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Sorry for the spam, but I never thought that something like this can be for free. I discover amazing things here in the forum everyday, (I couldn't resist not to comment, sorry) hope to get a place in the next raffle  Congrats to the winner btw and admirations to the host |
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I totally fell for the cloned site, until I realized I couldn't see your trust ratings. I have added this line to /etc/hosts Now my computer can't access that phishing site anymore. So thanks to this they had to lock this phishing and nobody was fooled anymore. Let me explain you in a simple way what is this because it looks like you have no Idea. This method allows you to block any links to this phishing domain locally on your own computer by editing one system file called "hosts". The function of the file is to map an IP address to a web site. Normally all the mapping is done automatically but in some cases you can do it manually. In the above example the IP address /127.0.0.1/which is mapped to the phishing site is called a localhost /it is assigned to your computer by default/ and all the calls to the site are redirected to it, so they return en error. This prevent you from opening phishing link from this domain. Hope is more clear now. |
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This site has to be closed permanently. I had some links in my guide and in my merit giveaway thread, leading to the .to domain. Thanks to vlad230 I got them cleaned up, but just wondering how did I end up with the phishing links in the first place? I started writing my guide back in the autumn last year when I was a newbie so probably they were already circulating in the forum. |
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My rank is: Jr. Member
The merit I need to rank-up:1
Hoping for the bests.
Congrats mate, checked your post history and I found what I needed. Keep up the good work and welcome back again on 99 merit |
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What to do with the same news on 'press' board? Yesterday I noticed one upon another, same topic, same text, just the date was different, one was 05/14 and the other 05/1. That is not the first time I see such cases.
I guess you can just report the second one and write in the report that there is already a thread started on the topic and link the first thread as reference. So mods can just remove the duplicate thread. |
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@Welsh this is a great work man, thanks for helping. I'll try to go into more details and examples and make the list more complete with the time. Please let me know if you find any error /not only grammatical/. Yes, there's actually quite a few out there or you could just search up the sentences on Google yourself. Here's an example of one I found another one that checks also for homographs / "Characters i.e., letters and numbers—that look alike are called homoglyphs or homographs." *quote from the link / It makes the homoglyphs bold, you can test it here with this comment > It is vеry gооd timе tо invеst in ICO,you can see zebi 7x profit recently ,yоu must find аll thе infоrmаtiоn аbоut thе prоjеct аnd tеаm,rеаd cаrеfully thе whitеpаpеr аnd rоаdmаp ,choose thе mоst intеrеsting аnd prоmising project,
i sure you will win profits too.
Basically, a few users have tried to prevent staff from detecting their plagiarism by changing certain characters to others which look the same, and therefore don't impact readability. This can sometimes prevent copying a piece of text, and trying to find out it's source as the characters are slightly different. Another, method that some members have used in the past is changing words that mean the same, but aren't spelled the same. For example, one could replace "But" with "However". Which makes it harder to identify plagiarism. Online tools normally incorporate this. Plus, if you suspect a user is using one of the methods above just search up without words that are easily changed but, mean the same, and you should yield results. I'm struggling to find a way to show an example which would be clear, and concise. Hopefully someone else can chime in with an example.
LoyceV has done some good job reporting plagiarism, so I hope I can quote some of his cases, in the mean time, here is his full thread for copy/pasting investigations > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1926895.0
Also, I don't really follow detecting the homograph attacks. Can you please elaborate it more?
Here is a fresh example of the homograph attacker > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=796088All the vocals in his posts are with changed with Cyrillic ones. Try searching for one of this letters just copy/paste> and write in the "by user" field: sivesta See the result by yourself. I'll add pictures and examples in the guide for sure. Just I needed a base to start building.. see the Comprehensive guide to Bitcointalk /on the bottom of the OP/ and you gonna get the idea. |
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Fascinating guide, congrats. If you allow me I want to list it in my Comprehensive guide into the useful links section. |
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Sorry mate, you have to read the rules first. I understand that it might be difficult for the non-English speakers but I cannot translate the rule to all the language available here and then ask other people from your local boards to evaluate your posts. I was thinking about it before, but it's difficult to achieve. Let me put it that way. You have 13 merits now, comeback when you reach 99 and I will help you to rank up |
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Thanks for the support, as you can see, the thread is still under construction. I hope to have some more time to finish it soon, but I have to move out til the end of the month and I'm doing renovation at the same time so I can be finished before i move in in the new house.
