I've got West Ham to win, and Manchester City to win while keeping a clean sheet today. It's a part of a bigger accumulator which includes some games from yesterday, and some games from next weekend. I've already won three games on the accumulator including a correct score of Swansea VS Sheffield Utd. Current cash out is 700.

I'm not entirely confident on today's games. My rationale for going with Manchester City without conceding is; based on the fact that Tottenham currently don't have Kane, and that's a big loss to them. So, I think with the strength of Manchester City, and the currently weakened Tottenham, it might actually hit.

West Ham VS Newcastle is a different story. I'm worried about that game a little bit more. Newcastle as of recent usually gets the better of West Ham, and that's including last season when West Ham performed above expectations.

Theoretically, it would only need to be authorised by the governing bodies, but in all likelihood probably not. Having said that, there are clubs currently playing in the wrong leagues, and in the future they might change that up. For example, when a lot of the most popular Welsh teams were established, a Welsh league didn't exist, and therefore they were put in the English league system, as that was their only choice. Hence why you have Swansea, Cardiff, Newport, Wrexham, and Merthyr playing in the English pyramid despite there now being a Welsh League.

Now, I don't think its entirely out of the question, that in the future there might be a change in that. Although, to expand on this; it is possible for teams to switch leagues. Leagues can disband, and not only teams.

Although, I think its much more likely that a team, and league in the same geographical area would be more likely to switch. I don't think there's much chance of Real Madrid swapping, and is likely just tabloids talking crap as per usual.

I think I've watched some of those videos myself, but never really clocked the guy was intentionally hiding his face. More focused on the content. Some people build it into their brand, there's plenty of examples. Plus, I will stand by my statement of it adding to the intrigue. For example, one of the most interesting artists in the UK, is called Banksy. I don't think his artwork is overly impressive, like its good, but I feel like it's the fact that he's anonymous, that the public are so interested, plus he tends to do his artwork on public locations, rather than traditional canvas'.

There's plenty of examples on Youtube, I know there's plenty of gamers that build the fact that they are anonymous into their brand. I mean if you think about it, if you've ever watched Top Gear, what was the allure of the Stig? It was the fact that no one could really confirm who it was at first, and that created an allure. If they had Ben Collins just show up on screen, and race a car around the track no one would be overly impressed. The fact that his identity was a mystery, and there was room for speculation is what caused his popularity. Top Gear played that well.

Yeah, I would say that any video would complement it. You're basically covering all basis then, since certain users won't want to just listen to the podcast, and won't watch unless there's a video. At least if you provide both, your hitting all target audiences.

However, plenty of podcasts actually do animation work along with their podcast, and while that probably isn't suited here, you can see its not always about filming the people talking, but just having something to complement the sound. Although, I think even if guests wanted to keep their anonymity then that would work fine.

That said, I think its best that the Youtube channel focuses on other content before approaching the podcast idea. There's a lot of logistics in setting up a podcast, and this is especially true if you want physical podcasts. If you want to do it remotely, then there's issues with quality assurance, because not everyone will have a perfect setting for a podcast. Loud house, kids, pets, bad mic, and generally bad acoustics.

38th. I started as I tend to go on, setting standards early. Also, can I just mention how much I dislike Burnley, and Brighton right now. I had it down for a 0-0 draw right, and Liverpool won 3-0 like I predicted. Burnely, and Brighton cost me 247k. I'm not not sure how they're going to make it up to me. That's probably the closest I've ever come to big money with my insanely stupidly long accumulators.

Midfield is still very good. Yesterday, that wasn't our strongest midfield. We still have Henderson, and Thiago to slot in. Fabinho only came on in the second half. I'd say its still one of the strongest in the league.

It's brilliant if you ask me. Wenger was a brilliant manager, and while I know the narrative really turned on him in his last few seasons, but he's one of the best managers to ever manage in the Premier League era, and I'll stand by that word. His transfer shenanigans might have been quite funny at times, but it generally worked out for him securing that fourth. I believe it was a meme that Arsenal would literally always finish fourth. I bet Arsenal fans would pay good money to finish fourth these days.

Also, Burnley screwed me over one minute into their game. I predicted a 0-0 draw, and I had Liverpool at 3-0 later in the day for a return of 247k. I had a few matches from the Euros which I had already won on the accumulator. Although,  I don't mind that they screwed me due to not actually expecting it to come through, but I was looking forward to having that intense feeling watching that game whenever you've got big money riding on it, and they ended that within a minute. Bastards. I was proper hoping that the push on Brighton's player was going to overrule the goal, I may or may have not called the ref a few things .

I do have another accumulator running, but Everton are screwing me on that at the moment. To be fair, it's my fault for actually thinking they'd do well .

Burnley, and Sean Dyche have mastered beating the drop. So, I think they'll survive. I think Crystal Palace are due to go down, and I agree with Brighton.

I've had high hopes for him for a number of years, however it does seem like his career is starting to stagnate a little bit. I didn't want him to move to a Premier League team so soon, I feel like he needed a lot more game time than Manchester United of all teams could provide. I feel like an extra season in the Championship, and then moving to a lower/mid team in the Premier League would have been better for his development.

