Recently I've found myself reporting off-topic, low quality shit posts in an Ann thread I follow. Then I found myself wondering If I had already "Reported to Mods" a couple posts.

This got me thinking, once a post or thread has been reported can we either take away the button, or mark it as "Reported for follow up". I know there are times where a thread may be reported multiple times to be moved, and I'm sure some posts as well. Not knowing myself how these appear to Mods, this may prevent multiple reports and streamline the process.

I can't remember where I read this but about a week ago it was reported a banned user could hand out their merits.

Pretty sure within a day that was fixed, and that privilege was removed, as it would have promoted merit sales.

If I find the post I'll update here.

Just a thought, I can't remember when/where, but someone was once talking about running into problems when they ran the 20 miners off 1 controller.

Not sure if that is playing a part with your setup, but it may be worth grabbing an extra controller and running 15 per.

When you mentioned temps, what are you doing to remove the warm exhaust? Is there a chance the warm air is short-circuiting around to the intake of the miners? Just putting ideas out there.

Also not sure if I missed it before, but do all the miners in each block go down at the same time?

That is weird. Can you give a little more info?

Like what each of your blocks consist of.

The circuits they are running on.

Is it always 15 hours to failure, or is does it always happen at 5am?

What are you using to power the controllers?

I'm sure this was just as an example, but I would hope plagiarism is still a 1 way trip to Permaban town.

I'm wondering what reports would you want to see on the list. For instance Off-topic, these can be spam and completely off base, or they can be a mini conversation within a thread for a few posts. I'm fine with the latter as it gives a conversational community feel. There's also "Low-quality" reports, and these again can be subjective. These are the types of "grey" area posts I could see creating a greater workload for the Mods.


Overall I like the idea, and I like the optimism.

Unless people can carry their own reporting score as a badge, I don't see anyone who doesn't already feel like their reports are doing something, gaining that sense. This kind of ties into the "more people will start reporting", I feel like if they aren't already doing so this won't change many peoples minds.The fact that there are penalties that weren't previously there may bring in a few more reporters, which would be a benefit.

In instances like the "grey" areas I mentioned above, vindictive people could use this system to try and target a user and create an abundance of reports against them. Typing that I also realized we may need to limit the ability to make reporting if abused,  as this new system may generate reporting spam to gum up the system. Again vindictive people will do almost anything.

I don't think the system would necessarily reduce the spam, the punishments would though. The loss of a Sig, would stop most  accounts from posting that are just here for the Sig money, but they will also probably just create a new account as it's not Ban evading, unless tied into that somehow.

I would like to think that this would open peoples eyes to following the rules, but look at how many plagiarism threads we see about account bans. Still daily there are reports of plagiarism flowing in. I think more likely this will be the next flood of threads taking over Meta: Where my Sig? What is spam ban? NAzi Mod removed my Sig, because jealous etc.

OT, Thanks.

The thread is not that old, maybe it will be. Feel free to comment on the thread or post suggestions if you think I missed anything.

I remember you asking about getting a moderator a while ago. My french is to rusty to go through and try and translate the shit posts on the board, but have you considered doing so?

My suggestion is to go and gather say 10 posts that are absolute trash, most likely translated posts. Create a thread that translates those posts as close as possible to English to show a clear example.

I'm surprised that it's such a spam fest in there considering local board posts usually do not count for Sig Campaigns.

Bonne chance.

Follow these guidelines and it may help you drum up some interest.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4576802.msg41268015#msg41268015

I guess we would see a bunch of BTC bloggers and vloggers heads explode.

Then there would be the battle of FUD and MOON discussions. The worse part about it is, no matter what Satoshi says in this hypothetical the NEWS machines would trun out there own narrative, because News has become more of an opinion piece than anything. I imagine it would go something like " Satoshi says he just wanted to check back in with the community and engage in the debate, but we here at chanel 496 belive BTC is dying and he is trying to dump his coins to save his fortune... Take it away Bob"

Takes of Negative hat.

As for the forum I think if that day came, he would be interested in some technical discussions and talking to some of the members here who delve into the behind the scenes stuff. Maybe even have a chat about some of the old days with any of the members who can remember back then.

Yes definitely dead. No moon.

Service being held next Tuesday, refreshments served. In lieu of flowers please donate any remaining BTC to the forum.

