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1021  Other / Meta / Re: Just remove signatures already. As in delete, disable, gone. on: October 10, 2015, 07:54:43 AM

they cant use alt-account: that would be ban-evading.
but you are right, that they dont need a forum account et al to create and manage a campaign. but IMHO they wont get that much users without forum visibility which might help a bit
i meant they could get approval from 'x' service provider to run the campaign, and with the intent to be lazy as fuck, create an alt account or buy a cheap one to manage the campaign, and if they decide to do so, they can use a vpn, whatever to hide the link between the alt and main account. that way, if the campaign was deemed to be poorly managed, the alt account would suffer the ban instead of the manager's main one.

i dont think its that easy for them...
imagine primedice gets banned: i would ban their primary primedice account as well: this would serious affect their business as well.

i know this would be a paradigm shift (treat businesses as a person): but law outside of the forum usually works that way
i feel that would be quite unfair, to pin the manager's shortcomings on the one running the actual site/service. however, i can also see how that would be incredibly effective, making it the responsibility of service/casino owners to pick effective campaign managers and monitor the post quality of participants from time to time.
1022  Other / Meta / Re: Can a minor do this??? on: October 10, 2015, 07:49:39 AM
Off topic or useless can probably describe most of sanjx's and op's posts along with most others on yobit and secondstrade and he's now wanting more kids he knows to do the same and that's why something needs to be done about these campaigns. When they realise they can get paid to post crap why not tell your friends or open multiple accounts to do the same every day?
I somewhat get the feeling that the demographic of most shit-posters is young adults who live in countries that have a lowish standard of living.

I don't think very many 15 year olds (or 12 year olds, or whatever year olds) would have very much use for the money they could earn from shit posting on signature deals. I would speculate that most miners that post here would probably have more of a genuine interest in Bitcoin, and would have some level of technical expertise.   
dont forget the gambling addicts.
1023  Other / Meta / Re: Just remove signatures already. As in delete, disable, gone. on: October 10, 2015, 07:46:39 AM
Temp banning them is exactly what I've suggested. More temp bans need to be handed out to the users on their campaigns too until they get the message. And being a lazy campaign manager might not be against the rules but but spamming poor quality posts which they encourage is and do nothing to stop. A rule can always be added that if people can't run a campaign effectively then there will be punishments. Regardless, these campaigns are still being a nuicance and nuicance users are usually banned. If a user signed up to this forum and created a thread that said they were going to pay users to post crap all over do you think they wouldn't receive negative feedback or be banned? No difference here really. The signature campaigns like yobit and secondstrade are causing a significant mess and it's unfair on everyone. Signature campaigns could actually improve the post quality of the forum if campaign managers only accepted and paid users who made decent posts and there are some campaigns that do that but it's futile ultimately when the users that don't get accepted or paid for their posts just go to a campaign like yobit and secondstrade that will pay them for any crap they post.
its spelled "nuisance" btw, and that aside, banning the campaign managers, i feel, might be ineffective to some extent; they could use alt accounts to manage campaigns, and they dont even have to be able to post to 'manage' the campaign if they get banned; all they have to do is be able to count posts and punch in numbers to send payouts. i think simply being more stringent on what qualifies as a constructive post might do better; hand out more bans and raise the bar a little bit.

of course, there is also the option of going as far as to ban the campaign entirely by banning any user that wears 'x' campaign's signature, but it would never come to that given the current "rules."

