Bitcoin Forum

Problem
Unlike Mods, users can't see if someone is banned. It's a waste of everyone's time to report plagiarism (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1926895.0) or other abuse if the user is banned already.

Solution
I made a list of as many banned accounts as possible. This is very useful for automated spam searching (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4720640.msg49000143#msg49000143).
Vod (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=30747) gave me old data from modlog (https://bitcointalk.org/modlog.php). I've added more data from Vod's site BPIP.org (https://bpip.org/metalog.aspx?d=2018-08-03), archive.li (https://archive.li/) and archive.org (https://archive.org/).
Later, OmegaStarScream (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=375981) gave me a list of 422,563 banned accounts (out of the first 940,000 userIDs) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5092983.msg54657928#msg54657928). I removed this list 5 days later, because it was "for Mod eyes only".

List of 159,302 613,336 207,613^* banned users
For human processing: this list includes links to the full Merit history (if there is any), and profiles on BPIP:
1. https://loyce.club/bans/banned.html (Warning: 42 MB, I recommend to download and save banned.html.gz (https://loyce.club/bans/banned.html.gz) instead (4.3 MB)).
Sample:
2. https://loyce.club/bans/usernames.txt (smaller for quick searches: CTRL-F)
Sample:

For machine processing:
3. https://loyce.club/bans/banned.txt
Sample:

All lists are sorted on userID, oldest accounts are shown first.

Updates
I'll update the lists daily every hour daily, using data from modlog (https://bitcointalk.org/modlog.php).

Incomplete
Unfortunately, I don't have a complete list of all banned accounts.  If a data dump (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3134370.msg32502486#msg32502486) becomes available, I'll use that.
If someone (trusted) has older copies of modlog, please let me add them.

NEW: Unbanned?
If your account was unbanned (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4601461.msg41539819#msg41539819), all you need to do is make a post (anywhere on the forum) and you'll be removed from the list in about a day (see details (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5092983.msg51612354#msg51612354)).

Mistakes?
If I made a mistake, just post here.

One last thing
Please don't join this list :D


^*Counted at the start of this topic Updated on July 12, 2020

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See [overview] LoyceV's useful data on Bitcointalk (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5145594.0) for more of my forum-related topics

Great, next week i'll start to have a look on how to integrate the leaving of the feedback into the bot and start processing these initial ~150k user in a semi manual way.   :)

In the post of Maggiordomo up here we can show what has been processed already or any other useful information.

Great work as always Loyce. Much appreciated.
Can this list have a sidenote with the reason for the ban? This would help people to identify the reason. Just an idea. If there is a way to edit the list by others, it would be better. We people can sometimes contribute, at least those who are banned for plagiarism, Or you can do it by your style?

This is a great project, and shows the resourcefulness of members on bitcointalk.
And this would improve the viewer experience and make it easier for those who try to maintain the standard of the forum.

WOW, That will save us a lot of time.
I think it's time Maggiordomo to be white-listed by the mods so you skip the cool down time between posts.
If it gets whitelisted then instead of having notification threads, we could receive PMs and take the unnecessary extra notification load off the forum.

Thanks for doing this!
I won't update http://loyce.club/bans/banned.txt until you're done. After that, I'll start creating updates for your bot.
The other files will get regular updates already.

There's no way for me to know why a user was banned, and considering the size of the list, I'm not going to manually add data. This list isn't meant to aid banned users, it's meant to help hunting them down.
The answer is "plagiarism" anyway :D

AFAIK  :D you can have data from your copy/paste reporting thread. It would be nice since we don't have any public info related banned users.

What is the current restriction for member regarding this?

This is taken from Lauda's Newbies - Read before posting (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1689727.0)

Is adding "banned" status on banned member requires a lot of coding? If not, can theymos enable it? Or why don't he enable it already?
Not sure if this has been discussed before, I don't visit meta frequently and too lazy to search :/

Maggiordomo has to wait 11 seconds. That's like an eternity for a bot :P I'm not sure if whitelisting would lower this.
The minimum (for 500+ Activity) is 4 seconds.

Several users (including me) have suggested to set the Rank to "banned" (oldest reference (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1674903.0)). It's not going to be implemented any time soon:
(quote shorted to the relevant parts, click the link for many more suggestions)

I was whitelisted before and I had 0 seconds waiting time, at least I could't go under 1 second for reporting but I did tried it while searching, double clicked the search button and did't got error message (if I remember correctly) , so I guess this will be a solution.
But there's a catch, if you rank up you are no longer whitelisted.

