we have built up a complex server structure behind Cloudflare. We actually use a complex server structure. SmartMixer uses several servers, which have different tasks to do. As we use a modular server structure we ensure our users and anyone who interacts with SmartMixer more anonymity and safety. That’s why it’s a crucial argument for some of our users, as it play a huge role. I think you should take a look at theymos' standpoint on CloudFlare. The Internet is fundamentally broken. We need DDoS protection at the network layer, or else you're going to continue seeing 99% of the Internet hiding behind a few centralized third-parties. It's absolutely ridiculous. Realize also that Cloudflare can see all traffic unencrypted. They're almost certainly an NSA honeypot already, but even if not, their many screwups make them unworthy of this kind of trust. (Their Argo tunnel doesn't fix this trust issue at all, BTW.) However, since the Internet is broken fundamentally, mitigating it is too difficult for it to be a good idea for me to devote resources to it at this time. I don't have time to work on this at all, but if someone created a non-profit dedicated to producing decentralized anti-DDoS solutions, I'd donate to it. On github I see two very immature projects in this area: - gatekeeper is intended for large organizations, and blocks attacks at the network/transport layer. However, I've found that SYNPROXY gateways plus upstream UDP blocking is sufficient for this on bitcointalk.org's scale, and gatekeeper also requires access to BGP, which isn't common unless you're pretty big. - AntiDDOS works at layer 7, which is where my homebrew DDoS protection broke down. But it doesn't have a good IP classification system, it's based on (and assumes the existence of) a single final application server, and it's too simple/incomplete overall. (BTW, this problem is an example of centralization being used as an ever-increasing crutch for systems that are technologically flawed. It has parallels to scaling of cryptocurrencies and other supposed-to-be-decentralized systems.) Not sure that your mixing service can provide superior mixing methods, and completely guarentee anonymity for your customers. Due to the suddenly shut-down and run-away of BitBlender, can you tell me are there methods to prevent such things happen on your platform? Such as, the maximum period (days, eg.) that your customers can store their funds on your platforms after mixing. People lose their money on scam platforms because they store their money on those platforms for too long. It is their own stupid mistakes, but what if the site restrict maximum period of asset storage on your platform, counting since the timepoint mixing process finished. Are there any types of conflicts of interest here? |
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Let's recap it, that Obyte: - Don't use blocks - Don't use miners - Near-instant transactions - No gatekeepers Some usecases & advantages: - Conditional smart payments - Sovereign identity - IoT Payment channels - Supper developer-friendly - P2P payments in chat - Chatbox - P2P betting Source: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYAjbxT5zHfeTtXe_hr9Gxg |
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When you say that you found members from a Bitcoin campaign that are not good posters can you explain what exactly is wrong with their posts?
They don't do those things, but they actually take all slots of good campaigns, and old-era members (from Member to Legendary ranks) who are shit-posting users are unable to compete with them for those slots. Failed applicants think that they habitually make good posts, and deserve slots in good campaigns, as accepted applicants; but in fact they don't deserve those slots. Are they giving wrong advice?
Are they not good because they make grammatical or others structural errors in their posts?
Do they spam and create meaningless posts?
