Quote from: Rikafip on July 29, 2021, 02:50:45 PM

@aucoinmaster incase some of those "marketing agencies" (as they like to call themselves) contact you after seeing your thread, claiming that they can push your ANN thread to the top and create "organic" conversations and fake the interest, just ignore them. It doesn't look good at all and if anything can make your project look dodgy.

I second this warning (although I confess I didn't know that people were offering organized bitcointalk thread bumping services; I thought it was always just random members looking to make a few bucks). You can probably tell pretty quickly whether a conversation is "organic" or not simply by looking at the ranks, registration dates, post histories, and even usernames of the members having said conversation. The idiots who do crap like that don't tend to be stealthy, and they're easy to spot by mods, older forum members, or anyone else who's frequented the ANN section for a while.

Quote from: virasog on August 01, 2021, 10:19:43 AM

The bumping rules are changes for some boards but i wonder why are you so curious to keep your page on the top ?

Well, obviously anyone with a project that they're promoting wants to keep it visible, which it won't be if it's buried under a mountain of other ANN threads. I doubt anyone ever clicks past the first page of that section.

Quote from: virasog on August 01, 2021, 10:19:43 AM

If your project is good and promising, you don't need to see where your page stands. It will automatically rank up when people will take interest in your project and eventually the discussion become bigger.

Uh, yeah. Easy enough, right? Well how are people ever going to even notice his thread if, within seconds, it's already on page 2 of the section? That's the fundamental problem: anything of value created by members who don't employ thread-bumpers or use shill accounts is not going to be seen, period. It doesn't matter if the project is the next bitcoin. If nobody has the chance to read it, there won't be anyone getting enthusiastic about it.