You are insulting a lot of us @LoyceV LOL
I'm okay with that.
Check
the most active posters. Currently, the top 5-24 is completely filled with only Stake signatures:
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Stake doesn't care who they hire, as long as they post a lot (of BS). Their spam was called out
5 years ago, and it's still going.
They actually do. If they wouldn't then you wouldn't see me, yahoo, ognasty and some others in their campaign.
I'm not impressed. Money talks.
For a large campaign like Stake it's not always easy.
So? Nobody said it should be easy, it's a paying job. And if the one doing it can't handle it, he should be replaced.
Their weekly budget can easily be over $5k. With this budget they have mix of good and bad posters.
This is the dumbest thing I've read today. Hiring spammers is a choice, and if anything, it's caused by paying too little money for too many posts.
mix of highly reputed members and average members. Problem with high rep members that they will not chase a certain weekly target, you can not force them to fill up the weekly target even with a very high weekly payment but the average members don't mind to chase the weekly target. So Stake is just balancing between number of posts, cost per week and individual reputation.
That's a long way to describe "spamming".
The cost per posts is the most priority for Stake manager (at least I got the impression when I had a discussion with her) which is why many times you find a lot of spammers but overall I think the campaign is doing fairly well.
You seem to be heavily biased by the fact that they pay you. I'd expect much higher standards from you as a campaign manager.
You will always see in every conversation members have Stake signature.
No I don't. I usually Ignore them, if someone creates thousands of posts without earning Merit (and yes, you're an exception to that), it's safe to assume their posts aren't worth reading.
For the point of view from the project owner, it's a great outcome.
Of course. Spammers don't care as long as they earn from it. It's a win-win for them, but bad for the quality of the forum.
For a large campaign like Stake it's not always easy.
Trust me, definitely its not
If running a spam-free campaign is too difficult for you, you shouldn't be managing a campaign at all:
Signature campaigns should be a way to reward users for quality contributions and only those that do should be paid, but at the moment it has become a way for many campaign operators to lazily and cheaply advertise their business by paying greedy users to spam whatever unsubstantial rubbish they can be bothered putting the minimal amount of effort in to and this will no longer be tolerated.
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As a signature campaign operator you will ultimately be held responsible for the quality of posts of users bearing your signature advertisement and you will need to monitor your users closely or it will be quickly abused.
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Running a campaign is not an easy task and it requires someone actively monitoring participants daily ~ If you cannot commit to doing this or do not have someone within your company who can do the job to an acceptable standard then you should either hire someone to do so or close your campaign and look at alternative ways of advertising.
If those rules would be enforced, you'd be banned.
We do not incentive or support spam of any kind. Every post with less than 150 characters, with an interval of less than 5 minutes (between each post) or has no quality is not paid.
Spoken like a true spammer. Good posts can be long or short, spam posts can easily reach the exact target required. Good users don't care about waiting 5 minutes between posts. Spammers can easily jump through those hoops. Long spam posts are even worse than short spam posts, because it takes more time to read and realize it's useless.
We are a team of 7 paying attention to everyone's post and 5 of them are responsible for rating all of them.
This is truely amazing! Those 7 people must be the worst at their job, considering Stake has been paying for useless posts from many spammers for many years!
I dont really trust in the current Merit System
It's not perfect, but it's a good indication. Thousands of posts without earning Merit means nobody cares about those posts.
When you are talking about a brand that runs 2 campaigns, with a total of 124 members, referring to its members, in general, as spammer is just stupid. I also know many of our members are on top 50 in quantity of posts
Lol. If you take any number (>50) of users and rank them in order of quality, there will always be exactly 50 of them in the top 50.
but a lot of them have a rating of 7.5+ for their quality so definitely not what I would simply call "spam".
Who makes those ratings? Stake?
Running a low-spam campaign is
not difficult. But it is a lot of work. It requires reading every post and not just checking the length and time in between.