Much appreciated recommendations. I'll take a look.

Hello,

I have been away from the forum for a while and a bit out of the loop.

Could someone recommend currently active signature designers (or can some signature designers reply here, perhaps)? I did check the other boards for announcements but it's a bit like finding a needle in a haystack.

I'd prefer people with a good track record and that I can check their work somewhere.

Thank you.

There is functionality deep down in the source code to get the actual posts that were made after starting point of round. However, I have not had time to implement that yet.

But your concerns are correct and at this time, it is required to manually check deleted posts and adjust them. But the idea is that the CSV file that is generated from the program can be easily modified.

I will use it to manage a campaign soon but other testers are encouraged. As I mentioned, it's still new software and has not been tested in any real situation yet.

I do not, at the moment, but I will shortly.

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I decided to release a Python tool open-source instead.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5456485

It currently only calculates posts based on profile information but I can add other functionality with quite little effort. Now, an added bonus is that everyone else can improve it too!

GitHub: https://github.com/theboxxob/bct-campaign-manager

Donations: bc1p6yuzqkl5csrjgwqtzlws38css8ruasjdz6pt37drg40778e9rp0qjyku8h

The program is still in its very early stages and may contain bugs.

I am proud to announce a software to help campaign managers here on Bitcointalk to do their job more efficiently.

It is completely open-source and free of charge. However, donations are always welcome.

The Python utility is aimed at campaign managers who manage any type of campaign on Bitcointalk that relies on their participants to make posts on the forum. It can support multiple campaigns at once. Each campaign contains information about participants that can be added and removed. New campaign rounds can be started by a simple command which will take the participants from the campaign and fetch their current post count, activity and merit. When campaign round has ended, the utility will automatically fetch the information again and calculate difference from the start

Additionally, managers can export round data to CSV.

I would very much like if people gave it a go to test and let me know about any potential improvements or issues. Additional features will certainly be needed and I will implement them to the best of my ability but it will also depend on whether or not the project has users.

A more detailed description of the program can be found at its Github repository.

You may misunderstand what my proposed service would do.

Consider a scenario:

A campaign manager is managing a campaign where posts are counted weekly. They have 20 participants. At the weeks end they need to count and check quality of each post of each participant.

At a push of a button, my service will end the current week, count and put together posts made in that week for each participant. Now, the manager can open my website and check and mark each post accepted or rejected there. At the end, the system will automatically calculate how many posts each person made. Then, another press of a button and output Excel or other format is generated.

Easy. No more having multiple tabs of user posts open, no more checking quality separately and marking accepted or denied in a separate excel.

That's what I am proposing. With much more possible features.

EDIT: Just to clarify, I do not propose that managers don't check quality. I propose that they can do it easier and quicker at one spot for every participant.

Initially I was going to just make this for myself for convenience. However, it kind of got out of hand. I've got a bunch of it figured out and now I'm just working on implementing the backend. The idea is to make it be as little manual labor for myself as possible and as easy for the campaign manager as possible. As such, I could charge quite little and benefit managers by quite a bit.

@LoyceV I've also already figured out automatically fetching posts and user profiles so incase you want to collaborate, I'm open for that too.

Thanks for your input. Having managed campaigns myself, it takes time to pull up user profile, going through posts and making a distiction where previous round ended. With this, one could easily check the posts and only the posts for that specific campaign round and then evaluate quality in the same spot. It would all be done in the same spot and there's no need to fill a spreadsheet in the side. Practically, the value is in that it will save time.

I hear your thoughts regarding AI but I do not think we are there yet. The problem with AI is that it cannot really think for itself (yet). So, as a campaign manager or participant I would still feel the need to double check the result which takes about as much effort as doing it yourself. The question is whether or not AI can do it, of course it can do it. Question is how well. With that being said, AI is a great assistant for simple tasks.

Mods: I do not object to this thread being moved to discussion board.

Reserved.

Hello,

I am currently working on a project to assist campaign managers by doing the heavy lifting for them i.e. automatically counting posts and displaying them in an user interface so the manager can easily view the posts, reject posts etc.

With my proposed idea campaign managers could easily:

• Keep track of campaigns & campaign rounds
• Add new campaigns
• Start and end new campaign rounds and manage participants
• Count posts automatically
• View participant activity by campaign or round
• Accept & reject posts
• Export data to CSV, Excel etc.

I could also add features to automatically count payments to be made etc. The managers could also share links to the website for their campaign participants. The idea is that the amount of repetitive, manual tasks would be minimized and managers could focus on the relevant things i.e. post quality and other campaign goals. With what I have in mind, it could also be easy to make sure participants keep their signatures the entire round.

