I am tired of having to wade through countless signature campaign threads in the Services section; I would say the first couple pages would be roughly 60-80% signature campaign threads. The reason why this is bad is because those threads are constantly bumped by people joining, leaving, updates on payments, and/or updates on the signature campaign itself. People with personal services are constantly being pushed down by these signature campaigns, and, let's be honest, there are an absolute huge amount of them.

So what about if we created a signature campaign section? I can see maybe a few cons of this but personally, I think it's a good idea.

Opinions?

Edit: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1206905.msg12674501#msg12674501

What do you mean by "verified"? Someone uses it and vouches for it? In that case, it'd have to be higher repped/ranked users. But what if the merchants turned scammed? The user(s) who "verified" the merchant would be suspected for being an alt of the owner/working in relation with the owner, and would cause the user to potentially be neg-repped. This in turn would cause no one to really verify any merchants.

And TBH the Digital Goods section/Services section has bountiful merchants if you just take the time to look through them.

Well, it isn't really appropriate for the section that is for discussion of bitcoins. I would say it should either stay in the Beginners/Help section, or maybe be moved to Meta. IMHO, lots of people check the Beginners/Help section (I for one did) and it is great info for newbies. Plus, many non-newbies check that section as well so it'd get some decent publicity.

hilariousandco (or any other moderators/global mods for the case) will not be able to help you. You will likely be ignored by him; sending an email and perhaps a PM to theymos is the only thing you can do.

No, that wouldn't work and wouldn't be done. For all questions everyone could possibly think up about Satoshi to be put into a single thread would be unreasonable and unrealistic. Better for newbies to ask individual questions about Satoshi and be answered.

I voted 3. There aren't many threads about Satoshi; plus, most of the threads pertain to the section they are in. AFAIK if they go off topic then report a few posts there and let the mods handle it. If nothing happens to them, then the staff obviously think otherwise.

No, it's not. I strongly believe that something with the OP's account is wrong; it may be limited or something.

Why do you need this loan? You've been doing quite a few loans recently; why not just do them all in one?

Bump.

I took your advice and PMed a couple of people. I only created a thread because none of the "trusted" sellers were online; but looks like I didn't get any trade requests that I would actually consider.

I would prefer to trade with people with green trust/lots of feedback.

Anyways, I'll close this thread for the time being; I think I'll get a trade with one of the few people I PMed.

I've been thinking about this for a little while.

Does the "Did you earn bitcoin today" thread even belong in Beginners/Help? I can't really find any ties with the thread to being helpful to beginners, nor a help request/helpful. It would belong more in the Off-topic section, IMHO.

Let me know if my thinking is wrong.

Also, I have a feeling that the thread would have a huge decline in posts if it was moved to Off-topic because most signature campaigns don't pay there.

I'm selling bitcoins for PayPal. Because of the reversible nature of PayPal, I will only be trading with people with high trust.

I have a fee of +5% of Preev. Here's how the fee would work if the current price were $248.20/BTC:

I give you 0.1BTC, you send me $24.82 * 1.05 = $26.06

Current stock: 0.1BTC

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I can go first with traders because of the fact that I'm only trading with people of high trust.

Send me a PM!

Does anyone else get the impression that these are really just people who are promoting a HYIP website so that people would click on it? Sure, it may seem strange at first but messages like these...


...make me feel like they are announcing their HYIPs so that people who deliberately invest in them before they start collapsing will being investing.

I'm pretty sure that, just like the forum doesn't ban obvious scammers, they wouldn't ban signature campaigns. They can operate their business here as they would like to and we can't really enforce how they do it.

Archived. Good luck on your website and future developments; I personally like the idea and the interface very much.

I see the reasoning behind this suggestion; I would support this as well. Perhaps I had the impression that someone was farming trust, but had no real basis for the suspicion. Then I could simply write a note (visible only to me) on his profile for future reference. Same goes for if I thought someone was trustworthy, but I didn't want to put a positive trust rating because it was only a personal opinion and I didn't have any direct dealings with the person. It could even go to other small notes that I would want to write down for future reference, but wouldn't want other people to see/affect the person's trust rating.

Definitely not. The people who ruin signature campaigns for us all are the people who consistently post in threads like "Did you earn some bitcoin today?". If you are self conscious about if your posts are HQ or not, they probably are at least decent.

Yes. He told me in a PM that the account that gave me the fake scam rating wasn't his alt, but I find it highly coincidental that we both pointed him out and then got negative trust ratings from new accounts.

However, I don't worry much about the ratings themselves because anyone with have a mind will ignore them. My untrusted feedback list is a mess, anyways. It makes me believe further that idyu is just one of the many accounts that he uses.

But like I said previously...

Do you have any altcoins? Jewelry? Phones? Digital wares? Here's a more complete loan of what is considered valid collateral: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=577765.msg6311902#msg6311902

EDIT: whywefight's list is also very important and good to know before asking for a loan.

OP, I suggest you close this thread for now (bottom left) until you get a better idea of loaning and collaterals you can use.

I also believe that idyu is pretty suspicious but I have nothing to back it up, so it'll remain as a suspicion. (see my scam accusation thread)

I find it strange that idyu would take the time to delete every single one of his Skype messages. Can you send us a screenshot of the mass amounts of "deleted message" from Skype?

(Not that it would prove anything, but it would be a step in the right direction.)

Wait a second. Are you selling the website + domain, or just the domain name? It sounds like you're selling just the domain name.