Is this actually the truth? I'd bet money you just decided to hop onto a brand new account as to not draw attention to your 'main' account(s).


*Sniffs* I smell something. Could that be the whiff of bullshit emanating from somewhere? So let me get this straight: You never bothered to make an account on this bitcoin forum because you didn't need one, but the merit system is the catalyst for you to start doing that? If this was true then you would have nothing to complain about. The ranking or merit system stops nobody at all from reading or even posting. It merely stops low quality posters from rising through the ranks, and I'm not sure why this has given you the passion to start posting here unless it somehow directly effects you (which I'm almost certain this is the case).


It's virtually impossible for shitposters to do so (without cheating). If I created a new anon account today I'm certain I would be able to achieve the ranks even within the timeframe it took me to get the required merit. Any decent-to-great poster should have little problem rising through the ranks, but again, it's the spammers that will struggle, and that's a good thing.


You're saying people shouldn't have to put effort into their posts? Should we keep rewarding laziness and greed? Shitposters may now need 'pure luck', but the rest just need to make decent posts. Not difficult at all. If you made one great post here you could easily get ten merit for that alone and you can receive a max of 50 per user so there's nothing stopping someone from making a great post that receives hundreds of merits. The problem is 95% of people aren't making great posts hence the need for the merit system in the first place.


It doesn't have a responsibility to anyone, but anyone can come here and post. Not everybody should be able to come here and earn by posting though, especially if you are not qualified or trusted to do so. I'd say getting some merit is a good competency test for that, but the merit requirement should be higher (at least ten to get a signatures, preferably much, much more).


How has this changed? It's still here for the community. Ranks are completely irrelevant to this. This forum was originally intended as place to discuss bitcoin, but sadly it's been hijacked by illiterate shitposters who don't even care about bitcoin coming here with dozens of accounts each just to earn by spamming, hence the need for the merit system.


Umm, can you again tell me what rules need to be loosened to allow people to participate here? What is stopping people from participating? Nothing stopped you and ironically the merit system even gave you the motivation to bother signing up for the first time *cough* bullshit *cough*. The rules aren't tight enough regarding spammers and one merit being required changes very little, especially when people merit whingers like you. I think theymos should implement a new system though. Remove all signatures and all airdropped merit, and then you don't get a signature at all until you've earned 1000+ merit. That will sort the what from the chaff. Let's see spammers ever earn that. Problem solved.

Yeah. The spammers are the ones with the most accounts and some of them literally have hundreds so they could easily just take advantage of that to keep spam threads active so they can easily spam in. A much better way of tackling the spam issue and low quality posts would be to attack the problem at the source and that is signature campaigns that pay for it. They need to be punished if they continually pay for spam threads and the rubbish that gets posted in them and if that is stopped then so would the spam. If we continue to allow ICOs to pay for whatever crap they want then nothing will change regardless of any system we try put in place.

Noticed this account yesterday. The account has been auto-locked for possibly being compromised but there's some obvious shenanigans going on here. The last two he merited are registered the same day:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2281861     elinabest July 14, 2018
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2281269 svetlankabtt     July 14, 2018,

These two were both merited back to back and have 797 in the name:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1750577 inwas797     January 24, 2018
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1962701 kriptosan797 March 21, 2018

These two merited back to back and registered a day apart:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1554510 cryptorouble     December 31
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1549642     kameoromeo December 30, 2017

Both merited back to back:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2171087 Vovan99 May 31, 2018
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1817565     Vovan777     February 09, 2018,

Can't say whether they're all alts of the op or he's just selling the merit but they should probably be tagged for abuse either way.

Edit: this one was banned for copy and pasting yesterday:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2308188 Goldenmoll1988

Just watched it this morning. The ending was more exiting than the fight. Most people predicted that Khabib would just be too strong for him on the ground but McGregor should have done more damage whilst he was upright.


You've got to give him credit for even taking the Khabib fight in the first place, especially it being the first fight after years being away from MMA. I thought he would have come back and fought some bums first before taking on any champions.


It was silly of him, but McGregor has done things just as bad. Lets not forget he jumped into the audience one time which could have easily gone as sour, and then the whole bus incident that he got off lightly with. I'd actually like to see them both fight again. Maybe they will if Khabib is stripped of the belt which is a possibility. McGregor should probably have a couple of less challenging fights before he takes him on again though.

Easily my worst week. Only two points so far. If Manchester hadn't of got that late winner that would have been even one less point. Kinda wanted United to lose though haha. Two nil down after ten minutes. I doubt Jose would have been the manager this morning if they'd have lost that game (or maybe even drawn). Looking forward to the Liverpool/Chelsea game but the result is too difficult to call.

They're also known for fake flexing and boasting about things they don't own or don't have and Soulja Boy has been caught out numerous times:



"Soulja Boy Gets Exposed for Flexing like he bought $6,000,000 Penthouse..When he rented it on AirBNB":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHxlcYzVJbw

I doubt he even owns bitcoin or if he does not as much as he's making out. I'm sure he'd deny owning this much if the IRS ever comes knocking. Just another rapper fake flexing due to insecurity and bitcoin is the in thing to rap about.

Come on, drop the bullshit. Nobody is buying these excuses. You just copied the post from the thread and snipped a bit out. Did you find this on the internet as well:



You're blatantly just copy and pasting. Cutting a bit out and adding "my opinion" to the beginning of it doesn't make it your own.

You don't pay him. You pay the forum. You can read about the benefits of Copper Membership and purchase one if you decide to at the following:



Post the txid. I've seen users complain about this before but if you aid enough then you're probably just missing it.

