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After this thread - Policy on users like this guy? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5217092.0) - and seeing pretty rapid action being taken against the user responsible as well as said user then ceasing this copy and paste shilling spam, I figured I would compile a list of other users who display the same behavior patterns for the mods to review and hopefully take action against. And honestly, I'm getting kinda bored of reporting the same names over and over again.

The users I will list below are users who either own or are being paid by a site or variety of sites to shill said sites. They largely post copy and pasted articles, add nothing of any value, and make zero effort to generate a discussion or actually contribute to the forum. Some also make low value, vaguely on-topic posts solely for the reason of shoehorning in a link to one of the sites. They are breaking rules regarding spam, low value posts, unsubstantial advertising, and advertising in other users' threads. I'm hoping that the moderators will hand out temporary bans to these users, and escalate this to perma-bans if their spamming doesn't stop.

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User:   -Multivitamina- (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2566641)
Shilling "forklog.media". All posts are copy and paste spam with a link appended. Makes zero effort to contribute or discuss. 8 threads deleted from Bitcoin Discussion in last few weeks. Also spams Altcoin Discussion.

User:   Jgilpulg (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=914598)
Shilling "bitcoinist". All posts are copy and paste spam. Constant and repeat offender in the Press board. 44 threads trashed by moderators.

User:   jdebunt (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=28364)
Shills "fintoism.com". Recently "woke up" and began pattern of shilling behavior. Another repeat offender in the Press board. 15 threads trashed so far.

User:   JessicaVL (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2276234)
Shills a variety of projects, including "tap.global", "eToro.com", "4king.com" and "vertex.market". Starts a lot of copy and paste threads in Bitcoin Discussion. Also makes lots of low value posts in other user's threads simply to include a link to one of the shilled projects.

Hi @o_e_l_e_o. Did I break the rules of this forum? To the best of my knowledge, I didn't.

What I basically do is share one exclusive article per day. I personally believe that the bitcointalk's community may benefit from these features. Moreover, the community proved my belief to be reliable. The users like content that I share. Just take a look at the number of views and messages in the threads. That's why I share the articles. And that's why I don't understand why some of the topics have been deleted.

Please elaborate what's the problem. Otherwise, it truly looks like a witch-hunt.

Anyway, if this forum is not the right place to share important content for the community I will stop doing this immediately. But would the community benefit from it? Let's ask the community, maybe?

User:   Bitcoin_chaser (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2743709)

This user registered on January 08, 2020 and has made 9 topics till now. All topics contain link to a specific website. All other posts of Bitcoin_chaser (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2743709) has been made on different gambling threads for advertising purposes with links to a website.
The most annoying part of posts this user makes is that he/she quotes the whole topic

Post history:
Page 1 (http://archive.is/xtKWL)
Page 2  (http://archive.is/TGnfG)

Yes:


You already got your answer. The community has reported your low-value threads and moderators have deleted them.

Totally agree with o_e_l_e_o . I’m really glad you brought this up . I’ve been following a couple of these members and it does appear that advertising/shilling is going on.
In particular JessicaVL - always a link and going through post history there’s a re hashing of old posts with a slightly different subject header , but the post is a rehash of older posts ..
Multivitamina - it appears that you were going down the same road , just sharing an article is not news tbh . Members may view the post , but may well not read it at all .
My posting history is not perfect , but what I don’t do is just repeat something I’ve seen or heard and put on this forum .
This is not a witch hunt I believe , but do take some advice .

As I said in my post above, this kind of behavior breaks rules regarding spamming, low value or uninteresting threads, and unsubstantial advertising.

This is a useless metric, I'm afriad. You are posting on Bitcoin Discussion and Altcoin Discussion. These boards are some of the core posting areas of bounty spammers. Pretty much any thread will get views and replies. Take a look at some of the utterly trash topics which are getting hundreds of replies and thousands of views: Example 1 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5198455.0), Example 2 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5217097.0), Example 3 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5166521.0).

Because you are not using the forum for its intended purpose, which is to discuss ideas. You are abusing the forum for free advertising for your site.

I would hardly call a bunch of blog posts "important content".

What does "kinda" mean?

FTFY

Don't be a complete dick.

I'm not entirely sure if you want the literal meaning of the word (probably not), but...

kinda = kind of; it's like...;

In his case, kinda is obviously an yes.

I wish there was a rule that would forbid these kind of actions. The forum isn't a clipboard, it's a community where you talk and speak your mind, way too many are using it as a "Paste" button to their crappy articles.


20 out of your 21 posts (I've excluded your replies to accusations) are copy-pasted articles from forklog. That's equal to more than 95% of your posts so far being copy-pasted stuff. If this is what you believe belongs on BitcoinTalk, I guess we're sorry to say you're more than wrong. Imagine if everyone did the same thing you're doing on the forum. It would become home to a sh*tload of copied articles. It's like every time you try to talk to someone, they pull out a magazine and start reading out loud from it. Contribution to the forum is appreciated, what you're doing is not.

If by "kinda related" to forklog you mean you're working with them by promoting their articles (or writing articles for them), go get some paid advertisements. This forum is no home to free ads.


It's an easy answer he/she is trying to avoid. It's very simple: you either are affiliated with them or you're not.

I don't deem my threads a low value or uninteresting. But as far as I ain't the one who should decide I refer to your own metrics. And the metrics say that the community has proved my statement to be correct. And anyway, why is this thread is not popular, then?

You're right. I don't discuss things much but I provide the community with interesting topics to discuss, so I use the forum for its intended purpose, which is to discuss ideas.

I just checked your posting history. You did repeat something you've seen or heard and put on this forum. Nice catch, isn't it?

So you're basically saying that it is better to promote casinos for payments than share exclusive content without being paid for it.

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What I can see here is that a bunch of bounty hunters with paid signatures (20kevin20, o_e_l_e_o, suchmoon, hosseinimr93) accuses person who shares exclusive content without receiving any benefits for it. No offense but that's just too much.

Self-evaluation is in most cases incorrect and basically means nothing. No offense, it's the case for anyone.


I don't know all the names from the topic, but the ones I know do fit in that category.
And I agree to @o_e_l_e_o : mods will have to check the facts and make a decision.

All the rest of the discussion is basically meaningless and you don't have to "convince us". The facts are there to be checked.


