Each mod will receive a different amount of reports depending on their jurisdiction but the ones that come in fluctuate wildly, like today being an extreme example. Globals and admins receive all reported posts whereas a Local board mod will only receive reported posts from their allocated sub board. If you're what's called a 'patroller' then you will also receive any reports against newbies. I don't know the stats or averages on how many reports are received a day but maybe theymos could provide that data. The number of reports that a specific mod handles is kept secret though, but it would be interesting to know but theymos probably doesn't want that to effect how staff handle reports.

I don't know if you can take that as 100% confirmation. He might have just been stating the blatantly obvious (like most of us can see).


Well that's what makes them trolls. Imagine someone going to a Lamborghini forum and then just shitting on Lambos constantly. I think the people who come here even to troll about bitcoin are probably fans or are at least interested or invested in the subject in some capacity. In NLCs case I used to think he was either a person who had made a lot of money from bitcoin and could afford to just sit back and troll about it all day or the opposite and he'd either lost a lot of money or cashed out at the wrong time and that hundred thousand or so he cashed out was now worth millions and that pushed him over the edge.


They'll be back, but don't tempt them. Bitcoin is probably going to be going up and down for the foreseeable future and if we get a huge crash again the fear-mongers will return but we've been through these cycles several times over the years and rode the waves of trolls that came with them.


I guess the people he effects consider him a troll, but I'd say harassment is just part of his business model as I previously addressed.


Yeah, he's a troll. That RawDog guy was like some anti-bitcoiner youtuber but I don't think that's his actual account and someone created it just to troll with.

I find that hard to believe without any evidence. A female journalist spent so much time spamming this forum? Why? What makes you think NLC didn't try frame that person (which would probably be quite easy to do by leaving a few faux breadcrumbs)? I'm not sure what evidence NLC could have left behind but I'd like to see it.

This is all I could find but the The Doxing account looks to be nuked:


The Doxing: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=657548


S/he was probably more a long-con scammer than a troll.

I won't be nominating any as I don't want to give them validation, but I have a couple in mind and they are bonafide trolls of the highest order.


Tecshare isn't a troll. He's just a twat and a humourless one at that.


He's one where you just don't know whether he's a genuine religious moron or a troll. Sometimes I find it hard to believe that people can be that stupid but then I remember my golden rule: Never underestimate how stupid people can be.


I still have the gay porn ones scorched in my memory.

No idea. He either removed it himself or theymos did.

Trolls do go away. There's plenty that have come and gone here over the years. They get bored very quickly especially if nobody takes the bait. If everyone ignored them they're just screaming into the digital void and trolls don't like to waste time. They're powered by attention and annoying people. If nobody gets annoyed or even acknowledges them then that's a mortal wound to them and they'll find something else to do or troll elsewhere.


Well that's what they claim but 95% of the time it isn't true. Sure, there are some idiots who just believe the world is flat or in chemtrails, but most are probably just trolling, though obviously you do get the idiot-troll hybrids.


She? Someone I doubt NLC was a female. And that user spent a very long time botting the forum with hundreds of accounts. It was NLS who was spamming gay porn all over the forum and hence why newbie accounts can't display images. Out of interest, where was this doxing?

Well I would have rather put it on City to be honest, but I probably wouldn't have put more than £2 on each. I just hope the mistake turns out to be a blessing in disguise. It'll be pretty exciting if Liverpool are doing really well in all competitions as they progress.

Also another bump:


Also don't forget the prizes superbru offer as well:


The odds of winning them are pretty ridiculous but it can be done. Here are the winners from last season:



Gotta be in it to win it. Would be awesome if somebody won one of the prizes from here.

Someone temp banned him from all the spam after he went crazy, but as you can see he reappeared yesterday. I've had lots of complaints about this guy over the years and he sure seems shady but there's never really been anything concrete presented other than him being annoying. It's likely his business model is to just harass companies in the hope that they'll pay him something to leave them alone, and people have accused him of extortion before, which is what that would be if it was the case, but when I asked for proof of extortion ie has he explicitly asked them for money then nothing has really been given. On the flipside, a lot of these companies probably don't have licenses to operate in some of the countries they do so that's his level of attack so there's probably not much that can be done about his business practises unless he is breaking the law himself and trying to extort people.