The BPIP Extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bpiporg-chrome-extension/gnpadhillpjighiahdbjbjgihpilakda) could be modified to replace the current rank with "Banned".  BPIP maintains a real time list of banned users.

That would be a really cool feature, but I try to use as little extensions as possible.

I think I have users from archive.li and archive.org that BPIP doesn't have yet, but couldn't quickly sort them out. I'll get back to you on that.

I have a pdf file from the modlog from 21 october 2018 and it goes back 4 weeks , the pdf file has 223 pages !

If that helps you , you can have it !

160k trust ratings... well, you're either getting banned for trust spam or you'll force theymos' hand to make some changes :)

Don't scare me :D You made me ask theymos:
So this idea is off, Piggy's bot won't tag them.

After thinking this over a bit more: does this mean every forum page would require connecting to BPIP.org up to 20 times? If I understand the current extension correctly, it doesn't require anything from BPIP without clicking the link.

Just imagine, if all the banned users would have a red "BANNED" text instead of the current rank...
The altcoin section would turn entirely red because of this :) I'm sure theymos don't want this, it would be really bad for the forum's reputation to see that banned users are discussing pages long....
It would be much less noticeable to just remove the 'Report to moderator' button for the banned ones and that won't disturb anybody, just help those who report posts... I'm not sure if this will be implemented anytime, but...
Hope springs eternal...

I don't know about the BPIP extension but technically it doesn't have to be 20 requests. It should be one request containing a list of user IDs, 20 or less because there can be duplicate users on the page and the ban status can be cached across pages as well.

Thanks so much for sharing the full list of banned users. Now I don't need to make a modlog parser because my analysis uses your file "banned.txt".

Please keep it updated. ;)

I'm still doing manual testing, but once it's done, I'll make it a daily cronjob. You can check the first line of "banned.html" to see the date it was last updated.

New data

• I received a list of banned users from suchmoon (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=234771), starting mid-September.
• I also found this List of Autobans (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1735965.0) created by botany (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=346449), with data from the first 6 months of 2017. I'll add them now.

Update: another 7000+ accounts added to the list.

Has anyone ever tried to list the signatures campaigns that those banned users where participating? It would be interesting to know which campaigns and which projects these users help promote. And even more important, who are the managers who hire these users ...

As far as I can remember, there was a thread where iasenko (not sure) was trying to list the bounty managers who accept shitposters. Don't know it is maintained now or not.

Edit:
Here it is, not maintained nowadays.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5036753.msg46111905#msg46111905

Top 10 most banned signatures in the last 4 months:

Semux (36 bans)
Securix (32)
Privcy (31)
Sidera (23)
Eloncity (21)
Buddy (15)
Sonder (13)
Mevu (12)
Kubitx (11)
Swipe (10)

Keep in mind that signatures get removed for permabanned users so this is not entirely accurate - I can only count it if I happened to fetch user info before the ban and it might have changed by the time ban occurred. And of course it doesn't tell you what signature the user was wearing when the offense was committed, which could have been months before the ban. However it's still a reasonable indication of which campaigns hire shitty posters.

Edit - top 10 personal texts (I broke the links intentionally):

dApps Development Automation Platform (23)
https: //eloncity.io/ (22)
One Token to Move Anything Anywhere (19)
https: //www.soar.earth/ (16)
Blockchain Just Entered The Real World (15)
WPP ENERGY - BACKED ASSET GREEN ENERGY TOKEN (14)
The All-in-One Cryptocurrency Exchange (13)
Look ARROUND! (12)
The Future of Security Tokens (12)
DATABLOCKCHAIN.IO SALE IS LIVE | MVP @ DBC.IO (12)

I couldn't find user Pompa (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1149895) in the lists, although I think that he is banned due to the date of his last comment and the absence of signature.

I wonder, are there many such cases?

According to BPIP (https://bpip.org/profile.aspx?p=Pompa), he/she is not banned just have a few deleted posts.


Or, the user ID in BPIP just haven't been updated

Yes :(
Data on banned users came from very recent and thus very incomplete saved versions of modlog.

Vod also doesn't have data from earlier years.

I downloaded your file "banned.txt" a few minutes ago. Thanks again for this big update.

Previously I used my own list of banned users made manually. It contains about 150 members. Now I've compared my list with your list.