They can blame on managers: I failed to apply in campaign of project A, because manager A is a shit one; then blame to manager B, and so on. I do think if they failed to apply in a bunches of good campaigns, it is enough to go to a conclusion that those users failed because their intrinsic values are low, much lower than other applicants - whom successful applied and got slots. That's all. |
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Champion's League is hard to win, you need a combination of luck and skill to win it. For example on final this year we got Liverpool and Spurs but they pass the group stage for incredible luck both. Also for example, in this case, we talk about Juve, if the shot of Douglas Costa vs ajax instead of taking the pole and going outside he took the pole and score, we probably now talking about a different story. You need l think 70% skill and 30% luck to win the cup. 5 minutes at the end and just needed only 5 centimeters more on left to change the history, a bit of luck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivFyZ3SoIfQLike what Pep Guardiola said recent weeks (that I agreed with), to win Champions League, a club has to show their strength, stable performaces (at highs), and also need luck to win that title. I agreed both with you and Pep. Sometimes, personal excellent strikes or terrible mistakes (from players, even key-players or super stars; or referees) change match results entirely. It is hard to deny strength of clubs that reserve their place in Semi-Final matches, but yeah at this round, every clubs deserve to win, almost equally in my opinion. Juventus and Manchester City are strong, really strong teams, but they defeated recent years, in Champions League, due to their own players' mistakes, referess, or due to their opponents' unbelivably excellent moments. Teams can win in their national leagues, that last for month, and minor mistakes can not seriously change ends of leagues, because strong teams always have chances to fix their mistakes and come back; that they never have in Champions League. |
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Hell yes it was a good step. It's one of the best improvements I've ever seen here, and I'm very grateful to Theymos for coming up with something so clever. And while there are still tons of shitposters, I've definitely seen a lot of improvement in a lot of members' post quality as a result. If you have some incentive to rank up in the form of earning more money in a campaign and the only way you can do it is to improve your post quality, you know damn well a lot of members are going to step up and try harder. And they have.
According to History of bitcointalk.org's rank system, it is the second changes on forum's rank system; and it is a biggest one, so far. So far, we have witnessed three periods with three rank systems - Without activity requirements (November 22, 2009 - January 22, 2018)
- Activity requirements (June 18, 2013 - January 23, 2018)
- Activity requirements + Merit requirements (January 24, 2018 - by now)
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I can not speak very correctly since I do not have any data or I am not a data analyst but in the naked eyes, I see improvement.
I don't have data on post quality, and honestly it is impossible to use any sort of tools to automatically assess post quality. Fortunately, there is data on some other parameters (new registered users, new posts, new topics - monthly), that are helpful. It seems spammers only stop creating new accounts, and less spamming since Sept. 2018. Merit system (Jan. 2018) helped, but Enhanced merit system (Sept. 2018) helped further. Interesting to see that when Bitcoin rocketed from bottom, within early months this year, spammers don't come back too work significantly from their hypernational period. ABSTRACTNote:
This thread might be updated monthly, based on data dumps from @Alex_Sr.(1) Despite the rise of bitcoin to around $14,000, monthly registered accounts in last few months are too far away from all time high at 238433, in Dec. 2017. (2) Minimum and maximum are 3 and 238433, in Nov. 2009, and December 2017, respectively. (3) 50% of months (from Nov. 2009 to June 2019) have total monthly registered accounts in the range from 2611 to 24472 (the interquatile range). (4) 50% of those months have total monthly registered accounts above or below 10691 (the median). (5) The lowest and highest medians (of months for each year) found at 148 and 66895, in 2010 and 2018. (6) From peaks on 20/12/2017, BTC close price and monthly registered accounts decreased 91.3%, and 81%, respectively, on 15/12/2018. (7) Since 15/12/2018, BTC close price and monthly registered accounts increased 159%, and 7.8%, respectively, on 1/6/2019. * Details of points (6), (7), please read the second post of this thread.< ... > Plot: Plots1) New members and new topicsA quick overview. It seems that monthly statistics on new members and new topics tend to hit peaks each two-year period. 2) New posts More details are presented there: Assumed monthly statistics on registered accounts of bitcointalk.org (2009-2019)Time Series on monthly statistics of forum (new users, new topics, new posts)
Update with newest data from theymos In the last 30 days:
- 16441 users registered.
