Only a brand new account being registered on a bad IP would be effected by this. Is that what happened?


No, it normally isn't, unless all the posts are extremely spammy or off topic etc. What probably happened is he was given the first ban then they or someone else spotted something like plagiarism and permabanned him. The vast majority of his posts just seem to be 'thanks for the airdrop' type ones, many of which are in threads that have been trashed. I would contact mprep for further clarification as he was possibly the one who issues the ban (both temp and permanent).


Try contact mperp.

Glad I've moved up a bit. Think I was at 14th and now up to 8th. Another correct score will probably take me into the top 5. I'm not optimistic though. Too hard to predict internationals and without correct scores you get nowhere.


Lol. Sterling is shit. He can't put the ball into an open net. All Kane's goals have either been from penalties, 2 foot out, or deflections so far, so I don't think Belgium will have anything to worry about. If Belgium are swapping the team around they might have Kompany back as well. They're both tied on goals both scored and conceded so there's not really much difference between either defences in that respect.

I also had 2-0 down to England.


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-cup/2018/06/23/belgium-managerroberto-martinez-ready-restromelu-lukaku-eden/

It seems Belgium seemingly isn't that bothered about grabbing the top spot as they're apparently going to rest Lukaku and Hazzard (though not sure what Lukaku thinks of that seeing as he's in the running for the Golden Boot). Even the strongest England team will probably struggle against a Belgium team missing those two I think.

What is your original account? Did you follow the procedure to recover it?


I think this is well put. As I've said before, this forum (along with bitcoin) is a victim of its own success and just attracts both the desperate and nefarious. I think it's great that people can a earn here and the money made can actually make a difference to people's lives (I know it has mine), but it's frustrating how it's being exploited by masses of people just crapping up the forum in the laziest and greediest way possible (and it's the campaigns that should be held responsible for this). Whilst this forum isn't about making money, it is a forum about money (and a new type of money) and I don't think we should forget that. Measure should be put in place to try stop the abuses that go on though and I think punishing campaigns that don't do their job would go a long way. I also still think we should introduce paid bitcointalk ranks like Silver and Gold Member that have the same benefit of Seniors and Heroes or whatnot. This would essentially kill account farming and account sales and like the op has already experienced the majority of account sellers are just opportunistic scammers now. Most of them don't even seem to have any accounts for sale and just hope they get someone desperate enough to send them money first. I honestly don't see any negatives about letting users purchase such memberships. The money made could either be used to fund worthwhile projects (I've suggested before a decentralised forum software, a better DDOS-type service or even a bitcointalk seastead/Island) or just give the money to charity. The only people who are going to lose here are account farmers whilst the benefits are numerous.


It's not if you change it to users who now register here or have done over the past five years. I think 90% would then be an understatement. I think people who sign up here now just to earn will dwarf those who actually come here just seeking knowledge or to discuss about bitcoin etc.

The only way it is going to be solved is if theymos or cyrus start actively restoring them, or somebody else is promoted to Admin or given access to restore accounts. The issue is purely manpower based. Theymos and Cyrus probably don't have time so they're just not getting looked into. Even cases that almost certainty cut and dry are just getting added to the pile which grows bigger every day.
 

If theymos wanted to make more money there are numerous legitimate ways that he could monetise this forum better, but as usual people like to invent conspiracies up because they're always more sexy and exciting. I've personally suggested a few ways to theymos like adding more donator ranks and more advertising slots like at the top of certain sub boards (I think people would pay premium for ones above Bitcoin Discussion and Gambling etc). The current advertising slots are barely noticeable especially when they're drowned out with signatures (and some people have even mistaken them for a signature advertisement before). If theymos wanted more money for himself he could also just pay himself a huge wage but as far as mod payments go even a very active patroller gets more than him currently so it's probably not about money. A while back I did even suggest he pay himself an appropriate wage and do admin duties here full time because one is still badly needed and if there's nobody else he trusts fully then that's probably the only way.


