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There's definitely quite a few altcoin related scam accusations in the main Bitcoin scam accusation thread, and we definitely get accusations within the Altcoin Discussion section. I wouldn't be against creating a section for Altcoin related scam accusations. It might help with better organization of the whole section, honestly.
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also as a p.s.: now there are people going around using "reporting to campaign manager" as a retaliatory threat when they lose arguments on the forum, so as a preemptive caution please be careful yahoo62278, there might be some completely false reports coming in as well in the upcoming days...
This happens both in forum moderation, and signature campaign management. Although, I don't think its an issue as Yahoo seems to have a good head on their shoulders so I'm confident they can determine when this is happening. Nah, I'm not looking for a reward and I don't have the energy to search post histories and all that right now. It's so much easier just to report a shitpost to the mods and hope they deal with it. And yeah, I've no doubt that there will be more members getting banned from the campaign. Since there's no selection process, Yahoo62278 has to deal with these knuckleheads after the fact. I'd pull my hair out.
That's fair enough. If I handle the reports, and I think its worth messaging a campaign manager then I likely will do so. |
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I think it's a good idea, but I'm not convinced as to how effective/useful it would be.
A minority of campaigns are run by good managers who pay attention to their participants, and these managers are going to pick up on spam anyway. The majority of campaigns are run by managers who don't give two hoots about who they are recruiting or the amount of nonsense trash their participants are spamming across the forum. We could spend days reporting these users and their posts to their relevant campaign manager, and absolutely nothing would come of it.
True, although I guess this works both ways. If there's a public thread with all the contact information, and a way for users to report users on that thread then it will all be public. If the campaign managers aren't listening, and are completely ignoring legitimate reports then it could be a reason to investigate their management of the campaign. If you're a campaign manager you should be doing your job in reviewing participants somewhat regularly. Ideally, before every pay date. If they aren't listening to community reports, then they likely won't be reviewing users either. Which ultimately means they are collecting a pay check, and not doing their job. Unless, their agreement to get paid if simply just escrowing the payments, and sending them off every payment cycle. I'd be willing to create, and maintain a thread where users can report signature campaign participants publicly, and then compose a message, and include all those that have been reported to the signature campaign manager. |
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I share the opinion of DiamondCardz in that we shouldn't be implementing features natively into the forum for signature campaigns. Although, having said that this is a good idea in order to encourage users not only to report to the moderators, but also to the signature campaign managers as the forum rules, and signature campaigns rules differ. My suggestion for an alternative would be to create a dedicated thread with all the signature campaigns contact details or creating a userscript in order to report these users to the signature campaign managers.
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I was whitelisted by hilariousandco a few weeks back, hoping that would reduce the delay of 4 seconds between reports: it doesn't!
So once you have enough activity to wait only 4 seconds between posts, there's nothing else that can increase your reporting speed.
This might be worth looking at as 4 seconds when reporting certain types of spam can be annoying for the reporter, and deter them from reporting. I know there's tools out there such as Suchmoon's where you can add reports to queues, but having it natively within the forum so there's not such a wait. I think anyone over 5000+ good reports should be only limited to a 1 second cool down. Then, that will likely prevent too many errors/requests, and still not interrupt with reporting. |
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This is probably an attempt to steal accounts. I'm hoping users here have enough logic to avoid giving their sensitive data out. Forgetting everything else, should you really be judging someone when you yourself are wearing a signature campaign code? Isn't that a bit too hypocritical?
Wearing a signature doesn't mean you are here for just money. There's some noteworthy users on the forum who wear signatures, but their primary reason for being here is to discuss Bitcoin or related technology. Its unfair to assume that everyone who has a signature is here for the money as that simply isn't true. |
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You haven't been banned, but your thread was trashed because of the fake conversations getting out of hand. Especially, because a lot of those accounts were getting banned, and a lot of replies were deleted. However, your agency or whatever continued to post fake conversations within the thread. Therefore, the thread has been trashed. You haven't been banned yet which means you're free to open your thread up again. However, if the same sort of pattern ensures its much more likely that the issue will be dealt with more severely.
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I had no idea I should have been reporting shitposters to Yahoo62278--I've made a few reports to the moderators instead, and I've found quite a few members who probably shouldn't be getting paid to post.
I reported users who weren't quite breaking forum rules or only the odd one or two of their posts were to be deleted. However, if their general post history was of low quality I sent them to Yahoo to deal with it. There's still time to send those names to Yahoo. I'm sure there will be many more users removed from the campaign in the coming weeks. |
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i finally finished voting on everything! it feels like there were many duplicates specially with the pizza guy and HODL guy which leads me to say if there were an option to categorize the entries based on post or at least give a warning to those who submit the same post that there is a duplicate entry with the same link and list the captions so you could only submit if you had an alternative (better) caption for example.
Hopefully, everyone is looking at existing submissions, and then voting on the duplicates according to the caption. If they think the caption of the newly submitted option is better than the already submitted then you can vote for the new one. I'm assuming that the duplicates will be removed once the best caption has been selected. You are dam lucky. I have option of submitting 4 captions only If anyone wants to submit more then they can post in this thread with their ideas, and someone with more than enough submissions could possibly add it for you. |
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Yeah, keeping the forum clean is enough for me I don't need a reward. Obviously, appreciate the sentiment here, but either add it to someone else's name on this list that you think is deserving or add it onto a constructive user within the campaign to further encourage them to make effort with their posts. Another alternative would be to add it to the art contest winner, whatever you wish to do.
