It would be a nice feature maybe, but is there really any reason to implement it? I haven't seen anyone run into any problems because they had an issue with their user names. It's a cosmetic feature at best, so maybe it remains in the pipeline because there is no urgency to implement this feature in a way which would serve a lot of people.
Lots of users have requested name changes in the past and for a myriad of reasons. Some just chose their name in haste when they signed up and would prefer something different and some people don't want their name tied to their identify elsewhere. Some people decide to start businesses or sell products and would like their name to reflect that. There have been other genuine reasons to change names but can't quite recall them right now. If you do a bit of searching in Meta you'll likely find a few. Edit A few here: Hi I am interested can we change our bitcointalk forum account name if we contact support or we cant because I added weird name but I want add normal name which will everybody like ,some signature capaign admins will maybe refuse me because of name because of my brainless when I was creating this account.
I was wondering if it was possible to change my username. I started this account a while back before I got really into Crypto. Now I have another name I go by in the Crypto world and would like to change my username if possible. I would rather not start a new account as then I would have to start over with my ratings.
Thanks in advance.
When I first registered in 2011 I didn't take my account name very seriously.
Now that I do business on this forum I would like people to take me more professionally.
Therefore, I would like to change my username to "xxxthats4xes".
Hey all, Just so you all know, I have changed my name from Bitcoininformation to Mitchełł. When I joined Bitcointalk (over 1.5 years ago), I had my own website which used to have a faucet. This account eventually turned into my personal account and it was about time that I changed the name to something that fits, well, me. As a staff I have the ability to change my own name, so I did. Why Mitchełł? Because both Mitchell and Mitch (my nickname) are taken and Mitchełł looks really similar. 
22-Aug-2016 update: Theymos has removed the old Mitchell account (as it was a spam account and hasn't been active in 5 years) which means, from now on, I'll be Mitchell.  |
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I suppose the feedback can be changed to merit farming with a "friend" if you prefer.
Is it against the rules? sending merit for a valuable post by other member? sending a couple of merit(than 10 to 20+ by other member) to a known person can be considered as farming? funny Scamming isn't against the rules. Selling accounts isn't against the rules, but both are frowned upon by the community and will get you negative feedback. Giving merit to your alt defeats the purpose of merit in the first place and of course will be incredibly biased. You could have used that merit to give to somebody elses worthwhile post but instead you selfishness gave it to your alt - sorry, friend. |
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I admit that we have the same address as i gave it to her for not using it anymore.
"Not using it anymore lol". Nobody is going to buy that, but I suppose the feedback can be changed to merit farming with a "friend" if you prefer.
Thus it mean that the rule should only be applied for new members? and higher member are excluded?
Twisted logic. Do you think one member is responsible for leaving negative feedback on every instance of potential merit abuse that ever happens? |
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I've suggested it be a feature of a new paid donator rank before (with certain stipulations like the name has to be staff approved to curb abuse) just like you can with the VIP rank. Whether this feature or more donator ranks will be added in the future is uncertain. I think they would be beneficial for numerous reasons though.
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Newbie Ziovo has the copyright violation of the year: he copied this forum! Original: https://bitcointalk.org/Bitcoin Discussion
General discussion about the Bitcoin ecosystem that doesn't fit better elsewhere. News, the Bitcoin community, innovations, the general environment, etc. Discussion of specific Bitcoin-related services usually belongs in other sections. Copy: http://www.discussbitcoin.org/Bitcoin Discussion
General discussion about the Bitcoin ecosystem that doesn't fit better elsewhere. News, the Bitcoin community, innovations, the general environment, etc. Discussion of specific Bitcoin-related services usually belongs in other sections. Link where he admits it's his forum: Hello Guys I am the admin of the Newly founded Forum http://www.discussbitcoin.org/And I am looking for Moderators in my Forum. The Forum is same as like of Bitcointalk. Since he's only trying to steal users, traffic and content from this site, I'd say he should be nuked. Not sure he deserves nuking but probably negative feedback. Not really for the forum but it seems he's trying to scam users into joining his site with the hope that they can become a moderator that earns 0.1 a month. Only to become a moderator you need to make a load of posts and threads and he likely has absolutely no intention of paying anyone anything and just wants to drive activity and traffic there for free. |
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I'm not sure if it's been mentioned but a character limit should be introduced in post counts. Character limiting can be annoying, yes.. but it's worthwhile in the end. It's relatively easier to pick out people that are just trying to increase their post counts when there characters are limited.