Any other active staff member could do this as well. I don't think Cyrus' account has full admin-access like theymos' (or root access or whatever).


I wouldn't be against a user like you doing it but there are also numerous staff members who could as well. I think you'd get pretty burned out by it quite quickly though if you were doing it purely voluntarily. You would get spammed to death by people and the amounts of accounts that need restoring is probably at least a part-time job right now (and we probably need at least one full time admin anyway to handle all the other issues). If you're happy to spend half of your time on here restoring accounts for fun though, then go for it  .


Exactly, there's always a weak point and anyone could be targetted or slip up at some point. Let's not forget that one of the main reasons why people are losing their accounts in the first place is that the forum was hacked and password hashes were leaked. Is this theymos' fault? No, it was the hosting's as they were cleverly exploited, but it shows you that there's always some way that you can get hacked.

Personally, I don't really care who does it as long as they're trusted, but if theymos and cyrus aren't actively going to be doing account restorations then someone else really needs to.

Germany are jammy bastards. That last goal was a peach. Glad it happened because I want Germany to go through, but I also needed them on my accumulator haha. I really hope Germany can finish top second (or Brazil second in their group) so neither team potentially meet each other before the final (if they get that far).


I had two-zero. I was expecting Germany to give it their all as they badly needed a win and to not mess about.


Haha. Call it Balls of Steel.


It goes down to goal difference then there's other criteria after that if those are both the same. That's why scoring a lot of goals in the tournament is important because it could go down to whether you progress or not.

The speculation threads are getting really annoying. Every day there's another handful of threads asking can bitcoin go to x this year?

I've suggested before that there should be warnings or the most commonly broken rules displayed at the top specific to the sub board they're about to post a new topic in. Ie in Bitcoin Discussion: Threads about the value of bitcoin don't belong here but in Speculation. Marketplace: Only bump your thread once every 24 hours etc. People tend not to pay attention to stickies and the more there is of them the less chance they have of reading them.

Yeah, that's annoying. Feel like I've wasted it now. Really need to try take advantage of this given how poorly I'm doing.


They're not out yet.


I can only see them after the game (as I'm sure the others can as well). It's only for the five people who accepted my one vs one challenge as well that I accidentally sent out at first instead of the invite to join the group.

Hard to believe people will waste at least six minutes of their time for a mere ten cents  . Yet another reason why there should be some restrictions on brand new accounts.


The ones who are only hearing about bitcointalk through that listing will be using brand new accounts. None of them are going to buy an account to do so. At ten cents per post it's probably only brand new desperados that are even going to bother with it.


Why don't you waste your time doing that and see how helpful it is. I doubt they'll even reply and the info probably wouldn't be relevant or helpful. All they'll be able to give you at most is the email address or IP they signed up with and I dount they'll have used one that can be tied directly back to their ICO.

Argentina played shit. There should have been some red cards in that match.


Nope. It turns a different colour when you chose it. See below. The last one I was able to choose was the Spain game and it gives you a golden border once you click the Joker hat. Now there's no joker symbol on yesterdays or today's games:

I think the bounty managers/campaigns are the ones who should be using or developing their own tools to help manage their campaigns better or more efficiently.


For a shitcampaign there's no difference between someone writing a thesis or bashing their head against the keyboard. Both are still posts that bare their advertisement which is all they want and require at the end of the day. It obviously shouldn't be acceptable for them to pay for people bashing their head on keyboard but until there's repercussions for those that do then nothing will change and campaigns will continue to be lazy and pay for anything.


They're not trying to build a brand. These ICOs are not here to stay. They're fly by night scammers (or for however long the duration of their ICO lasts). All they want is their ICO to be promoted as fast as possible, take as much money in as possible, then disappear or onto the next scam. Rinse and repeat.


I've suggested this before. I don't think lower ranks should be able to have a signature or at the very least a very minimal one (though there are still campaigns that will pay for those).


