{bolbau, legend378}
{LBX, hamade}

The above have been tagged for obvious reasons (i.e. time between merit tx's).

misteid, mohamed reda and big.pharaoh have all only received merit. The last one was kind of difficult since all the posts were deleted but if you start tagging the receiving user in merit spam, then you open up access for scammers to falsely link themselves with regular users.

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Good find.

Seems like you don't understand the fact that they want to change it to their old username, that they're on a new account, and that they're banned

And then this golden post comes along:

Ah, yes. I scrounge around for merit pitifully because I need to rank up. Where would I be without my precious merits?

(I don't see how I'm whoring out for merits that I won't get. You should at least take some time to prove your identity )

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We should do this with PGP, in my opinion. It's good to get people to start encrypting their messages, no?

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Doing this so I won't have to later:

1ActBTCi5XUMjqnyFxVWgSfE5xWicj8g3o
actmyname on 6/1/2018, UTC time. Signing a message for eddie's Rep thread.
HNi2ydekSG7srufRcjI/bNy8uZBvu5nLN0D4YcEZVEBxcb6NS2I3cOTPQep3NoaJR0i3yDhVdvLjgPC09cAKaRs=


Not too difficult considering I keep the wallet available just in case I have to verify my identity.

Ticket: ccc
Hash Ticket: c
txID Link: f2bb5e41e37812ee03dde3828a1c3e74699738f9150ae7d374ce27cbb8c52404

I hope you've ignored the user. I don't think it would be good to continue to let him pester you, especially considering the number of negative tags on his account.

There's no sense in letting his negs bother you. It's just their butthurt way of wasting time and having a fit.

Oh, of course. If we're talking strictly about spam concentrated in the board. But bounties, among other things, cause people who wear signatures to spam their bs all over the forum.

Notice: Bitcoin Discussion, Economics, Trading Discussion, etc. are all filled to the brim with meaningless discussion about the most general shit that anyone can whip up a quick 100-word redundant paragraph in a minute.

We don't need any more 10-page threads about "ok the price is now n and it should be m, but maybe it will fall to p. i believe bitcoin the technology will go up and go to m though"

I anticipate that one way users will try to circumvent this is by editing the posts now instead: rather than deleting posts themselves, the bots can edit the posts to contain reportable garbage (i.e. single letter, whitespace characters, etc.) and have some other account report the posts.

Provided that a moderator looks at it within 24-hours (someone would probably test to see the staff activity of the section) this allows for deletion (albeit much slower than before).

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This does give us some more to work with if we consider the report and post history of Newbies (if those are the accounts they're using) since you could potentially nuke them as well but it seems like it would be a lot of work.

Implementing the captcha might not work if someone simply uses a captcha-solver.

whoosh

Souls must be fed. Wait, no... that's not right. What is it again?

No, that's where you're wrong, "fam". I very much think of myself as stupid. If you don't at least think of yourself as unintelligent and lacking in knowledge, then your overconfidence and hubris will surely lead to an unfulfilling time.

But compared to xSplit, I don't think I'm very stupid.

Doesn't matter if they've made "mistakes". They haven't plagiarized.

Take a look at my post count. I have almost 3x the posts of ihnattm. Have I gotten posts deleted before? Fuck yeah! In fact, here's one of them:


But the fact of the matter is that my deleted posts, my mistakes were never anything severe like plagiarism. It's probable that most users have had at least one deleted post in their BCT lifetime. Not only that but IIRC Lauda even admitted to being temp-banned for spam. And I shitpost sometimes, sure.

But we don't plagiarize.

The mistake should have been recognized when the user previewed their post (or looked at it afterward). If you're worried about "haste" and are posting too quickly/too much to even give it a look-over then you're also spamming. The punishment is warranted.

Surely, we don't post on the forum without looking over what we type, right?

Plenty of users with higher post counts have been banned.

If you unban ihnattm you also have to unban the other hundreds of people who have plagiarized posts. And fuck yeah, these are the rules. Considering the fact that hundreds of thousands of members are still around who haven't been banned for plagiarism, I don't think that many have copied and pasted posts.

What's the point of having rules if you are just going to allow them to be bent when someone apologizes for their actions after the fact? Unbanning you means creating a precedent for plagiarism, to which then every banned person will henceforth cite... and then there's really no point for the rule to be there anymore.

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Haste?

*the Meta posts must be in a thread about your ban. It must be limited to discussion only about your ban, thus you can't participate in any other Meta discussions.

The exact quote:

I'm not so sure you understand. Plagiarism is a serious offence worldwide and a simple apology doesn't exactly acquit you of what you've done. Not only is this in the rules but I believe it's commonly taught internationally that it's a bad thing. (feel free to correct me on this)

Even if it's not explicitly explained, some minor critical thinking would lead you to believe that it's at best partially immoral. After all, if you put in time and effort into a product and someone copies it, do you think that deserves a non-negative response?

The site's been around for years but was re-released last year. dean's paid out hundreds of bitcoins on the old site before so there's some credence to his character.

I've never experienced any problems with the bets. Sometimes, the hot wallet may need to be filled but apart from that, depositing/withdrawing $1000's worth of coins has always went smoothly.

Buying old PC's and trying to crack into any wallets that exist there? That's kind of like the same thing albeit the chance of success is drastically lower in this case.

What relevance does knowledge of the language impart upon the consequences of rules? If you plagiarize in English, French, Klingon or Dothraki it doesn't matter since the intent is the same.

Without sourcing the work, you're conveying that the ideas are your own. The language doesn't affect that.

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If you don't know enough English then perhaps the best thing to do is to not attempt to write it? Learn it before you start jumping into threads, maybe

Positive trust can be posted multiple times. Does this mean that they're using the same thread? No. In fact, all of our negative trusts point to different references.

In the case of positive trust, would it be right to credit multiple positive feedbacks to an individual (from multiple users) with a single trade? No. However, in some cases, a user may have some a major thread where they're doing good for the forum (i.e. rizzlarolla, TwitchySeal) that could warrant positive trust.

Also, if you've had multiple positive interactions with a user, then you yourself could potentially give multiple positive trust ratings.

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Remember that there's actually very little written down about what you can and can't do: there's only really guidelines.