The concept of plagiarism by mistake doesn't really make any sense to me. I don't believe that a person can really forget to mention the source from where he just literally copied and pasted something into his post/comment unless they don't care, or aren't aware of the fact that plagiarism is treated as a crime in here and is dealt with a harsh punishment.

Mistakes are done by everyone, I agree, but why don't we commit this kind of mistakes? (I'm talking about everyone who are considered to be good members of the community). Of course we all require to search the internet in order to answer a few queries that we are not sure about, at least I do, but what I do is either confirm the thing first and then convey it in my own way, and if in a case where I need to quote something, I make sure I mention the source I've taken it from because I have some sense and I know it is not right.

The only excuse I can think of by someone who has plagiarized anytime in past (either by mistake or purposely) is that they were not aware of the rule. For that matter, The Registration Message thing should be rolled out which would be sent to every new account upon registration which would either contain a list of the rules or the link to the thread that contains them, along with the other important stuff a member needs to know before using the forum. Also, the message should be sent to every user account at the time of implementation to avoid getting complains and later excuses from the pre-existing user accounts that are still unaware of the rules.


I believe the current punishment of permanent ban for plagiarism has nothing wrong in it since it rarely happens when a user unintentionally plagiarizes and doesn't even realize their mistake even after reading so many things about the issue in the forum, and committing mistakes like that even after reading the rules sent to your inbox personally should be treated with the same punishment as others. Hence, I voted for, "No - Nothing should change and permabans remain".

Probably a bunch of thread bumping accounts created to continue their meaningless business of bumping every single thread to the top and irritate the users and mods from such happenings in the forum.
You will get tired of counting if you continue to look for such accounts being created every hour, each day of every week. The logic behind them doing this is still unknown to the public, but they probably have a hidden marketplace of thread bumping services somewhere where they get paid for doing such kind of things because I can't believe that a person would waste any of his time doing something which earns him nothing at all.


For now, do what @suchmoon suggested. And, pray for them to get a job so that they stop doing all this and we get rid of it. 

About all of your sMerits in one go (assuming they are between 20-40), I would say no.

About some of them, yes, if:

1. The user is in a rank where he requires a few more Merits to rank up, and the post in question deserves to get that many Merits.

2. You are not showering him with Merits for only that particular post and passing him to the next tier, but you are sure of his post history being constantly constructive.

The only possible way of letting someone know if the post is reported or not without the drawbacks mentioned is to add a list of reports already made for that particular post under the comment section of reporting page. The list should contain all the reports that are submitted for that post along with the reporters username and the comment (that would demonstrate the reason for that report).
After pressing the "report to moderator" button, you would be able to see if the post has already been reported or not, and if reported, for what has it been reported. And then if you think that the reason it has been previously reported for is different from yours, you can go ahead and submit your report as well, but if you find the reason to be the same, you can simply skip it and move forward.

Having a look at OP's post history, and also the post history of the only guy who said he received the payment for this service, here:


I doubt if anyone is going to get paid for this service.

That guy, hiscall, is either OP's alt or a co-worker in their business of YouTube accounts and stuff, since they both come from the French local board:



OP has offered to sell monetized YouTube channels with Fortnite videos in it:


And the other guy has asked for Fortnite videos to be sold to him:


These, and a lot of other small things, like their way of typing, or the usage of bold texts with red color and almost the same size for the font, make me think that the two accounts are somehow connected and are trying to accumulate free YouTube subscribers by posting a service and then being the proof of the service being legit themselves.

If any other user who is clearly not connected to them says they got paid for this, I'm ready to remove my post.

Bitcoins that are circulating in exchanges are coming from daytraders who usually use Bitcoin to buy other coins and then sell them off when they get a percentage of profit and then again buy another coin with the Bitcoins. It is not always important that if a Bitcoin is being sold it is from a Bitcoin holder or investor.
I myself trade Bitcoins against USDT to increase the amount of Bitcoins I have. I buy on a drop and then sell them off when the price goes a bit higher-- resulting in giving me a little profit out of the trade.

Isn't this considered to be an on-forum giveaway since it doesn't involve any criteria like wearing a signature, avatar or something which would have made it a campaign for that?:


They are simply asking users to post content in their threads (ANN and Bounty) and get paid for that, which is against the rules:

You are supposed to quote them in this thread:


The reason why theymos asked the users to quote the posts in the Merit Source thread of theirs is so that he doesn't need to open each one of them one by one and check if they really meet his criteria of posts he want sources to demonstrate.
You can have a look at o_e_i_e_o's Merit Source Application as an example and see how he did it.

Account recovery is not for banned accounts, it is for hacked/lost ones.

Your account(s) are banned for plagiarism:

And there is no way you are going to get them back. You better leave the forum, and do some struggle in your life to earn money (since that is probably why you are here) from now on.
Good luck.