I see a lot of posts from some members only posting with images, which is stupid.
Character limiting is a good idea, pros would be: it'll force people to post until a specific character quota is achieved. This will also include those posts who only contain links, without any description or such. But the cons would be, for high members who posts a lengthy one, including the mods and campaign managers, this would greatly affect their work, assuming that it'll be like twitter and not the "minimum of x numbers of character to post" or "post is too short". It really isn't and has been proposed by people numerous times but also shot down as a viable suggestion. Character count doesn't help to quantify a constructive post as people will just cheat the system by waffling on for however many characters their post requires to count or even just add hidden junk to their posts and this is what already happened with signature campaigns that requested posts be over x amount of characters. Users just added invisible characters to the end of their post in order to game the bot that checked. The next best thing to do to cut down on spam is to punish the campaigns and lazy signature campaign managers that do nothing as it's them that are the problem in the first place. If we would have done this already we probably wouldn't have needed to implement the merit system. |
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I take solace in the fact that less than 500 people have read this thread, and so at a worst if everybody clicked his forum (which likely it was a very small percent) he has basically gained no traffic with what seems to be a pathetic attempt to scam people into visiting and posting on his newly made forum.
Yeah, it seems OP is almost certainly just trying to drive traffic and activity to his forum with the hope of someone getting paid 0.1 a month as a reward for becoming a moderator which almost certainly won't happen. I messaged him about it: Wow Hilarious , I need 3 MODS all total, but i will only hire someone if they will make my site crowded.
So basically he wants you to create a load of threads and posts and he may hire you as mod. And when I say may I reckon there's a zero percent chance he will be hiring anyone for 0.1 a month. |
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I don't think there's much of an issue with people hoarding merit; it's giving it to their alt accounts that is going to be the big issue.
It has already started and I believe it will continue to be an issue. What use do people have for hoarding merit? |
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Make a lot of quality posts and you'll get a representative amount of merit. Not exactly rocket science. As for him being an alt account. Maybe. Or maybe he's just a great poster. If you compare what words he uses to other users around here to the words that are used by other members around here, and on reddit on r/bitcoin you will eventually figure out who he is. (note: you will have to analyze more than just vocabulary, but also words used before and after words, and analyze this on a large scale).
QS always implies that he knows more than he's posting, but never quite gets around to filling in the blanks that he draws all of our attention to. If you think Nullius is an alt account, just come right out and say who you think it is. My attention span is severely impaired, and I will confess that I've mainly skimmed Nullius's posts, but from what I've read I have to say the dude knows how to write. He certainly deserves the merits he's earned Exactly, though the amount of research that QS is claiming he has done on him likely in the hopes he can somehow make a connection to someone he doesn't like shows you how insane he is. I guess there is no real newbie can write such high qualitied, constructive posts like nullius. Especially, high-qualitied posts in-a-row like this guy. Newbie can sometimes write such a good post, not always.
His account is hardly new. He registered in March 2017, though I guess he only started being active fairly recently. |
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Well there are numerous reasons. Maybe you want one business and one personal account and not to mix the two. Maybe you might want to sell or talk/promote something that is considered controversial by some or maybe you want to discuss politics etc without it effecting the way people perceive or do business with you here.
