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Username: GazetaBitcoin
Post Count: 1404
BTC Address (must be SegWit): bc1qgfluvq03jcqzvaz6dc00qqgvyvmfuxra6etsd2
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Good point, who's that guy on #1 anyway?
Lol, indeed... I thought also about that update. I mentioned before digaran and theyoungmillionaire which are offline for ages, wondering if the OP's list reflects only the active members (and if this case these users should be removed) or all time members which contributed. And I had in mind to suggest also to update iasenko with TheBeardedBaby  But I forgot. But about what OP's list should reflect (active members or all historic members) I think that only TheBeardedBaby can decide, as he created the topic. |
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Uhm...perhaps I didn't express myself well... I was talking about updating the list from OP's first page - the one with the Spambusters Gang members. Not about the list for the raffle.
Regarding the raffle - indeed, if someone just said "hi" here, he shouldn't be part of the raffle.
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No rush, no worries, whenever you have time I'd also like to use this opportunity to ask something: is there any chance for an updated members list on the first page of the topic? Some new members contributed to this gang and I was wondering if they can be included in OP. Also, in OP are mentioned some users which are offline for ages (like digaran or the youngmillionaire, for example). Is that list supposed to reflect only the active members? Or every member which contributed somehow during time? |
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Nobody received any payment yet, but don't worry. This campaign is well known for always paying the participants. Sometimes there are some delays, but payments are always made and they are correct. You'll receive also some bonus for the delay. Just wait a bit more.
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I just finished "cleaning" Winz.io thread: 430 reports, most of them being already handled and marked as good. The topic already dropped from 36 pages (yesterday) to 19 pages of posts (today). This means that 17 pages of spam are already deleted. I still have some unhandled reports from the Winz.io thread, therefore there are high chances that the topic will remain with even fewer pages. After finishing with reporting posts from the Winz.io topic I continued with reporting almost the entire posting history of the above mentioned users. I did that today, summing a total amount of 270 reports. The mods acted pretty fast regarding the ANN bumping posts from Winz.io thread. Let's hope they'll be quick in analyzing the other reports I made for these users. |
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Hey @GazetaBitcoin, by the time i was about to add their ANN, mods deleted it. It looks like they organized giveaway in exchange for comments which is against forum rules, and on top of that had fake team and plagiarized whitepaper. Good riddance I would say. As a coincidence, it seems it happened just after I finished reporting all the posts of the respective thread (164 posts). I just finished reporting all the bumps from the second thread, which means 21 posts. Curiously, I found a Hero member ( gembira and a Sr. Member ( kojektea) among the ones which posted there... I'm not sure if they were involved also in the ANN buimping operation or if it just happened for them to post as well... What do you think? Regarding the Winz.io thread - man, but this one is huge! It has 36 pages... I just started reporting the spam, but I'm not sure when I'll finish though... Yes, I noticed earlier your post and I will take a look on all posting history of those accounts. Actually, as they are part of Winz.io thread, it means I'm taking care of them right now as we speak
Prior seeing these two ANN threads posted by you, an idea crossed my mind: to double check the 74 topics mentioned by you on the first page of the topic, in order to see if more spam occurred after the posts were listed. I started today, from the most recent topic mentioned - UCACOIN and I passed through 5 threads: UCACOIN, Baex, EGGSBOOK, Amepay and JBOXCOIN. If UCACOIN was clean, so far I reported for the other ones 480 posts (35 posts from Baex topic, 24 from EGGSBOOK, 224 from Amepay and 197 from JBOXCOIN). It seems that we have to be vigilant, as although those topics are mentioned by you, the ANN bumping doesn't stop. As soon as I'll finish with Winz.io I'll resume checking all the other 69 topics mentioned by you. It will be a huge work, but I hope that by next week to finish. Wish me luck |
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I found another ANN bumping thread, which I suppose is the 75th: [Ann] WINSSHI 🔶 ⭐️ First Decentralised Gaming Platform ⭐️ 🔶They are spamming since August. I reported some of the posts a while ago, hoping they will calm down. Apparently, they didn't. Can this topic be added to the OP as well and also kept under attention? |
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I agree with you and I will give a suggestion. Might need a bit more effort, but I see no harm in that.
