Well done for getting so close. QA gave me a nice boost at the start as well. I wasn't actually bothered about ranking up before, but now I just want to do it to prove to people it is possible. I should be there in a week or two as well.

I'd support bringing back Newbie Jail and hiring a load more moderators as well. But that doesn't address the same problem that I was trying to. It's the thousands of higher ranked accounts making pointless repetitive posts that are above the threshold to get deleted by the mods but are only made for signature payment.

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You might be right about it being too early and there not being enough Merit flowing through the system yet. Remember this isn't about censoring or punishing anyone. I just want to turn having a signature into something that has to be continually earned rather than a default right. That's effectively what Merit has done for new accounts but what about the many thousands of shitposters that are already here?

That's probably why the ones with large botnets are the biggest problem. Try working out how much that guy with 50,000 accounts was making an hour. Not just the base reward but all the other prizes. That's a statistical chance of winning the $200 top prize 2.5 times per hour.

There is a lock thread link in the bottom left corner to use when you have received an adequate response.

I think I'm going to need to add a FAQ section to the OP.

It will also take a little time to understand that being given the privilege of being allocated some advertising space underneath your posts is an extremely generous action by the site owners. Did you think about how much Twitter and Facebook earn from placing adverts next to what you write?

Asking people to do something as trivial as posting something that gets given a merit every couple of months to earn that privilege is not harassing or imposing restrictions on anyone. WTF is this talk of freedom? You are free to use the forum without a signature.

My bad sorry. I've never seen him explain his objection and I didn't understand it to begin with. Since then I've seen some of his posts that make me think he has a certain outlook on life that he wants to give people a chance to better themselves and make a few bucks here regardless of whether they can afford to pay upfront or not. That's just an impression I get, I might be completely wrong.

I think a remember seeing hilariousandco post the same thing again very recently so I don't he has dropped it. Maybe he's just a bit less vocal about it since Merit has been brought in. I also thought it was a good idea but I suppose theymos has chosen another way and I'm happy to get behind that and give it a chance.

You've ruined the fun. I so love watching people argue with a joke.

I think Google may be behind that misconception. Captcha solvers are freely available on the internet for a small fee and I guess the people that create them may well use them themselves.

This is what Wesuit posted when he switched from reCaptcha a while ago.

Someone offers a different approach to reading the market so you set about telling them they are clutching at straws and then insulting them.

I had given up any hope of having a sensible conversation with you and was done with this thread. Then you post this.


If you are going to misrepresent what I said then I'm going to it point out.

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Bearing in mind your earlier statement you might want reading this: https://cointelegraph.com/news/breaking-trustee-of-infamous-mt-gox-denies-btc-bch-sales-affected-crypto-markets

It's the same as a DDoS attack. It's a piece of malware that allows him to control thousands of computers. Rather than just attack sites and make them run slow he runs a script to claim from faucets.

Of course they make money. The Hi-Lo game is where all the revenue is. The faucet is there to attract new users. I don't need to suspect it as the owner has told us.

They used to have adverts a long time back and the faucet reward varied on what geographical region you are in. When they removed adverts that was lowered for a lot of people.

If you think they lowered the rewards deliberately why do you think it only affected some people. Read back the thread and you will see many that did not get a lowered reward.

When this happened before Wesuit explained that their abuse detection system first halves the reward when certain criteria of suspicion are met and then disables the faucet completely when further checks fail. Even if that happens they never stop anyone from withdrawing or using any other features of the site.

No. The free money comes from the faucet. The money you get from depositing is called interest as it is a payment you receive for lending them money.

The reason I don't find it alarming is I've been active on this forum long enough to have seen this before and I know that Wetsuit has been busy with other businesses as well and Myfe doesn't spend much time answering here.

Yeah hidden deep within this thread. People have scripts and bots that get around whatever measures they put in place. I remember one time Wetsuit saying he banned 50,000 accounts all belonging to the same person.

You got it.

I've been claiming free money from them since they started up 4 years ago so I have seen these things a few times before.

You don't 'invest time' you click the roll button.

I'm answering because you guys complaining that you are only getting $0.001 free instead of $0.002 free is cracking me up laughing.

To start off with never quote the whole of a large post and then just add a couple of lines at the end of it. It annoys people that they have to scroll past it. If you have to quote something then trim it to just the bit you are answering to.

Looking at your account you have only been here a little over a month. It will take time for you to learn enough to have anything valuable to add. Start reading and learning far more than you post. Then give it time and you might have a chance.

Because it is most likely changes to their bot and abuse detection. They changed it and it got too aggressive and now they're trying to dial it back a bit and some people are OK now but others are not yet. It is a difficult thing to get right and detect the abusers but not flag accounts that are innocent. As I said previously I can remember this happening before.

Firstly edit your post to delete the pointless quoting of the whole OP.

Second go back to the OP and read the first two lines.