I guess. I think a better solution would be an IP gets evil points every time an account is registered from it. First one is free but then the the points get exponentially greater for every account that is registered. I think people should be allowed to have multiple accounts but there's no reason why people should have hundreds and I think this would curb people who sign up here with dozens of accounts each from each family member on the home IP and making people work to find a new connection would slow them down a lot.

These are highly likely alts:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=109513     elloco4ever May 01, 2013,
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=99302     maxamus April 13, 2013
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=318723 syberwolfen April 21, 2014


They've all given merit to each other for shitposts. They are also on the same campaign and signed up one after the other:




Posting back to back here:



And talking to each other:

Most of the people who sign up here likely won't have to pay anything at all so anyone can create thousands of accounts from their home IP or any other one that hasn't yet been banned. You only have to pay the evil fee on previously abused connections (ie tor or if you've had accounts banned) so this won't really matter. I wouldn't be against limiting accounts to one sign-up per IP as people would quickly run out of fresh connections.


It won't really matter. If you make it so expensive people just won't bother paying it and will just try another proxy or use their local McDonalds/Starbucks connection until they find one that isn't blacklisted.

I'm all for some sort of restrictions because at the moment anyone is free to create an unlimited amount of accounts and most people who sign up here just to claim bounties probably do so with more than one. As InvoKing mentioned, these can also be botted rather easily especially when often all that is required is posting your username or adding it to a spreadsheet. Requiring some sort of merit achievement would go a long way in curbing this behaviour. I'm also still in favour of removing signatures completely unless you pay for them through more donator ranks, though I doubt this is something theymos would do. I think at least we could experiment with another donator rank or two though alongside being able to rank up 'naturally'. People are going to continue to buy accounts anyway and most of them these days get scammed in the process so why not let them safely buy the benefits of ranks from the forum instead? It stops account farming, scammers, and people just spamming the forum for activity and/or begging for merit.



Well you are most likely the anomaly. The sad fact of the matter is that probably 99% of people who sign up here these days do so just to earn from bounties and even worse signature campaigns. A huge proportion of these users probably have little to no interest or knowledge of bitcoin either other than they just heard from their classmate/cousin/granny that you can make good money here hence why they're often completely clueless.


They probably don't care. All most of them care about is getting their ICO's name out there in whatever manner they can as quickly as they can. As long as people are bumping their thread and wearing their signature it's all promotion.


Can't hurt to try something like this. At the very least, upon sign-up users should be required to read the rules and linked to some helpful guides like the Activity FAQ and how to earn here etc so it'll stop the same old questions being asked time and time again (and usually in the wrong section).

The banking system will never disappear and the same goes for credit and debt. Even if crypto 'takes over' the banking sector would just adapt to use it (and the banks are already looking to implement blockchain tech and is only a matter of time before they do). Credit and loans aren't inherently bad either and people are always going to need loans and mortgages so they will just be issued on the blockchain but you will still need some central authority to do so.

Table has finally updated:



Hopefully it's right but if you want to go though your scores and check let me know ASAP and I'll delay sending payments to the top five.

Othwerwise and as it stands prizes will be awarded as follows:

1) 0.10 - StephenCurry333
2) 0.06 - hilariousdandco
3) 0.03 - LFC_Bitcoin
4) 0.02 - Supremo1
5) 0.01 - Cicciobtc


I'll message the top five when I send payments and see if they're in for the £100.

Yeah, I'll wait to see when the table updates.


Prizes:

1) 0.10
2) 0.06
3) 0.03
4) 0.02
5) 0.01

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So what shall we go with next season? Shall we go with both a £25 lower group and a higher £100 pot for the high rollers? Are the current top five all alright with the £100 pot? I think we'd need a minimum of five to make it interesting but I'm sure we could get at least five more before the start of the season. I think a lot more people will join both pools since this one was quite popular and there was quite a bit of interest in the v2.0 one that I never started.

I'll definitely do one or two consolation prizes for the highest points in a round as well so people still have something to play for.

The table has been fine for me as far as I recall apart from the last few rounds after they put the warning about the errors but no idea what my true score is now. I should be on 3160 it seems after my 50 points are added but on the results it shows 3140 which would put LFC above me if he's actually on 3150. Hope the table sorts itself out.

I'll wait to the table updates and try contact the BBC if there's still some discrepancies and see what the correct scores should be. One thing for sure is that Steph is almost certainly the winner  .

