I'm not sure if this is the final version used here. For example I can see the BTC symbol appears when I write a reply but I don't see it in that list:
<...> Yup, BTC one I completely forgot about. Any others?
Now that you mention it, the thing that came to mind is this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1782017.0So I guess, it is *possible*, but you can ask mprep for more help. |
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Technically speaking, you are able to extend onto SMF adding custom BB codes through the use of plugins/modifications; and that may not update the help page for SMF directly (I'm unsure if SMF would detect this, and considering those codes have explanations, I'm doubting that would be automatic). Most likely, BitcoinTalk doesn't leverage any custom BB codes, but I'm just wanting to make sure. So as such, there may be BB codes that only a select few users know about, but I would still wish to include them within my code (provided they are publicly available for use). Just wanting to factor in that possibility  Thanks for that link though, wasn't able to find that help page directly. Thing is, this forum is a customized version of SMF and its very complicated, so only theymos can actually tell if you can use custom BB codes or not. I have tried using basic HTML tags(that aren't mentioned in the BB code list), and most of them if not all of them, didn't work. |
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Yeah and I noticed here that only high ranked members gives only on each other but low ranked accounts always ignored. I'm here in Meta just because I want you to hear my concerns and I don't want to debate with somebody on this matter. I have Joined here in forum because I want to learn more and also to have profit and I thank God that I belong on this forum. Peace all make love not war.
That is so not true. I merit low ranked members a lot(<Hero Members), and whenever I come across posters with decent quality posts, I merit them. I sometimes merit high ranked members too, but you shouldn't really see the rank when it comes to meriting. I see merit as an indicator of decent and merit worthy posts, if not excellent ones. I don't really care about ranking up, because one,I am a hypocrite  and two, there's no real perk in the rank itself, other than to just earn from campaigns. This has been discussed to hell and back, and people have said that finding merit worthy posts are sometimes hard, and some people have really high level of standards. So you have two options: Post in order please people, or just make decent quality posts, you'll eventually get noticed(unless you post in the spamfest sections,then you're on your own buddy). And also, know this, you're not going to get ranked up in a few days, it'll take months if not years, that's the original purpose, to set a delay, so that you can stay here for long. |
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You forgot to mention "sir", so brace yourself to get ignored forever.
What about the new software, shall I live long enough to see it?
The new forum was live, at least its beta was(from 2014 something) and it was disabled recently, or perhaps 6 months or so before. The link to it was: beta.bitcointalk.org. People could even create accounts on it(?), and to find the bugs in it. |
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You are using the DT power to do what you think is right,i saw someone you tagged because of of giving feedbacks to his alts telling people that these are his their alts,you dont deserved your position.
Isn't that why the trust system was created, if they think a person is a scammer, they should tag them? TP, you should create your rep thread, if you haven't already, it would be really funny to read people saying stuff about you. anyone can tell anything here,its none of your business im just telling the truth about the DT members, hiliarious and loyceV are good ones here.
there are no forum rules that limiting the words that should be used here moron,you are old enough but it doesnt mean that you are ahead to anyone. I am a member since 2011 FYI..
So you're protecting your account, but you're not telling the truth, by no means. You're just going everywhere and telling people to shut up and the usual "fuck you" statement. If you really think anybody is abusing the trust system, create a thread in Reputation. Edit: fixed typo. |
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I have missed that post of theymos, obviously. That is exactly what I want to be implemented, except that I want the restriction to be applied for Jr. members as well while theymos in that post have mentioned that their ban would be lifted once they reach Jr. member. I believe there are hundreds of Jr. members spamming the forum like hell these days, and that is what made me suggest this change.
theymos doesn't like restrictions, he had them implemented before(newbie jail), and it was a fail(?). This is his saying on what he thinks on implementing restrictions: The things on the forum which encourage spam are allowed mainly because it's part of the forum's mission to be as free as possible. Eg. banning bounties would undoubtedly reduce spam, but that'd be destroying an entire economy/population/culture which has been able to develop due to the forum's freedom. I am willing to take this sort of action, but only as an absolute last resort. It's always preferable to handle these problems by reshaping the environment to make them non-problems, rather than removing some freedom.
It's wonderful when someone is able to constructively do something on the forum instead of continuing with whatever they were expected to do under the status quo. Enabling that sort of thing is exactly why Bitcoin and this forum were created. Though bitcointalk.org is not a worldwide welfare organization, and people are not entitled to make money.
