Innovative Bitget Shilling [Compliation]

[Findingnemo]

I am not sure how many of you have noticed this, but I have seen many threads created by newbies and Jr.Members for a while with innovative ways to shill the name Bitget, which is a relatively new exchange. Tried reporting them but they are not violating any forum rules so they get away with it but it's obvious that they are shilling the name of their exchange instead of doing it in the authentic form of advertising here.

Some of their threads:
   
Crypto Exchange tokens or Crypto Wallet Tokens?? by Altcoiner007

Choosing the best cryptocurrency to buy often requires a comprehensive approach, considering factors like market cap, liquidity, fundamentals, community, ecosystem growth, etc. I just got into a fix trying to figure out the smartest pick for my portfolio whether to go with an exchange token or a crypto wallet native token.

I know in theory, a crypto wallet is often considered better than an exchange in terms of security because it gives one complete control over their private keys and funds while exchanges are more convenient for trading. However, they offer greater risk because they control one's keys when their assets are on the platform.

Following the recent BWB Airdrop, and the anticipated launchpad on Bitget which is the platform's first launchpad of 2024, would you consider investing in the wallet token or opt for BGB, the exchange token itself which is becoming more established?

See details: https://cryptopotato.com/bitget-wallet-token-bwb-makes-debut-on-the-bitget-launchpad/

I would be glad to read your opinion on these.

There's Something About This New Crop of CEOs... by Joseph-P

It's been a while since Binance got a new CEO thanks to CZ's departure. I came across a tweet talking about how Binance's online presence hasn't been the same ever since. The tweet talked about the importance of a charismatic Head for any company. Unlike CZ, Mr Teng doesn't seem to have that same type of commanding charisma online. Of course this doesn't affect Binance's order books that much, but in the grand scheme of things, I think it means a lot that folks don't get that same type of vibe anymore.

It's easy to see why Bitget chose to promote Gracy Chen to CEO today or why guys Justin Sun still remain the faces of several top companies. These people are actually quite outspoken online, and know just how to keep users excited about any new innovations in their respective companies. If anything, I guess this instance teaches us about the importance of having an exciting face as the representative of any company.

Don't You Think the Power of Flexible Savings Counts? by VicManton

I've been exploring different ways to earn more from my crypto holdings especially in a volatile market, and flexible savings have been a great option. I’ve checked out several exchanges like Binance, Okex, and Bybit. For instance, Binance offers a 3.65% yield on USDT and 0.74% on ETH, which is decent but not the highest. Okex has a 3% yield on USDT and 1% on ETH, which is also solid but similar to traditional savings in some ways. Bybit's rates are lower, with 1.51% on USDT and 1.19% on ETH, which makes me think there are better opportunities out there.

So I expanded my research and discovered the apy on Bitget PoolX is 18.97% for USDT & 28.61% on ETH. The highest I've seen during this study. Maybe I'll expand my search. If you're holding ETH, I believe this is a way to grow assets without getting caught up in the day-to-day market fluctuations.

While I still use Binance and Okex for different reasons, I still believe that this means of increasing one's holdings can go a long way, because if one saves up $100K he would be getting $2K monthly and that's enough than risking to lose everything to high leverages, how do you see this to count for traders and enthusiasts?

Is trading on CEX still worth it? by Crypto_Potato

These days I buy most of my tokens especially altcoins on decentralised wallets like Jupiter or metamask and I only trade on CEXs when they list tokens I already own and I send my tokens there

The only time I buy tokens on CEXs with my credit card is when exchanges have zero fees events or events like a rebate on a deposit you make like the one Bitget currently have and other CEXs like Binance, kucoin etc.

Do you guys think CEXs are still worth it? Let me hear your thoughts

Many more can be added here...

[yahoo62278]

If the mods aren't seeing anything wrong with their activities, then why should you? If they were spamming the forum with 1000 different replies and opening hundreds of new threads to shill, then I'm sure the mods would take some action. Just a few little posts is not enough to warrant any action ATM.

[hugeblack]

This SEO spam aka spamdexing started since last year and I started tagging such activity a while ago but I don't see them stopping. Some refer to Bitget as a good exchange but their way of promoting here is disgusting.

The only solution to this problem is by placing a filter or restriction on "Bitget" keyword for newbie-Jr.Members rank and to avoid this restriction, you must rank-up or purchase a copper membership. Thus, this spam will be significantly reduced.

[CODE200]

This SEO spam aka spamdexing started since last year and I started tagging such activity a while ago but I don't see them stopping. Some refer to Bitget as a good exchange but their way of promoting here is disgusting.

The only solution to this problem is by placing a filter or restriction on "Bitget" keyword for newbie-Jr.Members rank and to avoid this restriction, you must rank-up or purchase a copper membership. Thus, this spam will be significantly reduced.

