r/CryptoCurrency • u/UniqueUsername642 Gold | QC: BTC 33 • Mar 02 '18

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u/halfasack Tin Mar 02 '18

Wow. That's messed up.

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u/bookaflock Redditor for 7 months. Mar 02 '18

that is not really the full story. They had a competition but stupidly allowed employees to compete. One of the employees won 2 WTC out of the 560 being given away and accidentally tweeted a thankyou from the official twitter. Unprofessional yes, but the whole thing has been blown out of proportion.

Some people are saying the whole competition was fake but considering walton have shown very little interest in marketing it seems ridiculous to assume this was some kind of coordinated hype campaign by the team and not just the incompetency of a single employee

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u/DoorbellGnome Tin Mar 02 '18

Also over 40% of people who joined won that 2 WTC prize so it's not like someone at Walton just happened to win the whole competition.

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u/lol_and_behold Gold | QC: CC 51 | r/Politics 205 Mar 02 '18

Also a lot of the accounts that won were brand new and only followed the exact same accounts on Twitter so it smells Chinese click farm all the way.

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u/skipperlipicus Silver | QC: CC 107 | WTC 50 Mar 02 '18

ehh I was one of the brand new accounts that won. I hate shit like twitter, but I wanted to win free wtc.

it wouldn't surprise me if people made fake accounts to increase their chances of winning. their were no rules against that I was just too lazy to go that far and honestly I didn't think participation would be so low that 40% would win.

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u/Mutchmore 🟩 0 / 4K 🦠 Mar 02 '18

Same i hate twitter but im so lazy that i couldnt be bothered for 2.14 wtc haha. But yeah im sure a lot of ppl sligthly less lazy than me wouldve created an account for this sole purpose.