Lauda is almost certainly the same as ThePharmacist...
Is there proof of this? I would like to see Lauda and The Pharmacist (presumably) deny the connection before I comment on this. |
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According to trollercoaster, yes
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I am not sure they are alts, however they are making a mockery of the trust (and merit) system.
How so? As far as I see it, you are free to do what you want. It's your merit for a reason. You are correct, users should be able to do what you want with your merit. Perhaps you missed the part in the OP that I was referring to: Lately with the merit system coming out,[...] actmyname , have started giving red trust to people for sending merit to each other's account for reasons like : "Merit was sent literally minutes apart for inconsequential posts."
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I might suggest only giving away 8 or 9 merit points to each person so that these people will be very close to being able to rank up, but you won’t be making the decision for them to rank up on your own - at least one other person with sufficient merit will need to agree.
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I am not sure they are alts, however they are making a mockery of the trust (and merit) system.
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2.Soon there maybe a merit farming.
This is very possible to happen and also some guys here will sale their merit to earn money. This is actually unlikely, at least over the long run. Accounts do not have any way to automatically gain merit points unless they are a merit source. Also you can only give out 1/2 the merit points you get. I am a merit source...how much per merit you guys offering?  Time will tell how this makes a difference for the spammers. My guess is that it slows the farmers down a lot and that will help as the copy/paste guys gets bans... I don't think it would be appropriate for a merit source to sell merit points (how do you know you are a merit source anyway), and seriously trying to do so would probably result in this being taken away. With the above being said, I would not personally sell merit points, however I don't have a major issue with it as long as you are not a merit source. Your merit points are ultimately earned via your good posts, so I don't see why you can't do what you want with them. Also, if merit points are not being done in the open, it will only create a false sense of security because they would likely be done in secret if there was serious pushback against these kinds of trades. |
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2.Soon there maybe a merit farming.
This is very possible to happen and also some guys here will sale their merit to earn money. This is actually unlikely, at least over the long run. Accounts do not have any way to automatically gain merit points unless they are a merit source. Also you can only give out 1/2 the merit points you get. 2.Soon there maybe a merit farming.
This is very possible to happen and also some guys here will sale their merit to earn money. Merit sale is aready started in russian local. No bans detected I don’t think this is against the rules. Also users have a limited amount of merit points to give out unless they are able to make a lot of good posts. |
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I will, of course, do whatever theymos says. If he doesn't want this sort of feedback left, I'll delete it all or be banned. And you won't see me bitching about it either.
Whatever happens, it sure would be nice to get a solution from the man who runs bitcointalk. If nothing else, we've put the spotlight on how bad the shitposting situation is. This answers your question: That's partially why I sped up work on merit. I don't agree with using the trust system for pure spam; that's not what it was designed for.
Yep... I assume the spammers will be happy once again  Actually the spammers will no longer be able to rank up anymore... I think this is probably a good time to take of the wannabe mods off your trust list if they haven’t been already. |
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Wow.. we agree on something for once... lets pop a bottle...
If you agreed with my post, feel free to leave some merit points  |
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DannyHamilton would be a great merit source but it’s hard to choose that because DeathAndTaxes was equally as helpful and knowledgeable until he scammed a bunch of people and ran away. At one point, I would have sworn on a stack of bibles that Gerald Davis was a god among men.
No offense Danny, I’m just saying it’s impossible to ever really know what anyone here is willing to do in the long run.
Technically merit has nothing to do with scamming. A scammer should get neg trust regardless of their merit and vice versa. Not sure if being a merit source would make anyone seem more trustworthy. Not to me for sure. But then again, there has always been confusion between rank with trustworthiness here, especially among noobs. A high merit score will help users determine who actually knows what they are talking about and who is talking out of their asses in technical discussion and support threads. It will be an indicator of the ability to trust what someone is saying when it comes to not business dealings. |
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I support OgNasty becoming a merit source. He is active in the forum and conducts s lot of business around here (professionally, which is unlike many people around here).
With that being said, I think it is probably too soon to be nominating yourself to being a merit source. I would say to wait a few weeks to allow posts to accumulate merit points.
I would also suggest that only posts within a certain age range to eligible to be quoted for these types of nominations.
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Actually all you have to do is look at this page to get a pretty good idea of who the merit sources are. |
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That is probably not a reasonable conclusion. Their page doesn’t list all their clients. I suspect they were either getting smeared by the anti-tether shills or receiving many inquiries from the same. |
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I think you are confused. I believe if you want to be a merit source, you need to find 10 posts that should have more merit (that you would give merit to) and post them in meta.
Being a merit source is not necessarily about making good posts, it is about finding good posts to give merit points to.
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Q: spend it on yourself ?
A: You cannot send merit to yourself
I think this will ultimately not be enforceable unfortunately. |
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I'm a scammer who is still butthurt for being exposed.
FTFY.
All you really care about is your account farming and account trading business. Pretending that it is otherwise isn't working as it used to, so suck it up buttercup. This is literally exactly what I am referring to above... |
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who are in the DT1? why the trust system is not decentralized? why Theymos leave the trust system in the hand of the abusers?
DT1: theymos (1) HostFat (1) dooglus (1) Maged (1) dserrano5 (1) OgNasty (1) Tomatocage (1) SaltySpitoon (1) philipma1957 (1) Cyrus (1) Blazed (1) hilariousandco (1) OldScammerTag (1) It is very decentralized. I think you are confused about the meaning of “decentralized”. There are thousands if not millions of people who use the forum. There are 12 who are directly trusted by default trust. To make matters worse, there are only a small handful of people who unilaterally give out negative ratings on their own accord, without any input from the community, who brushes off any criticism as being given by “scammers” have zero ownership interest in the forum and were in no way selected by the community. |
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Collateral:
MDCN reserve 450mln MDCN $.10 per MDCN at pre ICO worth.
This is nothing more than a price that the "devs" of the ICO/coin set. It is not necessarily indicative of the market value. |
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Lauda is almost certainly the same as ThePharmacist...
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Watching with my popcorn. Although I doubt there is proof of this. There has to be a reason why Vod likes lauda so much |
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