Since I am here, on my meta post apart from the spikes in the Romanian and Spanish boards, I also noticed what I called the “Indonesian Drama”.
The Indonesian board was a prominent force amongst the local boards, then all of a sudden they stopped.
Does someone have a good explain action for this? Why posts and merits got reduced so much on that board?
That is a good question indeed and hopefully someone from Indonesian board can shed some light on the issue. Similar thing is happening with Pilipinas board, another one that used to be very active, both post and merit wise. Regarding Indonesian board post activity, from what I can see on the Merit Dashboard it was heavily dependent on Altcoin section, where big majority of posts were written. With the decline of altcoin market (probably bounties too) their numbers went down. I might be completely wrong though as that's just my guess. Nice local boards statistics and it would be interesting to see percentage change from previous months because I see some big movements.
Bitcoin price change affected some boards more than others and I expected to see different result for Croatian local board.
I was thinking about including that long time ago, but somehow I never went with that. Might include it in the next overview, thanks for reminding me. About numbers of our local board, real ones are much higher, but as I mentioned those new boards messed up the count somehow. Turkish local board is having over 2000 posts more every month... whats up with that?
It is true that Turkish board is experiencing big increase month after month, but then again that's not such a big surprise when you check their post activity in some previous periods when they were even higher. Those big boards have a lot of room for growth, compared to smaller ones. |
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I do believe local boards are of utter importance for allowing new users to bitcoin, without the language barrier that can beca too harsh obstacle for many approaching an already difficult subject as bitcoin.
I am with you 100% on this and that was the main reason I started doing these overviews. If we want bitcoin to spread evenly all over the world, it's not enough to just offer content in English, as there are many countries where there is a real need for crypto (e.g countries where people have issues opening something as basic as bank acoount) and what's the best way to understand Bitcoin and everything around it than talking about it in your native language. Anyway, i am glad to hear that others find these charts useful and that I am not making these just for my own sake (even though I wouldn't mind as I am genuinely interested in all this). To be fair with the Romanians, the Spanish local december merit/post should have also been excluded; someone decided to do some reporting in the altcoin boards and ended up getting more than 200 posts deleted, so that does screw the data a bit too much. Still it's great to see how things develop on local boards.
That happens quite often on other boards too, and if I am to exclude all boards where that happens, there wouldn't be many boards left. For example, my local board (Croatian) ratio is realistically at least half of what it says on the chart due us getting few new child boards and topics being moved around that sometimes messes up the post count. Romanian board is a bit specific case as it is different to have ratio 11+ and 1.5. That's why I always mention that those numbers shouldn't be taken too seriously and I included 12 month ratio too, to compensate that a bit. In the end, only those that are active in some board know the real story. |
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We are a softfork of a Reflect Finance of cause we have half a technologies the same.
Softfork of Reflect Finance? Now you mention it after you got busted for plagiarizing. Both you and me know that If you weren't called out for plagiarizing you still wouldn't mention that on your website. Luckily, I archived your website before change, so everything is obvious here. Another thing, you say half of the "technologies" are same? Don't be so modest, Operand is 100% copy/paste of reflect Finance and nothing else. Lazy money grab attempt that failed at the most basic stuff. Also take a look closer to reflect finance - they have not white paper and the team asweell. Having not team is a 70% of the tokens of DeFi market. And thats why token true decentralised.
Knowing how lazy and incompetent you are, If Reflect Finance had whitepaper and team, you would most likely copy that too. By the way, I don't say that not having whitepaper and team is a 100% sign of a scam, but when on top of that you add plagiarized content, then it is 101% sign of a scam! |
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As always, new month means new overview of the local boards activity, this time for the month of December 2020. Like in all previous overviews, data was taken from @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard which I suggest you check if you want more in depth overview of your own local board. For the overview of most active users per local board during 2020, I used another great tool, @TryNinja ninjastic.space. I wholeheartedly suggest you check that one too, if you haven't already.
Post activity per local board during December 2020Once again Turkish local board has been the most active one, so last month wasn't just an exception, followed by Russian and German local boards. From what I could see, main reason why Russian board is not dominantly at the top like in all those previous months is due significant decrease in Russian altcoin section activity. Majority of other local boards are keeping decent activity, but it is worth to mention that some of the numbers might be misleading due big amount of moved/deleted posts across several local boards, so they might appear less active than they actually were. To be honest, I expected local boards to be even more active than in previous months due bull market, but I guess effects still haven't kicked in fully.
