You still don't get it, do you? Both @Foxpup and I have told you several times that plagiarism is, indeed, a serious offense. The fact you were permabanned for it should convince you of that, but no, you keep claiming this was a minor mistake and you just "forgot" to provide a source for the content you copied from someone else. If you posted something that was repeated a thousand times per hour on this site - e.g., "good project" or the like - then a temp-ban for 1-7 days would be appropriate, but not for copying an entire paragraph from an article published online...

Sorry, but you really did make a serious mistake, whether your moral standards (or lack thereof) feel otherwise.

I'm curious as to how so many people lost access to their account as well. This forum is unlike most others (really all others I've ever used) in that there is the potential for earning money simply by posting here, and the amount of money you can earn goes up with your seniority/rank. Hence there are powerful incentives to hack higher ranked accounts, and so one should treat this forum like an online bank or crypto exchange w/r/t passwords and security in general.

I imagine the most likely culprit are those shady mirror (phishing?) sites like bitcointalk . to and bitcointallk . org (modified so as to not trigger the phishing detector). I've clicked on links to both sites while searching for plagiarism and though I didn't go so far as to actually log in, I can easily imagine someone doing just that.

EDIT - fixed names of phishing sites; obviously, don't go to them and for the love of dog don't log in, either!

I just about choked on my coffee reading this, so, for nearly killing me you get a merit! )))



I hate it when all my tibia are boosting airborne... 

I haven't seen that style of spam-bot too often lately, but it was very popular a couple years ago. The wall of nonsensical text with a link to a shady product - usually a snake oil supplement or the like -  has to be the most useless marketing scheme ever devised... well, right next to paying illiterate people from "economically oppressed" countries to dash off one-line shitposts on this forum.

Ah, I thought you were playing this one straight... Well-played, sir... well-played! 

1) DERO abruptly decided to embrace ASICs after months of claiming it would do the opposite, alienating many long time supporters.

2) Some of most public-facing members of the DERO team - community manager --Serena-- and "unspecified role" team member Mojo - have attacked or banned anyone on the DERO Discord and Slack channels who questioned the above decision, much less argued against it. Granted, some of those people were getting tiresome and others were less-than-respectful, but I daresay that part of the job description for community manager is dealing with the angry and upset, and one should be especially sympathetic when there is a very valid reason for that anger (see reason 1).

3) The source code was supposed to be part of the Atlantis release, but it was delayed by "a few days" so that people with a masters or doctorate in cryptography could evaluate it for bugs/exploits; then it was delayed for a month or more so the DERO Foundation can be set up in Malta or Croatia or whatever.

4) Many Q2/18 goals - like the GUI wallet - were shifted to Q3/18, though to be fair, they did dramatically accelerate the development of Atlantis; then again, the reason for that was to fork off ASICs (see reason 1 again).

I've said it before and I'll say it again: good technology - even the best technology - won't save you if you alienate your supporters and flake out on most of your goals, promises and commitments.

Did you actually look at the post that received all those merits (including one 50 point transaction)? It's basically an ANN thread.

I'm not really into the whole, "let's nail people for merit abuse," thing, but this comes awfully close to changing my mind.

A couple of huge differences are likely with the ITNS VPN vs. existing commercial services:

1. You have to trust the commercial services when they say they don't keep logs or that their security can keep out bad actors (ie - hackers, agents of oppressive governments, etc).

2. You generally have to pay for at least a month of service, even if you only need a VPN to protect yourself while using public wi-fi at a hotel, airport, etc., for a few hours or days.

I just made a post to that thread and quoted @NotFuzzyWarm's entire post; no problems.

Unfortunately, it's a bit of a shitpost... please don't report to moderator!  

EDIT - Just saw theymos' last post which was made at the same time I wrote mine to the thread in question. If confirmed solved I'll delete my test post.

EDIT 2 - I deleted my post to that thread.

I used ethminer 0.12.0 when I first started mining but it looked like it was abandoned so I switched to Claymore. Checking the ethminer github it seems new life has been breathed back into it. Which version are you using, 0.14.0 or one of the 0.15 release candidates?

