The user in question posting the thread in the wrong board is on them
I wonder why wasn't it moved to the right board? Either Service or Bounty (altcoin). Wouldn't that be a better solution than banning and removing a topic from a new member who is genuinely interested to do something for Bitcoin? The payment had two forms: LTC and BTC. Why only considered LTC (negative) side but not BTC (positive) side?
Let me mark bold from the same quote which makes it right even if you would move that to Bounty (altcoin) considering you have missed that he is paying $200 worth of BTC
in BTC for a tweet.
Incentivizing posting within one or several threads via low effort tasks (e.g. signups or proof of participation for liking, following, subscribing, retweeting, tweeting a single tweet, joining a channel or group, etc.) is not allowed as it falls under the "no altcoin giveaways" rule (
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2103687.0):
You can't offer to pay people who post their addresses, usernames, etc.
Accepting signups or requiring proof of participation for tasks requiring substantial effort (e.g. signature campaign signups,
weekly social media campaign reports, media (videos, images, articles, etc.) bounty signups, etc.) via a thread posted in
Bounties (Altcoins) is allowed though.
The effect of this giveaway is the same as many others that had their threads trashed and their accounts temp banned: a low barrier of entry and an incentive to post for altcoins.
While I can not recall if there were same case but in his case he is not paying
only with altcoin. In fact,
the main goal was to pay bitcoin but since the lower amounts will consider dust bitcoin, the plan was changed (Read
here the post I made just after the main thread with concerns about dust payment and suggesting escrow). For 0.000005 to 0.0002 BTC changed plan was to pay using LTC and 0.0007 to 0.005 BTC will be paid using BTC, obviously. Besides, he even escrowed 0.025BTC to ensure that community knows they will get paid. I would love to see an example where user is paying in BTC and escrowed the BTC but got banned and their topics were removed from G&R boards since you are claiming this is same case as many others' giveaway.
What if change the word "
giveaway" and create the same but use the word "
twitter bounty"? Would that consider fine? I guess yes coz that become just another twitter bounty we regularly see in service board and altcoin (bounty) board. Just one word that makes all the difference.
The thread was brought to my attention via a report.
If there were no more report against it then it was me who was
suggesting to move it to service section as my take was since it's paying in BTC, it should be in service section. The report was not to remove the topic at all.
From what I've heard, the mining boards have much stricter moderation compared to most other sections. If you think they're going overboard, I'd suggest either starting a Meta thread about it or PMing theymos and / or Cyrus.
Honesty speaking I did not look in details. It was just a random read, and it looked like the user had genuine interest and was asking genuine question in the mining board.
I don't often PM theymos, and when I do I don't always get a response. But I'm pretty sure he'll at least read your PM, especially if he recognizes your username. If you get ignored, you kinda have an answer too.
However, I've seen theymos put in a lot of effort in some cases where a user was banned or a posted deleted by mistake.
I understand he is a busy bee and perhaps has his priorities so don't mind him much. It's obvious that he handles gigantic number of PMs and other form of inquiries every day.