Signature spam has been an issue for as long as you and I have been here and it most certainly predates 2015, but it's obviously grown over the years exponentially, but just because people got away with their behaviour in the past doesn't mean we should give them a free pass. If you check the recent history of those banned their 'original' content are usually just one/two liners of generic crap. When someone gets caught for this just check their history. Pure rubbish. I'm not going to pat them on the back from going from copy and pasting to spam and I'd argue that very poor quality posters should be banned anyway. They're really not interested in contributing here; they just want to get paid as fast and lazily as possible and they're the reason why the board is in such a poor state content-wise.

Copy and pasting is usually done for only two reasons: laziness and greed. People want to farm accounts and get paid in the process and they're too lazy or greedy to do either the 'proper' way. Making distinctions between what "sort" of copy and paster you are is needless and will just cause more fuss. What do you think would be the new excuse when caught? I'm not a scammer copy and paster, I'm a spreading knowledge™ [copyright Tai Lopez] copy and paster and I'm not doing it for money. If you plagiarise content then in probably 99% of the cases you're doing it to either farm an account and/or get paid with the minimum amount of effort in the process and I don't think we need to start putting them into different categories of severity.

Those countries all have their own specific language. Nigeria is a mostly English speaking country as far as I'm aware. Again, local boards aren't really for specific regions but actual languages. If you want to create one for your Pidgin language then you can do so here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=11.0 but I don't think it would be very popular.

Local boards are for non-English speaking languages and Africa is a continent with many different languages. We don't need a board for Africa like we don't need one for Europe or Asia. If you want to create one for a specific African language then you can do so in 'other languages' and if it's sufficiently popular then maybe you'll get your own sub eventually.

How do we know you didn't just sell the account and are now just trying to claim it back? Regardless, the chances of you having it restored are slim to none so you're likely going to be wasting your time even trying to get it back. The best you can hope for is the automatic recovery tool theymos is working on.

Copy and pasting:



Ready your cards, players:

Your "friend" who just so happens to type the same way you do?



I'm going to guess you were banned for copy and pasting.

Edit:

Here's how this will probably go:

You: But I didn't copy and paste.
Us: You did:



You: *generic excuse*
Us: Bingo cards ready:

zeze18 has received merit from two user accounts registered a couple of days apart:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1111929     tegarp90 August 17, 2017
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1108662 mikyadel August 15, 2017

Who both type very similar:




zeze18's are also formatted in a similar way, but not sure If I'd say they're 100% the same.

Another excuse for the bingo card: "parallel thinking".

You didn't have the same thoughts. You straight up copied someone else's post and changed a few things, which isn't ok.



Are you the same guy who was caught yesterday claiming this?

Somebody should make a bingo card with all the excuses. Saw a funny one the other day about the excuses paedophiles come up with when caught:

The usual. Copy and pasting:

Just saw this user posting in the Cloudbet's Super 6 Soccer Predictor Competition:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=18021     JusticeForYou June 04, 2011

He stood out because he's a VIP and I've never seen him before, and then noticed his details had been reset recently:

This user's password was reset recently.

This user recently woke up from a long period of inactivity.

This isn't the first time he's woken from a long period of inactivity either. He disappeared on May 26, 2015 to reappear on August 13, 2017.

On the 15th he then asked for a silly loan:


Then nothing until November 07, 2018 where he posted in the Cloudbet giveaway thread.

I've got a revolutionary approach: How about people just stop copy and pasting content? Problem solved. Nothing for people to "grass" on then and nobody will get banned and that's what we're trying to stamp out. I'm not sure why you're shaming those who reporting rule breakings whilst seemingly thinking it's ok for the people who are doing it to earn money via fraud and laziness. Without the users reporting things the forum would be in a much worse state and a lot of people will be getting away with essentially theft, which isn't ok. It's absolutely shameful that people will sign up to this forum just to plagiarise somebody else's content and those caught should face very strict consequences so people know it's absolutely not acceptable under any circumstances. This should be a forum to share ideas and discuss bitcoin/crypto, not one where people are rewarded for laziness and greed and that's the only reason these people are even here in the first place, and that shouldn't be tolerated.


