Get a few different brands in and have a taste test haha. I really doubt the Khabib vs Mayweather fight will happen. They'll either both fight Mcgregor again of Floyd will get the Manny rematch sorted. I think it's probably likely both Khabib and Mcgregor will have other fights before meeting again though.


Floyd knows this and this is why these fights are easy money for him and why he's so willing to do them. They're big money because they get fans from both sports and even casual fans who just get drawn into the hype and cough up for the pay per view. Floyd really isn't going to risk tarnishing his unbeaten run though so he'll only take fights he knows he's got a very good chance of winning and his opponents just being MMA fighters are much easier for him. Khabib would probably be far easier to beat than McGregor because McGregor has a dangerous left and Khabib just finishes people almost exclusively on the ground which is obviously useless in a boxing match.

Then why do it? This is just yet another pointless thread whining about nothing and we've been over these arguments dozens of times.


So we shouldn't give merits if there's misspelled words or grammar errors? I think I've met very few people online who have perfect grammar (including myself) and don't make typos every once in a while, but that doesn't change the content of the post. It's the effort and point of the content we should be taking into consideration. As long as a post isn't pure spam or crap then it's up for being merited. Merit is just a system to stop the worse of the worst from rising though the ranks and it works in that respect. Sure, it's not easy to get merit but I don't think it should be given to people just for bashing away at a keyboard.


Some context would be nice. What are we meant to do with three contentless posts? They could be the best or worst posts in the world for all we know and you may or may not have an argument here but context is key.

Edit:  at the ones you have used as examples. Those are all threads that do deserve lots of merit. I think if a newbie account would have posted them they would have got a similar amount. Believe it or not there are actually newbies that come here and make good to great posts. They're just dwarfed by the gazillions that come here and have no clue what they're meant to be doing here. I've literally seen dozens of newbies come and there first post is what do I do here, or how do I earn, because they've literally just been told they can earn good money here but have no idea what bitcoin is or how they can get it for free, and that's why we need the merit system to curb that behaviour from those sorts of users. If they came here and made a worthwhile thread then I'm sure they'd get appropriate merit, but they usually don't. Stick around and contribute and you'll likely get some pretty fast.


Negative feedback as in comments? Well, yeah. People are tired of the same old merits make the rich get richer and people only give them to the friends bullshit just because they haven't received any merits. 9 times out of 10 they don't deserve them.


I wish this would fit in my personal text.


I know, right? Didn't even include the content of the actual posts. It seems at least one of them is for reporting plagiarism. If someone makes a post that exposes accounts copy and pasting then the time and effort is usually considered meritable. Sometimes people post dozens of accounts in one post, but because you conveniently left out the content we can't possibly comment further on that.

Whether it's admirable or not is up for debate but mdayonliner was obviously just hoping that the feedback would be removed if he stayed around and kept contributing for a bit. It was just his last ditch attempt to get it removed as there's no other option for him really unless you can build up some positive trades to neutralise it. He's moved on to another account now though, and I'm pretty sure I know which one it is already haha. I swear I'm developing a sixth sense for finding alts just by the way they type. I've probably spent too much time on this board  .

Yeah, very annoyed at the Fiorentina draw. They were one-nil up as well but only for ten minutes. All the others came in as well and would have just needed Arsenal tonight for a win.

Had Everton down as 1-0 on the predictor so annoyed at that late second goal.


They're both attacking teams and I think there'll be a few goals and Leicester can certainly get one. If I had to bet I'd go with over 2.5 goals but I'll be leaving this game alone other than the predictor.

Mayweather will do whatever will get him the most money. I'm honestly not sure if Khabib would get more interest than another fight with Manny and I'm sure that there's still more money and interest from the Manny fight. The McGregor fight was the money fight at the time and it's the only reason it happened. I'm sure there would still be much more money/interest in another McGregor fight than Khabib. Khabib might be the champion and better MMA fighter, but he still doesn't have the McGregor brand or hype. Khabib probably isn't as money motivated as Connor is either.


