You're right, it doesn't, but lets look at this objectively. Does he have any real reason to so this, and then spam message various people about it? I can't be certain for sure but I'd lean towards his account being compromised in some way as it doesn't really make sense to me why he would do this. Of course I could be wrong but he knew he would make a lot of enemies/lose friends here and also probably compromise the reputation of his account in the process. Take note of nutildah's post above as well about the smiley etc. I think he just got stung here. The question now is who hacked his account because that is some pretty shady stuff over some petty shit.

Quarters might be but not the rest of the games before it:



I would have liked to watch all those matches. I'll probably watch the City/Madrid and Barca/Napoli as I think those will be more entertaining/closer.


What about City's pedigree? They've been on fire recently as well. I wouldn't be surprised if Real went through but it's going to be a hell of a tough game for them playing away and also with a goal deficit to get past. Isn't Ramos suspended as well. Either way my money is on City here.

But then you don't have access to that account if he ever changes the password. Maybe he gave the account over to someone else for proof, and then they took the screenshots and screen recording. A lot of this doesn't make sense. Why would he go that far to shit on LFC even providing a video to remove any doubt people may have had?


What's the proof for that though? Looks to just be sign-up dates unless I'm missing something, which could lead to false positives.


Yeah, that did look like it came from a third party. Does anyone talk to him off-forum anywhere? Probably best to try get his version of events from there if his account has been compromised in whatever way.

First thing I thought when I saw that that it may have been compromised.


I suppose it is plausible it was hacked, though I guess both scenarios are. I'm not sure why BitcoinGirl.Club would expose this to a newbie though. Why would he do that's and what's in it for him, especially when I thought those two were pals at least? He just spammed a PM to 14+ people as well which seems odd and is asking for trouble if someone reports it.

Theymos mentioned before he didn't want to do sponsored/prioritised or stickied posts, hence why I suggested the sub board ads as a compromise.


Yes.


I dunno. This forum is pretty liberal when it comes to staff and normally people get away with more than they should, but I guess some people feel censored whenever they have any post removed even it if was against the rules. I've seen people hysterically cry over having a ref link removed or even claim having their thread moved to the correct sub board is 'censorship'.

The forum has - if I recall correctly - over a million dollars in reserve. Besides, the donations don't pay mods; it's from ad revenue.


The staff payments are just encouragement to stay around and keep working. Without some form of compensation most mods would probably fizzle away eventually, or the work they do would take a backseat. I've moderated a few boards before and I've never been paid on those ones, and mods get tired eventually or just disappear. It's often a thankless task and you're more likely to make more enemies than friends but getting paid is a good reason to stay around and do a good job.


I'm not sure what the current situation with the forum development  is. There was a team I believe that was hired but I don't know whether they're still involved or to what capacity.


We could add different/new donator ranks. Many of us have suggested things like Silver and Gold Memberships. Personally I think they would be very popular/lucrative and would also curb account sales as people would just buy the membership instead of risking it buying an account which is already a shady market.


You don't need to use google ads. Theymos doesn't seem keen on adding additional revenue sources anyway, but you could just add more banners here if you wanted more income from adverts. As I suggested before, having one at the top of sub boards would be lucrative and companies can target what areas they want to advertise in ie a gambling company would advertise in a gambling board.


I'm not sure what that means.

Currently, yes. I'm not sure what it was banned for though. Maybe someone else does. No person will be able to use the account unless the ban is lifted. Admins can over-turn it so maybe contact theymos and cyrus with the signed message and details and maybe they will remove the ban or at least return the account to you. Don't spam them about it though.

Not sure I would have told everyone you went to prison but I guess at least you're honest. That account is banned though so probably useless to you really. Not sure what it's banned for but it's probably out of action forever unless you can convince an admin to give you it back. Maybe theymos will see this thread and chime in but your chances of getting it back are slim, and it is currently unusbale unless it's unbanned, though I guess if you just wanted access to it it might be achievable.

This is a public discussion forum. If you're worried about your privacy you shouldn't be posting things that can identify you but if you're that concerned about privacy you shouldn't be posting them to a message board hidden or not because they can be intercepted in a number or ways. If you want to do this either hold things in a draft, message them to yourself or even better just keep a digital notepad with this stuff written down but I don't see the point of having it as a forum feature.


But regardless of whether we allowed this feature or not some users would still decide at later date that they might now want they posted to be available. People are free to delete them but people should be careful whatever they post online as once it's out there it's likely there forever as some site or another will likely be indexing or archiving it.

All payments have been sent apart from tomahawk's and BitcoinGirl.Club's which I've messaged them about. I'll try get a the new pool up and running over the weekend but might be sometime next week. 3 companies offered sponsorship deals but all are slightly different with certain caveats so just trying to get the best deal for us all.

For those in the Champion's League pool don't forget that starts up this time next week.

Nobody has to chair it, or the op of the thread could. A thread is created and anyone can ask a question in there. People can read the thread to see if there's any dupes. Whoever is nominated can either choose to answer as many as they want or all if necessary and they can answer them when they're ready. As with AMAs not all questions get answered but just ones they feel penitent and they certainly wouldn't be an obligation to do so. I think this would be better than an reddit AMA actually as questions likely won't get lost amongst the melee and instead of answering them on the fly and in a rush the person in question can take some time to think about their answers or what questions they even want to answer at all.  