You broke a serious rule - plagiarism - and received a serious punishment - banning. That's hardly unique to America.

Just in case anyone has forgotten why ihnattm was "bunned", it's for straight up copying a paragraph of text from a CoinDesk article without providing any reference to said source, and he was nailed by LoyceV as reported here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1926895.msg38383563#msg38383563

Plagiarism is not a minor mistake, ihnattm1; it is very serious one. The kind that gets you kicked out of university with no refunds, no credit for that class, etc. Playing the injured party here and feigning remorse just makes you even less deserving of a 2nd chance (even though no one banned for plagiarism gets a 2nd chance, anyway). And when someone accidentally unbanned everyone here for a couple of hours you wasted no time posting two more shitposts where you essentially ran content from other sites through google translate (well, at least you provided source links this time), so I daresay the forum won't really miss you.

Oh, and stop trying to claim the rest of us are just as guilty as you; that shit really annoys me. I've had two posts out of >1340 deleted for being off-topic, and both of those were for calling out a spammer for spamming (best to just report the post and not reply to it, in other words). No other rule violations, and I'm not even trying that hard (because it doesn't really require much effort to abide the rules here...).

I don't know the first thing about these miners, but these lines stuck out to me. Maybe check the startup logs from your working units to see if they report something similar.

Jeez, dude, you have been spamming the forum with this whiny post now for weeks... I've had nothing but good experiences depositing, trading and withdrawing on TradeOgre, and they are definitely a step up from Stocks.Exchange (though, to be fair, that ain't saying much). Based on your broken English and bad attitude I'm going to suggest you might want to look in the mirror for the source of your problems.

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EDIT - just saw this other post:


Lol, feeling froggy, eh? Nah, I got no problem with what you call yourself, but you have to admit that the first impression one is likely to get from this is that you can't spell and couldn't be bothered to proofread your writing, both of which are prerequisites for language translation/writing services.

Doge bot! I love it!  

There is something almost soothing about doge bot posts, though. I might even miss them when the script gets updated/replaced.

I present to you a few examples of what I am now calling the Haiku bot:




This type of post always gives me a chuckle, hence why I submitted some of them to this thread. Still need to be nuked, though.

You have to be dead from the neck up to post plagiarized content in meta. I also reported him earlier after finding >8000 search results with the same statistically improbable phrase shown above.

It's quite incredible you are still whining about being banned for plagiarism. I don't know how they do things in your country, but here in the US we learn at a very early age (12? 13?) that copying what someone else wrote without providing a reference to the original work - that is, plagiarism - is seriously wrong. It is so wrong, in fact, that if you get caught doing it at the university level you will be expelled from the school.

So, getting banned from an online forum seems like a relatively minor consequence for the same behavior.

It's really not that hard to follow the rules here, as it's always easier to not post at all rather than shitpost or, worse, plagiarize. If you have to make a certain number of posts to meet a bounty or sig campaign quota but you aren't a good writer and/or don't have any original thoughts then might I suggest that you are in the wrong line of work?

This thread is well on its way to megathread status, because there is an endless supply of material!

I'm going to make the hunt a bit more interesting by looking for shitposts from members that were grandfathered in at Hero/Legendary rank before the Meta Apocalypse. After all, it was these original shitposters telling all their "economically oppressed" buddies about how easy it is to make money on here that we have the deluge of shitposters today.

EDIT - my first submission from Legendary member @operabit (who has the default amount of 1000 merit, of course):


The grammar in that sentence has more gyrations than the strippers down at Mons Venus...  

That's definitely the impression I get from the ANN thread and a few visits to their Discord. Kind of refreshing, actually.

Are you incentivizing people to spam other threads here? See, for example, this post:

This miningchamp newbie resurrected a thread last posted to 5 months ago, but I will nonetheless note that the ETHlargement pill has definitely breathed new life into the 1080. Mine went from about 540 H/s to 630 H/s on CryptoNight (still not a great use for the card, however) and from 21.4 MH/s to 30.3 MH/s on Ethash. The latter improvement is good enough it makes more sense to put the 1080 on Ethash rather than Equihash, especially now that ASICs have shown up for the latter algo.