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Cryptocurrency and Initial Initial Coin Offering (ICO) are the fastest changing markets in the world. As soon as the ICO phenomenon began to gain momentum in early 2017, all crypto-currency bloggers and notable media mentioned BitcoinTalk as one of the key components of success, often calling it the most desirable target audience

All ICOs advertise (ANN-posts) about themselves and the majority of them launch their bonus campaigns on BitcoinTalk, while all reliable ICO ads require hypertext links to ANN-posts when integrating projects. Thus, it can be said that at the present time, BitcoinTalk is a de facto mandatory standard for any project making or considering making an initial offer of coins.

The following BitcoinTalk guide is based on extensive research on the subject. subject, collected available information and practical experience. An exclusive collection of knowledge has been tested along with the story of a startup, which launched its ANN and Bounty messages on BitcoinTalk on Monday, Oct. 2. During the first two weeks of the ICO campaign, no other user acquisition activity was done. BitcoinTalk to fully understand how the platform worked and how it could help develop the project

What is BitcoinTalk?

Modern BitcoinTalk is the largest and one of the oldest discussion forums. dedicated to Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies on the Internet. It was founded by Satoshi Nakamoto on November 22, 2009 and directly succeeds its first SourceForge forum, which is now lost.

Initially, BitcoinTalk was a forum where people interested in technical details and everything related to Bitcoin software could communicate with each other. Now it hosts a lot of different sections covering all the major areas of the cryptocurrency world, including one made specifically for country offices. Thanks to its huge user base (more than 464,000 community members) BitcoinTalk has quickly become a valuable source of traffic for everything related to cryptocurrency.

Table of Contents

The Configuration

ANN -post and All That Affects It

To Post Advertisements and Messages bonus, you must have an account on the forum, but if you plan to make a beautiful post "branded" with images, your account must be at least in a rank Jr. member, which means have at least 30 points d & # 39; activity. To achieve this, you must participate in the life of the forum – communicate with other people in different forums.

BitcoinTalk awards points using the following scheme:

A publication or commentary = a point activity, but as soon as you reach 14 points, your score stops growing for the current period of two weeks. Despite this fact, your activity is tracked and your points are saved, but are not assigned to your account at this time.

At the beginning of the next two weeks period, the process starts again – your activity points continue to grow (even if you did nothing during this new period, your activity points) previously saved are now assigned) until you reach the next +14 points. In this way, in order to collect the 30 points mentioned above, you must actively communicate on the forum for at least four weeks and two days. You must keep this in mind if you plan to publish your ad by a certain date here

Bans

You should also note that your account could be banned in progress If you do a lot of messages off topic and change your geo-IP often and inconsistently, then we suggest you start with at least five accounts that you plan to bring to the junior rank. We had four, three of them were banned.

In addition to the internal level of BitcoinTalk accounts, there are two possible solutions to this situation:

Find someone who has an account of Jr. Member or higher and ask him to publish your ANN / Bounty post for you, but keep in mind that you will probably need to update your messages during the campaign, so this person should be eager to help you time

Buy an account. This method is not prohibited on BitcoinTalk but is not encouraged. You must remember that there is a risk (rather low) that your newly purchased account may be banned shortly after the purchase. You may be banned for a variety of reasons:

– change or regularly Geo-IP

– a complaint that the accounts you have just purchased has been stolen

– because some of the forum users inspect users who are actively communicating in topics of interest to them, in order to find high-level accounts with unnatural behaviors (for example, the account was inactive for three months and started to comment positively only) in order to report them for unfair pumping of wire.

Usually, the bans on BitcoinTalk are temporary, but getting one can be very annoying to your campaign.

In order to minimize the risks, we advise you to create your own accounts and develop them up to the rank of junior member. You should start doing this at least a month and two days before the planned date of publication of your ANN-post.

Here you will find a complete list of features and restrictions applicable to each account.

