Yeah no, that's a weird way of seeing things, but very prevalent. Why would you want to be on DT even, so that you could give Vod a taste of his own medicine? And then what? Honestly, you can just stop giving a fuck about the trust score of yours because it DOESN'T MATTER(FUN FACT!), and if you really are persistent on this, ignore vod from your trust lists, you could try persuading DT1 members to remove Vod but that is highly unlikely.

You're only scared that people won't trade with you, because of the rating, right.? Well,  actmyname countered that rating,and gmaxwell's rating also makes your rating look much better, so if people still don't want to trade with you(excluding all the plausible reasons), then you probably just shouldn't trade with them in the first place, cause they are stupid to nuts.

DT is definitely not that type of lists. DT members have gone rogue, and you shouldn't be surprised if someone in the current DT list/s go rogue as well. DT was supposed to help people in the trading community by watching out for scammers and shit, well, now its just totally different, people tag for all the reasons trust for which trust system wasn't really intended for. I guess you just have to adjust according to change, or... just stop giving two fucks about it. Trust me , BEST THING EVER! 

What Og is trying to tell you is that most people see self-bidding to be unethical especially when you don't state anything about it, so Vod's rating isn't wrong, the timing of the rating and couple of other factors is.

Or... There's another possible and realistic reason and that is: Vod has given out so many ratings to people that are actually valid and rock solid, and removing him for one rating is just outright stupid. Removing Vod would only lead to more chaos than this. Vod shouldn't have done what he did about him asking you to remove his ratings, but he did it anyway, naivety happens, but he could try making up for it, its his wish. And by making I don't necessarily mean to remove the rating completely.

This case isn't complex, either people are way too stupid to understand(which they are) or they don't care enough.


1. I wouldn't mind that but then again, I don't care, and also good luck with that ever happening! 4head!
2. Refer to what I said above.
3. How is adding you to DT changing anything? Your rating would just show an effect on Vod's trust score. You should be added to DT if your rating leads to killing depression and idiotic dumbfuckers, bitcoin reaching 1 Billion dollar a piece, and that Trump has been a woman in disguise all along.

That's it, you're a bot, you took ~4 minutes to dig my post up and post it here. I'm now gonna go out of my way to get you banned for wearing that hat,not because you're a bot.

It's not a big deal, at least not for now. You don't have to be on a lookout for this at all. If you see a random user putting such signatures on every post, just report him, and mods will take care of it; rather than coming to meta and  creating a thread about this new 'threat' and make users go on a wtichhunt for these ad-spamming dumb fuckers,emphasis on the users(which is everyone but bots and LoyceV, obviously).

You newbies end up clickbaiting me every single time. 

Like for once, can your suggestions actually be any good? This is not a ripoff of reddit/Facebook, where you could use the like or up vote posts. We already have this fuckall bs called merit and people STILL AREN'T OVER IT. And you want a like/dislike system? Uh no thanks. We'll pass out on this one. Smh 🤦🏿‍♂️

No, even for merit, you have the same number of clicks, you have to go a user's profile and then check for merit/trust. Only for sending your merits, its a quick pop-up. Also, in some sections, the trust button shows up below the avatar, and that is one click away from viewing any specific user's trust history.

Try it, it most likely won't be better. And what's wrong with the current color scheme? The neutral ratings use italics to show the subtleness of the rating, bold black for positive, and bold red for negative.

Is there a specific reason, or just your way of portraying things?

Overall merit is just a stupid intangible shit that is made of thin air, and people give so big fucks about it, whilst they could be doing so many better things in life. I guess this is what it feels to be , when you're broke and anti-social, so you come out here in an internet forum , and try to make yourself feel better whilst earning in small bits and pieces of bitcoin.

I don't get how exactly merit is stopping scammers? Spammers would make sense, scammers not so much.

People really also need to get over merit, its almost a year now, go and actually do something productive.

Message verified. You should archive that post too, anyway I did it for you: http://archive.is/Hx4I2#selection-2171.0-2171.54

I was told that some/all Global mods can unlock accounts, so its not necessarily required for an admin to unlock, unless stated/proven otherwise. Goodluck though. 

Read this:

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You don't want to fuck with the WO people, they'll dump so much of those TA's on your head, you might start to think the Earth is actually flat. And you'll prefer wearing those hats instead of taking crack on the weekends whilst sobbing about bitcoin's price. :/

And also, you'll eventually end up joining in with LoyceV , by falling into the trap(aka the hypnotism caused by Micgoosens).

Happy anniversary BTT!!!!

If one thing bitcointalk could wish for, it should be for its old members to come back. That pinnacle of interest back then is just gone now. People are now here for other stuff. Its not the same bitcointalk it once was. Wish some things should have never changed.

I can already imagine teenagers posting their pics of them dancing on their homemade stripper pole.