Merit shared per local board during December 2020Once again there is a change at the top, German board having one of the best months since I am making these overviews, followed closely by Russian local board, with Turkish and Italian ranked 3rd and 4th. It's also nice to see two communities without local board (Bangladesh and Pakistan) having decent merit activity considering total lack (AFAIK) of merit sources that are active in their thread.
Merit senders/receivers per local board during November 2020Pretty straightforward chart in which more merit shared usually means more members involved, with a few standard exceptions.
Merit/Post ratio per local board during December 2020Due high amount of deleted/moved posts in various boards which would affect this chart a lot, I decided to make an exception this month and beside monthly merit/post ratio to include ratio in the last 12 months, to give somewhat clearer picture of the situation. Several boards lack either December or 12 months merit/post ratio, and that is due negative post count during last month or due lack of data for previous months. One exception here is Romanian board which would have more than 11 merit/post ratio during December due many deleted posts which would completely mess up this chart so I decided to exclude their monthly data and share only 12 months value. As always, please don't read too much into this chart as it can be misleading, including 12 months values.
The most active members during 2020 per local boardSo far in all these overviews I never mentioned the members that are keeping their local boards alive and active, but since it's a new year I decided to make an exception and mention the most active members in each local board. Due obvious reasons I can't mention each and every member that was active in local board, so I narrowed it down to ten most active ones, including their post count. I've decided to exclude few dead boards like Hebrew and Skandinavsk from this list. |
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This account probably changed hands or it was hacked recently and he woked up after long period of inactivity and changed email address/password.
That was exactly my thought, but based on those few posts that he made since he reactivated it seems to me that it could be the same person. In the end, whether account changed the owner is not so important as it's simply impossible to trust anyone who offers you 10% daily profit. Since @manhunterBTC failed to provide any reasonable explanation and because I think that anyone who invest in this scheme will loose the money, i am raising the flag against him. Please support Flag Type 1 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=2566 |
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Also the guy who vouched me there is a guy i ve been working with for a while and he can post his btc adress so you can see his daily profits, its really high by now...
So you want to say that he is working with you for a while but he just pretends that he doesn't know anything about you or your business in order to get other people interested, doing basically shill job? You do understand that's dishonest and misleading? Beside that, your business model doesn't make much sense. You expect us to believe that you are capable of making people double their money in only 10 days by buying discounted gift cards? How can you even guarantee return if it depends on the amount of gift cards you are able to sell? My guess is that your business model will go on until there is constant influx of new investors. Once that stops (and it will very soon) you won't be able to pay 10% daily ROI. That's basically definition of a ponzi scheme. If it looks like a ponzi scheme and sounds like a ponzi scheme then almost certainly it is a ponzi scheme. |
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What happened: User manhunterBTC wakes up after long break, changes password&email and starts promising 5-10% daily return to all those that invest in his scheme where he allegedly resells gift card that he buys with big discount. Flag Type 1 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=2566ANN https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5306148.0Archive https://archive.fo/vGcVBThis is how he explained his scheme. I am doing this type of service for a year already privately with a few people but others keep asking me if they could add their friends into this service and I was thinking about it and decided to open this discord server to make this bigger and so everyone can make more money and benefit.
So what am I doing exactly?
I am able to buy World Wide Gift Cards such as Steam, Amazon, Hotels.com, Walmart at an amazing rate from my contact.
When I say amazing rate I mean 35-50% off depending on for how much I buy in total. After that I am reselling them for a greater %, depending on for how much % they were bought on legal platforms and make profits with that.
s this project have to make daily money for everyone, I have to set the minimum money to put into my wallet to deal with:
30$ - Minimum Investement / 5 % Daily
100$ + - Investement / 10 % Daily
That means, you will put 100$ in and you will be getting 10$ (10%) every day until you decide to withdraw these 100$.
You can choose if you want me to send you daily 10$ to your BTC adress, or you want to coumpound those money and withdraw it later. First of all, how can someone promise specific daily return if he is just reselling gift cards, so profit naturally depends on how much he gift cards he sold that day. Another big red flag is the fact that account woke up after almost one year break, changed email address & password and started offering this "service". One more suspicious thing is one account that is pretending to be interested in all this, alden. That account also woke up from the longer break, and prior going on break he was active in the same thread as @manhunterBTC. Coincidence? I think not. Let's not forget one newbie account that registered just so he can vouch for @manhunterBTC Have been working with him for some time now.