PS: shouldn't be the advertising like this (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223880) stay in the product ANN thread (at most!) ?

I will leave this user CoinTrendy (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=410181) here as an addition to the OP list.

His second page of posts and half of his first is filled with this website: http://archive.fo/kE9dJ

At least he does respond to the feedback coming from his readers. But his first posts are completely useless, just his link spammed everywhere.

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First of all, I'm not a bounty hunter. Nor is suchmoon or o_e_l_e_o. In fact, they are both part of one of the best and longest standing BitcoinTalk campaign where the members with highest quality of posts on this forum "fight" for open spots. So this alone makes your statement nonsense. They're high quality posters. They're a big value to the forum.

And then, there's a difference between having a promoted website in a signature and constantly spamming the forum with the same website. The latter cannot be changed unless you delete your threads and posts, while signatures can.

Or are you saying that you'd rather receive advertisements and links constantly from a friend on WhatsApp rather than seeing his website or service promoted in his profile pic?

You seem to answer and contradict everyone but you're ignoring the question we've all asked: what do you mean by the fact that you are "kinda related" to the website you're spamming?

Thanks @NeuroticFish!

Re evaluation, that's my point exactly, let me quote myself today:

Re discussion, I ain't interested in convincing anyone. It's up to mods to decide. I'm just trying to make my point clear. That's all.

I'm saying that I 'd rather receive the link to exclusive content than see a bunch of casinos ads in his profile pic and signature every time he publishes anything of "highest quality" on Bitcointalk. After all, I don't know what's an intent to publish posts. It might be either bring value or earn some satoshis, or both. It's your right to choose how to make-a-living thought.

You've preferred to accuse me over clarify things first. Ultimately, I've answered "everyone's" question by saying that I share exclusive content without receiving payments or any other benefits for it. I ain't gonna elaborate more in this situation, as I ain't spamming.  

Good luck in your witchbounty-huntfight.

Another advertising shill
- crabby (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1301815)

This user's posts are becoming more and more annoying. He pretends to be creating discussion topics but there is actually no content in all his Original posts... There is always a hyper text link to "blog.shrimpy.io" in all the posts
 
Archives of 4 pages of the post history;
1. http://archive.fo/CpOkL
2. http://archive.fo/pip3J
3. http://archive.fo/2Vyt5
4. http://archive.fo/QpClL

Your threads only prove that bounty hunters like spamming in them, and this thread proves that the community agrees with me.

Doing a Google search for "bitcoin" will provide a list of topics which could be discussed. That doesn't mean that posting a screenshot of Google results is an interesting topic.

You've already said you are affiliated with this site. You are obviously therefore benefiting somehow from spamming it all over the forum.

Exactly. The fact that all my reports against you are marked as "good" means the mods agree you are a spammer.

It's not your right to abuse the forum and break forum rules in the pursuit of making money, though.

Please review my report OP

User : Alex077 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=306213) Legendary account
http://archive.ph/KqBSR
http://archive.ph/EBQGG


https://i.ibb.co/Tb1nZnG/Screenshot-69.png (https://ibb.co/F0Xf9f1)

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User : voskobojn (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=536088) Hero account
http://archive.ph/G8nz3
http://archive.ph/EBQGG

https://i.ibb.co/7jMs82c/Screenshot-70.png (https://ibb.co/ydvHGWT)

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User : DimaKHV (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=552892) Sr. Member account
http://archive.ph/Ijwon


https://i.ibb.co/jWYVfpF/Screenshot-72.png (https://ibb.co/9V0wgMj)

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User : FOX (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=326392) Member account
http://archive.ph/AIafa

https://i.ibb.co/7jMs82c/Screenshot-70.png (https://ibb.co/ydvHGWT)

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I wonder why these users hasn't got banned, they had been very long advertise their blog by copy paste in this forum. The website they're promoting is
https://forum.bits.media/
https://bit.news/
https://bitnovosti.com/
https://crypto.kg/
https://www.finanz.ru/
http://www.coinfox.ru/
http://blog.fxopen.ru
https://bits.media/
Alex077 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=306213) is the oldest advertise users since 2015 till now.
Forgive me if I'am wrong with my search, this is the first time I try reporting advertise users  :)

First, you accused me of abusing the forum. Then, you said that only bounty hunters read this forum. Well, it wasn't me who abused the forum, then. I respect the rules and I don't post anything to make-a-living. I explicitly said it. Stop manipulation, please.

The given example is incorrect and unreliable, again. The screenshot of Google results contains different links and doesn't elaborate on the topics, and thus doesn't bring any value. I share exclusive content that explains what's up with crypto and why it's important. The articles provide analytics, opinions, and comprehensive research on an important matter. I do it once per day and always include a short description or lead-in, so that the community still can discuss things without clicking the link. Thus whether or not to click the link is really up to the community. Stop manipulation, please (2).

That's your assumption. You have the right to have it. I respect it.

No, it means that they deem some topics to breake the rules somehow. There might be several reasons. I respect their decision, yet don't understand it. I explicitly said it as well.

Anyway, I suggest that you read what's spam before you start to accuse anyone of spamming again. Stop manipulation, please (3).

Another bounty-hunterfighter joins this wild witch-hunt. Good luck!

This is my last reply to you, because there's no point in debating this subject with users like you. The point we're trying to make is that this forum is filled up with crap like what you're posting, which is just copy-pasting articles you consider "useful". Time has proven to all of us that explaining what's good and what isn't here to the spammers has no positive ending to +90% of the cases. To your knowledge, I have busted a ring of almost 60 members (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223536.0) here that have actively spammed the forum with their Crowdholding and publish0x shitposting just a few days ago. If you believe this is what BitcoinTalk is for, no offense but GTFO. It's becoming annoying as hell, but busting them feels good, man.

"I share exclusive content that explains what's up with crypto" It would've been different if you were here to actually participate in the threads you're posting. Again, if everyone would do what you're doing here, the forum would literally become a Paste button for all articles one might find interesting because "whether or not to click the link is really up to the community".


