers and hypers to make the community active, so don't get FOMO about what they are saying. Let's just enjoy the ride and check what is the real happening in their product, do they really have working product? Or they are just waiting for the fund yet. When they are not working yet as they are waiting for raised fund, then it will be too risky. For me, I am willing to take risk to make money if I know that there's already an existing product and the team behind it also invested their own fund.

[karanggatak]

now we must be more careful and more selective in joining the ICO project. because fraudsters are getting smarter they have many ways to attract investors. one of them by manipulating the number of members of the telegram. some newcomers or investors think that a project that has many members in telegram and social media is a good and successful project. This is a trick.
so we must do serious research before deciding to join a project.

[TRONTON]

now we must be more careful and more selective in joining the ICO project. because fraudsters are getting smarter they have many ways to attract investors. one of them by manipulating the number of members of the telegram. some newcomers or investors think that a project that has many members in telegram and social media is a good and successful project. This is a trick.
so we must do serious research before deciding to join a project.

one reference to the quality of the community is that chat always leads to the core part of the project and marketing, and their admin always says something tangible from every conversation, in contrast to telegram groups that are really full of bot and the admin fails to develop subjective interests.

A lot of constructive communication will make many members believe, not all of them are wrong because most good projects have tens of thousands of telegram members.

[Insomnia family]

now we must be more careful and more selective in joining the ICO project. because fraudsters are getting smarter they have many ways to attract investors. one of them by manipulating the number of members of the telegram. some newcomers or investors think that a project that has many members in telegram and social media is a good and successful project. This is a trick.
so we must do serious research before deciding to join a project.

one reference to the quality of the community is that chat always leads to the core part of the project and marketing, and their admin always says something tangible from every conversation, in contrast to telegram groups that are really full of bot and the admin fails to develop subjective interests.

A lot of constructive communication will make many members believe, not all of them are wrong because most good projects have tens of thousands of telegram members.

yes, I fully agree as explained by agan above. that the key to all of this is not all projects that have maximum members or even thousands indicate that they are bot members. You can differentiate from how they interact in groups. be it conversations or constructive response teams & admins. and keep in mind that good projects always have large members and are active in project conversations.

[iv4n]

Its easy to make telegram community, cause you can invite and add people in your group. Everyday I see that I'm a member of a few new groups, someone added me, I cant even keep the track about that anymore. Add to that many bots.
I would like to add one thing, do not invest based on one source! No matter what your source is, check it! Don't relay on just one place, it never ends good. When its about your money don't be lazy, check informations you got on several places and you will have better picture about the project you wish to invest in.

[DeathProxy]

Investing in a crypto project on the basis of large telegram members will only lead to loss. Reason because most large telegram groups are made up of bots and dormant members with little or no influence on the  project.  Most are not investors that will drive the project forward. Any one wishing to invest his funds in any project should look far beyond telegram group members and take into consideration things like profile of the team, does the project have any workable product,  funding and partnership so as to make timely decisions

[aemma]

Back in 2017, many ICO projects pride themselves of having one of the biggest telegram community. Some of them would market it as a proof or sign that many investors believe in their project. People who have been around all know that most members there are airdrop/bounty hunters who only joined to qualify for the reward.

I also saw one post earlier asking for telegram group members and one of the condition the buyer posted is that it "needs to look real".

Anyway, this post is just a reminder to beginners in crypto. We don't want you to fall for these tricks to lure you into investing into their projects.

That's actually true, back in the days such was the case, that is, many projects have large telegram members which always make their public sale to be successful (on most cases). But nowadays, the reverse is the case, some set ways to attract members so that it will look like the project is heading somewhere while it's not. Let's endeavour to look past whatever the team always throws at us and focus on the right thing or what the project is building.

[bitvalak]

Back in 2017, many ICO projects pride themselves of having one of the biggest telegram community. Some of them would market it as a proof or sign that many investors believe in their project. People who have been around all know that most members there are airdrop/bounty hunters who only joined to qualify for the reward.

I also saw one post earlier asking for telegram group members and one of the condition the buyer posted is that it "needs to look real".

Anyway, this post is just a reminder to beginners in crypto. We don't want you to fall for these tricks to lure you into investing into their projects.

