There seems to be a recent surge of people posting referral links on this subreddit with some of them using shill accounts to give themselves better visibility and credibility.
I want to take a moment to clarify what I believe to be the purpose of these referral links and why we will not allow them to be posted on this subreddit.
The #1 objective of having referral links is to prevent scammers from being able to readily sign up on the various marketplaces which offer this system. If a referral link is publicly posted on this subreddit for anyone to use it defeats that purpose. Referral links should only be shared with people that you trust enough to know that they will not abuse the privilege.
The #2 objective of some of these Marketplace's links, such as Agora's, seems to be to encourage word of mouth advertising by offering a financial incentive to the referrer. This is causing people to abuse the system and encouraging them to be shared with people they have no relation to in the hopes of cashing in. Some have even used shill accounts to upvote their own posts and leave fake comments about how helpful the link is.
From now on, referral links will no longer be allowed here and people who post them will be banned. The appropriate place to post or request these links might be the official forums of that marketplace or perhaps a subreddit dedicated specifically to that market. In addition, people found to be using shill accounts will have every account which we believe to be related to them banned as well.
So to clarify the rule changes in a nutshell:
- There will be no posting or requesting of referral links
- Anyone found to be using shill accounts to promote their agenda will have all accounts related to them banned.
As always, feel free to message the moderators with any suggestions or advice on how to improve this subreddit.
Cheers!
Basically, if you don't wanna incur the mods wrath, just post the links on the Agora sub. We want the integrity of this sub as a sub with absolutely no market affiliations.
Talking about Agora is totally fine. Advertising is fine. Just use the real Agora link.