Good, let's do it!
According to google, the definition of spam is "irrelevant or unsolicited messages sent over the Internet, typically to a large number of users, for the purposes of advertising, phishing, spreading malware, etc". The fact that +95% of your posts were published on BitcoinTalk with links to Forklog proves our point that you're just spamming the forum. Now let's take some reference from the unofficial list of official rules (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0) BTCTalk moderators have used to moderate the forum:


Rule #24 speaks for itself and answers all your contradictions.

Let me also quote theymos:


Now before you call us bounty/witch hunters/fighters, maybe you should take into consideration the fact that it's the forum vs you. Just because you think what you're doing is okay doesn't make it okay. Take care.

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Edit:
By the way,
I'm still wondering how you're not benefiting from sharing only Forklog posts when in your own post you mentioned the collective pronoun "our". This makes me conclude that it's not about just you finding the articles, it makes me conclude there's definitely more than that to it. The fact that you've ignored our question until I said it and your response was "I ain't gonna elaborate more in this situation" just proves our point again. I'll put the quote above right next to the quote below and voila! You've just basically busted yourself. By "our", you've basically admitted you're part of Forklog one way or another.

"Our goal".. "I share exclusive content".. These two "kinda" link, don't they?
And then, FINALLY, because I've wasted enough time debunking all this situation, I had a quick Google lookup of the "exclusive" articles you've posted and the same quantity of information can easily be found on a lot of websites. By "exclusive" I understand insight information you can't find somewhere else.

It's not an assumption if you have already admitted it:


If you aren't being paid, then the only logical conclusion is that either you, or a team you are part of, own and operate this site.

I have a decent number of reported posts for all users from OP, and two of them are as observed mostly post in Press board content that is in most cases not in any way related to Bitcoin. I must admit JessicaVL has invested the most creativity in her/his post, but this does not in any way diminish the fact that this is an advertisement that does not belong in the post area.

I hope that the moderators will take a much firmer stance on this type of behavior, as this is obviously about the intention to use the forum as an advertising platform against the rules of the forum.

I would advise anyone mentioned in this thread to take advantage of the ability to advertise through an avatar, personal text or signatures which are completely legitimate ways to promote something.

Reporting a newbie account user jenniferletty (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1299734) which account was registered on November 10, 2017 which seems to be selling fake hyip scripts and the username seems to back posting the same offer after been inactivity for months.
https://i.imgur.com/PZoQBaK.jpg

Nice to gear that, also nice to hear that you're here to share articles full of information with the community.
Then I have the perfect solution that could keep you out of trouble, accusations and you would still be a precious asset for this forum. /s

So, how about next time you create a topic you:
a) write down the entire text so that users won't have to go to another site to read all the stuff
b) to get credit for the article and also to avoid plagiarism accusations you wend your post with
"Article first posted of Forlklog Media" < no clickable hyperlink

Somehow I am 100% sure you won't take this offer, so you should really come up with one hell of an excuse for not doing so  ;)
But we all know the truth, don't we?

Better yet, don't create new topics, just post new stuff in one thread. I'm sure the community will see and appreciate those great informational articles even if they're not in separate threads, just don't violate the bumping rules.

Thanks for trying to find a solution. I also would like to make sure that the community benefits from content on Bitcointalk!

I don't agree with the recent spam accusations. But I believe that neither o_e_l_e_o nor 20kevin20 is interested in finding a solution. They believe that exclusive content that helps users understand what's with crypto and why it's important is nothing but "irrelevant or unsolicited messages sent for the purposes of advertising". I respect their right to dislike the content. And I really think that they do a good job for this forum by reporting spammers.

My case is just different and sometimes it's good to make all points clear before accusing anyone. My motivation is to make sure that the community receives important content. If the users are interested in the content they will visit the website.

I was thinking about a solution and I also came up with an idea of posting articles in one thread. The problem is that the articles are long enough to post. It isn't news but analysis, research, and opinions. What would you recommend in this case?

This isn't a site for articles, it's a site for discussions. Post something that is worth discussing and participate in those discussions yourself. Don't turn this is into drive-by copy-pasta.

Link your site in signature (click profile->profile forum information, you'll find it)
Create topic in altcoin discussion about your blog and link it in topic
For every new article, describe what is your new article about, don't just copy/paste it and whoever wants to read it will go to your blog.
Discuss everything in other forum parts but don't c/p your articles - I am sure other users will notice your signature (for example, this thread and your posts made me to peek in your site and I have found investigation article which I will read tomorrow, it looks interesting)
Read forum rules https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0 , if you find something confusing - just ask in that thread, moderators will respond.

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@OP hm, I was thinking about something, isn't this something what shitcoinoffering (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1291903) was doing?

I've already said that I'm related to this online magazine. And I used the word "our" since there are obviously more people who are related to the magazine. Sorry, but what are you trying to prove here?

You're saying that shitcoinoffering does it in the right way, am I correct?

No, not really.

I was saying that shitcoinoffering is also copy/pasting their own articles and posting links to site under it. It doesn't mean I don't like their articles (I like their articles), it is just something about forum rules.

I edited my last post if this confused you.

Its looks like I have found another one: mamamu111. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1198723)

Old account, registered on 2017. But his first post says it all,

(archive) (http://web.archive.org/web/20200208035231/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2251681.msg22771431)

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He/she basically shills for this blog:


Post history:
Page 1 (http://web.archive.org/save/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1198723;sa=showPosts)
Page 2 (http://web.archive.org/save/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1198723;sa=showPosts;start=20)
Page 3 (http://web.archive.org/save/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1198723;sa=showPosts;start=40)
Page 4 (http://hhttp://web.archive.org/save/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1198723;sa=showPosts;start=60)

The solution here is to use the forum like a normal user. Sharing the occasional article you wish to discuss, and contributing to the discussion, is totally fine. Throwing out a link to get people to visit your website and then abandoning the thread to spammers is not.

I had hoped that having multiple threads deleted would have been enough to alert you to the fact that you were breaking the rules. Since it obviously wasn't, I started this thread to ask for the moderators to step in with a temporary ban (which is usually 7-14 days) in the first instance. I think that is entirely fair.

That's fine if you don't agree, but plenty of other users do as you can see from this thread, the mods do as you can see from your deleted topics, and other users have been temporarily or even permanently banned for this exact kind of behavior.

It doesn't really matter how exclusive or otherwise the content is. The issue here is the method of delivery.

