[XSI]StabilityShares-NEW PotCoin Partnership!

Quote from: kryptologist on June 29, 2014, 04:11:05 PM

Hey guys,

I just took a look at the promotion you were running. Unfortunately there are holes that can easily be exploited... and were. Sorry, but most of the votes were not valid. I will explain why this is the case because it appears mintpal is unable to do so.

You ran a contest paying people in XSI for votes. Some people who have a lot of time are able to easily exploit this. Here is a quote from Jason Mintpal for a different coin where the same thing happened.

"We disabled almost 60 accounts that has been created with the specific intention of voting. As a result, the votes were removed from the coin."

So basically mintpal does not want any account where the primary purpose is voting. They do not care if it is a human or a bot. When it comes down to it, only votes from accounts with a decent trade history will count.

The ones who exploited your campaign realized this and made a ton of accounts for the specific purpose of voting. Even though this may have been a real human doing the clicking, it doesn't matter.

In conclusion, I don't believe mintpal "is scamming you". The voting campaign was not a failure. The results are quite good. Votes from real mintpal accounts with a decent trade history counted. The accounts created for voting as the main purpose were disabled and not counted. If you actually use your mintpal account and it was disabled then you can have it activated again and the votes will count. The problem is the majority of those accounts are not real and won't be used for trading and will never be reactivated. Mintpal did not screw you, community members that exploited your campaign did. Even if your intentions were good, you cannot create accounts on mintpal just to vote which is what your marketing campaign allowed people to do. Scammers jump on these type of opportunities.

But think of where you were before the campaign. I'm sure since then you've gotten a lot of attention and have climbed the charts despite the big push back. Best thing you can do is keep voting real votes so people see their is strong support.. just like trading, when there are big dumps, there needs to big big support to keep it alive.

That is a great point.

The fact that we jumped back up to 6000+ shows that some people did the reactivation.

The campaign was a great idea. As with anything crypto people don't always play by the rules but real coins like this one always keep chugging along.

In my opinion its a very minor setback and if you look at it with a glass half full attitude it really is just a great chance to stock up :-).

Onward