A few talking points for contests, referrals and more

[rivdee]

1) I've had a few people lately post ref links to other sites where you can earn bitcoin. Seeing as how we are a site where you can earn bitcoin, I would really appreciate it if the users of this site didn't drive traffic away from it to a competitor. This is the warning that its unacceptable; if I see it again, the person who posted it will lose their account.

2) The original intent of the leaderboard was to create a fun competition that would also increase traffic on the site by giving an incentive for referring users here. A few of you have clearly taken advantage of the scoring to go up on the leaderboard with no real intent to help the site (like asking me to fast track verifications for people who don't really need it). I will respect the letter of the law and pay the contest/freeroll places as the leaderboard dictates, but going forward with the contest, I will only verify someone after they've reached 25K in pts (enough for their 1st redeem but they don't need to actually do the redeem). Don't PM me asking to verify someone, it will be at my discretion. I've also added a clause to the contest that states at ANY TIME, I can, within reason, penalize someone I feel is abusing the system and/or disqualify them from all future competitions. Keep in mind that I pay these contests out of my own pocket for the community, so I would appreciate people respecting the spirit of the competition.

3) A few of you (and myself) have had some delays on the blockchain with btc redeems. We are currently looking into what we can do on our end to make sure they run as fast as possible.

4) I've had a delay in setting up the PS home games, they will be up next month. We also have some other stuff coming up that I think most of you will be in to related to sports.