I just notice one more account which is relatively new but has the same pattern of posting : user angle_crypto (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2746401) / archived post history (https://archive.is/kA3SW)


I have already written in a previous post that users have many other options to promote something on this forum, but this clearly does not interest those who want to make their own rules. Maybe it's time for some new rule that would be even clearer with regard to this kind of thing, although most who do this kind of thing don't read the forum rules. Still, it might help the mods to give a quick temp ban in these cases, followed by a perma ban in the case of repetition.

Another one pops-up in the Bitcoin Discussion (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=1.0), user Xangle (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2742519). Obviously shilling for
Post history:
Page 1 (http://web.archive.org/save/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2742519;sa=showPosts/)

Check out this member profile: star7dust
The last topics started by this person: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;threads;u=2713736;sa=showPosts
Archive: http://archive.is/Q8gnZ

Probably doesn't belong in the 'advertising shills' category but each of his topics contains only a link to an article, followed by "What do you think?" or similar one-liner shitpost.

Member: market pearl (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2740303)

Website:
Archive: here (http://web.archive.org/save/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2740303;sa=showPosts)

This is relatively new account as well, registered December 31 but just shill for his blog from all his post.

Member: Denial11 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2758922)

Website:
Archive: here (http://web.archive.org/save/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2758922;sa=showPosts)

All of his posts are pointing to an article on that website.

Recently I've noticed that almost like every single new thread, at least on the Bitcoin Discussion board, begins with a copy-pasted article description + a link right under it.

I've started placing most of these users beginning such threads (at least those who've mostly done this in their history) on my ignore list because I don't think it's a good behavior on this forum at all.

It gets really annoying honestly, the Bitcoin Discussion board is pretty much turning into a list of articles with comments being the replies to the threads. I wouldn't have had a single problem with these threads if the OPs had written using their own words a brief explanation of what the article says vs their opinion and then place a little link for the source.

But they're literally just copy-pasting and using the link at the end so it wouldn't count as plagiarism.

I haven't seen someone from the staff/mods mention anything yet about any action taken against these users. In fact, I have created two (1 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223536.0), 2 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5225130)) threads reporting large rings of alts used in promoting either scams or referral links and the accounts are still active 10 days after the first report.

If there's no action to be taken against these accounts, we should at least be noticed because otherwise it's gonna be just us losing our time on things we can't change anyway..

I would encourage you instead to report these posts. I do whenever I see them, and they are usually trashed fairly quickly. Similarly, if a user gets lots of their posts like this deleted, then it builds a case for a ban as well.

Couldn't agree more. I have no problems with people sharing interesting articles or news stories (in fact, in the last topic I created I did exactly that), provided they are not just doing so to attract traffic to a site they own or are being paid by, or to pad their post count or fish for merit without a single original thought or comment of their own. This kind of copying and pasting and including a link a bottom is just legalized plagiarism, and I don't think it should be tolerated.

Although no moderator has chimed in here unfortunately, all 4 of the accounts in my initial post haven't started any new threads in the last few days. I suspect they may all have been temp banned, but it is impossible to tell for sure.

I get your point, I don't have a problem with those starting threads with important articles either but it already became a trend out of it to create copy-pasted threads.

Can't recall how many times I've seen "Craig Wright" and "Justin Sun" on the same page as if they mean & provide any value to our community.

I wish there was a history page for those who got temp/perma-banned. At least we'd know if actions are taken against them.

I can say without any hesitation that the problems we are talking about here are pretty low on the priority ladder when it comes to breaking forum rules. We can only speculate why this is so, but it is an indisputable fact that if there are no appropriate penalties there will be no appropriate response from the users.

Temporary ban makes some sense if the user to whom it applies has something relevant in posting history except one line posts with links, and it makes no sense in the case of someone who has a clear intention to only post for promotion. After the temp ban, they will return and continue as if nothing had happened.

It is my opinion that such behavior should be placed in the same category as plagiarism, of course, if the intent is determined, which in some cases is quite clear.

Perma-bans shows up in Modlog (https://bitcointalk.org/modlog.php), and are therefore also scraped by both https://bpip.org/ and http://loyce.club/, so you have ready access to a historical record of banned accounts. Temporary bans don't, though, and it can only be known for sure if one has been issued and how long for if a moderator confirms it.

Just because there are more heinous crimes out there like plagiarism or distributing malware doesn't mean we should ignore these users. General bounty spamming is also fairly low on the priority ladder, but the vast majority of my reports for this reason are acted on within 24 hours. I also wish we could start handing out temporary bans to users who are racking up dozens of trashed posts each week.

Thank you for your insights. From now on, I will keep in mind that creating any new thread involves plenty of further discussions.

The fourthfunction (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2734070;sa=showPosts;start=280) account has posted 288 times in the ~8 weeks it's been in existence.

All 288 posts are links to publish0x articles.

I have reported the account to moderators with this note
I'll check intermittently to see if any action is taken and post here.

Indeed, I tagged the account a few months back for this exact reason.

Checking Modlog, the individual reported post has been deleted. No other action appears to have been taken.


I shall see if it produces its customary ~10 posts later today.

 

This is a practice that applies to all such cases, only posts that are reported are deleted, which leads us to the conclusion that each post should be reported individually, of course if we want all to be deleted. Depending on who is taking the action (not everyone has the same viewpoint), such users are first alerted by a private message, then with temporarily ban.

I see that last posts from fourthfunction is dated to 22 December 2019, which means that he didn't get a strong enough message to stop. This is probably one of those who think: "You can't delete as much as I can post".

No, I have reported a single post before and included information in the report that has led to multiple other posts being deleted.
I can't see the logic in deleting a single post when the whole (stated) point of the report is about chronic abuse.
Surely if that one post is unacceptable then so are the identical 287?
And a 288 count shit posting account should be nuked on that basis.


You're reading the post history backwards. His last posts were yesterday (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2734070;sa=showPosts;start=0): the reported one deleted, seven similar ones remain.

I've wondered about this too. I have often reported with a comment along the lines of "Chronic/long term/repeated behavior. Please review post history and trash/delete/ban/nuke" or something similar. The post in question is often trashed, but very rarely does anything happen to the other posts. I wondered if it was due to the report being handled by a non-global mod without the power to delete the posts in other sections or ban the user in question.

