You can move it yourself at the bottom left of the thread or just use the 'report to moderator' button on the right and a staff member will get to it.

This service would be great in theory, but if it was run by people who knew what they were doing and doing a thorough job then probably 99% of ICOs would not pass it. Even the ICOs that probably have a good idea or start off with the best of intentions will likely have no idea what they're doing and mismanage funds and the project will just straight up fail or turn into a scam somewhere.


Not necessarily, and I don't even think this would work because they'll still likely not be SEC compliant. He's probably just uneasy about advertising these blatant cash-grab scams which just seem to be rinses and repeats of the same bullshit under a different name and gimmick. With that being said, I've always wondered how long it would be before this forum caught some sort of heat because sometimes it just seems like a darknet market on a clear-net site. I mean, we have an entire sub board for what are essentially ponzis and pyramid schemes but if I recall correctly theymos mentioned he had taken legal advice regarding it or them being allowed to operate here (though don't quote me on that and maybe theymos could clarify). It would also be interesting to know if any threats or serious attention from the authorities has actually been made as this forum is pretty much the main hub of ICOs. I think it's only a matter of time before ICO campaigns are straight up made illegal - because they likely already technically are - or at least cracked down on extensively. They are pretty much a prime example of what happens with completely unregulated financial markets and how greed and scammers always take advantage of that.   

They dates/times can all be found on this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12saLhlUoqIdairxzuSPu6EYGrt7FN2lOstO1yDjCEbA/edit#gid=1012758442

Pot meet kettles. Do you want to know what else is spam? Rehashing the same thing everyone else has already said several times in a half-assed sentence or two. Utterly redundant. 

Welcome to bitcointalk. This is pretty much standard posting now. What do you expect twelve year old kids from South East Asia who probably struggle to articulate themselves in their own language to write? They're hardly going to knock out a thesis on the politcal ramifications of bitcoin with each post. Most know nothing about bitcoin or much else for that matter but post here because they can earn a decent living off their 12 accounts rehashing the same thing over and over all on crapcoin campaigns. Still, I suppose at least you can give them credit for not copying and pasting, though I'm starting to think I'd rather read a decent copy and pasted post than the utter garbled nonsense these idiots are spewing out.

You destroyed it. It's not anyone else's fault but your own. Sob stories won't work with us either. It also has nothing to do with your nationality. Russian, Filipino, American, English are all treated the same. Copy content and you get banned for it. The rules are there for a reason.


Nope. Not by me. Sorry. The best I can tell you is just create a new account and don't do the same (even though I think it's very likely you already have other accounts). Sadly we don't have any admins who will look into ban evasion or anything else for that matter so you wont be caught unless you screw up.

Well, that was a discussion about who to include onto my own personal trust list, but as usual Quickseller hijacked the thread for his own personal vendettas. I will start a new one for discussion soon.

Do you even English? The new forum software that is in development. You know, the one with an entire sub forum in Meta dedicated to its development: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=167.0

This one isn't been updated for this exact reason. No point wasting time on it.

When the software will actually be ready or not is another matter but this is the latest info I could find:

Do good men cheat money from signature campaigns for work they didn't do? If he's a good man I'm sure he will find work elsewhere but this account is done here.


I've devoted 4+ years to this forum and spend hours a day fighting a losing battle against greedy cheaters who are here to scam money from campaigns by copy and pasting content and ruining the forum in the process. Where's the sympathy for me? I wish people would stop doing it in the first place because it's tedious work and very hard to spot not to mention immoral and inexcusable behaviour and hence why there are strict rules against it. Nobody likes banning users and I take no pleasure in it - in fact I hate doing it - but it's not acceptable under any circumstances. It's not acceptable to cheat in an exam or pass someone else's work off as your own and pretty much everyone knows that plagiarising content isn't acceptable so you don't need a warning for it.

Personally I think users should be forced to read the rules upon sign up with a few of the most important ones as bullet points and a brief explanation of activity. If any user then asks a stupid question that was in those bullet points or can easily be found by reading the rules then they should be permabanned. They are 100% only here to rank up their account as fast as possible so they can earn and if they're too lazy to read the rules then they should face harsh punishment because the workload cause by these idiots is staggering (their threads are 8 times out of 10 in the wrong section as well). This shit is getting worse day by day because people are signing up by the dozens just to hit x rank so they can join x bounty or signature campaign and something needs to change.