Even when playing for Wales, he has shown some fantastic ability, and shown that there's quite clearly potential in him, but he has probably still been a little disappointing. From a Wales national point of view, it was incredibly exciting when he first came onto the scene, because of course we all want to eventually replace Gareth Bale, and he's been the closest we've had. However, I think most Welsh fans will likely agree, that was wishful thinking from us.

I honestly think the best move for him, is out of Manchester United to a team where he will get more game time, but also where he isn't surrounded by quality players, and instead can steal the limelight. I think that's when you'll see him at his best. At the moment, he's stagnating, and with the wages, and the fee Manchester United would demand, I don't see him getting a move which is frustrating from a Welsh stand point of view.

I don't tend to watch many Manchester United games for obvious reasons, but I don't think its the right place to be for his development.

Fair play, I knew it in my heart that Brentford would come out attacking, and beat Arsenal. However, I opted for the "safe" bet of Arsenal. I've watched quite a bit of Championship games with Swansea, and Cardiff playing there, and I knew just how good Brentford are. I think I need to start taking a little more risks in my predictions.

It makes sense though, at least from a moral point of view. I hate when the latest gadgets, and technologies go to scalpers, and they effectively rip off the public that are so desperate for it. Actually, while I hate the practice, I still blame the people willing to pay that amount I think.

You could argue he's just trying to give an excuse for delays in production, but I think its plausible to believe he's doing it for his reason given. It also looks great on Tesla, shows that they think about the customers which further increases sales.

There will be cancellations, a lot of them I would imagine. Three years is a long time to wait for a car, and you many people would have definitely put their reservation down just because rather than having any intention of buying the truck.

Definitely not, he's already fought this year. Its not a requirement that a fighter fights multiple times a year, unless its in their contract which I don't think it would be, since its hard to predict how much damage they take in their yearly matches. Francis usually fights 1-2 times a year, no more or less recently.

Dana also knows that there's hype behind Gane at the moment, and he might want to keep that going for as long as possible, and putting him against Francis even if you think he can win, is a significant risk compared to other people in the division that could be made. I actually think the Stipe Vs Gane would be the better match up, and more fun from a fans perspective.

Potentially, something like a shadow ban which is then reviewed by a staff user before their posts going public again could also work. I think at the very least it would be beneficial to have an intuitive way to see when a user has had several deleted posts recently. Maybe even including posts that they've deleted themselves.

Global moderators will now be aware of the issue where they can decide whether to take action, and to what extent.

Looks like we might have just found a bug. In the handled reports section, it most certainly points to a different thread, giving the illusion it was removed. However, it hasn't been, and I've just checked a few others, and the exact same thread number is given. Not sure if this is intentional, but some of them work as intended. Not exactly sure why its behaving like that.

I'm assuming its caused because the user themselves is deleting it rather than a moderator.

I get this though, they treat the forum as a question, and answer site kind of like Stackexchange. I don't really have a problem with that, its unfortunate on a user retention view point, but I think its an acceptable practice.

I wouldn't expect many new users to know how SMF functions, especially when the search function can be hit or miss. Plus, there's a few nusisances with the search function, while might make sense to a veteran user who is familiar with the forum, that a newbie might have a hard time wrapping their head around.

Plus, I don't expect newbies to actually care about cluttering a forum that they don't have a connection too. Obviously, it's polite, and considered good etiquette, but I wouldn't expect them to care.

I don't think so, at least I hope that isn't their approach. They are actually a pretty good attacking team, and that surprise element, despite Arsenal probably being aware of it, will have an effect on Arsenal. Plus, its the first game of the season, a lot of teams will still be shaking off cobwebs, if Brentford come into this motivated, and attack it from the off, that's their best chances of securing points.

Absolutely, I don't think we should be relying on reports from the community, but it does significantly help the process, because multiple eyes is better than one. I do believe most moderators remove content they come across that hasn't been reported, and also report posts that they can't remove.

Last going off; theymos stated it was harder than initially thought to implement, and as a result went down on his to do list. I am paraphrasing a bit there, but I'll look for the quote soon. However, I would think theymos is aware of these discussions, and questions about the reporting badges, so I guess he'll update the community when its appropriate.

Here's the quote:

I think this entirely depends on how Brentford setup. If they come out all guns blazing, I actually think they could catch Arsenal by surprise, however if they are a little gun shy from being in the Premier League (which I believe is their first time?) then I can see Arsenal comfortably winning the game. We saw it with Leeds last year though, championship teams when going hell for leather, can actually get some good results against some of the best teams in the league. Brentford have the players, they just need to execute it similar to Leeds.

While Bitcoin might not be perfect in preventing whales from accumulating a vast majority of the Bitcoin in circulation, it at least tries to protect against it. Although, there's always going to be issues with any type of currency that I can think of with the rich accumulating the majority, unless your country adopts socialist values, which is unlikely at this point in time.

A way that this could be reduced is by giving some sort of benefit to keeping the coins moving through other's hands, but then that could potentially be abused if the gain is beneficial enough. Plus, the only motivating factor that could be applied is probably monetary gain, which would contradict the very purpose of it in the first place. There isn't any perfect solution, at least that I'm aware of.