The total registed account in one-month period from 15 Nov. 2018 to 15 Dec. 2018 is at 20733. It means that total registered accounts last 30 days is 20 percent lower than the figure in Dec. last year when Bitcoin bottomed out. . di (20733-16441)/20733*100
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Latest given data from theymos, is another solid proof that spammers considerably reduce their pace of creating new accounts. . list id day month2 year date regacc
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1. | 1 2 11 2009 02nov2009 3 |
2. | 2 2 12 2009 02dec2009 8 |
3. | 3 1 1 2010 01jan2010 8 |
4. | 4 31 1 2010 31jan2010 22 |
5. | 5 2 3 2010 02mar2010 5 |
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6. | 6 1 4 2010 01apr2010 22 |
7. | 7 1 5 2010 01may2010 15 |
8. | 8 31 5 2010 31may2010 33 |
9. | 9 30 6 2010 30jun2010 325 |
10. | 10 30 7 2010 30jul2010 159 |
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11. | 11 29 8 2010 29aug2010 148 |
12. | 12 28 9 2010 28sep2010 190 |
13. | 13 28 10 2010 28oct2010 204 |
14. | 14 27 11 2010 27nov2010 383 |
15. | 15 27 12 2010 27dec2010 384 |
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16. | 16 26 1 2011 26jan2011 938 |
17. | 17 25 2 2011 25feb2011 2202 |
18. | 18 27 3 2011 27mar2011 2737 |
19. | 19 26 4 2011 26apr2011 4936 |
20. | 20 26 5 2011 26may2011 14048 |
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21. | 21 25 6 2011 25jun2011 6250 |
22. | 22 25 7 2011 25jul2011 3903 |
23. | 23 24 8 2011 24aug2011 2938 |
24. | 24 23 9 2011 23sep2011 1983 |
25. | 25 23 10 2011 23oct2011 1965 |
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26. | 26 22 11 2011 22nov2011 1835 |
27. | 27 22 12 2011 22dec2011 1812 |
28. | 28 21 1 2012 21jan2012 2082 |
29. | 29 20 2 2012 20feb2012 1901 |
30. | 30 21 3 2012 21mar2012 2158 |
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31. | 31 20 4 2012 20apr2012 1969 |
32. | 32 20 5 2012 20may2012 2057 |
33. | 33 19 6 2012 19jun2012 2040 |
34. | 34 19 7 2012 19jul2012 2145 |
35. | 35 18 8 2012 18aug2012 2419 |
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36. | 36 17 9 2012 17sep2012 2661 |
37. | 37 17 10 2012 17oct2012 2958 |
38. | 38 16 11 2012 16nov2012 2763 |
39. | 39 16 12 2012 16dec2012 2611 |
40. | 40 15 1 2013 15jan2013 3320 |
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41. | 41 14 2 2013 14feb2013 4933 |
42. | 42 16 3 2013 16mar2013 13816 |
43. | 43 15 4 2013 15apr2013 18162 |
44. | 44 15 5 2013 15may2013 11318 |
45. | 45 14 6 2013 14jun2013 8095 |
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46. | 46 14 7 2013 14jul2013 6703 |
47. | 47 13 8 2013 13aug2013 5505 |
48. | 48 12 9 2013 12sep2013 4137 |
49. | 49 12 10 2013 12oct2013 5632 |
50. | 50 11 11 2013 11nov2013 26804 |
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51. | 51 11 12 2013 11dec2013 28776 |
52. | 52 10 1 2014 10jan2014 29576 |
53. | 53 9 2 2014 09feb2014 29839 |
54. | 54 11 3 2014 11mar2014 22534 |
55. | 55 10 4 2014 10apr2014 18065 |
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56. | 56 10 5 2014 10may2014 13071 |
57. | 57 9 6 2014 09jun2014 12180 |
58. | 58 9 7 2014 09jul2014 10561 |
59. | 59 8 8 2014 08aug2014 10925 |
60. | 60 7 9 2014 07sep2014 9418 |
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61. | 61 7 10 2014 07oct2014 8218 |
62. | 62 6 11 2014 06nov2014 7974 |
63. | 63 6 12 2014 06dec2014 8136 |
64. | 64 5 1 2015 05jan2015 23256 |
65. | 65 4 2 2015 04feb2015 36913 |
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66. | 66 6 3 2015 06mar2015 33500 |
67. | 67 5 4 2015 05apr2015 8450 |
68. | 68 5 5 2015 05may2015 8577 |
69. | 69 4 6 2015 04jun2015 10303 |
70. | 70 4 7 2015 04jul2015 11773 |
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71. | 71 3 8 2015 03aug2015 9725 |
72. | 72 2 9 2015 02sep2015 7644 |
73. | 73 2 10 2015 02oct2015 68601 |