It's probably a futile endeavor but a commendable one, so far I haven't seen a lot of these people posting exactly Bitget but I do see others that are doing similar things where they ask you about this specific website and then they ramble about how they are newbies and they're asking if there are others out there that knows about this website, hoping that someone would click on it. Thank you for the compilation, I assume that it's going to be a big one because there's definitely more accounts that's going to be doing this stupid shilling.

[Lucius]

If the mods aren't seeing anything wrong with their activities, then why should you? If they were spamming the forum with 1000 different replies and opening hundreds of new threads to shill, then I'm sure the mods would take some action. Just a few little posts is not enough to warrant any action ATM.

After so many years on the forum, you still don't know that mods don't work independently (in most cases) but work according to the reports of forum members. In other words, even if these BG shills made 1000 posts a day, and no one reported it, nothing would happen.


As for it being an innovative shilling, I wouldn't agree with that statement - it's just the absolute bottom that someone can fall to in order to promote their business. I have already tagged several users because of this, because it is an alt farm that works against the rules of the forum - advertising in posts is not allowed.

[ABCbits]

I remember i tried to report thread which spam bitget link few years ago, although only few of them got deleted. I'll just add those users to ignore list, since such SEO spam (without adding direct link to bitget) only removed sometimes by moderator.

[Coyster]

I am not sure how many of you have noticed this, but I have seen many threads created by newbies and Jr.Members for a while with innovative ways to shill the name Bitget, which is a relatively new exchange.

Is it? It was established in 2018, not so new.

Many more can be added here...

Late last year, Nutildah created a thread about this behavior: what's up with all the Bitget shills?, and tagged some of these shillers, you can find more names in that topic. It is a very bad behaviour and since they are paying newbies/Jr members for this, they wouldn't mind if they are tagged or if their posts are removed, they'd just continue doing what they are paid to do.

[Findingnemo]

Is it? It was established in 2018, not so new.

It is a very bad behaviour and since they are paying newbies/Jr members for this, they wouldn't mind if they are tagged or if their posts are removed, they'd just continue doing what they are paid to do.

I see the name of the exchange only from last year so I assumed that they are new and also they ran an actual signature campaign on the forum last year for just two weeks then they came back to their shilling campaign.

Likely they won't care about deleting the posts or even banning them cause they will just pop out with new accounts again and do this again and again so the possible solution for stopping them is to put a word filter on Bitget for low-ranked members as hugeblack suggested.

[nutildah]

Late last year, Nutildah created a thread about this behavior: what's up with all the Bitget shills?, and tagged some of these shillers, you can find more names in that topic. It is a very bad behaviour and since they are paying newbies/Jr members for this, they wouldn't mind if they are tagged or if their posts are removed, they'd just continue doing what they are paid to do.

Looks like they reopened their shill campaign that started on what appears to be their Discord:

Yes, look at this event below, even though they didn't state Bitcointalk, but they wrote "crypto community with at least 10K members", this forum is also crypto community and the total members are higher than that.
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It is annoying, and such posts can often be reported as spam, especially if they have little to nothing to do with the topic of discussion.

[Lucius]

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It is annoying, and such posts can often be reported as spam, especially if they have little to nothing to do with the topic of discussion.

If there is more than an obvious intention (and here it is undoubted), then reporting a post for spam/shilling is not something that will solve the problem, at least not within a normal time frame. BG shills also appeared on the ATT forum, but their admin reacted literally in a few minutes after the report and cleaned them from the system. Some obviously disagree with such actions, but is there any logic in letting someone make a few hundred spam posts in order to be punished?

[barbara44]

I am not sure how many of you have noticed this, but I have seen many threads created by newbies and Jr.Members for a while with innovative ways to shill the name Bitget, which is a relatively new exchange.

But, I will not call this is innovative because they are simply copying those ugly methods. I am sure there had been other businesses/services which already attempted this kind of methodology to promote across this forum. If I remember correctly, fastdice was the one who started a topic on buying high rank forum accounts to promote themselves by early 2016 or around.

You are able to spot those things because they are new topics by newbies but I am sure there should be other accounts who might be spamming across the forum by including above exchange names in replies of existing topics started by other people. I could recall a scenarios where some high rank accounts (above newbie accounts) do mix up some casino name in their each and every post in gambling discussion sub and that continued for considerable amount of time as well (not sure that they stopped themselves or mods took action).

Overall, always some affiliate do spam here on their business somehow. Obviously they are spamming this forum but not explicitly violating any forum rules which is the reason they are enjoying their longer stay.

[babo]

If the mods aren't seeing anything wrong with their activities, then why should you? If they were spamming the forum with 1000 different replies and opening hundreds of new threads to shill, then I'm sure the mods would take some action. Just a few little posts is not enough to warrant any action ATM.

