But who gives merits?
Are each other's alts doing this?
No. Now, are large forum merit sources distributing these merits to these spammers? I have serious doubts.
Yes. Not sure why you'd have doubts about that - read 10-20 pages of WO and it's quite obvious. Merit sources are not infallible. And perhaps in this case they believe that Bitcoin-bullish posts (even low-effort ones) deserve merits. It all comes down to this: "do I want to see more posts like this in this forum/thread/etc". I don't. I guess nutildah doesn't either. Users who send merit for those posts apparently do. I don't think anyone's credibility is being questioned here. It's just a difference of opinions. And as one of the WO "regulars" explained to us peasants, our opinions don't matter anyway. |
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The point is that merit hunters don't need the WO topic for that. They can create topics themselves, and give merit to alts.
Saying that the sources of merits are not giving merits to those who deserve it in this topic is the same as saying that they do not have a good criteria for giving merits throughout the forum. And honestly I don't believe it!
I don't think the argument is that those who deserve merit don't receive it, it's about those who don't deserve it (shitposters) receiving it. Anyway, WO is where posting low-effort twitter copypasta can get you merits (especially if it's "bullish"), and shitposters are exploiting that. There aren't many, if any, other places on the forum like that. So your extrapolation here is incorrect. |
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Glorious leader not happy with build quality... who could have thought that having all those straight edges would make amplify Tesla's panel gap issue. Well, any half-decent auto designed would have, but no worries, the boss will send a mean e-mail and physics will bend to his will. Due to the nature of Cybertruck, which is made of bright metal with mostly straight edges, any dimensional variation shows up like a sore thumb.
All parts for this vehicle, whether internal or from suppliers, need to be designed and built to sub 10 micron accuracy.
That means all part dimensions need to be to the third decimal place in millimeters and tolerances need be specified in single digit microns. If LEGO and soda cans, which are very low cost, can do this, so can we.
Precision predicates perfectionism.
Elon
Time to redesign it and make it out of molded plastic because LEGO. |
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Question @theymos: what if a custodial website owner ended all communications, disabled withdrawals, still accepts deposits, but had enough money in escrow to cover all current victims?
If a scammer steals money and leaves escrow to deal with the fallout (correct me if I'm wrong but that seems to have happened here) then I don't think this counts as the flagged user making the victims whole, like the flag description says. If the scammer themselves had communicated/refunded/etc then it might make the flag invalid but skimming the thread I can see that even the escrow refunds were not "whole" so it's a moot point. The flag seems to be valid IMO. |
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Ummm, NO I meant first block after 1:59:59 p.m. EST 8/31 !!!  LOL cheating starts even before the season... Speaking of cheaters, has Brady unretired yet? I haven't been following the offseason and I'm having a blast with mock drafts... most names that I know seem to be with different teams than I remember. Or I'm just getting senile. |
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Seems the servers are down and can't access the site.
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Tried multiple browsers and even on different device still same hope its just a temporary. Is there anyone else having the same issue as me?
Edit 1: I posted image but can't able see it either so its the issue related due to forum I guess.
Edit 2: Now it is working fine.
It's a DNS issue so probably local to you or your internet provider. The error message is kinda weird too, not the typical "Server Not Found". If it happens again you can try something like this (assuming you are able to access other sites): https://dnschecker.org/and see if it finds bpip.org. |
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And about the hash lottery I think that until we can confirm the participation of everyone we should not go through it as there is still a free spot on the league, however if there are no objections I am willing to do the hash lottery but I want to propose a small change.
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Fine with me. I'm no mathematician but it seems like this wouldn't screw up anyone's chances. |
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My votes: RULES CHANGES:
Playoff spots:
b)6
Payout places
b)2*
replace kicker with a flex spot
b) no*
waiver method
a)reverse order
7pm Monday was what we discussed in discord, if that works for everyone else?
EST??? I believe so, yeah. Fine with me. |
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Even if I tried really hard to squint and pretend that this story makes any sense, how could one possibly not know how much they need to borrow?
500... or 1000. But I think even $5 would be profitable for a zero-effort newbie loan scam.
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I guess Soros is paying you a lot for making maga jesus putin conspiratards look so immensely dumb.
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Maybe the OG’s of the thread should be the only guys with a say on what happens going forward.
Good point. Maybe the merits received in WO should be visible/usable (e.g. with regards to rank) only in WO. |
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I think a merit source should uphold a higher standard regardless of which smerits they use. As opposed to non-source merit senders who can do almost whatever they please with their earned smerits.
Imho, even us non merit sources should have some standard because if I tend to merit certain type of shitposts, that can only encourage more members to do more of those as that's what those lemmings tend to do. Ideally we should all encourage good posting habits with our merits... but let's be real, you can't expect everyone to follow some "high quality" guidelines that would be highly subjective anyway. However you can and should expect the ~100 (or whatever the number is nowadays) merit sources to try to avoid meriting obvious merit farmers/beggars/etc. Again, probably not possible to avoid that completely, some shitposters will be able to get some crumbs, but they're lazy AF so if they can no longer get easy merits for memes in WO they'll probably go shitpost somewhere else, where hopefully some moderation still exists and they can be reported. I meant I sent most of merits in the WO regardless earned or source…
But my reasoning is ok? Of sending bigger chunks to members I believe re sending higher quality postings etc…?