74. | 74 1 11 2015 01nov2015 44059 |
75. | 75 1 12 2015 01dec2015 37106 |
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76. | 76 30 1 2016 30jan2016 42233 |
77. | 77 29 2 2016 29feb2016 24213 |
78. | 78 30 3 2016 30mar2016 19336 |
79. | 79 29 4 2016 29apr2016 16031 |
80. | 80 29 5 2016 29may2016 19935 |
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81. | 81 28 6 2016 28jun2016 12582 |
82. | 82 28 7 2016 28jul2016 10646 |
83. | 83 27 8 2016 27aug2016 9986 |
84. | 84 26 9 2016 26sep2016 9844 |
85. | 85 26 10 2016 26oct2016 10718 |
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86. | 86 25 11 2016 25nov2016 10691 |
87. | 87 25 12 2016 25dec2016 12429 |
88. | 88 24 1 2017 24jan2017 13664 |
89. | 89 23 2 2017 23feb2017 13893 |
90. | 90 25 3 2017 25mar2017 15276 |
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91. | 91 24 4 2017 24apr2017 20585 |
92. | 92 24 5 2017 24may2017 31381 |
93. | 93 23 6 2017 23jun2017 35866 |
94. | 94 23 7 2017 23jul2017 40726 |
95. | 95 22 8 2017 22aug2017 45026 |
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96. | 96 21 9 2017 21sep2017 70477 |
97. | 97 21 10 2017 21oct2017 95568 |
98. | 98 20 11 2017 20nov2017 144762 |
99. | 99 20 12 2017 20dec2017 238433 |
100. | 100 19 1 2018 19jan2018 136872 |
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101. | 101 18 2 2018 18feb2018 107237 |
102. | 102 20 3 2018 20mar2018 87087 |
103. | 103 19 4 2018 19apr2018 89659 |
104. | 104 19 5 2018 19may2018 83999 |
105. | 105 18 6 2018 18jun2018 72430 |
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106. | 106 18 7 2018 18jul2018 61360 |
107. | 107 17 8 2018 17aug2018 41451 |
108. | 108 16 9 2018 16sep2018 41516 |
109. | 109 16 10 2018 16oct2018 35335 |
110. | 110 15 11 2018 15nov2018 31502 |
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111. | 111 15 12 2018 15dec2018 20733 |
112. | 112 14 1 2019 14jan2019 20046 |
113. | 113 1 2 2019 01feb2019 16202 |
114. | 114 1 3 2019 01mar2019 18932 |
115. | 115 1 4 2019 01apr2019 17910 |
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116. | 116 1 5 2019 01may2019 24472 |
117. | 117 1 6 2019 01jun2019 22357 |
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 On the bright side,another piece of evidence to the integrity of bitvest. This time, the dramatic losses of investors due to bug (already fixed) on KENO game, once again, demonstrates that lightlord and BitVest team always keep their investors, users benefits as first priorities. Compensations for investors with loss due to bug abusements paid. The chart shows that bug abusements lasted for a while (around 6 hours - as the chart shows), long enough to cause dramatic losses for BitVest platform. Anyway, such unexpected bugs, then losses, then compensations only help BitVest platform become bigger and more reliable. |
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Sometimes, the threshold between scam and non-scam are vague. There are always efforts to do personal/ institutional assisinations by scam accusation, or whatsoever. Bittrex got attacks, Binance got attacks, and Bitmex or Bitfinex too. Fake scam accusation can turn into active Flags if scammers successfully trapped DT members. It might be rare probability, but we can not exclude such probability.
What if, a project get active flags, their participants got red tags; then months later, their active flag turn into inactive?
Will DT members spend time to remove neg tags on that project's participants?
I doubt that DT members will do that, especially in case number of participants are huge.
Let's see what Yobit did. Only theymos' manual handle solve issues, but there is noone got red tags due to this. Yobit is a shady exchange, but yeah, admin, global moderators, or DT members have reasons to not tag anyone supports Yobit. Only people who spam and hit threshold of total spam reports got bans from admin.