This is an example of may post from a while back and people can use that as a blueprint also. Adding a photo only takes a bit more time, but it makes it more enjoyable to see. That would be nice, but what do you do in case you want to mention more movies? You'll make a huge post... Besides that, as you see, many newbies and members with low ranks post here. Most of them don't know how to set the height of an image in order to not have posted a huge one. Meaning that many don't know this syntax: [img height=400]image link[/img] This is why I wouldn't advise for this in case someone needs to post multiple movie entries or in case the user doesn't know how to set the image height...
OP is updated with new rules of sending your movies here for the best result and easy for checking. Great news, peter!
I'd also like to mention a few good movies I watched lately: Two movies with crocodiles - Black Water - 2007 - Action, Adventure, Drama - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816436- Black Water: Abyss - 2020 - Action, Drama, Horror - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7978672 (this movie is not a sequel of the above mentioned one, but its action is similar) Three movies with sharks - Deep Blue Sea - 1999 - Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149261 (this movie is starring Samuel L. Jackson and LL Cool J) - Deep Blue Sea 2 - 2018 - Action, Horror, Sci-Fi - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7086706 (this movie is not a sequel of the above mentioned one, but its action is similar) - Deep Blue Sea 3 - 2020 - Action, Horror, Sci-Fi - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11946300 (this movie is not a sequel of the above mentioned two movies, but its action is similar and it makes references to the other two) An old movie with hackers - WarGames - 1983 - Action, Adventure, Drama - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567A great movie with Denzel Washington - The Manchurian Candidate - 2004 - Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368008 |
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Once again good job! Ucacoin thread has been completely cleaned as well, and for now bumpers gave up, no new posts in the last couple of days. Thanks Rikafip! Great jobs for all parties involved in this operation! I guess you mean WerSalit, Pastrana has been used for thread bumping right from the beginning, and later on used for 10th anniversary contest where he managed to amass decent amount of merit. Regarding WerSalit, you are right, he seemd like a legit user at the beginning, and then his posting behaviour changed. It coincides with the break he had from November 2018 and February 2019, when he woke up and changed the password. After that he immediately started shilling with rest of his buddies My guess is that account changed the owner. Hehe yes, I meant WerSalit, not Pastrana. Most likely, the account was sold. The ex-owner looked like a normal user, involved into bringing benefit to the forum... Also, good observation with Pastrana. I also observed those 100 merits received for a single post in the anniversary contest. 38 were from Basorexia though but however, it was a great amount of merits earned back then. Maybe they wanted to use this account for rank up, for looking more serious, then gave up? Who knows... Based on Kamilaz post history, basically impossible to prove any connection. No address, no social media used, Kamilaz wasn't part of thread bumping etc just relatively similar names. Yes, indeed... There doesn't seem any way of connecting them, excepting for the names. But still looks a bit curious to me
The problem is that so far mods didn't take action for the last reports I made (for Pastrana, 6eTxoBeH, WerSalit, Gucci Flip Flops, Vlone, camerali, Drugs?, Oprah). Only a few of them were handled. On the opposite side, the reports made for the previous group (IgorDV, Scrachit, kossvet, yurikkk, Bad Lightyear, Timothy Martinez, Sheesh, Virgil YNWA, Sarah Snyder, Zillakami, conceptinion, Fevy and kuzmich12) are almost entirelly handled (deleted). You can see that by looking at the posts of each profile: IgorDV has 17 posts, Scrachit - 32, kossvet - 0, yurikkk - 0, Bad Lightyear - 0, Timothy Martinez - 0, Sheesh - 0, Virgil YNWA - 0, Sarah Snyder - 0, Zillakami - 0, conceptinion - 34, Fevy - 9 and kuzmich12 - 0. I don't know why the reports for the second group are left unhandled so much... I hope the mods will delete also the remaining posts though. |