I'll update it soon and fix the formatting as well.
Also looking for tips from other users so we can make a complete and useful guide at the end.
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Tips >Custom Patrol Links, here is hot you can filter posts from specific board. Use this link https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;patrol;boards=<BoardID>The board id you can find easily, just open the chosen board and see the board ID in the link. Like this : The Altcoin disscution link - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=67.0The Altcoin disscution board ID is 67 and your patrol link will look like this : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;patrol;boards=67So simple. Examples>1 Pumping cervices > https://media.giphy.com/media/PoGhtzUb9tlFB0Q1zd/giphy.gif2 Report form Suspected users that are abusing merit 3.0 [b]USER PROFILE [/b] : [url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=xxxx] Username [/url]
[b]MERIT SUMMARY [/b]: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=xxxx
[b]PROOF[/b]: links to images or posts that proof guilt or intent
[b]MISCELLANEOUS[/b]:Anything else the user wants to state.
n Accounts Connected:(Where possible put UID's in numerical order keeping these UID's on the one line) Username, Username, Username (and so on). Proof:(your proof - Please provide substantial proof that the accounts you listed are owned by one and the same person. Either explain the connection here or link to the explanation.) Ensure you use an archive service such as archive.is to capture a permanent record of the proof. Related Addresses:(any BitCoin (or other alt coins) that connect the UID's - can include such things as Twitter accounts or other Social Media Accounts - List any addresses you have seen the person use. Best: One address per line. Also, use [code ] and [/code ] please. Miscellaneous: Any other comments you may have belong here Code here > [color=brown][b]n Accounts Connected:[/b][/color]
(Where possible put UID's in numerical order keeping these UID's on the one line) [url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=#]Username[/url], [url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=#]Username[/url], [url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=#]Username[/url] (and so on).
[b][color=#0a80b1]Proof:[/color][/b]
(your proof - Please provide substantial proof that the accounts you listed are owned by one and the same person. Either explain the connection here or link to the explanation.) Ensure you use an archive service such as archive.is to capture a permanent record of the proof.
[b][color=teal]Related Addresses:[/color][/b]
(any BitCoin (or other alt coins) that connect the UID's - can include such things as Twitter accounts or other Social Media Accounts - List any addresses you have seen the person use. Best: One address per line. Also, use [code ] and [/code ] please.
[i]Miscellaneous:[/i]
Any other comments you may have belong here
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How to spot Rule-Breakers Guide. Intro : I think it's time for such guide. "Report to moderator" is an option which everyone should use on a daily basis so we can all together reduce the spam and the bot activity in the forum. It will be useful for the newbies too to know what they have to avoid doing in order to stay out of trouble.
I'm not the most skilled and efficient "reporter" that's why I need your help here so I can improve too and everyone can benefit out of it. Hope we can get some Mods on board too.
No more bull#, lets start the serious work.
How to detect rule breakers. Note > All your conclusions have to be based on the RULES, except for the last point. What to write in your reports you can find in the [Guide] Reporting effectively written by Welsh, its a MUST READ FOR EVERYONE.Detecting one-line spammers - Simple Techniques :
- Using Patrol link - this is one of the best tools you can find, gives you view of the last newbie posts from the whole forum. Here is a link to it > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;patrol It is easy to have it listed above your "Watchlist". Just go to your profile page, click on the "Forum Profile Information" and put a tick on "Show patrol link:".You can customize it to show posts only from a specific board you choose, see the tips in the next post. Btw there you will find another useful option not enabled by default "Show post count by posts:" which I recommend to enable. Searching through the patrol every now and then is easy to spot one line spammers, most of the time it leads you to our next point.
You can customize your patrol to show posts only from a specific board, see examples in the next post - Browsing trough Ann threads - this is really easy, you go to the ANN SECTION you open one ANN page and you check for spam comments. How you determine if a comment is spam I will list in examples sometime soon, for now you can see the next point as reference. When you report you get an accuracy rating.
