Sorry man, you can ban me all you like or delete this post, but you are being unfair and hipocrite
you own Jr. Spartans have a task that is "bitcointalk posts bump"
https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php?topic=7848.0
this forum pays people to make fake posts and is condemning someone because makes genuine contributions and is paid for it...
check out those threads on btt and see if they are not spammy
Besides, on this forum you award points for posts that can later be converted into coins
so... please be honnest with this...
I insist that this bounty is not much different from sig bounties
And concerning the "not fair to punish newbies for advertising this project but allow higher ranking members to get away with it", no one mentioned ranking... just should punish the ones spamming... because spamming is not the same as being paid for speaking about something... (otherwise I bet that a lot of articles wouldn't exist)
Look I'm sorry if I've pissed you off, this was never my intention. Believe it or not, I do value you and others contributions to the forum, I wouldn't be doing this for nothing if it weren't for the community that exists here.
No one is banning you or deleting your posts, please don't exaggerate. Your post was simply move to Incentivised Posting (where it belongs in my opinion). Yes Jr Spartans had a task a long time ago bumping ANN threads, but no it didn't involve "posts related to altcoinstalks", simply because it's an awful marketing strategy. You're more than welcome to bump the Veil ANN (even for stakes), which isn't even on the first page anymore(??), continue discussing Veil in multiple threads in Cryptocurrency Mining section, local boards, everywhere else etc. Unfortunately altcoins discussion board is a magnet for Veil spam in all and any threads it seems, so I move it.
Please don't try and compare this to signature campaigns, or the forum model as a whole, it's unrelated. Yes there is LOTS of spam from participants, but there is also lots of participants who are able to not spam. Bounties that requires "posts related to X" will always be spammy because "X" is is always advertised. It wasn't so long ago I was promoting DeepOnion and getting negative karma myself, for the same reason. This is why I recognize the damage it does in the long-term.
I know that a job like yours is not easy, and especially on a case like this... I am sorry if I was a bit rude on any occasion and if it happened it was because I deem the situation as very unfair for me
Some of my posts were moved to the correct section, but other were deleted and placed on trash... you can check ...
Personally I see no issue on promoting something you really believe in and earn stakes for it... like Zed said I helped him to get to know about Veil and explained the reasons why I think it is a great project... now he is wearing the sig... it doesn't hurt the forum at all, it even contributes for quality posting and discussion.
I understand the difference between a sig campaign and this, but spammers will always be spammers, and people doing sig campaigns also spam in order to promote the project and get reward... we elegantly call it "post farming", as you know...
The campaign that is still on-going on the Jr. Spartans is even worse, as it encourages fake discussions on btt threads in order to keep the thread on top (threads related to alts supported projects)... and it is the same, users can do intelligent comments and engage on an interesting discussion or they can just spam - this spartan op especially mentions the BTT threads to be aimed at
the problem here is not the campaign, but the abuse that a lot of users made.
If you check my posts, I would be surprised if you consider any of them as spam. The only thread I've created considering this matter (privacy, not Veil) was insightfull and had some replies and is now on trash...
Like I've said, I love this forum and want to see it grow in size and quality, and I did nothing to damage it. I got dissapointed for my posts to be considered on this, not because ranks or such, but because I was promoting Veil like many people promote their favourite coins, like monero, or eth, or btc.... I have my reasons and I am sharing a good thing with the other users...
anyway, I think this should be overcome on a discussion with the Veil campaign manager (not tsujimura, but parodium). I've had a chat with him and he seems sensitive to this matter (he asked for a list of the worst offenders so that he can ban them, did you reply? in the middle of so many posts I never saw if you did)
a campaign like this would have to be held on a tight leach... (same as the spartans op - have you ever checked one of those threads? I did - I even participated and I confess that I regret it because it was impossible to have a discussion as most users were just spamming)
I've already suggested a veil signature campaign to be held here.... I'm waiting for their reply
Concerning the awarded stakes, the misunderstandings are growing... I've checked the sheet and those two got stakes for week 1, but their report includes posts in other forums, so probably these stakes were awarded for those other posts (as the links for the posts on alts became unaccessible - like mine)
look, I am not affiliated with them in any way, just like their work so far, also think that Veil is a potencial gem, and I think that the major issue here is lack of communication...