You only have to look at the way Pochettino transformed the way Tottenham played. I am sure he will benefit the players after he is given time at Chelsea. As for PSG, he could not manage a team properly when the dressing room was dominated by players with large egos such as Messi, Mbappe and Neymar but he will have no problems managing Chelsea.

I agree but I think in the case of Chelsea, their fans have been through a lot of disruption and problems over the past few years therefore they will be patient with Pochettino as they need to start building stability.

Signing your posts with Ph.DD is simply pure gold and clearly rattled the OP

Well, now that his so-called superior intellect has been challenged by your Ph.DD I guess he literally does not know what to do or where to turn when confronted with your own DD intellect.

On a serious note, it is very sad to see the way he has been pretending to be a member of a university staff with the sole intention of misusing his name (probably out of spite/revenge).

Thank you, I am glad you posted the link 

That campaign manager had no problem with accepting a troll and signature spammer (the OP) that had multiple negative tags yet was making afuss about some of his campaign participants with neutral tags.

I could be wrong about the motives but there was a suspicion at the time that the campaign manager asked some participants to try to get their neutral tags removed because he himself created several threads trying to get his own tags removed and could use any revisions as an excuse to question why his tags were not removed. As I stated, I could be wrong but that was the assumption.

Nowadays there are few clubs in the Premier League that would stick with their manager through thick and thin. The days of the board being loyal to their manager were over a long time ago.

If Chelsea sack Pochettino there is not a large pool of available managers to choose from therefore it will almost be like they are taking a step back. After they made a mistake hiring Potter they need stability and for that Pochettino is the best option for Chelsea. They are fortunate to have him and he must be given time to manage the team.

Yes he currently does not get paid for posting (or in his specific case for spamming or spouting nonsense). The chances are he will not get in to another campaign unless a certain campaign manager that no longer has mixers to promote allows him to join a different campaign. If that campaign manager had not allowed him to participate in a mixer campaign he would have disappeared but he will float around for a short while more before he finally gives up on the "digaran" account.

https://www.tiktok.com/@jvanname

This is the second time I have mentioned the profile currently states:
"Ph.D. in Math. All ML algorithms are my own."

If you are who you claim to be, simply change it to:
"Ph.D. in Math. All ML algorithms are my own. I operate the jvanname account on Bitcointalk"

Here is what will happen, you will be unable to edit the TikTok profile therefore you will post every excuse in the book including repeating your earlier excuse/claim of wanting money in advance to prove it is your account because you claim you do nothing for free.

And with that there will be more excuses but the bottom line will be you will not edit the TikTok profile because you cannot. You do not have access to the TikTok account because you are impersonating someone else and they have no idea you are abusing their real name.

This seems a very interesting idea but can you be more specific? How would the posting and decrypting to read part of the forum work?

He uses those words (smart/stupid) in order to provoke members while he is using the real name of a person in real-life that he clearly wants to slander. The person using the "jvanname" is definitely not the person he claims to be. He is using his real name in every post just to bring negative attention to the real person.

I echo your words, I have never seen an account of that level of prominence implode the way the Ratimov account did. Though accounts will continue to go down the same path, it might never happen again to another prominent account (or one near that level).

Be careful there you do not want to get a reputation for being a regular latecomer. I wonder, what is it that is happening around you that stops you from joining the party on time?

Rumours are going around that Tyson Fury could pull out of the fight because he is not motivated enough.

Personally, I do not believe he will postpone the fight but his motivation has to be questioned. After his trilogy of fights against Wilder, it seems as though Fury has not been at his best and does not portray himself as someone who is desperate to unify the titles. Usyk has himself not been at his absolute best either but hopefully both boxers will be ready to fight on the night..

He forum name should not be confused with the name he is adding to the end of the post. He is using the name with the consent of the person and is pretending to be him. In reality, "jvanname" could have had some issues and problems in real life with the person he is pretending to be (we do not know) but I hope he stops his trolling and provocations.

