aTriz was running many campaigns via ALU which lauda is also a member of. If you are aware of any campaigns that have not paid out tokens owed, I would suggest opening a scam accusation naming ALU.

He started running bounty/signature campaigns in August 2017, which is only 4 months after starting to use the account after it was purchased. He made, on average 3.75 pages of posts every month until he started running bounty campaigns, at which point he started making about 14 pages of posts per month.

I can only speculate, however it is possible he controls multiple accounts, and was posting from multiple accounts on bounty campaigns until he focused on aTriz once he started running bounty campaigns.

Many have claimed that aTriz and lauda are the same person, however this was frequently shot down under the guise that aTriz lives in Australia and that their posting times states do not match. His location is something he posted himself, and the posting times are inaccurate because of the fact he is not the original owner. Interestingly enough, the rules that lauda was imposing on his campaigns in August 2017 were similar to the rules imposed by aTriz, this is not proof of anything, and others may have also used similar rules, however it is one data point. If you look at the list of threads aTriz has opened, there are a very large number of threads he is trying to remove evidence of, including many threads ALU was running bounty campaigns for. ALU was not formerly announced until November 2017, and there is a clear attempt on the part of aTriz to remove evidence of the thread.

I don't know if he would do that either, although I see little point in trying to sell his account that would likely not fetch more than $20 or so based on that earnings potential.
Yup

I don't know if they are available to those with negative trust.

Well it is very well possible they are intimately familiar with CF default "rules" (I would presume the rule in question is a default setting that theymos never changed until just now), and created a post they knew others could not reply to (and presumed that most people would give up on trying to post warning others after receiving the block).

If the above is true, they could have been familiar with CF so that they were able to create a post themselves that circumvented the block (and possibly later edited the posts), or they have some exemption to the rules.

If it is the later, then whoever is currently behind NotFuzzyWarm may be an alt of someone else in a particularly high ranking. theymos was able to quote the post while others were not, and he said that his account and IP address are not specifically whitelisted or otherwise different in the eyes of CF (to his doing). He also speculated CF allowed him to make that post because of some kind of cookie tracking or reputation system implemented by CF. If theymos is correct in his speculation, someone may have been able to use this cookie and/or CF reputation to make a post that others could not respond to.

I also tried to post in the thread, and had my post immidiately deleted.


I am going to go out on a limb and say that NotFuzzyWarm is a purchased and/or hacked account for the purpose of furthering this likely scam.

I guess my next question would be, why is NotFuzzyWarm able to post that in the thread? There are a number of red flags with what the OP of the thread is selling, NotFuzzyWarm is giving what is close to an endorsement and those trying to point out red flags are having their posts almost immidiately deleted.

Maybe his IP address is while-listed, or is listed as someone who is normally performing certain functions? I am also blocked when I try to post that with the title.

I don’t think anyone reasonably thinks I am anything close to a shot poster, however every now and then I have old bumps I forgot to delete deleted.

Another thing is that most shot posters make substantially all of their posts low effort. They don’t necessarily have a lot if posts deleted, they put very little effort into their posts and clutter up threads with posts that really don’t make sense when looking at the context of the thread.

No. go away. Thanks.

According to the percentage of people receiving merit, the percentage is over 99%.

If this is an accurate representation then more durastic measures need to be implemented, at the very least, those that have not received xx merit by now have their “grandfathered” status revoked. On the other end of the spectrum, the merit system should be abolished and signatures disabled or substantially lowered (maybe only 1-3 lines with no formatting).

Where did you get this figure from? There is another thread that documents that less than 0.02% of active users have received any merit. It has been argued that everyone who deserves merit has received at least one and that would put the percentage of shit posters at well above 10%.

Unless you have provided substantial contributions to the community you will not be unbanned. This kind of behavior shows a blaint disregard for the forum and the community.

I generally do not have an issue with his "trust removal" services as long as he appropriately discloses he can't guarantee specific results and is not otherwise misleading as to what he can do.

The problem for him is that I don't think anyone will take him seriously when he does try to get ratings removed on behalf of others.

Did you even bother to look at the screenshots? Someone was claiming to say you are close friends with them and a bribe would result in the removal of negative trust.

I can guarantee you those people are not friends with him. You are dealing with a scammer.

aTriz is a purchased account immediately prior to him going into business with lauda, so probably not. It might be an alt of the original owner though.

Do you have any proof of this?

From what I can tell, the advertised rate for the bounty campaign aTriz is participating in is roughly $3 per week based on the ICO price. Based on that earnings rate, I cannot imagine his account would sell for more than $20 or $25.

Yea I saw the bounty campaign he is participating in has no rule against having negative trust.

I have thought about the ICO bounty campaigns, and I have come to the conclusion they do not care who advertises for them -- I think they simply want their ads flashed as much as possible to gain traction on various social media platforms.

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I presume aTriz is probably still around somewhere. I have no idea if he purchased a new account, created a new account, or is using other alternate accounts he already had.

His password changed on June 12, the day before he tried to auction off his signature for $500. I do see a lot of really low effort posts made after that, with many in the past two days.

I don't keep track of the account market, so I have no idea if an account was listed for sale that matches the description of his account. I find it strange a signature spammer would buy his account as I cannot see him describing his account in a way that can reasonably earn anything in a signature deal. I am not sure how much sMerit aTriz has left, but maybe someone bought the account for the sMerit, saw its notoriety and tried to sell his signature.

The bounty campaign he is participating in is run by stormfold, although I would not necessarily say he is necessarily involved in anything shady. 

He is most likely not the original owner of his account. It is likely that the account was sold shortly prior to going into business with lauda. Are you saying you think his account was sold more recently?

I think his actions are consistent with someone who is desperate for money and is willing to bend the rules in order to get more money.