The Stake campaign is filled with frauds & questionable accounts

[examplens]

Counting the number of posts does not equal to "managing" something, therefore this junk campaign does not have any managers. Nevertheless, indulge me. Who are these users? Can you you post their profiles?

This is from the official campaign thread, although I think I saw some other names included. It is very possible that the list is not updated.

Get to know our Management team:
- Jesse: over 8 years experienced gambler (casino & sportsbook) and with a great knowledge about crypto. He is the responsible for messaging new approved members. He also check everyone posts to prevent issues with people who use to edit empty posts to abuse from the campaign (an issue we have faced 2x in the past). Working with me for like 4 years.
- Adrian: over 8 years experienced gambler (casino & sportsbook) and with a great knowledge about crypto. He is one of the guys to read & rate everyone posts and also works in the payments sheet. Working with me for like 6 years.
- CapHook: joined casino, sportsbook & crypto world early 2021. He is also one of the guys to read & rate everyone posts and also works in the payments sheet. Working with me for over 2 years now. (he is also the one to handle things when I am not around)
- Tiiks: joined casino, sportsbook & crypto world late in 2023. He is one more of the team to read & rate everyone posts. He also works in the payments sheet.
- Bere: joined casino, sportsbook & crypto world in the end of 2022 (when she started to work with me). She is responsible for reading & rating every single post from the campaign members. She also works in the payments sheet as a final reviewer (to prevent mispayments).
- Me: joined casino, sportsbook & crypto world early 2014. I am the responsible for handling custom deals & sending the payments. Beside that I am the one to reply to all the questions & try to solve any issue our campaign members may have as long as these will not overpass the campaign rules.

Updates list:
Feb/26/2024: fixing the bonus rules & removing Ogami from the management team members list

[LoyceV]

Thank you, OP, and everyone who helped with this investigations.

Are you part of Stake's campaign "management"? Wouldn't it make more sense to hire OP for this instead of relying on the community to do the campaign manager's job?

The users with bad reputations have been removed from the campaign.

So it's about their reputation and not their spam?

We only demand our members to make a minimum of 25 posts to be eligible for payout, like with all other campaigns on the forum.

That's not true, not all campaigns demand a minimum number of posts.

Stake campaign remains one of the best-run sig campaign on the forum

Lol. You're kidding, right? This campaign has had terrible management from the start, and it didn't improve when management changed. It's only slightly about Yobit's spam campaign, although one could argue it's even worse because it's running much longer.

We value community opinions, and our team takes them very seriously; the remaining profiles are presently being investigated

Campaign participants should be "investigated" on a regular basis, not just when someone complains about their spam.

We will continue to clean up our campaign and serve the community

This campaign has never served the wider community, only the few people earning from spamming.

[JollyGood]

There could be reasons why people/companies may want privacy (for example the use of mixers) but for a forum campaign to effectively want to hide how much they are paying participants, that probably makes Stake unique in that sense.

Having that system of obfuscation allows for nefarious conduct to thrive as everything seems to be taking place in private. Participants names, their pay rate, their wallet addresses, method of payment and other details remain private. In the event something goes wrong or one raises a complaint, there is not a lot to go on for others to investigate.

As I stated earlier, that particular model of campaign management might have some benefits for a company and participants depending on what they are trying to achieve but it really seems strange Stake are the only ones adopting it.

Another important point is that there is no spreadsheet link in the main campaign topic nor in any post later. We, as a community, can't verify anything about how things work in this campaign (number of participants, payout structure, number of posts...). Manager has the right to hide the spreadsheet for whatever reasons, but campaign participants themselves can't follow their activity within the campaign unless manager gave them limited access. This does raise many questions about the promotion model stake wants to persist.

[igebotz]

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Okay Switzerland - it was meant to be "bad reputation & Spam" my bad I forgot to add " Spam" word   and yes we investigate our participants every now and then, we're not perfect and sometimes missed out on the "obvious" - the community has been helpful in that aspect. We appreciate.

*Will edit the original post*

Our payments for a minimum 25 posts/week- this is fair enough.

Legendary rank: $62,50
Hero: $50

[Awaklara]

Our payments for a minimum 25 posts/week- this is fair enough.

Yes, that's fair. But are you aware that there are participants who reach the minimum target of 25 posts/week in just one day? Some might make 15-20 posts a day. 
Just a suggestion, why not limit it to 10 posts per day that will be counted? Assuming participants have the opportunity to make 70 posts/week, they can still reach the maximum number. 

I checked the Ninjastic dashboard several times for Most Active Users, and some names of your campaign participants can be seen there.

[mindrust]

Why can’t you just put the minimum post requirement at 25 posts and stop paying for any posts made after like every other campaign? The moment you that 90% of the complaints will disappear. (The rest will be about the selection process of the participants but that won’t cause much trouble)

Some campaigns require 20 or even 15 weekly posts so 25 posts / Week is still huge and some people already consider it in a spammy range but many campaigns demand this number so it doesn’t raise any eyebrows.

Unless you cap the paid posts at 25, igebotz or whoever it is that runs this campaign currently, this debate will never resolve.

[NotATether]

Unless you cap the paid posts at 25, igebotz or whoever it is that runs this campaign currently, this debate will never resolve.

I would take it a step further - make it a 30 post minimum requirement. That will really squeeze out the casual spammers. 

[nutildah]

If you have any questions or concerns about our participants, my DM is always available.

It is better to be transparent about everything than rely on the words of others behind closed doors.

Removed users.

Bitcoin
GigaBit
Marvell1
Solosanz ( minimum posts requirement related)

The 3 top users have stopped posting entirely, so that's 300+ less trash posts being added to the forum every week, which is a good start. Thank you.