Are there anyone will tag other people who support Bitcoin Cash, ie.? And, yes, even there are scam projects, people still have rights to wear which kind of signature they want, as there is no restrictive rule on this, as of writing. How to prove that they wear signature as free supports or wear signature to get payments? No one can prove if scam companies really want to run their shady promotions with acceptable level, not massively like what Yobit did.
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From a newbie perspective they're generally going to trust those higher leveled accounts.
It is the fact. Honestly, I fall into that trap too when I was noob. It is true that newbies will sure admire Senior Members and above (as I was), because their badges, their ranks, their rights to wear signature, avatars. Furthermore, some scam projects build their bigger and clever traps by sending bunches of sMerits to OPs of scam projects. Newbies are easily to think projects that have OPs received bunches of merits from other high-ranked users are really potential projects. A project with 100 merits from 10 Legendary members. Damn it, at first glance, they are likely good projects. Then, they move next to bounty thread that managed by another Legendary account. What a perfect trap! This then begs the question, should we tag those that are advertising these projects?
Participants should not be tagged, if those scam projects and OPs have not yet get negative trusts and Active Flags from DT members. I do agree that the moderation of the current signature campaigns from the signature managers point of view is an issue. However, I feel combining copper membership, and the required to pay the forum a yearly amount or something to be able to post their thread would prevent most issues. Although, not all startup projects are going to have the funds necessary for this, and they might well be decent projects.
I think if there are required fees to run signature campaigns. It should be bi-weekly or monthly-fees. Fees should be determined based on companies plan to hire how many participants, and how many maximum posts their participants might make and get paid per week/ per month. If one company plan to run a campaigns with 100 participants, and maximum posts per week are 600; fees should be different from campaigns that ask their 100 participants make only 250 posts per week. I knew a project that run by one person, run their campaign here with a few cents for participants, but they ran it seriously. Microlancer.io |
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There's probably plenty of people here who could run them decently. I'm sure some users would even accept payment in tokens, but it's a real issue when inexperienced users run them, many of whom are brand new to the forum themselves and don't know how things work here or what should be expected of them, but if we let people run them how they want then people are going to take advantage of that and be lazy in doing it. Then of course there's the campaigns that don't even have a manager to begin with and those are the ones that do the worst damage.
There are two main consequences from those campaigns, bounties that run for free, and managed by brand-new accounts or potentially scammers: 1. They only want to get moneyThey run bounties, campaigns for their free funds (free premined/ instamined altcoins/ tokens). So, they have nothing to lose from their bounties/ campaigns here. If their campaigns/ bounties succeed, good; if not, it is not too bad at all. Hence, they don't care about quality of their participants and their posts after accepted to join. Consequently, their participants post shit around, damage the forum. People who own those companies, and who run such campaigns/ bounties, don't care what they bring to the forum, at beginnings and after all. 2. They probably scam their participantsScam projects mostly don't hire any managers; they run their own bounties/ campaigns. Due to they are scammers, they can change rules at ends of bounties/ campaigns with some unacceptable reasons (projects fail, ICOs fail, IEOs fail, blah blah); change payment rates; or abruptly shutdown their bounties without announcement. Participants of those bounties/ campaigns are victims, unintentionally. Somehow, they might have bad experience and feelings about forum. I don't mention bad guys who readily promote projects that well-known and warned as scam ones. Good people, who are lack of experience, and promote scam projects (that they don't know) for weeks/ months, and get nothing back. Even useless tokens/ altcoins. |
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As I've mentioned before I think we should also look at charging campaigns a fee to operate here or alt coins can pay a fee to have their own sub board and that money could be used to pay the sig spam mods as I don't think campaigns should be allowed to advertise for free here, especially when it's them that is causing 99% of the damage to the forum in the process.
Agreed. Forum should have new rule and requirements on mandatory fees to run campaigns, especially altcoins/ tokens. It is rarely to see good altcoins or tokens. Good means they actually not scam ones, and really developed by their team over long period enough, and have their usecases. Most of altcoins, ICO-based projects run here are scam ones, so yes, they partially damage forum reputation. Maybe, but at the same time I don't think the forum should burn through money paying for an issue that is being caused by campaigns and they should be compensating the forum for money spent trying to clear it up. Either that or change how campaigns are allowed to operate here and the bad ones should be banished. Once they realise there's repercussions for their laziness and ineptitude they'll soon change their ways.
