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If anyone sees this please read this and share your opinion:
I'm toying around with the idea of having a set group of people who I've personally deemed are high quality posters to continue to get paid per post count and branching off the campaign to allow anyone to join on and off instantly and use a PD3 referral link which will automatically credit their account (I'd likely boost the referral rate to something like 20%+ for those not being paid per post)
I'm confident doing this would greatly cut down on forum spam, while the very high quality posters who I select would have the option to continue the campaign as it exists privately or swap to a referral based payment.
This isn't at all decided, so feel free to weigh in.
I like the idea. I said it earlier and I will say it again: you have to cut campaigners. The reason the PD signature is frowned upon by some members of the forum is because of the low quality posts of some of those having it. With the amount of people that are currently enrolled it is not possible to check them all as thoroughly as needed. Less campaigners means less work to check their post quality means less room to slip through with bad posts. At the same time those that you have to let go can work for themselves with the referal link. There are even some attempts to form groups of people that use the same referal link. I personally think the reason behind that might be the award for reaching all achievements, but they might as well be legit effords to spread referral bonuses. This might also work in a positive way elsewhere: on other forums, homepages, blogs, etc.
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... and guys stop reminding him cause I like the way this campaign goes already, but if he does turn it to a fixed rate, it will just get abused even more, cause people will get paid 0.002 per post instead and he will make less exposure and pay a higher rate. plus you can buy shill accounts or make your own and with 200 posts he will lose for each member. people complaing of spam is not gonna stop, I notice we have people who just love to complain or jealous of others.
Stunna asked for feedback, hes going to get it. No need to complain about it. What are you afraid of anyway? Either you can stick with PD or not. Either way no big deal. There are other ways to make a little BTC on the side with your signature.
I doubt Stunna will raise payment that much for those that he deems worthy to continue. .002 would be double what a Sr. gets now per post. There is no reason to double the rate. There is only one other campaign paying (yes they didnt pay out yet, but they have enough in escrow) more currently and its full. And their payment is only a little higher.
Hand picked campaigners do not allow for "shill accounts" (I assume you are talking about alts here) because their posting behaviour would in most cases be very obvious. E.g. only posting 1 out of 4 weeks, but still beeing informed.
People complaining about spam is not the problem IMHO, people get banned for spam is a problem if they have your signature. It sheds a bad light and while they say: there is no bad publicity, that is not true here.