Good lord, you really need to take the stick out of your ass. Did I say it was dead forever? However, I'll be sure to let you know once you finally say something that is even remotely funny.


Theymos and cyrus rarely respond to PMs these days probably due to lack of time and sheer number of the PMs they get, but sadly if they don't then you have to take it as a no. It's pot luck if they do, but annoyingly that has a knock on effect of Globals being PMd and 90% of the time we can't do anything about it or we then have to pester them about it and personally I don't really wan't to annoy them with it so if they don't respond I just take that as a no or 'I don't have time'.


Well, those two campaigns are the anomalies and one is probably the most lucrative and the other was one of the measliest in terms of payment, but regardless of whether you pay a lot of little, the quality still needs to be there. Even if you're paying someone pennies if the quality control was there you would still get good content. Sure, many users won't want to join them but regardless of how much you get paid it's still money for nothing. I mean, I get paid zero for every other message board I post on and if the only campaign I could join  here was a low paying one then I would because it's still better than nothing. The problem is is when there's no quality control and people start spamming because their livelihoods depend on it. Campaigns don't have to pay ridiculous amount either as a middle ground can be found, just as long as the quality control is there. When a campaign like Stake or Yobit comes along as is literally paying anyone for anything then that's when the abuse becomes rife and has a devastating effect on the forum in the process and it's those campaigns that give sig campaigns in general a bad name. If the sig campaign guidelines where ever enforced then the forum would clean itself up pretty fast, but when we allow campaigns to basically do what they want (and in many cases that is nothing) then it's going to be abused because they can get away with it.

What is it that trolls truly want? Attention. And you're giving it to them. Any true troll that gets nominated will just feel validated in their actions, especially if they win. The worse thing you can do to a troll is completely ignore them because all the want is your recognition and this thread is giving them all they want. Ignore them and they go away defeated. Entertain them and they keep going because that's how they get their kicks.

Trump will just be parroting whatever his advisers say and I'm sure he's got the banks and FED RES Chairman selling him all the propaganda about how cryptos are dangerous and are a threat to the mighty USD (which I guess they are or certainly could be). Hopefully a lot of people will be able to see past the bs and fud or see the benefits of bitcoin and crypto and it will actually have an adverse effect and we get some free advertisement from it and a lot of people getting on board and investing. My only fear is if it goes too far and Trump tries to restrict or prohibit exchanges from operating and how people can use bitcoin.


People might not care but something tells me the powers that be do hence why we're getting these tweets. Imagine having a free licence and monopoly to print money and then something else comes along that is outside of their control and could be a direct threat to them. Bitcoin and fiat can coexist peacefully but bitcoin takes a lot of power away from the powers that be and that's something that obviously scares them.

It's more a case of users reporting the posts as opposed to mods looking for spammers. If they weren't reported then they'd likely still be there but if the reports are coming in then some staff member or another will likely get around to handling them. Whether that's a good thing or not is up to you. I still think we should be going after the campaigns that are continually paying for drivel, otherwise it's a losing battle and like trying to bucket water out of a sinking ship. You ban one account, but out of how many? And how many other alts does the spammer have that carry on as normal until they get reported. A seven day ban on one account doesn't do much if they're free to continue on god knows how many others. They just carry on as usual until the ban expires.

Well it is 2019 and whilst obviously they're not the greatest team it is quite funny to think that they're not even a top 5 club right now and it could get worse. I'm sure they'll have their day again but I can't see it being anytime soon. I found these videos about Man U from the Dream Team youtube channel pretty funny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2LCgyNWDtY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ye2jVYoa_U

I recommend subscribing if you're a football fan.


Still looking for this bet. I accidentally put £20 on Liverpool to win pretty much all competitions yesterday. Was just seeing how much the max bet was and actually submitted it:


PMSL. Was pretty pissed off but I guess I know who I'll be rooting for for everything this season. Probably more so than a Liverpool fan haha. I don't think anyone has ever won all four comps before have they?

If anyone wants to sign up for the Premier League predictor pool please check out the thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5154317.0

If you think you know your PL football then put your money where you mouth is and win some prizes. All money is split between the top five winners and the more people that join the bigger the pot gets. Hopefully the price of BTC will rise during the season and stops a couple of days before the next halving so we could end up with an expanding pot like the first pool (though obviously the opposite is also true   ).

