If there appears to be a credible accusation against someone, it is not inappropriate to leave a provisional rating against the person while they wait for additional information to come out.

If you present evidence to show your innocence, OR the accuser (or anyone else) cannot provide sufficient evidence to show that you are a scammer or that you tried to scam someone (or will likely do so in the future) then the ratings can be removed.

The reason for this is so that others will be warned about dealing with a potential scammer.

If two addresses both sign a transaction then, with near certainty, both addresses are controlled by the same entity. The addresses may be deposit addresses to a business so a customer that provides the address to send bitcoin to may not control both addresses.

There are some instances in which two people/entities will sign one transaction but they are currently rare.

If you have a bot counting posts, you might as well program the bot to exclude posts in certain sections (or only include posts in certain sections). Someone could also create a script to efficiently change the ignore list.

You probably could get the desired outcome if you only ignored the most popular boards as you are unlikely to see any posts in ‘new forum software’ regardless of if you ignore it or not.

Conpanies like Facebook, apple and google have reputations to maintain and if they give out your personal information in ways you have not agreed to they will suffer financially. The information provided to them, in theory also gives you a benefit as their services will be tailored to you.

The people running ICOs often have little to no reputation and will probably have little consequences if they give out information they shouldn’t. I would not be surprised if many of the people behind the ICOs who require KYC end up selling personal information of their customers. This is one reason why using a third party platform can be beneficial for everyone involved when a company wants to raise money.

You can change the URL in your browser by removing "sa=showPosts;start=20" and you will get back to the person's profile.

It would be nice to see additional information about a profile on the post history page.

You can go to IgnoreBoards, check all the boards you don't want to see posts in, and click 'change profile' at the bottom, then visit the person's post history. Those boards will be entirely unavailable to you until you unignore the boards you selected.

This is currently setup in a way that is difficult to select/deselect many boards at once. Perhaps it would be helpful if there was a 'select/deselect all' button, or a way to select/deselect all child boards of a parent board that someone wants to ignore.

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All of these features are likely to help campaign managers weed out poor posters (by making it easier to review their post history), which ultimately will benefit the forum.

I don't think it is fair to say that someone is doing harm to others (in a sense they are scamming) if they are so good at something that they are crowding out other people from being able to participate in a trade. Logically speaking if someone who can make a lot of posts that are very good, a smart campaign manager will give a custom deal requiring more posts that pays more than a "normal" spot, and multiple "normal" spots would be removed from that campaign.

I think if one person enrolls many alts in a campaign who post a bunch of garbage, I think it would be more accurate to say the campaign manager is scamming the company ultimately paying for the advertising, more than the person who enrolls the alts because it is the campaign manager not doing what they are being paid to do -- screen and vet campaign participants.

People are free to do what they want, and if they do not value their privacy, I don't see any problem with them posting actual pictures of themselves.

This could actually be a way to locate alts of some of the dumb signature spammers. When I saw nyoach post his picture, I thought the guy on the right looked familiar, but I couldn't find him on the 1st 16 pages of the KYC selfie thread, although there are a lot of image proxy errors, and the pictures posted by newbies no longer appears in the thread. 

I think there are a decent number of people in third world counties that earn money via signature campaigns (and as of somewhat recently, bounty campaigns). The reaction of some people to this year's April fools joke, makes me somewhat believe there could be people organizing others to "work" in ways that would resemble an employer-employee relationship. The problem with many of the people from third world counties making a living off of signature deals is that they often do not have any real knowledge of bitcoin or cryptocurrency and don't appear to have any real interest in learning.

I suspect that some of the people who run signature/bounty campaigns do so for a living, as they are doing so many that I cannot see them having time for a full time job. I believe shdvb at least used to make a living from the forum, although he doesn't seem to be very active anymore -- perhaps he realized sufficient capital gains in 2017 that he doesn't need to work as much anymore, same with zazarb. In 2014 and 2015, there were more people that at least appeared to make a living from currency exchange section trades.

I suspect the majority of 1st world people that conduct business here do so for side income, or is also in school. You certainly are not going to make enough money in signature campaigns alone to earn a living in the US.

The IRS has offered tips on how to determine if income is "self employment" income or "hobby" income, and is based on 9 factors:

There is a regulation that governs if a venture is "for profit" (and subject to self employment taxes. According to this article by H&R block, hobby income is reported on line 21 of your 1040 and is not subject to self employment taxes.

Thank you.

Thats a negative ghost rider

#fakenews

Perhaps you could admit to your crimes.

Your verification ("Verified Snowflake") fits you well considering how you try to silence anyone who ever criticizes you with negative trust. It is too bad theymos did verify you as a "Verified extortionist"

Have you ruled out us being alts?

This is by far the best. Feel free to say something to satoshi

The verifAI™ system can detect when you are using fake pictures, and will act accordingly.

As you can see below, next to my name is the text "Verified as the real Satoshi"


I hope this can finally put to rest the claim by CSW that he invented Bitcoin and/or that he is Satoshi.

I can unequivocally say that I have never met CSW, nor have I worked with him at any time. 

If you want to say anything to Satoshi, you can do so in this thread.

Guess which one is me

Yes, and there will be 4 threads complaining about you, and 2 threads complaining that those threads were deleted/locked.

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Who should I expect to receive a PM from to get my shipping information?

Naw, lol, Bruno is Phinnaeus Gage aka Gleb Gamow, although Gleb is now owned/controlled by suchmoon because Bruno needed money. He has two accounts that are in the top 10 number of posts.

Unlike CH, he is actually a productive member of the forum.

Where is Bruno? He will probably actually provide a real picture of himself, and will far outtroll theymos in this prank.