Nope. Was hoping someone else would look into them further and find something concrete or more alts which I'm sure there are more of. Had a cursory look at the threads they were posting in and didn't notice anything, but I don't have the time and energy to look into them further, but this shitposting is annoying.

Couldn't find their names on their bounty spreadsheet either: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4501947

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=967594 Lalafell March 11, 2017
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=971899     Core.BUSTER     March 20, 2017
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=971898     MetalGear March 20, 2017

Noticed two of these posting back to back in a necrobumped thread registered in the same month and on the same campaign. Then noticed another registered the same day posting in a different thread on the same campaign. All make the same generic shitposts in spam threads and start their sentences the same:










Very likely belong to the same person and there's possibly more if anyone wants to look into it further and find anything concrete.

Theymos has made several changes to signatures here. A long time ago everyone had the same Hero-sized signature upon signup, but then they were changed to get larger with ranks due to the huge amount of abuse that was happening, but the forum doesn't owe you a signature nor a right to earn money. The forum could remove signatures at any point and they likely will be removed at some point in the future if the spam situation isn't solved or curbed because things can't continue like they are and are only going to get exponentially worse the more people that sign up here to just earn from them. Lets be honest, the only reason you are likely here is to earn and if signatures did get removed then you sorts of people would leave the very same day and never return (or maybe you'd wait around for a few days complaining and hoping in vain that they would be reinstated). We could just as easily argue that why is it fair that old timers are punished by the influx of spamming newbies who don't give a shit about bitcoin or the technology other than they heard they can earn here? Punish everyone because of the people who would instantly leave the moment signatures are disabled? That doesn't sound right either. I wouldn't even be against removing signatures for everybody until you've earned the merit to get the signature in the first place. Make everyone start from zero merit. I and other posters who actually contribute something worthwhile here would have no issue in getting the required merit, but the legions of spammers who sign up here with their half a dozen to hundreds of accounts in their farm certainly would and that is the crux of the whole issue here in the first place.

You don't have to be a bot or an obvious spammer. There are many users who just write 30 one liners over the required time and then they become a Junior Member with no effort whatsoever. People are farming accounts in their hundreds if not thousands this way. Requiring one merit is not outrageous, but it certainly makes farming Junior accounts much more harder and doesn't really effect those others who are here to contribute something as they will likely get the merit pretty fast. I've just looked over your few pages of posts and whilst I wouldn't call you a spammer you haven't really contributed anything substantial either, but I doubt you'd have much issue in getting one merit if you put some more effort in. Requiring one merit to move up a rank really shouldn't be an issue, and if people can't even achieve one merit I would say the problem lies with them.

Yeah, you could argue all day about such things as tackles and 'soft' fouls that should or shouldn't have been given. What happens if someone scores from a corner or throw in that shouldn't have been given? People start complaining about that? Sometimes decisions go your way and sometimes they don't, but it's all part of the game at the end of the day.

It's easy for us as spectators to complain about decisions but we're not on the pitch and have the added benefit of instant replays from about half a dozen angles instantly. I've often thought things were (or weren't) clear penalties or free kicks upon live/first viewing but changed my mind after the replays and that's something refs or players don't have (unless it goes to VAR but then a lot of the time it's down to opinion). People complain about diving as cheating, but if you can get away with it why wouldn't they do it? On the flip side, sometimes people are fouled, but they don't go down and try carry on, therefore they don't get the penalty or free kick when they should have, whereas if he had of gone down or exaggerated then they might have got it. With that being said, people who blatantly dive or make a meal out of it do - or should - get carded so these things work both ways and fouls given or not being given are just something you have to accept and deal with.

Bots. It's automatic posting so it takes little-to-no effort once they're set up. Most of the bumping services I've seen their posts are just complete generic garbage reworded slightly over their dozens-to-hundreds of accounts so they just load the bots up with whatever crap they can be bothered making and just set it to whatever intervals they want. The previous bots were just posting the same one liners over dozens of accounts and then removing them before they were re-posted.