It would still be very difficult for people to farm accounts this way. You'd have to spend a lot of time and effort on each account and there's no guarantees you would every get the required merit. I still think the forum should offer paid Memberships like Copper but Silver and Gold ones etc that give you the same benefits of a Senior and Hero account. You can either offer these ranks alongside being able to rank up naturally or they're the only way you can get a signature.

The signature campaigns help in spreading awareness, but I agree that 99% of the twitter and facebook campaigns probably do fuck all because 99% of them are just fake profiles adverting to other fake profiles. There will be a small amount of genuine users advertising to their friends and family etc but I'm not sure how many of them will be suckered in to investing if any at all. If know if I saw any of that nonsense on my friends list I'd just remove those people. Either way, when you pay in tokens you've created out of thin air it doesn't matter either way because it's still free advertising at the end of the day for them so they will continue to do it because they've got nothing at all to lose by doing it.

I also got the 1-1 correct. I really need to start getting more scores right because it's the only way you can win. You only get a few points for guessing the correct winner whereas you get 200-300 points for getting the score right. If you chose it as a joker you double it as well. Has anyone been able to choose a joker for today's games? It's still not letting me choose any now.

I only wish he had gone through with it and failed epicly. There's been quite a lot of bad/ fowl throws this tournament and the ref hasn't pulled a single one of them up yet.  https://twitter.com/hoeyp18/status/1007653759508500488



All of yesterdays games were pretty dull and they were all quite lucky to scrape wins especially Spain which was practically an own goal. I was really looking forward to the Spain and Portugal games given how they played each other in the first round but I think they both got too complacent. The tournament is very open right now and I wouldn't put money on any team as it stands. I could even see an underdog winning or going very far.


Fill in all your scores now. You can change them all at a later date but at least if you forget or can't put them in for whatever reason then you still have something down.

Can anyone choose a joker match for today's games? The option doesn't seem to be there.

This is a bitcion forum. If it was a thread merely about blockchain tech used by the Korean government in Bitcoin Discussion then that's probably why it was trashed. Unless it's related to bitcoin then it'll be trashed or moved into the appropriate sub.


Did you post it in Bitcoin Discussion? If so, then discussion about alt coins doesn't belong there. Threads containing ref links or just 'buy this coin' threads are also trashed.

Well they probably won't now if they play like they did verses Mexico. I think I chose Brazil on my other one and would have chose them if I could have edited it before but you couldn't. They haven't done much either.. Spain and Portugal have probably been by far the better teams so far.



Well how else are you meant to play it? 

I also had Uruguay and Russia to go through and in that order. I would have probably backed Egypt second had Salah been fit from the start, but even still, home advantage is usually a huge boost and Russia might even finish top of their group right now, but I think Uruguay should finish them off.


Sure. No harm in that since we can't change it: https://bracketchallenge.fifa.com/bracket/prediction/1c46aa425934ebd72908

There probably isn't any scam here. Either Quickseller has always been Tradefortress or he just controlled the Tradefortress account at the time of the deal and he just sent the coins to himself just to try shit you up (or he never controlled that address in the first place and TF sent coins to himself).

No. Read what I said. You probably got a seven day ban initially, then after got a permanent one for whatever reason. Let's say you get a seven day ban for spamming, but then a mod sees you have been copy and pasting and permabans you, then that obviously overrides your initial ban. If it was a mistake then the ban could be removed but since your account has been nuked then that's a permanent ban.

Yes, Poland made mistakes but the backpass probably wouldn't have happened if they knew there was a player there. He shouldn't have been waived on at such a time. He was off the pitch and out of play and was waived on whilst the ball was in the air and Poland were oblivious which gave Senegal a huge advantage which they unfairly capitalised on. The Senegal player was past the last defender so how are you meant to know about that? He essentially sneaked on.

https://twitter.com/TheAthleticSCCR/status/1009109694907076609


It tells you how many potential points you can get when you make your prediction.


I wouldn't give them too much credit. They've played shit teams and will probably go straight out in the group stage as they'll be facing likely Spain or Portugal. Lets see how they fare against Uruguay in their last game.