they cant use alt-account: that would be ban-evading.
but you are right, that they dont need a forum account et al to create and manage a campaign. but IMHO they wont get that much users without forum visibility which might help a bit
i meant they could get approval from 'x' service provider to run the campaign, and with the intent to be lazy as fuck, create an alt account or buy a cheap one to manage the campaign, and if they decide to do so, they can use a vpn, whatever to hide the link between the alt and main account. that way, if the campaign was deemed to be poorly managed, the alt account would suffer the ban instead of the manager's main one.
1024  Other / Meta / Re: Just remove signatures already. As in delete, disable, gone. on: October 10, 2015, 07:41:20 AM
Temp banning them is exactly what I've suggested. More temp bans need to be handed out to the users on their campaigns too until they get the message. And being a lazy campaign manager might not be against the rules but but spamming poor quality posts which they encourage is and do nothing to stop. A rule can always be added that if people can't run a campaign effectively then there will be punishments. Regardless, these campaigns are still being a nuicance and nuicance users are usually banned. If a user signed up to this forum and created a thread that said they were going to pay users to post crap all over do you think they wouldn't receive negative feedback or be banned? No difference here really. The signature campaigns like yobit and secondstrade are causing a significant mess and it's unfair on everyone. Signature campaigns could actually improve the post quality of the forum if campaign managers only accepted and paid users who made decent posts and there are some campaigns that do that but it's futile ultimately when the users that don't get accepted or paid for their posts just go to a campaign like yobit and secondstrade that will pay them for any crap they post.
its spelled "nuisance" btw, and that aside, banning the campaign managers, i feel, might be ineffective to some extent; they could use alt accounts to manage campaigns, and they dont even have to be able to post to 'manage' the campaign if they get banned; all they have to do is be able to count posts and punch in numbers to send payouts. i think simply being more stringent on what qualifies as a constructive post might do better; hand out more bans and raise the bar a little bit.

of course, there is also the option of going as far as to ban the campaign entirely by banning any user that wears 'x' campaign's signature, but it would never come to that given the current "rules."
1025  Economy / Services / Re: ★☆★ MagicalDice Signature campaign - Earn up to 0.15 BTC per week! [Open] ★☆★ on: October 10, 2015, 07:28:55 AM
I,ve signed up on 18th of september ! and i calculated that the period of 30 days will be completed on 15th october ! so i,ll get paid on 14th ?
you will be paid on 21st of October.

Is`nt that unfair ? then what about the extra days i use your avatar ?
youll get over it. its pennies of time.
1026  Other / Meta / Re: Just remove signatures already. As in delete, disable, gone. on: October 10, 2015, 07:16:18 AM
An user of the italian section (Anon39) suggested to prohibit campaign that pay for post, and allowing only campaigns that pay a fixed value every month.
I'm not sure if this is the solution, but it can be a good improvement.
It must be also forbidden to compel the user to write a minimum of posts.

Fixed rate campaigns do cause less spam for sure but it's more about who runs the campaign and whether they're doing their job or not. Pay per post campaigns like yobit and secondstrade do cheapen the place because their companies do nothing apart from pay spammers automatically without checking posts and it gets worse everyday because they then tell their friends they can get free bitcoins for posting crap and the knock on effect continues on. It would be hard to enforce people to only pay fixed rate though and even fixed rate can be abused if there's no one actually managing their campaign. What we actually need to do is put more pressure on the lazy campaign managers to do what they're supposed to and if they can't get on top of it there will be consequences ie bans.

why dont ban (tempban) lazy campaign managers until they fix and enforce their rules
because managing a campaign poorly isnt against the forum's rules; theyre not breaking a rule so there are no grounds for a ban. a rule for this should be implemented, but its difficult to draw a line as to when the campaign can be considered to be causing rampant spam.
1027  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Calling for all foreign parties to join in Jihad against the evil U.S.A. on: October 10, 2015, 07:14:10 AM
Jihad against U.S.? This is funny replace one evil with another one. I think this whole system is corrupt, your jihad, their democracy...chill a bit, think again and only then say something. U can't call someone stupid and u act same. I say that only cause there is no smart man in this world who wish for more wars.
there are ~7 billion people in the world. im pretty sure there at least 1 person out there who wants world peace. what an ignorant thing to say, given there are world peace organizations and whatnot. wars happen because people in positions of power will do whatever it takes to further their own agendas. and before you criticize people about their beliefs, ethics, morals, what they say on this forum, etc, learn to type like someone above the age of 12. then again, your post was likely just some nonsense reply you thought up of in a whole 2 seconds for the yobit payout.
1028  Economy / Digital goods / Re: [0.02 BTC] Primedice Bot || Multi-Algorithm || Lifetime Updates on: October 10, 2015, 02:34:51 AM
I have received the source code for the bot and have done a cursory scan of the code (bit short on time, midterms in a few days). after skimming the files, i was unable to find anything that led me to believe that any part of the code was written with malicious intent. but again, i did not have the time to review it thoroughly.
update: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1195799.msg12672049#msg12672049
1029  Other / Meta / Re: Can a minor do this??? on: October 10, 2015, 02:09:31 AM
on the internet, you can be 420 years old for all i care. why is this actually being asked
1030  Economy / Services / Re: [°NEW°] Escrow service + Middleman exchange - Only small amounts on: October 09, 2015, 11:58:59 PM
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3. CS:GO skins ( Not working now! )
Why you want to escrow Steam items? As far as I know when you are trading via steam you are pretty much covered.
You can only trade when you see what your trade partner has on a table and then you can barter without risk.
Or it is different story with CS go skins?
he was probably referring to RMT for csgo skins, as steam has no way of mediating a trade outside of in game items.
1031  Other / Politics & Society / FOUR MEN KILLED BY POACHERS IN GARAMBA NATIONAL PARK on: October 09, 2015, 10:16:00 PM
http://www.africanparks.eu/Blog_192_Four+Men+Killed+by+Poachers+in+Garamba+National+Park+DRC.html