The FA Cup third round games have started therefore the Premier League teams are involved for the first time. The results from the games already played yesterday and before will be posted alongside the results of all the games played today:


Saturday 6th January
AFC Wimbledon vs Ipswich Town
Coventry City vs Oxford United  
Maidstone Utd vs Stevenage
Millwall vs Leicester City  
Sunderland vs Newcastle United  
Blackburn Rovers vs Cambridge United
Gillingham vs Sheffield United
Hull City vs Birmingham City
Newport County AFC vs Eastleigh
Norwich City vs Bristol Rovers
Plymouth Argyle vs Sutton United
Queens Park Rangers vs Bournemouth
Southampton vs Walsall
Stoke City vs Brighton and Hove Albion
Watford vs Chesterfield
Chelsea vs Preston North End
Middlesbrough vs Aston Villa
Sheffield Wednesday vs Cardiff City
Swansea City vs Morecambe

You are using the name of someone else without their consent. You are pretending to be someone else and even though that in itself might not constitute a ban, it certainly should increase the chances of being banned when the context of your posts include to inflame, troll and provoke members which signing the name of someone else as though they are doing it.

Even if it could be borderline acceptable as far as rules are concerned, it is not as far as a moral question is concerned therefore you deserve to be banned.

And here I was hoping and expecting the number of low quality posts and spam to decrease substantially. If any campaign is rewarding participants to post with up to 60 posts per week then I think the full effect of the mixer ban will not be visible when it comes to numbers of post or assessing low quality posts and spam.

With mixers now banned it will leave many members searching for campaigns. How many will continue frequenting the forum if they do not get paid for posting? That also should become apparent within a short space of time.

It seems the thread you provided a link to has been nuked.

I have already asked moderators to ban the "jvanname" account because he is trolling and also is using the name of a person in real life without their consent therefore impersonating them. Let us not forget he is asking for money in order for him to prove he is the person he claims to be.

Pochettino is the best manager Chelsea could have at the moment. Given time he will make them a much better team.

Changing the manager would only help when/if there is a need to replace someone who does not have the confidence of the players, such as with what happened with Potter. They will have to at some point retain the manager by having belief in him and sell the players that the manager does not want. It will send a strong message to the team that the owners trust the manager and also that players will be sold if the manager does not want them.

Pochettino will be a success there but he has only been their manager for a short time therefore the really does need time.

If a clearnet site has been seized wordfilter would defeat the object because the site will not be accessible. Also, stating the name of the mixer without posting their URL is allowed. Well, I guess that settles that then. By now all members should be clear on what is allowed to be posted as well as what will get them in trouble (but just wait a while and you will see some very strange questions being asked).

As mentioned before, it is a question that keeps being thought of but has not yet (to my knowledge) been definitely answered: Will we ever see it get off the ground? The amount of funds that were donated for the forum and probably still sit unused/unspent should have funded one of the best innovative forums but for reasons not explained it was never completed.

The problem with Chelsea is that since Pochettino took over as manager they have not had a decent run of games without loss. If they win one game they lose or draw the next game and so on.

There is no doubt Pochettino is a brilliant manager who took Tottenham to the Champions League final in 2019 (but lost to Liverpool) and nearly won the Premier League when they were pipped to the title by Leicester City in 2016 and finished 3rd place that season and then finished 2nd place the following season in 2017.

They have the players and they have the coach, they do not have much time left if they are to mount a serious challenge for a top four finish because half of the games have already been played. Pochettino will not be sacked, the fans and players believe in his style but he needs time to get the players playing the way he wants.

As for Ten Hag, I will be surprised if he remains manager at the start of next season because Manchester United need a fresh start with a new manager that has got new ideas otherwise they will continue to fall behind Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham, Manchester City and now Aston Villa is added to the list.

True, I have seen members say extremely strange things. When it comes to fringe element yes but even those who should know better. Some of them are in one moment praising him and giving him credit (including on occasion undue or excessive credit) and the next they are attacking him either at the forefront or subliminally because they disagree with a decision.

In tennis, in my opinion I would suppose regardless of the number of grand slams won by Nadal and Djokovic,  I wonder what "SHEEP", "CAT", "DOG", "BIRD" and "BUFFALO" mean