Quote from: SaltySpitoon on January 27, 2014, 07:05:21 AM

Quote from: Eex77 on January 27, 2014, 06:56:32 AM

Not sure how I feel about this.

On the one hand Giveaways are good for advertising your coin while spreading the wealth around, but on the other defunct giveaways went unlocked with people constantly posting causing spam.

Wouldn't it be better to monitor and lock what can be considered dead giveaways, rather then just flat out ban them?

Its the active ones that are providing the spam. People should post their coin announcements here, to get attention and lead people to their own forums where they can have as many giveaways as they like.

But that goes completely against what I've been seeing. Many of the ones that are constantly spamming the forum are month old giveaways that people keep bumping because they see it unlocked.

The main issue I see is the complete lack of moderation, for instance even scams under the guise of giveaways have been left up even though numerous users have reported losing coins due to it while others found trojans in the fake wallet they were distributing. This brings up the point that who knows where people will send people looking for free coins. Most forums require some kind of account leading to the potential of passwords and the such being stolen.

Users are also to blame for this as well. We have to many people simply posting in giveaway threads nonstop even if they were no longer giving out coins.

The main question is why would you simply blanket-ban everything instead of doing something that will probably require a lot less work in the long run ie make a giveaway subforum just as we have an announcement subforum?

(Also in reality you have just created more spam with people who will make countless threads about getting giveaways back)