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Earned-merits or trust points are not determinant factors for post quality of posters. They are only one of componental factors and they serve as supplementary inclusive factors for poster's quality assessment. Generally, to assess post quality of one user, readers have to consider lots of things:
Earned merit would be at the very top of the list when assessing someone's post quality. Earned merits means more than total merit as a lot of users got free merit for having over a certain amount of activity. In fact, I would think that a lot of users here disregard total amount of merit, and look at how much the user has earned in the last 120 days. Of course, is is combined with taking a look at their post history personally, but is normally the #1 indicator that someone is posting good quality content. |
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There's no problem with getting stock images because it depends on the way how will you use it creatively. Your senses will be used to make a better image/art using those stock images or vectors on google. Well, There's a part of me that I also dislike stock images where they use it just to cover up the whole image/art then adding text of 'bitcointalk.org', less effort you know.
Using stock images can have an amazing composition, and should be recognition as a talent on its own. I remember seeing a recreation of a old painting with just stock images. It was incredible, and took the person over 80 hours, and 1000s of stock images. ...so are you guys gonna give me any suggestion(s) or should I just give up?  Increase your resolution of the pictures, and they won't be so small, and blurred. The only issue with that is your final piece with everything stitched together is going to be huge. |
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I've been keeping an eye on the thread for a while, and despite having their posts deleted, and their accounts banned they continued to post so they've ended up in the trashcan.
I'm seeing this more, and more outside of the altcoin section, and mainly within the gambling sections.
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I'm assuming this is theymos' attempt at art. In all seriousness, I'm guessing this current layout issues is due to editing some code, and temporarily breaking something?
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Judging by the entries submitted so far, many of which seem to consist of the text "bitcointalk.org" or a Bitcoin logo slapped on an assembly of entirely unattributed Google image search results, I think there needs to be some clarification on this rule.  Theymos has merited some users who have used stock images so I'd assume its fine. They probably won't be winning submissions, but effort can still be made with pre existing stock images. I highly doubt slapping a Bitcointalk logo on something will get you win considering some of the talented submissions we've had. |
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Because of the sudden disappearance (his last posts don't look like someone who's about to leave, I always assumed something bad must have happened. The best scenario I can think of would be jail, the worst scenario would be either an accident, or killed.
If Satoshi is a group of people, the sudden disappearance because of an accident or jail is much less likely. In that case "in hiding" would be a possible scenario, but I don't think Bitcoin was such a big deal back then so that doesn't make sense either.
Satoshi; whether a group of people or a singular person likely has a life outside of Bitcoin, and being in hiding doesn't necessarily mean its related to Bitcoin. Considering how careful Satoshi was to remain anonymous, it's quite likely that there wasn't really a "disappearance" of some particular entity. Someone, who could be otherwise well known (but definitely not CSW) and perhaps remains very much engaged in Bitcoin, decided to stop using that pseudonym, which was created for the purpose of kick-starting the project and was no longer needed when the project picked up speed.
And, we've had several people over the last decade get accused of being Satoshi including a few developers. If my memory serves me correctly I believe at one point Gavin was accused of being Satoshi, although lets be honest Gavin got accused of a lot of things after going to the FBI to talk them through Bitcoin. |
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I'm by no means a artist, but I'm thinking I might throw something together as a sort of tribute. I'll probably put a poem together for the anniversary also. Hi, theymos. Will the creation of video art to celebrate the 10th anniversary of this forum be counted?
Or is it only limited to making images, 3D and GIF?
Its art so I would assume so. Maybe, don't create a feature length star wars movie, and you'll be alright! |
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Glad that something is being done for the 10th anniversary knew it wouldn't be just a post about it on the day! BTC to the Future v1.0 was my first official BitcoinTalk.org project release.
Definitely my winning submission at the moment, although not sure if projects that were made before are allowed? Hope we get some stiff competition!
Yeah, I'm terrible at any sort of drawing digitally or in reality. We should be able to submit writings as well. I want to write a sexually explicit fanfic including several bitcointalk members. Or perhaps a half-naked video of an interpretative dance inspired by bitcointalk.
Oh Hilarious, I'm sure if that half naked dance is starring you the community would be more than willing to crowd fund for such a piece of art. |
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I thank you guys for replying me back, this deepened my eagerness to know why they made us wait this long and are failed to deliver the forum without any issues while it's already towards its run to the end of 2019? If these services are taking too long to be tested, how long will it take to get the taste of the final version of the million dollar forum? Why not hire a group of technically sound people from this forum and take them there, ask them to try it while giving them some bounty to describe the bad bugs of the new forum? I mean too many of those will not like to do it for free.
I live my life by this; Everything will take longer than you predict. If that's nipping down to the shop to get a pint of milk or if its developing a million dollar forum. It will always take longer than predicted. I'm not sure if you've developed software before, but its especially true when it comes to coding, and working out bugs. Its not as simple as identifying all the bugs, and fixing them over a weekend. You need to first thoroughly test the software in order to identify any bugs which can take a long time depending on the amount of users contributing. If you look at the beta forum there hasn't been too much community contribution in terms of using the software, and identifying bugs. However, in the background the developers are likely constantly at work. There's also the issue of running into a bug which causes a problem which can only be solved by rewriting a piece of code, and as soon as you change a piece of code that could potentially break something else unexpectedly. This is the life of a software developer, and giving an estimation on a piece of software is almost impossible to do. We will likely be warned when the transition is going to take place. Copying live data into the new software will likely mean when the initial launch has been made any posts on the live software will not be copied to the new software, unless they're mirroring the site before switching the site to the new software which could be a possibility. I imagine some downtime will be expected upon the launch to iron out any issues. |
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