Whisky tastes like Whiskey. And people who 'talk' about or review alcohol just chat shit regardless of what they're reviewing: wine, beer, spirits, whatever. Go try it and see if you taste any 'floral notes', 'ginger spice' or 'baked apple' lol. There's been tests where wine critics have been given cheap wine but in expensive bottles and vice versa and they think it's the greatest thing ever. I'm sure Connor's whiskey isn't the worst but it won't be the best either, but people will be biased when reviewing it. If you like Connor you'll probably think it's great. If you don't then it'll be terrible. If you don't care either way then it'll probably just be ok. There'll be a lot of snobs about as well who won't like it just because it's new.

Regardless, people are idiots and will buy it just because it's McGregors. He probably doesn't even care about whisky himself but it's something that could make him insanely rich if he can promote it to become popular enough. Alcohol is big business these days, especially if you can get celebs to make it cool and 'popping'. Have you seen how much Diddy made from Ciroc? He made that brand via his promotion and now I think it's one of the most profitable premium vodkas


 . All Khabib can do is make people tap out. Which he obviously won't be able to do in a boxing fight. It would be boring. There'll be more interest in either of them fighting McGregor again.


Why would anyone want to get punched in the face for a career. Money. That's all this is about? All three parties involved are just looking to make the most amount of money, especially Mayweather and Manny as their careers are coming to an end. Most big boxers do these money fights. Even the greats like Ali just started doing stupid fights for the money because he needed it. Give me a million and I'll fight them both at the same time.

I dunno. It seemed to be an issue with the ease at which bots seemed to be signing up and abusing things here.


Ha. I can imagine it will be incredibly tedious/mind-numbing work, but the people that do this for a living probably prefer it to whatever the alternative is for them - unemployment or something even worse. I think I'd rather fill out captchas all day than clean the men's toilets of a club or something, but probably not for $0.003 per one . I guess it's something to be thankful for that this isn't our only option in life.

I wouldn't say most, but obviously I have no facts to back this up. I think the case will likely be that most actually just do it manually, especially the smaller scale farmers who just come here to earn a little extra in their spare time. They probably have no idea about bots that do this or where to even get one so they'll either just find a post in a big thread and copy it, or sometimes they post it into a word-spinner and then post that to give them an extra layer or protection against detection. It's really simple and requires very little effort. Most are likely 'forced' to do this due to the fact that they can't speak English to an acceptable standard if at all. Then of course there will be the smarter users (or abusers) who will have bots that do this all for them, but I think they'll be amongst the minority (though they probably generate the most amount of spam given that it's automated). Hopefully merit will have thrown a huge spanner in the works of the bot abusers now but previously they will have been raking it in with ICO campaigns who would accept anyone and pay for anything with no quality checks.

I really don't get why we just don't let people buy higher donator titles that come with the benefits of ranks (like bigger signatures and avatars etc). The account market is just such a shady business now and only really causes scams and spam. Most people are either just selling non-existent accounts that they don't even have or hacked ones if they do. I'd bet that most of the people who even try buy accounts these days get scammed as there's no protection for them as most escrows wont want to get involved. If we're going to allow account sales then just let users buy the benefits of the rank from the forum and we essentially shut down the market in the process. It's win-win to me. We already have Copper Membership so Silver and Gold ones should be added. It would also shut up all the whiners who complain at merit because at least there's a legal fix for them to bypass ranks; they just have to cough up for it.

The Pharmacist, actmyname & Vod are actually part of the Bitcointalk Illuminati, not mafia. They already control the forum. Theymos is just a front.

Honestly, sometimes I think we should just get rid of the trust system and just let users leave feedback that doesn't effect a score, but of course this would really only benefit scammers who would then have a field day without their red paint, but maybe we should just let people be reckless with their own money. Whatever we do to try curb abuse people will just abuse that or find a way to game it so there's nothing we can really do to please everyone.

I was trying to think of solutions for alternative captchas as bypassing them automatically is obviously a huge problem with bots, but I get the feeling that if there was one it would have been implemented by now (and there are probably far smarter people than me working on this). It might help if anyone knows how they're most frequently bypassed. If they can't be done by a bot automatically does that mean they have to be done by a human click farm somewhere being paid to enter them? If so, how do they actually do them? Do they have a program that just gives them the captcha to fill out on demand? Would browser fingerprinting and IPs help here? As in, if the browser or IP doesn't match the one that is actually implementing it on the website then it bars you? I might be fundamentally misunderstanding how they work in the first place but if I knew how they were being bypassed I could put more thought into it. Or just give up wasting my time on it haha.