The large number of telegram followers is sometimes a parameter for beginners to start investing in ICO projects like IEO. But in the group there is very little important chat activity, the contents are only spam chat that is off topic.
In my opinion the most reasonable is the existence of chat activities between members with the admin and founder of the telegram group, it shows that there is seriousness on the part of the project maker to develop into a bigger and faster.

[HabiebRiziq]

Back in 2017, many ICO projects pride themselves of having one of the biggest telegram community. Some of them would market it as a proof or sign that many investors believe in their project. People who have been around all know that most members there are airdrop/bounty hunters who only joined to qualify for the reward.

I also saw one post earlier asking for telegram group members and one of the condition the buyer posted is that it "needs to look real".

Anyway, this post is just a reminder to beginners in crypto. We don't want you to fall for these tricks to lure you into investing into their projects.

Information like this is indeed needed for beginners to not easily believe what is said and to include some evidence that their project has many investors participating in the project. For beginners it is better to ask their close friends for suggestions on what they are going to do so that from this advice he gets a comparison to decide what steps he will take.

[alan2here]

Back in 2017, many ICO projects pride themselves of having one of the biggest telegram community. Some of them would market it as a proof or sign that many investors believe in their project. People who have been around all know that most members there are airdrop/bounty hunters who only joined to qualify for the reward.

I also saw one post earlier asking for telegram group members and one of the condition the buyer posted is that it "needs to look real".

Anyway, this post is just a reminder to beginners in crypto. We don't want you to fall for these tricks to lure you into investing into their projects.

The large number of telegram followers is sometimes a parameter for beginners to start investing in ICO projects like IEO. But in the group there is very little important chat activity, the contents are only spam chat that is off topic.
In my opinion the most reasonable is the existence of chat activities between members with the admin and founder of the telegram group, it shows that there is seriousness on the part of the project maker to develop into a bigger and faster.

If project is constantly chat and has many good questions, then it is certainly getting a lot of attention from people. As I know, there are many telegram channels that have a high number of followers but do not have any activity and that makes me feel very worried because maybe they are fake users. I always evaluate the community first but still need a short time to evaluate the details of the project.

In any case, you must always be careful because the crypto market has many risks that you need to be aware of and should consult with others if you find the project is not good.

[Latines]

Indeed, there are so many advisers in telegrams that the question immediately arises, where did they come from? This is just a hoax. They want to make money with us. It doesn’t matter to them whether we earn. Such are the people now. Be careful.

[tianglistrik]

the purity parameters of a profitable project are not from the many communities in the telegram but rather the whitepaper they make. there are many factors to consider, and if you have the view "that the project will succeed when it has a large community" it will not help much. it is better to focus on the platform on which the project will be made, useful or not

[Getmon]

the purity parameters of a profitable project are not from the many communities in the telegram but rather the whitepaper they make. there are many factors to consider, and if you have the view "that the project will succeed when it has a large community" it will not help much. it is better to focus on the platform on which the project will be made, useful or not

The success of a project does not come from any single factor, not the number of telegram channel members, not even the whitepaper or the team. The success of a project will come from all the factors taking into perfect harmony and play. The team should be composed of quality people united to launch a brilliant project which creates a product that is going to help a lot of people in their daily lives or companies in their daily operations.

[Coltpython]

Although having a large community is not a guarantee that a project will do well when invested in, but seeing a telegram group with only 300 members is not a sign that the project will attract big investors either. I'd say everyone should DYOR and not develop sentiments based on telegram group's population

[comchien]

Yes, the telegram community is very crowded, but there are probably many projects that add members to increase the number to show that the project has a lot of followers, do not overly believe in it, please update all social networks. like facebook, twitter, medium and everything to keep you informed about a project, telegram is growing in popularity and ease of use so take a closer look.

[Bttzed03]

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man telegram is garbage, i been telling people that forever, it wasent made for thousands of people to have proper discourse
tho i see they remade their UI to look like discords, that helps a bit sort out the spammy mess
who thought putting 30,000+ people of all languages in a single channel was a good idea?   what a joke.   Place is a scammers paradise
Proper projects make threads here, plain and simple. HERE is where people can OPENLY discuss projects without being censored/blocked (like telegram channels)

Good point. Assuming all the 30K members were legit and really interested in the project, it's hard to maintain a good discussion among members there. It's like combining all topics in one board from off-topic, technical, investment-related, and others. That's really messy  

This is also why some projects who wants a real discussion have migrated to discord and slack. Although there is still censorship, the topics can be discussed in a more orderly manner.