In case you still want to risk and buy an account, we have studied the matter for you. Here are the prices you can see on the forums end of November – mid-December *:

Jr. Member – from 30 EUR;

Member – from 56 EUR;

Full member – EUR 90;

Senior Member – from 120 EUR;

Hero Member – from 195 EUR;

Legendary Member – from 310 EUR

* Note: Prices vary a lot, they depend on the history of the provider and the account, only on the account, but the figures provided provide a real understanding of the current state of the market.

Escrow

When buying an account on BitcoinTalk, it is highly advisable to use a deposit a service. Escrow is experienced and respected senior members of the forum who act as third parties in your arrangement and guarantee that your deal will be concluded without fraud. Below you will find a list of BitcoinTalk members who may be contacted to provide escrow services. The list is decreasing – the man with the highest level of trust is displayed above. The structure is: nickname, escrow commission takes the case, the minimum amount of escrow reward receives in any case *:

OgNasty – 1 %, min. 0.01 BTC

Tomatocage – 1%;

Blazr – 1%, min. 0.01 BTC;

Lyth0s – 1%, min. 0.01 BTC;

bitpop – 0.001 BTC;

Anon136 – 0.9%, min. 0.01 BTC;

TwinWinNerD – 1%, 0.01 BTC;

Dabs – 1%, min. 0.03 BTC.

* numbers available, you can try to lower them by contacting one of the users mentioned in the personal messages.

It's a well-known fact that beautiful pictures sell better than nude text, it engages the user and holds his attention, he can bring extra value and help to position your product favorably against the competition.

On BitcoinTalk you can create simple and unobtrusive publications, as well as rich and beautiful publications full of images, but there are many nuances to know before deciding what type of ANN-post you should choose.

BitcoinTalk is not a mobile-friendly platform. There is no direct option to create an adaptive ANN / Bounty poster for mobile devices, but the default layout is fluid, which means that all your text and images will be reduced to fit current resolution requirements. You can take this into account when preparing your design and make the content of your images larger than necessary to make it better on mobile phones, but it's entirely up to you.

<img alt=" BitcoinTalk "src =" http://cointelegraph.com/storage/uploads/view/1fda77fee28ae74ea22cb22b95a288e5.jpg "title =" BitcoinTalk "/>

In the first two weeks after our initial launch, we did not advertise or we saw that most of the traffic came from desktops (over 85%), which is why we dare to conclude that the post " mobile-friendly "is an inefficient approach

Another feature of BitcoinTalk's fluid layout is that items that are specifically positioned in a single line. [img] [/img] [img] [/img] when viewing on a mobile device, can break that line and create a second line, despite the fact that there is enough horizontal space for them in the initial row.

<img alt=" BitcoinTalk "src =" http://cointelegraph.com/storage/upl oads / view / fdf62406a78c977bc8ae5502d776e6e3 .jpg "title =" BitcoinTalk "/>

How to Tag and Test Your Message

BitcoinTalk, like many other forums use BBcode to tag its content in publications. The implementation of BBcode is rather standard but limited. We would even say old to be precise. Working with ordered and unordered multilevel lists, for example, is a more complicated process than on modern phpBB / IPB forums

The message should be tagged and tested in personal messages ( My messages → New message ). You should send your layout to yourself or to your other account so that no one complains that you are sending spam in personal messages.

<img alt=" New post "src =" http://cointelegraph.com/storage/uploads/view/2ea20a77a521ada0512ac3e182357bf0.jpg "title =" New post "/>

Before d & # 39; send your test message, you can check out its preview version, which could show you what your message will look like once published, but unfortunately this is not entirely true in the version of. publication preview, the CSS styles applied to images with hyperlinks are different from those applied in the actual publication, if you do not know.When you publish a post, all the images wrapped in the links receive an extra margin: 4px (four transparent pixels are added on the left side of the image), but you can not see this effect in Preview mode.