Especially when i’m out of Belgium like right now (EPT occupation @barcelona) so little time … but still distributing merits … but On especially these occasions I chose to sent them for quality re-sent value instead of hoarding.
Meh it’s just about avoiding Alt and scam accounts and I think I mostly avoid them
Correct, theymos has said that sending big chunks of merits is better than hoarding / not sending them at all, and if you send them to a known quality poster (and hopefully someone who also distributes received smerits responsibly) you're doing ok. |
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Hmmm…. I do merit the WO mostly from my source merits
I don't believe source merits are distinguishable.. are they? .. and then.. should they be? o_0 (hmm..) Not really distinguishable for a receiver of merits or for an outside observer, but a merit source can see how many source smerits and earned smerits they have and the source smerits get sent first. So the merit source knows which ones are being used on a particular post... not sure if that really matters though (in this context). I think a merit source should uphold a higher standard regardless of which smerits they use. As opposed to non-source merit senders who can do almost whatever they please with their earned smerits. |
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Surovikian taking over Wagner
LOL what now? The ghost of Surovikin taking over the ghost of Wagner (Utkin)? Sounds a bit too surreal even for you. |
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@Sakanwa if you want to repay your loan now, my wallet address is in my profile.
The OP asked for my help, so I may as well roll up my sleeves once again.
Why are you asking the borrower to send money to you? Where did the OP ask you to take their money? There is someone pretending to be the OP (and refusing to sign a message) but even that user didn't ask you to take the money so your interpretation of "help" is once again completely detached from reality. |
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If your criticism is in a positive way then I'll do whatever I can to improve the quality of my posts even more, and if you're just criticizing me because of some personal issues which I don't think we have, then that's something that I can't really change.
It's not my responsibility to tailor criticism to some made-up criteria, it is your responsibility to not post for the sake of your campaign quota and/or merits. To be clear, these days I don't give much of a shit anymore about shitposters - it's easy enough to ignore them and/or avoid threads where they congregate. However when I notice someone like you stepping into a thread without reading it, and posting a couple of paragraphs of generic tripe - I may point that out. Most of the time said shitposters are happy to respond with more padding to their post count so it's not like I'm hurting the primary reason of your presence here, am I?
As for WO - at least the thread is somewhat about Bitcoin. Even if someone gets a merit for a copypasta meme from twitter (or whatever it's called today) that's probably not as bad as getting merits e.g. on altcoin or bounty boards. So if we were to disable merits somewhere (which we almost certainly won't) I'd start there. |
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As for your accusations, I did nothing wrong. I can use my private keys however I want and I lived up to my end of the treasury agreement perfectly. The person who didn’t was theymos, who went years without paying me and then didn’t compensate me for the forked coins I missed out on while I gave him the forked coins I didn’t have to according to our agreement, but who cares about reality right?
This sounds as if you have grounds for a flag and/or red trust on theymos, but instead you have posted a positive trust rating for him. So you're either lying or lying. |
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Cutting merits off completely might be too harsh although some merit sources in that thread could do better. It takes just a few seconds to stop and think "does this post contribute anything positive to this forum (or thread)" before hitting that merit button. Some of them clearly don't do that and this goes against the intent of the merit system IMO. Unfortunately evaluating this and giving them some guidance and/or restricting their merit allocation is not something I imagine theymos has time for, and if anyone else tries to "investigate" then it would likely result in bias accusations etc. But if someone were to attempt it, I think the percentage of merits earned inside WO vs outside of WO, particularly for low-rank bounty-and-signature users from non-English boards would be a good starting point. If it looks like this... might be a problem:    Edit: spellign.
Disabling of merits on that thread will be an injustice to the senior and most well known members who have been active on that thread for a long time. Some of those members don't post on other threads at all, and if merits are disabled on that thread then their accounts may also not get new merits. That's actually not a problem because those members really don't need or care about merits that much because as far as I have noticed that none of them is in a signature campaign and they don't really care about signature campaigns at all.
The most members of the thread are true Bitcoin enthusiasts and they love to spend their time on that thread, and whenever they see a good post on that thread they can't stop themselves from sending merits to those posts. I think nothing is wrong in that kind of merit sending and the ones who are basically there for merit fishing won't get any better even if they receive 1000 merits which are required for legendary rank. I don't think that any manager would accept such merit fishers in their campaigns because most of the managers want high quality posters who could create useful posts for promotion of a campaign.
You're a living example of campaign managers not giving a shit about "quality" or "useful" or anything of the sort. The irony of you posting in the "AI spam" thread hasn't escaped me either. |
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And more news about it. It wasn't Prigozhin that died (maybe).
I thought your were a big fan of Putin's "new world order". Why backpedal now? Own it, a deranged dictator doing deranged things, that's exactly what you've been shilling here for 200+ pages. |
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