Thank god this thread is pinned now.
Please, please PLEASE remember, that a self-moderated thread is almost 100% scam!! especially if the deal sounds "too good to be true". All those "$1500 AWS credit for only $50" - yeah right...
Self-moderated topic is not a scam, its a option which this forum allows u to defend yourself from sale trashers and trolls.
U r a newbie here and u dont have a single clue.
In this section, 90% of the time you are wrong. While there MAY be some legit ones for the most part the self-moderated threads in THIS SECTION (digital) are scams
especially those from newbies..
So there's a option put on forum, and when u use it - its a scam?
Locked topics (where OP doesnt ALLOW posts) are scam for sure, self-moderated ones (not from newbies) are not.
Your logic confuses me. Any "option" can be abused and in THIS part (digital goods) of the forum THAT OPTION is regularly abused. Pick out any 30 "self-moderated" threads IN THIS SECTION - DIGITAL GOODS - and show me how many aren't scams out of those 30. And yes, I did specify NEWBIES but in this section it's most (not all). In this section of the forum I'd wager 80% off
all threads are scams.
In other sections of this place you may very well be correct, but not here (DIGITAL GOODS) which is the original discussion of this thread.
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