Paid memberships that are the only way you can have a signature are one of the things I've suggested to combat spam/poor posts and I'm hoping theymos implements further ranks such as Silver & Gold and at some point. I don't think we should limit users to only posting in alt coin boards but if all users who sign up here can't have a signature (or only a very small one) unless they purchase it like they do with Copper Membership I think it will have a significant effect on low quality posts. People farming dozens to hundreds of accounts to exploit signature campaigns will be a thing of the past and everyone will be limited to only the amount of accounts they can afford or deem profitable to use. Theymos doesn't seem too keen on removing signatures altogether but I can't see any good reason why we can't allow them alongside being able to rank up naturally or make an additional "premium" rank with added benefits that can only be acquired by donating. The latter would be a good experiment on its own to see how many people go for it.

It's not about traffic or staff not having time (though I think having some full time staff/admins would be beneficial) and I would happily trash the majority of these threads as long as there is some guidelines regarding them from theymos. At the moment there isn't and staff don't moderate scams and potential ones hence why they're left for the community to police as annoying as it may be.

Yes. It's open to anyone as long as you pay the fee. I'll put you down. Look out for a PM from my main account on Tuesday hopefully. I would have started it monday but there's the last game of the current round on.

Is it your account? The email seems to have been changed not the password. Maybe it was locked via email as a lock option is sent to the original as a security precaution.

You can follow the following to try get it unlocked: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=497545.0

Post it in here if you can provide it and it has more chance of being unlocked.

I know it's annoying and frustrating but all you can do at the moment is keep reporting them and staff will keep on nuking them. I hope the bot will be back soon and an update has been requested as it's badly needed, especially as these bots are now going to be spamming the forum instead of just PMs, but I don't know what the error is exactly and if it was simple then it probably would have been fixed by now.

They were just something that naturally evolved here and I don't think signature campaigns were "supposed" to be anything other than people getting paid for a service. But as with any job or industry without rules and regulations being enforced capitalism always gets out of hand and greed and laziness take over as people cut corners and trample over others in any way they can just as long as they can get a piece of the pie and the abuse is happening on both sides. Signature campaigns could have helped improve the quality of posts here but that's only if campaign managers do their job properly and only accept and pay for quality contributions but if there's no requirement for them to do that and punishments for those that don't then why would they bother? All they're doing is wasting time and money (which they would rather just sit back and watch come in). This needs to change. If people started getting penalised for not doing their job properly the culture around here would soon change.

Well yeah, but times have changed and signature campaigns (and their users) have grown exponentially since then (or more specifically crapcoin campaigns which have/are doing most of the damage). Signature campaigns have always been a problem for as long as I've been a member here but allowing them to go unregulated and unpunished has just caused chaos and now the board is more just some sort of 'earn money online' forum as opposed to a place where you can actually have some quality discussions about bitcoin (which is now essentially just second fiddle). The issue of sig spam was relatively minor back when I first signed up and I think people could only dream of the relative calm there was. It was practically a utopia compared to what it is now but I guess it was inevitable and this is why we can't have nice things.


. Banned. I wonder if this user is a bot. Hard to believe someone would be this stupid to copy and paste in this of all threads.

I don't know how he runs his campaigns but he at least benefitted from the bitmixer bot previously which was fairly simple but tallied up posts at least and I think it only counted posts from certain boards automatically. In the past I have just manually verified and counted and discounted non-qualifying posts on the smaller campaigns I have run but don't think I would run them now if they didn't have some sort of automatic process for tallying up qualified posts as it's just far too much work to count up. Obviously manually checking users for post quality also needs to be done too but a bot can do the actual counting.

I'm sure it can be moved and hopefully will, but maybe there just wasn't a more appropriate place for it at the time or he didn't think too much into its placement. If it doesn't belong as a sub board of Bitcoin Discussion maybe a separate subsection entirely can be created for it. I think it should be placed as a sub of the main board personally but theymos may envision it to include broader topics on economics and politics etc (though we could certainly add those sub boards to there over time).