I'm pretty sure it wasn't once hence why the account was nuked. If it was just once I would have removed the thread and banned the account instead but from what I recall there were multiple copy and pastes and I'm not going to remove them all one by one. The rest of you and your friends accounts posts are trash so there will be no mercy here. Please move on because it is a well known rule around here that copy and pasting gets you a permanent ban and nobody has any sympathy for it.

Nothing. Once you copy and paste it's a permanent ban. Your "husband" and his "friend" were both doing it. I'm betting there's probably more of your "family" and "friends" doing the same. You should have read the rules.

Your "friend" was banned for copy and pasting just like you are:


https://blog.bitdegree.org/press-release-bitdegree-teams-up-with-zcoin-to-develop-cryptography-course-ecfe20f90a56

If it doesn't state a reason then it's very likely permanent. I cannot be sure exactly what you were banned for but possibly unsubstantial posts. From what I can see your posts contribute very little and are mostly just 'is there a sig campaign' and 'thanks for the airdrop' type posts etc which aren't allowed.

There are plenty of people that do this to varying degrees by leaving negative feedback on users they believe to be scammers or have scammed etc. It's a losing battle though and thankless task but some people persevere regardless. Anyone can do it though and the community largely polices itself so I'd urge anyone to leave positive or negative feedback if they feel it is deserved for good or bad behaviour.

Some people literally have hundreds of accounts and I suspect some people are actually farming thousands. This guy was caught with over 200 (but they were all banned for shitposting): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1912475.0


Some people are satisfied with one cake. Some want two. Some get greedy and want ten or hundreds of cakes. People want more accounts because the more they have the more they can potentially earn. Unfortunately, the more accounts you have the poorer your post quality usually becomes (see link I provided above of the farmer just rehashing the same crap account after account).

I know they're not random. They're bots posting certain stock sentences. They're either from a farmer just trying to easily rank up their accounts or from a paid service offering to keep a ICO thread bumped up and active.


There are ICOs offering to pay for people to post in their threads (which are trashed as it's against the rules to do this), but there are also at least two external services I know of that are offering to bump threads for a price. I banned one of them here (read the thread for further info):


There's also this one:


Edit: and another:

Exactly, but yet again Quickseller immediately takes a thread off topic and makes it all about him so locked until further notice. I will re-open a new one for discussion in due time.

But that's the entire point. Instead of buying the accounts from a shitposting farmer or a hacker which people will continue to do for the larger signature they then buy them from us and the money goes to the forum instead. Removing signatures from ranks would stop account farming by almost 100% and accounts would then be largely worthless if they had no signature available, therefore nobody will be buying them except for maybe scammers. I don't have any issue with people paying for the ranks and that's the whole point of it. At the moment it's free to create 200 accounts if you want and shitpost on or bot them until you hit x rank. Nobody is going to buy 200 accounts at $50-200 or whatever they will cost from the forum but if they can actually afford that and not get them banned then fair play to them.


People would maliciously abuse it with bots.


I think it was slowing the forum down in some capacity so theymos removed it. I wasn't a fan of it any way. Whilst it was sometimes useful for identifying trolls, people would also just use it for anyone who annoyed them or said something they didn't like. Fair enough people ignoring you but I don't think this should be a score in some capacity which is shown to all.  


Wouldn't be against trying it but theymos likely is. Hopefully he will implement the more donator ranks option I suggested though like the copper one he recently added. Maybe silver and gold ranks could be next with a Full Member and Hero-sized signature included for example.


Then use the report to mod function. Either or is fine.


Several 2fa options will be available on the new forum software coming soon™.

This is a trust issue and a matter of default trust, not related to moderation or staff. This also isn't a court of law so there is no innocence until proven guilty. If a stranger comes to my door or stops me in the street to ask for £10 to get a taxi home on the promise he will pay me it back I'm going to not give him it and assume he's a scammer. Maybe he just lost his wallet and would return the money at a later date, but he probably wouldn't so I'm more inclined to label him as a scammer. That's what vod has done here and I agree with him. You could be the most honest person in the world but we don't know that. If someone sends you money then there's no way to know whether anyone will ever see you again and that's why he's left the feedback. Seriously, just try to look at it from another's perspective. Would you give a random person on the internet your money? I doubt it.