I will lock this thread once hilariousetc or any DT member notice this issue...

Here is my msg... thanks

@hilariousetc: I am trying to get your attention again... since you are a DT member (if I am not wrong)

Case#2 Click to open
allowance1219, pigheadbig, gomei and choubao0514
with colacat1111, helloge, juicejoyce and doudou1110  

I have tagged all of these user with redTrust please see their trust pages. I also left enough evidence to hold my ground. These users are heavily involved with merit abusing.

All connected to this thread [ANN][XAS] Asch | Decentralized Application Platform Based on Side-chain . So, I suspect something wrong with this thread too.

For any other information to open up the scam I am willing to spend my time. just ask me.

Thanks

It's not a big task to do so yes it's possible.

However this is what I think. Someone with little experience in the forum and if the person is aware of the issue (which they will learn as they go) then they can add this alt attribute on the tag. i.e: for URL tag, we can simply discover how to use it.

Not a big deal in my opinion.

If they have bad intention and try to take advantages then yes it's worse but someday they will get caught for sure.
In my opinion earning a high rank or getting a DT needs a lot of hard work. Someone with those ranks will not try to abuse anything by risking their hard earned reputation. Again yes people change.

- You do realise this will create more mess? Someone with money can be ranked easily.
 i.e:
1. You can be a Hero member if you are willing to spend $2500 to the seller plus $2500 to the forum. So it will cost only $5000 to have 500 merits to become a hero member. And someone who will spend $5000 to become a hero member will defiantly do everything to get return of his investment = scamming with may be ICO project?   
2. Same way to become a Legendary member you are going to spend only $10,000. If you have solid plan to scam people then spending these $10,000 can return you million.

-Now come to anther point. How would you think you will be able to identify all these merit seller/buyers? The forum will be a kios.
Bad idea, sorry.

Merit abusers with proves : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2896910.msg33038098#msg33038098

Alts with proves: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2544574.msg33081758#msg33081758

Case#3 Click to open
Kousei23's possible connection with plucking23
-Alts
And relation between Bruce1614 and kirito1614
-Alts

Case#6 Click to open
Naitik and jerry29@
-Alts

You need to read this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2766177.0

In a nutshall merit was introduced on Jan 25th with having the motive to save the forum from spamming with low quality posts like  "SELL SELL SELL", "I agree", "+1", "Support", "Watching", "Interesting", "LOL", "SCAM", "LEGIT", "FAKE" etc

You can also consider reading the unofficial list of BitcoinTalk org rules from here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0

Hope this help.

PS: Do not misuse merits or you will be tagged with Red Trust which is not good for your account.

I think I found a campaign too when I was looking for merit abusers on one of my thread: Clearly merit farming/trading is happening.

Would you care for the campaign information?  @hilariousetc

Reserved for successful candidates.

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I am one of the co-founder of Creative Designs UK (archive). Me with my other partners are running this business since early 2013 (Ref: whois lookup). We manage everything online even our staffs work for us remotely. We used to do this business very seriously before but from last one and half year we have built other businesses. So, in this business after paying the freelancers (staffs) when we keep some small profits in our pocket, we are more than happy.

A sort story behind this business: Back in 2008 after my graduation I started working in a local IT company as Software Developer (Web and Desktop application). Then I moved to England. At the beginning life in England was hard. For some extra money I used to design/develop websites for locally known people, friends and family while I was doing regular jobs (in Sainsbury's and other here and there. ref: LinkedIn Profile). Years after I had some regular customers, I thought to brand my website design and develop business. In 2013 with one of my friend I started Creative Designs UK.

The reason of the above introduction is to establish a trust in between you and me that I am very much qualified for the claim I am making on this service post. You will receive 100% in return of the trust and money (if paid) you will put to do business with me. It's the promise from a gentleman.

Lately I am thinking why not I share my knowledge and experiences of my IT skills to others in need (Giving back to the community). People pay thousands of dollars and tremendous affords and time to become an IT professional and here, after being a qualified IT professional with years of experience I am wasting it. Honestly speaking earning money by being a software developer or doing any other IT job is much harder than doing a business and being your own boss. However I also admit that not everyone is wearing my shoes. There are people who are designing a logo for $5 while I am writing this service post (sadly).