It was, right from the start:


You seem not to be noticing a lot of things here-- first, the rule about the account being older than 6 months in the starting thread itself, second, not even noticing it in the reply of OP to mday, and finally, not even being aware of the fact that you are not older than 6 months in the forum. Are you actually reading everything here or just skipping the crucial things after reading "We are looking for people to work..." from OP?


It shouldn't bother you much if you know you are not guilty of what you are being accused for. If in any way the accusations bother you and you are not being able to prove them wrong, they are going to grow against you, which is what you should not let happen. Answer every question with a logical statement that backs you up on that particular allegation, and people would understand if the logic you provide seems to be correct and on point.

There is no point in arguing here. You should read all the replies before posting which doesn't seem to be the case here:

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^[1] This quote has been cut down to the part I'm trying to demonstrate. Complete quote below:

I just did  I wish I used to visit Altcoin Announcements section so that I could have a laugh too at that time, and throw some posts in there as well. 

A post is not subject to have a bigger size or length in order to become constructive or merit-worthy, but the content it stats makes it one. Dragging your answer purposely from only a sentence to three or four would only make it look worse if you don't have any extra points to add into it.


What I said in answering the first quote applies for this as well. The size or length of a post depends on the nature of the topic being discussed, and as long as your post makes some sense and is properly constructed, no matter how large it is but it would still get the attention it deserves.


There is always a way to use something, otherwise it would have never been created at the first place. Using these attributes/properties would only make your post look ugly if you use them in the wrong manner. Otherwise, there is no harm in using them if you know what you are doing.
About the title thing, you are right. Using anything extra in the title doesn't really make it look better or attract readers towards it. The text in the title is what the genuine readers see before opening a thread.

Yes, they are, eventually. I am and a lot of other members are examples of that.
What I personally do is that I don't see the ranks or the need of the poster while handing out Merits. What I see is the post itself, and the history of the poster in some cases when the poster is relatively new to my eyes and has a lot of posts but no Merits yet. Probably If I was a Merit Source or something , who uses to have too many sMerits to hand out, I might had other thoughts, but for now, that is what I do, and I think what I'm doing has nothing wrong with it. Correct me if I'm wrong about that.


Yes again. Maybe not everyone out there, but for the majority if I speak, they are.


From what I've experienced so far, I think 'most' isn't the correct word here, but 'some' is the word I would personally use in that statement if I were to say it, since there aren't a lot of people (I'm not counting Merit abusers and farmers in this) who would keep their sMerits to themselves rather than giving them out for the posts that deserve Merits. If that was really the case, I doubt if any of the good posters who have ranked up by earning Merits could have possibly done it.


That is a new one for me. I could never think like that, nor I've ever thought that someone could have a mindset like that.

Great work!

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What is this?  An ANN posted by theymos and the thread full of spam by reputable forum members.  Is it some kind of troll? I just saw it today from the list of All time most merited posts.

Why didn't you save the private key instead? I've never used multibit personally, so I don't really have much knowledge about it. If you had saved the private key of your wallet, it wouldn't have been a problem since it could have been inserted in any wallet supporting private key insertions and you would have you old wallet back with the balance in it (if not stolen, which is very rare to happen).

It probably gives hope to the holders who have invested in early 2017 when the price was nearly around $1,000 or something and they would find happiness seeing a yearly growth in the price, but if I see it from the eyes of an investor from early 2018, it would break my heart since I would only see the price being way too low from the range where I have bought them and it would take too many years to even get me my ROI with this pace of growth.

Truly, the people who have invested their money into Bitcoin when it reached the peak early last year (I'm talking about 2018 since we are in 2019 now  ) were really unfortunate if they were planning to hold. Some of them might have sold when the price started to crash, but some of them might have kept patience with the hope that the price would recover soon. I really feel bad for them.

It can work, but can be abused as well like all other systems around.
A good/responsible post could be a post that earns Merit(s) which would automatically earn credits for the member. And a bad post could be a post that has been accurately reported and deleted by a mod-- resulting a deduction of credits. Earned credits should be given per Merit received by the post-- e.g: 5 Credits per Merit or something. The same should apply for the deduction. If a user earns 2 Merits and gets one of his posts deleted in a thread, he would still have credits for 1 Merit.

Let it be. Those whines would start to disappear as soon as they realize it is not really helpful and they won't get their rank back for free but they will have to work hard to get it back. If they can't reach their respective ranks after the demotion, then they never really deserved it.


They can't. They can get 1 Merit by cheating and rank up to Jr. member, but what's next? Such cheaters would never even make it to Member rank-- Full member and above would only become a dream for them.

I think the time has come to demote users with zero earned merits   so that we don't feel bad when we see a post like this being posted by a Sr. member who claims to have been a member for many years in the forum but doesn't even know what's going on around.