"The incident occurred when the men, all members of a 10-man Garamba patrol team, tracked the collar of a poached elephant to a poachers’ camp in the western Azande hunting area. An exchange of fire ensued during which the out-numbered Garamba unit was forced to disperse.

The African Parks helicopter that was part of the operation was immediately deployed to help rescue the rangers. Despite coming under fire it managed to retrieve six members of the patrol unit and drop them at a safe area where they re-grouped. Two men were flown back to the park headquarters at Nagero, one of whom had sustained injuries.  The helicopter took multiple hits and was unable to fly back for the remaining men. The four rangers that were evacuated managed to walk to the closest road, a two day walk from the site of the attack. Yesterday, the bodies of the remaining four men were discovered when a reinforced patrol team managed to access the site of the incident."

1032  Economy / Services / Re: [°NEW°] Escrow service + Middleman exchange on: October 09, 2015, 09:35:53 PM
if you really don't have any intention to scam others, why do not you start anew with new account? Start contributing to this forum in positive ways and gaining trust, it will surely take a lot of time  Grin but that's the right thing to do to be a trusted escrow/middleman..  Grin
you make it sound as if youre suggesting that he go out and actively seek to build trust rating on a new account, which i think is a terrible mindset in itself, not to mention that it almost makes it seem as if the user is building trust on purpose to scam. trust should be based off of passive honesty over time, not active efforts to earn ratings.
1033  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Is forum escrow still safe? on: October 09, 2015, 08:41:38 PM
to my knowledge no deal that was escrow'd by QS or his alts was botched and no 3rd party was disappointed with the service.

Just because escrows have alts doesn't mean they're not trustworthy.
I couldn't agree more.
QS may have done something "bad", but it surely didn't result in a loss for anyone but himself.
one or two instances of something shady happening with escrow service providers is in no way representative of everyone involved in escrowing.
1034  Other / Archival / Re: I dare you to post your password and account here: on: October 09, 2015, 02:32:38 PM
The account is pretty clearly now compromised. I would avoid doing any kind of business with the OP and whoever changed the password is going to be additionally anon, more so then normal.
Not that anyone would believe OP would deal with anyone, he hasn't even appeared in Marketplace for once IIRC. Only thing he posts is about politics and near useless threads.
Whoever took over the OP's account might try to do something malicious with his newly taken over account....

QWK was able to access the account so the password was accurate.
that account was just shitposting nonsense in the politics and society board before this. and i really mean shitposting. given the number of off topic/spammy dumb posts the account made, it might even have gotten banned.
1035  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Eutanasia? on: October 09, 2015, 02:27:57 PM
when you shoot a dear and it still breath... do you watch it die helpless or you do what's necessary? what would a lion do?
Eat him maybe?  Tongue
There is many ways a person which can use to end his life including suicide, euthanasia... The only difference is that you get killed by someone else in euthanasia.
Never will support or encourage someone to end his life instead I will refer him to a psychiatric to treat him (talking about the OP case).
If he has an end stage cancer, painkillers even knowing that they aren't helping a lot, can reduce his pain.
For dementia & schizophrenia they need someone who help them. (not to get ride of them, this only will make the retirement assurance happy).

Finally, should we end a life of a young girl because she suffers during her periods? Someone who has a chronic headaches? ... Next years i think we will hear about theses cases!

Next thing would be we hear about relatives deciding to kill their grandma because she got dementia and can't decide that anymore. Roll Eyes Well, that would be eutanasia really. Reminds me on hitler on his "ending unworthy lives".
getting a bit slippery slope there, but regardless, i think that a topic as controversial as euthanasia will come to be more or less accepted in the future, as with many controversial things. take drugs for example, we're sitting here having  discussions on having drugs be legalized, wouldnt surprise me if euthanasia were to become accepted in the next few decades (likely on the basis of free will to do what one wishes with their life).