Which is something that the model of distribution i.e block rewards is based on. It's trying to prevent those with mass amounts of money to invest, and those that are quicker than others to adopt the currency from owning the majority of the Bitcoin in circulation.

In regards to acting upon external evidence; It's a hard one to say really, context applies. Moderators obviously act upon external data, because we have to verify plagiarism via off site sources usually. However, other external data would probably have to be considered on a case by case basis since it could easily be manipulated.  

However, as far as I know if the user deletes the post before a moderator actually handles it, it'll move to the handled reports, and a moderator likely won't see it. This is something I'd have to verify, and actually be on the look out. Moderators can look at recent handled reports, which means they could potentially verify if this has happened. For example, I just searched the recent reports, and have verified that the user was definitely reported twice, and either it was deleted by the user or another moderator. We can't verify without an admin, whether it was deleted by the user or another staff user.

If a user is abusing the bumping system, and bumping more than 24 hours it you mention that, I tend to put these lists on a little note, and just observe it in the future. If I can verify that then I can escalate it. Obviously, this sort of behaviour is more common in the marketplaces sections, but I do see these reports every now, and then due to them being newbies. Though, I'm not sure what the dedicated moderators or global moderators do in these cases. The user that you reported at least on the thread that it was reported, the thread seems to have been completely removed, so that was probably the punishment that the staff user handling it deemed appropriate.

Nah, definitely not. If you see a spam post, and you don't mind reporting it, don't hesitate because you think it might start leaking elsewhere. It'll leak elsewhere anyway, and the more spam we remove the better for the community. Plus, you keep us mods busy; I've been getting fat because of the doughnuts I'm eating instead of handling reports.

They will get deleted if reported. Unfortunately, its quite clear to me that signature campaign participants are much likely to engage in this behaviour, which is something that should have more exposure, since the campaign manager has to review their replies to get them paid, and obviously there's the chance that they'll even report them to the moderators.

They will, depending on the context. I'm not going to blanket statement it, and say they all will. It depends, but I've reported many especially in the Altcoin Discussion section, and they do get deleted. In fact, 100% of them have been deleted of the ones I've reported which was probably over 100 of them.

Rehashing another post isn't exactly abiding by the rules. It's spam. You don't need to keep saying the things that have already been said. Realistically, it should be a discussion, and therefore there should always be a contribution, otherwise your just talking in circles, which isn't exactly a good discussion.

Obviously, there's different angles users can take, and expand on things that have already been discussed, but if its not contributed to better the discussion, then it probably isn't abiding by the rules.

If you want to help with the efficiency of handling those reports; then just state they're rehashing another reply, and link to that reply if possible. It'll likely speed up the process of deleting it, otherwise the moderator has to read the entire thread, but if it can be streamlined from the community, even better. 

Easier said than done against a big hitter like Ngannou. I also think Ngannou has shown some decent improvements in his stamina.

Do we really think Jon Jones is coming back? I'm not convinced. He'll demand too much money to come back in, and fight, and he'll only want to fight the current champion. Which I don't think he deserves right now, his last few fights which were a long time ago now, weren't exactly convincing wins.

Stipe will be fine. Although, Blaydes probably took a big hit on his confidence. That was a nasty KO, and I think everyone going into that fight was expecting him to easily win it. It makes  sense for both the fans, and Blaydes to organise a rematch against Lewis, once he himself has recovered from his recent defeat.

They aren't trying to kill you, well in most cases anyway. What they are trying to do is actively manipulate you. For example, you ignoring that the NSA can gather information off of you, or these days any Tom, Dick or Harry can, isn't a problem as long as they don't do anything bad is ludicrous. Do you not consider being manipulated into buying products as bad? Just because you've shown some interest in it in the past, or visited a related site. We on in a world full of advertisements these days, and they will actively try to manipulate you into buying their products, and they use your previous data, and site history to determine how best to make money from you. How is that not bad?

There's also the element that most exchanges as mentioned above have been hacked. That means, your trusting someone to hold your personal documents, and if they are ever compromised you are relying on them to hold them securely. However, history has taught us that even security firms have made massive security mistakes in the past, and continue to do so. So, how can we expect an exchange to follow all the protocols? You can't, because you can't trust them to do that. It's not just the government, hackers are usually someone that's looking to profit of the information that they gather, so if they have gathered your information, you might actually be in a precarious situation, you could potentially become a target to scams or even physical threat. This is why, and this should be evident to anyone that uses Bitcoin, you shouldn't rely on third parties when it comes to personal finances, and data. It just doesn't make a whole lot of sense for the majority of people. There are some cases which you could argue KYC is beneficial or a third party managing your funds, but those that few, and far between.

You wouldn't be willing to give me, a random stranger your data so why do you expect the government any other third party that has a registration attached to their business to be more trustworthy? They are literally the ones which have clear incentives to use your data to either get more money from you or influence your decisions in life. Where as, I'm just another Bitcoin user that cares about privacy. I absolutely hate the authority syndrome that most people seem to have, but when it comes to privacy, and the fact that its quite well documented these days; probably better than ever people are still oblivious to it.