It's your baseless point. Why close? Altcoin board is important part of the forum. The problem is spam, not the board. Better signature campaign manager like DarkStar_ or off signature from the forum. And what's the source of the spam? If we test a signature ban for a month... the forum would look a lot better. But if we delete the Altcoin board... then you'll see everything scatter to the other sections. It's like the case with investor-based games and gambling discussion. The boards house the spam.  |
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I'm not a fan of associating the most granular form of Bitcoin as "BS".  This symbol is pretty cool: 𝕊 |
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Here are the list of possibilities, all bad. 1) Withdrawal system does not work. Very bad. 2) Withdrawal system was not tested and has bugs. Very bad. 3) Bitcoin balance is less than the requested withdrawal amount. Very bad.
Unless we have a better reason for these failures? |
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I know theymos was considering badges for spam-reporting members. Might be interesting to consider some way of punishment or a badge for people who are reputed spammers (e.g. people of whom at least 50 - or some number - of their posts have been positively marked as spam), since I understand banning is not the most preferred solution. Could leverage BPIP to find some of the members with > N posts. I currently have a list on my thread with all users who have had at least 10 good reports on them.
Considering Bitcoin Discussion would be one of the first things that a new visitor would check out... should we concentrate efforts on that board? |
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BTC🚀
💥
The only emojis that matter.
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I was quite young when I started with this but do you not remember putting things in terms of 0.00000001 got extremely confusing.
Maybe a symbol for mbtc or microbtc would be interesting since a few microbtc are worth cents now... mBTC, μBTC? Alternative for the latter is just uBTC  The key part of why there's no prefix for satoshi is that the closest one would be nano (10 -9) whereas you would need to do 10nBTC, kind of ugly. Maybe a better answer is XnBTC (using roman numeral)? |
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It looks like The-One-Above-All (how holier-than-thou) timed their thread purposefully. It's been garnering enough attention to turn the tides of the votes towards him, despite there being far better options.
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Looks like we might have a decent race to 100k with a few other horses racing. If only there was a prize? I'll put up 0.01 BTC if when someone beats me. (at least this will give me another incentive to report more )
Yeah, plagiarism takes a lot more investigation, but there's also a few other issues such as busting alt accounts that have been banned. They also prove to be difficult, and can be a time consuming act. Probably easier than plagiarism (to some extent)... if you look for overlapping Twitter/Facebook accounts or Bitcoin addresses then I think you cover a wide berth. This can also be automated |
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But these all symbols resembles the USD.
We need to create a design which should not looks like a USD symbol. It should be unique and d the icon of Bitcoin including that. But I am unsure that is there people really caring to see the symbol of Satoshi. Really? The only one that resembles a "USD" symbol is that of the @$ combination. Unless you mean to tell me that the letter "S" is all that's required for resemblance. |
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Finding crap posts is easy, plagiarism takes more time or involves having some program running to do it for you. For the average person, unless you have a lot of time I don't think it's that simple.
If I'm wrong and there is quick and simple way to find plagiarism, please point it out to me. On my own, I could not find a quick & simple way.
Thanks,
Dave You're right on the money with that. The best you could do (without complete automation) is to create something to check specific posts against search data but if you've already gotten that far, you should just automate the process. Whereas I can just hit a button for a page of spam, plagiarism detection requires a hands-on approach, especially if the user decides to subtly mask it (e.g. thesaurus flip, paraphrasing, or sentence swapping) |
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Damn, I can't believe game-protect already has so many votes since he definitely isn't a troll. I rarely see his posts, as I think he frequents the gambling section mostly and I have Gambling and all the subsections on ignore. I've definitely seen some of the feedbacks he's left, and a lot of them are way out in left field. He also posts in his "5 BTC" Services thread as well as his flag thread in Reputation. Unfortunately, it's another case of blatant shadiness and inflammatory disrespect... which was bordering on trolling. |
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It isn't all about quantity though. Sure it looks impressive, but quality also is a major contributing factor. Aye. I would even say that 1 good plagiarism report is equivalent to that of 200 low-quality post reports... if not more. The main reason why I have garnered my series of reports is because I track down users and threads with consistently bad posts. If someone did the same but only sought out plagiarism, I would personally put their contributions above mine. |
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Theymos said that in this case, post must be long enough where the advertising seems insignificant, which in my opinion is not the case here. Maybe i should ask theymos. I'm new in reporting, i started reporting a couple of days ago when i saw a massive spam, maybe more than 100 accounts. So i'm sorry for my noob questions. Don't stress too much about it. For rule 24, focus on users that are spamming random/irrelevant advertisements in threads that are not about the same service. The spam wave (maybe what you're talking about?) consisted of users posting advertisements across the forum on various threads. This is very different from one user that has a thread to announce a service, who is updating their thread every so and then. However... most of the spam you will encounter will be from insubstantial posts. Lots of repeated information, vague posts, one-liners that are just "yes you are right bitcoin is very volatile", or posts that agree and paraphrase. Egregious forms of spam consist of plagiarism and cross-forum spam. |
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Ok, i'm sorry but then i don't understand this rule
"24. Advertisements (including signatures within the post area) in posts aren't allowed unless the post is in a thread you started and is really substantial and useful."
