(He was mainly banned for flooding anti-bitlane trash, by the way.)

I don't know much about him, but these two videos remind me of Bruce Wagner. He talks about big projects without giving many details, he references his "supporters" a lot, etc.

Cool way of releasing a message. The thief clearly has some familiarity with Bitcoin.

What modifications?

I use Route 53 with Bitcoin Block Explorer so the DNS-based load-balancing can be adjusted automatically by a script. Maybe they do something similar.

Probably your block database is getting corrupted for some reason. Maybe due to an antivirus or a bad disk.

I've improved the moderation system, so this kind of spamming should be much easier to handle from now on.

I am not recognizing Herodes' bid.

Current state:
Slots BTC Person
1 3.5 Goat
7 1 mc_lovin

If you come back in a year and you're not insane/disruptive/annoying, then probably I will not ban you.

If you mean "automatically increase my bid if I'm outbid up to a maximum of 2 @ 4.5", then this is not allowed.

Maybe you can scrape https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?wap2 for now?

So Raize had the only claim against A1BITCOINPOOL? (I've forgotten the details of this case.)

It is filtered. Now he's obfuscating it, though.

SMF doesn't support automatically banning people when they post certain things, unfortunately. (This is part of the specification for the new forum.)


The German section doesn't have newbie restrictions enabled. IIRC only the Russian section does, though I could easily enable it on any of the other sections if the mods there would like me to.

In order to collect more money for the creation of good forum software, the forum is selling ad space in the area beneath the first post of every topic page.

Ads this week will be allowed to contain any non-annoying HTML/CSS style. No images, JavaScript, or animation (no marquee or blinking). Ads must appear 3 or fewer lines tall in my browser. Ads will be prefixed with "Advertisement:". Ad text may not contain lies, misrepresentation, or inappropriate language. Ads may be rejected for other reasons.

There are 10 total ad slots which are randomly rotated. So one ad slot has a one in ten chance of appearing. Eight of the slots are for sale here.

The ad lasts 7 days starting from when I put it up.

Stats

Exact historical impression counts per slot:
https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adstats

Efficacy stats:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=54182.0

Info about the current ad slots:
https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adinfo

Auction rules

Post your bids in this thread. Prices must be stated in BTC per slot. You must state the max number of slots you want. When the auction ends, the highest bidders will have their slots filled until all eight slots are filled.

So if someone bids for 8 slots @ 5 BTC and this is the highest bid, then he'll get all 8 slots. If the two highest bids are 8 slots @ 4 BTC and 1 slot @ 5 BTC, then the first person will get 7 slots and the second person will get 1 slot.

- When you post a bid, the bids in your previous posts are considered to be automatically canceled. You can put multiple bids in one post, however.
- All bid prices must be evenly divisible by 0.5.
- The bidding starts at 0.5.
- The auction end time is 22:00:00 on May 16, UTC. Countdown. (The end time may be extended -- see below.)
- If two people bid at the same price, the person who bid first will have his slots filled first.
- Bids are considered invalid and will be ignored if they do not specify both a price and a max quantity, or if they could not possibly win any slots

If any valid bids occur less than 30 minutes before the auction end time, then the auction will be extended by 30 minutes. If any valid bids occur less than 30 minutes before the new end time, then the auction will be extended again, etc. The time will not extend beyond 6 hours total.

You must pay for your slots within 24 hours of receiving the payment address. Otherwise your slot may be sold to someone else.

I don't know why they think spamming is a good business strategy... Their posts are always deleted before they can escape the newbies section, and now their spammed domain name is wordfiltered so no one can link to them.

The auction will end 30 minutes later (when the countdown timer reads 00:30:00) due to late bids.

Current state:
Slots BTC Person
1 4.5 DBordello
1 4 Goat
3 4 aurumxchange
3 4 edd

~30 minutes left

Current state:
Slots BTC Person
1 4 Goat
3 4 aurumxchange
2 3.5 tosaki
1 3.5 DBordello
1 3 Goat

Current state:
Slots BTC Person
2 3.5 tosaki
1 3.5 DBordello
2 3 Goat
2 3 Bzik
1 3 Coinabul

Current state:
Slots BTC Person
2 3.5 tosaki
2 3 Goat
2 3 Bzik
2 3 Coinabul

Current state:
Slots BTC Person
2 3.5 tosaki
2 3 Goat
2 3 Bzik
1 2.5 DBordello
1 2 2weiX