Corruption/nepotism/favouritism by bending the rules for certain people who have a few friends here isn't a good thing either. I'm all for second chances but only if it's fair to everyone. The rules about copy and pasting are very strict here and shouldn't be bent or broken just for one or two people otherwise it leaves a gaping hole in the system that everyone will want to exploit or use as a reference/excuse as the previous time someone was let off has been here.

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People who get caught copy and pasting should have their signature removed for a year or something. See if they stick around and contribute something worthwhile and if they do then they get it back. That way you can still contribute but you can't earn and having the signature removed for a year is better than indefinitely with a ban.

Doesn't verify for me. You can use this to check it verifies: https://etherscan.io/verifySig

There's some guides on youtube if you're having trouble: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sign+message+myetherwallet

Also, please provide links to where the address was posted.

And this is the exact issue in unbanning even one person creates. Lone shark shouldn't have been unbanned without adding exceptions to the rules for everyone not just one case. We should look at that decision as a hasty error that wasn't thought through properly and we certainly shouldn't be using that one case as a reason to acquiesce to this one unless defined exceptions are made.


But then this is just opening it up to abuse and complaints when mods start unbanning people they like or when friends of people kick up a fuss. We can't say copy and pastes = ban, unless a mod decides otherwise based on no defined criteria.

You're best asking theymos about this.


Where is it? Post it here so somebody can verify it.


I'm not sure if either of them accept ethereum address either but it's better than nothing.

You don't need to announce this nor do you need to stop claiming bounties as this isn't why you're not getting merit, but you're not going to get merit for bounty posts.


What translation program? Do you mean translation bounties? People shouldn't be offering translations unless they're fluent in both the languages they're translating to/from.

But copy and pasting is black and white: Copy and paste = ban. Making exceptions to the rule just screams of favouritism or nepotism and doing so is opening up a huge can of worms that we're going to have to deal with when everybody else starts making their case to be unbanned. What grounds do we give exceptions to plagiarism from now on? If they have a few friends here? They've done a few trades? They have sick relatives? They're a Senior Member and above? They've done a giveaway? They've made a helpful post? To me this is literally just bending or re-writing the rules to serve a friend of somebody and nobody has been asking for exceptions to the rule before this.


But how do we now equate them? There have been numerous people who have been banned for one or just a few copy and pastes. It's not fair to all those users who made a silly mistake and never got the chance to establish themselves here. Maybe they would have been different had they received a warning first or had a second chance.

It's not. Theymos has previously stated that if the merit system doesn't work then they next step will likely be to remove signatures completely. Let's face it, this is the only way this will ever put a stop once and for all to the nonsense that is spouted here constantly all day every day. These people complaining about the merit system should just shut up and deal with it because if signatures are ever removed then 99.9 percent of them will leave the same day and never return so they should work with what opportunity they have right now until it's gone for good.

But when one of these "pajeet" posters as you like to call them does the same you're not defending them saying they just probably haven't read the rules.


I would have had more respect for you if you just apologised without the sob story. This is the same old crap everyone else uses when they get banned. You're literally trying to say that you only copy and pasted because your mother was ill. I'm not sure why copy and pasting would take your mind off things as opposed to actually using your mind to come up with a post yourself. You got caught cheating on a signature campaign and likely only did this to hit your quote, and if it was any other shitposter trying these excuses they would be laughed off the forum.


It seems they can when their "friend" gets caught doing something but they've never made these arguments before for the hundreds of other posters who get caught doing the same. This is a bigger issue than just ChiBitCTy. Do we forgive the thousands of others who have been caught doing the same? Or maybe only when they have a few friends here, haven't read the rules or have an unbelievably pitiful sob story? If we're going to unban people under certain circumstances we may as well stop banning people for copy and pastes and just let the community leave them appropriate feedback instead.

There's essentially 2 and a half rounds left as there's 6 rescheduled games that need to be played midweek. I think any of the top five could win it now. It could come down to the last round which always makes things more exciting. It's always boring to me when someone has won the Premier League with x amount of games to go.

Does anyone see different scores than this:



I swear this morning I was 20 points behind Steph now I'm only ten, but the table says it hasn't been updated yet.

Well at least I got ten points on the Chelsea game.

Anyone get an error on their scores? Says at the top "Due to a technical fault, some players might notice errors in their scores when viewed in Predictor league tables. We are unable to correct these errors before the end of the season. We apologise for any inconvenience caused":



Says Steph got 110 points but only added 70 I believe (I think he was 20 points behind me last round).

So we should unfairly punish users from certain countries and give older users a free pass to copy and paste? And he also only copied and pasted for the sig money. Why else would he have done it.


