I have to say that indeed looks like a douchebag move. From what I can see,
gondel indeed offered to create a thread on his own volition. I see that he mentioned some PMs, did he at any time asked for payment before he actually posted the announcement thread? Anyway, I'll wait a bit for him to come here and tells his side of the story.
Just wanna add that he exaggerated it a bit when he said that all the biggest crypto projects have threads here. That was the case years ago, but altcoins kinda moved away from bitcointalk as people here are not their target audience.
He indeed never asked for a payment before creating the post.
Here is the whole private conversation with him, even though he already deleted a lot of his messages:
https://ibb.co/PwBgtpfhttps://ibb.co/48wRPzrhttps://ibb.co/nj4tbL4https://ibb.co/DW00cT6https://ibb.co/0sfHKdgYes. I have to admit this is not the most professional way to handle such situation. What gondel did was obviously not right and I would have expected a bit more professionalism from a legendary member, but maybe this is just how he does things. Looks like a blackmail to me.
Hopefully, he'll come here and tell us what happened from his perspective.
He can gladly share his side but it will probably be the same speech about how we are scammers.
I purposely didn't ban him at first and all his public messages are still visible in our communities.
In addition, if your project is legal and does not correspond to what your "assistant" spreads about you, why should you be upset? There are a lot of trolls on the forum who obviously have nothing to do; you should not pay attention to everyone. The word of one man is not worth the majority.
Unless you really have any fraud, you can leave a "rebut" tag in his account. But you must be honest.
You are correct. Honestly, i'm just moving on from the situation because it's a waste of time. I have this post here so in case another topic saying how we are scammers shows up, people can refer to our side too. It's bothering me how we coded the rewarding wheel for months for someone to show up and spam how it is fake built, or the broadcast we planned for weeks, and he sabotages it under every post days before that, but it is how it is.
Thanks for your time, guys ! I appreciate the help. I'll try to stay more active in the Forum to stay updated with what is shared.