I don't think so. Legalization of drugs only gets discussed seriously because marijuana has certain positive effects on health and probably less negative effects than alcohol. I think the harder drugs are not really discussed by normal people in the majority.

Next thing is the religious people that see it as a sin to commit suicide. They are influential and that can have a big impact too.
but its not just marijuana, take portugal for instance, when they decriminalized all drugs 14 years ago:
https://www.thefix.com/content/decrim-nation-portugal-ten-years-later

"Time: “Judging by every metric, drug decriminalization in Portugal has been a resounding success. It has enabled the Portuguese government to manage and control the drug problem far better than virtually every other Western country.""

decriminalizing in the US as portugal has done would solve many problems, including the ongoing problem of overcrowding in prisons. but we all know prisons make way too much money for that to be brought up politics anyways.

another article: http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893946,00.html

as for the religion issue, the current generation is currently seen as the least religious generation in a long time, and i expect the trend to continue over the next few decades, as the next generation's children will likely lack a religious influence in their lives with the current, non-religious generation as their parents. as the trend continues, we can logically expect the influence of religion to dwindle in the future society.

http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/sdsu_newscenter/news_story.aspx?sid=75623

You are right, hard drugs are discussed too. Though like you state, with the younger generation growing up, there is a problem with that getting to the edge of at least being possible to achieve. I mean many people will be convinced with marijuana but hard drugs are an argumentation that most not can follow.

Maybe it would need a small scale test to convince people. But even that sounds impossible at the moment.

And yes, it would be interesting to see the results.
on that same note, a film that came out quite recently touched on that subject a little bit: narcopolis (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1957938/) is set ~20 years in the future where hard drugs are legal, namely narcotics. it also depicts most of the population as being under the influence for a great portion of their time as well. the movie itself was sort of meh though, huge parts of the plot that were completely unnecessary and some unexplainable plot holes here and there. what it did however, was present a dystopian society that could possibly be a realistic society some decades in the future.
1036  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Eutanasia? on: October 09, 2015, 12:25:56 PM
when you shoot a dear and it still breath... do you watch it die helpless or you do what's necessary? what would a lion do?
Eat him maybe?  Tongue
There is many ways a person which can use to end his life including suicide, euthanasia... The only difference is that you get killed by someone else in euthanasia.
Never will support or encourage someone to end his life instead I will refer him to a psychiatric to treat him (talking about the OP case).
If he has an end stage cancer, painkillers even knowing that they aren't helping a lot, can reduce his pain.
For dementia & schizophrenia they need someone who help them. (not to get ride of them, this only will make the retirement assurance happy).

Finally, should we end a life of a young girl because she suffers during her periods? Someone who has a chronic headaches? ... Next years i think we will hear about theses cases!

Next thing would be we hear about relatives deciding to kill their grandma because she got dementia and can't decide that anymore. Roll Eyes Well, that would be eutanasia really. Reminds me on hitler on his "ending unworthy lives".
getting a bit slippery slope there, but regardless, i think that a topic as controversial as euthanasia will come to be more or less accepted in the future, as with many controversial things. take drugs for example, we're sitting here having  discussions on having drugs be legalized, wouldnt surprise me if euthanasia were to become accepted in the next few decades (likely on the basis of free will to do what one wishes with their life).

I don't think so. Legalization of drugs only gets discussed seriously because marijuana has certain positive effects on health and probably less negative effects than alcohol. I think the harder drugs are not really discussed by normal people in the majority.

Next thing is the religious people that see it as a sin to commit suicide. They are influential and that can have a big impact too.
but its not just marijuana, take portugal for instance, when they decriminalized all drugs 14 years ago:
https://www.thefix.com/content/decrim-nation-portugal-ten-years-later

"Time: “Judging by every metric, drug decriminalization in Portugal has been a resounding success. It has enabled the Portuguese government to manage and control the drug problem far better than virtually every other Western country.""

decriminalizing in the US as portugal has done would solve many problems, including the ongoing problem of overcrowding in prisons. but we all know prisons make way too much money for that to be brought up politics anyways.

