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Post by: Symmetrick on August 03, 2021, 09:13:59 AM


Title: Re: Empty topic addresses
Post by: LoyceV on August 03, 2021, 09:28:03 AM
Looks like a funny guy :D He got rid of all but one of his 169 posts (https://loyce.club/archive/members/10/105010.html).

From the page source, this is the title:
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You can still visit it here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1528815.msg15382199#msg15382199

I don't know what's this invisible character (http://www.htmlescape.net/82/character_8206.html) is meant for.
Found it:
Suppose the writer wishes to use some English text (a left-to-right script) into a paragraph written in Arabic or Hebrew (a right-to-left script) with non-alphabetic characters to the right of the English text.



Lol, Google can't even search this code :P


Title: Re: Empty topic addresses
Post by: The Sceptical Chymist on August 03, 2021, 09:50:19 AM
Lol, Google can't even search this code :P
Huh, that's a bit odd, don't you think?  Slightly less odd is the fact that he chose to use that code instead of just writing "deleted" or something like that, which is what members usually do when they scrub their posts.  Maybe he was hoping that code would just make his whole post disappear?

Is that member a scammer or a bought account or what?  Looks like he got a positive feedback from 2013, so the account is pretty old (and the name rings a bell, too).  One of the ways bought accounts are discovered is by a drastic change in posting style, so deleting all of an account's old posts might be an attempt to conceal that.  Just speculating, not accusing.


Title: Re: Empty topic addresses
Post by: LoyceV on August 03, 2021, 09:58:40 AM
Looks like he got a positive feedback from 2013
Nope. He sent feedback in 2013.


Title: Re: Empty topic addresses
Post by: The Sceptical Chymist on August 03, 2021, 10:03:06 AM
Looks like he got a positive feedback from 2013
Nope. He sent feedback in 2013.
Whoops, my bad.  My point stands however--the account is quite old.  I don't know which sections he's posted in, because I can't view any of them and must have them all on ignore.  Have you looked at whether any of the existing ones look fishy or anything like that?


Title: Re: Empty topic addresses
Post by: LoyceV on August 03, 2021, 10:07:30 AM
I don't know which sections he's posted in, because I can't view any of them and must have them all on ignore.
Use private browser mode :) He only has one post (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1780805.msg14871361#msg14871361) left, and I'm pretty sure that's only because he can't edit it anymore.

I don't consider this suspicious at all. It looks like someone who abandoned his account and cleaned up everything he could.