Quote from: iasenko on February 01, 2019, 08:02:00 AM

Quote from: actmyname on February 01, 2019, 07:49:28 AM

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Why?
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Money

It's simple as that. In addition to the signature campaigns, people are developing and selling accounts, even a newbie accounts.
There are some random new users trying to copy what other "regular" users do in hope to get merit, then they come in meta and complain about how they have hundreds of good quality comments but get no merit...

Money is everything...

Not just money. But the value that the dollar has in the country where that person lives. Recently, in Nigeria, a discussion about the readjustment of the minimum wage has occurred. The minimum wage was only $50 a month. To earn $50 per month, the Nigerian worker would probably have to work in very stressful situations, of great physical effort, with great risks to his health. In many other countries, $ 50 is the smallest amount a worker could earn for a single days of work.

For a young person, who lives in a country with such low pay, when compared to other countries, with the unemployment rate close to 50% among young, some of the opportunities offered in the forum can be very interesting. But most of those users are not able to participate in the forum effectively. To begin with, there is the language barrier, they usually have not studied anything about technology and cannot read any programming language. So it's really very unlikely that they can write more than 3 lines about Bitcoin or a specific subject related to technology in English.

Today, even the campaigns that pay using BTC pay very little, and they are very disputed. So we have a situation of a person who has only a smartphone and a limited internet connection. The only opportunity that the forum offers is to participate in altcoins campaigns.

The problem is that altcoins campaigns are almost like playing at casinos. Many of those campaigns pay in tokens that are not listed on any exchange. Whose value of selling is impossible to predict. It can even be zero. It is a very high risk for someone who is not in the forum for speculating, but rather seeking a source of income. They need money.

What is the best way to reduce the risks and have some steady source of income?

Have multiple accounts participating in multiple campaigns. If you're going to take this as a job, It's the only possibility. I imagine that each campaign asks for something like 30 posts a day. 30/5 days week = 6. multiplied by 5 = 30 posts a day. I do not believe anyone has the ability to write 30 quality posts on a subject that does not completely dominate, using a poor quality smartphone and a limited internet connection, which makes it impossible to do long research.

So these topics are created and receive commented from people who are likely using multiple accounts. It is more efficient already knowing the subject of the topic and answering it several times, using different accounts, in intervals.

The forum would need to make it difficult to create multiple accounts whose purpose is spam. And increase the financial cost of runing a signature campaign. It is necessary to create a Proof-of-Work for the forum.

Proof-of-Work (PoW) system (or protocol, or function) is an economic measure to deter ... service abuses such as spam on a network by requiring some work from the service requester