At a minimum not supporting these flags, when there is a reasonable doubt. It all comes back to due diligence, and making an informed decision rather than simply reacting. I didn't even get to read through the initial evidence, I simply read the OP last night and made a point to go back to look into it further this morning; mostly because it stood out to me in "Currency Exchange".

Especially when it comes to flags, they are permanently on an account. theymos made this very clear from the start, with that there should be more care taken when creating and supporting/opposing them.

The weight certain evidence carries will vary from user to user. Sometimes screenshots are all there will be and I think it should play out something like this. "Evidence" is presented, both parties come and say their piece in the thread, conclusions can be drawn, or even a lack of definite judgement is achieved. Either way it's better than jumping to conclusions and negatively impacting the investigation/situation.

This could have gone much worse at that. I don't blame Tedfrost for their expletive laced response to the thread, being falsely accused. The problem there is how often does that generally make them look like the guilty party? It generally leads to an instant backlash and further skews the public opinion of guilt. I'm glad that a few yesterday did check things out and that JollyGood retracted so soon, but was fairly upset looking at the situation this morning.

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While I am writing this in regards to a specific case this is a universal request. It's not uncommon for DT members to pick up the cause for a scorned member of lower rank and help elevate their case for community attention/warnings. The problem lies in anyone jumping to conclusions and acting on that before attempting to fully understand the entirety of the situation. I think it's a pretty good idea if there is suspicion but aren't sure to open a topic for community involvement and information gathering. It's completely different to open up an accusatory thread on limited or wrong information and/or just fling accusations to see what sticks.

Now I am writing this based on the  information I have at the moment, which includes a retraction post, now unsupported flag, removed feedback.

User Tedfrost essentially faced the worst scenario for trade/escrow. Attempting an honest trade, facing attempted scam and then being accused and judged as the scammer.

The scammer recruited a scambusting DT member to pick up their cause and Ted loses it and the forum is essentially dead to them now. This isn't about the level of activity the account has. It's minimal and at first glance doesn't seem an account worth saving or having. Hell it resembles a million accounts that do come here to scam, limited posting and only looking to trade, a gift card being one of them of all things.

Not the point. They were an account that was here, making use of the forum in their way, and now doesn't even see the value in coming here for that. They weren't here spamming away  or solely here for earning, they came here to help move crypto along using it in their way.

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The damage is done, so I'm guessing this should just be a learning experience for the entire community. Let's not get lazy in researching things before labelling people's accounts. I'm not sure what JollyGood did in the end, but simply editing the post, and locking it from discussion seems to be the least one could do and almost feels like sweeping it under the rug. At a minimum I hope you sent the account a PM, expressing your sincerest regrets.

I would just take comfort and some pride in the fast that your topics and/or discussions have directed random internet traffic towards your content. People only sign-up or post if there is a need. Whether it be additional information or a desire to delve into the discussion themselves.
I have a few purely informative threads in mining that have been stickied. They were created with the sole purpose of providing that specific information, not necessarily with discussion or specific groups in mind. I am positive though that they've been used by a large number of guests to access information. There have been the odd new account that posts in one of the threads, but I don't know if any ever really continued on with the forum.

Okay sorry for the late update... actually had to do some work last night. Unbelievable  


A couple strong finishes and anyone can still make it to the final. See everyone this weekend, I think I'm free but it's a weekend at home so who knows. Very unreliable unlike work  

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Looking sick Globb0, I feel like there needs to be a shrine to Magners in there somewhere.

Looking good thanks for these. Looking forward to the final 10. I'm curious do these pick up chat if there is any. Just wondering for reasons. 

This is simple. Given all the big words you used it must have been too simple a solution; which can happen with the super intellectual from time to time.

"Report to Moderator" - If the post contributed nothing to the discussion, only demands people not discuss this and/or only posts an image that doesn't relate to the core topic and/or direct side topics of discussion.

Moderators will decide. No need for Big Brain Time

I would hardly call my day a sun run.... says the guy going from 3BB to top spot for the day. Congratulations.

I had my fair share of knockouts but I also doubled up at least 5 people in my quest for their chips. So many spots I was ahead pre that just couldn't hold, but that's to be expected in the old 60/40 spots.

