https://www.pcmag.com/news/354711/photobucket-breaks-image-links-across-the-internet
Want embedded Photobucket images to continue loading in forums or on your website? Be prepared to pay $399 per year.


They are evil..
Everyone on forums for years and years used photobucket to host their pics for their build threads, diy tutorials, and a lot of valuable information/content has been lost due to photobucket getting greedy..

The forums are like mostly car forums.. Tons of pics of car parts basically..

If you could do it easily with a script more power to ya..
The job doesn't have to be done super fast..

The big problem is photobucker doesn't let you even download all of your photos in one shot anymore. You have to do them all individually and their spammy site takes forever to load each page, then you have 1,000 pics to do, and fix links, huge job I don't want to do..


If you could just make a script do it all.. Wow... I'd be impressed..

I see this..
I'll get with you in a bit and maybe you can do it..

It was 404, it seems to be working now and I'll keep an eye on your project here..

Edit: It's giving me the "We Couldn't Find That Page" error now..

I think he means using alts to make things to report to get merit.. Like make a shitpost and then report your own post..


I don't see a problem with him giving merit this way as long as you trust him not to be selling merit.. You aren't accusing him of that are you?


As far as the 500 alts scheme.. Don't you think xandry would catch on to that and stop it?


OP, you got a heck of a good chunk of your merit by helping mods and the forum police didn't you?

And how do you do this without leaving my account vulnerable to you???

BTW, your website doesn't seem to be working..

I would like to see this..

UGH, I must have overlooked that part..
I just did mine but didn't do the paper.. It'll probably screw me..

I haven't used polo in quite a while anyway..

Here is a good one.. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1173703.0
Maybe some epic scam threads like this
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306301.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1171059.0

If you could do a search for the oldest merited posts, you might find great stuff..
I might drop more in this post when I think of them..

Bounty hunters are a bit frowned upon and less likely to get merit..

But.. Their is a shit ton of merit wasted on legendary accounts..
Just look in this thread at how much..

Yeah you guys make great posts all the time and are worthy of "merit".. I'm not arguing that at all..

But you sources, come one.. You can do a better job of distributing merit to where it's needed than that..
Like your trying to pad your sent merit count, get to the top of that generosity list..

Hard to find posters worthy of merit that need merit? Yeah I feel ya..
Maybe you should give posters that need merit more.. Like 3 instead of 1, or 5 instead of 2..

Before I give my smerits out I usually even check post histories and try to give it to posters that it will actually make a difference to..

It would be so easy to have just dumped my smerits on legendaries, piece of cake, but I put more effort in to my merits sent than that..

Say I was to give you the login to a forum account and a photobucket account..
I would then want you to rehost all the photobucket pics and fix all of the links to the pics, to where it would last..

Do you know a good way of doing this?
Give me a quote of what you would charge per 100 pictures fixed..

If you can do a good job, I know a LOT of people that might like to use your service.. I might be able to get you a lot of work..

Yes, but half the amount..
.5 for 1

I don't think their is any active merit burning going on so don't worry about that.. I know of a suggestion of it but I don't think it is going to happen..


Well they aren't for ranking up your friends account because they asked you to..
I give merits to good posts made by members I think deserve to rank up.. I try..
You are not supposed to give a lot to 1 or 2 people like that.. It is very discouraged..

I'm sure you can find threads to read on "how to use merits", probably even in your best language..

Don't worry about the post, what's in the past is in the past with merits for the most part..

I don't think I qualify for very trusted so I have been watching this thread for a chance to get in.. Darkstar even turned down a staff member..
I like that their is no minimum post limit so I wouldn't have to worry about it. I don't post a lot all of the time.. It would be nice to get paid something for my posts though..
If any slots do open, I bet competition for them will be fierce..
I've been thinking about signature shopping but nothing I see has me apping..

Do you really need me to explain it to you?
I already posted my position against taking action on merit problems, I was looking for the quote of theymos that TP mentioned but I gave up..


VeryFunnny - Did you look at the links? Notice how these merit histories have blocks of consecutive merit sent to other accounts?
Notice that if you click through these users with the blocks of merit, you easily come across all of those users giving eachother these blocks of consecutive merit, in like a trail..

It does not look good..
You should calm down about it before you turn it into...

Just that bit I posted jumped out at me so much that I guess I had to comment on it.. I told you I do not want to pursue it any further, if you really want me to explain it to you in great detail then I will have to go back to it, examine it closely to make sure I have all the details and have them correct, and who knows what else I will find..

I'm not trying to get you tagged but if you want to draw all sorts of attention to it you might draw that attention..
Look at you last post, you are going to incriminate yourself..

Giving 50 merit to one user and... Wow.. Exactly 50 merits to the other guy too eh? That's odd don't you think? I just noticed..
Really, you probably don't want me to explain it any further.. Just leave it be..

I thought it was decided to NOT take action against merit abuse cases anymore, to just let them be and wait for the merit airdrop to run out..

That's as far down the wormhole I want to go..

I think whatever the case is you don't face any repercussions anyway, other than people commenting on it..

Holy crap the merit trading wormhole goes deep!

mellon https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=339752

sabinas  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=639205

BOMG  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1033117

First1by https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=988901

Doging https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=224226

tommyj1 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=308762

PALADYN https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1212054

Lerikaweb https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1433110

Ferapont https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1110403

I'll take 9 for my 2nd pick

You wouldn't understand.. We are nonconformists..
jackg gets it..

I have been using this it seems forever.. https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/bitfinex/btcusd

Here is one for you..
http://archive.is/zbknc