What's the general consensus about thread bumping services?
If pertaining to a scam, it may fall into the "Shilling scams" category.
However, if there's a chance a project isn't a scam, it might fall into either of these categories:
- ANN bumping
- Colluding
My personal views on fake customer reviews from a bumping service is that it is investor / consumer fraud.
A fake profile that says "i'm going to invest in this" is fraud if they have no intent of investing or use multiple sock puppets to say the same thing and the result is that someone else is fooled into investing.
A project that endorses deliberate fake reviews to lure investment is a scam.
I think the level of action depends on the conduct of the bumping service. Personally I don't believe that a genuine project should even consider a "bumping service".
I would like to hear from people their opinion about some of the list marked "subjective" . Also if there is anything in the list that should be marked "subjective" or requires further discussion. The purpose of the discussion is to see what the general consensus is regarding the subjective items on the list.
RESERVED
Unacceptable behavior that will result in a red tag:Attempted or successful fraud or theft.Account sales / purchase / taking an account as collateralMerit sales / swapping / Sending trust/merit between your alt accountsOffering escrow without a track recordProviding fake or insufficient collateral. (When misleading)
Shilling / advertising MLM or ponziEscrowing for themselvesLate loan repayments / loan defaults.Enrolling multiple accounts into signature/bounty campaignsLending or borrowing to gain "reputation"Committing fraud by selling bank details or other sensitive data. Inherently risky business practices - PayPal and other reversible payments, discouraging escrow use, autobuy sites, locked sales threads etc.Impersonation of any kind (although this probably falls under outright fraud)Fake ICOs and other projects - fake teams, plagiarized whitepapers, etcAny ponzi-related behavior.Any behavior that involves an involuntary monetary transfer.Shilling scams.Using an alt account to abuse bounties/giveaways.Selling gambling scripts or any "strategy" in a statistically -ev game.Fake translations.Hacked account.Spreading malwareConstant beggingUnrealistic loan applicationsUnacceptable conduct that is directly against the forum rules:Plagiarism. * Should be reported to admin for permabanBan evasion. * Should be reported to admin for permabanUnacceptable behavior that could result in a red tag:These items are subjective and require some community discussion.Extreme harassment *Subjective Business activity that resulted in the loss of funds by others. *SubjectiveAsking for a no collateral loan *Subjective This should only apply if the user has little reputation/is asking for an amount that is way too unreasonable for what reputation they have.
ANN bumping, which is negative to the forum.Loan defaults (only if unpaid for an unreasonable amount of time)
Colluding *subjectiveLeaving fake negative ratings*subjectiveConsiderations:Before leaving feedback, ask yourself if your feedback makes the forum better, and (if applicable) is it worth destroying someone's reputation?Should not be tagged:Criticizing others.
Posting an unpopular opinion.Leaving an unsubstantiated negative rating, if the user is not shady outside of this.Promoting altcoins.Using an alt account.religious statements*
subjective Anything without solid evidence or very strong circumstantial evidence*Source:
xtraelv AverageGlabella suchmoon actmyname DarkStar_ laudaLoyceV