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saor

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The Rule:

1.) No referral links by new members.

The Guidelines:

1.) Enable 2FA on all your accounts - exchange, email, everything!
2.) Please do your own research and don't take financial advice from anyone on this forum.
3.) Please don't invest more money than you're willing to lose. I know this gets said a lot but it's very easy to fall into the trap of putting in a little bit of money, losing it, then putting in a little bit more to make up for the loss. You can very quickly throw away a large sum of money.
4.) A good rule of thumb is don't buy something when the price is at an all-time high.
5.) Another rule of thumb is that most people hear about something when it's at an all-time high - be careful of hype.
6.) Do some research before investing in a crypto - look at the price history and make a decision about when to buy in. Just because it's easy to buy crypto doesn't mean you should do it flippantly.

Quick links:

● The Bitcoin Thread Bitcoin Thread - 2018
● The Ethereum thread
● The Ripple (XRP) thread
● Alternative Cryptocurrencies / Altcoins

● Where to buy altcoins
● Luno Support and Queries Thread
● Save Your 2FA keys!

● The ASIC thread
● Cryptocurrency Mining
 
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Personally if someone wants to share a referral link they should be free to do so, so long as it isn't for offensive content. Some 1 post wonders might drop one just to lure more people in but that's the beauty of the internet.

As for the others, well they more guidelines than rules.
 
acidrain said:
Personally if someone wants to share a referral link they should be free to do so, so long as it isn't for offensive content. Some 1 post wonders might drop one just to lure more people in but that's the beauty of the internet..
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You're far too open & forgiving :p.

This forum isn't a platform for people to come spam their referral links. I have no issue with you or me doing it (within reason). And I would rather support you than someone who has no interest in the community beyond vomiting links all over the place. Maybe I'm a bit too attached to the idea of this place as a community, but I still think of any forum where I've spent a fair amount of time as a digital home away from home, and these delinquents who come wondering into town with their snake-oil don't deserve any kind of warm welcome, and especially not the support of the community in clicking on their links.

As for everyone else posting links - we may as well create a subforum for referral links then. Because as 2018 unfolds and more crypto projects scuttle over the landscape - these referral links are going to be everywhere - especially if there's a new thread being created every time someone want to share a link.

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Any other guidelines or rules?
Things to help people avoid making bad decisions?
 
saor said:
You're far too open & forgiving :p.

This forum isn't a platform for people to come spam their referral links.
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I fully agree and it irks me as well but if that rule were to come into force I would then prefer it to be a blanket rule, applicable to everyone.

I mean sure members with more than 1 post are adding value to the forum compared to a 1 post wonder but then again, if said 1 post wonder posts a referral link to something that gives the person clicking something of value, is that post then not of value too ( regardless of whether the intentions were for self gain ).

It's a slippery slope and why I just tend to look the other way.

Right now, the only thing I would ask is to not post referrals in threads that aren't relevant. Use a relevant thread or make your own.
 
I'd say no to one post wonders and referral links. Who signs up to a new forum to share something if they don't have some hidden interest?

Happy with the current rules and guideline split.

Should we have a rule about hardware sales? They don't pop-up too often, but I'd prefer they stay in the classifieds section.
 
Yeaah, I think needs some sort of restriction like the n&ca section... seen several 1 post wonder bots with dodgy links and such trying to loot peoples cryptos, luckily posts get deleted fast after reports, but even if up for a few minutes or so, its enough for someone not too clued up to lose their holdings
 
Who wrote this rule book? Are there any updates for 2024?
 
Lol they all bought crypto and are now all billionaires and no longer come onto this forum.
 
UB40 said:
Who wrote this rule book? Are there any updates for 2024?
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I don't think things will ever get as crazy as the 2017 bull run again - was absolute madness with all the airdrops & scams & everything else. Let's see tho.
 
No answer? no problemo!

If i persuaded even 1 user here to buy solana, I have already achieved my goal.
Maybe if the RULES were more lax, i would post a how-to
so people could use a modern wallet, rather than struggling with exodus wallet!
 
getting people to support your bags or help pump your bags it is a problem for me

i know this move is probably not over , convincing people to buy on the bump is crappy advice imo

Here i thought buy the dip sell the high is the advice
 
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