This topic requires a higher priority. While it used to be a relatively small problem, I'm afraid I've pushed massive spammers to using homograph attacks by getting many of their spambots banned. See here for many examples of spambots who started using homograph attacks today, which they didn't do yesterday. |
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Will the mods delete stuff like: This is rreally a nice project
I'm interested, this is an interesting project
It is better than i expected. Great!
Hello. I believe that this project is quite a lucrative investment at the moment!
I expect you success! Faultless vision, absorbing approach, unprejudiced website. See here, I think this is just one of many spambots that add random phrases together. It can't be a coincidence that so many Newbies post such uncommon phrases. |
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It's just a matter of "One-Above-All" giving LoyceV access for a few hours to the magical ban button and it will be a preview from " Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe" "LoyceV bans the entire Forum".   Probably Just in the past 15 hours, 99 Newbies have posted "great project". This is the first one I check: THIS IS A GREAT PROJECT.
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That thread was started yesterday, and already has 920 replies similar to this one. I've reported the post saying: "Low effort posting. Please check the thread, it has 920 posts like this since yesterday.". It would be nice to know how the Mod handles this. The thread has long lists of Newbies with the same Activity, most likely all bumpbots just spamming the same thread. Nuking them one by one is a lost cause, I'd like cluster nukes to just nuke all accounts that posted in that thread at once. I've listed a couple hundred accounts again for Mod review. I'll just add my daily quota of reporting anyway, especially since I've started the day with two morons copying my posts  Morons or bots? |
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[/b]It's time for bitcointalk to do so. An initiative for a handful of users, to go to the the main shitposting sections, start reporting threads there, and mods to start deleting/banning and destroying the hopes of shitposters? Isn't that what any caring user does already? Any voluntary users up for this? For binge reporting? I've had hundreds if not thousands of spambots banned in just the past week. But considering thousands of new accounts are created each day, it doesn't help much.
As long as users can't see who's banned already, it leads to unnecessary work for users and Mods. I can easily find thousands of Newbie spambots using patrol, and I'd love to extend this to Jr. Members too, but it requires some upgrades to the patrol page. And the accounts still need a manual check before banning them. It's easy to find likely suspects, but securing innocent accounts is much more work.
If there's gonna be a Bitcointalk Challenge to get most users banned, I'm in |
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Yes, the network is very slow at the moment, the chief developer is looking into it!
Yesterday, I (finally) upgraded my old wallet to the latest version, but now I can't make any transaction. After a long time, I get this: [internal] response timeout |
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I'll compile a list of runner ups when I'm at my PC. It's achow101 vs Jet Cash, but nobody is even close to reaching the Vulpine Order of Merit. Update: I was thinking about 100 as a maximum, but it's 50, so they are close: 45 achow101
45 Jet Cash
31 The Pharmacist
31 Carlton Banks
30 hilariousetc
24 Piggy
16 Welsh
16 DdmrDdmr
14 LoyceV
13 guybrushthreepwood
11 Flying Hellfish
10 theymos
8 minifrij
7 MagicSmoker
7 Don Pedro Dinero
6 odolvlobo
6 goddog
6 amishmanish
6 Steamtyme
6 Elwar
6 DannyHamilton
5 d5000
4 ranochigo
4 mocacinno
4 mfort312
4 af_newbie
4 Vod
4 TheQuin
3 tmfp
3 suchmoon
3 squatter
3 btcminer49er
3 alani123
3 Retty
3 NadiaHel
3 Lauda
3 BrewMaster
3 A-Bolt
2 zirf45
2 qwk
2 o_e_l_e_o
2 mprep
2 kitty94
2 iasenko
2 QuestionAuthority
2 Peter88
2 OmegaStarScream
2 Mitchell
2 LoyceMobile
2 Kakmakr
1 AmaZixOfficial |
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What a waste of mods time, and the time of the members reporting them. How long will it be before restrictions are placed on newbies to reduce the overhead of reporting and deleting them. It won't happen: Limiting newbie participation is very harmful for a community. Newbie jail will never return: I consider the newbie-jail period to have been extremely damaging to the forum. When barriers to participation are too high, then the best people often just won't go to the trouble of joining, and the people who are willing to jump through the hoops are often people who aren't good for the community: people with nothing better to do, scammers, get-rick-quickers, etc. Having a permanent newbie jail policy would improve things a lot in the short-term, but would end up being a fatal poison to the community. Theymos has a point here, I for instance won't join a site like Reddit, when I read about the hoops people have to jump through. I won't even try it.
On a positive note: The spam didn't continue since my last reports. I guess 139 Newbies was his limit  |
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Thank you so much. Just sent you PM. Email changed, password sent. Now keep it secure Please confirm you have accessa gain (post from both BitcoinBazaar.net and premium_domainer). Note that the hacker can still lock it if he wants. If that happens, I hope hilariousandco can fix it. You may want to consider deleting all posts the hacker made, so the account is really yours again. |
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I was lowered by the trust without proof, what can I do? You can leave! Yes where is the evidence qwk? The evidence is in my memory. OP was complaining about Andy4 plagiarizing his scam-thread. The irony. But I mainly remember him from this Meta thread, where I posted (among others) this: It's quite simple: almost any Newbie trying to trade coins is a scammer. If you make an extraordinary claim, the least you can do is sign a message to give it credibility. If you can't sign a message, nobody will ever believe you.
