Gaming Minds by #MindsGaming (Define Gaming)

Recently a help and support post made by one of the admins on Minds caught my attention, it says that the a few real users were banned for gaming the system. As minds does not wish to release more info about the subject other than the post inside the support and bug group that reads;

We have been conducting an ongoing investigation into the spam / bot channels that many users have been reporting to us for the past few months. We found that there were a number of users (some human) that were farming tokens, which is against our terms of service, so these channels were banned and received email notification.

Our terms state that: "You shall not use or access any of the Services to farm, game, manipulate or spam the Minds Network in order to gain Minds Tokens in an unfair or deceitful manner."

If any impacted user feels that they were not guilty of this, they can send a direct appeal to [email protected] and provide any additional information or context as evidence to why they believe they should not have been banned.

We also have ended the 25% bonus reward program as it was being abused by these types of channels and it was not achieving the onchain behavior it was intended to. We do plan on integrating more features into the rewards program however, as we want to be sure users are being rewarded for all contributions that benefit the network.

In the spirit of transparency I would like to bring up the issues with this post and the conflict with the current terms of use on Minds. The part of this notice I'd like to bring your attention to is:

We found that there were a number of users (some human) that were farming tokens, which is against our terms of service, so these channels were banned and received email notification.

Our terms state that: "You shall not use or access any of the Services to farm, game, manipulate or spam the Minds Network in order to gain Minds Tokens in an unfair or deceitful manner.

Now this as a gamer gets my hairs sticking up, what is gaming the system? Are we talking multiple channels, using a bot that you operate for collection tokens, generally using the network to only accumulate tokens?

What is gaming of the system you are going to have to define that for us gamers as the current terms and company line is you can indeed have more than one channel on Minds and without the tools to link your channels together or any president on having to use the same wallet or number to do this, wouldn't be opening another channel be gaming the system in itself?

On that line we are indeed gaming the system, of course we are we are fucking gamers I have more than one account, I also have more than one phone number I can link to said other account, where are the rules for this, where are the terms or notice that applies to this gaming of the system? Is this gaming of the system or poor system management? Do you plan to ban all the users over the years that you told it was okay to have multiple channels?

The point here is nothing is symmetrical and the rules do not seem to apply for all occurrences across the board, maybe I'm wrong maybe I awake tomorrow and find this account banned for gaming the system even if no direct rules or terms of channel ownership are applied on Minds. The apparent solution is to define gaming in clear understandable terms.

"Gaming The System"

I think gaming the system can be defined simply as;

- Launching multiple accounts for the purpose of collecting tokens.

- Using automated technology for the purpose of collecting tokens.

But even if defined this we would have to set rules and add tools for multiple account management;

"Channels"

- Owners must identify other channels by linking phone number in rewards if using the reward program.

Gamers

I would love to hear your point view on the matter, do you think we defined gaming of the system in this blog in a  satisfactory way? Do you think  Minds INC needs to better explain and implement these terms of use for "gaming of the system" for tokens on Minds, or maybe we should sit back and watch gamers be banned, ha! Make a dam account manager stop blaming your users on your network for your downfalls and miscalculations on programing and features required to make the system manageable and more understandable on rules, terms and "gamers". I'd also note this affects business accounts as well, like gamers business like having more than one account.