Maybe if you open your thread it's considered useful and you can advertise. I'm confused. Is there any case where user opened a thread and wasn't useful? I believe rule 24 is in the context of threads that you have not started for the purpose of advertising a product. Think of it like this: if you start a thread for a Gambling site, are you now disallowed from advertising the site in your subsequent posts? You would have to talk about something completely irrelevant (which is in conflict with spam rules) in order to correspond with rule 24.
At the crux of it, the most important rule to keep in mind is that rules are enforced at the moderator's discretion. 24 also relates to the opening posts of very substantial threads, for example pugman's thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4412712.0 |
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Ok, i won't open new threads for 1 spamer only. I edited for 3 more users/spam. I wonder if the rule still applies? Advertising is not allowed except if the thread is useful. I don't see that it the first users case. I think it's not useful at all. It's obvious the thread is used just for advertising. Well, yes... because the thread is for their product. I don't understand what you think the problem is here. It's their announcement thread: do you expect them to not update their thread with advertisements? |
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I guess it depends on how anal the mod is about whether the post serves a purpose or not. I know a few boards where even large images get resized by mods so yes, I can imagine such posts getting merged or deleted but I wouldn't report them. It's really about the intent of the rule. Yes, bumps that recycle the same content should be removed. However in this case 85% of the posts on the thread are from OP and the updates don't disrupt the conversation... OP responds and then updates.
If we really wanted to tackle the "bump crisis" then just look at the Russian Бapaxoлкa child board (e.g. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2688283.0;all) |
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How come I never see chipmixer signatures on the gambling section? I've run mixing gigs in the past, most of the traffic came from gambling related activity. I wonder what sort of asset you see on super niche local boards above that. Waste of money IMO.
There's also some people that could be replaced by some of the new applicants which are better posters. Gambling board is a spam board, imo. Nobody reads anything there (but Google), just post. Like altcoin board. Here's the deal, innit? Sometimes, high-quality posters (terrible that we even have to use this term) post in Gambling or other spam-heavy sections. Why don't we see those posts? Because it's a spam-heavy section. One good post is buried under scores of other useless regurgitated posts.
The very fact that we can distinguish between "good" sections and "bad" sections just shows how poorly the forum has been doing from a discussion perspective. This is supposed to be a forum of communication, not one of repetition by those that have no idea what they're talking about. I post in Gambling if there's something worth talking about. Unfortunately, 99% of those posts are just part of the useless circlejerk sigspam gang. |
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A mental insane person believes that the truth or facts are proven by its beliefs!
But a sane person knows that the truth or facts are proven by proof or facts and not by beliefs. Around 7 billion people reside on the earth, imagine the truth of facts would be defined by 7 billion beliefs? How sick is this? None of science is factual, at least in the way you define "fact". There are strong beliefs that the scientific method leads to pragmatic truths, a posteriori... but they are not absolute truths. To that end, the only absolute fact is that there are no absolute facts.
Can you answer my question now? Is the casino hosted on your website licensed? If so, what license is it? |
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Thule is funny but not a troll. Same thing with digaran. They are glorified whiners.
Give my vote to satoshi.
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Let's not forget, CSW explicitly claims to be a lawyer, while Satoshi explicitly asserted, "I am not a lawyer".
But I'm sure Craig has an excuse for that, too. "I said that in order to obfuscate my identity. I wanted to remain anonymous while I was under the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto." probably something like that, eh? |
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