No.

The developers don't have to pay anything for them. It's a free advertising budget to them.


Most of the ICOs are scams and they don't care about building a reputation. It's all about SEO. This site having a high ranking will make every linkback from every signature here promote the ranking of their site. If they are paying for that using free tokens then that's free SEO work.

Can you send me the error messages from the console?

Yes, it is for an individual user. It's a lot harder for a botnet with 100,000 accounts though.

Thanks. We'll have alook at what casues that.



The top to tiers of the Free BTC Bonus are reserved for those that do gamble or deposit at the moment. If you don't want to gamble you can keep a balance above the value of $50 to be whitelisted for all rewards.

Do you have access to another browser to try it and see if that is the problem?

This conversation switched to the other thread for some reason.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=319540.msg40513537#msg40513537

tl:dr

Use a strong unique password.
Use 2FA.
Don't ignore the warning about your emails bouncing.

Well done. Also please use 2FA, it really is important. Of all the account recoveries I've done I've never had anyone using 2FA be hacked.

That bright red background was meant as an indication that it was important.

You didn't take the basic steps to secure your account.

1) Your password was either not strong or compromised in another way.

2) You didn't use 2FA so your email was the only defence.

3) You were using an email that was not functioning properly.

That's why you got hacked.

That's true but 99.9% of the spam problem is caused by the ones that don't.

So why didn't you change the email when you first got that notification? Or even more importantly use 2FA to secure your account?

Only if the password wasn't changed in which case you wouldn't need cookies anyway.

Now answer my second question.

It's not tools they lack it is desire. They just want that URL plastered all over bitcointalk.org where Google will see it and give their site a higher ranking as a result.

Don't be silly.

Answer the questions from the other thread.

How did you know the hacker withdrew 0.002 if you lost access to the account?

How did the hacker change the withdrawal address if they didn't hack your email or you didn't acknowledge the confirmation email?

What?

Nothing you said in the other thread made any sense and this is complete nonsense.

No it doesn't.

It would be so easy to abuse as the account farmers have hundreds of accounts each to use to upvote their own posts. The Merit system works well because the Merit sources are well chosen and then the sMerit flows down to the right people.

I would ban ICOs from advertising on the forum altogether. They've already been banned for bidding in the forum banner advertising auctions so why not extend that that to signatures?


That looks to be the approach being taken. It is a slow process but many ranked up accounts get banned each day and it is very difficult for them to be replaced.
I addition I'd like to see signatures removed from Newbie and Jr. Members. Most of the copy paste bots I report are Jr. Members enrolled in an ICO bounty signature campaign.

Nobody will get banned for that. People only get banned for breaking the rules. Bitcoin is a libertarian movement and freedom of speech is a fundamental part of that.

There is no point in a ranking system that just counts posts over a time period. Merit was introduced so that only those that make a valuable contribution to the forum will rank up in future. My only regret is that it wasn't introduced long ago.

Unfortunately, he's unlikely to be willing to do that on account of being a copy paste spambot.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.msg28894124#msg28894124