Reddit is for trolling, meme-ing, and for asking out for quick stupid questions, not to forget the shills lying around here and there.

Bitcointalk is more of a place that includes stupid fuckall drama, a livelihood for shitcoin shills, a very stereotpyical rude and toxic community, if put decently. Bitcointalk was good, I can't tell if it is good anymore, but I'd obviously use bitcointalk than reddit.

Do you mean slickage by "devs"? Yeah no, they haven't said a word, i don't even know if they have an account here. God knows what's going on with that....

Deleting the alts board will cause a chaos here, and I'm pretty sure a lot of people would rather have meta be from those disease-spreading bounty shills, and have them caged in their own board itself.

Why would you want that? That'd lead people nowhere. Is it annoying to see people create threads like this every single day? Yes, but it opens a door of discussion about related ideas or solutions, and who knows, someday some idiot might come up with something useful.🤦‍♀️

Meta is clean, I don't see anything about it here for what you'd call "unclean".

Or..

The idea of rules and guidelines could both exist. Rules could contain ban-able offenses, like cases of blatant plagiarism, or posting malware links, incentivizing people to post etc.

Guidelines could include things that iterate : " No trolling, no multi-posting, bumping to be limited to once in 24 hours".. You get the point.

And for the love of god, make an appeal system for bans that is more or less private, so only mods and admin can know, and can properly investigate. Some people will disagree on it, but it might be for the best of both worlds.

What can people even do about it, other than the admins? Give negative trust? Yeah right, like that would do anything.

Hiring volunteers for moderation might make things better? There are so many ways to help out the forum, but there's 0 motivation for anybody to do it. People could start by reporting, or creating self mod threads etc etc, and they could contribute in the tiniest of ways, but they know its useless, so nothing will ever happen.

This forum reminds of PUBG, people play it, but are also bored of it, because its the same thing over and over again.

theymos needs to do something like #FIX Bitcointalk campaign(not a signature campaign,4head!).

Honestly, I haven't really seen this, and even if I have I don't remember it quite well. But since this is bitcointalk we are talking about, I see this being more than just a possibility. And I also dare say that most of them who were disrespectful didn't know jack about the particular project or even bitcoin. People weren't toxic back in the day. Well, I guess toxicity and spam is all you get when bitcoin becomes famous. 

But I still feel that valuable members, members who understood bitcoin,who were here in the early days, who weren't necessarily running bitcoin projects; left the forum because of the spam and its factor: Signature Campaigns.

I wouldn't say this is "bullying", this is more of double standards, stereotypes, and some people's constant willingness to find problems with low ranked members. Like the positivity level is at par to zero.

But yeah there's some sort of bullying here though, it always has, and always will, so long as this is a part of internet where people can sit in their basements and make fun of people in a hurtful way. But the most valuable participants left because of the spam, and lack of individuals who understand bitcoin but all they found was individuals who thought bitcoin was brought up by illuminati, and that satoshi lives in a hut located in Bermuda Triangle.

The perks here are useless, except for signatures, so being a Mod is something people would love to get, because they get to look "cool" ,unlike the boring legendaries and other stupid ranks. Some people are actually interested in modding the forum, to try fighting against the spam, but things are as slow as the Internet Explorer here, so things never lift off. 

Why is this fork thingy happening again?

I know nothing of what has been going on with the crypto market scenario for the past two months at least, so someone PLEASE explain, cause the internet is well ...being the internet. 

I really need to catch up with things around here. And also fuck Craig Wright and Roger Ver and Jihan Wu(whoever the hell he is).

Yeah that's what you'd think ,but this forum's software is old.

Merit system was coded by theymos and Slickage together, from what I have heard.

I am not quite sure if its possible to ignore the posts, after having read the post referred by S_therapist, only theymos would able to answer your question, because odds are mods might not be knowing either.

Did you try going to edit watchlist, and removing the threads you wanted to?

Or did you try going to the Updated topics page, and pressing the button on the top-right corner that says "Mark all messages as read"?

Way to go on making people get the 100% report accuracy.

Merit begging isn't really against the rules, its a community driven thing, only excessive merit begging might have what some might call "consequences". And the referred post isn't really merit begging, its like asking for tips, its not necessary, but its appreciated by some people. Some people are just overdoing on everything, in the name of "saving bitcointalk".

I don't think OG is wrong here, this board is meant for the forum's issues, not for personal opinions or someone being nitpicky, so they want the whole world to change according to them. This may not be necessarily bad, but I feel this is nitpicky and the referenced thread isn't really promoting spam, its a bot for autofilling details in google forms... So I don't see how this is giving a bad name to bitcointalk. The "bad name" of bitcointalk goes above and beyond the general people's imagination.

I know some people might disagree but really think about it.