Here is an example of this effect in E L & # 39 ANN-post of LIX:

<img alt=" ANN-post "src =" http://cointelegraph.com/storage/uploads/view/4b7354a3f941af570cbc5e8bd876a58e.jpg "title =" ANN-post "/>

Now that you know this nuance, all the iterations of your layout must be sent to you in personal messages and then examined in My Messages →

Inbox ] (sent messages count as publications and BitcoinTalk uses the same CSS styles)

During this step, additional shades that slow down your working speed appear. If you are annotating and testing your layout with a freshly registered user, each time you press Preview or Send Message, you must enter a captcha (thankfully, it does not change for a few hours, so you would be able to 39 in memory by heart). For new users (<16 activity points) these personal message sending restrictions apply:

A message in six minutes;

No more than five messages per hour.

Based on this information, we strongly recommend to create multiple accounts on BitcoinTalk and, in case of meeting these limits, to start doing the same thing, but of different account.

Note: Unfortunately, BitcoinTalk recently forced the same image publishing rules to use the personal messages that it uses in publications. This means that if your account is less than the Jr. member, you can only publish text (the image tags will be converted to hyperlinks), even in private messages.

How to extract the BBcode from the ANN-post you like

In order to simplify the ANN-post markup process (that is, not to do everything from zero), you can take any post tag as a base. It's very easy to do, but in general, people who do not work with forums do not know it.

Let's say you like the post UTRUST. In order to see its BBcode markup, you must login to BitcoinTalk and press the quote button:

<img alt=" Quote button "src =" http://cointelegraph.com/storage/uploads/view / 8b471caab74e04cc33f167d9b7ac50a7.jpg "title =" Quote Button "/>

As soon as you do this, a window with an answer comment will appear, where in the body of the message a BBcode of UTRUST's post ANN will be" "All you need is located inside the labels [quote] and [/quote]. Just copy this code and continue working with it locally:

<img alt=" Poster answer "src =" http: //cointelegraph.com/storage/uploads/view/f43477368306382524b49a28ca77447d.jpg "title =" Post an answer "/>

Images

BitcoinTalk n & # 39; not host your images, ie you can not upload images to their servers lor s of the design of a post, as you can on average. You can refer to an image already uploaded to a server, preferably yours (with the same domain name as your website), using a hyperlink. If you do not have a dedicated personal server on which you are storing images, or for any reason, you may use image hosting services such as:

] That's where another nuance appears – BitcoinTalk Image Proxy. Theoretically, it was designed to block the loading of images that exceed 2.5 megabytes, but in practice, it periodically blocks the rendering of images of different accommodations for no apparent reason, showing you the following message: "Bitcointalk.org proxy image: [image incorrecte]. "

The main problem here is that your ANN-post images can not trigger Proxy Image when they are rendered for the first time, but three days after publication, is exactly what happened to us .)

It is advisable to download your complete set of images to different hosting services from the beginning and prepare several BBCode copies of your publication with different image links. In case you encounter this proxy image behavior, you will be ready to react to this situation by editing the post and instantly changing all broken images to new, functioning – this way you will minimize the chances of reputation. In our tests, we discovered that it is safer to use Imgur hosting services. This is probably because Imgur is the most popular image hosting service currently and that many companies are hosting their ANN and Bounty images, so bothering it with Image Proxy is disadvantageous for the forum as a whole.

Note: You may encounter a situation where you open your published article (or sent a personal message) and find images that are not displayed at all. It's a standard situation – no need to worry, just refresh the page multiple times. This happens often and most BitcoinTalk commoners know it, so they will easily refresh your page if necessary.

Image Optimization

All pretty ANN tickets are sold images – some projects use small amounts of images, but very large, while others use a lot of small pictures. Because all images are examined by BitcoinTalk Image Proxy, their loading speed is not something to be desired. The general rule of thumb is that the smaller the size of your images, the faster they load and the less Image Proxy related issues.

In order to reduce the size of your image, use it preferably lossless algorithms.

