The yobit stats mostly helped yahoo to remove users from the campaign. I don't think mods looked into it. They get the post reports and delete those posts, so not sure what other case could be possibly built here.

Yobit paid per post for a large number (100?) of posts. 1xbit payment is flat rate for a minimum is 20 posts per week and if you look at the spreadsheet they are all trying to make 20-21-22 posts. So there's less spam in absolute numbers but they're clearly posting only to get paid and most of the posts are useless.

Please don't feed the trollface.

Dude has everything. Goes out on top. GOAT forever.

Versus gambling for one more SB ring or a possible injury or just having a bad frustrating season and tarnishing his stats/reputation/etc.

I hope Gisele puts her foot down and keeps him retired. As for money, he can still make many millions with ads and merchandise and maybe working in broadcasting or coaching or whatever tickles him.

Any local rules rarely if ever get enforced in Meta but that's a whole other story. This rule by itself is not ambiguous or subjective or otherwise unenforceable if moderators chose to do so.

As I said in the other thread, 1xbiters are spamming like crazy and most of them should have been banned already. There is no quality control whatsover - campaign manager obviously doesn't care about spam and they're all red-trusted (participants and manager). What's worse is that reporting those posts - besides being a waste of time - actually helps 1xbit save money because they don't pay the participants when enough posts get deleted to put them under 20 for the week. The only hope is that spammers may eventually stop spamming if they don't get paid for a few weeks but it's possible that others would take their place.

But at least everyone's busy - spammers, reporters, mods... Forget discussing Bitcoin, the real purpose of the forum is trying to protect scammer's feelings LOL.

Simple - ban signatures that link to 1xbit site(s).


I would argue that we should use our collective brain and realize that allowing such malicious scammers like Yobit (which did happen) and 1xbit (which didn't for some reason) to continue screwing with this forum has no upside. They are not here to discuss Bitcoin, they're here only to spam the shit out of it. And we're pretending that rules are set in stone and there is nothing anyone could possibly do because rules and regulations don't allow it. Doesn't get much more snowflaky than that.

BTW theymos the hands-off guy did ban 1xbit from buying forum ads so there's that. He also e.g. bans users doxing him but not users doxing other people with no trade disputes. So there's rules and there's different rules.

Yes. I have reported probably close to a thousand 1xbit posts over the last week and most of them have been deleted but as far as I can tell not a single user has been banned even though vast majority of their posts are utter meaningless drivel. There are users creating posts in 1-2 minute intervals, likely sockpuppet farms because these posts come in bursts at certain times of day. Signature ban? No. Just ban. Not holding my breath though.


There is no slippery slope or some other fallacious reason for these users to exist here. This is not about scamming or other misguided notions that we can't possibly clean this forum up. They're useless shitposters.

And BTW the whole "scams are not moderated" copout makes no sense when (a) we expect users to wade through the rivers of shit flowing here and figure out what's what on their own - ok, fair enough, bitcoiners are supposed to be smart LOL, but at the same time (b) we think that the same users are dumb enough to think that if SOME scammers are banned etc then the forum is responsible for ALL scams. Pick a lane, are we smart enough or not.

But I digress. This is just spam, regardless of what shitty casino they're promoting.

Well, it was ENCRYPTED so what could possibly go wrong?  


Which is slightly chilling TBH but not very surprising.

According to messieurs Hanlon and Occam, this happens more often than you'd think. Keep in mind that only the stupid ones get caught and posted on the dot gov site. The ones that get away... well, they get away and we never know how they did it. So there is a huge inherent bias in how we interpret this type of news.

It's a real pickle for these two now. Assuming they laundered 25k for the actual thieves, said thieves will probably want them dead before they get to snitch.

"files within an online account [...] contained the private keys" LOL

I guess it's a good thing that criminals are idiots.

Oh no, what happened here... looks like you shitheads NEED POST MORE

Actually no, you need to stop posting this garbage (i.e. get banned) but until that happens deleting your posts is the next best thing we have.

Yeah, who could have thought that a scam could be profitable

1xbit is a scam site. If you promote it in your signature you will likely get red trust and will not be able to join any other signature campaign. Not that most of you could be accepted anywhere else anyway. But don't cry later that you haven't been warned.

To guide chemtrail dispensers obviously.

Ouch, no scam payment this week, or will you post more garbage to make the quota?

If your scammy "employer" doesn't care about the utter shit you're producing, that doesn't mean you can just keep posting illiterate drivel without repercussions.

Everyone knows that fires always end so what's the big deal. Just wait it out. Smoke detectors seem like some sort of millennial contraption for people who think they must know immediately if a fire starts even in the middle of the night, and wake the whole neighborhood.

I think it's more about the caricature-like symbols that accompany the name, rather than the name itself. Feather headdress, tomahawk chop, etc. If the teams were able to rebrand themselves and refocus their fans away from those stereotypes, I think the would be far less debate about the names. There are definitely ways to spin the PR machine to make those names sound as "tribute" or something like that.

Not porn. Just a cartoon/comedy loosely related to Star Trek.

That's not how burden of proof works. The person making the claim, i.e. you, should provide proof instead of demanding that I run around your constantly moving goalposts and do your work for you. I gave you the data on excess deaths. You dismissed it "because CDC" but forgot to post the non-CDC uber-reliable and trustworthy data showing otherwise.