Quote from: CatFur on July 27, 2017, 10:35:48 AM

Quote from: wetsuit on July 27, 2017, 07:02:18 AM

I had to add restrictions to the bonuses that can be claimed with reward points and increase the prices because there was way too much abuse going on there. Abusers had figured out that they could break even in less than 3 hours with 3 different bonuses running at the same time and the number of free plays per day increased by almost 50% with no increase in other activity. They were claiming with a captcha to start, then buying lottery tickets to reach the point where they could play without a captcha and then redeeming 3 max bonuses at once and claiming for the full 24 hours, all while collecting referral commissions as well. It was bleeding us dry.

Even now, if you have 3 bonuses running at the same time, you can break even in less than 6 hours ((15/24)^3). It's not bad at all if you plan your redemptions properly and you can do those during the weekend to collect the extra RP as well.

Abuse? I'm sorry I'm still relatively new with faucets but it seems faucet sites have gone a long way than just handing out samples or free BTCs and it seems all operators have implemented timers and warnings to discourage abusers; which I'm OK with. And in my opinion FreeBitco.in doesn't seem like one of those faucet sites. You play [as in play a game] to win free BTC, it says so on the website even if the underlying systems is faucet-claiming.

I would have understood if you had said that the business model was not profitable anymore and you had to restrict the Reward Points or even restrict the amount of times we can play to win or have a warning or something, but to call us abusers is a bit too much.

I thought FreeBitco.in was one of the most interesting BTC-earning sites out there and I was even thinking of having a few deposits. But this is killing it a bit. Not only the increase in redeemable RP was unannounced [which is understandable] I can't redeem them even if I have enough RP. So I guess I'm one of those abusers?

Yes, I have registered solely for this rant. Sorry. But I wish FreeBitco.in would find a better business model to make it profitable. Work with theLotter for example and see if they want to sponsor a lottery or something; just an idea. Or one of those bet sites.

I am not calling everyone an abuser but we have to restrict the paths that abusers follow and I understand that it may inconvenience legitimate users but when we go from paying 5 BTC a day to almost 10 in the span of a month, with no increase in revenue, we have to take steps to keep the website sustainable. You just have no idea about the scale of abuse that we have to handle, even after doing all this we lose thousands of dollars a day just to abusers. If anyone has a better idea on how the abuse can be blocked without affecting legitimate users, I am more than happy to hear and implement them.