Nope; that's word for word the same message as I, and I assume everybody else, receives when a specific post of ours is deleted. In this case, a custom message would be a message written to address your post in particular and the reasons for it to have been deleted, instead of a generic message that, unfortunately, doesn't even really state what you did wrong.


If you feel the thread was wrongly deleted, I suppose you can either create a thread in Meta asking about it, or perhaps send a PM to one of the mods - it doesn't hurt to ask.

There are such signature campaigns - just not for Members, at the moment. It seems the least you need to post to reach the minimum mandatory post count is 80 posts a month, or 20 per week, for the campaigns: Secondstrade.com, 777Coin, and Bitin.io. I haven't been following these campaigns very closely however, and have no idea whether they are still accepting Member level users, or what conditions need be met for entry - you would need to go into their respective threads (the links for them being in the OP) to know that much.

EDIT: however, and looking better at it, considering those campaigns don't really pay a lot, you might be better served joining something like MultiDice. They require a few more posts a week, 25, but the pay rate for Members seems higher.

Actually, as you can read on her thread about this (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=946839.0;all), the 2.5 btc were stolen. So, yes, I'm sure the thief is happy, but most people probably shouldn't be.

I went to the "Show general statistics for this member" in your profile (the last option in the profile page, under "Additional Information"), which leads to the following page: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=400742;sa=statPanel - that shows a large amount of information about the user, "Total Time Spent Online" being the first stat shown.

If you have a Bitcoin address or PGP key associated with that account, either through posts, PMs, or info on the account's profile, you might still be able to recover it - check the following thread by theymos: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=497545.0 (Recovering hacked accounts or accounts with lost passwords).

EDIT: Jombrangs beat me to it, it seems.

Not only at this time, but for over a year - there was an exploit associated with it, so that feature was disabled. As soon as the new forum software is up and running, perhaps later this month, we should have that option back again.

It's a bit off-topic here, but I just wanted to say that even though I agree with tspacepilot, I think that, if you're really just starting off, you should go for something more basic still: either head on to one of several sites that offer free online courses, like Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/courses); or better still, to Khan Academy (https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming/programming) - besides videos and a community to help explaining some concepts, they also have interactive programming areas, where you can modify a program, and immediately see the outcome - no need for anything more than a few seconds and a browser to get started.

EDIT: seems like we just got teleported to another thread.

The new Greek government isn't anti-EU, as far as I know; they don't even want to leave the Union - that would be their communist party, which not only didn't win the elections, but didn't even want to form a coalition government with Syriza, in part due to the difference in their views on this issue.

So, you've been here for longer than the forum has existed? Nice try; you're currently at 36 days, 22 hours and 59 minutes - that's not bad for a Member, but it's still far too early for you to take a break.

Yes, Neon Genesis Evangelion should definitely be in the list - it's probably my favorite anime. FLCL is also pretty good.

Out of those in the poll, Death Note and Code Geass are the ones I liked most.

I agree; it would be too much work to write a custom message for each deleted post, of course, but it would probably be enough if they could choose between a few that gave a more specific reason: "spam post", "suspicious link", "did not delete previous bumps", and so on. Let's hope that will be among the changes for the new forum software - whenever it does finally come out.

I'm currently at 19 messages - considering how long I've been in this forum, that's like a message and a half every month.

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My first message was also one of those.

Out of curiosity: do we receive those messages each and every time one of our posts is deleted? I'm assuming that's not the case, as I believe I've had posts disappear without warning before, though I suspect those were due to whole threads being deleted.

Did you get your "bump" posts deleted? As far as I know, you can just bump your own threads if you want, though you must allow for 24 hours to pass since the last time you've done so - more often than that and you risk getting banned. Also, deleting previous bumps is probably a good idea.

If your opinion stems only from an economic argument, you might want to see these: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2011/09/22/death-and-taxes-the-real-cost-of-the-death-penalty, http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2014/05/01/considering-the-death-penalty-your-tax-dollars-at-work, and http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jun/20/california-death-penalty-execution-costs. Also, notice that in for-profit prisons, inmates are basically used as slave labor - sure it's not labor to enrich society at large, only the pockets of the fat cats.

Well, we're talking about penalties for civilians in custody here, not for war criminals. But without going too much in that direction, even in some of those cases you mention, like preventing desertion and such, I wouldn't support the death penalty.

Now, to be honest, I'm not all that familiar with the situation in Indonesia, but I'm not sure "a war on drugs" is the right solution. There are a few countries that either have already or are moving towards decriminalizing drug use, though probably only some types (at least initially) - is there any reason this wouldn't be a better approach? I'm not sure popular opinion there would support moving in this direction, but hypothetically...

Also, it's true they might not have the resources to handle imprisoning more people, but that just hints at a larger problem - and also to touch upon (oYo)'s idea of having "the bleeding hearts" pay for imprisonment and rehabilitation: as far as I'm aware, at least in the US, executions end up costing far more than any other type of sentence. This isn't directly because of the cost of executing someone, of course, that's pretty cheap, but rather due to legal costs during trial, appeals, and so on. And considering someone's life is on the line, I wouldn't want those safeguards to be removed, which would just lead to even more innocent people being executed than already are.

Finally, and to address (oYo)'s hypothetical situation, a couple of points:

- There are more ways than just one to deal with those situations, or at least help prevent them: removing the monetary incentive those actions have, and improving people's living conditions could be a good starting place.
- Many of those people are from very poor backgrounds, and others probably had their own lives destroyed at one point - as far as I know, you can't pin criminal activity on genetics alone. That isn't to say there shouldn't be consequences to their actions, but they aren't inhuman monsters that need to be eradicated at first site.
- I'm not sure rehabilitation doesn't work in those cases; I've never seen evidence to support that. Now, if you're talking about for-profit prisons and the like, then we have another problem altogether.

It seems my previous post here didn't survive the forum meltdown, so here goes something like it again.


Actually, there being some conspiracy going on in there, might be what they really want you to believe - and not just there, but more often than not. This isn't to say conspiracies are always false; of course some do turn out to be true.

But, I sort of believe in a slightly different conspiracy theory - a conspiracyception, if you will: these and similar stories are often pushed, and perhaps even purposefully fabricated, to keep the population distracted. I mean, can you imagine how much "worse" it would be if people spent the same time and effort they spend on all conspiracy theories, for something like social and political activism and reforms?

I wouldn't use only "how effective it is" as a guideline here - there is also the issue of morality, and what other solutions might exist, that aren't being pursued. Personally, I don't think there is any justification for using the death penalty; not only in this case, but in just about any case I can think of.

Of course, as (oYo) points out, it's easy to have this view if you have no personal connection to the victims; but as harsh as it might be, in my view, that should have no bearing on the situation.

I've recently finished The Consuming Shadow (http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/conshadow) - a short, survival horror game by Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw, the guy from Zero Punctuation. It's nothing spectacular, but I still liked it a lot. By the way, if you plan on playing it, be prepared to die a lot. Also, conserve your Sanity at all costs.

For better or worse, you can't reserve spots in this signature campaign; it works on a first come, first served basis, as you can read in the OP^[1].

So, effectively, the way it works is: spots are vacated, be it through someone successfully completing the 30 days, new spots being opened, or disqualifications; the second post in this thread is edited to show an <open> slot; and users can then apply to join the campaign - whatever attempts were made prior to this are not considered.


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