Lol. Do you have an active interest in fire hydrants? Maybe you might be on to something there though. For instance, it asks you a question or shows you an image you should be familiar with based on your browsing history/cookies (though maybe this is too Orwellian for some). So for example it could show users here a bitcoin logo and ask you what that is. Obviously people here would know what it is but bots of bypass farms wouldn't.

Everything you need to know can already be found: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2766177.0

You rank up to Junior by getting one merit (will probably be very hard for you). Alternatively, you can buy a Copper Membership. You won't be a Junior Member until you get the one merit but you'll have most of the benefits of one (post images and a bigger signature etc).

We can file this one under the stupid poll thread.

Busting a few alts doesn't give you a free pass to copy and paste. The only amendment to the copy and paste = permaban rule I would be ok with would be to remove a user's signature indefinitely or for x amount of time after a temp ban expires and they possibly only get it back if they've been actively contributing during that. Most probably won't bother though because I think people only care about the fact that they can't earn money from that account anymore so it not having a signature would still essentially be a 'ban' to them.

He should be removed as merit source in my opinion. He seems to be mistaking merit for candy that he will give to anyone who asks for it.

I mean seriously:







All given 30 points by QuestionAuthority. Giving it out to anyone who asks for it is reckless and it defeats the entire purpose of the system.

I wonder if these two accounts below are related. Just saw them also posting back to back on the same signature campaigns here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1148053.msg47132697#msg47132697

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=937800 joebrook January 03, 2017
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=937250 yoseph January 02, 2017

JoeBrook is away from October 06, 2018 to October 17, 2018
yoseph is away from October 08, 2018 to October 17, 2018

There's numerous similarities between both groups of users here:

All on the same campaign
All post back to back
All lowercase usernames
Both two groups registered within days of each other and both groups within a week of each other.
All reappear from an absence within two days of each other on Oct 17th to the 18th.

You were also copying posts from here:




You sure about that? You and your "friend" sure do love overusing semi-colons;






That's not a coincidence.

The usual. Copy and pasting:

I put my free £5 bet on a five fold including Everton. They should win but I think it'll only be by a goal or two. Will then need Fiorentina, Borussia Monchengladbach,  Inter and Arsenal all to win as well though for £95. Don't normally put more than 3-folds on but I get a little bit riskier or experimental with my free bets.


Yeah, well I'd much rather watch the best of Europe than a load of mediocre English teams. Some big games as well like Manchester Utd v Juventus and Barcelona v Inter.

That board needs a dedicated moderator or two (as do all the other boards) as it doesn't have any currently, but we also probably need some sort of Beginners and Help sub for the alt coin section as it is mostly full of things to do with Alt coins and their bounties or how to earn etc. Implementing a Newbie welcome message when users sign up with links to the most commonly asked questions and helpful guides etc will also reduce the same old trash begin asked over and over again and I think that's something we should do asap.

What is the name of the account? The ban will continue to say seven days and doesn't count down but it will expire after seven. You probably just haven't waited sufficient time as it doesn't magically expire on the morning of the seventh day but after whatever time it was issued and most people who complain about this are just being impatient. For instance, if the ban was given at 5pm you'll have to wait untill then.

Content is usually checked, but it's a tedious process and sometime you can mess up. Sometimes you think you've got a hit on google but will then find it's a site that has copied this one like in this case and there are several bitcointalk mirrors you need to be weary of.


Probably not. It is a pretty scummy practice though and a few sites have done this in the past. Maybe theymos could fight them legally with cease and desists but not sure if that's something he has time for or even wants to do.

Anyway, as mainconcept already said, he is actually a copy and paster and this is the post he was spotted and banned for:



I really just wish this practice just didn't exist in the first place as it's a massive waste of time and tedious and time-consuming to detect, but as long as you can get paid to post here it's something we're going to have to continue to tackle. I'm not sure how you could ever stomp it out completely but maybe there should be some sort of auto-checker implemented to detect abuse on the go.