Well you got me, can't pass up a good mystery. 

PM sent looking forward to putting a smile on my face. 

The problem with this idea is that the moment the timer rolls over you will have a bunch of bots fighting to take up the quota for the month.

Picture the doors opening on Black Friday, or if you tried ordering Asics last year and they were sold out within minutes

I know for myself I probably never would have registered here if I hadn't been able to the first time around, because I came here looking for answers

In addition to this, there are "scientists" out there denouncing facts. These people are handed massive amounts of cash by Dark, Slick companies to bend the facts to suit their narrative.

Unfortunately we live in a society where you can cut yourself of from any opinion or facts you don't like, and just sit there in your own bubble of misinformation.

I don't see the forum creating a special board solely for the purpose of Merit Giveaway Post Review threads. Users are fine to create a thread and maintain/advertise it as they see fit. There have been a few that are successful, or where but they seem to be dying out.

It would be nice to have a board where every topic that centers around Merit could be shuffled to


The idea of the system is not to make it "easy" for all of us. You need to be able to create decent content, and then if someone likes what you are putting out there you might see some Merit. This way we can raise the quality of information here.

Edit: I reviewed some of your posts, and I'm glad to see it's not filled with airdrop bounties, but does seem to be heavily focused on Merit. Try taking a step back and just focus on post quality and I'm sure you'll get some more down the road.

Also this is sort of what you are looking for, some of these are inactive.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3604259.0

Could you post some more information. Here is a guideline to help

What I was going for overall was to give the banned member all of the information as to why they have been disciplined.
For a permanent ban what you are saying makes zero difference,IMO. As KWH pointed out:


Being a forum rule it is up to the forum, and community members to quash ban evading.

Just from what I've seen around the meta section the last few months.

You'll see a lot of users who've signed the message and done all that is asked have waited that long, if not longer.

I know you sell gear through the hardware section, so in the meantime you might want to start switching over to using this as your main account for the time being

Good job getting the account back

Just following that profile leads to more and more accounts passing them along. to Jeremiesaranza, todumbtool45

As you can see those posts received a completely deserved amount of Merit 

Sorry my mistake in leaving the Neg, didn't think about the locked part...

In regards to post count, I don't need to worry about upping it. I actually felt bad; for a minute.

Good luck

Edit: Not that it would have mattered as I said I would remove it once you had control of it again.

This seems like a recipe for disaster, especially with you granting access to your profile to someone else.


Or has the account actually changed hands and we get to see if anyone is dumb enough to bite, despite the trust rating.

So I found myself wondering the same thing  while I was strolling through the Beginner and Help board. It feels to me that not showing trust here could be like leading a lamb to slaughter.

This board is ideally supposed to draw in the Newbies, and we already know that not everything gets reported/moderated. To me this just provides an opportunity for untrusted members to abuse the system with carte blanche.

I can see how some people in general may see red trust and ignore what a person has to say, but that's their loss. If I see Red, I always look at why/how and go from there.  Sometimes it leads to an interesting story or history within the community. Usually it means I will listen to their idea but wouldn't enter a trade using someone else's 10 foot pole.

I understand what you are saying, my thoughts on the matter is it could possibly create a short list to monitor for an email/password change and then further for changes in posting habits.

It was a long shot regardless. Just seems like an account you wouldn't want switching hands.


Now that I think about it, this could also just be another scammer trying to lure someone in with a sweet account.

Edit: Loyce beat me to my epiphany 

Yeah I was just checking them out and didn't think any were a match. Might not be to easy to narrow things down

*Said with respect*

So I came across this account sale thread.

Given the provided information,, especially the amount of Merit, what are the odds you guys could narrow down the potential list of accounts.

I am making an assumption that this individual has only received 17 merits. I believe this to be true because, and correct me if I'm wrong, the other option is 267. I think that Hero close to Legendary started with 750?? Can't remember where I saw that. Regardless these larger numbers of Merits received should make it simpler to identify the account.


Not sure what could be done regardless of how well the list gets narrowed down but it could generate a shortlist of accounts to watch to prevent a green trust legendary account from changing hands.

You can get a whole home surge protector that installs off the main panel. They do take up 2 breaker spots just like any other 220V circuit.

They run about 150$ and are pretty good for piece of mind.

Plagiarism is a 1 and done offense. It is a permaban of the person not just the account.

That's a damn shame, you did a good job of asking all the right questions in the hardware sections. Unfortunately it takes a crazy long time right now to recover accounts, I want to say some are upwards of 6 months I'm not even sure the last one that was recovered.

I also left a negative feedback on the account until it is back in your possession. It's untrusted but hopefully some DT members will do the same until you get the account back

Best of luck

Yeah I see what you mean when they have a short term ban.

I guess I was thinking more inline with a Plagiarism ban, which we have been seeing a lot of lately.

After the slew of topics created along the lines of "Why I ban" , "I didn't break no rules", "Only try to contribute to forum"

I'm guessing it's a general form letter that gets sent out once a Ban is initiated, so could we just ad a few things.

1) The word Permanent when it is.

2) The offence with a reference link or the quote. As well as a link to the broken rule


This will at least make it easier to squash these topics once started, or to investigate in the case of the user who was framed.

In regards to the electricity, I assume your talking using the vehicles alternator and drawing of the battery maybe even a spare dedicated solely to the chipset? Then I agree if you can do this and run the vehicles long enough each day that it doesn't drain the battery while they are off, your electricity is essentially free.

The bigger hurdle you brought up is the network connectivity. Not using a wired network connection causes it's own issues with latency and submitting shares. This could be the difference between your fleet submitting and finding a block or getting beat to it. With this though I guess some shares are better than no shares especially if you don't have a noticeable electricity cost.

It would almost be better to mine off the spare battery solely on downtime with the fleet and joining with a pool.