I just found a weird behavior of the site, which seems to not parse "50 merits bombs".

At first, since Thursday the 12th I noticed a delay of updating my merits on the website. MoparMiningLLC sent me a merit and the site updated it to my profile on Friday evening (if I remember correctly; it could have been though Saturday morning). This may not look unusual, but so far I could see my new earned merits within a few minutes on the site.

After that, also during Thursday, I earned some more merits, including a 50 merits transaction from theymos (this being the last merits transaction on my account on Thursday). The other merits were received on Friday and Saturday: 1 from philipma, 2 from nullius, 4 from Ddmr and 1 from Pacimaker.

Again with delay, these last merits were updated on my BPIP profile, but the ones from theymos still don't appear, although they were earned before. I'm thinking if there is an issue with counting 50 merits transaction by the website

Uhm... Without remembering his exact words, as I don't use to keep old PMs (unless they are really important to me), I recall that he used a similar explanation to me when I asked him how comes that he has so many sMerits if he is not a Merit Source. He told me back then that he received an enormous amount of sMerits when the Merit system was launched.


Yes, this is also what I know about the "bonus" sMerits received by various ranks after the Merit system was implemented. What I believe though is the following: maybe back then theymos created some merit sources which had no written application. Maybe he created them as he considered they were needed. If that was the case, it would make sense to believe that he could have chosen some merit sources for the local boards. And from here, maybe he made Vlad2Vlad the merit source for Romanian board. However, his interference with the Romanian board was (and still is) low. But if he was made a merit source in a first batch created by theymos, maybe this is why he doesn't have a written application.

But again, as I wrote in my previous post, when I talked to him he sounded like he has absolutely no idea about what a merit source is, nor about other forum facts well-known even by Newbie members. For example, I remember I told him that if it's real that he received such a huge amount of sMerits after the implementation of the system, considering for a second that he is not a merit source (which now appears to be impossible), how comes that he never run out of sMerits after more than 2 years? And I showed him a topic from Meta where merit sources complain about remaining without sMerits and ask for receiving more: {LIST}of the Merit Sources asking for more smerit. New Round..

Somehow, his reaction was like he understood from that topic and from my question that some users buy (respectively sell) merits. I had to explain him that this is not what I meant. Indeed, there were (and still are?) cases of trading merits but that was not what I meant. I wanted to prove him that if a merit source (which constantly receives sMerits) complains for running out of sMerits, how is possible for a regular user to not run out, like him, which stated that he is not a merit source?! The whole conversation was weird, as I was writing him in Romanian and he was answering in English... But he seemed that he has no idea what I'm talking about -- or he acted this way in order to look naïve.

Another example of pure lack of knowledge about very well known forum rules can be found in this topic: [1] and [2]. As you can see, he seemed to not know that multiple posts in a row are breaking a rule of the forum...


Yes, indeed... However, I am almost sure he did not grandfather 3295 sMerits, according to BPIP.


MemoryDealers is another option lol. Or Bitcoin SV = )))


Looooooooool! That accusation reminded me of wolwoo which accused Lauda for genocide.

Now being serious, the user Apocalipsa (and Apocollapse) can be arguably believed to be an alt of Vlad, or a huge fan. Vlad has this "commie" word used frequently and I observed that these members talk somehow in his style when they are defending him. Look also at all their replies from the topic mentioned earlier by me (from post #36 forward).

Now such behavior I remember I used to have in my youth, together with other children, when we were adulating various popular characters, such as music stars: we tried to dress like them, to talk like them, to use their gestures and so on.

These two users may be such huge fans, cosidering the way they write. For example, when I read their posts they look like they were written by Vlad himself. Another option, of course, is they are alt accounts.

Wow! This is first word that crossed my mind. Nullius, your merit-magnet skill is outstanding. But it is great ro see that your contributions to the forum and to spread Satoshi's words are well appreciated. I am happy to see myself as your top merit fan! Congratulations for reaching this rare milestons and congrats again for reaching it in such a small amount of time!


Actually, he earned the merits for being hero in just 1 month This is a performance unseen so far and I am almost sure that we'll never see again:

1000 BTC unredeemed Casascius coin? Does something like this really exist?!

Hello nullius, without thinking that I'm defending him - which I'm not - I don't think the account changed hands and I'll explain why. As far as I saw in the Romanian board, where he occasionally posts, he has a bad grammar. From what I understood from his posts he is living in US for many years and he forgot his own language. Despite this sound ridiculous, sometimes it happens. Nevertheless, I've seen people (Romanians) which after spending a month in Italy, when they came back home there were saying "come si dice [...]? lol. So some try to look smart (without realizing they look like imbeciles) and some really forget their own language (which is also a bad thing).

