Simply advertise Steemit instead of STEEM then. That's not breaking their rules. I think people need to read that closely. It gave examples of what isn't allowed. It's mostly talking about deceptive practices. The only people who should be worried are the scammers. Any other honest forms of advertising cryptocurrency aren't against the rules. Just drop the sales pitch and bogus claims.
I think people are overreacting. It's good for crypto if the scammers lose their voice.
I totally agree, all the Facebook ads I’ve seen have been bogus scams. If a project is good it shouldn’t need to advertise. But I also tend to have a skeptical view on most ICO or mining stocks, whichbis mostly what I’ve seen.
Agreed, Just promote Steemit, play their game. They are probably doing this as they have something in the pipeline which will be clogging up the marketing channels very soon, Face coin or Gmoney etc.
Scammers should be banned from all platforms. It is too easy to promote services that are complete scams with no background checks into the "companies" behind them.Some very simple checks from the likes of FB and Google would have eliminated this ages ago.
Good points - Steemit is indeed no currency. I hope you are right with honest advertising can be done and I agree a lot of scammers are on any platform. So if it ends up with higher trust in crypto we say Thanks Mark.
People who don't know a damn thing about crypto see those ads with promises of easy money. Of course that only makes the rest of us look bad, so get rid of them. That way, the new money comes to the established tokens, like STEEM. Then they see how it works and rather than telling their 2000 Facebook friends about how they got ripped off, they start spreading the word about how things are looking good, because that was the only option the new money was given.
If Facebook and friends wanted to harm crypto, one way to do that would be to simply ban advertisements and let the crypto people panic, go into conspiracy theory mode, then spread the news like wildfire... wait, no, that's not Facebook doing that. It's the crypto kids. I'm even reading it in the comments on this post.
In reality, this is brilliant. If Mark truly was attempting to cause harm, he did just that by shooting himself in the foot.