- Advanced Techniques :
- Using the search engine for specific phrases like "good project", "good projekt", "nice project", etc. when you spend some time browsing through the ANN threads you will see a pattern in the spam posts, using all the time the same words and phrases. Those phrases you can use as a keywords in the search engine.
Detecting posts in other languages outside of the Local section - This is usually done when you search for homograph cheaters, in the search results often comes multiple messages in Russian or other languages. It is important to exclude the Local sections from the search.
Detecting copy/pasting, plagiarism - This is a bit more difficult, if you have the feeling that the guy has copied part of or all in his post then you can easily check the text in google, sometimes you get a 100% copy/paster sometimes, some words a changed but it's still a plagiarism. There should be a source mentioned in the post or the text should be quoted.
Detecting homograph attacks - Replacing some letters with the corresponding Cyrillic (or other alphabet) as they are lookalike, know also as homographs is not so difficult to detect as the forum search engine has the feature to search based on a single character. Great, what you do is to enter for example this >
Here is the result with one simple word "the", where "e" is Cyrillic, but you can see it. Try searching for it in the whole forum I you are lucky you may get a result like this
Resources > Cyrillic alphabet, just copy the letters not the codes. http://sites.psu.edu/symbolcodes/languages/europe/cyrillic/cyrillicchart/
Checking for homographs, copy the suspicious text here : https://www.textmagic.com/free-tools/unicode-detector
Detecting ICO pumping/bumping services- Those services are trying to keep specific ANN thread on the first page by posting in different forms every single day. I have reported quite some of those rule-breakers but most of the time those a bot accounts. There are different patterns to look for, most of the time are some "conversations" between different users quoting each other but posting only once per day. Usually those are accounts with 30-40 posts and it's really easy to be spotted by checking the post history. They have posts in the same thread every day, sometimes they are pumping more then 2-3 ICO simultaneously.
*See an video example 1Detecting activity which is not against the rules but is punishable by DT tagging. - Reporting account selling Since it's not handled by the mod's and selling accounts it is not against the rules, no need to user "Report to mods" button for it. Buying an account has high risk of getting yourself scammed, also a lot of scammers trying to hide their identity behind an established account with positive trust score. So such (potential) trades are handled by the DTs. Reporting is done here... link
- Reporting Merit abuse As merit system came, almost everyone is hunting for it. So came the abusers too. If you do not understand the system yet check this link It is not moderated by the forum staff, and again the TD's are taking care of shady merit behavior, like exchange of merit between accounts, meriting low quality posts, trading merit. etc. Reporting is done here Suspected users that are abusing merit 3.0 using a special format
*Report form see in Examples 2
- Reporting Alt accounts Having an Alt accounts is not against the rules as well, but you have to make it public, like leave a comment in your trust page that you own the accounts, and they are all related. There are specific rules in the most bounty/sig campaigns that you cannot joint with multiple accounts, only one account allowed so if those rules are broken you can report or there is a connection between accounts and its not officially announced you can report it here. Known Alts of any-one - A User Generated List Mk III (2018 Q3)
*Report form see in Examples 3
Additional Resources and tipsMany examples for the above mentioned descriptions can be found in my List of Rule-Breakers. You can use it as a reference until I finish the guide. - ModLog. Moderation Activity log
- SecLog Users change passwords activity log
- Report History. History of your reports. Note> not everyone has access only those with 300 or more good reports.
This guide is under construction. I just posted in the raw format so I can edit it from everywhere I login Hope it will be helpful.
Links for personal reference > List of Rule-Breakers.. | Comprehensive guide to Bitcointalk. | One (1) Merit point to Rank-up Service | BitcoinTalk Public Information Project (BPIP) |
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Thanks for the answer. I guess it was a bad formulated question.
The whole idea was if a bad post is reported 5 times from 5 different users does it go higher in the queue (because of the more reports) or there are just 5 different report in the queue.
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The accounts don't seem to be related from what I can see but they're all trying to mask their plagiarism in the same way. I wonder if there's a guide out there that tells them to do this to avoid detection? I usually try find a unique word or typo as they're easier to spot like 'аltcоyins' was here.