I have not found these four users in your file "banned.txt":

1) ATMcoin (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=932514)
https://bpip.org/profile.aspx?p=ATMcoin

2)  hirozaki faraday (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1080356)

3) billsted86 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1153691)
https://bpip.org/profile.aspx?p=billsted86

4) Chainblock (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1181025)


User IDs:

Thanks, I've added them to my local list, they'll be included in the next update.
Somehow, my overview of all accounts with tag "Autobanned" on BPIP was incomplete.

You may like "usernames.txt" too, which I've added later.

I forgot to list these users that are not in the file "banned.txt":

1) Danglen1010 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1293204)
https://bpip.org/profile.aspx?p=Danglen1010

2) inbizin (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1416871)
https://bpip.org/profile.aspx?p=inbizin

3) ChardsElican28 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1692227)
https://bpip.org/profile.aspx?p=ChardsElican28

4) NeverArgueWithWF (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1825808)
https://bpip.org/profile.aspx?p=NeverArgueWithWF


User IDs:



I downloaded both files. :)

Thanks, they'll be added in the next update.

It's not entirely clear why BCT admins do not provide this information, but I hope they will comply your request eventually.

Recently theymos said in suchmoon's thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5042503.0):


I downloaded the file "banned.txt" a few minutes ago and made the following statistics on banned users:


Total banned 172384 users:

• 78 Legendaries (0.05%)
• 273 Hero Members (0.16%)
• 850 Sr. Members (0.49%)
• 1873 Full Members (1.09%)
• 3124 Members (1.81%)
• 1373 Jr. Members (0.80%)
• 164813 Newbies (95.61%)

Please note that these ranks are based on the merit amount regardless of current activity.


Total destroyed 633780 merits and 2829 earned sMerits.


It seems that another 13395 sMerits are initial sMerits which have been airdropped on the day the merit system was introduced.

This user is unbanned and will be removed in the next update:
904524: ChiBitCTy

This is the first user I saw he can get unbanned after perma banned.  :o
One more time, theymos made me surprised.

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I also hope Limx Dev can come back like this, but it seems unrealistic because his case is too different than ChiBitCTy.

Another user got unbanned (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5121907.msg50438794#msg50438794):
389271: Limx Dev

I don't think he got a signature ban, and I think his ban for plagiarism was more or less a mistake (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5121907.msg50365726#msg50365726).

Probably the wrong place for this post but ........ I'm surprised that when a user is banned it's not "scarlet lettered" BANNED on his/her profile (like in the spot where their rank would be posted).  In the case of gift card scammers in Digital Goods section who have been banned their posts generally remain and since they were locked anyway they continue to scam on Telegram or whatever they were using..

It's been suggested before, but unfortunately wasn't implemented.

I'd have thought it's a no brainer.
What's the reasoning behind not implementing it?

In one of my threads the moderator Xal0lex said that the following users are banned:
1) Nasakioto (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=28684)
2) niknik1966 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1013524)
3) pitipawn (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1076869)
4) SeverusSnegg (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1249287)
5) TERA2 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1285294)

Although BPIP does not indicate that they are banned. These users may have been manually blocked.


User IDs:

theymos has previously said "No" to "A publicly displayed 'banned' rank under a person's username for permabanned accounts" in this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4893744.msg44432901#msg44432901, but he did not elaborate his reasoning.

I tend to agree actually. For the same reason we don't show trust on every board, because otherwise you would be biased against posts made by users with red trust when their trust is perhaps not relevant to the topic being discussed, seeing a BANNED tag under their name would similarly prejudice everyone against those posts. Being banned doesn't automatically invalidate everything the user has posted, and there have been a couple of high profile cases in which a good users with many great and helpful posts were banned for plagiarism.

What I would be in favor of is displaying a BANNED tag to top reporters, much as it is displayed to mods. I know I have wasted plenty of time investigating suspected plagiarism, only to discover the user was already banned anyway. Perhaps once you get 5000 good reports, you get to see banned users.

Another user got unbanned:

Unbanned account?

Psalmy2cute (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1153318)
BPIP (https://bpip.org/profile.aspx?p=Psalmy2cute) - - account active few hours ago

I don't think the account get unban, even you saw it was last actively hours ago.
Even permanent banned accounts can get active status like this when accounts' owners try to log in and check their ban situation with hope to see their accounts unbanned.

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For the account you pointed out, I guess that the owner simple logged in to check ban status hours ago, nothing more.
Please pay your attention from signature of the account, that has not shown by now.

