If you are using a browsers a simple bitcointalk.org should direct you to the original site.
One thing that needs to be known is that always check the site letters correct a small mistake like bitcointalk. com or bitcoin. org  would redirect you to some where else

Scammers will always constantly evolve new schemes on how to extort funds from gullible individual.
But still information like this would go a long way in creating awareness about the menace of scam activities

How to make bitcoin more approachable to common user?
Tell them this would replace the US dollar 

On a serious note bitcoin is not only engaged in by nerds or geeks
It's just a matter of time bitcoin would have the needed publicity

It's so thoughtful of you to share this here.
I have also received email from an escrow services I never enquired about still surprised how they got my email address.
All I did was to trash the message immediately

Once a level is reach we strive for the next.
The Hunger for success is still alive congratulations on you progress.
I use to doubt my abilities of gaining a single merit when I joined not until my vision changed and I drop my selfish attitude to consider the forum and work towards making it and not breaking it.
I am not a temp like you but I still derive a sense of accomplishment

Just like you so many other users also want to make gain it's really not wrong so far you do it rightly.
If you are not so good in selecting a good ico bounty campaign to join you could try out bitcoin paying bounty this give out payment in bitcoin

Most people see bitcoin as purely a means of investment.
Where the purchase bitcoin and constantly fix there eyes in the market cap to know when it rises and the sell off.
But bitcoin is more than that. Bitcoin offers a futuristic plan that can be tapped now and developed on

I think the fuders has been sponsored to create such fear uncertainty and despair.
Probably could be your rivals perpetrating such unnecessary drama. Well you can report them in the reputation section

Bounty hunters spammers don't actually go to the off-topic section because most bounty project don't accept mist made in the off-topic section.
And the forum but counting post made by an individual in there post count will not help the forum rather it will help the user Because the post will still be on that section but not on the post counts on who made it

If you feel good reporting old spam post you can go on but don't let it hinder you from also reporting present spam post.
The amount of spam post now to my knowledge exceed the past spam post.

Let me start by stating that there is hardly anything in the world that is 100percent secured.
And about the hash code there can't be two similar hash code

We have seeing shop owners, salon, accepting bitcoin this is good news for the global adoption of bitcoin.
It has to have a high rate of acceptance before it can become global

You welcome to the forum first before you invest in bitcoin try to understand bitcoin here are some books that can help
Mastering bitcoin
The age of cryptocurrency
The bitcoin standard

You can check this link also for positive use of bitcoin
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1944855.0

You can get bitcoin without paying for it by
*faucet
*mining
*airdrops
Bounty campaign that's pays in bitcoin

Chasing after merit is not against the rule or is it a bad thing to do is just the way in which is carried out can either be positive(earn you the merit)  or negative(get you in the league of spammers, copy and pasted)
Like the OP has suggested find what you are good in.
The forum has several section and you can get attention from all this section just find your you ecological niche and survive

This is a very tricky situation when one advice an individual on the potential of an ico and get the individual to invest but things turns out bad.
I would always suggest that when advising someone on things beyond your control you put in a disclaimer so in case things does not go as planned

The roles of the moderator are much and that's why there are specific moderators for a specific board.
The major function of the moderator is to protect the interest of the forum and the interest of the users of the forum as well

In my opinion airdrops are just a share waste of time.
When I came into the cryptocurrency space newly I engaged myself in series if airdrops but the end result of most of them where worthless

I am very much interested in the questions the OP has just asked and I must say the reply answers are quite satisfactory.
But still I would like to know from bitcoiners back in 2011 how is bitcoin then and bitcoin now?

If statistics are anything to go by then bitcoin and any other coin in cryptocurrency hardly would be stable.
Coin has constantly be fluctuating in prices and this present situation will not be the first time