These services can help you achieve this goal:

TinyPNG (very easy-to-use web service that provides good compression results for PNG and JPEG formats)

PNGyu (Windows program that brings good results when it comes to PNG images)

ImageOptim (Mac OS application, works fine with formats PNG and JPEG, in the majority of the cases, works better than all

For all those who wish to deepen this subject, we advise you to consult these materials:

ImageOptim -CLI – comparative performance analysis of image optimization tools;

Worki ng with images (UK) – set of articles with detailed instructions of the l & # 39; Art Lebedev Studio employees describe how to obtain an image quality e maximum while reaching the minimum size.

Do you really need to bother yourself, how effective can it be? Let's compare ANN post from our project – Forty Seven Bank and ANN post from Tokenbox. Our canvas is much longer than Tokenbox's. We have more graphic content.

Forty Sept: 38 images, the total file size – 824 kilobytes

Tokenbox: 8 images, the total file size – 2.26 megabytes.

the difference is 2.74

Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Types of ANN Publications

In terms of markup specificities, all messages can be divided into four types distinct. Each of them has its own advantages and disadvantages.

Text ANN post

Example – Blue Ethereum.

Advantages:

This type of message is faster and easier to handle because it contains only text.

This type of publication can be published without having a Rated account, which means that you will need to spend less time preparing it, do not have to buy accounts or ask for help from someone else. 39; a;

This type of post can be translated very quickly into other languages ​​(by means of bounty campaign), which will offer you greater audience coverage in much shorter time frames. Translators will not have to play with your Photoshop files and change the texts on the pictures there:

This type of publication is very easy to edit as there is no need to change images in graphical editors

Translators and community managers responsible for ANN and Bounty localized messages in your campaign will be able to update their feeds with your changes faster, so new information will be released more quickly .

Text messages look as good on mobile devices as they do on the desktop;

Text messages are loaded faster than all other types of messages.

Disadvantages:

Text publications are less successful than graphic publications: it is more difficult to subtly highlight things important and show your product in its best light. They also keep the user's attention worse than other types of post;

The text message shows potential customers that you are saving money on the design and presentation of your product or are incompetent in the design field. things bring potential reputational risks;

It's hard to make this type of message big enough to properly present your project because if you do, you'll have a large canvas of text that no one wants to read when they open your message for the first time. This type of message must be short, laconic and at the same time vast

Messages without images create less "anchor points" with your project and are more easily forgotten.

Simple Graphical ANN Post

The term single-term graph implies a canvas that consists almost entirely of a few or even a single image, which is created using a kind of graphic design. graphic tool. This type of message is presented using a rule "one image per row."

Example – UTRUST

Advantages:

Because the picture pattern is not related to the rules and the formatting capabilities of the forum elements, it is possible to display your product as you wish without encountering any restrictions of structure and color. You can highlight important things and format your elements freely.

This type of message helps to effectively use storytelling techniques and to properly inform users about your project even though they have begun to "read"

With this type of message, you can show the audience the skill level of your design and product teams as well as the seriousness of your approach to BitcoinTalk as a media channel.

seems better than most text posts created by competition. It is also easier to remember than an ordinary text

This type of layout does not break down on mobile devices as it only has one image per row

Disclaimer:

To create this position, you must have a Jr. or greater member account:

This type of message requires a lot more time to create;

You must have people in your team or freelance who can create a product of high visual quality;

If the post images are not prepared for a special cut, then the unwanted 4px "Scale" will appear when alternating between single images and images wrapped in hypertext links;

Post with a large image composed of large images (especially not optimized) takes longer to load than a simple text;

For translators and community managers to create their own localized feeds of your ANN or bounty messages, they require up-to-date, properly-edited versions of Photoshop files with your graphic content openly available to them (this process also has its own nuances which are covered below);

For a quick and convenient translation of your ANN / prime message, you must keep an updated version of all messages in your message in a distinctly available Google Docs file.

All changes take longer to complete because the workflow changes from this:

"Open Position → Make Changes → Save";

to this:

"Add changes to the image (-s) → save it → upload to the server → open the publication → make changes to display the markup → register ";

The previous paragraph is also true for localized versions of your publication Translators must go through the same process as you, which is why you have to update all Photoshop files on a regular basis and fonts (if need be) available to open source translators.