And if it's true, a signed message can help trace the origin of the coins. 200,000 Bitcoin sounds like something that could have been stolen van Mt.Gox back in the days.
As for cleaning up your thread: close it, create a new one, click "Additional Options...", and make it self-moderated. But without a signed message, this will be an even bigger red flag that it's a scam. I'M A BROKER! NOT THE OWNER OF THE COINS ! I'm INTERMEDIARY!
You have quite a foul mouth for someone doing billion dollar deals! And you speak many languages. Or is that Google Translate talking? I'm surprised it took you that long to get red trust. |
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But despite not being active on those boards you're still finding the shitposters that you list in your threads so giving you the delete button or the banhammer would make sense. Perhaps the patroller thing or whatever it is that would let you nuke newbies. I'm not sure what "patroller" stands for nowadays. As far as I know, any Staff is patroller, and only Mod on their own subforum. But I'm not sure. Finding spammers through patrol is quite easy, manually checking them is much more work. I'd love to have my own nuke button, and I guess this will happen: While just banning "a few" of the Newbie spammers I listed, BitRentX ran out of nukes: @sapta: let me know when you're ready for more, I can keep you busy all day Aaaand, there goes my limit. I'll look into it again later tomorrow if there's some more countries to nuke left. I didn't know there is such a limit for Mods. That means I can entertain more than one Mod, just nuking Newbies. It doesn't feel right that a spammer can create more accounts than a Mod can ban. That means it's a lost cause. Welsh has reported 36,000+ posts
Holy crap... he could replace all moderators at once. That means he keeps them all quite busy I think BitRentX is the one Mod who takes care of most of my Meta-thread-reports. |
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Does anyone have a link to the latest post reporting stats? I would imagine Welsh and LoyceV are up there near the top. Shouldn't be any harm in assigning them to some shitposting megathread board, perhaps for a trial period. I haven't seen fresh reporting stats in a while. This is mine: You have reported 3475 posts with 98% accuracy (3181 good, 66 bad, 228 unhandled) I think I report larger number of usernames in Meta threads than I report individual posts. And as much as I like the endorsements, I don't think I'm very likely to become a Mod. I've seen much younger accounts with much less activity than me as Mod, but they're active on local boards. I'm not really active on any of the big spam boards. I do know I've had a hand in getting a few thousand spammers banned though, so that's nice |
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With my account I have the seed phrase but not the private key. My goal is to export the funds from this account, to another wallet which shows they are there. When entered my seed phrase on Electrum i thought it was would bring up my original HD account, as it would do if you entered the private key. This wasn't the case. Do you know any way in which I can export the funds from my Bither HD account using the seed phrase? Or how I can access the private key for this HD account using the known seed phrase?
I've just created a new HD account on my phone. I didn't expect it would ask me to write down another seed phrase, as I already had one on that wallet. To use Enter Seed in Electrum, I have to click Options > BIP39 seed. Default derivation: m/44'/0'/0' This instantly gives me the same address I got from Bither. From my Bither HD account, I can click HD Account Seed Phrase again, and it gives the seed phrase I've imported in Electrum. If you can export your seed from your HD-account in Bither, you should be able to import it into Electrum just like I did. |
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This is my main problem. As the address I sent my bitcoins to is an "HD account" (I did that unknowingly) I cannot find a private key on my desktop anywhere. I also cannot seem to input my seed phrase to generate a private key on any application. On Bither I can easily find private keys for my other "hot wallets" which are available, but not the HD account which I sent these funds to. I'm confused Usually, a "HD account" means the private key is derived from the seed phrase, which is a good thing. I would expect all your addresses to be derived from the seed phrase, so I'm not sure what Bittrex means with a "hot wallet". Unless you imported them or something. I've only used Bither to import, never used their own generated keys, so I can't really talk from experience. |
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So I have looked at Electrum and have managed to add my HD account but it is on watch only as all I did was enter the address. However it does show the funds are available. Importing the address doesn't help you, anybody can do that. I went on to click open new/ restore, selected standard wallet, then indicated that I had already got a seed. I added the seed phrase from my old account and eventually my wallet was added to electrum, however this wallet has got a different bitcoin address and does not show my funds. My guess is you need to change the Derivation Path, but I can't find which exact path Bither uses. Do you know if there is any other way around that using electrum? Or do you think it is just not compatible? Can't you try to export the private key again? On my Android Bither, I can just click an address, it gives me Detail. Then click the three dots "..." on the right-top, it shows Private Key Management. Then, Private Key Text shows me my private key. |
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I assume you already have a backup of your "HD account seed phrase". If not, you should back it up now. I'm not sure if the seed phrase is compatible with Electrum (as Bither supports more than just Bitcoin), but you can try it. If it works, you're good to go. Bither uses 12 words too, so chances are it just works out of the box. If that doesn't work, you can enter your seed phrase into Mnemonic Code Converter, but before you do, make sure you take the necessary security precautions (short version: do it offline running from a LIVE Linux CD, and don't go online again before wiping it from memory). Both the developer and CEO of the company haven't been active on Twitter since 2015 and I cannot download the Bither app from the US or UK app store. I've used the app on Android (NL) not so long ago, and had no problem downloading it. From what you're saying, this all seems fixable. If anyone can help it would be largely appreciated and would warrant a BTC reward because I would be over the moon. Chances are spammers will send you private messages. Don't trust them! |
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