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I thought I'd make a thread to keep track of members dumping spam posts as I come across them - they post useless and obvious "me too" one liners all over the forum immediately after joining or after a period of inactivity, solely to pump up their post count, to increase the perception of reputation or participation on the forum. Scams likely to come. If you're not a scammer, this is your "you're not adding anything useful" warning.

1. HolyScott (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=35090) - recent posts (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=35090;sa=showPosts)

2. BitcoinOxygen (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=69489) - recent posts (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=69489;sa=showPosts) - dumps spam, then starts a "pool"; also  BTCOxygen (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=70658)

3. josephliton (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=66850) - recent posts (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=66850;sa=showPosts) - signature spam

4. hobo66. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=67310) - recent posts (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=67310;sa=showPosts) - Posts 100 crap posts, profile impersonating another member, then the loan request comes.

5. SimpleMan (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=68064) - recent posts (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=68064;sa=showPosts) - Lots of redundant and me too posts.



Post yours; I'll add to the first post if they are good examples of this.

For a while, I did see a flurry of Newbies posting b2b2b2b2b... images on the 21 Million Images thread, coupled with very short regular posts. The names elude me, but if I do rediscover them, I will surely let you know.

~Bruno K~

OK, sometimes only a view seconds between posts in totally different threads, that's really suspicious.

And warning of post count pumpers should really be necessary, especially for newbees.

I remember when I joined the forum, I thought anyone with more than 100 post must be a BTC God.

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Yep, definitely watch out - if they request a loan or anything don't trust them AT ALL.

me too

Guys, its your own responsibility to check thte history of a user you dealing with.
Postcount is no indication for a users trust, check the user posts and what they wrote, i personally explicit look for the first posts of a user and the last posts.
And beside that,my fav quote (little controverse, i know..): "past results are no indication for future performance"

I Dunno about that tradefortress guy he popped up right after iamtheone disappeared.

I new I've read something with this user when I saw this.

To keep it updated:

BitcoinOxygen has now opend a pool: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=120976.0;topicseen

Add heart_mons to that list: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=69537

Check user "hobo66." whose name is very similar to another user "Hobo66".  Post count pumping the fuck out of the Count to 21M thread. Now (surprise surprise!) he's requesting a loan: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=122082.0

+1

Seriously?  What did I do?  This topic is about post-count pumpers and I've done nothing of the sort.   I've never been accused of being a scammer before.  It feels bad.

I see nothing wrong with your activity and won't be listing you here. The pumpers typically post a dozen posts in an hour that add nothing to the discussion threads.

Yeah, sorry heart_mons.  I think I may have jumped the gun about you.  You're definitely not a PCP'er, but your loan request timing just set off some alarms for me.  I'll edit my post out.

Useless post spam now thanks to Butterfly Labs, they have contest rules (https://forums.butterflylabs.com/forumdisplay.php/2-Announcements) that encourage putting their signature in and spamming the forum. Added josephliton, but I could pretty much add everyone that is on their contest page.

Add this dood https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=123492.msg1326338#msg1326338

Thanks.  I'm new but get confused.  I do have a good rep at bitcointrading.com  (jazzhandzer over there)

It's always good if you can prove that somehow. Maybe register a gpg signature and publish a signed certificate there or something like that.

me too

Here's another: Vernon715
This soon to be scammer has made almost 300 useless posts in five days, necroing all over the forum. Deserves a ban just for that.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=52285;sa=showPosts;start=0

Watching BitshireHathaway - Wait for the scams to begin, this guy is posting uselessness in a thread every minute, 400 posts in 20 days.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=104984

This thread was linked from the new Hitler video on YT via one of the comments: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYSlBEQyiYI

Yup.