Wouldn't it be better to monitor and lock what can be considered dead giveaways, rather then just flat out ban them?

It does seem a little extreme to say the spam is overwhelming the entire forum. I agree if people don#t adhere to the sections and the rules they should be banned but give away's can be about the distribution of wealth or community building within the realm of digital currency.

One might claim that Alt coins in general, well in their more pure forms, can help encourage the positive growth of a decentralised digital currency. As a development of bitcoin surly this deserves a place amongst the forums in some way. It is just about making room and a discourse which a majority can agree with.

my understanding is that you can give away whatever to whoever for any reason, but the proper way to do so would be.....

go here(external link, not referal) and sign up and you will be given 1000 new altcoins, good luck and thanks for your support



versus


go to the link and sign up then post your username and some other info here and we will give you 1000 coins


the second would promote too much undue traffic containing nothing more than a username and maybe a word, whereas the first requires no response without the user choosing to say something, therefore spam is created by the replies9by choice) rather than encouraged by the OP

i also think some OP's can include an online spreadsheet link, showing the new signups and payouts and such, so that users do have something to look at that  will show them there is interest in the project from others, rather than just signing up and assuming others are too

the rule creates the need for quality feedback on the project as a reply versus simple garbage and i do personally hate a brand new OP/ANN that is suddenly ten pages long and filled with crap, not even the OP's fault per se, but i want to read about the project, then read some feedback and some OP replies to questions without scrolling through page after page reading "morantis give me my bonus" or "morantis"

i like the rule, just wanted to help the new ANN guys see that it is ok to promote through a give away, just keep the long list of crap on your own site

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/1519277.0

care to explain that ? 

i guess theymos saying he likes Monero and the blatant & rampant shit Monero gets away with here
make it pretty obvious it just depends on who you are and what shitcoin your flogging.

I have pointed out ENDLESSLY a pile of examples with Monero.
And they are all still ignored.. and right in front of your nose.

Lack of consistency screams corruption here.

How long this is giveaway not allowed?

I think that is bad ide to move giveways or change anthing about giveways.Many sites love to share bonus because then promotion for that site is better andit helps to many bitcointalk forum users to earn more money.

I dont kniw why somebody wamt move giwevays when giveways are increasing forum activity,they give good promotion for site which created giwevay and user who is using giwevay have nice chance to make money.

Problem is if they open up a section just for giveaways it wont be targeted specific to what the creators of the giveaways are trying to give out and therefor will always be less effective lost in a sea of giveaways. Its a nice compromise but I doubt Bitcointalk.org will go for it.

Here is what I do not get tho, WHY?

All it would take is a new section dedicated to giveaway posts to make everyone happy.

question, what constitutes a giveaway thread?
is it any thread where something is being given away?
why is this bad?