Am I really allowed to use this image again so soon?!  Of course it's a fake. It still looks nice though. Put me down for #e please. Will pay shortly. txid: ba633c1b7b96609fc7ad4868d71c1fe4d719651a358076461060138bfdeb9148
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You seem to have a lot of coins! Could you please post the images of these (10) coins? I'd also be interested in the prices. I think it is generally best to post the prices in the thread to avoid redundant PMs.
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This topic has been moved to Trashcan.
Reason: Ref. link.
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If someone here is interested in collection of old coins, lemme know, I'll provide the pictures.
That truly depends on what you have, what condition they're in and how you price them. It would be best to post the names of the coins with corresponding pictures in the thread.
Update: Minor corrections. |
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#9 and another random spot please.
I've reserved number #9 and #5.. (Disclaimer: Lauda has in no way blackmailed me into entering this raffle. You can lower the gun now, thanks.)
Nicely said.
I've added all of these freebies - they will be properly distributed among the first two winners.   3 spots left! |
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Account purchased Jan 29 2016, probably.
I've notified a global moderator. Nice find. I doubt if there could be total consensus on such a controversial topic. Better to have a trial/pilot run and check the results. Post that a decision can be taken.
I was talking about consensus within the staff members which is possible as there aren't that many people involved. Currently, everyone who has participated seems to agree that this is a problem and that action needs to be taken (regardless of whether we're removing all signatures or going with a different approach). The hardest part is agreeing to the specifics (what will be done and how). Hopefully we're going to see some changes very soon as the situation is already very problematic (it wasn't this hard to find decent-quality content in 2015). |
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Could you please update the OP as soon as possible so that we know what is still available/what isn't reserved/sold? Thank you. I was also interested in the Kialara and Merlin.
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Tbh I would hate to see it go. I've been in a sig campaign for like just a couple of months. And I ask myself why I didn't try doing this sooner. I'm on these boards all the time anyway, so might as well get something going while I'm at it.
We are discussing alternatives to completely killing signatures (there's no consensus on this). The problem aren't the people that don't change their posting behavior once they enter signature campaigns (especially not the people that are actively trying to improve their linguistic skills in addition to general understanding of various topics). The problem are the people that are posting solely to gain money and the people that are spamming with several alts (account farming). |
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This topic has been moved to Trashcan.
Reason: Insubstantial duplicate. Please take a look around this sub-forum and use the Search function.
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The logic of allowing sig campaigns only in a smaller part of the forum would make it easier for campaign managers to maintain the quality of posts of their recruits. At the same time it would be easier for mods to clean up threads if needed. Spamming will be lowered overall and post quality will theoretically increase in the other parts of the forum.
I disagree with this being the result of that. Generally, most campaigns do not manage their campaigns properly not because it's "hard" (if it's hard, then find a proper manager or don't do it at all), but because they don't care. Pushing all the spam into a singular sub-forum would not make our 'job' easier as the quantity would most likely not reduce as much. Keep in mind that they would still probably spam in other sections to farm up their accounts (higher ranks = more money). But yeah, I agree with your idea of finding the right balance. Maybe it's good to test disallowing sig campaigns in the Bitcoin Discussion section for a couple of months and see how it goes.
We don't have that much time to experiment. Action should be taken now. Edit: Maybe there should be a 'no broken English allowed' rule. I know some might find it discriminatory and that's the downside.
That's near impossible to enforce consistently due to the nature of the rule. That one is based on subjective perception and would likely alter a lot dependent on the linguistic skills of every individual moderator in addition to their 'strictness' (some may find a post to be "too broken" while others may not). Generally, if you have really broken English then you should not be posting outside of your local section (you should be reading and trying to improve your skills). |
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In fact there are lots of similar threads with no other purpose than increase post count, but this is just a natural consequence of signature campaigns.
Indeed. The situation that I'm trying to improve was caused by them. There are on-going discussions (both public and private) on how to tackle this problem on a global level.
Personally, i care less-not my thread, yet I don't see ANY consistency and I SPECULATE that there ain't one.
You have to keep a few things in mind. As Blitz had been quite inactive for a while, the situation in the Speculation sub-forum has degraded severely to the point where the majority of the posts (by signature spammers) contain wording similar to this: I think it will reach X in Y time
and I think it won't reach X in Y time, but will be slower.
There posts are worthless (mostly one liners and/or used to reach a minimum criteria depending on the campaign) and used for post-padding. Additionally, there's a severe lack of reports regarding these (not the posts specifically, but rather the threads themselves. Usually, it is threads that have obviously become a spam-fest (e.g. a huge amount of pages of no value) that are prioritized in a clean up. Also, please don't forget that playing whack-a-mole with NLC is part of my daily routine here as well. I'm open to suggestions and would appreciate any input regarding this matter. |
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When people earn BTC from sig campaigns, they spend some of them mostly in gambling sites, some even save then spend them in cloud mining contracts (don't know why, most of those don't get you a ROI), others go to the market place and trade them for cash and the rest do altcoin trades. That's overall good as BTC changes hands a lot.