Favorite hand of the day was the ever polite efialitis apologizing to me for 4-bet jamming their TT into my AA.   ;)Made sure to let him know there was no need to apologize. Bounced around a bunch and managed to get heads-up ~20K against s33ker and their 53K.

Took the lead once, but a couple of chopped pots I was ahead on kept me from getting the upperhand, and my truest of fashions I put it all (less 6K) on the line chasing the open ended straight flush draw I flopped against your flopped 2 pair Q6, all the outs in the world couldn't get me there.

See you next week. Great game everybody.
Thanks catch you next time. I'm also curious why you laid down the 99 - was it a 3-bet pot??


I have updated finishes for yesterday, and will organize the standings tonight, Im switching dayshift to nightshift so my patterns and schedule are screwy for today.

Damn hope your feline friend starts feeling better. Things are still pretty tight so anything can happen in the final leg of the series.

Thanks for hosting the stream. Gave me the opportunity to watch someones reaction as I crush them. 
It was a blast chatting with you. Looking forward to the next one as well. Don't forget the delay lol

Pick away lol. I enjoyed hearing you crush cans in the background. 

Just a young seal here splashing around... no trap ever I promise. Splashy Splashy Splashy

So i tried and,  I can watch you at work lol. All I here as I type this in the background is you crushing cans. Go get em.
Edit: Nice setup going looks god.

Good luck all.

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Thanks hope the move went well, and you can start enjoying your new pad.

Given your name look at it like a bounty tournament. There is a one time shot at an additional prize for a hand, the Bounty (Prize for winning wagering contest), you will play a wider range but not just any 2 cards, so making a -EV decision (playing dice).

It's not a spot you would normally put yourself in but if you can study and create a strategy it can still be profitable by minimizing the variance as best you can but at the same time increasing the potential prize in the end. Like I said not shoving any 2 cards but maybe adding in some off suite connectors that are normally a losing decision in the long run.

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Not much you can do put put in the work with that dice simulator and spreadsheet that's going on. Reading your original post it made me think of Pio solver for poker; that and the old show Deadliest Warrior. Run the simulations with as much known data, as possible. Then re-run the simulation itself numerous times to get a better idea of outlier results. It's gonna be some work but should give you a good understanding of sizing to use. Then if you get creative look at a mixed strategy, to figure out when it makes sense to adjust the multiplier based on your performance at say the half way point or any other point that the results might say is ideal to switch it up.

Given you will be limited in the number of bets I can't imagine that a static betting strategy would be the best strategy. That's why I think you'll want to come up with a "if this, than that" approach at a few intervals based on whether you are up or down to make adjustments based on that moment to try and right the path and limit your risk.

You are likely SOL. Especially not wanting to go through any P2P options.

Best bet is to take a cash advance from your AMEX - assuming you aren't planning on leaving this balance on there. This will open up more options for you. Other than that you can't do much as a lot of businesses don't like AMEX because they charge the highest fees for business owners; I remember paying 1-1.5% more than other credit cards I accepted. So unless you are going to get a different credit card that is accepted by exchanges you won't be buying at this time.

Everything else is P2P in some way shape or form

Yeah it's nice seeing 4 of a kind but it did make I couldn't really think of a way to get paid anymore on the river. Though that board was so connected It was nice knowing I had the nuts.
I would say you are playing fine, you folded out top top instead of calling down and losing your stack. Not much you can do before that to get away.

I have updated the spreadsheet for finishes. Still a tight race.

Congrats and welcome. Glad you made it in. I wasn't around early and had to register on the highway lol. Had a fishtank emergency and had to drive 2 hours to get my daughter a heater for her little Beta fish.

Glad I made it back though. As Iv4n might say score one for the bad guy today. I took it down today but no one made it easy.

I had to play the player in this hand. I can't remember all the details but I think you limped in and I was one of the blinds. I was hoping you had a strong hand as I've been caught by you limping those a few times. Decided to keep with the slow play a bit and got lucky you hit top pair on the board.