Depends on what sort of contract they have though. They could have a termination upon relegation clause or significantly reduce their payment. It would make sense for Sportsbet to do that as the drop off in terms of viewership and sponsorship deals between the PL and Championship is staggering.

PS. Can you PM your address for the winnings. Still a couple of users who need to do so.


Just keep an eye on this thread or Games and Rounds as I'll post it both here and there soon once I've paid out all the winners and sorted the sponsorship deal out.

This seems just like a reddit AMA aka Ask Me Anything. I don't think it would be a bad idea, though I think it should be voluntary. It would be interesting if a nominated user could set a day where they have a few hours to answer questions 'live' from any user, or maybe even better just let users post their questions in advance maybe over a week and that person could answer the ones they want at some point when they have time. Theymos isn't that active in posting especially of late and it's often difficult to get an answer from him on certain things either in public or private (though I haven't tried in a while) so maybe this sort of AMA would be a good idea for forum users to get answers to certain questions they have. I'm sure there are many things users would want to know like what's the eta on the new forum, or will new ranks ever be added etc and there were plenty of suggestions that both I and other users made in the Community generated suggestions thread and it would be interesting to know if he's thought any more about these or even changed his mind, but maybe theymos doesn't want to answer these questions as to not put a deadline on himself etc. Still, it would be nice to get updates or clarifications on some things.

I've enjoyed reading all the interviews. I don't know if zasad@ does it to everyone but he gave me the option of posting it myself. I think it would be better it users posted their own so you can merit them if you like their answers. If you wanna merit zasad@ for the questions then just toss some in the op.


At least two  , just like me. He's mostly abandoned that account probably because there's no money in it for him but he's happily still posting away from PrimeNumber7.


Well he was last active a little over month ago so he probably pops in from time to time. I think some people won't ever leave this forum no matter how many bans they get or accounts get tarnished. For some people it's just too lucrative to give up and I can't really blame them. PrimeNumber7 has risen through the ranks quite quickly but people like QS know what to do to achieve that efficiently. I'm sure aTriz would too.

Well, unless they've got a clause in the contract that says they can terminate the deal upon relegation, or significantly reduce payments. A lot of sponsorship deals and even players contracts have clauses like this. There's a huge drop off in terms of viewership between the PL and the Championship so that is often reflected in the various deals and deals can be lost upon relegation or payments significantly reduced. It would kinda be silly on the sponsors part not to have them really. The PL is the most watched league in the world, whereas the Championship probably doesn't get much attention in the grand scheme of things, so that's a lot of eyeballs missing and less eyeballs means less exposure for your brand.

Real shame about Watford going down. I was kinda rooting for them to stay up as it was nice seeing the BTC logo on their sleeve, but they just didn't have the quality to stay up. Ended up watching the Man U game but it was shit. Wish I'd have gone with my first choice of the Watford game as they nearly came back to grab a point but with Villa getting a point it would have been futile anyway.


Told you it wasn't worth it. Went for a draw on the Spurs game on the predictor pool but at 0-0. Didn't do great on the rest myself though  . If anyone wants to join the upcoming 2020/21 Premier League Pool look out for it in Games and Rounds next week or PM me and I'll send you a reminder once it goes live.

Goddammit, fifth all the way down to 8th. Yellow cap was won by DeathAngel but by only 14 points so not enough to clinch a consolation prize so at least I won something:

hilariousandco          20.5          7

examplens               19.5          24

tomahawk9              18.5          20

bigdaddy                  17.5          11

famLFC                    17            12

Shame about Watford going down. I'll miss seeing the BTC logo on their shirts. I wonder if it'll still be there next season in the Championship.

Godamn superbru:



I guess the site is lagging as everyone is on it right now trying to check their final scores. I did pretty shit from what I can tell but there was a lot of unexpected results so I might have still held on to 5th place but I'm not so sure. I was still there when I last checked shortly after full time but I'm not sure if all the games had finished and superbru had updated. It's often a bit behind. Mbit got the score right on the Man U game so he might have overtaken me. The Man U game was shit. Wish I'd had switched over at half time.

There might be some players who need another game to collect a medal as well. There's some minimum games played I think required to be eligible.


Why even put this on for such a small return. I agree those teams should win and I would back most of them if I had to, but look at what's to play for. Liverpool have already won the league and they're playing away. Spurs are also playing away and I wouldn't really trust them to win comfortably right now. Chelsea are playing Wolves who are trying to hold onto their Europa spot. Man City should stuff Norwich but maybe they might field an alternative team to give some other players a game. Even so they'll still likely thrash them but maybe Norwich will want to give a good performance for their fans for their final performance in the Premier League.  Too risky for not enough return for me.

I'm sure we can get at least 30. Most players will probably return and a few will naturally drop out, but there's over two months to recruit new sign-ups. Maybe the sponsor will push the pool a bit as well I dunno.


I think 40-50 users would be ideal. 40 players at 0.005 is 0.2 plus the 0.1 sponsorship so that would be nice. I don't think it would be great if there were too many players as that would obviously decrease your chances of winning but if the pool did get much bigger I suppose I could pay for the top ten spots. 5-10 would probably only be essentially smaller consolation prizes though. I'd like to bump up the highest round consolation prizes if I can as well though for a little more incentive to keep playing your best.


Well it will likely be between £25-£37.50 with the latter being 0.005 currently. Ideally I'd like to try keep it at 0.0005 as it's nice figure and makes it less complicated to split the prizes nicely.