This type of message involves restrictions layout images wrapped in links – you will have either a layout "an image per line wrapped in a link "or a layout" an entire publication is an image wrapped in a link "(most primitive case of a simple graphic ANN message) .This means that you will not be in m To place four image links of members of your team in a row where each link leads to a different LinkedIn profile.

Anniversary Complex Post

The Ann publication is an article cut out and annotated so that all images NOT covered by links have four pixels of transparent / backward color. left plane and that all images covered by links are not. This type of publication may include several image links placed on a line (for example, you may place image links of your documents on a single horizontal line)

<img alt=" Annular Annular Complex Post src = "http://cointelegraph.com/storage/uploads/view/3b1bb156f43c9ce49493d4f6f5f05393.jpg" title = "ANN Graphics Complex" />

Examples: Forty-Seven Banks, eGold

Advantages:

Almost all the advantages of a simple graphical annotation

This type of message can serve as a mini-website in a forum, where each image is a real hypertext link leading where you want to go.The horizontal arrangement of images wrapped in links can help shorten the length of the canvas while making it larger.

It's more easy to optimize almost without loss large amount of small images and receive a significant reduction in size than to optimize less, but very large images. the weight of your poles, the faster it charges, that's why this type of pole usually charges faster than just the graphical post;

There is no visible "scale" on the edge of the canvas where simple images alternate with images wrapped in the links.

Inconvénients:

Presque tous les inconvénients d'un simple ANN graphique

[19459011Ilfautencoreplusdetempspourpréparercetypedemessagequecequiestnécessairepourpréparerunmessagegraphiquesimple Vous devrez travailler avec la couleur d'arrière-plan BitcoinTalk (# ECEDF3), que vous le vouliez ou non.

Sur les appareils mobiles, les liens d'image placés horizontalement peuvent parfois s'effondrer et créer une deuxième rangée d'images, ce qui casse votre mise en page.

Message ANN Hybride

Message hybride dans un sujet utilisant une combinaison d'images et de texte richement formaté.

Exemples: Sintez, BPC, Tokenbox.

Avantages:

Peut sembler aussi bon que la plupart des posts graphiques là-bas s'il faut prendre au sérieux comme VIBERATE l'a fait, ce qui signifie que ce type de post peut vendre

Ce type de post permet d'utiliser efficacement les techniques de storytelling et d'informer correctement les utilisateurs sur votre projet pour "lire" votre message quelque part au milieu

Ce type de message est plus facile à traduire pour les participants de la campagne Bounty parce que la plupart du texte n'est pas dans les mages (moins de travail dans les éditeurs d'image). Les versions de votre message ANN apparaîtront plus rapidement. Il est également beaucoup plus facile de gérer ce type de publication car les modifications en termes de flux de travail sont généralement similaires à celles du texte.

Ce type de publication est généralement aussi bien sur les appareils mobiles que sur les ordinateurs.

Inconvénients:

Pour créer ce poste, vous devez posséder un compte de grade Jr. Membre ou plus

Vous devez avoir les gens de votre équipe ou en freelance qui peuvent créer un produit de haute qualité visuelle

Il est plus difficile de créer un beau post hybride que de créer un simple graphique, car vous devrez travailler avec des polices populaires, hauteurs de ligne par défaut qui ne peuvent pas être modifiées, couleur d'arrière-plan BitcoinTalk, etc.

