I know you opened a thread about it yesterday, but why should any forum should follow foreign laws? Any country can make up anything.

This is theymos' answer:

I would love to see this as an official forum feature, where you can just click "show users/posts with xx Merit only" on top of each board. I hope this will be implemented in the future (after the Merit system has had some more time to mature).
I'm paranoid to install browser extensions, so I'm not testing it yet.

That's not my experience. Can you post/PM a list of users with decent posts without any Merit? I wouldn't mind unloading some more sMerits.

Enlighten me: which regulators allow you to ask KYC for certain transactions without specifying when this will happen? This sounds a lot like selective scamming to me.

And your legal authorities accept a "risk management system" instead of an airtight KYC system that requires KYC from all customers like any legit exchange would do?

I know of at least 2 large cases. But so far you've pretty much ignored the PrivCoin case.
It looks like you scammed the wrong guy.

If you admit this, how about you return the funds you took to the sender?

Lol

How about you send it to a trusted escrow on this forum?

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Did you know crossposting the same post on many boards is against the rules?

I can't quote it, but this one was posted by o_e_l_e_o:

I count 55k posts in 24 hours, after downloading "recent" 18500 times. This now takes 225 MB on my ram drive. I can compress it into a 13 MB file.

Bots typically run only once in a while indeed.
So far, I've only used this data to report a few "good project" posts. To put it to good use, I'd be very happy if we can turn this into a thousand reports per day (just 2% of all posts).
Searching for duplicate entries is very easy, but checking them is a lot of work. I've reported a few only now, but if it results in a few bans, it's worth it.

Some do, I guess at least hundreds of posts per day use text spinners.

If anyone wants to try to analyse the data, I can easily upload it somewhere. I'll change the file format a bit, then I'll compress the data every other day.

Request: Can you add a full-spy-option? I'd like to get a notification whenever someone types "LoyceV" (with or without "@) or quotes me.
The quote notification should only happen if someone who quotes me directly, not if someone quotes a quote in which I was quoted already.

Email: MyBitcointalkUsernameGoesHerealenzuela@gmail.com

Offering $20 to crack it doesn't show much confidence in your own security.

In the past week (from Friday to Friday), 3481 Merit points were transfered. That's 3481/7*30=14918 per 30 days.
It would be interesting to see how many of those came from Merit sources, who generate up to 19500 sMerit in the same period. But since not all Merit sources are known, I won't try to get the number.
I've still never been able to empty my source sMerit, and "my own" sMerit has now piled up to exactly 300. From now on, I'll try to keep my source sMerit under 10 (and 0 would be fine too). If it's higher (as it is now, I'll Merit more posts.

I've started this right now, meriting 8 different posts in 2-3 seconds (yes, I try to break my record ).

Removing them from DT would mean all their trust ratings instantly lose their value, while the large majority of the ratings is valid. The same argument holds for the users they put on DT2.

This account is in both lists.

Correct.

And despite being told ban evasion isn't allowed, you just continue doing so. Let me report you to get you banned on this account too.
Bye.

Update from modlog:
Case closed.

As much as I appreciate the endorcement, your reasoning is incorrect:
[2] I didn't create the Spam Megathread list after visiting Bitcoin Discussion, I created it from the post history of a few applicants who were accepted in a new (at that time high paying) signature campaign.
[3] Although some of the plagiarism reports are in Bitcoin Discussion, it's never been my main area to read. That can change once the spam is gone, and I would be willing to take on that "job", but as long as the board is in it's current state, I'll mostly ignore it.

I love marlboroza's very detailed analyses of scammers, but since scams aren't moderated, he wouldn't be able to do anything more with Mod powers.

If you report those, they get their warning in the form of a deleted post.

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More full disclosure: I voted too, to see the results I didn't select more than 5 options in total, but the "Total Voters" is now one higher than it should have been.
LoyceMobile voted for marlboroza and suchmoon.
LoyceV voted for The Pharmacist. I did this because he doesn't want to be a Mod anyway, which made it a safe pick to be able to see the results on this account.

Bad idea. Last time I checked a Telegram campaign, I quickly found more than 1000 fake entries (using the same address twice). And many of the remaining 7000 entries will be fake too.
Automated PM-spam to thousands of users who didn't subscribe isn't allowed.

A very easy solution would be to put your Ethereum token collection address in the Location field in your profile. All you need to enter in a Google Docs form is your userID. That's enough to have a Google Docs spreadsheet scrape your profile for your username, Merit count, Activity and addy. This kills all fake entries instantly, but the "bounty manager" would have to actually care about spam to do this.
Doing this would instantly end the thousands of "authentication" spam posts per day. But it would also kill the business model of bumping their thread with spam.

Has it crossed your mind to lock (lower-left) the thread? You're facilitating spammers to spam their signature.

Judging by your post history, your motivation is earning from spamming. I wouldn't mind if you get demotivated to continue.

Did you forget the message itself?

Don't.

As far as I know, the forum stores your registration IP and IP for each post. I remember theymos saying he would like to delete it, but it's very convenient to have for account recoveries.

I would expect Cloudflare to store much more information than the forum does:

What if other random countries start imposing their local laws on the rest of the world too? Say Andorra, Russia, Japan or Thailand? They can make demands to multinationals with offices in their country, but I don't think they have much to threaten a blog hosted in the USA with.

I never saw my personality in any avatar. But if you put it this way, I should start looking for one.

I have one
But it's kinda of a loyalty thing to my signature, as the avatar doesn't pay any extra and is completely voluntary.

That would be a good thing to add to Vod's Recognition score!

This has been asked before, and this is theymos' answer:

A new post to bump this thread: I now have a scraper for recent. There are only 10 posts per page, so I have to scrape very often to ensure I don't miss any posts. New posts are created at the rate of almost one per second.

I extract the raw post, strip it from quotes, and save it together with the userID, username and msgID.
The output for this post for example looks like this:
In order it contains:
Posts with more BBCode look more messy in raw HTML format.

I'll let it run for a day, then I'll see how useful the data is. I expect this to fill about 0.5 GB per day. It's running on my RAM drive now. If anyone happens to have a Linux VPN with enough disk space idling, I'd be happy to use it for more long-term storage of all post data.

Feel free to offer suggestions on what else to search for!

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First result: about 0.4% of the posts doesn't show anything other than a quote. Some bounty spammers use it to quit their own spam, then edit it afterwards. There goes my report accuracy if I report them instantly after creation.