Made my initial investment back and now I'm into profits.
+vouch
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If I am adding something good and informative and trying to give a good information so how it can plagiarism.
Maybe Lucius was right and you really don't understand what plagiarism is, so let me explain you. Every time you are copying someone else's work without providing link to the original source, you are plagiarizing. Furthermore, when you are copying someone else's text you are supposed to put those parts inside quotation marks so it is immediately obvious to everyone which are your own words and which are copied parts. An example: You stumbled upon an interesting article and you want to share it with bitcointalk members. Proper way is to copy paragraph or two (and properly format it using quotation marks), share the link to the article and then you leave your own personal opinion on the matter. There is no need to copy whole article, as those interested can always read the article on the website. |
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Since the user has publicly thanked for the warning and promised not to repeat the same mistake, and he still does - I don't think he understands what plagiarism is, there is no other explanation. It seems that I will also join those who will report his posts, because it is really not clear to me that there is still no penalty for and more than an obvious violation of the rules.
That would be a logical conclusion given his behavior and ignoring the warnings, but based on his post history somehow I think that he is perfectly aware of what he is doing. In the last month or so since he registered, he created more than 20 topics and you will agree that's quite a lot for a new forum member. My guess is that this is just an older user trying to farm the merit and somehow get to signature campaign once he reaches at least Member rank. So far he had more luck than brain to avoid ban for plagiarism, but I hope that changes soon and he gets what he deserved weeks ago. |
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Može to i bolje a mislim da smo i mi pomalo krivi zbog manjka novih aktivnih članova i siguran sam da možemo to popraviti i raditi malo više na promociji foruma.
A cuj, ne mozes nikoga prisiliti da dodje na forum. Ja sam bio okolo malo spominjao, ali za sada bez uspjeha, nitko nije bio zainteresiran. Netko koga i inace ne privlace forumi nece na bitcointalku naci nista cega nema negdje drugdje, bio to Telegram, Discord ili nesto trece. Jedini nacin da se privuce nekoga tko baš ne voli forume je eto ta mogucnost zarade na forumu, ali i da se dodje do toga treba biti jako aktivan minimalno par mjeseci, i to u najboljem slucaju mozes upasti u Bitvest. Ali opet, koga forumi ne zanimaju, teško da će se mu se dati forsirati samo da zaradi koji dolar. Realnost je takva da forumi nisu toliko popularni kao nekada, tako da je u biti super da je aktivnost naseg boarda i dalje na pristojnom nivou. A nemoj tako... Ova analiza je super za naš forum. Ne donosi nešto revolucionarno ali svakako je lijepo pročitati da vidimo kako stojimo. Naravno, osim činjenice da jedini imam preko 1.000 postova u godinu dana od svih članova. Ali to je samo rezultat višemjesečnog članstva u Bitvest kampanji  Obećajem da ću se popraviti  Bez obzira sto nisi vise u Bitvestu, ne sumnjam da ces i dalje ostati najaktivniji clan naseg boarda. Ne mozes samo tako olako prepustiti "spammer of the year" titulu  |
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I did not write to him in a personal, but several times left messages in his threads. I don't know what to do with it. Probably, to stop his plagiarism, I need to pay him, maybe then he will become more attentive to the rules.
But seriously, I have doubts about its adequacy.
Then you did what you could, and he can't even say that he didn't know about the issue (not that would absolve him anyway) as he continued doing the same thing, and probably won't stop until he gets banned. To quote one line from a classic movie, "Some men you just can't reach". I also reported to mods that last plagiarism case, hopefully that helps and he gets removed from this forum. At least until he comes back with a new account. |
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I honestly can not understand why many users find it so difficult to indicate the original source. Bitcointalk is the only forum I frequently visit that even cares about plagiarism, and in many cases it's just very convenient to quickly show a certain text. My experience is exactly the same, bitcointalk is the only forum that I know where plagiarism is taken seriously. But, even on other forums, reputable and experienced members simply don't plagiarize (and when I say they don't plagiarize that means they are also formatting copied text properly) no matter the rules. That is just matter of basic posting etiquette and I wish more people realize that. That would be a great idea. I honestly can not understand why many users find it so difficult to indicate the original source.