Lone Shark shouldn't have been unbanned. This is the issue with unbanning one user makes. Everyone else then wants the exception so that's why the rules should be clear. Copy and paste = perma ban. Not copy and paste = perma ban, unless you're a Senior user and run charity auctions. More veteran users should be more aware of the rules and punishments.

Well you did better than me. I got zero. Closest I came was my 1-0 prediction to Burnley but they failed to score. I wonder how well the rest did? I could easily fall down to fourth place now  . I doubt there was many correct scores though this round but those correct outcomes all add up and steph only needs twenty points to level me.

What is the purpose of this thread? Do you think yet another one complaining about merit is going to change theymos' mind and he'll revert back to the old system? All these threads do time after time is expose the poor posters that the system was put in to reduce.


No. That's just another lazy shitposter complaining that his easy cash cow has been culled and you are another one. What we actually had before the merit system was poor people earning from poor posts over as many accounts as they wanted and now they're annoyed they simply cannot make 480 crappy one-liners over time and magically become a Hero Member. Pure greed and pure laziness because all you're annoyed at is you can't maximise your money as quickly as you would have liked and now to get anywhere actual effort is required. Just look at your posts history. All crappy one liners right up until merit is introduced. I mean, why bother writing anything more than a line when you don't need to? God knows how many accounts you signed up here with and were doing this on. I imagine it's not just this one hence why you and others are so annoyed.




If the merit system hadn't of been introduced you would of happily continued making these sorts of posts continually and that's why the system is there and is working. The only people who are complaining about this are those lazy posters who thought they had an easy ride to earning money for doing relatively nothing. Now that has changed. Those who are able to contribute something constructive here are not complaining about this. It's just those who are purely here to earn in the laziest way possible and I don't see anything bad about that.


The amount of people that sign up to this forum just to earn by posting utter nonsense on their two hundred alt accounts is laughably ridiculous. Things had to change. Would you prefer signatures are disabled completely? Because that's the next step.


There's a lot of idiots here. That's just a moronic conspiracy theory dreamed up by butthurt kids. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Why would theymos care about this or create a system where it is exactly possible for people to achieve higher ranks? Only the catch is you have to contribute something valid now. OMG CONSPIRICI FERY. If people write excellent posts then they will very likely achieve the merit in the time it would have taken them to naturally achieve the rank.

You will need to sign a message from an address associated with that account, so follow this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=497545.0

And Pm theymos and a cyrus. If you post it here somebody can verify it.

You have one posted here:

But what are the chances that those users have given you merit back within one hour? The chances of two random users giving each other merit is already a big coincidence, but then doing it within the hour is very unlikely and very suspicious. I haven't looked through the results in the OP but if it works as stated it would be helpful to go through and manfully look for potential abuses for those that can be bothered or have the time. People will get wise to this though and just wait a day or two to return merit.

As vod already said, ranks are already based on activity and quality of posts.



It shouldn't be terribly easy for people to get merits, but it doesn't seem that difficult for people who actually bother to write helpful and informative posts. I've had a quick scan of yours and there's nothing exceptional about them. The only ones you've seemingly put a bit of effort into are a couple of ones recently but I suspect you only created them to try get some merit.


People farmed accounts before this system just by logging on once a fortnight to make a few spam posts. Would you call for the removal of the ranking system then because it is being abused? I doubt it. The fact that it is now impossible for people to rank up just by spamming without contributing something worthwhile is as good thing.

It's all about you more like. Why do you care about merit and ranks unless you're only here to earn as much as possible from signature campaigns? People can post here freely regardless of their rank and merit but those who actually want to contribute something worthwhile will get the merit pretty quickly. Most people just don't seem willing to contribute anything of value other than the standard generic one liners they can churn out as fast as possible in spam megathreads and those are exactly the sort of people the merit system is meant to restrict.

Now I think you are being a bit of a cunt . I can't speak on theymos' behalf on whether he will give you a refund or not, but if you hadn't of broken the rules in the first place by posting a ref link this wouldn't have happened. You could have just used a proxy or different connection to sign up to avoid paying the fee.

People don't normally get permabanned for one instance of ref spam - usually it's just deleted or you'll get a short temp ban if you keep doing it but perma bans are usually issued for people spreading malicious links which is obviously what they thought this one is and I can see why because it certainly does look fishy. I would say it's better to be safe than sorry in circumstances like this because any cases of mistaken bans can always be revoked which I'm sure this one will be if everything checks out.


lol.



Depends how cunty they are or how you define cunt-like behaviour  .

Because it's forum policy not to get involved with scams and that's up to the community to police. You would complain if staff made a mistake and banned an innocent account for scamming, right? So that's why the community policies itself on these matters. If someone has negative feedback then you can make a decision not to trade with them (or you can trade with them if you think their feedback is unjust).


He's probably just on about people that have their accounts locked for security reasons... or those who claim they did nothing wrong but did in fact break the rules (whether they're aware of it or not).