Exactly. We already see the owner of the thread (whether it's someone acting on their behalf or not) get trashed when offering incentives for posting on their altcoin threads. I don't see why we couldn't enforce something similar for campaign managers. Frankly, some campaign mangers are raking in the money, but literally just accepting whoever scrapes off the street and posts their format.

I would wager that some of the bounty ones I've seen are completely automatic, and there's no checks or anything. At the moment they are contributing to the plague that the forum is riddled with.

In addition to this it would be nice to know the average reports per week/month. Could put into perspective how much the moderators are actually dealing with. (hint: a lot)

We've already seen people bring up the issue when their accuracy drops in the past. I feel it could become more common now once someone sees that one of their posts was marked bad. Especially, since before this implementation accuracy didn't fluctuate where as the new system does.

Yeah, I like the new stats. Although, it could have the opposite effect, and prevent people reporting posts they aren't 100% sure on as the stats are much more accurate now. Hopefully, that isn't the case though.

I remember theymos changing how the report percentage was calculated before to a more precise way. Although, was quickly changed back. Here's the quote:
UPDATE: Seems we have a report history button which shows what reports have been dealt with now. Which I do like, a lot.

I noticed that things were being changed step by step as I was reporting, and then hit a error for a few seconds thought I might of broken something for a moment. I particularly like the unhandled stats being shown could be useful if your ever wondering why a post hasn't been dealt with.

Hopefully people don't go on a rant when they see that one of their posts got marked bad though. Impressive stats from the both of you considering your relatively new. Good job.

Well, as I type this the report page is being changed up a little bit. It now gives you how many good reports, bad reports, and unhandled. The percentage is still there at the moment.

Along with a nice little message too:

Yeah, I appreciated the response. But, will be looking forward to more in depth information about it. Obviously, they will be close to land, but getting the rights for a permanent source of water can be a problem. Most water mains would need to be underground, and that would cost quite a bit, and would likely be unpractical for such a project. If they are getting most of their water from rainfall there's also issues with pressure & flow which when a lot of people are drawing off the system could be troublesome, as this is the case for gravity fed mains too. 

You would be correct.

The more end nodes you control in the network the more likely you are to control all the nodes in a circuit. If the NSA or any entity for instance controlled all nodes within the circuit you are using then they would be able to determine the IP that you use. This is why more nodes means more security, because it's more unlikely for one entity to control all the nodes. Although, with the spending power, and resources of someone like NSA there are concerns from a select few.

This probably isn't too much of a concern for someone who's accessing a forum that they aren't suppose too, but it's quite well known that journalists use the Tor project to communicate with "whistleblowers" and the like, and you can imagine why the government would want to listen into these. The motives are there, but I'm skeptical of how much of a problem it really is.

If you want extra protection some people connect to Tor via a VPN. Then you have to trust that VPN provider.

Developers/coders are typically stereotyped of having inconsistent sleeping patterns, especially when it comes to big projects. Even though I appreciate the effort you've put into the post, and the images it's nothing more than speculation.

People assume it, because "Satoshi" is a Japanese name.

How are you going about providing clean potable water to the residents? Normally, potable water is provided via water mains on land, and are sterilized with chemicals such as chlorine . However, the people behind the project seem adamant that climate change is a problem, and that you could relocate relatively easy. Then how are you going to transport your potable water?

You could go the desalination route just like cruise ships do, although this has proven costly. Eventually, you could have the need for a lot of potable water which might not be easily processed through desalination. Desalination has also been linked with climate change which I'm sure the people behind your project don't want to actively encourage.

I'm guessing that you will be collecting rainwater for a source of potable rain water with the involvement of American Rainwater Catchment Systems Association. Although, I would have my concerns about using rainfall for potable water. For example, it's very difficult to determine the amount of rainfall that might happen, and whether it will be enough to supply your ongoing residents. You could have dry days/weeks etc which could be a massive issue. What are your backup plans if rain fall doesn't alone provide enough to your residents?
What sort of capacity will your water reserve be holding?

I've skimmed your whitepaper, and haven't found you going into detail about water systems, water consumptions and contingency plans. I consider water to one of the most important aspects, and one which is often overlooked. I'm also interested in the system you will be using to determine how much maintenance, and how long it would take for the initial investment to prove while.

I usually don't have a problem with people doing things like this as long as:
1. The post is of high quality
2. The merit sent is an appropriate amount for the quality of post.

Obviously, making a habit of this would likely seem a little suspicious, and one could perceive it as trading merits. Plus, if people know you do this they will likely give you more merits expecting some sort of return. So it's probably best not to do this, although for a one off I don't think it's a problem.

You've previously posted in the Serious Discussion section, and any posts in that section, and it's child boards don't contribute towards post count. Other than that the thread is almost certainly being trashed. Your post count isn't being miscalculated.

You can do that also. Whatever, way you go about it you'll come to the same conclusion. Even, if there's hundreds of links/sources before the post you only need to include one which happened before the post. You could even combine the two if you wanted.

