Quote from: examplens on February 14, 2024, 01:02:20 AM

There were cases where individuals criticized mixer services, treated them as harmful, and at the same time carried mixer advertisements in their signature.

I will give an example of the BestChange campaign. One of the longer-lasting ones, with a solid payment rate, stable campaign, and it cannot be said that the participants produce spam. I have been in this campaign for a long time, so I am quite familiar with everything.
So, there a 25 participants, and the campaign is currently at 213 weeks. Out of 25 participants, only 6 of them wrote at least one post in the BestChange ANN thread. (I checked this on ninjastic.space, I believe it gives accurate results)
To me, this is more a lack of interest in the service they promote than avoiding shilling.

Here is some more reality from this campaign.
At one point, a Best_Change official asked for the community's opinion on a certain implementation of features on their service. In order not to go unnoticed, I shared it in the campaign thread. Clearly, there is much more activity when we talk about the BC service.

I agree with your point, I also couldn't advertise service that I don't use, I just wouldn't feel good doing it. But I don't think that number of posts made in ANN thread is good indicator. From my personal experience in multiple campaigns, most of services didn't had very active threads. Usually it's just their PR stuff, but not much what to say about it. Commenting it would look like shilling. I think that better indicator would be to check how many times campaign participant mentioned service name in his posts.

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I remember that one participant of the Sinbad campaign, after several months of participating in it, accidentally found out about their ANN thread. And that's because there was a voting contest for the avatar

Damn, that's some new level of hypocrisy.

Quote from: dkbit98 on February 14, 2024, 11:13:26 AM

For example, does anyone in the right mind really thinks that Cristiano Ronaldo is actually using Binance exchange?
He is one of the biggest paid influencers in the world but I think he never used it in his life, except maybe to dump some tokens binance gave him for free.

Who knows, maybe after matches and training he spending his free time to make some trades Cheesy

And if he would start doing something simiar what Musk did on social media, I gues that his influence would be quite big lol.