Limiting newbie participation is very harmful for a community. Newbie jail will never return: I consider the newbie-jail period to have been extremely damaging to the forum. When barriers to participation are too high, then the best people often just won't go to the trouble of joining, and the people who are willing to jump through the hoops are often people who aren't good for the community: people with nothing better to do, scammers, get-rick-quickers, etc. Having a permanent newbie jail policy would improve things a lot in the short-term, but would end up being a fatal poison to the community.
The low signal-to-noise is a real issue which seriously annoys me and is often on my mind. But as you mention, fixing it non-destructively is difficult.
We'll tackle that too, but let us tackle this one first, and then we will see what they come up with, and hopefully there will be a solution for that as well.
I love this spirit of yours, but theymos literally has no time to solve all this issues. Apparently, a single account recovery takes a lot of time, in investigation and what you're talking about are much bigger issues. Thing is, this is the internet, spam rules over everything else. Only way to combat spam is to have very strict moderation, have mods patrolling through 24/7 and that also doesn't guarantee that there'd be no spam. People are selling services like ANN bumping, hacked accounts, autoreply bots off-forum, and it makes it much harder for the forum to know who uses these. When cloudfare was integrated, the bots that mods used to use became obsolete, so we thought that might be the end of bots, but we were wrong. Cloudfare doesn't block the bots that only spams. God, I know it isn't. But I just couldn't help it. He should not leave the forum to bleed only because a few positive users might get a negative effect from this. Those legitimate users would probably find their way to the other side, but this whole lot of spammers would die inside that circle, and that would probably bring some positive energy to the forum.
I get your frustration, but you'll get used to it, like it or not. hilariousandco knows the pain on this, more than anyone else, he's trying so hard, even after knowing that he gets ignored every single time.
Many legitimate users have "left" this forum in terms of hacked accounts, by scamming someone or simply went AWOL. What is left must be preserved and I believe continuous scrutiny of post quality of such members is necessary to reduce spam and increase quality discussions.
But what is the role of the campaign manager then? If they accept such users in campaigns then nothing can be done to stop them from shitposting. Hence both the manager and the mods of the forum need to monitor them for such shitposting spree.
Literally speaking once they spam - they will eventually get banned and then make another account - by whatever method and start a new journey on bitcointalk. That is where merit stops them from ranking up and the same thing repeats. Ultimately they will get tired and frustrated and then leave the forum.
Legit users left only because of the spam or because of their big con attempt, along side, the lack of responsiveness from the administration. Even BadBear left.  And spammers never get frustrated. They come up with something , always. One or two might give up, but there are hundreds of thousands of them that are still left. About campaign managers allowing shitposters, they aren't campaign mangers. They don't deserve that title. Its about time, that theymos gives a guideline on how to manage campaigns/bounties. |
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In reply to pugman, I think an unofficial relationship sub-forum must already exist in "Off-Topic". I stumbled on another of the "secret" threads today: Can poverty really impact on love?If theymos ever makes me a mod in the relationship board(will get the lightning sword as soon as bcash takes over bitcoin), I am pretty sure that me and my love life will die there. I waste time like no one else does
That shit is real,not even kidding, I would like to compete against that guy. Ain't nobody gonna beat me like that. |
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"should be restricted from posting outside the Bounties (Altcoins) section" is what I said. That means they can access the bounties board, but they cannot access any boards other than that if they wear a signature until they earn 10 Merits and reach Member rank.
Then you're rephrasing(unintentionally) what theymos already plans on doing or has just envisioned it: What do the people who operate these bounties think of the newbie invasion? Also, people should not be required to post in order to get paid; that's already against the rules.
An idea I had in this vein was that upon registration you'd have to pick one of two paths:
- "I want to discuss things"
= Banned from all money-making/spam-hotbed sections until Jr Member
- "I want to make money"
= Banned from the more serious sections until Jr Member
= You have to pass a quiz before posting which tries to inform you about basic forum rules, how not to get banned, maybe some basic English knowledge, etc. (Quizzes are pointless to stop dedicated spammers, since an answer key will quickly be compiled, but it may help in cases where clueless people are ending up here.)
Either remove their ability to wear signature, or restrict them from posting if they wear them before a certain rank, both of these will probably reduce the spam to a very large extent.
It would reduce spam, people will come up with something else to make things here ,a virtual nightmare. We cannot leave 96% of the accounts to do whatever they want only because 4% of them are legitimate and doesn't deserve that. Besides, such legitimate users should not have any problems earning 10 Merits to get their restrictions lifted. It is not that difficult if you are actually legitimate and not here only for bounty hunting and you know the basic rules of the forum and posting.
