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Giving merits really is someone's own choice however If they feel dutiful to the forum then from moral point of view they should give it away. A lot of people are doing very good job managing their sMerit profile.
Truth is (I noticed) giving merits is a kind of task. In my personal experience, I have missed a lot of posts to give merits. The moment I read the post I forget that there is something called merit should be given for the post. When later I realise I should give some merit to that post by that time it's too late. I already moved myself doing some other tasks.
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Those are all trash threads populated by shitposters saying the same thing over and over. I'm guessing rickbig is going on a cleaning spree.
They seem to be locking threads which have a lot of replies already, it would seem. Chances are that the reason for this is because in a single topic thread, the same or similar reply has already been imputed. So repeating the same answer just makes the thread unnecessarily long.
Really, you think it could be that? Tell you what... your sense of humour is too sharp  Oh my my 
You have no idea how many of these threads get created every week and they're filled with the same shit responses over and over. It's truly mind-numbing.
Other such classic threads are "how did you hear about bitcoin?" and "what brought you to bitcointalk?" in every possible configuration and permutation.
i don't think the early contributors should have their posts deleted just because of later spammers. plus, the topic may be perfectly legit, so they should be left for search results.
On a normal forum, I'd say that's true and would be a fair decision. On bitcointalk, though? There are mostly low-quality threads being created in the first place and I would have no problem nuking those on sight. How many threads do we need comparing bitcoin to gold? Or asking what the advantages or disadvantages are to bitcoin? None. There aren't hard and fast rules as to what's a spam thread, but you know it when you see it. These people are too lazy to use the search feature. Another point of view is they want to increase their number of post counts. This post counts converts to activity and may be if lucky then some merits. PS: Can anyone help me giving the url of finding recent removed post? The search result is not giving me any related topic and I do not want to create a topic for this simple query |
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... and my guess is that it'll get a ban for the threat anyhow. That's against the rules as far as I know.
Seems like the account is still active not banned yet. This is unacceptable. I am not sure if I can red tag the user for this specific action he/she did. If then please someone let me know. I will red tag. And since it's completely against the rule so I am sure we just need to wait until any mod see this post and ban MOSSADP.S i will report the pm to all Global moderators. PM reported to Admin team.
- I guess they still have not seen it yet. I wonder if we had more mods then it would be easier for them to clean up these types of messes. |
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Lmao, I cannot believe how people can get so dumb. You can tell by the forum's name that this is a bitcoin talk or rather discussion. It is a forum, oh my god. Bitcoin has nothing to do with this forum. Added to that, many people are posting threads about the drop of the price which make other people lose faith in it which I deem it to be so stupid. But yeah, these people need to get upgraded soon enough.
IMHO speaking the Bitcoin Discussion board is full of negativity. Other day I have seen the mods locked a lot of topics which is a good sign. There are a kind of people who will always moan when the price will drop and the same people will always get overexcited when the price goes up. |
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I can raise the top of your ANN page every 5 minutes. If you are interested in this service, write in telegrams: @Yoshicage ( https://t.me/Yoshicage) It means you are gonna bump a thread every five minutes which I do not think it allowed by the forum rules. So, if anyone wants to do that then be the guest of the forum. |
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Although the current version of BitcoinTalk is not responsive however it works relatively ok for mobile browsers. I use iPhone and I find it ok with my safari browser.
I heard they are working on new forum software and really hope they have responsive function in mind.
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Do you have screenshots of your post. so more of us can evaluate and make opinion
Not my post - everyone's post..  I am having a feeling that the screenshot is from Bitcoin Discussion. If you look on the topics are locked, it's obvious that these topics were discussed several times. Same statement rolling and rolling with different phrase. Worried about btc future Why is the use of bitcoin is increasing Bitcoin as money Seriously! Do you really think a new discussion needed on these topics. The forum has loaded with really shit/non-sense posts and locking them or deleting them is a good thing IMO. bill gator makes good senseHope you understand.
There are several. Here's one: https://forum.bitcoin.com/You should go troll over there, but you probably wouldn't have much of an audience. Good suggestion |
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Did you just mixed up everything all together? BitcoinTalk, Blockchain, Bitcoin, .com, tulip, google, facebook, internet. Hey I was kidding I like it... Or I'm talking shit, because ".com" is still the most popular domain name. And tulip still called by its name.
He put official in quotes. It is quite unlikely that a stupid person who believes that a forum is the same as a currency would do it. Of course, he probably does not know exactly how everything works. So the best way would be to link to explanations that solve the problems he encountered with the forum and the tutorial on how bitcoin works.
This is a reasonable suggestion. I having a thought in mind to edit the original post with some useful links. |
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Is there any Artificial Intelligence on BitcoinTalk?? Would be interested to know how advanced you have become and whether you have been active at all on BitcoinTalk?
