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• Cryptonaut

  

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  @kerneloops The incentives to spam vary greatly depending on what part of the world you happen to live in. A user in an industrialized Western country wouldn't spend much time trying to game the LTB system or spam the forums for a modest LTBc return, while someone from a 3rd world country will find a $20-30/week LTBc disbursement well worth their spamming effort.

  edit: and this obviously has nothing to do with LTB itself, it applies to all walks of spam, be it forums, email, blog posts etc.

  good point. so far it seems like users from russia and indonesia are the worst offenders.

  Posted on August 30, 2014 at 5:58 PM
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• Invullx

  

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  @kerneloops The incentives to spam vary greatly depending on what part of the world you happen to live in. A user in an industrialized Western country wouldn't spend much time trying to game the LTB system or spam the forums for a modest LTBc return, while someone from a 3rd world country will find a $20-30/week LTBc disbursement well worth their spamming effort.

  edit: and this obviously has nothing to do with LTB itself, it applies to all walks of spam, be it forums, email, blog posts etc.

  I don't think you can actually get $20-30 worth of ltbcoins if you're not actually spamming or creating fake accounts. Maybe more mods perhaps?

  Posted on October 22, 2014 at 5:47 PM
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• Cryptonaut

  

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  @invullx

  @kerneloops The incentives to spam vary greatly depending on what part of the world you happen to live in. A user in an industrialized Western country wouldn't spend much time trying to game the LTB system or spam the forums for a modest LTBc return, while someone from a 3rd world country will find a $20-30/week LTBc disbursement well worth their spamming effort.

  edit: and this obviously has nothing to do with LTB itself, it applies to all walks of spam, be it forums, email, blog posts etc.

  I don't think you can actually get $20-30 worth of ltbcoins if you're not actually spamming or creating fake accounts. Maybe more mods perhaps?

  Did a quick calculation, its more like $4 or $5 per week at current prices if you earn 10,000 a week (most dont, but its doable).

  Posted on October 23, 2014 at 10:45 AM
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• cherapple

  

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  I know this is being taken care of in the coming editorial system, but have we said anywhere that spam submissions to editorial will also be penalized?

  Posted on October 23, 2014 at 11:04 AM
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• Cryptonaut

  

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  @cherapple I know this is being taken care of in the coming editorial system, but have we said anywhere that spam submissions to editorial will also be penalized?

  I think the idea we are going to go with is having a non-refundable LTBcoin fee for making new submissions, which can be bypassed with the presence of an LTBWRITER (or something) token. That alone should prevent the majority of pointless spam submissions I think

  Posted on October 23, 2014 at 11:13 AM
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• Braegnok

  

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  There is no penalty to harsh for spammers,.. wish moderators had an app that all forum users needed installed on PC to post or reply,.. and all spammers hard drives could be wiped remotely by forum moderators instantly,.. lol

  Posted on November 26, 2014 at 4:37 AM
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