If this is the case, does that mean a global mod will never see the report? Is there a system for mods to both handle reports like this but also flag it up for the attention of a global mod? Or is it better to report multiple posts from the user as there is then a higher chance of a global mod seeing one and banning the user?

I've even had to report the same user for plagiarism three or four times in the past, despite every report being marked as good and the post in question trashed, before the user was actually banned. I wonder if this is the same issue - moderators handling the report but being unable to ban the user.

The shitposting continues - I have also now reported the account, suggest others do the same.

In my experience, even if all posts are made in one section, posts are barely deleted. I have asked to check other posts many times.  I even tried reporting more than 10 posts and asking to check other posts in the comment. But only reported posts were deleted although all posts of that user had been made in one section.


From my understanding from the following post made by Welsh, moderators can only request the ban. Global moderators and admins will decide whether to ban the user or not.

It hasn't posted since my report.
Logged in tonight without posting (so isn't banned), has rarely missed a day up till now. Strange.

Yeah, he has crossed the line with his last topic
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5227596.msg53886563#msg53886563


This is worse than clickbait, he's hiding all the content behind that link, he has no comments about it posted, no additional info, if you want to know what's this about you have to click his link.

That account could be part of a bigger shill or affiliate from publish0x unraveled by @20kevin20 here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223536.0).

One group will spam the community with their affiliate links and then the other one, with links to publish0x articles only.

Even if an account is banned, they can still log in, and so the "Last active" time on their profile will still update. They just won't be able to post, PM, send merit, etc.

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Ahh I see, thanks. So in these cases it is perhaps not being "moved up the chain", as it were, to be seen by a global moderator. Not sure what we can do about that. Perhaps mentioning on the report that this is the 10th/20th/30th time that this user is breaking the same rule would make it more likely to be flagged up to a global mod?

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Here's another account to keep an eye on: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=89944
A long history of this exact kind of spamming from back in 2014 and 2015, woke up a couple of days ago, and immediately started spamming the Press board again. If he repeats his previous activity, I'll be suggesting that he is banned on all my reports.

Thanks for that link, I missed that thread.
If you look at pulbish0x's business model then the bigger situation becomes clear. This is purely a game of Whack-A-Mole.
The only way to deal with this effectively is to convince Theymos that it's in the forum's best interest to bar any and all links to publish0x.
That'll be a hard sell....



I didn't know that, thanks.
fourthfunction  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2734070;sa=showPosts;) has just now started posting publish0x linked threads again, so it's not banned. I'm reporting them. Boring.

The account has been autobanned:  https://bpip.org/profile.aspx?id=2734070

Thanks to all who reported the posts & to the Mod system for doing it's thing.

Another drive-by thread starter: ElizabethA (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2672680)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2672680;sa=showPosts

This one is a bit more robust: doesn't always shill the same site, adds a question like "What do you think about crypto insurance?", and in one case even responded in their own thread!

Still mostly useless garbage.

This seems at first glance to be an alt account of :


ElizabethA is start with posting same links as JessicaVL, only 3 days after JessicaVL is stopped, maybe the reason is ban. Either way, this way of advertising no longer pass under the radar, and all who go down this path will face the same fate.

It absolutely is.

JessicaVL had another account over at the cryptocurrencytalk forums by the name of JVanLier, which posted all the same trash that she posted here.

Have a look at the most recent posts of the JVanLier account: https://cryptocurrencytalk.com/profile/100425-jvanlier/
Compare to the most recent posts and the ElizabethA account: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2672680;sa=showPosts

Literally identical posts made mere seconds apart.

Can a mod please ban the ElizabethA account for ban evasion? Or if not ban evasion, then at least for being a bot.

I checked post history of all users that have already been reported in this thread.
Some of them need more attention from moderators/admins.

_____________	_________________	_________________	_______________________
Date	Reported user	Link to report	Result
_____________	_________________	_________________	_______________________
Feb. 05	-Multivitamina- (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2566641)	o_e_l_e_o (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223412.msg53777860#msg53777860)	changed behavior
Feb. 05	Jgilpulg (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=914598)	o_e_l_e_o (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223412.msg53777860#msg53777860)	No post since January 27
Feb. 05	jdebunt (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=28364)	o_e_l_e_o (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223412.msg53777860#msg53777860)	No post since January 31
Feb. 05	JessicaVL (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2276234)	o_e_l_e_o (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223412.msg53777860#msg53777860)	No post since February 11
Feb. 06	Bitcoin_chaser (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2743709)	hosseinimr93 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223412.msg53786426#msg53786426)	is still advertising
Feb. 07	CoinTrendy (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=410181)	20kevin20 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223412.msg53788586#msg53788586)	is still advertising
Feb. 07	crabby (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1301815)	logfiles (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223412.msg53788923#msg53788923)	is still advertising
Feb. 07	Alex077 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=306213)	Jawhead999 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223412.msg53789261#msg53789261)	is still advertising
Feb. 07	voskobojn (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=536088)	Jawhead999 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223412.msg53789261#msg53789261)	is still advertising
Feb. 07	DimaKHV (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=552892)	Jawhead999 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223412.msg53789261#msg53789261)	No post since January 27
Feb. 07	FOX (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=326392)	Jawhead999 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223412.msg53789261#msg53789261)	is still advertising
Feb. 07	jenniferletty (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1299734)	hulla (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223412.msg53791608#msg53791608)	No post since February 15
Feb. 08	mamamu111 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1198723)	TravelMug (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223412.msg53794021#msg53794021)	No post since February 16
Feb. 08	angle_crypto (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2746401)	Lucius (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223412.msg53797393#msg53797393)	No post since February 18
Feb. 11	Xangle (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2742519)	TravelMug (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223412.msg53815770#msg53815770)	is still advertising
Feb. 11	star7dust (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2713736)	Stalker22 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223412.msg53817175#msg53817175)	Last link on February 13
Feb. 11	market pearl (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2740303)	Baofeng (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223412.msg53820544#msg53820544)	No post since February 17
Feb. 15	Denial11 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2758922)	Baofeng (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223412.msg53846813#msg53846813)	No post since February 20
Feb. 22	fourthfunction (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2734070)	tmfp (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223412.msg53891767#msg53891767)	No post since February 21
Feb. 24	zakoliverz (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=89944)	o_e_l_e_o (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223412.msg53901365#msg53901365)	------
Feb. 26	ElizabethA (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2672680)	suchmoon (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223412.msg53916430#msg53916430)	------
_____________	_________________	_________________	_______________________

