Quote from: bbc.reporter on February 11, 2018, 02:46:26 AM

The altcoin subforum has become a sea of shills that are adamantly bombarding that subforum with new ICO threads everyday. To make matters worse, they also have made farmed accounts to bump those threads, trying to make it look like there's interest in them.

I reckon it's necessary that thread starting posts from newbies should include red warnings in them in any altcoin subforum.

Agreed. Especially if the OP of the thread is known to be operating or participating in paid thread bumping in the past, or is a newbie/junior member that just registered their account for posting the ANN thread.

I reckon something like a disclaimer that we see for newbies who send us PMs would work fine.

Quote from: TheUltraElite on February 11, 2018, 05:50:49 AM

Quote from: bbc.reporter on February 11, 2018, 02:46:26 AM

The altcoin subforum has become a sea of shills that are adamantly bombarding that subforum with new ICO threads everyday. To make matters worse, they also have made farmed accounts to bump those threads, trying to make it look like there's interest in them.

I reckon it's necessary that thread starting posts from newbies should include red warnings in them in any altcoin subforum.

The Altcoins sections are flooded with shills from every corner of this universe. They think themselves as MeKnowEverything about crypto and start spreading FUD everywhere. The social media are the breeding grounds of shills - I have tried to warn people many times in several places not to trust the social media because its full of shills a good example of which is the reddit channels.

Anyway back on discussion, there are some ICOs which are using ICO Bumping services to make them look legitimate and create a false sense of popularity among the viewers so as to get more attention. They can be reported to the "Reputation" section for DefaultTrust to check and neg tag these accounts appropriately those which are associated in this "ANN Shill Bumping"

The thing is, newbies sometimes don't even know how the trust system works. That's why I see a lot of people handing over their savings to known scammers.