Man, that douchebag exchange is still creating useless tools to attract members. Beside tokens and next robo(cop)-trade, that exchange is also trying to attract the interest of the crypto community by creating forum that similar with btt. However, IMHO, that "counter" forum is more like a trash forum, rather than quality forum. Very far quality. Distance, like Earth and Pluto.
Yes that cryptotalk forum run and operated by Yobit never really took off. I just browsed a few pages there just to remind myself what their forum looked it, I even forgot the name and had to use a search engine to remind me. It is as you said a trash forum.
As for them still creating useless tools to attract people, they never stop. They are relentless in their in-house ICO pumps and dumps that have no blockchain and are internal ponzi schemes. This RoboTrade seems to be adding buy/sell in a single page so you can effectively place a sell order before you even buy.
I got that e-mail from Yobit as well and didn't click on it until just now. I was a bit taken aback by this image right next to the login button on Yobit's home screen:
I don't know exactly what they're offering there, but I seriously doubt it's $1700.
And this Robotrade thing I don't fully understand--I did look at it on Yobit's site, and it just looks like you'd be placing a buy and sell order for a trading pair at the same time. There doesn't seem to be any information as to how it's supposed to function, which doesn't surprise me with Yobit. They really are scraping the bottom of the barrel these days.
They are probably sending out different mailshots to different users.
The "1700 Dollars" were "1700 Yobit dollars" which as you guessed are pointless and useless in the real world. Outside of Yobit they have no value and inside Yobit they only have enough value if you first buy in to the so-called local ICO and then receive your free Yobit dollars as a bonus. All that information has been removed from their website. Their Terms and Conditions are still a joke and the link can only be found from the registration page.
It is a miracle this scam has been going on for years and they have scraping the barrel nearly all that period.