Previously, the 10 PMs per hour limit was all that prevented newbies from sending hundreds of spam PMs. But I recently changed the "time between posts/PMs" restriction so that new users have to wait 6 minutes between each post or PM. So the low PMs per hour limit is no longer necessary.

I increased it to 120.

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Atlas 68
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smoothie 62
Maria 47
Rarity 46
MPOE-PR 37
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ElectricMucus 32

The forum isn't in the business of arbitrating disputes or determining how reputable people are. Someone else should do that. I would prefer that there not even be a scammer tag: it takes up too much time and it's always controversial. But I'm not going to ban anyone for scamming, and leaving proven scammers alone would cause too many naïve people to get scammed.

Use your brain and third-party reputation services to determine who to trust. Do not rely on the forum itself. The forum staff doesn't spend much time on scam accusations, so the forum does a very poor job of keeping up with scammers. A for-profit company should deal with this stuff. Or at least a non-profit organization of people who are actually interested in spending a lot of time to fight scams (unlike me).

Scammer-tagged. He is obviously guilty of breaking his contracts here and in the MPOE-PR case, and he apparently hasn't been talking to his victims or arranging repayments. The tag can maybe be removed if he negotiates a reasonable repayment plan and makes payments for a while.

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No.

I don't want to make most of that info about reports public. It'd be nice if people got a notification about the outcome of their own reports, but that'd be very difficult to add to SMF.

You're a new member, so I'll require a deposit before accepting your bids. I sent you a PM.


No... This is an auction.

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If the discussion has some relation to the topic specified by the topic post, then it's usually OK. Here's an excerpt from the moderator guidelines:


The policy about off-topic posts is non-optimal, but I think it's the best we can do with flat (non-threaded) discussions.


Reporting all of them is often helpful. If you're going to report just one post, report the first one which should be deleted.

If a report isn't acted on within a few days, you can PM me about it and I'll deal with it or tell you why the post shouldn't be deleted.

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If you did business with him via forum PMs: Can I look at the PMs between you and him?

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BCB decided that he didn't want to do it anymore.

I might collect donations to have moderators go through them, but I haven't decided yet.

Notice that I changed the rules:

In order to collect more money for the creation of good forum software, the forum is selling ad space in the area beneath the first post of every topic page.

Ads are allowed to contain any non-annoying HTML/CSS style. No images, JavaScript, or animation (no marquee or blinking). Ads must appear 3 or fewer lines tall in my browser. Ads will be prefixed with "Advertisement:". Ad text may not contain lies, misrepresentation, or inappropriate language. Ads may not link directly to any NSFW page. Ads may be rejected for other reasons.

There are 10 total ad slots which are randomly rotated. So one ad slot has a one in ten chance of appearing. Eight of the slots are for sale here. Ads appear only on topic pages with more than one post, and only for people using the default theme.

The ad lasts 7 days starting from when I put it up.

Stats

Exact historical impression counts per slot:
https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adstats

Info about the current ad slots:
https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adinfo

Auction rules

Post your bids in this thread. Prices must be stated in BTC per slot. You must state the max number of slots you want. When the auction ends, the highest bidders will have their slots filled until all eight slots are filled.

So if someone bids for 8 slots @ 5 BTC and this is the highest bid, then he'll get all 8 slots. If the two highest bids are 8 slots @ 4 BTC and 1 slot @ 5 BTC, then the first person will get 7 slots and the second person will get 1 slot.

- When you post a bid, the bids in your previous posts are considered to be automatically canceled. You can put multiple bids in one post, however.
- All bid prices must be evenly divisible by 0.25.
- The bidding starts at 0.5.
- I will end the auction at an arbitrary time no more than 12 days from now. (I will probably end the auction 1-3 days before the ads are scheduled to go up.)
- If two people bid at the same price, the person who bid first will have his slots filled first.
- Bids are considered invalid and will be ignored if they do not specify both a price and a max quantity, or if they could not possibly win any slots

If these rules are confusing, look at some of the past forum ad auctions to see how it's done. I also post periodic status updates which should help make things clear.

You must pay for your slots within 24 hours of receiving the payment address. Otherwise your slots may be sold to someone else.

This bid is unfortunately too late. The auction ended 30 minutes after it was originally scheduled to end, but you bid 35 minutes after.