Following up; clearing Telegram of excess members

Dear community,

As you know, our Telegram had grown to record heights. At its peak, we reached almost 75,000 followers. This was due our MoneyBot (online bounty program), which went insanely viral. You can find a previous blog on that here: https://medium.com/@theanythingapp/telegram-has-70-000-members-heres-why-38a95c4cc837

MoneyBot has been a learning experience. Like all ICOs, we do this for the first time. Sometimes, something catches you off-guard. The success of MoneyBot and the incredible amount of content created because of it, was one of them.

Some of the content had lower quality than hoped, which was in the line of expectancy. Some of the comments on our Tweets, Facebook and Youtube look simple; please keep in mind that these are real people who benefit tremendously from having bounty programs available to them. Most don’t speak perfect English and participating in these programs helps them survive.

A more challenging situation is that the record growth of our Telegram group comes with issues. Having this many users before we’ve even hit pre-sale generates distrust from investors. It is a shame, because it was actually the result of a massive success, however if we were on your side of the table, we would certainly feel the same way.

As such, we are deleting users who have been scripted into joining the group. The process takes time. We wish we could delete the whole batch in a single stroke, however that is not possible with Telegram. We also go to great lengths to ensure that every single person who wants to be with us will not get deleted and we are sure we can do this with close to 0 margin of error.

All in all, our home-made MoneyBot has been an incredible growth spurt for us. We now have a sizeable bounty community who swiftly responds when prompted through email or other messaging. The Telegram is massive and our social media is engaged. We are content with how MoneyBot has performed. Many people have called it ‘the best Bot ever made’, and we weren’t handing out tokens for those comments.

For now, we’ve greatly reduced the amount of tasks available in MoneyBot. Most of his work is done, and he is happily standing by in case we want to do some work!

Thank you for your time and see you on our Telegram or Twitter!