As an update have sent warnings to half a dozen users, some received the badge and strikes as had already been warned and naturally ignoring advise to use IP section, a few of them multiple times already. Was a bit disappointed to see some users warned multiple times and still not tagged or given strikes, as most of the users could have been tagged sometime ago already based on previous warnings.
I have already expressed before that there are simply too many "warnings" which unfortunately, as we can see, do not change anything. All those who came to this forum because of shilling will continue to do so until you permanently ban them, and then they will create a new profile and continue where they left off.
This is not wrong, and it turns out after reviewing this topic again that most of the users that received a tag or strike because they continued shilling were your reports from before. It's also correct that they will continue shilling until punished, usually a tag or strike is enough for them to ditch the account and create a new one, rather than needing to be banned in fairness. But otherwise users will give up reporting users if all that occurs is warnings which are ignored, so there is a need for more aggressive moderation. The annoying thing is it doesn't solve the problem either, instead new accounts will spring up to shill again. Will be requesting admin support on this so that IPs can be tracked when accounts become inactive.
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The reality is 95% of users who are discussing Bitget are shilling it. Not all, some respectable members are also discussing, but the reality is the discussion is 99% of the time is raised by shills who are posting primarily about Bitget and not much else. So if you want to help keep the forum clean, when you see a newer user casually discussing Bitget, check their recent posts and see if that what they're doing most of the time. Then report them here and let mods do the rest: https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php?topic=112178.0
This is visible to anyone who wants to see, but as you can see for yourself, instead of reporting such behavior, a good part of forum users will engage in a discussion that was created only with the reason to shill that company. Whether someone likes it or not, in this way they participate in shilling, the only question remains whether consciously or unconsciously.
Indeed those who feed the shills are part of the problem, whether they are aware or not. This is exactly what the shilling is intended for, to create the false impression of organic discussion around the exchange by respected members, which in itself is more effective than the shilling itself. It gives it credibility and respected members should no better.
Will recommend to admin that the IP section isn't public, and only for members of the forum. Potentially this would help to discourage shilling here.
It might otherwise seem that this is just one of the most popular exchanges like Binance and OKX. This is exactly the deceptive trickery of the innovative ways in which these shill have been promoting the exchange. The reality is the exchange is only as popular as Kucoin and MEXC, which you hear much less about on this forum. I wouldn't be surprised if this exchange reached this level of popularity primarily because of shilling which is a worrying reality.
I have no doubt that their tactics brought them very good results with literally minimal costs. Given that shilling is against the rules of the forum and given that we know that it happens in an organized manner, I would again suggest that the administration consider blacklisting the keyword (Bitget) or at least making it impossible for anyone below a certain rank to post it.
It's not a bad idea, especially the idea of being say blacklisted for lower ranks, as the shilling is coming from lower ranks. Hopefully shills would simply be deterred by more aggressive moderation, but I realise that's being a bit too optimistic. From experience with previous shill campaigns such as Veil, as long as they are being paid, they will continue to create new accounts in order to shill.
I have also already suggested to check who gives all of them +karma, because I believe that they have at least one teleported acc from BTT which is Senior+ rank. When I first started researching these accounts, I was surprised that most of them had +5 or even +10 karma, which is completely illogical to me then and now.
I'd checked karma before as Jokers mentioned it in mod section, and generally they have been received from a variety of respectable members, presumably (hopefully) for posts that weren't shilling the exchange. The reality is after before warned for shilling BG in 100% of their posts, they will often do so in only 50%, in order to try and disguise the shilling and pretend to be respectable members of the forum. This also doesn't reduce the shilling, but instead doubles the number of posts from these shills, and shouldn't be excusable either.
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