Obviously, I have no knowledge of your private messages, and can't speak for what has been exchanged there, but bidding on your own auction is pointless. What's the point of having a auction start at a low price if you are just going to bid if you don't like the price it's currently going for.

Now in the future if you ever do run another auction no one is going to trust anyone bidding on that auction just in case you are bidding with alt accounts. Yeah, you used your main account on the previous auction but, that's besides the point. Having an hidden reserve price isn't really the issue, as quite a few auctions actually do this. Although, I agree that it's best to state your reserve price or just start the auction off at the reserve price.

You claimed before that you, and Vod have ran into problems before this whole thing, but Vod is entirely in his rights here to issue a negative feedback if he thinks it's justified. You might argue that you did it with your main account, and avoided using a hidden alternate account, but the principle is the same. You bid on your own auction, and prevented a user from winning an auction. It's not like it didn't have any bids, and you changed the starting bid. You actually bid on your own auction whilst it was in full flow. Well, actually it was close to finishing.

Do you not feel it was unfair to the person who was winning that auction to be outbid by it's auctioneer?

I'll be another one that prefers to use StartPage as an alternative to both Google, and DDG. DDG as a concept is great, but in reality it's too much of a pain to find the things that you want. Google is up there with the way it handles search results, and probably is the best other than for the privacy concerns. As JetCash mentioned Google also likes to give you a lot of it's results based on money rather than what you are actually searching.

Even if the unlikely scenario happened you could use a VPN/Tor browser to access the forum, and that's how you would avoid it. Even if theymos did receive a court order to restrict certain countries from accessing the forum he would likely be able to argue that it's down to the users if they break the law in their jurisdiction, and therefore isn't down to him. Cour

This is currently in place here on the forum, however the warning is only present after 120 days instead of 14. Possibly reducing this number could result in less threads being bumped unnecessarily, but I do think 14 days is a little bit too low.

Message received when replying on a topic that hasn't had a reply in 120 days:
 

Any duplicate threads even if it's posted by a different user, but has the exact same content should be reported. When reporting such cases you should report the latest one, and include a link to the duplicate thread.

So something like: "Duplicate thread with the exact same contents. Here's the original post: <link to original post>"

If one has a lot of meaningful discussion on it, and the other one doesn't it's probably sometimes best to specify this in the report field. The moderator can then decide the best course of action, and possibly merge the two.

I'm well aware that to be the case, but the OP registered well after the known database leak which I believe was in mid 2015. This is also why I mentioned it's not much of a big deal due to most IPs would have changed by now as you said here:

This is also generally bad advise. Just because you are using a VPN doesn't mean you can trust those behind it, especially when confronted by a government authority they may release the information without even putting up a fight.

No log VPNs are good practice, but even these in the past have been caught keeping logs. Even, if you use Tor Browser there's speculation that a lot of the end nodes are actually NSA owned.

Take a look at suchmoon's reply above to get an idea why it does work, and why they aren't too bothered by quality only quantity.

No, I highly doubt that anyone posting in spam megathreads have read even half of the pages let alone the whole thing. AFAIK most campaign managers have it in their terms that posting in such threads will not count towards post count. Although,  whether that's enforced or not is another thing. Especially, when looking at the bounty managers as they seem to have zero rules, and zero moderation over their campaigns.

People also change ISPs and thus their IP changes. I was referring it not being a problem too much for the ones that were leaked if someone has changed providers not particularly you.



 

This has happened before, and isn't allowed. See: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=341146.0
Rauol Duke who was a member of the staff at the time removed it, and we can only assume that this isn't tolerated and these sort of things are checked.

See the discussion for ways to avoid this through extensions. E.g Request Policy You are also susceptible to this sort of breach of privacy anywhere you visit. For example, if someone posted a link of a image on Reddit/r/Bitcoin and, you viewed it.  It would require the person to actually own the website, and have the image hosted on their server. Therefore, they are pretty easy to identify, and as long as you have some sort of protection like requestpolicy (discontinued) you are fine. For example, uMatrix is pretty good especially when used in conjunction with uBlock. Although, it can make some ugly viewing at default settings you can whitelist/blacklist what you want.

I'm trying to find a particular post which explained when a IP is logged. I do believe it was when registering, sending a PM or posting on the forum. I believe there's a log kept for every single one of these, but may be deleted over time. (probably not the initial registered recorded IP)

When the server was compromised back in 2015, the hacker had access to users registered IP, and last used IP. Therefore, I think it's safe to assume that the registration IP is always kept in the database. However, peoples IPs change so it isn't that big of a deal.

Although, I doubt that any country would forbid one for signing up to a discussion forum about Bitcoin. Barring your activities on the site it isn't likely going to go against you if all you've done is participated in discussion.

It's not like he's waving it around it public though, and only releases information on a person if he believes they are guilty, and the authorities have provided enough reason to do so. (like any server owner)

Plus, at the moment there hasn't been a database leak since you registered so your IP is currently not public as only admins can see it.


The unit of evil system is transparent:

That's included in mpreps stickied Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ theymos has also spoken about it before: