Re: User banned - Possibly misunderstanding the idea of a regular social bounty
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Honestly speaking, your understanding and interpretation of rules are going over my head. Maybe we can draw a line in disagreement because clearly we are looking this case from completely two different angles. Your focus in on the ALT coin part and my focus (and perhaps others too) is on the Bitcoin part. You are more into finding a little fault (not sure indeed it was there) and ban hammer a user by not caring about anything and without even looking at details and I (perhaps other too) are more into being open and give enough thought before taking any negative action. But eventually your one will stand because you are playing an official rule. Just make sure that you don't make this space hard for genuine crypto lovers, bitcoin enthusiasts. Bitcoin still has a long way to go, and we need to ensure that we are helping to make this community bigger.
The piece of rule we have (let's not highlight any part of it, just be it the way it is)
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):
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.
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 topic in question: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5338426.0
Since deleted, the final contents of the topic (read quoted part since that was the final agreement) : https://paste.ee/p/dEwKE
The reaction/opinion from the members who have given in this thread -
It's a bit complicated but if I have to guess, I think it might be due to the following things combined [I could be wrong]: ~snippied~
If this ban is according to the rules, I disagree with the rules! This is someone willing to spend $1000 or more of his own money to troll a billionaire troll on Twitter. If that kind of community initiative isn't allowed, I believe the rules should be changed.
If the user is banned because of this tweet related bounty I strongly believe there must be some misunderstanding... ~snippied~ I guess the user in question deserves proper explantion for his ban... after all this will help the other too, if there is any hidden rule which we are missing.
I think the decision to ban onemd and delete the topic was totally unfair. ~snippied~
What sub was it in? Maybe it was a mistake as it doesn't seem to be against the rules, unless someone counted it as a paid spam attack or something.
My opinion doesn't matter but I think it would have been better handled had the OP been given a warning and asked to either remove the altcoins from the giveaway or just separate it into 2 different sections. One for BTC and the other in altcoin bounties for ALTS.
Let's forget what others are thinking or interpreting the rule/situation let's just point what mprep and hilariousandco (both global moderator after all) considering unofficial rule number 23.
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23. When deciding if a user has broken the rules, the staff have the right to follow their interpretation of the rules.[e]
Eventually this is where we stand