Those projects should pay for it. Why forum has to pay money to clear their shits, while they earn money from their shitshows in the forum? Some projects hire professional managers to manage their campaigns/ bounties; they do readily to spend funds for their promotions. Not all of them are good projects, but at least they initially want to run their serious promotions in forum. For the rest, they create Newbie accounts, buy Coppermembership, or bug high-ranked accounts, then run their shit campaigns, zero cost but might bright huge returns back for them. It's unfair for forum and our community. |
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I think you assist newbies , so i will be so thankful if i get merit. Thanks in advance.
Firstly, there is no newbies jump directly into Meta, after making only four posts before this one. Secondly, begging for merits does not make sense, and does not help merit beggars to earn a single merits. Lastly, Low-content posts are considered as rule violations, by admin. Addtionally, merits suggested to give to only good posts. Merit, which is gained by making good posts. If you make ten thousand posts in a week, your activity will be capped and you will still be a Newbie. If you make ten thousand useless posts over any period of time, you will gain zero merit and you will still be a Newbie. You can rank up only by making good posts consistently. It's quality over quantity. When trying to write quality posts, a lot of people act as though they're writing a book report for school: putting facts that we already know into their own words. Nobody wants to read that, and you will not get merit for it. Moreover, the length of your post and the quality of your English are only minor factors. In trying to write a quality post worthy of merit, you should offer new ideas, personal experiences, or perspectives that other forum users will actually find new and interesting. < ... > - Low-content posts: Do not post low-content garbage like "agreed!", "nice project!", etc. You can be banned for this, and it's also pointless if you want to increase your rank, since you will never get merit for such posts.
I'm hoping that this system will increase post quality by:
- Forcing people to post high-quality stuff in order to rank up. If you just post garbage, you will never get even 1 merit point, and you will therefore never be able to put links in your signature, etc.
- Highlighting good posts with the "Merited by" line.
While we will not be directly moderating this, I encourage people to give merit to posts that are objectively high-quality, not just posts that you agree with.
Do not beg for merit excessively.
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The most effective way to avoid spam is to read before you post
I have good points to add for your thread. (2) Spending most of your time to read and learn
Only start composing your posts when you have something extremely constructive to discussions, topics.
Reasons:
- You are noobs, newbies (lack of knowledge, and experience), so what you think are constructive most likely unconstructive in reality.
- When you actually have reasons to start composing your posts, after finishing it, please re-read again and again to check that your posts are good in grammar, vocabularies, and good enough to express most of your ideas. I wrote most of your ideas because sometimes it is difficult for non-native English speakers to write down and completely express ideas by words. It's a challenge for non-native English speakers, who don't have English as their mother tongue.
(6) Spend your time to improve your English, especially Reading and Writing skills
Reasons:
- If you can not read posts or topic in English well, can not get ideas of posts' / topics' authors, it means that you have nothing to do in the forum.
Remember that you have to get their ideas well enough to not misunderstand their core ideas.
- Next, after reading good enough to catch authors' ideas, it is time for you to express your own ideas in case you have something to ask for help, something to discuss, or something meaningful to help others. This is the time you need to have good enough Writing skill.
This is why I mentioned you should improve your English skills, step by step, from Reading to Writing. Of course, you can improve both skills simultaneously.
The forum is the place almost solely for discussions via Reading and Writing.
You can find available sources for English learning in the References at the end of this OP.
Do not post in topics or boards you're not familiar with
More than that, if someone don't have good English enough to write good posts in English, they should stick with their local boards. However, English is an international language, and is a prerequisite to have effective communitcations, not only in the forum, but outside. So, keep practicing and sharpening your English (reading & writing skills). Beyond the forum, Speaking and Listening skills are important too, but in the forum, users need Reading and Writing skills first. Next, don't try to expand your posts as long as possible, because post length is not a guarentee for your post quality (7) Don't pay your attention on post-lenghth (Ideas that I took from theymos' Writing a welcome message) If you make ten thousand posts in a week, your activity will be capped and you will still be a Newbie. If you make ten thousand useless posts over any period of time, you will gain zero merit and you will still be a Newbie. You can rank up only by making good posts consistently. It's quality over quantity.
