1xbit campaign is a scam contest, and users who apply and participate in it willfully promote such scams, to the detriment of their profile.
It is really little surprise that such dishonest members would try to cheat the campaign. The manager of the campaign most probably would not care about such edited posts, they just want to be in peoples faces, with the way they are throwing money into advertisement on different platforms.

I have a question about reporting such posts, If the user edits the post before a moderator can check out the report, what would be an appropriate response to it? Especially if the new post is not worth deleting.

I am aware of this, I was trying to say that the 1xBit campaign manager might not care about how the participants go about the campaign, as long as they keep on spamming. Many of the posts and replies advertising them are low value, but they are all accepted.

I do not see how that is relevant here, I was not even trolling you. Besides, I stated that I had done a bit of reading around the forum before making my first post.

-replying to your edit: I would not say I am very knowledgeable, the 1xBit debacle is not easy to miss, for someone who frequent the forum. My goal is to learn about bitcoin, but first I need to get familiar with the forum features.

Solosanz caught a user behaving like this a while back: (AndySt) The next abuser of stake campaign?

I think it's a bad habit for signature campaign participant. This campaign pays participants to spread awareness on their site which should be done evenly over 7 days, but this way I believe they have hired the wrong people.

If it happens to the 1xbit campaign, then let it be because I don't think we should help the scammer who was scammed by his signature participant. For other campaigns, yes I will agree with your suggestion.

It is not difficult to catch this kind of campaign cheating techniques, even if they managed to edit their blank posts before the moderator checked, we have tools that help to visualize un-edited post from any user. However, just in case I took the liberty to report seveal of their blank posts to moderators.

I think that there are very few people who try to fight spam in general, and when someone uses such insidious techniques, then the matter becomes even more difficult because people have a hard time deciding on any action. I personally haven't seen too much spam regarding the sig campaign mentioned above, which means that they chose parts of the forum that are not the focus of active reporters.

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A problem arises for the moderator, because the post is obviously not what it was initially reported for, and it all boils down to whether the moderator wants to check it in the database of archived posts, or whether the reporter archived it and added a link to the description of the reported post. I'm not sure what the moderator would do in such a case, but it seems to me that the majority would leave such a report unhandled or maybe even mark it as bad.

Can I comment here as a "so what".
1X and a few campaigns really don't care.

The better campaign managers like DarkStar_ , Hhampuz , Yahoo62278 , and many others would bounce out out so fast your head would spin.

It's a bit of a self correcting system. If your manager does not care, you spend money for crap posts that get you nothing, you don't generate more business so you leave.
There are of course exceptions to that, like 1X that are doing it for different reasons. They just want their name out there to scam people.

-Dave

Maybe we should have a rule that only the OP can add "reserved" posts into his topic and a bot should have a list of keywords and report the rest of "reserved" posts at sight?
.. Just an idea I've got now...

Edit: of course, if mods choose to not remove those, not much that can be done.

LoyceV has a scraper for unedited post (free) and a paid service for signature campaign managers.

• LoyceV's convenient (paid) service for signature campaign managers
• 60M posts! View unedited/deleted posts (search per post, per user or per topic)

I believe he can do it easily and it will help managers to have a list of suspicious reserved posts. Then they can compare it to editing time, check content more carefully for post count, etc.

It is normal if a user reserves posts in a single topic (for updates, etc.) but it is abnormal if a user reserve many posts in many topics in short period of time.

However, it should be a paid service, not free one. So I think managers will less likely to use it.

Definitely; I would encourage everyone to report "reserved" posts or ones with ellipses (og kush420 didn't even write a full ellipsis, just two periods, lol) to the mods. 

I realize this is probably just one campaign we're talking about here (1xbit), but how can any campaign manager accept an unfinished post for payment at the end of the pay period?  I'm a bit out of the loop: who's managing the 1xbit campaign, anyway?  It almost looks like the old Yobit campaign style of management, which was to skip having a manager altogether and just rely on post count via an automated bot.

I rarely venture outside of the few sections I frequent, but if I were an active browser of sections like Bitcoin Discussion or the altcoin sections, seeing people get paid for making a post that consists entirely of ".." would infuriate me--and in the past, it's done exactly that.  The years from 2015-2018 to be exact, which is the time I spent on the forum prior to the merit system.  I used to get so pissed at these shitposting idiots that I'd tag them as a spammer.  You can't do that anymore, but my point is that it's annoying at the very least to a lot of people, myself included.

If Theymos allowed me (or DT members in general) to start negging these morons into oblivion, I'd be spending hours each day doing it.  Unfortunately, that wouldn't do much good for 1xbit's collection of shitposters, since the one OP pointed out (og kush420) has lots of red trust, and not even for his posting.  There's a tag from Vod from a few years ago involving an actual scam by that user, and obviously 1xbit doesn't give a shit about who's advertising for them.

It might help with shitposters in other campaigns/bounties, though.  But it's still not a good use of the trust system, hence why people stopped doing it.