Lawmaker:

Quote from: theymos on January 27, 2014, 06:11:50 AM

Most giveaway threads are no longer allowed in the Alternate cryptocurrencies sections.

Quote from: theymos on January 27, 2014, 06:11:50 AM

Specifically, you are not allowed to give people any incentive to post insubstantial posts in your threads.

Quote from: theymos on January 27, 2014, 06:11:50 AM

You can do giveaways off-site and link to the giveaway page in a thread.

Reasons:

Quote from: BadBear on January 27, 2014, 03:50:38 PM

Quote from: RJX on January 27, 2014, 08:37:22 AM

Are giveaways as part of an announcement-thread still allowed?

No, it promotes spam, it's detrimental to actual discussion, and brings nothing at all of value to the forum.
It's never been allowed on the forum in general

Quote from: BadBear on January 27, 2014, 03:50:38 PM

I liked the alt currencies section once upon a time, but it's completely and utterly worthless at the moment because of all the spam.

Quote from: stompix on January 27, 2014, 01:35:00 PM

random newbies with 1 post that infiltrate the other forums with "buy xxx " "xx coin is the solution".

Quote from: dogechode on January 27, 2014, 02:40:02 PM

demanding that posters vote them onto cryptsy

Pro-giveaways:

Quote from: d2dtk on January 27, 2014, 03:18:48 PM

I don't have equipment to mine GPU coins so giveaways are the only way I'm able to participate in using those particular coins

Quote from: matriculator on January 27, 2014, 04:29:45 PM

I personally discovered BitcoinTalk because of one of these giveaway threads

Quote from: roundrobin on January 27, 2014, 02:22:27 PM

these altcoins are directed towards BTC-turnover and trade, some of which comes from direct $$$ put into BTC for acquiring another altcoin.

Quote from: KeyserSozeMC on January 27, 2014, 05:20:32 PM

it's not a good move to restrict such thing. It's nothing bad. Lock/delete existing giveaway topics, clean the mess. It might take you 3 hours, instead of taking you 3 hours per day, every day. Make a new subforum where we actually can promote things. Where we can bring more people.

Ideas, solutiontalk

Quote from: anotherlateminer on January 27, 2014, 12:05:57 PM

Why not to make a special subforum for giveaways? It will be good for everyone.

Quote from: zackclark70 on January 27, 2014, 04:14:15 PM

whats next limiting each altcoin to 1 thread lol

Quote from: KeyserSozeMC on January 27, 2014, 12:26:58 PM

I'm willing to PAY with my own money for a HDD/SSD just to have a giveaway section.

Quote from: KeyserSozeMC on January 27, 2014, 02:52:40 PM

Use search function. There's something called ''bookmark'' as well.

Quote from: SaltySpitoon on January 27, 2014, 05:34:55 PM

Bitcointalk encourages people to go to their own forums, we outright say that this is not the place for your to post every detail about your coin.

In the most blunt possible way of saying it, is we want people to go away to their own forums.

the whole altcoin section causes problems

Quote from: SaltySpitoon on January 27, 2014, 04:58:52 PM

You would be surprised by how many reports the Alt Currency section generates per day, far more than the rest of the entire forum combined.

you are looking at a minimum of an hour and a half worth of Alt Coin reports to deal with, thats like on a Sunday when there isn't much traffic.
3-4 hours isn't uncommon, and when dogecoin was first released it was far more than that.

Its not laziness, its trying to remove spam, not content in general.

Quote from: SaltySpitoon on January 27, 2014, 04:58:52 PM

Having an Alt Coin Giveaway subforum doesn't fix the problem, it just shifts the spam to another subforum.

Quote from: SaltySpitoon on January 27, 2014, 05:34:55 PM

Everytime someone posts, it adds that post about some Alt Coin that 99.5% of the forums aren't interested in to the recently posted lists

Quote from: SaltySpitoon on January 27, 2014, 05:34:55 PM

If we want to keep the alt coin section at all, we have to make some changes, and we are hoping that removing the giveaway threads will help.

An incomplete, and subjective summary. Below are ...

... my 2 Dents.