When trying to write quality posts, a lot of people act as though they're writing a book report for school: putting facts that we already know into their own words. Nobody wants to read that, and you will not get merit for it. Moreover, the length of your post and the quality of your English are only minor factors. In trying to write a quality post worthy of merit, you should offer new ideas, personal experiences, or perspectives that other forum users will actually find new and interesting.
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I would like to say thank you to all the participants! I really appreciate your effort and willingness to cooperate with us! In the upcoming days, we are about to add many new features and optimize the game in terms of speed. Once we do that we'll definitely start a new campaign. Stay tuned!
You nailed it, WolfBet. I would be my pleasure to work with you and Zwei again. Received my payment for the third week. All the best, |
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Congratulations, TalkStar! You put decent efforts into your posts during your time in the forum, and you deserve the badge for Senior Member. It makes more sense when you started from scratch, and went a long journey, from zero to Senior Member. Merit system takes one year and around 3 months from you (since May 2018), but eventually you made it! Your story also added there |
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Serious users never or rarely visit those boards, so there are mostly spammers in those boards. It's a catch 22 situation. Serious users don't use those boards because they are filled with spam, and they are filled with spam because serious users aren't using them. Until we increase our efforts to deal with the spammers, the quality of discussion in these boards will not improve. I agree with other members here who have suggested more mods and patrollers, but we also need more regular users reporting the spam. I would also like to see more bans of escalating length being handed out for spammers, and more topics being locked when they have run their course and before they turn in to spam mega threads. Those boards are likely heaven for spammers. They are nearly safe in those boards. I think more patrollers are enough, and forum might not need more moderators for those boards, that will result in additional burden on forum funds (to pay for more moderators). Moreover, those boards can be kept cleaner from community-led efforts through spam reports. To do this, forum should have something new (like long-considering report badges) in order to motivate users to do more spam reports. |
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Hi all,
Looking to invest $1000 in cryptocurrency. Could you tell me your suggestions about which cryptocurrency to invest in and what % ?
I was thinking maybe 50% bitcoin, and 5-10% in many other cryptocurrencies like XRP, Ethereum, Stellar, Cardano, etc.
Cheers
You can invest all your money in bitcoin, that dumped deeply recent hours, and you have perfect opportunities to get cheap bitcoin. Buy it, and hold it at least till the end of 2020. The second strategy is using 50% (or higher proportion) of your capital to invest in bitcoin, and use the rest of your capital (50% or lower) to invest in Ethereum. Holding them all till the end of 2020, at least. |
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[6] Use different password for all your emails. As a compliment to point 3 (as you listed above), the use of different password is also vital. This helps in situations if your emails or any online account gets compromised, the hacker can't easily have access to your other emails as they're not linked with the same password which is usually their first guess since majority of online users use similar password for all their online activities.
Additionally, using unique passwords for different accounts, not only emails. If someone use different strong passwords for different emails. It is good practice but not enough. Moreover, it turns to be bad, if they use those email passwords for their accounts on banks, crypto exchanges, casinos, whatsoever. In a nutshell, using unique, and strong passwords for different accounts. |
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Posting in bitcoin discussion board require any rank criteria? I don't think so.
Beyond serious boards, everyone have rights to post anywhere else in the forum. I pointed out that if they don't get benefits from their posts (due to signature disabled in Discussion boards (bitcoin, altcoins), they will reduce their posting intensity in those boards. Just kind of posting reduction, there is no way to stop spammers spreading their spam around; if there is no Newbie Jails, or WhiteList procedures. I can only see better moderation made less spam posts particularly less spam threads on Bitcoin discussion so I said other boards also need that kind of moderation level.
Users can make reports on spam posts they see in those boards, but honestly I don't think there are demands to have more moderators for those boards, that have been totally burried with spam. Serious users never or rarely visit those boards, so there are mostly spammers in those boards. Consequently, they do neither care what they write nor what others' written. Only posting, continuously. |
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