As always, you made a great job listing all the banned users in one reference. Indeed, i didn't notice this thread before.

Am actually recording entries from the SecLog about ownership-changed and restored accounts. You can visit my thread here: All the Ownership-Changed and Restored accounts. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5099645.msg49317801#msg49317801)
According to bpip data, some users are already banned when recovered.
So as they are old accounts, i don't expect them to be in your list.

Here a list of them:

bpip (https://bpip.org/profile.aspx?p=rus23kav) rus23kav (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=850811)  (Autobanned since 1/1/1970)  ???
bpip (https://bpip.org/profile.aspx?p=FrankNoland) FrankNoland (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1000883)  (Autobanned since 12/7/2018)
bpip (https://bpip.org/profile.aspx?p=AlexRus227) AlexRus227 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=58046)  (Autobanned since 2/27/2019)         
bpip (https://bpip.org/profile.aspx?p=wonderchaff) wonderchaff (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1168989)  (Autobanned since 12/15/2018)       
bpip (https://bpip.org/profile.aspx?p=californiaquail) californiaquail (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=307514)  (Autobanned since 1/1/1970)  ???    
bpip (https://bpip.org/profile.aspx?p=Irchus) Irchus (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=919537)  (Autobanned since 9/28/2018)   
bpip (https://bpip.org/profile.aspx?p=DreamStage) DreamStage (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=389851)  (Autobanned since 10/14/2018) Unbanned

I can keep reporting archived profiles here if this may help keeping your list updated.

Judging by when they made their last post, they got banned recently, after their recovery. Most were recovered around the same time, so they might have been related.

This is the only account not in my list. BPIP says it's banned, but it posted after I created this thread. So if it would have been banned, my script should have picked it up. It might not be banned.

This account posted today, I'll remove it in my next update.

What do you mean with "archived" profiles? BPIP archives profiles for being inactive, not only when they're banned.

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Addition (a day later):
Modlog (https://bitcointalk.org/modlog.php) doesn't show this ban, so I'll add it manually.

so to whom should I protest, I see you here know the procedure and can help my problems

Follow the instructions in your ban message. Also read the rules (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0). You're breaking one of them right now.

Then i was wrong about this !! Just thought that banned profiles are called archived. Thanks for clarifying this.

I was wondering the exact same thing "how to find out which account is banned"?

This is literally a waste of time to report banned members.

Especially if somebody is dedicated and spent hours searching for forum abusers.

One will never know how much time it costs until he will try to report only 2000 or 3000 posts in a short amount of time (month or two).

Thanks, @LoyceV for this thread is really helpful.  

Global Mods have a new trick:

lovesmayfamilis (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1982152)' ban is now a temporary ban:

I have no way of tracing unbans other than manually removing them. Please report them here, with a reference link.
I've removed lovesmayfamilis from the list, but his initial ban is less than week old, and still shows up in Modlog, so it'll be added again in the next update. I'll have to check this next week.

Just got one so far
1. Cellard (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=381705) - Reference (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5143734.msg51076840#msg51076840)

I have a better plan (added to my Todo): I'll use my recent (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;patrol) scraper, and remove any user who creates a new post. That should work for most unbanned users.

If it is what you plan to do, next update with unbanned and reactive users might only be scrapped after next 60 days at least. I don't remember all recent unbanned cases, but most of them (as I remember) get at least 60 days of bans, simultaneously with year-ban of signature. Anyway, it is very creative idea to scrap data and automatically find wanted unbanned and reactive users. However, due to it is done automatically, so you surely can do this daily or weekly  (if you have time to click on Run button of your codes)

You are right, I reckon it's a better thing to do and it should work just fine because I didn't even have a thought of all those who had the permanent ban lifted still having a 60-day ban on posting.

True, but it's still better than overlooking the unbans entirely.

By the way, we should mark the day 09 May 2019 as important day to say one year anniversary of plagiarsim-finding bot next year. Furthermore, from 09 May 2020, there are so many permanent banned users whom got signature bans as alternative punishments will be fully back. There will be important day around 09 May 2020.

i can use this 'database' for create a REST api?
example:


returned message
OK - not banned
KO - banned


returned message
OK - not banned
KO - banned

I'm not entirely sure what this means, but if you can use the data: that's what it's for!

