Quote from: 1miau on June 03, 2019, 07:41:17 PM

Quote from: julerz12 on May 24, 2019, 01:50:25 PM

Quote from: Slow death on February 08, 2019, 10:03:36 PM

How could this be good? somebody goes into the bounty campaign and says he has 20,000 members, but those 20,000 members are bots bought, the project owners are happy that only one person is being able to announce their project to 20,000 people, that would be a good thing if those 20,000 people were real people. These bots are a big problem for bounty campaign managers and owners of ICOs, I'm wrong?

Indeed. I once saw a newly built telegram group for a particular project and within a few hours, it already have around 10k members, most of which were bots and some are just random people being added to the group without their consent. What's worst is that whoever added those people/bots also had the audacity to even enroll those telegram usernames on the project's telegram bounty campaign. Roll Eyes

Organic growth is still the best way to create a strong and vibrant telegram community.

Totally agree, it's a big no-go if I see that a project is using bought Telegram bots and if I'm checking the members in this group all members are fake, it's easy to spot. Roll Eyes

Better allocate a little part in the bounty to give people a reward when they join. And kick all bot/inactive accounts when it comes to final checking one or two weeks after the bounty is over. Disadvantage: the rewards are tiny for each participant and it can happen that there are so many transactions to be done, the transaction costs are far too high for the little amount of tokens for each participant.

To solve this problem of too much transaction costs a better solution is to create the Telegram bounty as invitation bounty where participants can invite their friends to the Telegram group. That would solve the problem that you don't have to send tiny amounts of tokens to thousands of users because the participants who are inviting their friends will get the reward. If each user invites 10 friends on average you'll save 9x transaction costs.

Like in every campaign it's also importand to weed out cheaters like if they are not inviting their friends but instead random people from other chats without their permission or if they add bots:
- When the final checking will be done (around one week after the bounty) to check if all participants are still in the group, kick everyone who has a last active time more than one week ago. (The invited friends have to enable last active time in the Telegram settings and that needs to be mentioned in the rules that they need to enable it. Users where the last active time is not enabled will count as not eligible).
- Kick every participant where more than 50% of his invited friends left the group or if they are not eligible (no last active time enabled or last active time more than 1 week ago) when you check final stakes.

That would save huge transaction costs and be a legit way to increase number of members in a Telegram group.

If you do everything correctly and use the methods in a complex, then you will never know that there are bots in the group.
Users who have come for a reward, as I think are worse than bots.