It's alright suggesting these things but numerous rules/restrictions and ideas have been proposed to combat spam but theymos never responds to them so not much that can be done. Things like being harsher on poorly run campaigns can easily be implemented but then there's proposals like making users pay a fee to get a bigger signature which are more difficult/controversial but would stop people signing up purely to earn here without at least investing in bitcoin/their account.
Asking users to pay a fee for using signatures would indeed be controversial. Especially if they get banned for spamming after that, the users would cry themselves hoarse about how the forum is scamming them. True, but we wouldn't need to ban anyone if campaign managers did their job properly and they didn't pay poor posters or accept them in the first place. I think we should just move towards banning poorly run campaigns instead because it's unmanageable and unfair for staff to essential run campaigns for them and once they start having their accounts banned and ico threads trashed they should start to get the idea. |
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Ban all the campaigns paying less than 0.0007 per post, disable signature for members posting not 10 but 5 consecutive shit posts, problem solved.
You either want a high quality and high standard community or you don't, which is it?
If you want to advertise your cheap ass project, company, service then find some cheap forum to do it.
If some body has to earn even $2 in a day otherwise dies from hunger, they'd be willing to join a signature paying 0.0001 per post to make a living and we have millions of such people, only the matter of time before they find this forum 1000 people at a day. lol
It's alright suggesting these things but numerous rules/restrictions and ideas have been proposed to combat spam but theymos never responds to them so not much that can be done. Things like being harsher on poorly run campaigns can easily be implemented but then there's proposals like making users pay a fee to get a bigger signature which are more difficult/controversial but would stop people signing up purely to earn here without at least investing in bitcoin/their account. Ban all the campaigns paying less than 0.0007 per post, disable signature for members posting not 10 but 5 consecutive shit posts, problem solved.
To be honest, a dollar per post is still relatively high in terms of paying someone. US minimum wage is $7.25 so you need to maintain one post approximately every 8 minutes. (Which is why we have a maximum). And if the signature campaigns under that $1.94 threshold are banned then you'll see a flood of accounts going to the higher paying campaigns. Do you really want spammers to be paid more? Because regardless of the price I am sure that services will start up campaigns and allow spammers a place of refuge. They're just offering low rates right now because they can get away with it and flood their ads everywhere. I don't think a minimum price would be a good idea and campaigns that pay 0.0007 are rare and hard to get on when they appear. If campaigns were better managed in the first place pay wouldn't really be an issue. |
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WTF, I don't know why admin doesn't allow moderators to signature ban any body with 10 consecutive total shit post? think about it, if you post 10 shit posts then you are a shit poster and if you are unable to join any signature campaign then no body would be joining all the low rate campaigns and they will be forced to increase their pay rates resulting in people with good post quality joining those camps. slowly people work on their quality and we'll see no more spam. WTF, am I right or not?
Poor posters do usually get a 7 day ban as a warning. |
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I'm also looking for the next best thing. I don't mind verifying my ID but am looking for an exchange that you can buy/trade LTC, ETH and XRP with BTC.
The options aren't so great. There's Bittrex. I left Polo months ago because of the massive amount of complaints about missing deposits/withdrawals. But that's partly what left me with so much on BTC-E when it went down.......  Did you personally have missing deposits or just what you've heard from others? What would you say is the most reliable of them? Also, I think I'd prefer it if it was fully regulated as well and European based to avoid issues. Has it actually been seized? It just doesn't load for me. They normally put a notice up or announce it has been taken. Doubt they would have left it this long if they had.
Yes, it has been seized. It has not fully propagated, but by tomorrow or so, everyone should see the same thing. From the whois, the name server is now pointing at Shadowserver, which is a proxy for law enforcement. Dang. My friend actually has about $30k in various coins and cash on there. I was gonna deposit a bitcoin or two as well to give trading a go but I'm glad I didn't now. Don't want this to happen on any other exchange though. |
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Still no contact from support and it's been a week now. Is this normal for them or do they not actually handle some support tickets at all? Does anyone know if they have an official thread or account here as that might be easier.
The last time I sent them a support ticket, it took them 6 days to respond. Then the support rep completely ignored my issues and sent me some boilerplate responses. This was about a month ago. Granted, there is still likely a large influx of new users right now, but this level of support is really quite disappointing given that they are highly regulated and generally held in such high regard. Hmm. Thanks for the response. I don't understand why sites like this don't just hire more support operatives instead of giving themselves a bad name. I think I might just start selling my coins for cash because there's always problems with exchanges and rip off fees etc. |
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I'm also looking for the next best thing. I don't mind verifying my ID but am looking for an exchange that you can buy/trade LTC, ETH and XRP with BTC. I was optimism but It's over. After domain Seizing, It seems there isn't any hope for returning back even in 10 days away.