Well, that's it: game over. Looks like I'll probably have second place as I only got 50 points which takes me ten above Steph as it stands but I'm sure he got more than ten points this week (unless Cicciobtc or Supremo1 got freak scores). Didn't get any correct scores but narrowly missed out on perfect scores by one goal on the the Arsenal, Palace, Man United and City games.


Hmm, looks like we might be tied on points as I should be on 3150.

I'd be willing to bet the spamming/abuse was by people submitting their crapcoins and various other scams for pages only citing this forum as a source. Also, this forum probably doesn't count as an acceptable source just like wikipedia usually can't be used as a valid source for writing articles/essays etc. This is why we can't have nice things.

Games are available to place now. I think I'll do some studying on Saturday before I submit them. Stakes are too high now haha.


Is it? If you get 10 correct scores it'll take you to 2970 just below me which is third place (assuming the others don't get any points and the table is updated)  . I'd put them in just for the sake.


What sort of pool?

Just keep reporting them. I banned that user earlier after your report. I wouldn't be against restricting that board to certain member classes but Ivory Tower is the board you want to post in as it's restricted to Members and above.

Then contact either theymos or Cyprus cyrus with any info/proof you can, but I wouldn't hold your breath. Even accounts with valid signed messages aren't getting restored right now so the chance of them taking the time to look into this is very low. If you can sign a message with the address above you will have a much better chance.

What about this address:


You also posted about several facuet sites. Do you own the following bellow? Is there any way you could prove ownership somehow with them?

This could be the problem. Cyprus is a small island country in the Eastern Mediterranean and does not monitor this forum.


Not likely. Did you ever send an address via PM to anyone? You'll have to find some other way to prove the account is yours but to be honest the chance of you getting it back is very slim without a signed message.

I got 20 points for two correct outcomes last night.

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Does anyone have any suggestions for what tournament we should do for the World Cup? I'd like to do the same as we are now but don't know any site that does it. I guess we could just manually tally the scores up but it'll be a bit of a ballache (though on the flipside there's not that many games in comparison).

FIFA have done a predictor but you predict the positions teams will finish and progress throughout the tournament:

https://bracketchallenge.fifa.com/bracket/rules

Points are awarded as follows:

SCORING SYSTEM

Group Stage Scoring

    Correctly predict a Group winner: 10 points
    Correctly predict a Group Runner-Up: 10 points
    Correctly predict the top two teams (in any order): 3 points
    Correctly predict the entire group in the correct order: 15 points

Knockout Stage Scoring

    For each correct team in the Quarter-Finals: 3 points
    For each correct team in the Semi-Finals: 4 points
    For each correct team in the Final: 5 points
    For the correct World Cup 2018 Winner: 10 points
    For the correct World Cup 2018 Runner-up: 8 points
    Correctly predict a fixture (both correct teams and the correct position in the bracket): 10 points

You can win prizes awarded by FIFA as well:

https://bracketchallenge.fifa.com/bracket/prizes

What were you trying to edit? Maybe web discussion forums aren't counted valid sources? Anyone could edit their post at any time. I would take it up with wikipedia if you find it unreasonable.

You're a Junior Member so somebody would have to be pretty naive to trust you or any other Junior or lower ranked member without using an escrow in the first place. The trust system is there as a guide and should be used by people to help gauge a user and probably worked well in this case as you certainly shouldn't be blindly trusted just because a Junior trumps a Newbie. Why not get the buyer to pay the fees or split the costs with them? I'm sure there are free escrow agents as well.

But the forum isn't clean when barely anyone is reporting and a duplicate thread asking a dumb question or even breaks the rules is still there days later and on its tenth page of spam.


I think it would be inevitable that it would be abused in some capacity especially if there was a cash reward or something, but everything here is abused: merits, trust, ranks etc. I think it would be fairly easy for staff to spot mass abuse though. Anyone who cares about their account here wouldn't risk it so you could always limit it to certain ranks to stop people using bots and throwaways.


You have to have a lot of reports to become a mod in the first place, but you keep reporting when you're staff on boards that are out of your jurisdiction. Globals/Admins don't need to report as they don't need to but they'll still be on the list of top reporters because of the sheer volume of reports and it'll take a while for others to catch up.

If I understood digaran's nonsense correctly he did what all butthurts do and invent a wild, tenuous conspiracy theory to try justify himself. I added Darkstar to my trust list and Flying Hellfish applied to Chipmixer and will quite possibly (in my opinion) be the next person to get a slot. Of course, I am Staff and so is Flying Hellfish. So according to digaran that means me adding Darkstar is a bribe/conflict of interest to get Flying Hellfish a spot on the campaign. Of course! Makes perfect sense  .