I think what babo is looking for is a bare-bones API that returns OK or KO (no HTML etc) for a single user. Or perhaps he's creating one, not sure :)

..great work..you're such a kind of reliable and trustworthy member of this forum..I am inspired by your hardwork..all of your post are remarkable and useful for all members of this forum..we need not to become one of this banned people in posting nonsense post..maybe you'll need to indicate reasons why they get ban so that we should be aware in not doing those act to avoid such..

no, i mean
i can create API with this data?
i want to create a freemium API (with 20 query for day)
and i want to create premium API (paid)

i use mashape for this

Thank you LoyceV for maintaining the list of banned users. A few minutes ago I downloaded your file "banned.txt" and updated my statistics on banned users.

Due to the recent wave of bans (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5141807.0), many members were banned from March 1, 2019, till June 26, 2019.

Total banned 188046 [+15662] users:

• 155 Legendaries (0.08%) [+77 users]
• 418 Hero Members (0.22%) [+145 users]
• 1161 Sr. Members (0.62%) [+311 users]
• 2516 Full Members (1.34%) [+643 users]
• 3981 Members (2.12%) [+857 users]
• 1982 Jr. Members (1.05%) [+609 users]
• 177833 Newbies (94.57%) [+13020 users]

Total destroyed 930330 [+296550] merits and 4200 [+1371] earned sMerits.

This is now implemented. It was a lot easier than I thought (sorry for waiting this long) :P

The details
1. Every day, I make a list of all users who made a post. I miss some, but scrape more than 99% of all posts.
2. I add all new bans from modlog (https://bitcointalk.org/modlog.php) to the Banned users list.
3. I remove all users who posted the previous day from the list.

This means that someone who posted yesterday and was banned today doesn't show up yet. Modlog shows data for the past 7 days, so this user will be added a day after he stopped posting.
If a ban is changed into a temporary ban, I can only know about it when the user can post again. He'll then be removed from the list at the next update.

Which half would that be?

Congratulations on your fourth post in five years.

Another topic (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5166647.msg51885787#msg51885787) made me realize this would now be possible again, since theymos added pagination to feedback changes when he introduced Trust flags (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5153344.0).

@Piggy: Do you dare? :D It would still be very nice feature to easily recognize most banned accounts.

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Earlier today:

Now: My Banned users list is the second part that now runs on my VPS.
I'll run a daily cronjob at 12:33 AM (Amsterdam time). Depending on server load and number of new bans it'll take about 1.5 many hours to complete.
Quoting myself for this topic:

Daily updates have been working fine since my last bump :)

This user and his all his group of puppets and fake accounts that commented on his last topics
should be banned for spreading malicious links and software.

Yuliya2404
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1194518

Explanation:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5180863.0


I sent multiple reports to moderators... still no results

This removed too many users from the list (see here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5141807.msg52350386#msg52350386)). I'm not sure why yet, I'll look into this tomorrow.

Update: this should be okay again :)

About five months have passed since June 26, 2019, so I decided to update statistics on banned users.


Total banned 200317 [+12271] users:

• 168 Legendaries (0.08%) [+13 users]
• 456 Hero Members (0.23%) [+38 users]
• 1254 Sr. Members (0.63%) [+93 users]
• 2733 Full Members (1.36%) [+217 users]
• 4401 Members (2.20%) [+420 users]
• 2370 Jr. Members (1.18%) [+388 users]
• 188935 Newbies (94.32%) [+11102 users]

Total destroyed 1009840 [+79510] merits and 4878 [+678] earned sMerits.


@LoyceV, keep up the good work! Thanks! ;)

Total Merit sent (last Friday): 519048 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3078328.msg53154744#msg53154744). We're still not even close to ranking up enough accounts to make up for the banned spam/plagiarism-accounts.

Can you light us on this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5204415.msg53252231#msg53252231 :-D

If you mean game-protect (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=874254), he isn't banned. Modlog (https://bitcointalk.org/modlog.php) shows data for the past 7 days, and he has over 100 deleted posts. So he may have received a tempban, but they aren't shown in public.

User game-protect is currently banned. Temporarily or not can say only global moderators.

I counted and saw 112 posts (of GP) deleted. The number of total deleted posts is 1345. 8.3% of total deleted posts belong to GP at December 04, 2019, 01:53:54 AM (forum time).

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With tem bans, users are still able to wear signature. It's clear that GP don't have permanent ban, but if he got temp banned, it will be his second time.

Yeah it was him.
Thanks bud.