Can we add this to the welcome message? Whilst we're on that subject, implementing a welcome message with it stating that plagiarism isn't ok will cut down on a lot of the copy and pasting in the first place and it's because people aren't aware of the rules that we will continue to have these issues. At least if they're warned then there's no excuses at least.

Probably not many worth watching this week other than the Manchester derby. There's the German "El Clasico" on later (or should I say der Klassiker haha) with Borussia Dortmund V Bayern München which I'll probably be watching. Dortmund are on fire at the moment so should be an interesting game.


Just put as many scores in as you can when you've got a chance. You could put the entire season in now if you wanted which is one thing I like about the Superbru website so there's no excuses for missing rounds. You can always change them at a later date as well as long as you don't lock them so you might as well put something in rather than letting it go to waste. I see there's six people who didn't play this week and you can still win your money back for getting a yellow cap so there's still something to play for. There's another international break now though  .


That late goal screwed eight of us out of a correct score.

I'm all for making the merit requirements higher (to either become a Junior Member or get a sig - which I think should be ten merit), but this doesn't really solve the spam issue op is talking about. As long as there's benefits to having the thread bumped then it will continue to happen. As I suggested before, you could make it so posts from lower-ranked members don't bump the thread at all which should take care of the bot bumping. Also as I've suggested before, we could change the Alt Coin section up a bit and scrap the current format and make it so that to list your thread here you need to pay a fee and when you do you get your very own sub board. That should remove the need/point of bumping as it would be pointless.

I feel like we've been over this issue several times before. Asking users to lock their threads is like asking them not to spam or make unsubstantial posts. They either don't listen or are too lazy, and lets not forget why those threads are there for in the first place (or it's why they're kept alive). Most of the people here are spammers so they love having generic threads to spam in and the more the better. Most who create them probably aren't even interested in the answer or replies. They create their generic thread, then move on to the next and the one-liners follow them. Theymos probably won't put any restrictions on how many threads people can create because he's against restrictions to being able to actually post here and I'm not sure how this would work anyway. Some threads shouldn't be locked just because they've reached x amount of pages. A better solution would be just to add more moderators to the board who lock the spam threads as soon as they see them or once they've run their course.

Apparently the Juve fans were insulting him all match so maybe that's was why he did what he did. He can speak many languages including Italian. Makes sense if you think about it. Pretty much a visual representation of you're not singing any more. He's said he wouldn't do it again though haha so probably learned his lesson.


I'm also doing better in the Champions League. Have been in first place in both tournaments but I seem to be slipping down the table every week.


I think City will beat them comfortably. Maybe even by 3 or 4. Man U may get a goal though.

He's understandably under a lot of pressure in the media with people calling for his head and questioning his performance constantly but he didn't do himself any favours here. They got lucky within a few minutes and their prior performance wasn't really something to be smug about, but maybe the buzz of turning the game around in five minutes probably got to him and he got caught up in the excitement. He still should have known better. Being a gloating dick after a victory is just as bad as being a sore loser to be honest and he could have handled this a lot better.

If you achieve 1000 activity without getting a single merit then there's probably a good reason why they haven't got any and shouldn't be automatically given some. Merit was designed to stop people moving up ranks solely just down to activity and without contributing anything worthwhile or of substance and if we just give away merit for x amount of activity then it kind of defeats the purpose of it in the first place. Besides, I'm sure most users would have given up long before they ever get any where near 1000 merits, and for those that don't ever get any they can just purchase a Copper Membership (and maybe they'll even be more ranks in the future - Silver and Gold etc).

Not unless he's plagiarising other's articles for his own site.


He probably is using a bot to post them automatically.
 

Wait... fo you mean it was posted on a different website and he copied it from there or it's seconds before he posts it on his own site and then here? If he's just stealing other's content and reposting it to his for hits/traffic then that makes this much worse.