I see at least two reasons: - Ignorance. For many this is the first forum they ever used so they don't know what's the proper way to deal with copied material and how to format copied text properly.
- Merit fishing. If you indicate right from the beginning that what you are sharing is copied material, chances for merit goes down. Especially if you don't add anything of your own.
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@lovesmayfamilis I know that it probably won't have any effect, but have you tried contacting @Cryptomint9 (beside leaving him neutral tag), explaining him that what he is doing is wrong and that he should stop with this because he will most likely get banned? I know that ignorance is not a valid reason for breaking the forum rules, but I am just curious why he keeps doing the same thing. I think plagiarism rules need an update. It's not that difficult to start a copied text with "I copied/translated this from xx", followed by quote-tags.
+1 Either expand the plagiarism rule or at least forum staff should start deleting all those copy/pasted walls of texts that weren't formatted properly. Rule nr 1 says "No zero or low value, pointless or uninteresting posts or threads." so there is already basis for deletion. |
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I'm wondering if 2021 is going to be the year of extreme DeFi hype--my guess is that I can answer my own question in the affirmative, because I've already seen quite a few of these plagiarism cases among DeFi projects, and that's in addition to some that had fake team members and the usual methods of either scamming, stealing from other projects, or just being plain lazy. I personally don't think that DeFi craze will slow down any time soon as 2021 looks very bullish and might end up like 2017. It is true that an average scammy DeFi is even worse than an average scammy ICO as back then they at least had whitepaper and other basic stuff, and now you don't even have that. Add on that huge increase in popularity of DEX exchanges so every shitcoin can reach traders easily. I'm pretty sure some of the DeFi project devs had their hands in the ICO insanity as well, and I wouldn't expect them to change their methods.
Yep, I would be surprised if that's not the case. If something yield them result they will certainly come back for more. Scammers always adapt to the current market situation fast so whatever it's current hype, you can be pretty sure that they will shop up, whther it's ICO, STO, IEO and now DeFi. |
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If I may add, although perhaps a bit pointless, they're not only copying part of wp or something like that, the very concept of RFI themselves were copied.
Oh yeah, they totally ripped off Reflect Finance. Operand doesn't have a singe original thought on their website. Worst of all, that doesn't mean that they won't manage to dump their shitcoin to some unsuspected fool via Uniswap, as seen many times before. They know that an average trader on Uniswap won't bother with such things as originality, whitepaper or team, so why should they waste time and money making their own content? |
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Sretna nova svima, sve najbolje!
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Posto je 2020 iza nas, red je da se napravi malo detaljniji pregled aktivnosti naseg boarda u tom periodu, tako da se u godinama koje dolaze moze pratiti (nadam se) napredak naseg boarda. Podaci za ovaj pregled su preuzeti sa @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboarda te @TryNinja ninjastic.space.
Prvo krecem sa sastavom naseg boarda, iz kojeg je vidljivo da dominiraju clanovi viseg ranka sto sugerira manjak novih clanova koji su nam se pridruzili tijekom 2020. Ocigledna je i rupa izmedju Member i Sr Member ranka, posto godinu zavrsavamo sa samo 2 Full Member clana. Nadam se da ce 2021 i rekordne razine btca donijeti i makar par novih clanova, ili bar vartiti stare koji su u medjuvremenu prestali biti aktivni. Ovako izgleda sastav naseg boarda kad se stavi u pie chart  Tijekom 2020 u domacem boardu je napisano 11194 postova, sto je otprilike 35% vise nego u 2019 kad je napisano 8164 postova. A evo i punog popisa svih aktivnih clanova te njhihov broj postova. Vidljivo je da nisam naveo sve clanove koji su napisali makar jedan post jer mislim da to nema smisla, pa sam kao neki minimum stavio da je clan imao minimalno 10 postova u 2020.
