You will have to count how many two week periods you have posted in. You can see the dates of the periods in this spreadhseet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12saLhlUoqIdairxzuSPu6EYGrt7FN2lOstO1yDjCEbA/edit

Tedious work but that's the only way you'll know currently.

Also, whilst you haven't stated you want to sell it I'm sure this is now likely given this thread you just created:

What exactly does this prove? It proves he can be trusted to return a paltry sum of money which would be worth him doing if he was up to something. I honestly don't know what's going on here - whether his account has actually been hacked or he sold his business to someone but something just doesn't seem right and is out of character.

I've already said there's obviously a female involved in some capacity and that's been established. If I get my girlfriend/sister/mother/grandmother/girlnextdoor to do a skype session with a trusted member does that make me a female? No. How many camgirls are there that just so happen to be into bitcoin (and lending it), tax evasion and trying to flog gambling scripts? It's beyond a joke that you're even keeping up this rouse. I honestly don't know whether to pity or congratulate you at this point, but you've got bigger balls than I have that's for sure.

Pussy probably. This whole alia shenanigans is proof positive that if you can convince someone you're a female people will let their guard down.


Hardly fooled. Theymos was just confirming that she had been verified on girlsgonebitcoin or whatever it is. There is a woman involved in some capacity in the shenanigans - she's just obviously not in control of the accounts here and I think we've established it's just some scammer dude taking advantage of a bit of female flesh.

Well the merit system is still pretty new but the talk and crying will hopefully calm down shortly once people get used to it or accept that it is here to stay. If we do create a new sub section maybe make posts in there not be meritable . The threads about merit where people are really just trying to sneakily get merit are pretty blatant and annoying.

No. It's just when you sign up. You can switch to tor or any other proxy connection once you've signed up. You or the connection will only be banned if you break the rules.


And if they abuse them ones then those connections will also be banned.

You've either A) Paid to whitelist yourself or B) have found a clear connection and are free to post normally so what's your issue? If you don't want to pay the evil fee then find a connection that isn't proxybanned. The fee is to stop bots and serial ban evaders from just reusing the same connection(s) over and over to abuse the forum. Stop crying about it and spamming the same message over and over isn't going to do you any favours and just lead to even more connections being banned.  

Ok. I'll get them both going at the end of the season.


The v2 likely won't be going ahead because there's probably not much point given there's only two months left but those who expressed interest can just join in next season. Hopefully with those and current users and new additions the pool will be double in size. I'm sure since this one has been a success more people will be interested and I'll open it as soon as the season ends so we've got maximum time to promote it.

This is the campaign managers job (or should be). The trouble is most are either not doing a good job or doing nothing at all (which many aren't). This is something that should change and those that are either doing nothing or are clearly incompetent at running a campaign should face punishment. If there was consequences for lazy campaign managers or those campaigns not doing anything at all we wouldn't have even had to implement the merit system. Still not much will change if we continue to allow campaigns to advertise here which pay newbies and juniors along with everyone else regardless of quality. This is something that shouldn't be tolerated. Look at well-run campaigns like Chipmixer and tell me how much spam you see coming from their campaign. There's probably zero and if anyone was abusing it they would be kicked off but shitposters wouldn't even be allowed on in the first place. If every campaign was run like Darkstar runs Chipmixer then there wouldn't be an issue with spam at all here.

Of course they work and they're often both very effective and profitable. Half of the time I'm not even aware of 99% of these crapcoin ICOs until I see them advertised here by shitposters crapping all over the place; so yes, they're very effective. Also, often it doesn't cost them very much if anything at all. Most are paid out via tokens they've pre-mined themselves so there's no real cost to them. If you don't hire a campaign manager - which many don't - then there's no real loss at all. Many make sufficient money via their crowdsale so it's worth paying one anyway. The shameful thing is that it's counterproductive to them to have a manager who does his job because the more people posting = the more people who see their advert so it doesn't really matter about quality of posts either. This is something that should change though and they shouldn't be allowed to operate here in such a way.