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This is the penultimate book from the order I mentioned in August: Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. This is one of the two books with references to Cypherpunk's activity, the other one being also authored by Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon. I am really anger to read it, as not many books talk about these brilliant minds!  My last book from the order I made is Neal Stephenson's The Confusion, which is a part of the so-called Baroque Cycle. It contains three books - Quicksilver, The Confusion and he System of the World. I'll post a picture with all three books once I'll have all of them at hand. I decided to buy also Baroque Cycle, as I understood that the action is somehow related to the one from Cryptonomicon, although it doesn't refer anymore to Cypherpunks. |
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User: proTECH77
Position to Apply: Full Member You can't apply for a position higher than your current rank -- which is Member. If you have a higher rank you may apply for a lower rank position (although it wouldn't be too profitable for you; and I'm not sure though if any campaign manager woulld accept such request), but what you are trying is not permitted. Perhaps you wanted to apply for a Member position? |
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Today I finally managed to find time to report all posting history of all these users. I had their accounts opened in different tabs since Friday, but I didn't have time until now. Interestingly, someone took the job ahead of me and reported a few posts of each account. I saw that as I refreshed the tabs before clicking on "Show the last posts of this person". So... 3 hours later I finished reporting 761 posts of all these accounts, this being almost all their posts. The exceptions were 10-20 posts in total which were good posts and some which were written in local boards, which I couldn't see as I have these boards on ignore list. Curiously, one of these users - pastrana - seemed to be a "normal" user in the past, prior heading to ANN bumping lol. If you look at his oldest posts you'll see some related to plagiarism investigations, merit abuse investigations, helping others with banned accounts, reporting a Legendary member for spam and so on. Unfortunately, he turned evil after a short while... Also, an idea crossed my mind about one account mentioned by nutildah: Zillakami. Could it be that this Zillakami is connected to Kamilaz, an account banned after the Hack Forums invasion? Zillakami... Kamilaz... sound like inverting the second half of the name with the first half. Great catch my dear cinephile! Flag supported! |
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Hopefully, if mods would see more users reporting such posts, they won't leave them unhandled anymore. I have a few hundreds of such reports left unhandled forever, as they were reported more than 30 days ago and I can't see them anymore. And, as far as I know, mods don't see them anymore as well if they were reported more than 30 days ago.
At best, examples provided be @Coolcryptovator should be seen as low value posts, and imho, should be dealt accordingly, and in this came it means deleting such posts. No personal comment on topic, just c/p pieces of articles. All we need is army of newbies sharing articles and getting away with it. Who knows, maybe then we would see some change. A similar subject was also discussed in Nina Lyon's topic where she was questioning why CoinIdol was banned (yes, lol). At some point, hilariousetc said that in his opinion Press board should be locked. I totally agree with him. We can avoid a lot of such spam if that board is closed. As far as I see, mods take action when such shillings (spam) are done by low ranked members, but tend to tolerate the posts made by users with higher ranks, although I don't understand why. Well that sucks if that's really the case. You would expect something like that from newbies, but higher ranking member should know better. Low value post is low value, no matter who wrote it, or in this case copied Oh well...take a look at this picture  |
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That's up to each campaign's set of rules. You can't force managers to adopt such a rule. But it would be common sense that such posts shouldn't be counted as eligible for the campaign. Besides, these posts should be reported. Hopefully, if mods would see more users reporting such posts, they won't leave them unhandled anymore. I have a few hundreds of such reports left unhandled forever, as they were reported more than 30 days ago and I can't see them anymore. And, as far as I know, mods don't see them anymore as well if they were reported more than 30 days ago.
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Bitcoinst is one of the users which keep spamming in Press board with various websites, similar to jdebunt, blacky90, S3cco, crabby, HB Wallet, CoinIdol News and others. I reported all his posts containing links to articles but only a few of them were deleted. The same happened when I reported similar posts from the other above mentioned users. From all of them only CoinIdol News was banned and that happened after months while he was constantly reported by me and also by several other users.
