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.

It has been requested multiple times before:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4455886.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1496914.0

But I'm not sure if it's necessary right now as the Bengali thread isn't that active. Local subs are only usually added to meet demand when a thread has become messy or unfit for purpose. They're not merely added just because a language is one of the most spoken or an official language of a country. If you want your own sub board then spread the word among Bengalis of this forum and if the local thread grows in popularity then a local board may be added.

They already have uber rich ownership. He's just a tightwad and won't spend any money. I think that's why Raffa left. My money is on Newcastle to be relegated this season.


I put a couple of pre-season bets on which included Newcastle to be relegated.

Does anyone know a sportsbook that does specials on cross tournament accumulators? I want to put a couple of bets on like Liverpool to win the Premier League and Man City to win the Champions League and vice versa.

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   ).

If you're interested in becoming a moderator here then show that you know the rules and are an active member by reporting lots of posts that break the forum rules. When moderators are needed usually the best barometer of their suitability is their report history and accuracy of those reports so if you're interested in being a mod then get reporting, but there's no quick way to become one and a mere high report count isn't a guarantee of anything but it's the best way of showing that you'd be a worthy addition to forum staff.

It means exactly what it means. Your posts were deemed as unsubstantial by not only the reporter but a mod who acted on the report. How would you determine if something was good or bad? I'm sure you're capable of doing that, right? Well that's what mods do. If most of your posts are just generic one liners with not much thought gone into them then a lot of people would consider that spam.


Those are examples of the most obvious/lazy ones, but most spam comments are the ones where they're smart enough to not make them, but instead force themselves to churn out a generic, lazy comment that has been said hundreds of times before in a spam thread. That's probably what this guy got stung with.

There's also some huge gaps in his post history that you can see on the first page alone:

July 07, 2015 to January 12, 2016 and then
February 27, 2016 to May 19, 2017 and then disappears again until May 09, 2019

So this campaign is actually paying? Something tells me if this campaign was fully operational the board would be littered with their signatures like it was last time. Most people seemed to be saying it wasn't paying and I've seen very few yobit sigs on the board. Have you actually tried to cash out? Maybe it's just counting posts but no payments are being made.

I don't think they'll do terrible but it's not easy getting into the top five these days, especially with City and Spurs becoming huge clubs in recent times and pushing the others further down the table. I'm kinda hoping Wolves get Costa and some other good players so maybe they can challenge for a top 5 position and shake things up a bit. I doubt Wolves will be able to afford Costa's wages though.

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.

He should end up there but as we know you can oftentimes buy yourself out of jail with monopoly money. He managed to wrangle himself out of a jail sentence the last time but I think he needs some time away to reflect on all the damage he's doing. Lying for your own ego is one thing but when you try throw other innocent people under the bus just to save yourself is where. I mean the guy will literally stand up and lie in court and lie by claiming people are  child pornographers if it would help his case.


I hope they have some more cards up their sleeve. CW needs to be exposed fully exposed for the fraud that he is.


Who is going to call him a hero? Most people don't like him other than BSV fanboys and most can see through his bullshit. His deception may fool those that don't look close enough but once it's pout under the magnifying glass his evidence is soon exposed for what it is.

Don't forget about catphishing as well. That's when some dude pretends to be a female to try get their victim to let their guard down and send them bitcoins (because obviously a woman would never scam anyone - they're far too nice for that). Seen it happen a fair few times here and there's probably much more that we don't see as people will be too embarrassed to come clean and then also all the attempted times - users like Alia etc: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3032057.0

Only theymos can return the merit but I'm not sure if he will or not and I don't think it's worth the time pursing and you should just accept the loss of merits and move on in this case. However, it would be helpful if the bug was fixed so it doesn't happen again in the future so you can keep pushing for a change/fix if you wish but it certainly wouldn't be on my list of priorities (for either you or theymos). 

Only a Global moderator could have possibly handled that report because there's no dedicated mod for the Press section and the user isn't a Newbie so that rules out patrollers, but I don't think forgetting to add the link in the Press section once is enough for a perma ban for plagiarism.

Whether that user is spamming or making unsubstantial posts or not is another debate. I would personally say a warning is in order seeing as the majority of his posts are seemingly in the Press section, but there's no rules against that and I have long been an advocate of locking/archiving that sub all together because it's served its purpose and is just abused like this now.

Or maybe the opposite if he does well and he will be immortalised if he does a brilliant job. The odds are stacked against him though and he's already a lot of the bookies favourite to be the first sacked and it wouldn't surprise me if that happened. He should have stuck with Derby for another season as he narrowly missed out on getting them promoted but if he could have got them up this season that would have been a huge success and speak volumes about him as a manager. I don't think he's ready for such a big club yet and there's a lot of pressure on Chelsea especially when there's at least three other teams that are far superior to them.