Pour que les traducteurs et les community managers puissent créer leurs propres versions localisées de vos messages ANN ou Bounty, ils doivent être mis à jour , versions correctement découpées de fichiers Photoshop avec votre contenu graphique ouvert

Nuances

Temps

La plupart des gens qui participeront à votre campagne de primes de traduction sont des chasseurs de primes professionnels, dont le but est de livrer leur travail aussi vite que possible et recevoir leurs steaks promis (points de campagne bounty). Ils se soucient peu de la qualité visuelle de leur travail si cela les ralentit. Par exemple, vous avez lancé vos messages graphiques ANN et Bounty le premier jour du mois, mais vous avez été en mesure de préparer des fichiers Photoshop correctement découpés avec du contenu graphique uniquement le deuxième jour. La plupart des chasseurs de primes, dans ce cas, auraient déjà commencé à traduire vos messages le premier jour. Parce qu'ils n'avaient pas les fichiers source Photoshop à leur disposition le premier jour, ils travailleraient avec ce qui est – images raster de vos messages. Ils seront en mesure de changer les textes de vos images, mais la qualité de ces modifications sera discutable, ce qui entraînera des messages localisés plus mauvais que ceux d'origine. Ces situations peuvent être résolues plus tard, mais cela demande du temps, ce qui est essentiel pendant la campagne de l'ICO, et c'est pourquoi il est très important d'avoir tous vos fichiers Photoshop correctement découpés le premier jour.

Simplicity

La plupart des chasseurs de primes connaissent les éditeurs d'images et les installent sur leurs machines. Principalement ceux d'Adobe, mais souvent les versions des programmes qu'ils utilisent sont très obsolètes (Adobe Photoshop CS2-3, Adobe Fireworks CS5-6), c'est pourquoi lors de la préparation des fichiers Photoshop tranchés, nous vous suggérons de fusionner autant de couches que possible, ne laissant que le texte modifiable. Nous vous suggérons également de ne pas utiliser les nouvelles fonctionnalités Adobe CC telles que les effets de calque double ou triple, les plans de travail, etc. Plus le fichier est simple, plus le résultat obtenu par un chasseur de primes est prévisible

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It's not a commonly known fact, but it is possible to place a whole email template, with recipient address, subject, and body text set in advance in a regular “mailto:” link. It is very convenient for a person who decided to write you an email – it will save him a lot of time if he encounters such link. Here’s an example that offers a visitor to become project’s advisor. These type of links also work In terms of BitcoinTalk, but you have to place them using [email][/email] tag, not the [url][/url]. You can also wrap images in [email] tags the same way you do it with [url].

Limit for symbols

Posts on BitcoinTalk cannot be infinitely long, they have a character limit set, but if you encounter it, forum will just show you an error about you having an improperly closed tag somewhere in your post, i.e., will misinform you. Officially the characters limit for one post is 64,000 symbols, but in some cases this limit fired at 63,000+ characters, while others reported they were able to publish posts with 65,535 and 68,575 characters in length respectively. Besides that, this restriction is a floating one. It varies from one forum section to another. In Tokens (altcoins) and Bounties (altcoins) it is approximately the same as mentioned above, but in Russian localized section, for example, the allowed character amount was two times smaller.

You’ll probably won’t encounter this limit while publishing your ANN post, but it will come in handy when doing a bounty post.

Conclusions

Based on the experience of launching our own ANN and bounty posts and making a lot of changes to them, the conclusion would be that it’s better to do hybrid ANN posts, because:

They can sell (even if they do it a bit worse than purely graphical posts) and can look good on both desktop and mobile devices

They are a lot cheaper in maintenance

They are easy to work with for bounty campaign participants

They take less time to prepare because there are fewer images to create, and these pictures are usually more simple than in graphical posts

Hybrid ANN posts usually host less pictures than image ones, and these pictures are usually smaller in dimensions, making them better targets for lossless image optimisation, which all in all may result in better loading times.

It is better not to use image-links for ANN posts in different languages, but rather to make them text ones, otherwise it could create a lot of additional work for the creator as well as for the bounty campaign participants.

It looks beautiful, but because there are around 16-20 main languages that your ANN post will be translated to, you and your bounty hunters will have to create these 16-20 images for each language, resulting in around 256-400 images. It’s just not worth it.

Publication of ANN post

Before you publish your ANN post, there are several things you should know.

Name of your post

Each day dozens of new ANN posts appear on BitcoinTalk and dozens of “old” ones ascend to top positions of the section because of the active discussions happening in them. Tokens (altcoins) section is somewhat similar to very dynamic Featured section of some kind of popular App Store – all market participants want to get their place under the sun, because it provides visibility to the project, which in return gives free traffic.