Excepting CoinIdol, my reports for the other shillers were mostly left unhandled until they disappeared from my report history thus they will remain unhandled forever. My last action toward Bitcoinst was on September 14th, 2020 when I reported 25 of his posts: 4 were good reports, 1 bad and 20 unhandled...
As far as I see, mods take action when such shillings (spam) are done by low ranked members, but tend to tolerate the posts made by users with higher ranks, although I don't understand why.
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Have no fear, the cleaner is here Excepting ~10 posts, I reported all the posting history of these members mentioned by nutildah -- 541 posts. Mods are already working on my reports, as far as I see. As soon as I'll have time I'll start "working" also on the accounts above mentioned by Rikafip. |
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Wow, great going, that's a lot of posts! Out of curiosity, when you report the posts, what comment do you give in your report? Do you write "Spam" or... what do you write? Hehe, thanks! I was in a sort of reporting frenzy these days. Actually, in less than 2 days I made almost 2000 good reports! I reported 718 posts of all users mentioned here, 870 posts of all users mentioned here and ~350 more posts of all users mentioned here. Regarding my comments for reports, they vary depending on the offense. I use the most the following ones: - for newbies spam-bumping - "Zero value post" - for OP spam-bumping - "Breaking rule 21. Old bumps should be deleted" or "Breaking rule 32. Posting multiple posts in a row" - for casual spammers (those trying to farm their accounts with more posts or those trying to get more posts inside a signature / bounty campaign) - "Spamming with zero value posts, in various boards" or "Spamming with zero value posts, in various boards, in order to have more posts for the signature campaign he is a part of" or "Spamming with zero value posts, resurrecting old threads and breaking rule 32. Posting multiple posts in a row" - for shillers - "Constantly shilling a website" or "Constantly shilling various websites". EGGSBOOK just started with their bumping, so that's why I think number was so low, but from my experience it is a good thing to start reporting immediately as sometimes they just give u when they see that posts have been deleted regularly, basically on the daily basis. I see they keep spamming the topic, I just reported now a few more posts of them. They must be kept under attention. Latest addition, making it 74th on the list. [ANN][POS] UCACOIN - Community Coin ICO Upcoming As reported by @nutildah, they recently started with thread bumping. Some accounts used are new, and some are part of previously tagged group of accounts that also abused merit system, among other things. This farm is back, now spamming for a project called UCACOIN. I'm gonna go ahead and tag all of them. One tag wasn't enough to stop them but maybe 2 will be, who knows. I'll try to report all the posts made by the accounts mentioned by nutildah and all the other posts made inside the respective topics. However, I'm not sure how much time I'll have during the weekend. I'll see what I can do today. |
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This is the antepenultimate book from the order I mentioned in August: George Orwell's 1984 (translated in Romanian), a book which I already mentioned here in January 2020. I read it since 2018, but in electronic format. Now I managed to obtain also the physical form of the book. I suggest you all to read it. It is a book about state surveillance taken to the extreme, a book which inspired also the Cypherpunks' work, as its action became a reality.  |
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Furthermore, sometimes batches of accounts will overlap from thread to thread; meaning that it is possible to connect which threads have hired the service based on the accounts posting in them. Here is the best way to demonstrate a spam farm, by demonstrating the overlap between threads and the cluster of accounts [...] This is just a small heads-up: I just reported all the posts (actually not all, but >99% of them) made by the 20 users mentioned by nutildah in that Excel file (around 350 posts). All of them were deleted by the mods already and the accounts are as clean as Brand New I'll take a look later over the other links mentioned below nutildah's post. @nutildah, as a small note, you have the user medalizich noted twice in the Excel file Edit: I just cleaned 3 more topics. I just reported 14 spams from the above mentioned topic. These were all the spam posts I found. Maybe others were deleted already. I just reported 22 spams from EGGSBOOK. These were all the spam posts I found. Maybe others were deleted already. I did not find any spam on PrimeBit. I guess this topic was already cleaned before the cleaner came in |
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