I accidentally found the first one by searching for Cyrillic letter "a" in the search engine and I was really impressed that we can search by only one character, awesome feature. Normally I check for non English comments outside the Local boards by searching specific characters. Then I saw many results in English with the Cyrillic letter "a" highlighted and just started reporting. Now every few days I'm reporting some posts like this. Also I have a question to you as a moderator:
I would like to know if I report 1 post two times or a two people report one same post does it comes as a two different cases or one case with 2 reports?
Still no answer to this question, hoping to get some information on how the report system is working so we can be more efficient. |
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I would like to know if I report 1 post two times or a two people report one same post does it comes as a two different cases or one case with 2 reports?
Still no answer to this question, hoping to get some information on how the report system is working so we can be more efficient. |
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Just jointed your campaign, but browsing trough your website and following the link to the escrow section I just came to this :
*pic*
I know that some ads can be annoying but this is no better. I did't see if it was announced that the site use a miner.
How can I trust to put my money in your service with such things? I see the project have some good reviews but, still.
Hope you can fix it, otherwise I will revise my application for your sig. campaign.
Hi, tests were done on the escrow with different advertising solutions. Said ads are gone now. That warning from avast is a side effect from the technology used by the ads, its also one of the reasons they were removed. Mixer service is running since 2016, legit and used daily by lots of users. Thanks for the answer. I put everything on doubt before trusting someone with my money. I'll keep my signature and support your project Good luck with your future developments Considering to test your mixer in the near future when I need such service |
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@apoorvlathey Just delete some old posts and you gonna enjoy it again  |
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I think purpose of everybody is using BTT to be earning token/coin.
You are sooo wrong here, man. It's place to share thoughts, ask for help and promote bitcoin as a alternative to the fiat payment system. Alt coins were the side effect of the bitcoin in the crypto world and so are the bounties. Sure many are here to "work" but this is not the point of BTT at all. So guess what, there is no formula of earning merit on a daily basis, if you cannot contribute with something useful, no chase at all. |
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Hey man, I was considering replaying to your previous message here for a very long time, now I take the chance to do answer both. I'm actually wondering how this thread has survived until this point. hilariousandco gave me this as justification for why my thread doesn't belong in the Service section (where your thread currently is). If it doesn't involve a bitcoin payment then it doesn't belong in the Marketplace.
If this logic is followed, then this thread seemingly doesn't belong in this section either. I am wondering if you have had your thread moved, locked or anything like that? My sMerit thread had been thrown into the off-topic section for seemingly reasons that should apply to this thread as well. Not trying to throw you under the bus, just looking for some consistency or explanation. I never got my thread locked or anything, I guess it's not that popular as your one, and didn't attract the mod's attention, yet. I was also wondering where to move it, since it's not yet a solution to your case. Of course, the rules should apply for everyone so I guess the new home for my thread will be the Help & Beginners section. I had the honor to make another remarkable user -TheQuin a Hero, some days ago. He is also a good example of a contributor. Learn quite some good stuff from him myself.
Well look at you go. That's some credentials right there. It's probably more like "some weeks ago" at this point, but a late congratulations to the both of you. TheQuin posts like a mad-man and I don't understand how they're able to do it. Very informative, good contributor and they bounce around boards like it's nobodies business. I've learned a bunch from them myself. The avatar represent me, still newbie in the field, but I love my beard. I'll probably will change it with the time.
Wide-eyed baby with a beard. That's a marvelous spirit-animal. I'll be very interested to watch the transformation and evolution of your avatar as time comes to pass. The final form of this bearded-baby is surely going to be something wonderful. I consider myself a "newbie in the field" as well, even though I've been around for years. I probably should educate myself more; maybe then I will be worthy of your service. I will pop my head in at 999 merit, to see if I qualify for such a high-honor. Sorry that it took me awhile to loop-back around to this thread. I've been so busy lately that my head is spinning. Can't keep up with all of the threads I've posted in. It is fun to always have something to read through, though. Nice to see that you're still operating, I'm sure TheQuin is proud.  I wish I had more time to spend here. Now I'm mostly on the mobile and it so struggling to write and read on this small screen. Renovating a bathroom from scratch is so exhausting and time consuming and I really looking forward to be finish sometime soon. If you apply for my service at 999 merit, will be a bigger honor for me for sure. If you consider yourself as a newbie, idk what to thing of myself Wide-eyed baby with a beard has evolved a little more, hope to keep it that way for the future. |
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