Respectfully,
Tekno
Merit farming, account farming, spamming for signature campaigns, tricky misrepresentation of ICOs from some of the greedy bounty managers - these are what you are looking for if you are talking about becoming advance. By the way it's not AI it's human tricks. Anyway above all were from my frustration. To answer your question, I do not think there are any AI on BitcoinTalk. Everything is done by human supervision. Even detecting a text which worth giving merit or not. We have admin, mods etc to look after the forum. |
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Can you translate that? If there's people who are blatantly selling merits on bitcointalk, I'll be happy to tag them red. I don't read Chinese, however.
It really is easy and you don't even need to go to google translate page. I do not know how it works for other browsers but for chrome here are the steps... 1. Right click anywhere on the screen Click here if unable to see image2. Look for "Translate to English" Click here if unable to see image3. Clock on "Translate to English" Click here if unable to see image4. (Bonus) On the right top corner a small window will be available for you to reverse the translation, if you needed. Click here if unable to see imageI find this really handy and hope it helps you too. I'm not getting paid to do any of this.
- It solely up to you, however the effort and time you are putting for the forum is really remarkable. Buying and selling merits will not allowed in the forum but we need to share perfect evidence for it bro. I have seen that merits has been shared in the Chinese local boards mate. You please write pm to the concern section moderator first.
If you did not get the reply from them. Then you can go with the moderator hilariousandco who can burst in people who are all scamming with the merit trades. Hope this thread may caught in his eyes and will get the assistance.
I guess we need more mods. I am not sure how many mods we have for the forum but seeing the number of misuses and unalienable to catch them by the mods means one thing is that, we do not have enough mods to look after all these rule breakers. I have a thread ( TAGGING MERIT FARMERS) where I am investigating merit abusers tagging them with 100% proofs but still I hardly see any mode to take action against those merit abusers. |
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Merit may be a hindrance for new members, especially for account farmers- it'll be their worst nightmare, if they haven't realized it yet. You will notice some high ranking members having a negative trust because of it, and I hope the red paint on their account will stop them.
Merit can be a good ally for those who track account farmers and bounty abusers, it can make you a detective for a short time using it, and you will be learning more things because of it.
Like I am doing and learning. Things I have learnt: # Groups of people are exchanging merits with each others. These groups are mostly friends to each others and they know each others in person. # In local boards people creating some nonsense contents in local language and meriting that contents. Case#13 is a good example. # There are confusion on punishing merit abusers. Although in this unofficial guideline section gives us an impression to leave RedTrust For the abusers. # Some people in the forum are really ass hole. They feel proud of themselves for abusing the system. # The forum need more DT members to tag these abusers .... I can bring out more as I go but for the time being, thank you merit system. It was much needed for this forum. |
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Thanks to the OP for helping eliminate those abusers here in the forum they obviously farming merit as what I have viewed in OP's report.
Appreciate your kind word BTCeminjas This case is an example of what you said. I struggled a lot because of a language I do not understand. In case#13 I might find more users connected if I would understand the language. PS: The analysts was done yesterday (15th April)
Case#13laogeyi123, NeverArgueWithWF, urz42409966, huweiooo, shixd8899 Added on 16thApril: bluesky338laogeyi123's merit summaryReceived | User | Sent | | 10 | NeverArgueWithWF | 5 |
The 10 merits from NeverArgueWithWF gives 5 sMerits to laogeyi123, laogeyi123 gives this 5 sMerits to NeverArgueWithWF as merit. Clearly laogeyi123 and NeverArgueWithWF are farming their merits.NeverArgueWithWF's very suspicious merit summaryReceived | User | Sent | | 1 | coly20032003 | Null | | 1 | moxl | Null | | 13 | zhouyc | Null | | 3 | huweiooo | 5 | | 7 | loveyouforever | Null | | 50 | tobeaj2mer01 | Null | | 5 | shixd8899 | 3 | | 5 | laogeyi123 | 10 | | Null | Lenor5.3090 | 5 | | Null | insultingo45271 | 5 |
Let's keep coly20032003 and moxl out of equation. May be receiving 1 merit from each of them is legit. I would give the benefit of the doubt. Not sure about zhouyc but I will give this user another benefit of the doubt. Because of this (Seems exchanging merit) I could not give benefit of the doubt to huweioooAnother benefit of the doubt goes to loveyouforever. Seems legit. Although sending 17 and 33 merits to two single post seems HUGE but for me it really is very hard to find anything wrong (although feeling wrong). So I will give benefit of the doubt. Smelling bad about shixd8899, may be it's a clean account but we will see.I wonder why 5 merit sent to Lenor5.3090 for this one and half line post? I would not be surprise if it's not an ALT of NeverArgueWithWF. We do not have enough evidence so let's consider it off. Same case like Lenor5.3090 for insultingo45271. 5 Merits for this post  Not enough evidence so insultingo45271 off as well. huweiooo's merit summaryReceived | User | Sent | | 2 | pvni33280 | Null | | 3 | urz42409966 | 2 | | 5 | NeverArgueWithWF | 3 |
Not enough connection for pvni33280 so lets consider it off. urz42409966 seems innocent but connection with shixd8899 proves the connectionshixd8899's merit summaryReceived | User | Sent | | 1 | ATB Coin | Null | | 20 | xzhybbs | Null | | 10 | hdd3go | Null | | 2 | urz42409966 | 2 | | 3 | NeverArgueWithWF | 5 |
One Merit for one line post, seems not ok however we can not suspect anything about ATB Coin for sending this one merit. 10 merits for this?! hdd3go is off coz we do not have enough evidence. 10 and 10 merits for two lines comment really do not make proper sense. But again we do not have enough evidence for xzhybbs urz42409966, huweiooo, shixd8899 and NeverArgueWithWF clearly connectedbluesky338 is also a Merit abuser. See the merit history. |
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many scams are done by bounty participants, what should we do?