What you can do with continuous practice and after completing this course:
1. You can create/design a static website. (i.e: Blog for yourself or for anyone else)
2. You can work as a freelance website designer.
3. You can work in a IT company as a website designer. (ambitious case, search for website designer job and you will see the salary)
4. You can even start your own IT business¹ if you have an entrepreneurial skill like me. (ambitious case, you will hear the story of starting Creative Designs UK)

Course contents^{^}
Section 1: Getting Started (Course Introduction, basic tools, introduction to HTML/HTML5, HTML Tags, Saving a web page)
Section 2: Explaining basic HTML Tags (Heading, meta, paragraph and breaks, Bold and italic etc)
Section 3: Starting with CSS (Basic CSS rules, CSS styling, Inline and outline, Fonts, Fonts styling, color and sizes)
Section 4: Working with Images (Image types, how to insert image, Image attributes etc)
Section 5: Hyperlinks (Types of hyperlinks, Linking to other pages, CSS and hyperlinks, HTML lists and navigation bars etc)
Section 6: Detail CSS Layouts (Box Model, Comments, Positioning, floats, Styling HTML 5 tags etc)
Section 7: HTML4 and HTML5 tables (Tables, Row and Col span, alignment, colour, images)
Section 8: HTML/HTML5 Forms (Form Layouts, Email, URL, Search, Placeholders, Required, Passwords, hidden fields etc)
Section 9: Setting up your first website on the internet (Websites and Domain names, How to host a website etc)
Section 10: Designing your own first website (A complete website design²)

Price
Website design training - All live classes online: Free³ (Not entirely: To eliminate the time wasters a small enrolment fee of $5 when pay in BTC. $10 for other options of payment: Paypal, Payza)
Monitoring while you are designing your own website (A complete website): $160 Paypal or Payza. (20% off when pay in BTC) or you can sell your sig space to me for four weeks. (Minimum member rank^*)

Payment information
BTC address: 1GyLCQSgcSMN3oCDP6qitZ8b3sABP6wjaF
Paypal/Payza address: info@cdesignsuk.com

Some important information to maintain discipline
#Since I am just starting the course I will start with only 10 candidates. So this will be the first batch of 10 students.
#Once I will have first 10 confirmed payments (For BTC at-least 3 confirmations) then I will lock this thread. I will refund the rest of the payments (for BTC I will not pay the transaction fee, for other types of payments I will just refund the money)
#At 31st March GMT 23:59, I will lock this thread (even if I do not see the 10 paid candidates. Check countdown. I will start with even if I have a single student)
#I will then contact with the candidates in PM for their contact details and will be updating with the course starting day.
#Duration of course² will be two weeks. Monday to Friday. GMT 21:00 to GMT 22:30
#Classes will be conducted using live Google Hangout. Your system (desktop/laptop) should be properly configured for that.
#If you miss any class then you are responsible for not knowing the missing contents. However you can pay a small fee for the recorded video of the missed class. (may be $10/$20 per class or more/less. I am really not sure now. I will decide if any actual situation raises like that.)
#For monitoring while you are designing your own website: End of the course a schedule will be booked after receiving the asking payment or service (BTC/Dollar or bounty)
#Please be serious and take as much as you can from me if you enrol for the course. If you push me more then you will learn more.

How to apply?
There will be two step process
Step one: Reply on the thread comment.
1. BitcoinTalk username
2. BitcoinTalk profile link
3. Give a short reason of taking this course, minimum 220 character.
4. Do you want me to monitor you while you will design your own first website: Yes/No
5. You will accept my simple T&C: Yes/No

After posting the comment as soon as possible make the payment.

Step two: Edit the same comment with...
EDIT:
6. Paid in: BTC/Paypal/Payza
7. For BTC give the BTC address, for Paypal and Payza type the paypal/payza email address hiding some of the character of the email. i.e: masudulkabir@yahoo.com will be ma****ir@yahoo.com
8. Total paid amount.

(Please remember the first 10 paid candidates only. So you better be quick on your decision making if this thread gets much popular, I don't know)
PS: if the answer of number 5 is "No" then please do not send any payment. If you do then I will not make any refund.

Sample format of reply




¹It's not that hard to make really good money once you know how to monetise your idea. Visit the pricing page of Creative designs UK, See the different options of website pricing. Truth is once you layout a website then creating one page and 100 pages are the same thing. Rest of the pages can easily be copy/pasted but see the pricing. Honestly speaking IT sector is one of the sector where the customers are still ignorant hence small works can give your big return.
²Monitoring excluded.
³Price will increase of-course for the next batch.
^{^} I am still working on the detail contents and will be putting all together in a sales page on my personal blog.
^* I am working on details. Candidates will be informed once it's ready.