It would be discussed later – how to get to the top of the section, but right now we will speak about how to get noticed when you’re already on the top. All headings in the section are made of text and mostly all of them have blocks in brackets, such as [ANN][ICO]. In order to better distinguish your post you can use ASCII symbols and emojis – you won’t get banned for this:

Using these symbols, you can better draw attention to your post and easier onboard new visitors to your topic.

For example, instead of using normal square brackets [EXAMPLE]you can use these symbols【EXAMPLE】that by default have thicker lines to them and are better drawing attention. If to wrap this example in emoji, then your heading will distinct even better, for instance 🚀【EXAMPLE】🚀.

That’s it, but it is important not to overdo it.

<img alt="Name of your post" src="http://cointelegraph.com/storage/uploads/view/8867d4b2168b6d594a1c55fe2849f64d.jpg" title="Name of your post"/>

The most often encountered emojis on BitcoinTalk are:

🌟 ⚡🚀🔥✅💥⭐

Reply reservation

Tokens (altcoins) section is always monitored by bounty hunters, especially by translators. As soon as they see new post appear, they jump into it and instantaneously leave a reply message with text stating something similar to “I reserve the Indonesian translation.” This is all good and well, despite the fact that it’s better to be able to reserve the first reply message for yourself – you can use it for thread updates or at least have an opportunity to divide your main p ost in two if it gets too big.

After the publication of your ANN post, the tab you’ve published it in usually loads slower than the entry appears in the altcoins section, so in order to reserve the first reply for yourself, you need to do:

Open two separate tabs in your browser, each on Tokens (altcoins); Have the “Reserved” text copied to your clipboard Use one tab to publish your ANN post As soon as you’ve pressed the “Post” button, switch to the second tab and continuously hit “Refresh” button until you see your post Jump into the post and immediately hit the “Reply” button, paste the “Reserved” text in and then hit the “Post” button.

If you’ve done everything fast enough, first post reply will be yours and you will be able to use it as intended (by editing its content). In case you weren’t able to make it (bounty hunters are very fast after all), you’ll have to use your main post’s footer to publish the updates.

In order to reduce the risk of losing your first reply message to bounty hunters, we advise to publish your ANN post when there are less people on the forum. BitcoinTalk is an international platform, meaning that there are always users online, but we definitely recommend avoiding publishing your post from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. EST.

What to do right after your post has been published

There are many things you can do right after publishing your ANN post, depending on how well did you prepare for the guerilla community management, but there’s a minimum program you should do.

If you’ve made a high-quality attractive ANN post, you will start receiving your first comments about participation in bounty program, language translation reservations and general questions about your project within the first minutes. It is very important to respond to those comments promptly and in full while staying polite and positive. Keeping your FAQ close to increase your answer speed is generally a good idea. If you manage to respond to people’s questions while offering them a way to continue a conversation with you, you will get into victorious situation. Every time someone leaves a comment in your post, it jumps up to the top of Tokens (altcoins) section. There it receives visibility, that’s why the more discussion is happening in your post, the more popular it gets. You have to remember that BitcoinTalk moderators are working for a salary, not for free, so they do their job well – all off-topic posts and pointless comments are quickly deleted.

Even participating in topic discussions, you need to keep an eye on personal messages – a place where you’ll receive offers of paid help from different forum dwellers. Some of the offered services may be of use to you, but in any case, you should always be wary and check the reputation of users who are offering them.

During the first few hours after the publication of your ANN-post, we suggest you keep at least two people watching the thread and answering user comments and questions.

When launching local ANN posts in different languages, prepare that some people may be very salty and even poisonous. You still need to behave politely with them.

This is where this article comes to an end. Next one would be about specifics of bounty campaigns on BitcoinTalk. If you found this article useful, please share it with your friends. If you want us to clarify anything or propose a subject for another article, please leave us a message in the comment section below.