I need opinions of campaign managers regarding features they would need from such a service and if they would benefit from it.

We have had and will not have problems paying users who have won fair and square. However, in this kind of a case it's a bit of a grey area. He attempted to scam for which he got banned. If he returned that 0.04 ETH he didn't pay back, obviously there wouldn't be an issue processing any and all withdrawals but we all know that won't happen.

It was an overlook by developers. Ban prevented withdraw but not playing. We couldn't do anything about that unfortunately. Perhaps we could agree that returning the doge he had before being banned might be fair to return but all in all he still caused a loss of 0.04 ETH to the support person that helped him and not even the entire 300+ DOGE would cover that.

The story goes like this:

We had some deposit issues around a year ago and he had a pending deposit. A support person offered to help him by sending an equal amount to his (benhames500 on the website) address. The amount of 0.28 ETH was sent to his address. The deal was that he sends the amount back as soon as the deposit clears. When the deposit did clear, Benhames500 lost a bit over 0.04 ETH betting (he was banned as that prevents him withdrawing but unfortunately we weren't able to prevent him betting). The support person, whose ETH was sent to him, asked him to return the funds then. He said he didn't have enough ethereum off the site and thus he offered to tip the remaining 0.24 ETH on his account to the support person if we unbanned him so that he was able to do so. After we unbanned him, he tried to withdraw the full amount. We caught it and didn't allow that. He didn't respond to our message on support after that.

Fast forward 3 months, Benhames500 is back asking why is withdrawal hasn't been processed. He probably thought we had forgotten. We told him it won't be processed because he scammed the support person who kindly offered to help with their own money.

Now, yesterday he came to us acting confused why his account is banned and I had forgotten what happened so he was briefly unbanned and then tried to withdraw funds he had won with some remaining balance he had in the account. He lost right to those funds when he attempted to scam (and actually successfully caused a loss of 0.04 ETH to the person that tried to help him).

Here is the txid of funds that was sent to him: https://etherscan.io/tx/0x22de46953f891d08333c27e2c382a310f016573c41d7c6c055a390cf64e4cdc9

Here is his attempted withdrawal:


Conversation about him being supposed to tip the ETH:


Him asking later about withdrawal:

The story goes like this:

We had some deposit issues around a year ago and he had a pending deposit. A support person offered to help him by sending an equal amount to his (benhames500 on the website) address. The amount of 0.28 ETH was sent to his address. The deal was that he sends the amount back as soon as the deposit clears. When the deposit did clear, Benhames500 lost a bit over 0.04 ETH betting (he was banned as that prevents him withdrawing but unfortunately we weren't able to prevent him betting). The support person, whose ETH was sent to him, asked him to return the funds then. He said he didn't have enough ethereum off the site and thus he offered to tip the remaining 0.24 ETH on his account to the support person if we unbanned him so that he was able to do so. After we unbanned him, he tried to withdraw the full amount. We caught it and didn't allow that. He didn't respond to our message on support after that.

Fast forward 3 months, Benhames500 is back asking why is withdrawal hasn't been processed. He probably thought we had forgotten. We told him it won't be processed because he scammed the support person who kindly offered to help with their own money.

Now, yesterday he came to us acting confused why his account is banned and I had forgotten what happened so he was briefly unbanned and then tried to withdraw funds he had won with some remaining balance he had in the account. He lost right to those funds when he attempted to scam (and actually successfully caused a loss of 0.04 ETH to the person that tried to help him).

Here is the txid of funds that was sent to him: https://etherscan.io/tx/0x22de46953f891d08333c27e2c382a310f016573c41d7c6c055a390cf64e4cdc9

Here is his attempted withdrawal:


Conversation about him being supposed to tip the ETH:


Him asking later about withdrawal:

Yeah you can enter any amount, actually trying to bet will tell. Max profit on bitcoin is somewhere around 5 BTC per dice bet.

It will notify you if you try to bet so that potential win would be above the max profit. It's currently not possible to check it without attempting to bet a high amount or alternatively trying to bet a high multiplier like x990000 with a decently high bet amount so that the potential win is very high.

I haven't been told that there won't be a new report so I would imagine there will be one sooner than later but I don't know for sure.

The ICO money didn't end up to me so you're barking at the wrong tree. I just work as customer support for BitDice. However, I am doing what I can to help investors communicate with the management but I am not in a position to force them to do anything. All I can do and have done is emphasize to them how important it would be to improve communication and get a new report out.

That issue was fixed as soon as we could. It was because of problems with the withdraw system and had nothing to do with cryptocurrency prices.

Snatch has received an update and should now work on more devices.