Disclaimer: I'm using my own userID to test removing unbanned users. This does not mean I'm banned :P

Hi LoyceV,

I was trying to check out the controversial status of this user: pirate hunter (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2347750). Apparently he was banned then unbanned under unknown circumstances.

When i checked on http://loyce.club

His name appears on usernames.TXT (http://loyce.club/bans/usernames.txt)
But it does not appear on Autobanned.TXT (http://loyce.club/bans/Autobanned.txt) and banned.TXT (http://loyce.club/bans/banned.txt)

So it is really confusing to know whether he has been banned again or is still unbanned.

BPIP.org isn't conclusive either;
https://talkimg.com/images/2023/07/19/naQ0P.png

https://talkimg.com/images/2023/07/19/naMMq.png

His last post was 2 days ago (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5214384.msg53506536#msg53506536). His userID doesn't show on modlog (https://bitcointalk.org/modlog.php), which means he hasn't been banned in the past 7 days. So he's not banned.

Thanks, I forgot to update usernames.txt for unbanned users. That should be fixed now. I noticed banned.html has a few more entries that it should, but I can't quickly figure out which ones are wrong. My script got a bit messy from the changes, so that's for another time.

I've manually removed the following 2 users:

Thank you for taking a closer look into this case.
I opened several topics regarding this, and so far none of the forum stuff/moderators replied, and it looks like they are the only ones who can give us the answer.

banned user who have very multiple account

victimNo has 357 alt account

MrFudged has 228 alt account

KNC_areThief has 187 alt account

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Banned user have rare UID

UID : Username

1111121: mythy70
1111156: kek sokoh
1511111: atcreasoutem
1711111: cryptodog123
2111112: BHOSALEPRASHANT

1222228: Blocks
2222225: smartcont  . 6
2222219: princehyderabad
2222234: Cryptocotrader
2222237: CryptocoSt
2222269: Ringdenesminb
2222270: Ernest_Eko
2222274: BesterCoin
2222292: Urakeavan
2322222: vrednie_IG

733333: Piteousnesshrwh

2444442: kezzen
1444442: cintemplamo
1444445: quidrafrenmerk
1444448: dyaponglinrai
1444449: nabachenfa
1544444: vernpsychcurna

1155555: mastergornyak
1555550: masidipbu
1555557: mernicinmau
1755555: Seminem
2655555: MNPROFITER

1666661: unansodfu
1666662: arininnor
1666663: rectnutsidown
1666665: torporape
1666669: chiamulodot

2277777: perptramwaffmag1975
977777: ShowOffoN
2477777: crypto.acc

888882: t39
888884: Erichallig
1888886: JDark314

2499999: AnotherStrange
1599999: heartssagacca
1999990: Katelyn2392
1999994: gregga5086503990

1400000: prekundarcheck
2000003: loyddube2231

http://loyce.club/bans/usernames.txt

Those are only the banned accounts (that I know of). There are much more accounts, I searched LoyceV's complete List of all Bitcointalk usernames (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5202231.0) for those usernames:

• victimNo: 852 accounts
• MrFudged: 13937 accounts
• KNC_areThief: 9208 accounts

As far as I know accounts only get banned after spamming, so those inactive accounts are either waiting for a Units of Evil payment, or can still continue spamming at some point.

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There are also many accounts with random names that all have the same website linked in their profile. It's been a while since I looked for those, but I remember many thousands of "backlinks" created that way.

there are still have left aren't banned yet. MrFudged still have 13k+ alternative account.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=mlist;sa=search;search=MrFudged;fields=name;start=990
All registered at 2015-10-21 possible made by bot.

Wow. I didn't check all the accounts, but all the MrFudged and KNC_areThief accounts I have checked, they were proxybanned.
VictimNo accounts had a double penalty: banned and proxybanned.

@LoyceV, I wanted to know if your ban list is updated and this profile was banned for the second time after being miraculously unbanned: pirate hunter because it was last active recently.

The username appears on your ban list: http://loyce.club/bans/usernames.txt but it's quite confusing when it comes to BPIP

https://talkimg.com/images/2023/07/19/n29WH.png

Yes, but it turns out i didn't remove him from usernames.txt. Pirate hunter wasn't on banned.html, Autobanned.txt, Nuked.txt or banned.txt. I also checked my local copies of modlog (https://bitcointalk.org/modlog.php), and he didn't get banned after his last post.
My log shows this:

I think I fixed this bug already, but just didn't update usernames.txt yet. I've removed pirate hunter, and also the following user:
If all works well, this shouldn't happen again for new unbans.