ElizabethA is at it again
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5229164.0

So I reported ElizabethA multiple times with links back to my post above explaining that the account is an alt of JessicaVL and obviously being used as a bot. ElizabethA has now been inactive for a couple of days, just as JessicaVL starts back up again with 4 new threads of the same spammy nonsense in 20 minutes. I'm not sure if ElizabethA was temp banned so they moved back to JessicaVL, or if JessicaVL's temp ban had expired so they just moved back anyway. Regardless, both accounts are clearly part of the same bot, and temporary banning JessicaVL has obviously not taught the owner any lessons whatsoever. Please could mods consider perma-ban both accounts?

zakoliverz, whom I also mentioned above, has turned out to be your standard run-of-the-mill Press board spammer. Including threads of his I've had deleted, 7 of the last 9 new topics in Press board are from him. All are the exact same legalized plagiarism. He also deserves a ban.

A new publish0x spam account, reported.
stysn (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2774825;sa=showPosts)

Likewise. They're persistent, I'll give them that.

It would be nice if mods took action against the coinsbit scammers exchange thread, it's just page after page (121 at time of writing) of bumping accounts - all of which have been tagged by multiple forum members, but the scam bumping continues & unfortunately there are unsuspecting noobs who are falling for it & getting scammed:


As it says, I've reported the accounts & the thread, but I think it'll take a few more reports before the mods take action. The sooner they do, the less noobs will get scammed.

JessicaVL (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2276234;sa=showPosts) is back, I see that most post are now in Off-topic/Alternate cryptocurrencies, which shows us that the only change that has taken place is the strategy where to post.

I also notice we have new shills in Press board, along with aforementioned zakoliverz, there is blacky90 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=317047;sa=showPosts) who is working for cryptonews.com.

Yup, my number of reports against the three users you have mentioned continues to increase, and yet we still seem to be taking no conclusive action against any of them. And even with the all their topics which I have had either deleted or moved, the Press Board has still been turned in to their own personal spam board:

https://i.imgur.com/1YchGcn.jpg (https://i.imgur.com/1YchGcn.jpg)

At this point I would advocate for shutting the Press Board altogether. It is predominantly just legalized plagiarism by advertising bots or bounty shills. The few good topics which are posted there could just be discussed in Bitcoin Discussion instead.

Indeed. I actually stopped reading the "notable" Press board completely about 8 months ago due to it being full of utter nonsense, clickbait & general sensationalist BS - seems it's gotten even worse since then. Didn't think that was possible....

It seems that as Bitcoin gets more widely known about, the more cr@p there is to read about it posted by nobodies. That's the price of success I guess, but it's sad to see once informative boards go to sh*t like this.

User: BestBitcoinCasino (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2509307)

All posts made by this user are links to a specific website.

BestBitcoinCasino's post history (https://web.archive.org/web/20200311200048/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile%3Bu%3D2509307%3Bsa%3DshowPosts)

ElizabethA is back

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5232275.msg54014027#msg54014027

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5232287.msg54014315#msg54014315

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5232288.msg54014367#msg54014367

 Same spam news

User: cryptozink (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1674955)
Almost of page advertising shills >> Show post (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1674955;sa=showPosts;start=0) >> Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20200317034127/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1674955;sa=showPosts)
The last post only write his link without any information >> You Can Now Retrieve Lost Bitcoin (BTC) - Finally! (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5233358.msg54042845#msg54042845)

User: CrisperSoft (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2712791)

Essentially just creating posts based off content on their site in order to promote services. See the following post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5232340.0
(archive screenshot (https://i.imgur.com/KnIxpue.png))

The post was essentially just copy/pasted from their site: https://crispersoft.com/blog/ai-in-fintech-systems-for-analyzing-financial-markets/

User: CoinCode_sh (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2752349)

This user is posting a same content including a link to a specific website into different ANN threads.

Post history (http://archive.is/8Eqxl)

Edit: All posts including links were deleted by moderators.

This can vary a lot depending on the moderator that is handling it. Some moderators don't want to have their queues filled up with reports that could have been done in one post. However, whether or not the moderator handling that report goes through all of them which they might have to actively search depends on how much time they have. I usually leave posts to others if I haven't got enough time, but sometimes we are half way through deleting them, and something comes up.

If you notice that this has happened you can always report one of the posts again, and ask for the rest to be cleared up. So, instead of reporting 100, you could report 1-2 in a span of a few weeks if they haven't been handled.

User: goanadupabitcoin (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=512797)
Shilling their website in 77 out 202 posts (38%), all reported.

User: Nea Sandu (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=516658)
Owner of goanadupabitcoin's site (user goanadupabitcoin being his alt account); shilling the same website in 24 posts out of 462 total posts (5%), all reported.

Shills advertising reported.

User:   JohnPerino (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2645667)

Registered on July 11, 2019 but start posting on the forum today (has made 3 posts with the same darkweb site link) and i think hes targeting the newbie.
Post history : archived (http://archive.is/yB4sX)
https://i.imgur.com/YwXMRVH.jpg

User: HB Wallet (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2473585)
This user is posting links to a specific website in different topics.
Post history (http://archive.is/Qkw3r)

These two users appear to be advertising/shilling some website - Authlink ?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2797608

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2797601

They only back each other’s posts .

User:   CoinIdol News (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2626969)

I seriously cant fathom how this guy isn't banned yet. He posts some copy and pasted nonsense from CoinIdol.com either once or twice a day, every day, in the Press board. He makes no other posts. Every topic he has made for the last 2 weeks has been trashed, except one which was moved to Speculation. I have reported him 17 times in this two week period, with all of them marked good. Sometimes when his post is deleted, he reposts the exact same article a second time. More often than not, the things he posts are just baseless price speculation. They certainly aren't news, newsworthy, or from a notable source.

If you have every post you make for 2 weeks trashed and you continue with the same behavior, then obviously you don't care at all about the forum or its rules. I've asked in the comment box for this user to be banned countless times. Can a global mod please review? Thanks.