I had some great hands today that actually got paid. I hit Quad Q's against 1ron1c I believe, the board was so wet I couldn't risk them just checking back on the river so I bet out half pot and they thought about it and folded. I'm assuming it was something like AK, but there were flush draws and straight draws that also hit, and the paired board.

Then there was my Iv4n suckout, negating his straight on the river. I almost folded to your 1500 chip bet on the turn; if I only had the flush draw I was going to fold, but with the straight draw added in I couldn't pass it up. Like any true villain I willed my 3 outer 9 and took it down.

Solid final table today. I rolled into heads-up with a massive chip deficit, 20K VS. 40K ish, managed to get to even stacks then it was a battle with each of us gaining and losing fairly equally. Final hand wound up being my AQd against their A9s, I can't remember if they opened and I 3-bet or if they limped and I raised, either way I believe they jammed and I called.

I'll update the spreadsheet this evening. Great game again today everybody.

Well this past week, if I had something set up I likely would have made at least one buy. I did however get something done manually before everything tanked off for a bit there. My first buy was at 3X so I took out my investment, and on the drop used that to DCA a different coin, almost caught it's low.

Apart from that I'm going to be funneling some FIAT in for more BTC, and play it by ear for the next month or so.

Hmm looks neat. I might check it out if I keep up with trading into the future. Most of my coins are of the potential "bag holder" variety. I'll either win or lose but they may become something that builds up more of a trading market in the future.
Nope. Tried to learn coding in my spare time but couldn't find a resource that I was a good fit for me. Still interests me and might be something I dabble with again in the future.
I did look into the leverage and margin side of things and decided it just wasn't for me. This is going to be a rather passive and lazy adventure for me. There are certainly markets out there I could have given it a go in, but I'm not looking to examine charts daily or hourly. Just a guy looking to grab bags and attempt to make profits

Had a good laugh this past week. I do generally tell people if I'm buying something wait a few days it will get cheaper. Most are on the mend, and are back to nearly my entry point.  I'm also definitely not getting out of BTC, just expanding my portfolio a bit.

I would have to disagree. This should be one of the first boards a complete newbie winds up on. One of the best things they can see are the myriad of ways that people are trying to take your sats. Regardless that these methods can be very similar or even exact copies of older scams; the majority of the world isn't on the look out for these situations anyways.

Scam accusations is better suited when you can actually point to an individual/business/brand not necessarily a scam tactic.

The thing I would like to see more in B&H over an apparent attempt to improve post quality; is factual information. I try to drop into B&H as I genuinely like assisting people and it's one of the best places to find people in need. The last couple times though I've been seeing posts that are fairly well constructed but are so factually flawed you would think it was a joke. It's no help to anybody if the main improvement is quality of layout and appearance built on BS information.

First no need to ever create a reputation thread, when it's as simple as report to moderator " Plagiarism" from <Insert link>"

Seeing as you might be on a path of cleaning up the forum I'll mention this. If anywhere you come across a thread that is longer than 4 or 5 pages, there's a good chance it's well on it's way to becoming a spam mega thread. I used to read the first couple pages then it was rather easy to report anyone generally posting within the last week (Campaign payment period). This was generally <Sig Spam - Redundant repetitive content> or something along those lines. I would also request the thread be locked if there wasn't anything of value in the last few pages.

This was when I had very long uneventful nightshifts and could bang out 60-100 reports in an evening. Generally stopping because of the mind numbing dribble I had to read over and over. there is no shortage of reportable posts.

I'd have to be honored if anyone put any effort into something for the sole purpose of screwing with little ol me. I'm all about the little dick moves... more of a prick move than anything; and I'm never going to give them up. 

Congrats OP. Always a fun time rolling over the odometer. 

If I see you there this weekend I'll add you in for sure. I update everyones finish and standing sometime in the evening after he tournament completes. Welcome to the series.

I see get scared... beg friend to host throw a B-day party, I bet next week it will be Papous and Yayas anniversary 

Best watch out for the ... Shark... Attack   

Best of luck with the surgery and hopefully a speedy recovery.

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Thanks. I've updated the spreadsheet, a lot of grouping and people tied for positions. Going to be interesting to see how it changes up in the coming weeks. Congrats to everyone who cashed and snagged points today, catch you next week.