But this guy always wrote in the same bad Romanian when he posted on the Romanian board. If he would suddenly write correctly after a password change, I could have noticed that. I could have noticed also if his grammar became even worst than usual, after a password change. So thinking just from the point of view of his grammar (in Romanian) it doesn't seems that the account changed hands.

I talked to him just once, after the discussion scandal from this topic: Merit abuse by a Legendary. And I asked him out of curiosity if he is a merit source. The guy seemed to have no idea what this means. Actually I posted this inside this topic:


Indeed, considering the sMerits he sent, he is obviously a merit source. But it seems weird, as the guy is unaware of that (or playing that he doesn't know?). Back then when I exchanged a few PMs with him he told me that he doesn't visit any other forum section excepting the IX Coin thread and the Romanian board.

Therefore I am sure he didn't even read this topic...

Anyway, the idea is that I don't think the account changed hands. In rest, everything is clear: he merited an impostor, his attitude is anti-Bitcoin and he became (miraculously) a merit source without an application.

OK, I understand, thank you for explaining. Indeed, 1 report won't make the difference. What was important here was if the mod allegedly marked it as bad or if it was by mistake. If it was allegedly, it would have created a precedent for other reports inside that topic. But since Rikafip reported the same post and it was deleted, it seems it was just a mistake, so no worries


I share the same feeling. I have by now an accuracy of 95% accuracy (7929 good and 469 bad). But also 1838 unhandled, which is an enormous amount.


Hehe, thanks

This topic needs some more updates. Some of the users mentioned in OP should be removed, while others should be added.

Lutpin should be removed as I didn't see any topic where he announced that he is offering escrow services. The same applies for the other users with no ANN threads - Seccour, starsoccer9 and silent17. How do you know they offer escrow if they have no related threads?

bittawm's ANN thread is missing from OP; here it is: Bittawms Legendary Escrow Service - 0.9% BTC. However, the user was banned in the past, according to LoyceV:


He was later unbanned, but I don't know if an ex-banned user can be considered reliable for acting as escrow.

Hhampuz should be added: Hhampuz Campaign Management & Escrow Service | Available!.
 
yogg should also be added: [ESCROW] 🌠 yogg's escrow service ⭐ BTC & Alts ⭐ Fast ⭐ Reliable ⭐ Secure 🌠.

Other users from OP should be asked if they are willing to offer escrow services anymore. One example is John K., which is mostly inactive for months. But the other users should be also asked if their services are still operational. Maybe some retired...

That topic mentioned by you is very old (2013) and I had the impression that it is not updated. Now I see it was updated this month. I'll write there my suggestions as well, thanks for the heads-up!


As far as I see, he was baned for plagiarism, according to Cyrus: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5145454.msg51144345#msg51144345.

No worries But I think it's more important to see if OP will come back online to update the topic, as he is away for more than 1 month... In case he won't come back, maybe another topic should be created, a properly updated one.

Thank you, but I knew all those benefits from the beginning of 2018. On the paper they look great. The problem is that there is no real team to develop in a coherent manner all those things. At the beginning I thought this project may have a future. It is created by Romanians and I am a Romanian as well. But in time they made mistakes after mistakes and started to act like they don't care anymore about their own work. They stopped talking to the users here on the forum, they did not offer visibility anymore. They had a wise evanhelist - Adrian Stratulat - which left the project at some point. I don't know if he left or they fired him, but that was a huge mistake. That guy was constantly talking to users, answering their questions and raising awareness about the project. So they let the evangelist go and brought a barber instead. Smart move, right?

Look also when OP of this topic was last seen online.

From a promising project they turned it into a joke ruled by ninja barbers. And this is something I say, as a Romanian. Can't imagine what foreigners may believe about this project anymore.

ElRond, on another side, is another Romanian project. It launched later than WebDollar and look where it got. It is in Top 100 CoinMarketCap, it is listed on Binance and it has value. WebDollar lost all its promising value due to the incompetence of the developers which fired an evangelist and placed a barber instead.


As I wrote in the above post,

Thank you for the help, Rikafip.

However, my report appears now as deleted (having the strikethrough font), but it's still flagged as Bad. Why?



Can it be changed to Good by the mod who handled it? Or by hilariousandco, given the fact that he is Global Moderator...? Maybe a mod can't change the status of a handled report though... but maybe hilarious is able to do that...


I'll try to talk again with OP's author and see what to do... I'd prefer though to keep this topic...

Lol, now everything makes sense. You are a reseller looking to buy PCs as cheap as possible for you to build profit and you are trying to convince any seller that his price is too expensive. OK, that being cleared out, we can stop the discussion here.


Yep, it's correct what you said about the VAT, philipma, thank you for joining the conversation and for clearing thing out. Not for the reseller quoted above, as he isn't interested about that anyway and he is looking just to buy as cheap as possible for reselling as expensive as possible. But your input may be useful for other forum users which may not know this difference.

This topic needs a serious revamp. Some of the users mentioned in OP should be removed, while others should be added.