You do realize that the useless content that is produced by them is the reason for which people with actual knowledge regarding Bitcoin stay away from this forum? I couldn't care less about the few bucks that these spammers make and what they do with it. There are campaigns that do not care about this problem (e.g. BitMixer); thus the need to punish services that endorse spam. But what good will that bring? It will kill the small economy we have going on here.
Yes, it will bring a lot of good and no, it won't kill the economy. The people that do trades of value are usually not signature spammers. Second is that since here is a forum with different sections and different topics, many people may like to talk with each other about things that cannot be valuable in view of others but you cannot stop them.
You're wrong: We can and we will stop you. We are just debating how exactly it should be done. For example many may like to talk about if they have 10$ it is better to buy it or invest it
Go into some chat-room and talk about garbage like that there. Third is that even people who are only spamming can be fine for forum and if they leave here the forum may lose a big part of its users and its popularity.
No, you are not fine for the forum. If you leave here, nothing of value will be lost. Posts like that one are exactly what I'm talking about (I couldn't even understand the rest of it). Indeed. It was difficult the extrapolate the meaning behind the post. |
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The best part of the discussion is. Both of them are literally getting paid to fight/argue.
This is a waste of time, but I do have to/should defend myself? I do not know who Lauda is exactly and what she or he did but it can be an interesting and also dangerous to ask forum members about distributing responsibilities of the forum admins, moderators. I prefer admins who are not strict pedagogue.
I truly failed to understand the meaning of this post (I've even asked other people for interpretation). Care to elaborate? Him lying doesn't make some of his raised questions any less valid, only his motives maybe,which is besides the point.
He did raise several questions in addition to several attempts of manipulation (e.g. misrepresenting the story, making me seem like a liar, etc.). I've yet to see 1 issue that was factually true. I'm open to discuss any potential errors in moderation/possible improvements. While i agree with him on some points, in regards to Lauda, i don't. As someone nicely said above, "ethics aren't needed to follow and enforce a set of rules."
Correct. If anything, people should be surprised by the high level of impartial separation that I'm able to achieve between personal interactions (in my free time, e.g. IRL, chatroom, etc.) and my interactions on the forum. Just because I am usually not nice (I'm a realist), or I sometimes reject criticism from random people somewhere on the internet, that does not reflect the way that I handle my moderator position.
Update: Don't bother. He's on my ignore list not (just) for being a notorious sig spammer, but because he somehow makes less sense than a Markov text generator.
Understood. The post does seem awkwardly written. |
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There isn't going to be any solution to anything that would leave everyone 100% happy but I don't really care about the hurt pockets of sig spammers complaining they've got less places to easily spam in.
Any changes, regardless of what they affect, usually leave some people unhappy. We should not be concerned by this. Not always easy to judge and enforce consistently. Lauda might have a different opinion on what thread is trash to me etc and if he is removing threads only started by newbies it can lead to inconsistency and people complaining.
Indeed. Unless enforced on a "global" level by senior staff members (global moderators and admins), it is surely going to be inconsistent to a certain agree. However, it is impossible to make it 100% consistent (a certain degree of inconsistency should be acceptable). However, keep in mind that it should be acceptable for section moderators to enforce it within their sub-board (similar to what gruez did with off-topic). I don't think threads like what would you do with 1-2-5-10-100 bitcoins need to be here or at the least should be moved to off topic.
(IMO) Those threads are, per definition, garbage. It might be annoying to sig spammers and if shitposters leave because of it then good. Mission accomplished.
Correct. Using something in the lines of "I would leave" or "some would leave" is an invalid argument. This is something I've suggested. I know a big peeve of DannyHamilton is people giving bad advice/help so maybe we could disable sigs in the main Bitcoin Discussion and Technical Help subs.
Bitcoin Discussion has pretty much degraded to being a waste of time (at least for the majority of the thread). Also, a huge amount of spammers attempt to give advise which usually is partially correct or just nonsense. This is also quite annoying. |
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This is a reputation issue, not a forum one (meta). I like the irony in this one (pictured taken from trust ratings on your profile): 
Update: I did say something constructive, and which was that the thread was placed in the wrong sub-forum. It is currently in the right one, and no the screenshot isn't off-topic either. |
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This topic has been moved to Trashcan.
Reason: This thread serves no purpose anymore, except for spamming and post padding. All future threads that end up like this will be removed.
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Bitcoins are based on math, but the price is based on trust and beliefs. Math gives us bitcoins, but not the price. The price depends on supply and demand.
Do you see OP mentioning the price? Do you see others talking about the price? No. This clearly seems to be a misunderstanding by some. Keep in mind that there are also people that aren't really concerned with the price of Bitcoin in fiat equivalent (e.g. myself). |
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