You are wrong this time. Stop spinning this incident.
Bill Gator's copy and paste post got caught by a sweeping site-wide plagiarism bot. And then he made the fatal mistake of admitting he bought the account to say he didn't make the old post by the previous owner, how stupid. Thus all the old circumstantial evidence suddenly fits.
You are just as biased as the ones you are accusing of. Never thought I'd merit "actisstupidname" but here we are. And also i do not belive in coincidences.Its funny these coincidences of high ranked people getting banned always happen when speaking up against a specific group. Chi and Lone Shark were banned for plagiarism. They also got unbanned... after much more hassle. Who knows what happens behind the scenes. Perhaps the issue would not have been reported at all if he was part of the "gang" who runs this bot and how it it filtered seems currently unknown. Anyone is able to create a similar bot and pore through profiles' post histories. What they choose to do with the information is different. At the end of the day, it's another ban in the name of anti-plagiarism. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hear, hear!
Oh dear.
Resentment resides in residual recumbent renegades
End of days, they beckon, screeching at clandestine shades
Forsooth, godspeed, attentive of their creeds
Yet hypocritical drivel forces groveling at one's knees
A compendium of knowledge, basking in effervescence
Abandoned, unpursued by the reckless, digging more holes for vengeance |
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good project sir when bounty?
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Is that you game-protect? A typical approach for people who are losing an argument is to redirect the topic and attention to something completely irrelevant from what is being discussed. Blanket statements, along with ad-hominem attacks, are great at disrupting discourse. The only problem is: there has to be useful discourse in the first place to disrupt.
A turncoat affair against virtue aware; ignorance or mal-intent, with great enough disarray the two are of no difference. |
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I don't think how they conducted themselves is very professional, but I would not consider being unprofessional a reason to call the person a scammer. This is why the trust system, which deals in more "absolutes" rather than a gradient, needs a secondary proponent of reputation. Especially after the guest change with the scammer notice. You can choose to think that someone is untrustworthy or shady and not a scammer. |
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That just proves that this forum is going down, so you want to tag the people running this signature, or the ones promoting the signature because these are two different things. Of course you will tag this way only signatures approved by the communists being on DT will be allowed. Isn't communist about workers controlling the means of production?
I don't think that signature campaigns that incentivize spam should be allowed to proliferate on the forum. Paying for someone to post up to 1000+ times is certainly not something that benefits the forum... is it? |
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Having "too few people" that met the sufficient requirements does not mean that they get to omit the prize from the lot. There was no stipulation that contained such a remark. https://archive.is/up66g
If you can't trust their word to give away a prize that they had no issue with a week prior, then how can you trust them at all? |
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And I have seen you give away merit (the max you owned) to people that support your position.  Difference? Vod has accused me of giving 50 merit to a post that supported my position. I asked for an example and received no response. I have done neither. You received no response because that's not what he said. "max you owned" :=/= 50 merit |
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Presumably, Vod is purposefully giving merit inappropriately in an effort to get fired as a merit source No shit sherlock. |
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Difference? One of you has double the earned merit as the other. |
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I will bet 1 person here 0.000001 btc that if OG gets audited he will get a refund Open a lightning channel  |
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Is it even real! Mods are banning account for plagiarism cases of more than 2 years old!
How? Mods are using some bots now or what? Someone could be. It's not (too) difficult if you think about what you have to do.
Time doesn't really matter... if you plagiarized, you plagiarized. Period. |
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Is the only problem that of the 500 BTC risked amount?
Because AFAIK few people have problems with substantiating ratings based on outsider insight (i.e. not being part of the transaction).
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Plagiarism is undoubtedly both very wrong, and a major problem within the forum, but I don't see the benefit of removing someone who only did damage (plagiarized) years ago, especially if they are now otherwise being a member who is contributing to the forum. There's a flaw in this ideology. Let me simplify the structure of my thoughts into four alternative timelines for a given plagiarist. P:= plagiarizing user S:= plagiarized post. 1) P posts S. No one catches onto P. P, over a long time, contributes much to the forum. S is discovered years later. P is let go scot-free. 2) P posts S. No one catches onto P. P is an average user and much time passes. S is discovered years later. P is permanently banned. 3) P posts S. No one catches onto P. P is trying to contribute to the forum: they add some contribution. S is discovered weeks later. P is permanently banned. 4) P posts S. No one catches onto P. P is not trying to contribute to the forum. S is discovered weeks later. P is permanently banned. The difference between 1 and 3 is the time between the discovery of S and the time it was posted. One user is pardoned because of their contributions. Another is not because they did not fulfill the baseline requirements of minimum contribution. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Retort: "They should have contributed right away!" If both users 1 and 3 had the same localized post quality and contributory status, the situation would play our similarly. (after all, if you're copy-pasting, it's unlikely your post quality suddenly spikes) |
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I'd be in favor of a ban that would basically turn high-rank offenders into newbies (take away merits, signature, etc) but let them keep their account and continue on the forum. Most would disappear anyway, since they're here for money only. This has been proposed is some shape or form multiple times but I wouldn't hold my breath. For now the only path is to get theymos' personal attention with a "good for the forum" appeal and get the permaban downgraded to temp+sig ban. Given that we know sig bans can be given out and are able to be mass-distributed (e.g. YoBit) I would be interested in seeing the effects of turning permbans into 1 month user ban + 1 year (or more) signature bans. This bottlenecks sig spammers as they are cut from the main incentive but provides an opportunity for genuine users to return after a cooling period. (They still deserve a punishment) |
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The more I think about it the more I'm convinced that actmyname is subtly trolling us... "much-needed forum space" - it's not really limited, is it?  Lest ye face the consequences, it would be advised to prevent oneself from offering consumables to a troll. An ill-fated action may indeed lead to an ill-fated future. |
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Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate.
Let's go for some Macca's ye cunt and I'll show you my keys.
Ya best get on wit me coin feh schedulin' me posts to diff'rent time zones, that's how dedicated I was to the satoshi oath. Anonymity innit, even sayin' I hate privacy
I'm a right fair dinkum idnit. Got a vision built like a brick shit house.
Got 'te say...
Freedom of Speech above all else? Say whatever you want without arbitrary exceptions?
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I personally greatly prefer Discord due to it being more clean and organized, and I personally don't like to use my mobile number to register on Telegram. But hey. I'll join either! Slack, Keybase, Telegram are (IMO) better than Discord. Voice chat is not a necessity. |
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If a user is banned for plagiarism, why aren't they linked the exact post in question?
The answer was giving by moderator recently. That's time consuming, there are hundreds of accounts that needs banning, and the mods have to click many times in the profile,the Ctrl+ A, C, V, Tab few times if we need to do that...
I acquiesce: I have not seen that thread. However, how about this? Keep "plagiarism" and "spam" aside. Set it to: "You were banned for plagiarism." or "You were banned for insubstantial posts, also known as spam." |
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