Please learn to comprehend English. I already explained the origin of the 'Bitcoib is my succesfull'. It's a joke mocking shitposters like you. Just like I'm also mocking you calling me a 'highly educated moran'.


And no, your marriage certificate won't prove anything other than you are married. Your excuse that you're husband and wife and follow each other around the forum posting back to back is laughable. Just go away. Shitposters like you have ruined the forum.

I've seen them a couple of times before where they've copied two contradictory posts.

Just got this PM today. This guy claims his "wife" loves him so much she follows him around the forum posting directly after him because she can't bear to not be behind his side even digitally:


I refused. Me and my family were then cursed:


I'm shooketh.

What are you talking about? You weren't banned for copying your own posts. You were banned for copying others:


It doesn't matter what excuses you come out with, people are permabanned for this behaviour and you won't be an exception unless theymos decides to changes the rules here, but I don't see why he would nor should he.

I think I analysed the situation pretty accurately. I spotted a "husband and wife" merely by their posting habits and without any other information at all. What are the chances of that? But we all know that's just an idiotic bullshit excuse you've come out with. You are blatant alt accounts just shitposting one after the other for money.

Also, if you're going to come after people for spelling things wrong then you should make sure you get things right. It's 'moron' not moran. And besides, I like to mock the shitposters here and their illiteracy, hence why I have put your garbled rubbish in my person text and the "bitcoib is my successful" is a quote of another shitposter that I found funny.


Lol. You talk about immaturity yet come out with talk about curses? You're just another backwards shitposter who doesn't deserve to be here.

These excuses won't work and this is obviously just a lie to try save your own skin because you're even copy and pasting on this account:


Copy and pasters are never unbanned and purchasing an account is no excuse.

Only hilariousandco is a Cooper Member. Assuming you mean Copper Member it's just a rank to essentially whitelist yourself and post images straight away, but also comes with a few extra features. You now need one merit to get a signature but you can get one straight away by purchasing the Copper rank and that's what most people will buy it for. Moire details here:



That's a good thing. At least it sets those apart from those that have contributed and actually earned their ranks as opposed to those who have just bought it.

Purchase a Copper Membership if you want signatures to show up.


It's not. It's a tragedy to shitposters who are only here to spam and collect bounties. Getting one merit is so easy you could get it without even trying if you were to actually contribute something. The only people who are going to be victims of this 'tragedy' are the people the merit system was put in place to stop in the first place.

I've suggested before that they should just double with every rank. Makes it easier and doubling each time makes the ranks much difficult to achieve whilst keeping some standard/order. Legendary should probably become fixed at 960 and then Mythical(or whatever) at 1920. In addition you could require a hell of a lot of merit so only the best of the best posters ever achieve it. Would be nice to have some additional perks for it as well. Something like a custom title or an image banner allowed in your signature would be nice. Something to try aim/achieve, especially when Legendary doesn't even mean much (or come with any additional perks to Hero).

Yeah. The majority of people purchasing it previously did so just to essentially auto-whitelist themselves, but Copper Membership has now taken on a new meaning/use as it's the only way for someone to get a signature without achieving any merit. Give it time and it'll probably get some stigma associated with it and will be seen as a shitposting rank/title, especially when you start seeing Copper Members with hundreds to thousands of posts and not a single merit received. I think we should look at solely making Copper Membership as just some sort of whitelist feature that doesn't give you a bigger signature as it's too cheap and allows shitposters to easily bypass the exact thing that was put there to stop them. One merit is still also too easy to get and I think we should remove signatures until Member rank has been achieved. Ten merit is still quite easy to achieve, but not for spammers. I'm still for further donator ranks as well like Silver and Gold but they need to be sufficiently expensive to stop people just coughing up $10-20 per account over however many they have.

They're guidelines, not strict you will die if you don't follow these authoritarian laws.

The clue is in the title:


How is a 'guide' IE something we suggest you do regulation? It's just a way to try bring some order to the chaos here. Besides, this is a bitcoin forum not a libertarian one. There are also rules here, but it's because we've been so lax about what people can get away with here that the forum is such a shitshow. Without some basic rules it just become pure anarchy and the greedy shit all over the place and ruin it for everyone else. That's why we need some rule of law, but that doesn't mean you have to rule with an iron fist. I'd say expecting some sort of minimum standards here is in everyone's interest, especially when the forum has become largely unfit for it's true purpose.

If you search 'mythical' in Meta you'll find a few. Think I proposed a couple names somewhere (though I might be getting mixed up with the donator ranks as I remember proposing few names for them).

Turns out it might have been theymos who suggested mythical:



New legendaries will be very rare, especially for new users signing up and only the best of best posters will now ever achieve that status. However, there's still a hell of a lot of people who got that rank before the new system and probably a lot of low-quality contributors, and that's why I think there should be some distinction. Maybe we should demote all Legendaries who don't achieve a decent amount of merit because it means very little when all you had to do was be here a while. Maybe remove the airdropped merit from them and they're just a Hero until they've achieved the required merit. Then that rank would mean something.

I'm not sure nepotism is the right word here. Nepotism is giving your friends or family jobs or special privileges. What you're describing sounds more like corruption, especially if someone is just giving positive feedback for nothing but a payment and no actual service was ever given in return. That would be dodgy/scummy behaviour. However, are you sure this is actually going on? Just because there's no reference on the feedback doesn't mean no deal went on and this would be very easy to find out. If you've got concerns about people and specific trades then either ask for proof or open a thread in Reputation. If they did a deal then they will likely have plenty of evidence of that. If they don't then something dodgy is probably going on.