You made so many mistakes believing all this BS. When unsure, follow your gut feeling. How can this not raise red flags?

Yes. But make sure you get the private key complete before funding it.

Everything is risky if you do it wrong. So make sure you know what you're doing before doing it, or use a low amount for testing until you're comfortable.
However, unless you've created your private key offline on a system that won't go online again, this address won't be a cold wallet. It's basically as (in)secure as your current (hot) computer.

A tutorial to using Bitcoin goes beyond the scope of this topic, and there are enough of those around already. In short, importing a private key in Electrum works smoothly.

I'm wondering why you're stating the obvious: the address is posted in public, of course anyone can link it to an account now. But even if you create a vanity address by yourself, if you use your username for it, it's still quite obvious.

I guess you didn't read the part about the maximum length for this giveaway (what you're asking would take me centuries to find). I got you this instead:
Address: 1WorngLSbH9uvjg9cDhSdV291F5ZXetrj (Balance: )
PrivkeyPart: 5JwxiqwmMynqCahLw2uhLAeT4Eqk2kTMBZGVzcC3poEBUQywRM5

Thanks, it works again! I had to edit 4 files (the 404's have a slightly different description).

I didn't archive posts yet when that topic was created. I scraped the posts later, the first post for instance is archived as oldposts #31577013. I have those posts only sorted by msgID, not by topicID. I'm currenly processing all data, but at the rate it's going, it's going to take a few weeks to complete. It's not very efficient, and therefore takes a lot of processing power.
I only now realize I should also process these posts per userID, and I should have done that from the start, so I'll have to restart this. It'll takes a bit longer again
Stuff like this would be so much easier from a database, but luckily I'll only have to do this once (more).

I checked what I wrote:
So for topicID 178336, remove the last 4 digits to get the directory name. That gives directory 17. Add a slash, the topicID and .html to get https://loyce.club/archive/topics/17/178336.html.

So you don't need to take the first 3 digits, you need to remove the last 4 digits. The logic behind this is that I create directories with at most 10,000 files.
I checked for a few userIDs too, those seem to work fine.

Thanks again! Don't worry about the leap second, it's still pretty good timing

It does matter: once word gets out you're meeting Bitcointalk members "in the area", a $5 wrench attacker could easily register for just that purpose.

I wonder the same when watching Gold Rush on the Discovery channel. They're in the middle of nowhere with loads of gold.

There are probably still people out there who hate me from the days I was a Mod at Rollin's Chatter Box. That's one of the reasons I like my privacy.

I'd be curious to meet people, but I know from past (dating) experience it's usually not how you expect people to be

I don't think that's possible, but you can do your share by applying to be an observer (this is just the first link I found on the subject).
In a way counting votes is a form of crowd sourcing

Maybe. I've sometimes had reports marked as "bad" while I disagree with it. When in doubt, you can try reporting it again.
If you're worried about your report accuracy, remember this: "Do not worry about your accuracy too much".

Out of thousands of reports I'm sometimes wrong, and I can't blame Mods for making mistakes sometimes too.

On second thought:
I don't think not following the exact format makes it off-topic. If OP wanted that, he could have made the thread self-moderated.
I'd let it go, then again, I barely visit the Off-topic board anyway.

Who's alt are you? There was another attempt at betnomi's reputation last month. Something fishy indeed.

I have them for everyone (and I did include the source link to find them), here's yours:

Your post is considered advertising here, which isn't allowed.
However, it doesn't look like the typical spammer, so instead of reporting it, I suggest you remove it yourself and create a new topic on the Service Announcements board.

The Reference link doesn't exist. My archived version shows one off-topic post made by colires (and you broke bumping rules by bumping 4 times on November 10). I see no reason to support a Flag here. I don't trust screenshots (unless from a trusted source), especially when made on Telegram.
I've Opposed your Flag.

I found a bug If I search for topicID 178336 on https://loyce.club/archive/topics/, it gives https://loyce.club/archive/topics/178/178336.html instead of https://loyce.club/archive/topics/17/178336.html. It works fine for longer topicIDs.

I have a better link for this:
https://loyce.club/archive/details/topic_5211374.html

Report it so a Mod locks one? I don't know if that would prevent the user from unlocking it again though.

Just post this link to highlight them: https://loyce.club/archive/details/topic_5287374.html (it updates a few seconds after you post it).

Let's see what you posted: https://loyce.club/archive/details/topic_5287553.html

Let me put it this way: if anyone claims to be me, ask for a signed message as explained here. You won't get it, so get the tar and feathers ready

No.

That was my idea, on live TV, so we can see their faces as their balance goes up

Seriously though, there are so many things that can go wrong. Paper is much easier and can be checked by much more people than any electronic solution.

It may end up like "The DAO": all "experts" think it's safe, "normal" people have no idea how it really works, and one guy called "The Attacker" really knows how it works and fools them all.