Quote from: mprep on July 14, 2018, 11:42:02 AM

Quote from: alani123 on July 14, 2018, 06:23:49 AM

Just to be clear, is encouraging this type of 'join' message allowed? I've seen it all over and it is always followed by loads of spam while serving no purpose.

Quote from: DeStream on July 06, 2018, 03:16:45 PM

5. Post a message in the bounty thread with the following information:

Code:

#JOIN

Telegram campaign

Telegram url: https://t.me/username

If it matches the "low effort task" definition (outlined here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3953664.0) then yes. In this case, they not only incentivised posting via low effort tasks but also incentivized posting in their (now trashed) ANN thread.

Thank you very much for the clarification.
But I think we've got a serious issue here based on the above case... An entire bounty management platform is breaking the rules with all of the campaigns they manage. And they've had it as standard practice for a long time.

EVERY single campaign ran by bountyplatform.io has incentivization for those "#join" posts. Their system is made to track tasks automatically & requires registration with forms and yet they mislead users to believe that they have to make those #join posts on bitcointalk for their work to count on any bounty, even though the work tracked has nothing to do with bitcointalk.

Users just post their username which is against the rules as clarified above, resulting in a ton of spam and bloated threads. From my understanding, they provide their platform as a service and as a result, dozens or potentially hundreds of campaigns are currently in violation of the low effort rule.

Most campaigns listed on their site explicitly asks for #join posts, others get such responses even without asking likely both due to the memory of users as well as bot promotion. Some examples:

Quote from: JustinBounty on March 01, 2018, 10:54:45 AM

Fill the form as clearly as possible :

Code:

Bitcointalk username :
Telegram username:
ETH address :

Quote from: Astargath on June 07, 2018, 11:48:22 PM

General rules;
1 | You must join our Telegram channel here and stay until the end of the crowdsale. Once you have joined the main channel, you must then join the bounty channel here and comment saying "Joining Telegram Bounty". We will manually check these and verify your entry.

Quote from: momopi on June 21, 2018, 07:52:14 AM

[...]confirm your participation in this thread by posting participating in Trivver Contest + category and a link to your creation.

And the thing is, even if the thread's text doesn't explicitly ask for such post, the platform's rules supposedly require it and it's listed on the 'rules' for each campaign on their website. See: