I left the campaign after seeing the new signatures. Yobit is just an exit scam waiting to happen and it's blatantly obvious at this point. You can find stories of people's balances being locked and professionalism is nonexistent with this exchange. They would send out emails with blatant typos and they could barely even run their signature campaign without leaving users in the dark in regards to payouts. In addition to fake trading volumes I don't think anyone should be promoting their ponzi garbage. It's pathetic that any exchange that wants to consider themselves reputable would pushing for this so I'd suggest anyone that has money on Yobit withdraw it before they do it for you in some "hack".
Responses such as this 1 seem so hypocritical IMO. I was ok with getting paid by Yobit as long as I was advertising cryptotalk. The exchange was good to use while they were paying me to post about another forum, but now that they are promoting something in their site, I am not ok with it.
Look guys, I was blindsided by all this myself. I woke up to a load of PMs here and messages on telegram regarding the situation. Being as the case is what it is, I did ask awhile back about thoughts on myself looking over their campaign.
THREAD FOR REFERENCE and the consensus was overwhelmingly that users would rather I be in some sort of control of the campaign vs noone at all. When this topic was created I had assumed that they would be advertising the exchange as well, not a different forum. My assumption is all of you thought the same thing being as cryptotalk was not even in existence yet.
Now on to today. Like I said before I woke up to all these changes, and i'm not personally ok with all of them. I never was managing the campaign, but rather trying to control the spam, which I think I have done a damn good job of doing for the most part, along with a great deal of help by a lot of community members. The Investbox has been a part of the exchange for awhile now. Not sure when it was introduced.
I know the general consensus of Yobit as an exchange is poor. I personally have never had an issue there but that doesn't mean others have not. I also know that almost every other exchange has had accusations against them as well. So generally they're all in the same category for me. Use them at your own discretion.
I'll wait for yahoo's decision on this before making any changes to my signature. This looks like a breach of contract on the part of yobit.
This user said it best as far as my deal with YoBit. They contacted me Sep 27th of this year and asked me to handle the cryptotalk campaign. They never said anything to me regarding Yobit exchange minus that's where payments would come from. Anyone with any sense obviously would come to the conclusion cryptotalk was ran by yobit though. So in a sense people were advertising for Yobit the whole time.
I'm not 100% in agreement that the investbox is a ponzi or pyramid but I could be wrong. Currently I just don't understand how the damn thing works and I need to find somewhere to educate myself on this.
Here's what investbox is according to yobit:
Invest your free coins to InvestBox! It’s a tool for devs to promote their coins. It’s NOT Pyramid/HYIP, all payments are made from special fund.
InvestBoxes can change status from Active to «No coins», but you can close your investment any time, it’s 100% safe.
InvestBoxes of AIR have a new type (no investment close, you can only get daily percent).
From what AverageGlabella posted apparently from Yobit's invesbox page, it's supposed to be investing of your free coins. Again I really do not know, so I am trying to find out.
Conclusions I have come to regarding these changes.
1. looks as though the cryptotalk campaign is over
2. my contract with them has ended
3. I am sending admin a message regarding this new campaign. I will be asking if the signatures can be changed. I would also like someone to have direct contact with regarding when their balance goes empty. I want better communication skills from them period or it's a no from me on continuing any sort of cooperation with them.
To the users who have or will change to this new signature. Do it at your own risk. DT is going to do as they please, even though I don't wholly agree with decisions to red tag the users at this point. Noone really tagged livecoin participants and this is no different.
I really don't like users using the excuse," I'm waiting to see what yahoo does before I do anything" You guys have a brain and your own opinions. Do what you feel is correct. Don't use me as your scapegoat.
To users who do or plan to use Yobit. Do your own due diligence and research something before blindly tossing money into it.
I know we are going to see varying opinions on this issue for both sides of the argument. Let's keep it civil while the discussion is happening and I will report anything that they respond to me with regarding this new campaign and my decision on whether to continue or walk away.