None of us can....
Vladdirescu87 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=923025) wasn't banned for that either, his saga ended only when he was caught with plagiarism and he had almost 100 posts deleted by then.

Some (I think that even you !?!) say that it's about time for the press section to be closed down and I tend to agree with that if it's a major news article the situation it describes can fit on any other board like speculation, economics, politics. It's no longer a thing that CNN or Fox or Guardian writes about bitcoin, it's not 2010 anymore. Besides, every real discussion that happens in the press section has at least one similar topic somewhere in another area and most of the times it predates the one in the press section.

Oh, and the drawings!!!! Every time I make the mistake of opening those topics and I see those cartons I want to punch the screen.

LE:
Speaking of the devil:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5244541.0
http://archive.vn/wip/ouswt

How the hell can you call this a topic:

I tagged that account 9 months ago for shitposting & so far I'm the only person to do so. Maybe if others would follow suit mods will actually ban him at last?

Yeah. Although the quality of discussion you get on a good article is generally much higher in the Press board than you would get in Bitcoin Discussion (as fewer spammers tend to visit the Press board), the vast majority of new topics posted there are complete trash and are used just as advertising by sites exactly like CoinIdol. If we aren't going to moderate it in line with the stated guidelines (notable, independent reliable sources, not crypto "news" sites or blogs, etc.) then we might as well just shut it down.

He has been banned. As much as he was a complete shitposter, I don't agree with using the trust system for that reason.

I reported Coinidiot news so many times since he joined. I usually add the comment "not related to Bitcoin" but in the last report, I added that it should be moved to speculation, like most of the topics he creates. Before he was mainly posting weird news but now he turned to a TA specialist.
I started to wonder if he understands at least why his topics are moved or trashed, that's why I modified my report.

There is another member I dislike, Black09 or Black90 something like that. Perhaps less evil but still. He never participates in discussions, he spams the same website over and over and voila.
He makes me think about Vladdirescu87 who did the same

In my last report which is tagged good, I said something like "coinidol spam" as it was pure garbage, It seems like the mods think the same.
Don't ask for them to be moved to speculation, he will simply spam that section just as much and he is still not interested in the actual discussion, better trash them all. We already have like 9 or 10 topics started today with the same thing, no need fo more.


Oh, Blacky09, he stopped posting, don't know why as he's not banned, probably not getting paid anymore.

It is very sad for me to see that so many posts here are handled, the users get punished, while my 100 reports for an obvious shillig (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5241445.msg54246227#msg54246227) go unhandled, although the shilling is visible from the moon, by anyone, although it is not necessary to know Romanian, although I reported (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223412.msg54234601#msg54234601) the shilling in this topic as well...

The more time passes by, the more I believe these two users are protected by Cyrus, in a classic Romanian nepotism. I saw in their posts they participated at a live meet-up with Cyrus (or more). Maybe this is the reason...

User: cryptocointrade.com (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2313163)
This user has been abusing the forum for more than a year and is posting links to a specific website in different threads.

Post history (http://archive.is/Jx6Tw)

User: etenrityland34 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1911391) Banned!
He shills a project in different threads and different local boards. Since april 22nd he has made 15 post and they are all almost the same. First class spam.  >:(

Post history: http://archive.vn/Yzy1t

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User: fernoodt (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2802834)
Does this user fall under the "advertising shill" category? 2 posts so far, but it could easily get out of control if not handled promptly.

Latest posts of:  fernoodt: https://archive.vn/YhlVU

User: bitintruder (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1342000)
Obviously shilling for his website: bitintruder.com. Funny thing is that three of his post will get a 404 error. So 3/4 post is about this website. And then he shills for another, Bitkorona.com.

Archive: Post History (http://web.archive.org/save/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1342000;sa=showPosts)

User pocoorvi (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2803450) Banned! is spamming the Bitcoin General Discussion with locked theads he made containing his scams.

Here's one such link, there are 6 and counting
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5246442.msg54377392#new

edit: he's still making more threads, he definitely needs to be nuked.

edit2: His threads contain Javascript malware encoded in base64 and obfuscated a second time from the pastebin link he put in all of them:


Deobfuscate it with this tool https://lelinhtinh.github.io/de4js/, the result looks very sketchy.

User: bitintruder (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1342000) / (This user recently woke up from a long period of inactivity.)

Shill spammer posting links to its own website. It's trying to capitalize on the current spike in price in the crypto market which translates into more traffic to crypto related websites. It did the same thing during the 2017 bull run.

Latest posts of:  bitintruder: https://archive.vn/VryDq

This member - Bitcoinmoon12
See post history
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2746403

Shilling / advertising a news site

He's back. It seems he was temp banned for a week, since he had all his posts deleted and didn't make any new ones. His temp ban has now expired, and I've had 6 of his threads trashed in the last 3 days. All threads followed the exact same pattern as the previous ones he was temp banned for.

This is quite obviously a bot, the owner quite obviously hasn't learned, and nor is he going to. Please nuke.

I don't know if this is the right place for me to talk about this
It is the third time I saw this content posted by a new account. The topic is locked right away and I cannot post a warning there  ::) It is clearly a form of advertising for scammers. I have reported them, but what if the situation continues? Many people will be fooled, is there any way to stop it  ???

Example: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5249477.new#new

OK, after reporting 1500 posts in less than 24h I was contacted by a Staff member to stop :) Not kidding, this is serious. I started reporting on May 20th, when I had 300 reports and I ended on the evening of May 21st, when I reached 1799 reports. I reported almost all members mentioned in this topic, posts by post, after seeing these:

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That being said, I reported hundreds of posts (about 1500) made by Jgilpulg, -Multivitamina-, crabby, CoinCode_sh, CoinTrendy, Bitcoin_chaser, bitintruder, Denial11, market pearl, Xangle, BestBitcoinCasino, cryptocointrade.com, Alex077, mamamu111, star7dust, HB Wallet, cryptozink, fourthfunction, voskobojn and FXO - all these being members mentioned here. All the operation took me about 14h of almost non-stop reporting posts. I did it because as I understood from the above mentioned quotes, nothing is done unless there is a post by post report. However, I saw that a few members mentioned in this topic which were nuked or which have almost all their posts deleted, but these were just a few cases (such as ElizabethA, JohnPerino, stysn or CrisperSoft). All the others remaining (which represent the biggest part) had their posts deleted just one by one, for each report made.

