Haha. I know you don’t like to provide signed messages so it is difficult to agree that is a true statement. Perhaps you could broadcast a transaction from one of your known addresses.

I am watching with popcorn ready.

I won’t speculate if the OP is a troll or if BPB really was hacked. However the OP certainly talks a lot like BPB.

This is ultimately up to the person who is paying *for* the advertising.

As I mentioned previously, if you make a post on Monday, start wearing a signature advertisement on Wednesday, on Thursday someone might read that post.

If this is something the person paying for the advertising is okay with there is no issue here. It is not your place to tell others how to conduct business.

I don’t think shadow banning newbies will be very effective in combating this. Users will not necessarily use low level accounts to make these kinds of posts. I have previously suggested that Ann threads with a post within xx time be displayed in a random order, which would effectively make bumping more than once per day pointless.

We don’t know if the people behind this project are the ones financing this spam, or if it is a compeating project trying to make this coin look bad. Technically speaking, we don’t know that as many people have bumped the thread as the screenshot implies have bumped the thread.

The screenshot says that people must ask at least a 30 word question, so it is unlikely that most of these posts will violate the no low/no content posts rule.

I think the best corse of action would be to make others aware of this practice and not take extreme steps to stomp it out. Trying to stomp out this activity will only create a false sense of security and result in potential investors unaware of the risk this is happening. If potential investors are warned about this behavior, they can take it into consideration when deciding to invest.

How do you know anyone related to the project is behind this?

This is allowed.

I don't think there have ever been a lot of people who have been in this kind of role publicly around here.

This is not the power of China, this is the power of women. Lol.

I would advise creating a new account if you want a new username.

The administration will sometimes do this for well known long standing members who are in good standing and contribute, however your account is ~two months old.

As long as the company paying for advertising is aware and approved of this term, there should be no issue. This is not normally how things are done, but it is not your place to tell others how to conduct business.

If someone makes a post on Monday and starts wearing a signature on Wednesday, presumably some people will see the signature on Thursday or later in the week.

If you have a problem with lauda, I would advise you contact blazed, hilariousandco and salty. They are the reason why lauda is in the default trust network, despite the overwhelming community consensus that lauda should be excluded from DT. If they are unable to address your concerns, I would advise discussing the issue with theymos who can remove them from DT1 (and possibly from staff if he agrees adding lauda is a sign of poor judgment, which it is).

He is still staff.

I wonder if either of you actually understand the post you were responding to, and how it relates to each of your responses.

I am guessing no, and you probably didn’t bother to closely read the posts you were responding to either.

Yes, that is correct. However you generally cannot make posts with nothing other than a quote, especially when the quote in question does not anything meaningful to the conversation.

You have not traded before (from what I can tell from your trust), and have taken out a single loan 1/3 this size. What makes you think it would be prudent to trust you with $900 given your history, and given that people have scammed for ~$1 in the past?

I would not give any ID information directly to the OP.

Although I am fairly confident the OP is planning on stealing the identity of anyone who applies for a loan, if someone does decide to proceed with trying to get a loan from the OP, ID details can be provided to a trusted 3rd party who can hold the details until there is a default in the terms of the loan, at which point the OP can receive the details.

I searched your sent trust and found 89 instances of the word "SMAS" in your sent trust, and 437 instances of the word "spam" in your sent trust (some of these may be overlapping). I think it is safe to say your statement that you are not tagging people for spamming is a lie.

theymos gave his general criteria above. He said he will want you to stay if you are a net positive to the forum. Granted this is very vague.

theymos also gave insight into his thought process for not allowing the OP to have his ban lifted. His actions were generally in line with other spammers whose mindset is to make as much as possible in the short term without regard to the damage his actions will have on others within the community.

Having a rule in place is no substitute for using good judgment.

I guess I would say to determine how severe the copy/paste spam is. You can ask questions such as, how many instances of this kind of spam are there (can you find more or less than two instances fairly quickly)? Were measures taken to cover this activity up (such as adding random words throughout the post)? Was this person getting paid to make these spam posts? How good is this person's post quality when they are not copy/paste spamming? Could it be reasonable to say this person is somewhat helpful to others (that you are aware of)? The answers to these questions should help determine just how harmful their actions are, and if a permmaban is appropriate.

Plagiarizing posts when participating in a signature campaign is nothing short of scamming the company paying you to wear their signature. Period, end of discussion, there is no other way to look at this.

Disregarding the fact that plagiarism in itself is wrong, as a general rule, plagiarizing content via google (or other websites) in the middle of a thread will generally not result in you adding to the conversation in any meaningful way, so you are essentially trashing the thread you are posting in for your own personal benefit. Further, if someone does respond to what you said plagiarized, you will likely be unable to engage in any meaningful conversation, assuming you bother to later look at the thread in question.

Another concern about plagiarizing around here is that it would be fairly trivial for someone to automate the posting of random garbage from google search results into threads. So this will not save you a few minutes to make a post, it will save you hours (or more) to make many posts. This along with the above, is a major problem. I suspect a fairly decent number of copy/paste spammers are using some kind of automation tool to do so.


Anytime someone is permabanned, they will be removed from the community, so an evaluation will need to be made to decide if this is a net benefit or not. In most cases, this is easy because the person in question provides essentially zero positive, and a decent amount of negative.

I would not personally give a lot of positive credit to someone who has done a few trades for profit among a small group of friends. This is not exactly something that demonstrates large amounts of integrity, nor does it have an especially large impact on the community economy.

I think a better measure of someone's integrity is how they act when (they think that) no one is looking, or when no one can see what they are doing. If you have someone's private keys, what happens to the money tells more about someone verses if someone repays a loan 10 times larger, or completes a trade valued 10 times larger. In this case, ChiBitCTy thought no one would see his plagiarism, and did it regardless of the harm it would cause, and regardless of the fact this is wrong.

If you are arguing for ChiBitCTy to be unbanned, your argument should start and end with "ChiBitCTy is my friend and would like for him to be allowed to stay", especially if you are among those that try to "clean the forum". To make any other argument is nothing other than dishonest and nepotism. Maybe these people have some motive other than "cleaning the forum" in their actions. This may or may not be a sufficient argument to allow ChiBitCTy to get unbanned, probably not considering the severity of the damage he has done, but maybe for something not quite as bad.

The overwhelming majority of posts do not receive merit, so very few posts would even be reordered if this was implemented.

Also, many posts are replies to what was said immidiately before a post was made, so sorting posts this way would result in threads being confusing as to the flow of the conversation

There are several anti-plagiarism websites that should help automate checking for this kind of thing. It might be cost efficient for the forum to subscribe to one or more databases to check against posts.