another article: http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893946,00.html

as for the religion issue, the current generation is currently seen as the least religious generation in a long time, and i expect the trend to continue over the next few decades, as the next generation's children will likely lack a religious influence in their lives with the current, non-religious generation as their parents. as the trend continues, we can logically expect the influence of religion to dwindle in the future society.

http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/sdsu_newscenter/news_story.aspx?sid=75623
1037  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Eutanasia? on: October 09, 2015, 12:05:33 PM
when you shoot a dear and it still breath... do you watch it die helpless or you do what's necessary? what would a lion do?
Eat him maybe?  Tongue
There is many ways a person which can use to end his life including suicide, euthanasia... The only difference is that you get killed by someone else in euthanasia.
Never will support or encourage someone to end his life instead I will refer him to a psychiatric to treat him (talking about the OP case).
If he has an end stage cancer, painkillers even knowing that they aren't helping a lot, can reduce his pain.
For dementia & schizophrenia they need someone who help them. (not to get ride of them, this only will make the retirement assurance happy).

Finally, should we end a life of a young girl because she suffers during her periods? Someone who has a chronic headaches? ... Next years i think we will hear about theses cases!

Next thing would be we hear about relatives deciding to kill their grandma because she got dementia and can't decide that anymore. Roll Eyes Well, that would be eutanasia really. Reminds me on hitler on his "ending unworthy lives".
getting a bit slippery slope there, but regardless, i think that a topic as controversial as euthanasia will come to be more or less accepted in the future, as with many controversial things. take drugs for example, we're sitting here having  discussions on having drugs be legalized, wouldnt surprise me if euthanasia were to become accepted in the next few decades (likely on the basis of free will to do what one wishes with their life).
1038  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Problem with Legendary User b!z on: October 09, 2015, 12:01:39 PM
I will wait to see what happens.

I hope b!z check this thread.
seeing as how b1z still clearly has access to their wallet, maybe send him a few small 0.000001 transactions to the 177777iciAzEV7MQoiHgobrgm6dXgFdhMW, then put a link to this thread as a public note on bc.i? i would think that b1z would be intrigued by a few dust transactions and would check them out, and hopefully see the link. just a suggestion, its in no way guaranteed to work.
1039  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Problem with Legendary User b!z on: October 09, 2015, 10:48:27 AM
This is the second thread ive seen on this guy and the same situation in both. Why would he screw his account over .5 total? He could sell a legendary acct for probably at least twice that considering his trust rating.
he hasnt been online in weeks, and i dont think he would have pulled an exit scam for a measly .5 btc considering their activity on the forum; maybe something happened that left him/her unable to access their computer for a while, just my guess. stuff happens in life you know.
1040  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why are standards so poor in the mainstream? on: October 09, 2015, 10:43:57 AM
Because propaganda is legal?

Mainstream Media Touting "Unconfirmed Reports" Russia Just Accidentally Bombed Iran


Proof please? CNN claims Russian missiles crashed in Iran, Moscow refutes, US can’t confirm

"A CNN report, claiming that several Russian cruise missiles targeting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) positions in Syria actually landed in Iran, has been refuted by the Russian Defense Ministry, while the US State Department say they can’t confirm.

The American broadcaster cited two unnamed US officials, who said that four Russian missiles had crashed somewhere in Iran after being launched from vessels in the Caspian Sea. The report suggested that “some buildings were damaged and civilians may have been hurt.”

This triggered a quick reaction from the Russian Defense Ministry, with spokesman Igor Konashenkov saying that all the missiles had hit their targets on Wednesday. “Unlike CNN, we don’t distribute information citing anonymous sources, but show the very missile launches and the way they hit their targets almost in real time,” Konashenkov said. The spokesman pointed out that the strike targets are being photographed before and after being hit, while Russian drones are monitoring the situation from Syrian skies 24/7...."

going along with propaganda, mainstream media comes down to two things, mass appeal and ratings. substance doesnt matter all that much as long as youre getting viewers. take that snippet you had above for example: the "report" makes it sound like shits about to go down, that something went wrong with the missile strike and civilians were killed. shit like that is something i see way too often in the news, take the whole ebola scare for example, i cant remember seeing an actual, informational report on the subject the subject at all. the only things on the news pretty much were made to incite panic and make it seem like all your neighbors had ebola and the CDC were unable to do anything about the incoming ebola apocalypse. (exaggerated but you get the point)
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