Tijekom 2020 podijeljeno je ukupno 1818 merita sto je sloziti ce te se odlican rast od cak 200% u odnosu na 2019 kad je podijeljeno samo 604 merita. Na listi dolje da se primjetiti da je u top 21 cak pet "vanjskih" clanova, sto nam je svakako pomoglo te im se ovim putem zahvaljujem. Link na punu listu se nalazi ispod screenshota.   Puna lista https://public.tableau.com/shared/GBPNT9CHH?:display_count=y&:origin=viz_share_linkKad sam vec sherao listu onih koji su najvise poslali i primili merit, red je spomenuti i topice/postove koji su primili najvise merita Top 10 tema:1. Bitcoin TA (Analiza) 2. Mjesečna Analiza za Hrvatsku Lokalnu Zajednicu (Bitcointalk Croatian)3. Novosti4. bitcoin priča - merit giveaway5. 🍀🍀 Bounty kampanje Altcoin – Signature, Telegram 🍀🍀6. Ethereum 2.0 – Serenety, Što je i kako radi?7. Bitcoin: "Lakše je prevariti ljude nego ih uvjeriti da su prevareni"(Mark Twain)8. ETH tehnicka analiza9. Bitcoin-store.hr zbirni topic10. Budućnost Ethereuma i ostalih altcoinaTop 10 postova1. Bitcoin-store.hr zbirni topic 2. Ethereum 2.0 – Serenety, Što je i kako radi?3. Re: Bitcoin TA (Analiza)4. Re: Mjesečna Analiza za Hrvatsku Lokalnu Zajednicu (Bitcointalk Croatian)5. Alternative CoinMarketCap stranici6. Bitcoin: Društveni Fenomen7. Liquidity pool - objasnjenje uticaja promene cene i kad je bitno8. Stock-to-flow Model - Modeliranje vrijednosti Bitcoina na temelju rijetkosti9. Re: ETH tehnicka analiza10. Re: Bitcoin: "Lakše je prevariti ljude nego ih uvjeriti da su prevareni"(Mark Twain)A za kraj, merit/post ratio tijekom 2020 za 25 najaktivnijih clanova |
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To all those that are considering accepting the job that @altcoin_user is offering, I just wanted to let you know that I just tagged and flagged him for promoting scammy DeFi that took basically everything from another DeFi. I guess he is looking for someone to promote the same project, Operand. For more info check the link below https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5305493.0Just one quick example of what I am talking about. Comparison between Operand and Reflect Finance ANN, textbook plagiarism case. Enhanced ROI
Innovations in the OPERAND smart contract allow certain addresses, like the Uniswap pool or exchange wallets, to be blocked from earning fees.
Because of this, 100% of the fees generated go to holders of the token. The percentage of fees you earn is calculated by the percentage of RFI that you own among holders. This generates a much higher yield than would be possible otherwise.[/b] Enhanced ROI
Innovations in the reflect.finance smart contract allow certain addresses, like the Uniswap pool or exchange wallets, to be blocked from earning fees.
Because of this, 100% of the fees generated go to holders of the token. The percentage of fees you earn is calculated by the percentage of RFI that you own among holders.
This generates a much higher yield than would be possible otherwise. |
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Rekao bih: a po kojim pitanjima situacija nije losa na ovom forumu...?
Domaci dio je skroz ok i prilicno aktivan. Danas su ljudi više na Twitter, Telegram, Reddit i Discord, a i ja nikada ranije nisam bio neki aktivni forumaš sve do registracije na bitcointalk forum.
Može biti da bi modernizacija i razvoj neke Bitcointalk mobilne aplikacije popravilo stanje, ali ne slažem se sa onima koji kažu da je forum davno mrtav, iako je prepun spama i sranja.
Pa da, danas ima toliko konkurencije forumima da i ne cudi pad aktivnosti. Prije 7-8 godina niti je bilo Telegrama niti Discorda a tamo je vecina kripto zajednice danas. Na forumu je ostala old school ekipa i oni koji mlate lovu. Ne znam da li se ta statistika može izvući tako da pokaže samo membere iznad 3 ili 5 postova. Velika većina onih koji imaju manje od tog broja postova su ionako padobranci koji su pokušali nešto spamati i završili s obrisanim postom i "nuked" računom.
Ja ću u godisnji pregled bas tako nekako i uključiti samo one koji su napisali makar 10 postova, jer mislim da nema previse smisla spominjati one koji su napisali 2 posta u godinu dana pa nestali. Ti nisu nikakav bitan faktor za nas forum. Nisu ni ti sa 10 neki faktor, al eto negdje trebam postaviti granicu. |
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