Latest posts of: malevolent

They are not the most Bitcoin-friendly marketplace, though they do allow people to list some Bitcoin-related products.

Quote from: Wardrick on November 28, 2014, 12:30:01 AM

Does anyone have an update on what happened to TangibleCryptography? I know D&T worked for him and their service was shut down by the state.

I always thought D&T = TC

Some of us have life outside the forums...

Wyslij mi link na PW bo jest tutaj automatycznie usuwany.

Quote from: awesome31312 on October 24, 2014, 08:22:42 AM

And who decides what posts are garbage and what posts aren't? I don't like other users making that decision for me.

Mods and admins.

Quote from: awesome31312 on October 24, 2014, 08:22:42 AM

I don't like other users making that decision for me.

There are other Bitcoin forums.

Quote from: awesome31312 on October 24, 2014, 08:22:42 AM

The internet is supposed to be about liberation and freedom.

Sure. Part of that is freedom to set any rules one wants.

Quote from: QuestionAuthority on October 22, 2014, 05:00:49 PM

If they leave because they can't make money posting then they never really cared about Bitcoin anyway. These people wouldn't care if this was an auto parts forum. They would just run around and post about alternators. I can see only one good reason to allow it. The increased site traffic from these people makes the forums advertisement space more valuable.

I don't care about those that are here only for the "free" BTC, but there are quite a few users with ad signatures whose posts aren't spammy.

Quote from: QuestionAuthority on October 22, 2014, 05:00:49 PM

The increased site traffic from these people makes the forums advertisement space more valuable.

I'm not so sure. Bitcoin companies can promote their services by winning forum ad slot auctions and by paying people to post with ads in their signatures. Without signature advertising they will only be left with forum ads, which would drive the prices up.

Quote from: QuestionAuthority on October 22, 2014, 03:37:57 PM

Isn't anyone in power concerned that this practice makes Reddit more valuable for real information?

We're thinking about the issue, and a lot of those ad signature spammers eventually get tempbanned (or permabanned), but we haven't yet decided what/if should be done to prevent the lowering of the quality of discourse without taking too much of peoples' freedom away. After all, signature advertising is also a great and simple way for newbies to earn and learn about Bitcoin first-handedly.

As for Reddit... it is not a bad place for news and circle-jerking, but it is unsuitable for longer and intelligent discussions.

Quote from: QuestionAuthority on October 19, 2014, 10:17:06 PM

Thanks for the detailed answer. That would never be worth it for me. Kluge auctioned his signature for (at current price) $135 earned over a 6 month period. I'm retired now but when I worked I made more than that in the typical morning, afternoons were better. I suppose if you're a kid looking for a way to make some cash with no other way available it could get you some beer money. If you have the ability to work a part time job then the time involved posting that much for beer money wouldn't be worth the effort.

Plenty of people in 3rd world and former 2nd world countries would be happy to earn extra money in such a relatively effortless way. I live in an OECD country and yet I can find quite a few compatriots, some of them in their 30s, that can make a living from participating in ad signature campaigns.

I have been deleting off-topic posts in this topic since around March. It is only now that I announced my presence to redirect people to a different topic.
If you'd like to discuss the moderation of this topic, start a topic in Meta:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=24.0

Further off-topic posts will be deleted

Please stay on topic.

Off-topic discussion was split and moved to Politics & Society: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=824605.999999

Quote from: 1Referee on October 11, 2014, 03:47:00 PM

What is wrong? Gratis means free in Dutch and Belgium language.
You can use it everywhere if you want, but these .gratis domains are perfectly suitable in the Netherlands or Belgium.
Perhaps I should have defined my post better.

The word "only" gives an impression that these domains are not "usable" outside Netherlands and Belgium. Which is something I disagree with, because I knew the word "gratis" is used in many other countries (quoted in post #4).

This topic has been moved to Trashcan.

Trolling and begging.

Sig ad + useless topic -----------> Trashcan

Quote from: QuestionAuthority on October 11, 2014, 02:18:52 PM

Sorry, it's probably a stupid question but what is "vote rigging".

^ what hilariousandco said, I should have used the term "poll rigging". Now that Newbies can no longer vote in polls, so it's not a problem anymore (at least it requires more effort), but there may be other instances where a large amount of accounts has to be banned.

Quote from: QuestionAuthority on October 11, 2014, 02:18:52 PM

On the topic of scamming can you look at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=819515.0. The guy is a serious spammer kook that's sending me wierd PMs.

Block him: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=72795;sa=pmprefs

Report him if tries to get around it by creating a new account.