Yes.

Story of my life. You know when this is the sort of shit they post it's almost certain they've been banned for copy and pasting or spamming utter indecipherable shite.

Banned them both.

You did:

Copy and pasting. It wont be unbanned.

Some are bots and some are just idiots. Hard to tell them apart.

Lol. Pretty much what you just did by responding to a post from 2013. A simple google search would have told you everything you needed to know. You should also google 'shitposting'.

Staff can only act on them once they're reported but they're banned once spotted. Unfortunately, I think it's a losing battle though cos we can't really compete with bots who constantly keep changing their tactics to avoid detection, and this is why I'm a big proponent of removing signatures from ranks entirely because this sort of account farming wont ever stop otherwise. 

Lol that's just an address and he's confused it with a giveaway thread. I saw and handled your report before anyway.

Ha, not to sig spammers it isn't. Posts going down also equals their cash money going down.

Op, the only thing you can do is stop posting in unsubstantial spam threads and there will be no issues with your post count going down.

I have actually suggested before a board that either doesn't display signatures or count towards post count, but maybe that board shouldn't be a paid priviledge and actually free for anyone to use as sig spammers and farmers would naturally leave it alone.

Not true. It's actually a mixture of magic, wizardry and demonry (theymos is master of the dark arts and a top level wizard).

I'm sure we could think of some perks. They could have the ability to change their name, have a jpg banner in their sig or have access to the current donator board where they can have a one on one chat with the current VIPs and satoshi when he drops by every now and again (he has great banter but he can be a bit racist at times).

No, it's to stop newbies confusing their activity with post count, hence all the threads in Meta from sig spamming newbies asking why their activity is 'stucked' or 'broken'. Maybe now these will significantly decrease.

What do you think will happen? Your account will be locked if you click the link and you will have to follow the instructions here to get it back:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=497545.0

Op, please post your issue rather than being vague about it as it helps no one nor can anyone chime in on the issue (or non-issue).


I think some people blatantly have purchased thebutterzone's email forwarding service just for the cheap and easy trusted feedback to be honest though, and most of the loans anyone has ever taken out here are probably done for the same reason.

People will try and abuse anything but I think the positives will outweigh the negatives. I have suggested being able to change your name being included with a premium level rank (amongst other benefits), but I know that could be abused but would it be worth the risk of the price of the premium rank? To counter abuse, usernames could be limited to only being changed once every six months etc and they possibly have to be approved by a staff member/global mod/admin etc. Every time a custom title is changed maybe it could go in a que to also be checked.


Ha, this is a human right.


I wouldn't have been against banning them completely, but theymos seems to be against this and is very unlikely to do it. Personally, I would prefer for more restrictions being put on them and many ways have been suggested by staff but we can't really do anything without theymos' approval or him giving more powers out to people.


More mods and admins are needed (or more importantly some of the workload needs to be distributed amongst the current mods). Some boards don't even have any mods assigned at all.


I don't think some sort of rewards for reporting posts would be a bad idea, but as you said some people would find a way to exploit it. However, those that do report accurately and frequently will have the possibility of becoming a mod at some point which has its financial benefits (but mods are rarely promoted so many probably give up or lose interest (not that they should be reporting purely for that but it's largely a thankless and time-consuming task)).


There is some limited automation but it's not ideal. Any efficient moderation needs to be done manually and is very time consuming as I'm sure you can imagine.

The only person who can remove it is the user who left you it. However, sometimes admins do intervene and remove certain feedback abuses but this is very rare and in your case very likely wont happen. People can also be removed from default trust by the people who put them there if they are found to be abusing their position, but again, in your case this likely won't happen. Getting several positive feedbacks will eventually neutralise a negative and even outweigh it eventually but doing trades just to get feedback usually has the opposite effect so I would advise caution in doing that.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=497545.0

Follow that and Pm cyrus.

Give it to charity if the forum doesn't need the money. The money can also just be saved or invested but the benefits of offering more donator ranks are more than just monetary. The biggest issue here is trying to curb the colossal amount of account farming by shitposting which is ruining the forum (and staff are left to constantly clean to up the mess which is a losing battle).