Thanks :)

http://95.179.221.101/banned_users/ (422,563/940,000 are banned)

Feel free to use this to update your list (you too @suchmoon)

I can't guarantee that these accounts are permanantely banned (only a global mod could tell) but they should be as I made sure to only save the ones that were last active prior to january 2017.

Does that mean you (as a non-global Mod) can see they're banned, but it might be a temporary ban so you can't tell for sure? Or does it mean you've listed all accounts that were last active before 2017?

The former (https://i.imgur.com/NIatfQE.png). I can't tell if it's a permanant ban.

The listed accounts are both banned and were last active prior to 2017 which means it's almost guaranteed that the bans are permanant, because it's very unlikely for an inactive user to get a ban (non-perma) for something he did a few years back.

Thanks, that's a great addition to my list!
One more question though: does this classify as Autobanned, Nuked, or a combination of both?

Maybe I should forget about the separate list for Nuked accounts. Is anyone using that list?

Even if a few slipped through without ban, if they post again I'll remove them from my list.

This is probably better in another thread;
But since we are discussing banned users. Has there ever been any reason given / discussion about not tagging banned users in their username?

A few of the other forums I am on do that.
Just to let people know that if they are PMing someone or responding to a post / waiting for a response from someone it's not going to happen.

-Dave

It's a combination of both. I excluded proxybanned accounts (https://i.imgur.com/VQ0y4Zr.png) from the lists, since that type of ban can be lifted after paying a fee.


You can easily tell if a banned account has been nuked or not by looking at the activity and postcount (both equal to 0) so putting everything into one list might be a good idea.

Another six months passed from November 28, 2019, so I just downloaded the file "banned.txt" and updated statistics on banned users.


Total banned 207285 [+6968] users:

• 168 Legendaries (0.08%) [no new cases]
• 458 Hero Members (0.22%) [+2 users]
• 1266 Sr. Members (0.61%) [+12 users]
• 2751 Full Members (1.33%) [+18 users]
• 4473 Members (2.16%) [+72 users]
• 2542 Jr. Members (1.23%) [+172 users]
• 195627 Newbies (94.38%) [+6692 users]

Total destroyed 1015890 [+6050] merits and 5207 [+329] earned sMerits.


Thank you @LoyceV for updating this thread.

It took me longer than expected to process this, but I'm done. I've updated my OP, and now list 613,336 banned users.

Thank you very much for this list!

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@Coin-1: this is going to mess up your totals for the past 6 months :P

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I will no longer keep separate lists for "Autobanned" and "Nuked" accounts. This means I'll remove 2a and 2b. 2c will become the new "2".
I kept the older files:
https://loyce.club/bans/Autobanned.nomoreupdates.txt
https://loyce.club/bans/Nuked.nomoreupdates.txt
https://loyce.club/bans/banned.beforeaddinglistfromOmegaStarScream.txt

You're most welcome. I could go through more accounts if you'd like? I was thinking of doing the same thing as I did before, except this time, I will save the ones that were last active before Q1/Q2 2018.

EDIT: Hmm. Not sure if that's going to be helpful though, because if you used this list (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1735965.0), and I'll be scrapping users starting from userID 940,001 (registered in January 2017), then I might end up with a similar list? Also, do you happen to know when did Vod start to keep track of banned accounts (I'm referring to the list he gave you)?

Those users were banned 3 years ago already, since then many other older users might have been banned too.

I'm not sure when @Vod started keeping track.

Update:

About 11 months have since passed, so I decided to update these statistics. As far as I can see, the vast majority of banned users are newbies. I guess most of them were automatic bots spamming on the forum.


Total banned 281739 [+74454] users:

• 171 Legendaries (0.06%) [+3 users]
• 470 Hero Members (0.17%) [+12 users]
• 1288 Sr. Members (0.46%) [+22 users]
• 2824 Full Members (1.00%) [+73 users]
• 4709 Members (1.67%) [+236 users]
• 2887 Jr. Members (1.02%) [+345 users]
• 269390 Newbies (95.62%) [+73763 users]

Total destroyed 1039050 [+23160] merits and 5812 [+605] earned sMerits.

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Yes, OmegaStarScream's update could cause a huge spike in these totals. But I would make an announcement here to explain why the numbers have increased drastically.