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On a more serious note BTC is still up from 1 year ago. So considering that growth it would be hard to call it dead. You also forget that for BTC to die the community would have to as well. This isn't going to happen; while mass adoption is what will be needed in the future, BTC can survive in a niche form until such a day.

Just look around how many people are using it in exchange for goods and services. People just have to stop looking at it in a sense of buy BTC today, rich with Lambos tomorrow.

The best bet would be to place this in services, you could even create a service announcement topic about your store.

Thanks for starting with pointless facts. This only contributed to making your post look like it's not worth reading.


Then post in your local board and seek Merit where the quality of your posts will earn Merit. If you have truly learned anything about crypto you will be able to have conversations with people, should you make a good point or provide insight maybe you'll get some Merit.

And No These "marketers", "contibuters", and "helpers" of ICO's that you speak of are the problem. Let's not sugarcoat their title, bounty hunter spammers. They do not contibute to this forum in a positive way, they are here to earn money. They can do it elsewhere.


They don't deserve anything.

Oh my you mean that in the future ranks, and merit numbers will mean something. Maybe even help to recognize a helpful maybe even knowledgeable member? Why would we ever want that.

We are judging people on their ability to put together a coherent post, that is on topic, and not a rehash of everything previously said. If this bar is to high, then maybe they should belive they are stupid... oh wait they won't because they are not here trying to learn or prove themselves.

Yes whatever forum you go to to post that is what you need to do. Anytime you are using source materials you should be quoting the source, especially when you are copying word for word.

You the person are banned from posting on this Forum outside of Meta. This means you can not create another account and pick up shit posting your plagiarism here under a new account.

Already reported posting here to be sure.

It only seems controversial from the bottom. Yes the rules regarding ranking up changed, but that was just the system catching up with the times. Just accept the system and work within it.

Your question is valid, the system will only go away if it turns out to be a massive failure, which so far it does not. Some supporting evidence is this:


You had every chance here to get yourself that oh so important merit point, and failed. This tells me you are making it hard not the system, and those who don't even have one will get it when they deserve it.


Well until someone comes up with a better system this one is working quite well. I thin there is room for improvement or adjustments in regards to amount of Merit needed, but overall I thin kit's a success.

Just to drop a little honesty on you, it won't matter what the system introduced is, you won't be happy. If you can't write a quality post the system will keep your rank where it is until such a time that you deserve to rank up.

It is nice to laugh at the level of greatness in these posts. This has become my new "funny pages".   

Helps break up the frustration in between reporting the average shitty post, when you find that one that's so bad you can't help but laugh.

Received my PSU.

Well packaged with prompt shipping. Thanks.

Yeah it's easy to say they wouldn't have cashed in, but it's hard to not sell at all the ATH's that were set. I think most people had just given up so it's a nice twist on a sad chapter.


Until reading this I wasn't even aware of the coin dumping. It came at a bad time while the FOMO was wearing off but I think it was negligible in the grand scheme of the correction.

The more I read on the original MT. Gox issues the crazier it gets, kind of glad I wasn't around then, as I probably would have lost something.

Understood, just making sure I knew what you meant. I'll update OP later to include that as another method of verification.


I was thinking on that and it makes sense. If someone was playing the long con game for whatever reason; they could take a bunch of photos of gear they owned at one point with different date stamps. Using those they could try and fake possession in the future.


I'm unfamiliar with Signal, but it sounds like it's worked for you. I think that leaving some information in the sale thread is good. I like the idea of people announcing they have reached an arrangement for the sale, and adding in the end how the deal went. I'm not interested in people sharing all details of a sale, negotiating and transaction ID's aren't necessary unless there is a dispute.

Thanks again for the input, I'm glad your information about Signal and verification is near the top of the thread, I'm sure others will find it helpful as well.

There are restrictions on what you can place in your SIG space based on your rank. Most campaigns do not accept Newbie, and only a few accept JR. Member; so atleast now it does take a while for new users to achieve a rank to join a campaign.

Not that it's a bad idea, but the Forum leans more towards less regulation and allows the community to sort it out.


The best thing to do is use the report to moderator button to get the post deleted. Most of these garbage posters do the bare minimum and even one post getting deleted can wipe out their pay, hopefully to the point they leave, or turn around their membership habits.(Not holding my breathe on the latter)

Here is a guide to reporting that is useful.