I don't think I'd be against blocking newbies from posting in there but it's hard to force people to read rules. The Lending section is pretty much pointless now anyway. The only people who get loans are those who have the same amount in collateral but if they've got sufficient funds why do they need it in the first place? Most of the time people are probably just taking loans to quickly build up rep which in the long run is likely going to lead to a scam.


It would be a waste of time. If there's a stock set of questions people will just google the answers and someone will just write a guide on how to pass them. People should probably just ignore newbie loan requests because they're obviously not going to get filled so they're just wasting their time.

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An admin will have to look into it that so contact cyrus about it. Accounts could have been sold or changed hands etc.

Banned. Thanks.

If we were going to ban people for scamming then in my opinion you would be banned for trying to extort people. You also knowingly buy stolen/fraudulently obtained goods which is a crime and makes you as bad as the scammers yourself so under your very rules and my interpretation of them you would be banned. And that's why moderators don't deal with scams. You could buy something say it doesn't work then cry that person is a scammer just to get them banned or your money back. Oh wait, that's exactly what you do do. As I and others have said multiple times it is forum policy not to get involved with scams because of the sheer amount of time and effort that would be wasted on it not to mention what happens when we get it wrong or ban the wrong person because we've been given dodgy or fabricated evidence? Users will just try wipe out their competition and we are left to try decide who is the bad guy here. Staff are not here to babysit you and you are responsible for your own money not anyone else so that's why the community policies itself on these matters. If you don't like it then you're free to leave.

No. Not sure how many warnings this guy needs.

You don't. Most of these sellers using autobuy links are scammers trying to fleece the greedy.

Please remove your previous bump when you make a new one. Thanks.

They were websites that sold hundreds of hacked accounts to services like Netflix and Spotify etc and were removed for such so that's why you can't find them.

Please remove your previous bump when you make a new one. Thanks.

Just because they have a 75 minimum character requirement doesn't mean that's all you should do. If they had a two or three character minimum would all your posts just be yes or no answers because that's all you needed to say to get paid? Maybe a yes or no answer is all that is required sometimes but because you're forced to make it longer to earn you'll add a load of nonsense on to the end. If someone asks "Does 2+2 = 4?" a simple yes would suffice. Not "Yes. Two plus two equals four. I know this because I just used a calculator I own to check it and I can confirm this is correct". Everything else other than yes is unnecessary and is blatantly added just to pad their character count. The character count implemented by bitmixer was their attempt to not pay for short spam posts etc but it obviously doesn't work if you don't have someone actively moderating the post quality which they didn't. Otherwise you can and would get paid for just typing jhhhjk bvhgghb bbbbbb jvbhghhbvv ghbvghb ggvghh gvvvhhvv. Gggggvbb fffvvg vvhbbbbhhh tgyhjj if moderators weren't looking out for it and that was the problem with bitmixer. They were paying hundreds of people to spam whatever rubbish they could be bothered to write with no quality control just as long as it was more than 75 characters and staff were left to deal with the mess.

Please only bump your thread once every 24 hours and remove the previous bump when you do. Also, please don't create more than one thread to sell the same thing. Thanks.

Read this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1684035.0

Just put some effort and thought into your posts like you did this one. Making sure a post is 75 characters long doesn't magically make a post constructive though. In fact, just trying to hit the 75 character count usually has the opposite effect because people tend to stretch out their answers unnecessarily. Also, when all of your posts are around 75+ characters or one or two lines it's very easy to spot a pattern. There's no good reason why any users posts should follow a pattern or all be one or two sentences but this seems to be a habbit of Sig spammers because they somehow seem to think that two sentences is the magic number that suddenly makes a post constructive or not spam which isn't the case.

I gave him a warning about the spam. Most of his posts don't make any sense. A similar user was doing the same a couple of weeks ago but stopped after a warning and I wonder if they're related: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=848341 Masha Sha

Mostly posted in the Alt coin section until he started seriously spamming Politics.

It's hard to understand quite what his point or proposition is here. I'm not sure whether he's for or against moderator involvement. I think it's lack of staff involvement that has lead to the current situation and the laissez faire attitude to sig campaigners doing whatever they want can't continue. People will cry and complain when they get kicked off a campaign or invent conspiracies about conflict of interest etc but I haven't seen a staff member who didn't have the best interests of the forum at heart. Either way we can't really win. We do nothing and the forum gets spammed massively and people complain about that. We crack down on it in an attempt to clean up the forum and people still complain. Can't really have it both ways.


Whilst the first part of this is likely the reason, if signature campaigns were banned more people would advertise here via the ads so therefore more money for staff. There's no doubt that traffic would drop drastically but at least it would be quality discussion then but this forum would still be the biggest and best place to advertise so many sig campaign operators would just advertise that way instead. I think it's about finding a balance. If all campaigns are run strictly and only accept and pay for quality posters then that should solve the problem but only if all campaigns are on board.  The [SMAS] thread is just those managers trying to do their part but of course people who are affected by not being able to get paid by spamming the forum with poor posts on multiple accounts are going to whinge about it. Their easy source of income has been affected and they don't like it. Well good. If every campaign did this the forum would be cleaned up significantly because they would have to improve or their accounts here are worthless.


But this would also have negative consequences. It's true most of the spam comes from newer members and I wouldn't be against some of the lower ranks having their signatures removed completely, but then this just makes farming more lucrative and more people spamming to hit the desired rank and more threads in Meta asking why their activity isn't going up and when will they be a Hero member etc. It's seems to be swings and roundabouts whatever we do.

Please remove your previous bump when you make a new one. You also don't need to quote the entire op. A simple 'bump' will do. Thanks.

Yes, you're allowed.

Please only bump your thread once every 24 hours and remove the previous bump when you do. Thanks.

Please only bump your thread once every 24 hours and remove the previous bump when you do. Thanks.

Please only bump your thread once per 24 hours. You can put any updates in the op or previous post.