To be honest, I wasn't late in downloading the full version of the "banned.txt" file. It contains 613406 (!) user IDs. As soon as I saw that satoshi was crossed out in one of my statistical threads, I simply created a new file named "blocked.txt" and wrote down his user ID there. Perhaps it is needed to manually exclude all VIP members and other respectable persons from the full list of banned users and add the rest of the users to the standard version of the "banned.txt" file.

That's still more than the total Merit amount sent since it's introduction more than 3 years ago (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0):
(data from last Friday's Merit data dump)

A year and a half have passed, so these statistics are now current as of November 24, 2022. This time, not so many newbies got into a permanent ban.


Total banned 306229 [+24490] users:

• 178 Legendaries (0.06%) [+7 users]
• 484 Hero Members (0.16%) [+14 users]
• 1330 Sr. Members (0.43%) [+42 users]
• 2921 Full Members (0.95%) [+97 users]
• 4985 Members (1.63%) [+276 users]
• 3265 Jr. Members (1.07%) [+378 users]
• 293066 Newbies (95.70%) [+23676 users]

Total destroyed 1073270 [+34220] merits and 6728 [+916] earned sMerits.

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Thanks @LoyceV for regularly updating the list of banned users!

I haven't updated the banned user stats in over two years, so I decided to publish new data reflecting the current state as of January 10, 2025. I noticed that the ratio of numbers for each rank looks pretty stable.


Total banned 323293 [+17064] users:

• 187 Legendaries (0.06%) [+9 users]
• 494 Hero Members (0.15%) [+10 users]
• 1358 Sr. Members (0.42%) [+18 users]
• 3013 Full Members (0.93%) [+92 users]
• 5241 Members (1.62%) [+256 users]
• 3613 Jr. Members (1.12%) [+348 users]
• 309387 Newbies (95.70%) [+16321 users]

Total destroyed 1102820 [+29550] merits and 7764 [+1036] earned sMerits.

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Thanks again to LoyceV for providing the raw data.

No use having endless lists if you aren't going to take any action on those banned users, or, their alts (especially those they have themselves acknowledged are their banned alts).

These lists are little more than spam flooding the forum to boost your post count if you don't have the courage to act on them.

I like how Merit can be used as an indicator of how likely someone is to get banned: 323293 banned users earned only 7764 Merits, that's almost 42 bans for a combined average earnings of 1 Merit. Or only 0.024 Merit per account on average.

Can you make a 'banned topics' list that's like the banned users list except it only has topics that mods moved to the trashcan?

I could, but why? Unlike bans, every user can easily check if a topic was deleted.
Modlog (https://bitcointalk.org/modlog.php) shows "Remove topic" entries, 150 in the past week. If I'd start now, the list would be far from complete.

It would be nice to know how much Accounts and what Accounts was banned for got hacked and postoing shady things.
I guess 20 or 30 % of the Banned Accounts with higher Ranks and a lot of received Merits got banned for posting the malware shit things i and others are reporting.
But i guess this goes to deep into the materia and is it not worth for making a list for it.
@LoyceV are in your List also the Accounts that got locked ? Are these accounts considered as banned also?

Removing the Newbies from these figures, the rate at which accounts are banned on the forum is staggeringly slow. You really have to screw up hard to get banned, as scammers (usually) aren't banned. The criteria for censorship here is actually pretty stringent once you learn the rules, just as advertised by theymos since way back when.


Its not really an "endless list" so much as a collection of ban statistics. But I personally do act on them if they are banned and on DT. Is there ever a scenario in which a banned account should be on DT2? Arguably yes; lets say marlboroza's account gets hacked, posts malware links and then gets banned without adding or editing any feedback. Should they remain on DT? I'd argue yes, since he's probably not coming back either way (and its a shame).

Anyway.

The forum is being more lenient nowadays. When I was new here, I was scared of plegarism such that after writing my own words I'll still test it in plagiarism detection tools to be very sure. It sounds silly, but that was the height of fear then.
I don't think newbies have such consciousness now, as they can easily create accounts and post with bots, when banned they create even more accounts. I hardly see ban appeal threads in meta these days.

As far as I can see, more than 95% of banned accounts are Newbies, so they were banned without even having much time to earn 1 merit and rank up to Jr. member. If we exclude 309k newbies, the remaining 13906 took those 7764 merits with them. It turns out that the average was 0.56 merits per account. Seems like a slightly larger number, but it's still negligible.

I don't think they're listed in modlog, so I don't see it. Just like I don't see temporary bans.