In my opinion, this Loycev is very arrogant. Sounds very arrogant. No self-respecting person who accidentally ends up in a proxyban deserves to be treated like that

Only administrators? Give me full list of these administrators. I thought theymos was the only one administrator here

Whats the difference? Whitelsiting - is a privilege

This is a "right and privilege" that LoyceV has and the other regular users don't

Don't try to shut everyone's mouths, people see everything. This is not trolling, but a discussion where simple folks will be expose a snickering high-ranking old-timers

Make way for newcomers

LoyceV has ability to unban. But he is not a global moderator. How is this even possible?

This has to do with privacy. If LoyceV has ability to unban, than with high probability LoyceV may has access to ip's of users like global moderators has

This forum doesn't care about privacy. User Loycev has many more privileges and rights than a regular user. He can see things that the average user cannot see. However, Loyсev is not an even a global moderator. This is a potential threat to the security of the forum

There are too many old high-ranking users with enormous powers on the forum who do not fulfill their duties and do not give a growth to newbies

Hello digaran

There is a proof. The votes of these people were blatantly excluded from the last competition (BCA 2021):

marilynmanson21, techearn17, palle11, AnonBitCoiner, Tigerheart3026, aylabadia05, zahed, shawonngp, Rigon, Bobrox, bussybuddy, JeWay, superman184, robattfield, mrjoy15, beveryu778, Mr.Scott, tarable, qqwx, , airfinex, Tumanggor,  BobK71, mdzahed134, bounceback, BTC_Mouse, lifeOK, MJSO22, sifat08, Mups099, ZAINmalik75, Shussainshah, mumang siat, Erumo, musafar37, Teletalk.org, Marykeller, packagemission, preikaler

Dear observers? Is it beggaring?

Exactly

icopress doesn't inspire confidence in me. In the last competition, he excluded from his competition the votes of those he personally did not like. But no one attached any importance to this then. But this was a fact of vote manipulation

The people whose votes icopress excluded simply voted in vain in his contest. After that, people felt like icopress pissed in their mouths

And now this impudent person icopress has the audacity to ask people to consider his application?

Do you want to meritsource for quality posts? Or do you want to meritsource gambling?
Do you want to become a temporary meritsource before mixers are banned or do you want to be a forever meritsourcer?

It's very good.
Next question - are you collecting logs? How many years logs are stored at servers?

Your service was created specifically to serve the forum. How it can be completely independent and autonomous service?

If the hosting servers are outside the jurisdiction of the feds, then the feds will not be able to do anything

decentralized forum

From a privacy point of view, this is unsafe. I recommend abstaining from this forum-related image hostings. Use independent 3rd party image hosting not associated with the forum

Your image hosting only enhances the centralization of the forum. If the feds come again, your IP's from that image hosting perhaps will be accidentally leaked

There are so many smart people on the forum. Why can't they complete the beta-testing of epochtalk? Busy with signatures campaigns?

Oh, what a world, what a world

OP I do not know you, but it’s better for you to be a meritsourcer than for icopress which is be up to its neck in competitions

I am voting for bullrun2024bro, because he doesn't try to sit on two chairs at once. This means that he is not a greedy person and will be a generous and adequate meritsourcer

I think it should take the following as a rule: the less well-known a candidate for meritsourcing is, the more preference should be given to him in considering his application for meritsourcing. This is at least some kind of decentralization

Because being both an organizer of competitions and a merit source is a direct path to corruption

Okay. It's clear.

I’m sure that he’s a good guy, but still let he choose one thing - either meritsourcing or competition organizations. Simple folks look and envy when so much power falls into one hand. Some kind of centralization is obtained again

It would be better if you created a list of active meritsourcers so that everything is clear to everyone.

I believe that meritsourser should not be involved in extraneous matters. This may affect the quality of distribution of merits.

Too much money is involved in this competition (BCA 2023).
Where are the guarantees that this meritsources icopress is not an interested party?

By the way, is icopress a meritsourcer or not?

I believe that a person can perform his duties well only when he is busy with only one thing.

I don't know is OP a merit-source or not. But I see that he wants to do all the things at once: to be both a merit-sourcer and an organizer of competitions

It's bad when a person has too much to do. It is necessary for a person to have only one thing that he does well

Organizing competitions and counting votes is too painstaking and time-consuming for merit-sourser

Mixers should have been allowed by the end of 2024. Then people would at least adapt. And giving a warning just a month before the ban is at least an ugly act

Yes, the forum should become cleaner, but not by the cost of freedom.