And I wish you all the best luck for convincing theymos. Its not going to be easy, I can tell you that. |
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Oh, I don´t think to be in the wrong place.
What you think =/= the truth! This forum is called "Suspicious signatures campaign !!!". Isn´t it?
The forum is called "Bitcointalk",you dumbass. This thread is named as "Suspicious signature campaign!!! icoforums.net", emphasis on the bold part. And ALL signatures showed by members in it seem suspicious to me because the companies respectively the ICOs behind them seem high-grade suspicious: BQT - IOU - SOAR - Chip Mixer - omnity.io - bustadice and Nexybit. Here the homepage of Nexybit: https://www.nexybit.com/ref/Aveatrex I find it very interesting that member "Aveatrex" obviously seems to be the main bounty campaigner for that dubious project, and I also find as ridiculous that Chinese NEXYBIT exchange declares itself as "The most advanced Bitcoin Token Exchange"! That´s high-grade fake. Let´s discuss about my right to report my opinon in this forum after having finished my investigation! Perhaps its results will get - unaspectedly - "sensationell" for the starters und supporters. There is a campaign called SOAR? Oh well, there have been worse campaigns shitposting bounties. And, Chipmixer and bustadice aren't ICOs. One is a mixing site and other is a gambling site, both are well reputed, and long running campaigns. @DarkStar_, he's mad at you because you rejected his alt.  Let´s discuss about my right to report my opinon in this forum after having finished my investigation! Perhaps its results will get - unaspectedly - "sensationell" for the starters und supporters. Create another thread and "discuss" your right to report your opinion. Go ahead! The platform(hypothetical) is all yours.
Get rid of the annoying font. |
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My suggestion is to restrict users below Member rank from posting outside the Bounties sub-board if they are wearing signatures.
How will they wear signatures if they can't access the bounties board. We have a little bigger issue here, bots spreading malware, bots getting paid 1000$ for bumping ANN threads, and other things. What you're suggesting here, has been suggested before, but with little tweaks to it. What they have said is, just remove the ability to wear signature for users under Member rank. But theymos wouldn't implement it, there are legitimate reasons to wear a signature: I'm using the maximum length for a Newbie signature, and I wouldn't want to lose it.
As much as I hate spam, restricting legit users isn't the right solution. I'd like to see spam banned faster, especially the army of useless "great project" posters in the altcoin section.
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Dude..I love the site,you should actually add a lot more information, it would make your site even better.
Most of the things are familiar, but overall they can be very handy. Keep it up, buddy!
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I think this is a reason. Never do it again mate. You can get banned again and again if you continually violate the forum's rules. Stop encouraging him to break forum rules. He is NOT allowed to come back to this forum again. If you're perma-banned, you as a person are not allowed to create any more accounts. Both of you bozos,should read the rules. |
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Dude, Coolcryptovator is a decent person, at least I hope he is. He helps in busting alts, scam ICOs and helps the community big time, and you want to ban him just because his English is imperfect? So people should be banned if they aren't native English speakers? Great, why not make Donald Trump the admin of bitcointalk, rename it to Trumptalk and let's make America great again!
Edit: fixed typo.
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I want more sources, especially for local sections. This user is correctly asking to be a french source and being ignored since february . is it right? its the merit system perfect??? i don't think so. Dawg, I ain't perfect(also I think you mentioned me by mistake, cause I ain't no French man or woman), and theymos has trust issues when it comes to giving users some responsibility of helping the forum out. I do think we need more merit sources,but the current merit sources are awesome at doing what they do best. Foxpup and suchmoon are the most generous merit sources and they have spread their merits all across the boards. So just wait, theymos will do what would be the best for the forum. |
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Addition to # 52
Thatīs not all. There is more uncredible signature bounty campaign for HOWEYCOINS Seems like you don't realize what the reality is. Stop jumping to immediate conclusions. With all that money he could hire the. Best posters in the forum
They would be creating very good threads in icoforum . This could even make that forum a good one.
Snow he is hiring spammers and probably will not pay anyone. If he pays, he is wasting money because people will just spam "good project" there lol
What a waste.
Well, those people who post only "good project" type of posts are paid more than the best posters. And who cares about spam, when you get money. |
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yep. This nerd deserves to be a merit source. theymos,give him the lightning sword, to him at least. boa sorte, bitmover.
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Were you banned because of evil IP? So for that you paid? But then again, evil IP bans only occur when registering.
I think he was temp banned for 14 days and he doesn't know how to say it? And his "friend" got banned for 7 days.
Either way, OP wait it out, either the mods will answer what your case is, or you'll have to wait for your ban to be lifted.
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