I think like yahoo
it depends on how the shilling is done, if it is done aggressively and spamming then you will be punished, like any spam is done
introducing banned words can make sense but we risk making it too big and then having false positives

in the examples proposed in the first post it doesn't seem to me that there is such exaggerated spam

[robelneo]

I encountered this type of marketing years ago and many are still doing its subtle marketing part of it is content marketing where instead of direct advertising they create a storyline that is relevant to what the audience wants to read of course they mention the platform they are promoting in their storyline.
You are right you have to be innovative to do this and you need engagement, some forums accept this, and some forums don't allow this, and some forums encourage this as long as there are no links in the post.
But it's hard to consider this spam as the content does not revolve around the mentioned product but around the storyline.

Reference to this
The Art of Subtle Marketing: Making Marketing Invisible

[Lucius]

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But it's hard to consider this spam as the content does not revolve around the mentioned product but around the storyline.

Obviously, some people don't mind spam and shills, the only thing that matters is that the daily quota of posts can be fulfilled - even if that means that you participate in a topic with made-up stories that aim to promote some shady company. If you were a moderator on this forum, shills would enjoy it because you wouldn't delete their posts - as long as the storyline is imaginative enough.

[ABCbits]

I encountered this type of marketing years ago and many are still doing its subtle marketing part of it is content marketing where instead of direct advertising they create a storyline that is relevant to what the audience wants to read of course they mention the platform they are promoting in their storyline.
You are right you have to be innovative to do this and you need engagement, some forums accept this, and some forums don't allow this, and some forums encourage this as long as there are no links in the post.
But it's hard to consider this spam as the content does not revolve around the mentioned product but around the storyline.

But if you checked recent post history of user mentioned by OP, you'll find out that they frequently mention word "bitget" on majority of their post. So it's not subtle marketing and IMO should be considered as spam.

[robelneo]

I encountered this type of marketing years ago and many are still doing its subtle marketing part of it is content marketing where instead of direct advertising they create a storyline that is relevant to what the audience wants to read of course they mention the platform they are promoting in their storyline.
You are right you have to be innovative to do this and you need engagement, some forums accept this, and some forums don't allow this, and some forums encourage this as long as there are no links in the post.
But it's hard to consider this spam as the content does not revolve around the mentioned product but around the storyline.

But if you checked recent post history of user mentioned by OP, you'll find out that they frequently mention word "bitget" on majority of their post. So it's not subtle marketing and IMO should be considered as spam.

This is why I posted some forums that accept this some forums don't allow this and some forums encourage this as long as there are no links in the post.

When I still had my forum we had some members who created a discussion about current events and they managed to mention the name of the product in a subtle way focusing on the storyline, we sometimes deleted the part that mentioned the service and retained the discussion.

It's really up to the moderators they have full discretion on this as they are guided on what action to take.

[logfiles]

As I was reading through some posts on the trading discussion board. I found another shilling post by a notorious shill who is even already neutral tagged about the same thing. The content of the post has nothing to do with the title...lol

Title: Having a Decentralized Derivative Exchange Problem, and I Found Aark Digital

I have been using centralized exchanges (CEX) to trade for years. So, I later decided to try a decentralized one. I switched to Cardence on the Canto network and longed some Canto because I'm a holder. It dumped, and when it got back to my entry price after a few weeks, the fee to close the position was huge, almost $100 USD.

Now, I found another one from this listing notification (<--- Links to the shilled site) on my phone. Because I want to join the futures trade to earn some, I decided to read more about it and I see in their documentation that they offer an Insurance Fund feature: "This safeguards users against unforeseen failures, covering negatively valued accounts using an external liquidity pool replenished by a portion of liquidation bonuses."

I've never heard of this kind of feature. What do you think about this feature, decentralized exchanges in general and about Aark Digital?

It's looks like they have resurrected yet again

[LoyceV]

If the mods aren't seeing anything wrong with their activities, then why should you? If they were spamming the forum with 1000 different replies and opening hundreds of new threads to shill, then I'm sure the mods would take some action. Just a few little posts is not enough to warrant any action ATM.

It's not just "a few little posts", I just added it to my spam keyword page. Starting from January 24, this keyword wasn't posted in the first 3 months. After that, in just 1.5 months, it was posted 646 times.
Let's notify @Mitchell, see if MindlessElectron can wipe those posts.

[Mitchell]

Hmmmm, if someone has some example of sentences they frequently use I can definitely help clean up. They are clearly breaking our rules by having users spam their crap.

[Findingnemo]

Hmmmm, if someone has some example of sentences they frequently use I can definitely help clean up. They are clearly breaking our rules by having users spam their crap.

I have been tracking every post created with the phrase 'Bitget' since I created this thread via ninjastic bot and as far as I can see they are not using any common sentences in their posts and the most resemblance I found is they use the term Binance and Bitget or Bitget and (another exchange's name) to make it look like they are not shilling even though it's obvious.