Already made that joke 



Sometimes they don't know about it or don't care. Some will just take whatever they get, especially since decent sig campaings are both rare and hard to get onto.




bryant.colman usually only pops up when there's a lucrative sig camp. I think that account may have changed hands as well though it's hard to say whether it just goes inactive when he can't monetise it.


I'm not so sure. You could argue that it might increase it. Most businesses here don't advertise via the ad slots because it's more effective to pay users. It might even be cheaper in some instances. Also, theymos doesn't seem to care that much about forum income so traffic probably isn't that much of a concern either. At least if sig campaigns were banned then the quality of discussion would go up exponentially. Though as I've always said, quality discussion and sig campaigns can coexist with better management on their behalf. Imagine if every campaign was run like Darkstar's. We would then have no problem with spam and they would actually help improve the quality of content.

There is no set number and bans are taken on a case by case basis but bans are rarely given for a set amount of posts deleted. If you're caught spamming and all your posts are very low quality then you might get a temp ban. If you don't take the warning and continue making low quality content you'll usually get another ban with the duration doubled but if you have to be banned three times then the fourth is usually the last one you'll get. Thankfully most don't get that far these days but there's also less bans given out for sig spam. This is something we still should be enforcing at the root cause which is the sig campaigns themselves. If they're paying for this fluff time and time again then they should receive the punishment but that's rare. The only case I can think of recently was yobit. Thankfully most campaigns don't get that bad but yobit was like an avalanche of spam unleashed instantly so they had to be dealt with.

Personally, about tree fiddy.


User A: OMG WHY IS NAZI BITCOINTALK CENSORING PEOPLE/BUSINESSES. MUH FREEDUMB OF SPEECH!
User B: WHY AREN'T BITCOINTALK DOING ANYTHING ABOUT ALL THESE SCAMS & SPAMS!!!! BAN THEM ALL!!!
Nazi mods: We can't win.

Staff don't get involved in potential scams and that's left up to the community to police. Sure, staff could remove scams, but who gets to decide on what is and isn't a scam. Has yobit been found guilt in a court of law? And what crimes should be cause for banishment? It's hard to police fairly so staff usually stay out of these things unless certain legal action is taken.

Well I would agree, but context is key here. What I do know is there's a lot of generic fluff going on in the sports threads. I mean, is this substantial, for example:


I would say no. Generic two-liner churned out for sig payment as are seemingly most of his posts. Obviously you don't need to write an essay but it's usually pretty obvious when people are just forcing out their hollow one-liners for payment. I would prefer to tackle the root cause of the sig spam which is the campaigns that continually pay for this sort of spam but I've done all I can on that front.

I wish people would stop assuming that posts are removed just for being off topic, that is just one of the reasons but there are many others, but obviously talking about cricket in a cricket thread isn't off topic. If the post gets removed for being unsubstantial then any posts quoting it will also be, but I can tell you there are a hell of a lot of people making unsubstantial posts in various sports threads. I don't go in the cricket threads because I have no interest in cricket but I see it first hand in the various football threads with people really making lousy generic posts. It tends to happen a lot in sports threads because a lot of people don't know much about bitcoin but they can squeeze out something sports related if they have a vague interest in it. I don't know exactly what that post was removed for specifically as I didn't remove it but I do not someone reported a lot of posts for them being unsubstantial and Pffrt was included in them. And just to clarify, that's not me commenting specifically on his or any other case but just what I saw from the report queue. If anyone wants specifics it's probably best to wait for the person who remove it to comment or if you feel it pertinent contact one of the other mods who have justification over those boards to see if they can shed light on why it was removed.

You need active memers before a board is created. It's pointless creating an entire sub if there's no demand for it. You could delete and repost your content it if you feel it's relevant or perhaps link to it somehow. Even if you had your own sub board then that post or thread would still get buried.


If this was true then surely having an entire sub board would make this worse.

That's obviously not how it works. Do you really think mods would act on something without confirming it first? Do you think we would ban someone reported for plagiarism without verifying it first? Of course not. Pffrt has had many of his posts reported and deleted including that one you quoted so if that gets removed then all the posts quoting it are no longer relevant so that's likely why yours was removed.