We could do and I'd be willing to get one going but never partook in one myself. Are there any sites similar to the BBC we could use for free?

Yes, there will be a new one for next season. I figured there's probably not much point doing the other one right now seeing as there's not many games left this season. As I mentioned above I will probably be doing two though: a smaller stake one and a higher stake one if there's enough demand for the latter and people can join both if they want.  I will send details out when this season finishes.

Someone on DT could just go through their ratings and determine which cases only he has a left feedback and tag them. I don't think we should be leaving scammers on DT but I haven't looked into this case and like Quickseller said there seems to be no reference of the scam.

I've already said I'll do both. I agree £100 may be a lot for most but £25 isn't much at all really and the more money put in the bigger the pot is. If I can get 5-10 users for the £100 I'll happily do that as a bonus league for people wanting higher stakes.


Lol. I hope so but maybe not away. United made a pretty impressive comeback last night from 2-0 down. Lets see how Liverpool do tonight in the Champions League. Hope they don't put out a b-team because of their hefty lead.


I've had a couple 20 pointers and Steph only got 30 last week. Just make sure to make it up in previous rounds. A few good weeks with a lot of points could really shake thigns up at the top especially if the top five have bad weeks.

There's nothing against being arrogant, though it would obviously be bad practice and campaign managers should have patience but so should participants on the campaign but it's hard to judge without hearing the full story, but this manager should probably be looked into. There's lots of scammers and incompetent people getting jobs as campaign managers right now and if you look at his feedback it's alleged he has a few alts that seem to engage in shady behaviour:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=239151 lorrylore
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=553644 namelessname
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=332981     hua_hui

hua_hui is also running the PolicyPal campaign but his alt lorylore is also on it as is his own account:



Which is against his own campaign terms:



How many other alt accounts has he possibly given places to? Did they make the required posts etc?

You likely won't be banned for merit farming but that user was banned because he has been farming hundreds if not thousands of accounts with bots in the Chinese section going on years and has already had hundreds banned, so he was banned for ban evasion but was caught or exposed because he was farming merit between his alts.





I think most people will consider it cheating if you give out merit to alts for any old post. Merit is meant to be earned and was implemented to try stop farming accounts with shitposts, so I'd say just giving merit to your alts is cheating the system.

It's a shitty thing to do but not illegal. The only issue I would have is if you had a deal with a company and they got rid of you during the campaign just to save a bit of money. That would be a breach of contract.

I think there should be more scrutiny on new managers popping up to run campaigns because nefarious individuals are getting involved and successfully scamming money from people or siphoning off money to their alts, and then there's the shitmanagers who do absolutely nothing about spam and accept and pay for any old shit. If something had been done about these users we wouldn't have even needed the merit system in the first place.

You would have to ask theymos that. The feedback system is meant to be unmoderated so there's that and I agree we shouldn't be removing every little bit of tit for tat feedback but people shouldn't be allowed to spam it or advertise their services there as per the rules, but as with a lot of things on the forum there's not enough staff to handle certain issues and a hands off approach is taken but it's this laissez faire attitude that often causes the most issues and frustrations amongst users (accounts not getting recovered, trust issues, sig spam etc).


There was one guy ages ago who was spamming dozens of users including staff and I contacted theymos about it and he probably just blanket removed them all that the user sent. Maybe that was the same guy.


Probably not, but maybe theymos never saw it. I can't remember whether I posted it or PMd him it (or maybe both). I should probably bring it up again though.

You can try report them to theymos but it's probably a waste of both yours and his' time.


I've suggested this before as well. People should be able to offer up comment on their side of the story in defence.

Yes it can be manipulated, but please don't tell us who the user is so we can't investigate it. People who are found to be abusing the system will face the consequences.


You are apart of the National Nuclear Energy Series? Wow.


What's your motivation? What was your motivation for joining the forum? Money probably, hence why you're complaining. Your motivation should be to contribute to the forum, but you've already got 7 merit, though it wouldn't surprise me if some of those have been traded. And you will become a Member when you have 10 merit, so it's not exactly out of reach.