If anyone wants to join the upcoming Premier League pool please sign up here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5154317.msg51467291#msg51467291

£25 to join and all the monies are split amongst the top 10 winners.

I think you've basically just done the digital equivalent of touching wet paint to see if it was wet even though there was a sign there saying do not touch - wet paint.



I thought about giving some merits to replace the ones you lost but touching wet paint when you know it's wet is a pretty silly thing to do.

Can't you sue this huge tool? I'm sure we could easily get that crowd-funded for you. I know you're probably against that too but this guy really needs to face some repercussions for his continued lies. It's absurd that he tries to sue anyone who even claims he isn't satoshi yet he is ok lying and completely slandering people. He's basically just told a court that you're a drug trafficker and child pornographer. Based on what evidence? Pretty sure you would have no problems in successfully suing him for that. This guy actually deserves to be in jail and I hope this court goes after him for perjury.


What about weed? Because as we all know weed is a plant and not a drug  .


I haven't read the full transcripts and haven't been paying much attention but perjury for a start (assuming theymos isn't actually one of the many DPR's  ). I'm really hoping the court actually goes after him for these lies. Asking for any sort of proof of half of what he's saying would be enough. He basically just keeps lying to get himself out of another lie and he's going to slip up  under pressure and contradict himself if he hasn't already.

As already stated campaign managers can apply like anyone else and I'm sure if they're respected amongst the community then they will get a lot of vouches or they will be made on eventually if they prove their worth here, but there are campaign managers who come out of nowhere and aren't necessarily trusted, so this is why they should be taken on a case by case basis so there's no possibility of abuse by giving access by default. I think theymos should probably delegate some of the responsibility of choosing merit sources by maybe granting some mods the power to allocate them so they can be made more frequently and without having to pester him about it. I don't know how often theymos looks into the applications but there seems to be a few cases lingering around in Meta that should probably be granted. There is a definite lack of merit sources and it's still fairly had for a fairly decent poster to get a significant amount of merit to move up the ranks fairly swiftly so this would help.

Please read the message fully that you are sent with a deleted post. The PM states that:


One of the most common reasons for the post being removed may be off topic but there's a multitude of other reasons that they are removed like spam, low quality, necrobumps etc and a full list of possible reasons can be found in the forum rules: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.msg7955645#msg7955645


You don't have to 'go outside'. This is the whole issue with people posting under signature campaigns as they feel the need to post in boards where they have little to no knowledge of the given subject and forcing yourself to do so is just a recipe for disaster and hence why you likely had your post removed.

Campaigns can choose to pay (or not pay) users in whatever boards they like. If they wanted to pay exclusively in off topic then they could, but historically a lot of campaigns stopped paying in boards like Off topic and Politics because of the amount of shit threads spammers were creating in there just to get paid because they were being abused by people who couldn't talk about much else. I think the Politics board has changed a lot over the years as you can have some decent discussion in there now and that's probably because it's mostly a sig spam free board all because most campaigns don't pay in there.


You don't... or shouldn't and this is the huge issue here isn't it. You've come to a message board on a topic you have little to no knowledge about just to earn and that's why we have so much spam because people are trying to talk about things they don't understand.

Maybe he deleted a load of his posts and the forum hasn't recalculated them properly yet. He has ten merit so I'm guessing at one point he had at least ten posts as well. The account is probably hacked. It's registered on February 06, 2014 but hasn't made his first post until April 01, 2019 so maybe he deleted all the existing posts to try cover his tracks. Email was also reset recently: This user's email address was changed recently.

He is a troll and he obviously just posts things to try rile people up and get a reaction. He also probably belongs to a lot of other troll accounts which I've brought up the connection before:


In fact, I think there's also a strong possibility that they're just a handful of crytohunters alts:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2581415 Teamsters Internet SEctor April 13, 2019
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2579977 Big Boobies talkinDoubleD April 11, 2019
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2580397 Nigerian CocoPalm Farmer April 11, 2019
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2580400 The-One-Above-All April 11, 2019

They all popped up around the same time complaining about the same things and there's a couple more coincidences with them as well.

Dig Bicks is probably another troll account of his as well and surprise surprise:


Seems I'm not the only one to notice it too:

I don't think this user is trying to scam, but he is very likely trolling and has no intention of sending his money anywhere. Also, would you send me money if I asked for it under the guise of helping a charity? You shouldn't unless I provide pretty good proof that the money will get to where I say it will and even then I'd still be suspicious. Dozens of users/scammers come here just to try collect money for charity when in most instances it will go straight into their pocket. We actually get waves of these spammers every time a natural disaster happens and they're just trying to prey on users goodwill and take advantage of human misery/tragedy to enrich themselves and it doesn't get much lower than that. We also have no reason to believe any money sent to you will go anywhere other than yourself and that's why we shouldn't just trust random people on the internet because this board is rife with unscrupulous characters who literally would steal from charity if they could.