Bounties are the least of ours concerns. At least the junk is confined to it's own board an nobody else outside if there has to see it. it's the stuff that spills out of the alt coin section like crapcoin campaigns that are the issue.

synthesized  lol. What the hell does that mean? You mean you took several posts and combined them into one? That's plagiarism. It's taking others work and passing it off as your own to cheat bounties. Again, what is your account here? I'm not psychic.


Wait, this is his account? So he did directly copy someone else's post?

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99% of handballs in the area are accidental but they still get given penalties half of the time. If somebody purposely handballs it then they should be sent off like Sanchez was in the Columbia/Japan game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcAiSPDgh1c

If someone boots the ball at your hand point blank then it shouldn't be a penalty. The handball rule is so ambiguous though as it is up to personal opinion at the end of the day. It's silly that the ref spent so much time at the VAR, then went back, then gave it. If you have to spend so much time looking at it then it's not 'clear and obvious'.


C'mon, don't be silly. You're just being a sore loser now because a game didn't go your way. Croatia winning the tournament was the only way I could have won money but France were the much better team and even without the penalty they still would have won the game. How does it show corruption as well? Why would FIFA care whether France or Croatia won?

How can people help you when you don't tell us the name of the account?


You mean you were copy and pasting content? If so, that's why (and is the answer to 99% of these why was I banned? threads.

Well let's take a look. Oh, this didn't take long. Look at this post you merited with your own alt account:


Which is also a copy and paste:


So I'm guessing that you were banned for plagiarism like 99% of the others who ask the same thing.

'Most' is an exaggeration  Most of those aren't proper mods anyway. The only two that are - or were - are MiningBuddy and Raoul but they were removed from staff a while ago which was probably due to inactivity. Theymos probably just forgot to manually remove their names from the sub boards which has happened a few times. If you check their profiles you'll see it doesn't say staff anymore.

I only have a general idea of who is reporting a lot and no definitive stats or figures and that's mostly what we should be going off, but I have recommend people before based on them being prolific in reporting. I had no idea Welsh had anywhere near that amount of reports though, but if staff are having to spend all day handling your reports then it would make sense for you to be on staff.

Theymos can create polls limited to certain member ranks, but regular users can't as far as I'm aware.


Patrollers are just like 'baby' mods who can only handle reports on newbies (and nuke them if appropriate). Not all staff are also patrollers but most are I think.

I haven't read through this thread yet, but I really think we should remove signatures from lower ranks completely and then signatures should be given as a reward for people who have earned enough merit and subsequently the right to earn here via signatures. The amount of people who are signing up here just to copy and paste other's posts is ridiculous. It's both very hard to spot and incredibly time consuming for people to report and for staff to handle. Crapcoin campaigns accept them every single time and often at all ranks and are none the wiser to their abuse, whilst staff are left to clean up their mess. It doesn't matter if you get your accounts banned because it costs nothing to create and bot accounts here which most of them are likely doing and who cares if your lose a Junior Member? Start again or use one of the others from your stockpile. I've probably banned over 50 users today alone all copying other's posts that krishnapramod has reported and the reports keep flooding in.

I mean, what other alternatives are there here? The longer we do nothing about this spam the worse it gets and there will likely be a breaking point where theymos just has enough of all the nonsense and hassle and removes signatures all together, but then everybody is penalised for the greed and desperation of others and the people who came here just to abuse bounties will leave as quickly as they came. Let people earn their right to earn from posting here, and let the chaff just collect their bounties in the bounty boards until they manage to earn some merit, but don't let them pollute the rest of the forum or be the cause of removal of all signatures completely.

Also, I still think we should include some paid donator ranks like Copper Member (Silver & Gold Member etc) that come with the benefits of higher ranks (ie bigger signatures like Senior and Hero). If people are complaining that it takes too long to get merit then let them pay to bypass those restrictions. Give the money to charity or something. It's win win in my opinion).