Case#7
StallionMosquito - Sr. Member, zohaibh - Full Member, imrobo2 - Full Member
network with => gmughals - Member, ateebshaikh290 - Member, cheechu - Member.

StallionMosquito's merit summary

Received	User	Sent
3	zohaibh	2
1	cheechu	3
Null	gmughals	10
Null	ateebshaikh290	7

zohaibh's merit summary

Received	User	Sent
1	imrobo2	1
1	cheechu	4
2	StallionMosquito	3

imrobo2's merit summary

Received	User	Sent
1	cheechu	4
1	zohaibh	1
Null	ateebshaikh290	2

Again considers these...
gmughals became a member thanks to StallionMosquito for 10 merits 10 times
ateebshaikh290 became a member again thanks to StallionMosquito for 7/11, imrobo2 2/11, cheechu 2/11
cheechu became a member and his merit sources StallionMosquito 3/12, imrobo2 4/12, zohaibh- 4/12, mantoo1 - 1/12

mantoo1 is out of equation because of not having enough evidence.

Clearly a we see a network in between StallionMosquito, zohaibh, imrobo2, gmughals, ateebshaikh290, cheechu.
They are most provably alts to each others and abusing merits.

Big thanks to ngavanngo22 for finding the clue.

Very good work I even checked the plagiarism LOL

Well constructive post I wish to send merit straight way, however I have added this on my waiting list. (archive)

Keep it up.

Case#6

Naitik and jerry29@
Screenshot for the record
Clearly Naitik and  jerry29@ are guilty for exchanging merit, possible Atls.

Courtesy to ngavanngo22, thank you.

I just did as you suggested assuming this will help to be discovered by DT members.

I had bring a second thought in it eventually. With some terms and conditions am removing the red trust. Motive is to keep a proof that they admit their misuse. I wish I was a DT member or a high ranked member to save my ass.
mdayonliner's Red Trust removal T&C


If we take responsibilities (if possible) in our hand trying to find these abusers and find a way to warn them with proofs (i.e: my removal t&c) then give them a second chance. After that if they do the same mistake/abuse then staff or moderators should ban them, no mercy (my opinion). May be we will see it will start to reduce dramatically.

This is an on going list so I will be adding more cases with proofs as I go.
I leave all these here for now with the hope that any DT member or staff or moderator will look into this cases and red trust these merit abusers.

I do personally give red trust but since I am not high ranked member I face a lot of insult/humiliation. And I feel like my account is at risk. They revenge me with a red trust.

But this is not stopping me from the goal I have. I am still looking for these merit users and sending them red trust as a way for them to aware that they are abusing the merit system. If they admit and commit not to do again then I am removing the red trust replacing with a neutral trust to keep a log of their commitment.

Full details will be found in this thread.
mdayonliner's Red Trust removal T&C

I know, it's annoying to involve in fight plus I need to save my ass.

No I can not, i'm afraid. All this threads has their own purpose and will be continued (e.i: this one is for keeping log of red trust removal request etc). Separating them helps me to keep a log.

The rule says to give red trust. Hope you understand

Great job Kousei23. I removed the red trust and left a neutral trust. Remember not doing it again.

- Again I am just trying to save my ass. It looks bad seeing red trust on a profile besides dome day these people might be DT members then obviously their red trust will be visible to everyone. So, I am trying to minimise my risk.

- Thank you, yes I do.

Case#5

Rumhurius and striker7334 2.0


Rumhurius's merit summary

Received - Time	User	Sent - Time
41 - January 28, 2018, 12:32:58 AM	striker7334 2.0	50 - January 28, 2018, 12:27:56 AM
Null	bytemaster	50 - March 22, 2018, 12:27:36 AM
Null	Limx Dev	50 - March 23, 2018, 04:55:28 AM

Look at the timing of merit exchange with striker7334 2.0, received 50 merit at January 28, 2018, 12:27:56 AM and after 5 minutes sent 41 merits at January 28, 2018, 12:32:58 AM. Posts are this and this. Clearly merit exchanged.

Also sending 50 merit each to bytemaster and is too much Limx Dev  These two user looks legit. May be they worth it. Not enough evidence that they will trade it. So I will keep them out of the equation.

I clearly see Rumhurius and  striker7334 2.0 are guilty for exchanging merit.

As I replied you in the PM...


Same timezone:
Bilipus - Akselrod
Same day registration August 20, 2017
Exchanging merit on some cheap-post 2 and 5 reapply prove my assumption wrong?

Exchanging merits to atls receives negative feedback if discovered and that's what you got. Sorry 


I did! Honestly.