Quote from: stompix on December 01, 2017, 09:14:03 PM

Quote from: Stedsm on December 01, 2017, 07:27:36 PM

Friends,
We all witnessed the horrific rally of bitcoin that made it do over 11 times in a period of less than a year, but few people on the telegram are spreading hoax as well as doing "false" cross promotions by creating misconceptions among users that bitcoin went to 8000 and will go down more. They are doing all this through their channels and this is one worst thing that could destroy the image of bitcoins in new investors' views as they don't know much about it and will probably not check out the real picture. I don't know why such channels are not banned on Telegram but I will try my best to report each and every group that does their cross promotion with such bullshit content.

You really overestimate the impact of those channels.
Probably you're also a little too much involved at emotional level.

The world is not going to be influenced by some bots or stupid kids and their spam.
Most of the telegram channels have over inflated user numbers, I've seen a lot of them in which bots and fake accounts make more than 99% of the users there. The rest is the admin and his persona

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5k telegram members can be bought with 50$ which they make by begging ICOs for free token in exchange of spam.

Besides, do you think there are people so stupid they check one channel and decide to sell?
I miss the btc-e trollbox in this case.

I know that people can be bought but what about some trollboxes (at telegram itself) where these people do their promotions with the same content to gain some members really subscribe to their channels seeing the number of members they have? It's not like everyone knows about the bot thing and I am glad you guys evaluated it here. But you really can't deny the fact the those who are not aware or least aware about bitcoins (like newbies whom I'm mainly focusing in this debate) may get dragged to some misleadings and be made to do what they are not expecting to. As well, it's not some kind of an "emotional attachment" of mine with those channels but it's my duty to come up and disclose such wrongdoings going on there in order to prevent users from getting fake information.