Hm, sounds like a quite good reason. Good point. But you agree that there is no need to have more than 5 accounts for sure? The persons who participate in the bounty campaign with multi accounts, they most likely have more than 5 accounts, and they are posting from all 5 thus increasing the spam level on the whole forum. I would say that technically possible to create limitations based on MAC/Hardware address, for instance, there are 2 accounts allowed per one device. The business people will be happy enough and bounty-cheaters will be down. Well sure there's probably not many good reasons to have more than a handful of accounts but the exact number is of course subjective, but yeah, the people with dozens - and in some cases hundreds of accounts - create them just to milk bounties and campaigns for all they're worth and when this happens the quality of their posts are usually severely diminished. Check this guy with his 200 accounts all making shitposts for example: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1912475.msg18975980#msg18975980That's what happens when you get greedy. Maybe he should have stuck to a handful of accounts and it might not have been so blatantly obvious what he was doing. Now he lost all those accounts. Was it worth it? Probably not. As I and others have said the merit system severely restricts how many accounts people can likely have but as we've already seen multiple times people are still trying to farm and trade merit between themselves and their alts. |
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There is no local UK section per se. The local boards are just for people to speak in their own language as bitcointalk is an English speaking forum. I don't think there would be really much use for a board just for individual countries to be honest.
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Here's the criteria:
Offer your services in the Services section and bump multiple times a day for visibility (use alt accounts if you wish). Also pester any ICOs that request such services there. If you find this too time consuming try offering a small payment to others who will spam ICOs about your service for you as soon as they pop up thus making it look like you come highly recommended.
Charge next to nothing to get your foot in the door.
Make unsubstantiated claims about your service such as being very trustworthy or being the best campaign manager.
Once you get a campaign accept an unlimited amounts of users including hacked accounts, farmers, and bots and do absolutely nothing else.
Don't check participants posts at any point during the campaign other than at the end to make sure they've done the minimum amount of shitposts required and then pay them (or don't if you're a scammer).
Profit.
Rinse and repeat.
This is exactly what not to do except the bolded first seven words. You can do that.
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How can you report someones profile? I meant just state that there are multiple posts that need looking into via the comment field on the report to mod button, not their trust. The thread is unnecessary really as that's what the report button is there for.
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I am curious, why he is doing that?
The merit system won't get him any rank with that posting "style"
This is so obvious shitposts, this situation just can't be resolved in any another way.
To try lazily rank up as fast as possible. It's entirely possible he's completely unaware of the merit system as people aren't automatically informed about it and it's a very new system. I'm sure it would have only been a matter of time before he would have complained in Meta about why he wasn't getting anywhere. Banned him. Thanks.
I just spotted it & couldn’t believe the posting history - Don’t like being a grass but come on You can use the report to moderator function if you want to remain anon in the future. |
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Well there are numerous reasons. Maybe you want one business and one personal account and not to mix the two. Maybe you might want to sell or talk/promote something that is considered controversial by some or maybe you want to discuss politics etc without it effecting the way people perceive or do business with you here.
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No, there are currently no plans and likely nothing will be done about multi accounts as there are genuine reasons for having multiple ones. However, I think certain restrictions could be put in place like possibly limiting IPs to one sign up only and after that they are blacklisted like tor connections and IPs that have been abused in the past are with 'evil' points, but maybe the merit system will have to suffice at severely limiting how many accounts people can have for campaigns.
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Not sure if I understand you correctly or not but you don't really need to report every single one of his posts that are breaking the rules, just report one and put a note in the field that there are multiple infractions if you don't want to waste time reporting them all individually.
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They gave me negative trust, and they thought I was impostor. I didn't do anything. When I created the user name, I didn't know about DannyHamilton. Because I am a newer, he is a legend.So they thought I was an impostor.
I was very angry about it. Who can restore my trust.I don't know what to do now.
The fact that you're claiming you didn't know the original DannyHamilton is quite unbelievable and makes you look very untrustworthy. I would have had more sympathy if you had just said you were inspired by his name or something and I didn't know whether you had innocent or nefarious intentions or not but now I'm more inclined to believe the latter. |
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