DarkStar_ should be removed from OP as he is not offering escrow services anymore:


Lutpin should also be removed as I didn't see any topic where he announced that he is offering escrow services.

bittawm's ANN thread is missing from OP; here it is: Bittawms Legendary Escrow Service - 0.9% BTC. However, the user was banned in the past, according to LoyceV:


He was later unbanned, but I don't know if an ex-banned user can be considered reliable for acting as escrow.

Other users from OP should be asked if they are willing to offer escrow services anymore. One example is John K., which is mostly inactive for months.

Besides, other reliabe users are offering escrow services and they should be added to OP. Such examples are yogg ([ESCROW] 🌠 yogg's escrow service ⭐ BTC & Alts ⭐ Fast ⭐ Reliable ⭐ Secure 🌠) or MoparMiningLLC (offering escrow services).

Thank you iyfgvigiyf for the opportunity! Please let me know each time you'll have more coupons. Also, if you know someone selling coupons, please redirect him to me. I am a constant buyer, for years, and I need all the coupons available on the market

Hello, I am interested in all your Bitcmain coupons. I sent you a message with my offer, please check your inbox. Looking forward to make the deal with you. Thanks in advance!

Edit: I bought all 1541 coupons from the seller. The user is honest, legitimate seller. Transaction went smooth. Thanks again!

The disruption of space-time continuum spreads more and more and other users are affected. Excepting my example from above, it seems that another user had no clue about being on a different timeline of the metaverse:


Similar to Restamand, akirasendo posted in ChipMixer campaign while DS opened the campaign, on October 11th, but his application was posted on November 8th. As you can see, he thought his Internet connection is too slow, which is the same thing stated by Restmand. But they were both not knowing the truth.

Cygan thought that akirasendo didn't read that ChipMixer was CNFP when akirasendo posted, but he is not aware as well about the space-time continuum disruption. Akirasendo really posted when the campaign was open, but in his alternate reality the application appeared a month later, when the campaign was closed again.

May fate Foxpup have mercy of our souls...

Multumim frumos! Eu am sa astept totusi, sa intru in posesia cartii fizice. Ma simt mult mai bine citind asa, decat pe PC / telefon / in format electronic, la modul general. Dar, desigur, poate sunt mai multi membri care vor sa citeasca aceasta carte si in format electronic Fiecare cu gusturile proprii.

Thx for the suggestion! I was wondering if this report can be changed from Bad to Good though, without making another report... and risking having that one flagged as bad also.


Uhm... But I didn't report the post for being off-topic. I reported it for "Breaking rule stated in OP. (meaning not respecting the posting format rule from the OP; and this is the same reference I wrote for all other good reports on this topic).


I discussed with topic's author prior stating the new rule in the OP if we should create a new topic from scratch, self-moderated, or if we should keep this one and report all posts not respecting the rule. And we decided to keep this topic, as it has already a history, it contains many suggested movies and many users know the topic already... That's why we kept this topic instead of creating a new, self-moderated one.


Most likely I'll do the same... But if a mod would be kind enough to pop in the conversation and explain the situation, it would be great. I'm just curious, that's all...


Well, this is why rules exist: to be respected... Now if this post remains there and my report remains bad, this would create a precedent for others which would avoid posting in the stated rule, right?


Yes, this is what I meant.


Thx, Rikafip!


Indeed... But, as I explained above, the topic has some history already and we thought it would be nice to keep it, if we report the posts not following the format and, of course, if the mods collaborate with us, as they did until now...

I'm not the one making jokes. The developers are making jokes about their own project.


Before being listed there (which is not a top exchange: it barely meets in Top 100 CoinMarketCap), this WEBD was traded in amount of 0$ - 100$ per day, for the past 12 months (https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/webdollar). Do I also need to post screenshots or you can browse by your own to convince yourself? Also, in your opinion, do 10.000$ in 24h seem like a reasonable volume trading amount for a respectable cryptocurrency? Let's see - for example, the trading volume of the last coin from CMC Top 100: at this hour, the respective coin is Avalanche (AVAX). Oh, what a surprise: I see a trading volume of 23.713.162$.


It's OK, I just found out everything I needed to know.




Yep, it definitely looks so 💪💪💪


What? You should have told them "come on", not to me. Am I the one who hired ninja barbers? Lol.

Hello,

I think I have a post flagged as bad by mistake by a moderator. The post was made by user DrWho42 inside the Share Good Movies Please? topic.




I reported this post as it does not the rule stated in OP:


I discussed with topic's author (peter0425) for this rule a while ago and we both agreed it was necessary such a rule for avoiding spam and also for having more information about the movies other users suggest. After the rule was implemented, I reported all the posts which did not respect the rule and all reports have been flagged as good, excepting this one. All the reports had this reference text: "Breaking rule stated in OP.".

Was the post flagged bad by mistake?