It's a week after you signed up.

No, the number/accuracy of the posts you have reported.

Why do we need a specific scammer tag when the trade with extreme caution is usually enough and works pretty good at the moment?


Staff are selected by how good their reporting is, doesn't mean to say we can be totally trusted. People should do their due diligence with any user here regardless of rank. A staff member might not rip you off for a bitcoin or two but might for 100. Some staff may be open to bribes for certain things as well.

It would be too much work for staff and mods generally don't get involved with scam accusations and is why it was removed. And what makes you think staff couldn't be manipulated the same way? It would be just too much fuss and people would be pestering mods to tag the hundreds of accounts that try scam here. 

Potential activity accounts do go for much less because you often need to make a lot of posts to collect the full activity. For instance you could have an account with 60 posts/activity but a potential activity of 240 so you would need to get your post count up to 240 to get all the banked activity which can be a bit of an effort.


This is probably the most accurate estimation:


If you want an account just check in Digital Goods or make a thread there wanting to buy one and see what offers you get.

They should peg the values to fiat if they're worried about fluctuations otherwise they're just going to be going backwards and forwards. Most won't raise the rates if the rice plummets to a new low either so it'd be good to know what you're actually getting

The periods are fixed and do not start when you sign up. The new activity period was today so if you signed up yesterday and made a post then posted again today you would have 28 potential activity.

Local mods can be consulted in that case and I sometimes send lists to them to check for clarification if I'm unsure, though if they're all short sentences it's not difficult to see something is up.

I would disagree about punishments not working if they're dished out consistently (though forcing/putting pressure on campaigns to not pay for these posts in the first place would help the most). Punishments do usually work and I think most will change their ways after a ban but you can't just issue one set of bans then nothing for months again (I think the last time BadBear started to crack down on spammers with mass bans was before I was even a mod and that was a while ago). When the last wave of mass bannings went out I did notice a decrease in spam, but over time it slowly increased back to normal and now it's the worse it has ever been. If people are made aware or fear that they're no longer going to be able to get away with shitposting then 9/10 they will either improve or stop it as it's just not worth it for them. We also didn't have campaigns like yobit and secondstrade back then and I don't think any campaigns were using bots to count/pay out either. I think cracking down with lots of bans for the worst types of users will hopefully send a message out but if nothing does improve then I will hold my hands up and admit it failed, but it's something we should at least try and we've got nothing to lose really. I still think pressure needs to be put on the problem campaigns and bans should be issued to them too. If they don't respond to them then some way to block their signatures entirely or manually remove them from users would put a stop to that. It's a shame that a couple of campaigns aren't doing their job because I've always said campaigns could actually improve the quality of posts here but only if signature managers do what they're supposed to and not allow poor posters on to their campaign in the first place and certainly don't pay them if they start crapping all over the place. If every campaign did this then spammers would have no where to go and unless they get up their post quality considerably their accounts would essentially be worthless.


To continue your cookie analogy, if you have some guards looking out for people stealing from the cookie jar and quickly dishing out appropriate punishments for those that get caught doing so most people wont be stupid enough to continue and will usually stop, though of course there will always be a few sneaky users who disregard the fear of punishment and try anything they can to get around the cookie-police and continue their thievery/behavior. Those who do repeatedly try steal though will get a greater punishment ie permaban so it's probably not worth losing your account over a few satoshis.


Spam is still spam in my eyes regardless of where it is. Just because off-topic might be seen as a toilet to you doesn't mean people should be allowed a free pass to piss all over the seat and floor and smear shit all over the cubicle walls. People also don't need to make sloppy, one word answers in there. I have made several posts - and used to post almost daily - in the what song are you listening to thread but I never just posted the artist/song name. I linked to a youtube video and wrote a sentence or two on why I liked it or what bands they sound similar to if someone else wanted to check it out. People just get lazy and it gets worse when they realise they can get away with it whilst getting paid and that's why they need a slap on the wrist.


Sometimes we do remove their posts (though it is time consuming to remove them one-by-one unless we nuke them) and I have removed a few of his but at the same time if I delete all his crappy ones and leave the good ones it could look like he's a good poster and nothing's wrong when we request a ban. He's banned anyway now so it's moot.

  Update what information? Everyone gets paid the same regardless of rank. The only thing you need to do is update your signature but I don't even think that is required.

At the end of the day it's up to the users if they want to compile lists here and we're not going to stop them. I'm usually not a fan of witch-hunts either and Staff probably aren't going to post lists publicly but the spam situation has got way out of control and is at breaking point really and sometimes it takes naming and shaming for people to actually pay attention. And there's nothing wrong with making the occasional post in games and rounds or in the what did you drink today thread but when your entire post history is in there or are all like this (myeyes.jpg) it's a problem. I think the biggest issue here is the campaigns and if they didn't pay for posts in games and rounds and off topic or even just actually checked users posts to make sure they all weren't like that then people wouldn't bother making them.

It normally does and is going on in the staff section but people are free to post their opinion here. You can make a thread titled 'bitcointalk trouble makers' and list everyone has posted in here if you want.


Staff are taking care of things but if users want to report what they think are spammers to help out then they can do (whether that makes them feel important or not). Your forum doesn't sound thta great though if you ban members just for posting something you don't like. That's not how this forum works and that's a good thing in my opinion.

Well I'm glad to hear that and hope many others take this attitude as opposed to just complaining or asking why they were banned. Nobody wants to issue bans but it's likely the only way some people will learn. Hopefully it will have a positive effect.

Ridiculous. Would this even be legal?



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No. You can only get 14 activity every fortnightly period irrespective of how many posts you make. New period starts later today (around midday gmt time I believe).

Users are constantly being banned for spam (with or without signatures) though we have been a little lax about it recently and it has built up to crazy levels due to a couple of badly run campaigns but some people are trying to get on top of it and these mass bannings are needed and long-overdue as people have got away with it for far too long. It's at breaking point really and if these spammers or spam campaigns don't get the message then I can't really see a future for them which would be a shame to let the few who are being lazy / shouting the loudest ruin it for everybody else. Hopefully people realise the value their accounts have and would rather change their ways and up their game rather than have their accounts permanently banned and ruin what is by far the easiest way to earn bitcoins.

It was probably just done in error. Mistakes happen occasionally as nobody is perfect though as you're a newbie I sometimes feel patrollers might rush in to handle a report too quickly and not bother checking it properly, though I can easily see how this might have been mistaken as spam as there's a lot of mmm shills spamming links to the ponzi. Feel free to post it again.

I wouldn't be opposed to it. A lot of the discussion in there isn't even really Bitcoin related (offering soccer tips or just general sport discussion etc).

Maybe on the new forum it would be a good idea that once you report a post you can no longer report it again or the link changes to 'you have already reported this post'. I think users being able to see a que of their reported posts and whether they were marked good or bad would be beneficial. At least people can see which stuff shouldn't be reported then.

The gift cards can still be purchased with stolen credit cards. That's usually what happens.