They are. There's tonnes of different conspiracy theories about them fixing games. This also applies to the moderators of this forum whenever a post is deleted in the eyes of the person who is complaining it's never their lack of understanding of the forums rules, but that of the mods.

90% of cases it's the person complaining that's overlooked the rules or not bothered to read them. In some cases the mod might of made a mistake. So what? It happens I've had moderators apologize for marking a report bad in the past, and they didn't need to do that. Moderators are human too. Let's not forget that they aren't employees either, and volunteer to clean up the mess for all of us to have a more pleasant experience.

Your fine. Even if you make mistakes theymos understands that your just human, and there's always a vetting in process when accepting new responsibilities. Unless, you are abusing your position then I can't see theymos doing anything other than letting you know to improve if you are falling short.

This isn't always abuse, rather it's misuse of the merit system. Besides, the initial merit people received will run out, and we'll see less signature campaigns, and announcement threads getting merit. Small amounts aren't too bad in the grand scheme of things.


I disagree. I believe merits should be only used for rewarding high quality posts. I'll give you an example why reports are way to easy to get merits. I have 32k reports if that translated into merit it would mean I would be well above even theymos who has received the most merit. Plus, many other members who post technical, informative, and intriguing content which is unfair to them. This would easily be abused too via users posting with brand new newbie accounts, and reporting it with their main accounts.

We would no longer see people contributing to the forum with high quality posts, instead they would setup automatic bots to post, and report the posts. Thus, the merit system would become useless.

 

I think we'll see more Esports integrating Bitcoin rewards in the future, and hopefully more people sponsoring such events with their BTC. Perhaps some advertisements to appeal to the gaming community in general.

Gaming isn't limited to PCs though so your argument is only partly correct. It would be more accurate to say cryptocurrencies are having a negative impact of the PC market due to the increasing prices of GPUs.


That's a thought. I can imagine a few MMORPGs trying this out in the future. Integrating their own cryptocurrency which will both act within the game, and an investment outside of it.

I think that's fair, and it merit going to waste shouldn't be too much of a problem when there's more merit sources covering different sections, local boards and timezones.
Quite like that perspective.

Instead of decaying merit, perhaps having sMerit non sources haven't used go towards a pool that the merit sources can draw off of. Seems a shame that sMerit would go to waste when it could be put to good use for those who are willing to award good quality posts.


I have the opposite problem; Too many posts which require merit

Potential reasons could be to prevent users who aren't posting regular enough to complain about their reports not being handled or being marked bad which I expressed my concerns about earlier in the thread. Could also be that users who don't report regular don't need access to the in depth data that the regulars do.

That depends on the type of autofill used. Sometimes autofill features just save the password, and ask you if you want to input your saved password on the site. Another example, Keepass has a auto complete feature which will auto complete your password by finding certain strings of text and inputting your your username/password that way. This doesn't check whether the URL is correct unless, you've specifically specified that in Keepass.

I'm unfamiliar with chrome/firefox auto fill but, I know that they have an option to automatically fill in credit cards, and other information which isn't specifically related to a certain URL.

I'm guessing you are using your browsers autofill feature then.

If it 100% checks the URL then you may be alright to use auto fill. Although, I would check this to be sure for the future as I mentioned above not all auto fill features work like that.

Busted for abusing bounties with alt accounts: ☑
Busted for abusing the merit system: ☑
Uses the word "sir": ☑
Thread to moan about the merit system: ☑

This isn't the reason at all. No one's scared of giving anyone merit, although in some cases it's obvious that there's abuse going on. I've seen plenty of newbies being rewarded for good quality posts, and have reached higher ranks since.

It's been discussed, and there's two reasons why it's a bad idea:

1. Easy to abuse. For example, users creating alt accounts, and purposely posting something which would result in a good report.

2. Merits are suppose to be used for rewarding a high quality post. Merits shouldn't be used for anything other than the measure of a users post quality.

Having a clean forum should be enough of an incentive.

A bit of a joke. I'm not sure if it's as popular as it is over here in the United Kingdom, but it's a common medicine for children. I know several people who have since admitted faking ill as a child just to have it. It's loaded with sugar, and used to taste great. Although, it's commonly criticized for being overused by parents on their children. The dangers can be serious if not moderated, but was initially made as a little joke.

Right? I'm going back a very long time the last time I tasted it, but seems they are using sugar free versions now and, I doubt it tastes the same now.


I don't think anyone is implying that. We all knew how hard it would be to clean up that cesspool, and The Flyinghell fish is currently knee deep in it.

The "great project", and similar posts has started to leak into project development. Let's not even mention the Beginners and help section.

Yeah that's what I mean. They probably wouldn't notice for at least a while, and any way to inconvenience them would be great.

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I've been thinking that something like a shadow ban could be useful in these situations , and a few others. It seems most of these bots are using the same phrases without even changing a character. They've been doing this for a few days now. I'm sure mitchell could hook up his bot to automatically flag these phrases or report them automatically so there's a little bit of human interpretation to avoid any issues. Then if they feel the account is guilty of posting, and then deleting it's responses in hopes of bumping the topic it could get shadow banned.

Meaning they would see it as if they were posting their message, and deleting it. But, in reality no one else sees it. They are obviously running automated systems so probably wouldn't even realize. Even, if they did it would only take a little manual observation to determine their new sets of phrases, and add them to Mitchells bot.

I've noticed the example above posted by the exact same person for a few days now. "lastlinger". In fact just posted once again. I think this confirms that there aren't to many newly registered accounts doing this, and they are simply reusing their current accounts. Banning these members would likely result in them registering a new account, and starting over. Although, shadow banning could make it more difficult for them to tell.


This wouldn't really help the situation that the OP is about though. As they aren't waiting for a hour to pass, and are simply just deleting them after a few seconds have passed.

Although, I agree. It does make me think of this:

Forum right now:

You don't have to provide posts that are spam, but ones that you think are worthy of merits. (ideally ones that are under merited) Your much more likely to get accepted if you actually make the effort of finding these posts, and show that you can identify suitable posts rather than just stating your desire to become a merit source.

That's assuming that he would want to exchange his Bitcoin for fiat. I doubt he would personally.

That's true. But, yours had what mine had in it, and more. So wasn't any point really. I was also unaware of the different languages usage of Cyrillic.

Also, noticed this. I remember this was happening in the marketplace too. Perhaps another solution would be to increase the cool down for a newbie to delete a post. Something which is separate to the cool down to post. Would give time to identify if they are abusing the deletion button without hindering them completely.


Good idea, and doesn't hurt the users posting directly. Without disallowing newbies completely.

Probably unnecessary.

Would hinder legitmate usage of deleting posts.

Could work. Would probably be a pain in the arse for legitimate users.

I thought yours was a better resource, and therefore mine was redundant.  I was going to initially format a table here on the forum but, decided against that 

Reported that within a few minutes. What I don't understand is the fact it's off topic in that thread, and not a recently bumped thread. Looking at their post history tells me it's a bot, and a pretty shitty one at that.

Unfortunately, it's no longer confined to these sections either.  

Calpol, nasty stuff.

Otherwise known as the interesting stuff. The sort of discussion which existed before the onslaught of the spammers, and account farmers. Plus, there isn't too many forums out there that will allow the sort of freedom of speech that is allowed here.