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Yeah, we're getting spammed by these bots by the hundreds. Most ICOs are run by pure get rich quick scumbags who will do anything to promote their scamcoin in whatever scummy way they can and utilising these spam campaigns is just another way they do this. I tag them if I ever get spam emails from them because I know they've purchased a hacked forum database from somewhere, but if there's good evidence that they're utilising these spam services they should face punishment, but mprep made a point that somebody could fake the purchase to try get their thread removed etc though I'm not sure how many people would buy these services just to get their threads trashed because they aren't exactly cheap. I still think we should charge a fee for ICOs to even list here and they should definitely face punishments if they run a spam campaign because it's these ICOs that are causing 99% of the spam and headaches right now.

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Telegram: https://t.me/userviceico
Website: https://usrv.io
Whitepaper: https://usrv.io/en-US/uservice.pdf

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Any questions?
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Website: https://usrv.io
Whitepaper: https://usrv.io/en-US/uservice.pdf

What we can do is,find their thread on bitcointalk and lock it or negative tag the accounts involving the ICO teams.

No your not alone. I've been also receiving those ico invitations lately and here is the latest one that  I received.

Profile https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1513455

Would it be possible for a competitor to spam the inbox of users of a particular ICO in order to damage that ICO's reputation and get their thread locked?

I get them sometimes, but not all that often if i'm honest.

One solution would be to have it so you need to reach a certain level before you are able to send a PM.

I've touched on this above. Whilst it's certainly possible, I would guess the number of people that would even try it to be extremely low, whereas the number of ICOs utilising these spam services are very high, but something needs to be done about these services as I'm getting about 50 reported messages a day regarding them. Sadly, I'm not even sure if the admin's are looking into the accounts because I'm sure lots of them could be stopped before they even start as I doubt they're using different IPs for each bot account.

One solution may be to prohibit Newbies or lower ranked members from posting in ICO threads. If we make it so Juniors or Members can only do so they probably wont bother getting the accounts up to that member-level. At the moment it is far too easy to create an unlimited amount of accounts and bot any thread you want and this needs to be curbed somehow. To remove this restriction it could be included in one of the paid premium memberships like Copper/Silver/Gold etc.

They might not be doing this now because there is ~0 consequence to advertising ICOs via PM today, but if advertising an ICO via PM meant the ICO thread gets locked, I would think some would engage in moderate advertising via PM for their competitors.

And how would you know the person sending the SPAM had the PO's permission?   Are you suggesting that and your massive scam army can shut down any ICO just by sending people PMs promoting it?   :-\

I am not exactly sure what you are trying to say (drunk?)

Im confused. I thought the problem was that a bunch of newbies have been sending unsolicited PMs to users who are not interested, nor have given any indication they are interested in any ICOs.

Thought I could keep a thread dedicated for reporting accounts which could be banned for shit-posting.I often come across such accounts and usually ignore them or keep procrastinating the 'report to mod' click.By keeping it in one thread it would be easier for me to keep a track and also make it easier for the mods to ban them.I believe these accounts are created to pump ICO threads and or spam threads in any way possible.Most of them are one line posters pumping threads ,definitely don't need them on the forum.

There seems to be a lot nowadays that the admins are not looking into that they probably should. There is a fairly decent amount of admin related work that cannot be automated.

I believe theymos recently said that he is the only one handling the coding behind the forum so he might have been busy with that recently.

Basically, those are newbie account. Maybe restrict newbie from private message?

We probably need at least one more active admin to be honest. Essential things just aren't getting looked into. It's pointless even banning people at this point when they can and do just evade their ban on their 2/20/200 alt accounts and nobody ever looks into them. It's also unacceptable that people are waiting several months and even indefinitely in some cases to have their accounts restored even with a signed message already verified by others.

Where did he say this?

[...]with me as the only sysadmin and current-software developer[...]

One problem is that theymos needs people who can be broadly trusted because admins can potentially do a lot of damage that would be difficult to undue.

I'm well aware of that but if there's nobody else currently trusted then he needs to find someone. I told him years ago that he should offer BadBear a raise to entice him back out of hibernation and he said it could be a good idea but not sure whether he ever did or not. Currently admins don't really get any more pay than Globals and it's silly because being an admin is obviously much more work. I've suggested theymos also pay himself a reasonable wage to do admin duties full time but if he's doing the coding on the new forum then that's probably out of the question.

It's also unacceptable that people are waiting several months and even indefinitely in some cases to have their accounts restored even with a signed message already verified by others.

Maybe an account recovery fee would help speed things up a bit?

But currently an account fee with bitcoin would not make sense because of the high transaction fees.

Maybe an account recovery fee would help speed things up a bit?

How?????

There is basically only theymos who is half afk doing that. We would just need more paid Admins or something around that line.

Cyrus, not theymos is mainly working with account recovery. Don't know how fee would help to make account recovery faster if Cyrus getting dozens of requests each day.

Maybe if there was a recovery fee, there would be less requests and users would take better care securing their accounts.