The board has the wrong image. I used to think the above is true because Off-topic has a lot of useless topics. I now report them as "insubstantial topic" when I stumble upon them, and usually they get locked. Based on the board's description, the board should be interesting to me. But it's not. I just checked 5 topics, and reported them all. The main problem is that experienced users gave up on the board, and Newbies use to to increase their post count.

With pleasure! He's whitelisted now.

Thanks for all you've done.

This fits in Stake.com (SteveStake) is encouraging spam.
That topic was created 4 years ago, and it still continues.

I don't expect this autosave to be implemented any time soon, so: click Preview more often Most of the time, after clicking Preview, even a browser restart doesn't remove the content. In case I keep the draft for a long time (sometimes months), I save the text locally. Once in a while I mess up one of my tabs and lose a draft, but if it's anything substantial, I make sure I used Preview so I can use the draft feature.

The Off-topic board is literally described that way:
I'd say it belongs there, and not in Bitcoin Discussion which is described as:

Trusting 2 third parties is always worse for privacy than trusting just one.

If it helps: LoyceV's seclog log.

There's loyce.club/Merit/history/175302.html.

Thanks again for your flawless timing!

After reading this, Betamax vs VHS came to mind. "Being the best" doesn't guarantee winning the market.

It took me this long to find this hidden topic

That makes sense. Nobody would expect images posted on a forum to update without reloading the page.

Bitcoin went up 8% today, I guess that's the reason for more transactions. The Bitcoin Difficulty Estimator indeed confirms less blocks than expected are being mined.

Sorry, I won't whitelist this user. The previous user you vouched for turned out to be a generic shitposter. Those posts don't add anything to Bitcointalk.

That's bad.

That's good Your first description was confusing.

I've seen BPIP overlook deleted posts from modlog, so this counter could be too low.

BPIP only counts posts deleted by Mods, I scrape all posts including the ones you delete by yourself later on. Judging by my own data, I have deleted about 2000 of my own posts (mostly bumps).

Correct.

Not bad! I can think of some uses for this (although it's been a while since I created any topic that can use it).
Question: how does it work with updates: are they real-time? And if so: does the forum proxy not cache the old version?

I don't think I've ever tagged someone for buying an account. I've seen a well-trusted account tagged years after buying it (which seemed more like a political attack than having anything to do with not being trusted), and I've seen a bought account that's now been on DT1/2 for a long time.
So as usual: "it depends"!

I tried to create some discussion about account sales 3 years ago: [click-bait] Should I start escrowing accounts?

My opinion: it's a waste of time.

No. If it's been long enough and the account made a reputation for themselves after the sale, I don't think a tag is going to do any good.

The problem with a neutral tag is that someone else will add a negative tag. So whenever an account sale gets attention, it ends up being ruined.

I really like eddie31's take on this:
(click to read the full post)

Agreed too

By buying an account, they risk losing money when the account gets tagged, or in case the seller scams them directly. Either way, they risk having even less money to feed their families.

Buying an account is like lying on your resume.

Theymos has really mastered gaming the Merit system

No worries, I needed to update it eventually anyway.

How about adding theymos instead of fillippone? That should be a doable target in the long term. He's ahead, but he's not gaining:

First: I wouldn't call it "income". Merit varies over the months:

In your case, a large share (>40%) of your Merit came from one user who reviewed your posts several times. I assume that was meant to help you rank up since you're not a shitposter, but if it stops, you lose quite a large share of your Merit "income".

I quickly checked your post history: You're posting a lot in Bitcoin Discussion. In general, the post quality is quite low there, and I'm not reading the board very often. If I don't read it, I can't Merit it.