I don't expect Admin to remove Flags, theymos only said he'll work on removing them from DT, and these users aren't anywhere near DT.

I made BBCode for this in my Trust Flag viewer:

You don't need a new account for that. To view any page as DT, just add ;dt to the url: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;dt

Several DT1-members are excluded by other DT1-members. That means they don't really count as DT1-members anymore. Details: see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;dtview

If anything other than random is used, it'll end up with the same set of DT1-members each month. Theymos want it to be more dynamic, and also give newer users a chance to reach DT1.

There are much more account farmers and spammers with old high-ranking accounts, than valuable users. But if you see old valuable posts, please use Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source.

There are thousands of those, and almost all of them will struggle with the same problem. The old system, in which spam threads won, wasn't fair either.

The Merit system was created in January last year. Being around longer doesn't necessarily mean earning more Merit: many old users barely earned any Merit, and some much newer users earned a lot.

I took a look at your topic, and it looks exactly the same as thousands of other shitcoins.

The problem with Activity level is that account farmers can and will farm thousands of accounts to do this.
A paid bump option could actually work: the forum knows the current bump score of each topic. Based on that, it could offer a certain price to instantly reach a certain bump score and thus a certain position on the board. After that, the normal bump decay would apply again.
Maybe $10 to be on top and a bit less to be half-way the first page? If the forum offers a paid option, it could take business away from commercial bumping services.

Does it have to be python? Bash command comm does exactly what you need:

I don't know how fast a Python loop would be, but the above code takes about 0.05 seconds for 2 files with 50,000 lines each.

Lol, 888 lasted 1 minute 33 seconds only

Must .... resist .... the ... urge ...

I would have liked to post 4444 here, but I skipped it when I went from 4443 straight to 4445:

Next stop: 5000

Have you searched for existing tools? I have no experience making this, but a quick Google search shows many "automation tools for LinkedIn" and "LinkedIn bots" shows there are many options. This might be a better solution than having someone start from scratch.

I can imagine a ban, apart from the loss of signature revenue, makes someone care less about the forum. As dumb as it sounds for some website on the internet, after spending several years here I'd really be hurt if it happened to me.

Xenrise was on my ignore list already, that's not a good sign for post quality. I'm surprised he qualified for a signature ban though, I thought unbans were reserved for people who make a net positive contribution to the forum, and I don't think someone who earned 1 Merit for a deleted post contributes much.

Search for ". Legendary " (excluding quotes) on my A wave of bans-topic, you'll probably recognize many more names.

When I joined my first signature campaign, I had made 145 posts in 11.5 months. I didn't even expect to reach the minimum requirement of 50 posts per month. I was a Mod on the site at that time, and that's why I joined the campaign.
However, I started posting more, and if anything, knowing that guitarplinker checks my posts made me very aware of the need for quality.
It all boils down to the signature campaign manager: if someone is paying for spam, there'll always be someone willing to spam.

As far as I know, most signature compaign managers don't have access to this data. The few campaigns I've managed ended quickly because they didn't deliver enough new users.

Many people keep their Bitcoin on exchanges. Top 100 Richest Bitcoin Addresses shows a few billion dollars worth of Bitcoin in cold storage owned by exchanges.
Once LN becomes mainstream, I can imagine the people who store their funds on exchanges, won't have any problem using the same exchange to make their payments. Currently thats not a viable option because withdrawal fees are much higher compared to using your own wallet.
I imagine a future in which exchanges keep a couple million dollar worth of Bitcoin in their LN hot wallet, and many people use the exchange to make their small payments without ever needing to fund a LN channel on their own.
Say: paying from exchange to VPS provider, paying from exchange to buy a coffee, or paying from exchange to fund a balance on website x. The exchange, VPS provider, and website x will run their own LN-node. The coffee bar will most likely use a large payment processor that runs their own LN-node.

There are already custodial LN wallets, but they still need to earn their trust. If a large exchange would provide their own convenient (mobile) wallet, I'd love to use it!

As long as it's optional, I'm totally fine with that! I want to be able to use Bitcoin for small transactions, and for small amounts I don't mind trusting someone.

Is it really Bitcoin in which you and only you are in full control of your private keys? No.
Do I care for small amounts as long as I can make small payments without paying several dollars in fees? Hell no!

I think you underestimate the volume of mixers: Bitmixer for instance processed 65,000 BTC per month. I'm not sure how much they charged, but at just 1% you're looking at 650 BTC revenue per month.

It was I couldn't even reach my webhoster's client area to open a ticket. But it's up again

And there I was just thinking it's been problem free for a long time.

I kinda like it, this means one user's post can only keep a thread up for at most 36 hours, while his next post has to be at least 7 days later for another bump.
Superbumps don't have that limitation, by bumping every day one user can actually keep a thread on top.

Can you show some examples of those posts? Chances are you're talking about generic insubstantial posts, those should get deleted.

As long as the post itself is on-topic and understandable, grammer shouldn't matter much:

First: this is the wrong board.

The forum doesn't approve or disapprove escrows, the community does. You can only base your trust on their past actions, so check their feedback (including "untrusted" feedback) and make your own judgement whether or not you trust someone.
I would advise not to use someone without escrow experience as an escrow.

My last channel took around 2400 satoshi to close. It depends on the Bitcoin fees at the moment of closing (Sunday mornings are usually cheapest).

Apart from the typo: be very careful with QR Code generators and Bitcoin: many are scams!

Good luck Promoting LN is good

Two weeks to go, give it time

It's quite easy, as I also keep a file on each thread (and each user) too. But it's not finished yet, so it's not uploaded yet.
I do take requests though, so here's everything I have on Green New Deal: http://loyce.club/archive/topics/5180324.html

Note that these are unedited posts, scraped within seconds after posting. Any edits made are lost on me, and forum Admin doesn't keep unedited posts if it was edited within 10 minutes.

I don't expect Admin to get involved, unless it's a mistake made by a moderator. I stand by my data though

I missed ~8 hours of data, but that happened before OP's thread:

Since I was summoned on this, I'll post here. I think you're looking for this:
It's not deleted, but I scraped it anyway.

I have no idea what this is all about