Take a chill pill, relax. If dizzy then take a nap. Start a new day with a fresh mind. Next time when you join any bounty do a proper research. You can avoid possible scams. There are always clues to avoid scams. Good luck. |
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I moved a part of the original post (below contents)for better formatting of the original post.Case#1Joe-Niner, BarkingHawk and SparkyU should really have an explanation!!!  Joe-Niner's merit summaryReceived | User | Sent | | 15 | BarkingHawk | 4 | | 4 | BarkingHawk | 7 | | 26 | BarkingHawk | 2 |
Clearly exchanged with each others. Joe-Niner and BarkingHawk are guilty!BarkingHawk's merit summaryReceived | User | Sent | | 4 | Joe-Niner | 15 | | 7 | Joe-Niner | 4 | | 2 | Joe-Niner | 26 | | 27 | SparkyU | 5 | | 50 | SparkyU | Not yet |
SparkyU joined the game. Joe-Niner and BarkingHawk are already guilty!SparkyU's merit summaryReceived | User | Sent | | 5 | BarkingHawk | 27 | | Null | BarkingHawk | 50 | | Null | theymos | 3 | | 1 | Wolf Rainer | Null |
SparkyU and BarkingHawk are connected with each others, and guilty obviously. Wolf Rainer and theymos is out of equation hereIn summary Joe-Niner, BarkingHawk and SparkyU clearly farmed merit for their personal interest.
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Most members seem to be under the misapprehension that merit and activity are there to help upgrade posters. Well they aren't. There is only one factor that drives upgrading, and that is post count. Activity is a barrier to control high frequency posters, and merit is a barrier to block low quality spam posters.
Please respect both of these protective measures that have been introduced to restore the usability of the forum, and be aware that they are working well at the moment. The effects have become noticeable.
I apologise for creating yet another thread about these topics, but very few people seem to be aware that they are designed to be barriers, and they are constantly attempting to tear them down.
1. Activity is controlling high frequency posters 2. Merit is controlling post quality. ... It's a good realisation. People out there who are wondering why is this activities and why is this merit, why not just count number of posts - they have their answers now. Bottom-line is keep posting (focus on creating good contents, engaging with topics, create constructive conversations so that others get benefit from it). PS: Goodluck on FitToTalk @OP |
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You are right, since our topic is about bitcoin and bitcointalk. There are similarities when bitcoin's gone and bitcointalk forum will also gone, bitcoin is a cryptocurrency and bitcointalk is a forum for us to discuss about cryptocurrencies and use to promote bitcoin and other altcoins. Bitcointalk is dependent to bitcoin if bitcoin is not created then the bitcointalk won't exist. I clearly see other users out there won't even read it's already given the word BITCOINTALK, what would be the purpose of TALK in bitcointalk? It's obviously shown already that bitcointalk is clearly not a bitcoin but a tool for promoting cryptocurrency you want to promote.
This shows people are way too much ignorant about the whole crypto world.  |
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Here is a fun fact: SMF will not allow you to claim you were born prior to the year 5 AD.
Just a quick one before I shut down my computer (will be away for few days)... This is five years before the year 5AD LOL  Or I am missing something... My lazy nut job: Decided to update the DOB section with the current date everyday. I will have a cake for me everyday then |
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If you leave someone a negative, and you're confident that you left it for a good reason, then don't even engage in these kinds of conversations. You'll learn that the longer you keep doing it, because you're always going to get PMs saying the same ridiculous things like:
I know the pattern of their behaviour however I always keep an option for second chance. If they PM me then I remind them my t&c to remove the redTrust. In reply if they start trash talk then I do not even bother to reply. I consider my job done with the warning/reminder I have for them. But don't give up with your campaign against these people, because YOU are doing the right thing. They're in the wrong. Always remember that, and don't give in.
-Thanks for the kind words and the encouragements mate. Talk to you all after I come back from holidays. |
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Even knowing it's abusive they don't mind to repeat it? User trumpman, I already left a redTrust for abusing merit ( Investigation and Evidence ). As I always leave a 2nd chance for their acknowledgement and then with having a log, I remove it ( T&C). However the reply in PM seems like they think they can do whatever they want? Really?! Earlier...   Seems like they feel proud of what they are doing 
EDIT: Looks like the user does not bother having redTrustI understand where you come from though so feel free to leave that negative review. |
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So therhslv and Denlv both are your account or you are friends to each others? Even after one month introducing the merit system (25th Feb) you both were exchanging merits. You know it's not for exchange but to encourage good quality posts.  |
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