So while I was in frenzy yesterday, reporting post after post, I received a PM from 3dOOM which, in case you don't know, works with Cyrus at Cryptios (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5138349), a company helping the forum with account recoveries. He thanked me for all these reports but also asked me to not make hundreds of reports anymore for a single user which has a same pattern for all his posts. I sent him also all the above quotes, explaining him why I did it.

His reply was this (I'll translate it, as it was written in Romanian): "indeed, there are cases as the ones you mentioned but, if you don't see any actions taken, it doesn't mean that no action was taken. Reporting all posts of an user is not a way for solving the problem, as it overloads the reports section and instead of helping it does more bad than good. As you said yourself, it was difficult for you to report all the posts of a single user; think about the fact that the mods receive the reports from thousands of users and all the actions are manually made".

That being said, I reached the following conclusions / questions:
- what 3dOOM says is sound, but in the end all we can do is hope that sometime some mod will take care of the other posts of an user (the ones not reported but having the same pattern as the ones reported). So all we do is based on hope and if we really try hard to eliminate the spam we overload the mods. Of course this leads to the fact that the spammers are free to spam until a mod will take care of him, although this could mean after a long time. Long live the spam!
- I reported so many posts that the mods couldn't keep the pace with my reporting ratio - while this sounds funny, it is also sad
- while 3dOOM (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2288758) is not an official Staff member (as nothing is stated on his profile), the only "somehow-official" rank he has is the one that he is helping Cyrus for something completely different than analyzing reports (as I explained above, he is involved in Cyrus' company for account recoveries), somehow, for a reason which I'm missing, he has access to the reports. Meaning he also has access to members' emails and who knows to what more. This third conclusion mentioned here should raise serious questions, such as: why does 3dOOM have access to the reports section? What else can he access? If this is legitimate though, why doesn't he appear as a Staff member or as am official of the forum (at this moment he is only a Member with copper membership).

Looking forward for what are the thoughts of all those which previously posted here and which gave a lot of time for reporting posts -actions which now seem to be based on pure hope.

Do you know why o_e_l_e_o created this topic?
This topic was created, so you don't have to report all posts made by a certain user.
Suppose there are only 10 users, each reporting 1500 posts daily. Do you really expect moderators to handle all of these reports?

I understand the reason for the topic but, as you see, it didn't lead to what it was meant for, unfortunately. That's why I took action. Manual action.


Yes, it's their job. Nobody placed them in their position by force.

Apart from this, we all claim the forum is spamed a lot. This means action is needed. The action must be taken by reporters and also by mods. One side can't do anything without the other side. Reporters should report and mods should analyze the reports. To say that someone reported too many posts in a given timeframe in a nonsense. If mods can't keep the pace with the reports ratio, maybe more mods are needed...

I kept working on the saga of the accounts posted here. For some reason, all the reports I made for FXO and Vladdirescu87 were all marked as bad, although all their posts are similar to the ones of the user fourthfunction, which was nuked recently, after I reported his posts. This time I didn't report anymore all the posts of these two users, only a bunch of them.

I really don't understand the basis of how these reports are analyzed. So an user keeps spamming a website in all his posts and he gets nuked and all the reports are good. Another user does the same thing (just the shilled site is different) and his posts are good and the reports are bad.

This is very intriguing. I'll still make reports for the users mentioned here and see what happens. The ones remaining are shitcoinoffering, DimaKHV, Jdebunt, zakoliverz and JessicaVL. I still have 889 unhandled reports from the previous users I reported this week.

Those accounts are all either perma-banned or inactive. Going back months to report their posts is only wasting your time and moderators' time. Your time would be better spent reporting spam from the last few days which helps to clean up threads which people are actively reading and posting in, while also denying bounty spammers their payments.

Oh, I see...maybe this is the reason then. I'll focus on the new ones then. I saw that many of them use the Press board mostly.

However, if any members spot any other shillers but don't have time for reportimg them, just mention the names here and I'll take care of them :) Of course, I'll keep looking myself as well. Let's do our best to keep the forum clean!

I wanted to create a topic but I prefer to use this one to talk about the user Coinidol news (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2626969).

I won't report this user anymore, I feel like wasting my time and discouraged despite the fact the posts are moderated in a timely manner.
He joined a year ago about and 100% of his posts are deleted by moderators. Yes 100%. Yet he continues to log in almost every day without following what everyone tends to follow. I'm tired to report the user every day.

With such a high rate of posts moderated I think it deserves a bit more than a moderation

Completely agree. See my posts above about this user. I've been asking for this user to be banned for weeks now in my report comments, and every time he just has his post trashed and makes another one a few hours later. This is such a colossal waste of everybody's time to continually report him and act on these reports.

What's the point in even reporting spammers if someone can literally have 100% of their posts deleted and just continue to spam anyway?

I completely agree too - but I'll continue to report him until mods finally do ban him. It makes me feel good.

 This member
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2811721
Shilling / advertising a news site - already 4 posts today

Reporting user Core83 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2813100)
A brand new account which have make 4 posts which consist WhatsApp number and telegram id and it all about providing trading signal.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2813100;sa=showPosts

Was asking the same question too, although I rarely report.
A side note, isn't the pic nsfw? 3 males covered and the girl is naked, covered by her long hair exactly... Sometimes this site is...trolling?

He's back - 3 shitposts in 2 days......again.

Happened to me in the past. The moderator is accepting what you reported and he will not delete it, it will be deleted by another mod if done, or else this post is reported several times and it is automatically selected as good by mods. This is my speculation from the past.

User CoinIdol News is back again.....

Reported them all again....

I just don't understand why mods just don't ban this guy.

This is a good question indeed. Maybe a mod could take a look on this topic and let us know about what's going on with thus user, from Staff perspective?

But besides this curiosity, there is something else I don't understand. This account may (or may not) be a bot. Bot or not, it should be controlled by someone. How is it possible for this person to not notice at all that all the posts are deleted? I assume the account owner didn't notice the posts deleted, as the account uses the same posting pattern. Otherwise, I believe that a rational person would change the posting pattern.