Well, probably at least 95% of people users are only here to either farm accounts or get paid to post so those will obviously leave it alone, but either way it still serves its purpose. I would much rather there not be much activity in these boards than loads of half-assed topics just for the sake of it. I'm sure it will grow over time but maybe if it's better placed it will get more traffic and many users still wont even be aware of it or might just be confused about what it's actually about.

Well that's not really my problem. I can't or wont unban him without knowing what he was actually banned for in the first place. It could be copy and pasting or some other serious infraction. Again, it's only a newbie account so I would just stop wasting your time and forget about it and move on as there are plenty more crapcoin ICO campaigns you can join.

One of the campaigns I used to run had a bot that did this. It was very time consuming to go through posts one by one but was effective as people only got paid for posts that I accepted if they met quality standards. I think many other campaigns already have bots or programs that already count/tally up qualifying posts but it's hard to check actual post quality without some form of manual verification. Both should be used in some capacity ideally.

Why is it imperative that that specific account is unbanned? It's barely a week old so nothing much had been lost either way. Just create a new account or continue on with this one as nuked accounts are almost never restored especially if all or most of their posts were spam.

The local language boards are for native speakers. They're not really supposed to be for people to ask random questions in English, but I'd bet there's more chance you were just spamming rather than this being a genuine request. Besides, many of those countries probably don't even have local exchanges but if you move to a foreign country then either just use your regular exchange and withdraw via your bank account/debit card, find someone locally to trade in cash on localbitcoins or buy a bitcoin debit card which will allow you to withdraw at any ATM worldwide.


It would be helpful and maybe you should request it for the new forum, but with cases like this you can just report one post and indicate there are multiple infractions that need looking into (you could link to them as well if you wish which is helpful but not necessary).

Ah, I see you trashed it.


Well how many accounts have you had banned? In the message above it states high2017 but the account you link to is Babebottle.


As above, they likely wont be unbanned. Accounts are often banned without warning if you break the rules by such things as copy and pasting etc but it's your job to be aware of the rules not Staff to constantly remind you of them.

Because he's here for the same reason 99% of people now sign up for. He's heard you can make money here by posting so that's why he is so interested in 'ranking up'. Also like the majority of people signing up they often have little to no interest or knowledge of bitcoin other than they heard you can make money here, hence why he's creating such stupid/pointless threads as these:

We had a bot to crawl and nuke these users but it hasn't been working since we changed to cloudflare. Just report them manually for now and they'll be quickly dealt with.


Report them and they will.

Nice. Seems to have been pretty effective already as the report messages have pretty much stopped.


He's already addresses this:


As annoying as it is Staff will have to allow them. The most annoying thing was the actual reported messages which have seemingly stopped now. I don't think I ever got any of the spam direct (which would have been pretty stupid of them to do).

Didn't someone just ask about that account as their "brother"? Sure I saw it but can't find it now and search brings up nothing.


It's nuked so it wont be unbanned. It must have been making very low quality posts or rule breaking consistently to be nuked.

Well I only got ten points so far. I expected many wouldn't do very well after I saw the scores. I narrowly missed out on a correct score in the Spurs game as I predicted 3-0. Hopefully I can reclaim some points on the last two games but I think they will both be difficult and could go any of the three ways but can see draws/very close games.

I think that will confuse most and they'd avoid it, which is a good thing  . How about La Tour d'Ivoire?  


I think he's more than aware of the issue with spam here and you'd have to be blind or have your head in the sand not to see that. I think he takes it seriously otherwise he wouldn't have created it, but that doesn't mean we can't have a little fun in naming it, which may or may not be an attempt to also acknowledge the ridiculousness of the situation, but I don't think there's anything wrong with a little humour especially on this forum.


I vote for just Srs Bsns.