The problem is that aTriz clearly knew what was going on with the faked ICO figures which were intended to make more people invest, and he was completely fine with it and went along with it. Just as ibminer said, this should be regarded as fraud. Anyone else who does this would clearly but categorized as a scammer, but not aTriz. It's not about endorsement at all.
This is nothing but deceitful nonsense. What you call a "marketing strategy", I would call fraud.
Scammer: a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
Swindle: to obtain money or property by fraud or deceit
Fraud: a person or thing intended to deceive others, typically by unjustifiably claiming or being credited with accomplishments or qualities.No, but when I'm 2 weeks into a bounty program I'm basically forced to go along with it.
No, you are not forced to do anything you do not want to do here, especially when someone is being fraudulent.
With the Ice rock mining campaign, aTriz was also promoting a ponzi project promoting 300% roi a year.
With chrysoscoin, it was the most obvious ponzi you can come across. Go onto their site chrysoscoin.com and click 'lending' on the top. You will be presented with hyip like tiered investment plans with guaranteed profits.
with the way aTriz called out adblurb, he clearly does research on the projects he manages. Quite in depth too. Therefore I do not believe that he did not know anything about these two aforementioned ICOs where their business model was entirely based of high guaranteed returns.
Is this the only time that aTriz has lied about something? Has this happened before also and users weren't aware about it?
That's my question too. He most likely knew that ice rock mining was a scam, and chrysoscoin too.
Suspension won't change anything. Remember High school, when kids deliberately did some shit to get suspended or have some fun. People are who they are. They most likely never change. aTriz has known to be naive. Other than suspension I'd be interested in knowing what else you're going to do /change.
He is clearly untrustworthy and hid the fact that the ICO was clearly a scam and used scammers tactics to fake information from both the ALU team, investors, and the public. That is unacceptable and deserves more than a temp. suspension, he is a fraud.