Has it actually been seized? It just doesn't load for me. They normally put a notice up or announce it has been taken. Doubt they would have left it this long if they had. |
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Still no contact from support and it's been a week now. Is this normal for them or do they not actually handle some support tickets at all? Does anyone know if they have an official thread or account here as that might be easier.
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He's said numerous times that he's looking for reputable escrow companies and not freelancers. |
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Yes, you will get activity but read the sticky in off topic. If you think you can just post rubbish in there to quickly rank up your account you'll soon be banned. Hi, I'm a Newbie too but I read the rules and they say not to post anything on the Off-Topic's thread. A friend of mine also told me to try not to post anything there, so don't do it (or try not to)  No, that's not to make off topic posts not relevant to the thread. Posting entirely in off topic is a quick way to get your account banned though. |
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I'm pretty sure their campaign isn't managed too well, which doesn't help.
I don't think it's run at all. It took me several messages to get them to do something about the spam coming from their campaign and the user who had about 10 accounts on there shitposting in the sports threads one after the other. Pretty sure there's at least one guy still on that campaign with multiple alts doing the same. Yeah, restricting the minimum post limit is probably unreasonable really (as long as it's not a ridiculous amount) and fixed campaigns that require a minimum amount of posts usually make much less spam than those who are on unlimited one. However, I think we should prohibit campaigns from forcing users to post in certain sections (as with threads) because that's when people really start to churn stuff out that they have absolutely no interest in. The entire Gambling Discussion sub was essentially solely created because of FortuneJack shitposters talking crap about every possible sports league in the world because they needed to make most of their posts in the Gambling sub and there's only so much shit you can talk about Gambling and they'd exhausted every possible permutation to discuss how bad or good gambling is a long time ago.
We had 15-20 accounts copy-pasting in the football discussion thread. I would suspect such behaviour is forced by signature campaign posting requirements too. There have probably been hundreds caught doing this. I'm sure there's plenty more still doing it in those and all the other sports threads but I'm not going to waste my time looking for them. |
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Signature campaigns wouldn't want people signing up, not making any posts and then claiming their payment. Minimum posts are essential (whether on a weekly or monthly basis). Otherwise, campaigns will pay per post and that creates bigger problems. Yeah, restricting the minimum post limit is probably unreasonable really (as long as it's not a ridiculous amount) and fixed campaigns that require a minimum amount of posts usually make much less spam than those who are on unlimited one. However, I think we should prohibit campaigns from forcing users to post in certain sections (as with threads) because that's when people really start to churn stuff out that they have absolutely no interest in. The entire Gambling Discussion sub was essentially solely created because of FortuneJack shitposters talking crap about every possible sports league in the world because they needed to make most of their posts in the Gambling sub and there's only so much shit you can talk about Gambling and they'd exhausted every possible permutation to discuss how bad or good gambling is a long time ago. |
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Hi,
Today for first time i have seen message like this in signature space of one Bitcointalk user:
"Banned from displaying signatures until August 25, 2017, 01:51:16 AM"
But not under his posts. This information was only in his profile informations (in the signature window)
How/why someone can get ban like this?
It's because of this: That is very much not allowed. The threads are trashed, the poster is banned for 60 days, everyone who participated is banned for 3 days, and everyone who participated cannot display a signature for 30 days. |
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You have time restrictions on posting as a new member. They decrease with the more activity you get. Just make sure you wait six minutes before trying to post or after logging in.
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Did you buy the account? If not your account may have been hacked or someone tried to claim the bounty with your account name for some reason.
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It's not possible. Just log out of your account and abandon it. Why do you want it deleted any way?
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Yeah, it's called the trashcan. They should be in their own board but some sort of restrictions or punishments need to be made on them because they shouldn't be allowed to operate here as they are. Not sure why alt coin giveaways aren't allowed but we allow signature campaigns with most accepting hundreds or even an unlimited amount of users with absolutely no quality checks at any stage of the campaign which is far more damaging to the forum as the spam is spread everywhere. I think we should consider not even allowing them if they don't pay in bitcoin because that will stop the vast majority of these lazy, cheap get rich quick scams.
The signature guidelines thread should also be changed into strict rules and any campaign not following them or running a poorly managed campaign should have their entire threads trashed and their accounts banned. Maybe then people will start looking after their campaigns but if we continue to let them get away with doing absolutely nothing then they will.
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No, not permanent. The ban will likely be extended if you're caught evading.
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