I don't have the power to promote people to mods. All I can do is make suggestions when I think there are gaps that need filling.


I don't think polls are the way to go and are incredibly biased. People should be made staff on the willingness to report accurately and there are probably several good candidates who have thousands of reports between them.


Either/or would work, but delegating workload by sub board would probably be more efficient than just promoting more Globals as you just get swamped. The boards that don't have any mod or just a Global should be allocated one at least, especially the huge/most popular boards.

It would be very difficult to bot this given the nature of the scarceness of merit, not to mention not worth it for them.


I don't necessarily disagree with some restrictions being put in place on where and what newbies can post, but theymos seems dead against this, and I understand his reasoning. 


I agree with this. It seems some people are even deleting their posts once they've been merited. This could be done to cover up abuse. If a post is deleted for whatever reason then the merit should go with it.


As I mentioned in another thread recently, I don't think excluding bounty threads from being able to receive merit would be bad thing.

Games are available to predict now. So I need 955 points to get to current third place I believe, and have just made my last two predictions which will get me 1020 points if correct which would take me to third place as it stands. The scores are pretty outlandish so I've just got to go all or nothing now. Doubt either of them will come in though. Would have been so different if it wasn't for those late goals in the Russia and England matches. That there would have been around 1000 points alone.

If they have an insane amount of posts and no merit, then yeah, you can probably assume that they haven't been writing much of use, but they could also just be unlucky or be a local board poster where there's few or no merit sources.


I don't think it had anything to do with trolls, but just sig spam and account farmers. Trolls still get merit from people (at least when they're entertaining) so can still move up the ranks.


Even if we disallowed account sales people would still sell their accounts elsewhere. I'm not against banning their sale, but I'm a big believer in that the forum should offer more donator ranks that come with bigger signatures as perks as this would essentially kill the account farming and selling market because accounts would become largely worthless then. In addition, you could also ban account sales here to further kill the market and I don't think people will bother buying them off site as there would be no point and the likelihood of you being scammed would increase drastically.

Not sure if anyone has requested this or not before, but I think we should consider adding a small merit requirement to become a Junior Member. Even if it was just a one merit requirement I think it would help a lot, because far too many spammers and spambots are getting the rank and once they hit that they can't be nuked. We're getting hit by a lot of these 'haiku' bots as people keep calling them (though I think they're more like doge bots: riveting business, spotless design, much wow):












Those are all Junior Members and their posts all follow the same format. There's also hundreds of them. They should be nuked as deleting their posts one by one is incredibly time consuming. Alternatively, allowing Globals or something to nuke Juniors would also help.

I disagree. I think the cause of the spam is almost exclusively signature campaigns.


Those users would be rare.


I would say the vast majority of people (at least 90%+) only sign up here to earn from signatures or bounties. News that you can earn good money here is spreading like wildfire throughout developing countries and hence why the post quality deteriorates rapidly because a lot of them can't speak English very well if at all and more and more of them are signing up every day. A lot of them don't even seem to be in or out of high school yet.


And they don't. All they care about is earning money as quickly and as easily as possible, hence why many just copy and paste posts or content.


I'm confused, because you seem to be contradicting your original sentence. You said they're not the cause, but are now suggesting that signatures be removed to tackle the problem?

I'm not sure how it would. If they don't have any merit therefore they're a troll?


Nah, I disliked that feature immensely. Whilst it worked in some cases (I remember people like Phinneaus Gage glowing like a nuclear reactor), I was put on ignore on my hilariousandco account by a lot of people just because I was outspoken, or for making a lot of posts. I remember a couple of people 'ignoring' me just because they lost an argument which is pretty petty. I don't think I was ever glowing, but I probably would have go there eventually so it can give the wrong impression or make people judge you in a similar way that negative feedback would.