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From $10 to $10,000 or even more, probably. There is no limit. It is just that your gains depend on your initial investment in trading, and so does your losses. So it totally depends on you if you want to risk more in trying to gain more, or you want to play it safe and go in with a small amount. Totally up to you.
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Managers: Good managers don't accept useless projects, and bad managers (Having negative trust from past) don't care about reputation kind of things. So putting them on a list would make no difference for them. And if people invest in a project that is being managed by someone with a negative trust, they themselves are responsible for their loss if the project turns out being a scam. Legitimate people having a legitimate mindset would not hire someone like that to manage their project as it affects their reputation too.
Promoters: Again, people don't invest their money into a project just by seeing a promotion by someone, but they at least reach out to their announcements and managements etc, and if they find untrustworthy people in the project and still invest, it is their own responsibility.
Companies: Listing companies who would never appear again once they get what they were hunting for is totally useless IMO. If there are to be another scam attempt, it would be with another name, with another imaginary team and staff.
Basically, that thread would only contain information that would not be at all helpful for people to stay away from scams. Besides, who reads Stickies these days? As long as I know most of the new comers don't even open them.
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But if I avoided lending to other Newbies, would I be ok?
There is not always a trusted member behind a Legendary account, nor Newbies are always scammers. It's not the rank you should consider when lending, but other things like collateral or other loaning principles that I might don't know. Because, even though account sales are discouraged, but they are still happening in the hidden (mostly in Social Media) which means that even a new member can come up to you with a very high ranked account to ask for a loan with the hope that you might consider his request seeing the rank he has on his account. But never do that mistake. It is always better to double check than regretting later. I hope you don't get scammed. Good luck! |
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Try this:
1) Go to: Control Panel > Appearance and Personalization > Fonts > Fonts Settings/Change Fonts Settings
2) Check "Hide fonts based on language settings" if it is unchecked.
3) Click "Ok" and check if it worked.
By the way, this is not a problem for which a solution is very rare to be found. You could simply Google it and you would have a solution more quickly than posting here and waiting for someone to answer.
You can still do that, if what I suggested does not work for you.
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I do not want to argue about it, bruv. However, have you check what you have sent? or I am not clear of what I have said? Anyway, I will just leave this quote below for you to check what we are talking about: All bans in the modlog are autobans, and permanent.
This is what I was talking about: Autobans ban the account involved only, you can still log in and do everything normally, just can't post or pm. It also adds units of evil to the IPs used, a new account created using these IPs will need to pay a fee. Units of evil increase with additional bans. Nuking is essentially an autoban+deletion of posts. Manual bans are only available to admins, and are generally configured the same way as above, though it's possible to increase the scope of the ban to include things like registering from certain emails/providers, ips, subnets, hostnames, etc. Can also add multiple accounts to the same ban. It's also possible to prevent banned users from logging in at all using the banned account, this will prevent them from being able to read the forum and access pm's too though |
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If that is how you think it should go, considering the amount of spam, then here is a better suggestion:
Take out a board or two, and change the name of the forum from "bitcointalk.org" to "craptalk.org".
Because it is not only one section that is flooded with these kind of things, but it is almost the whole forum that is under attack right now. Name one section after them, and they will compel you to name another too as there is no stopping for them right now. They just get into a section and don't leave it until it starts bleeding heavily, and then they jump out and run towards another.
This won't stop unless these "spam zombies" die. They will keep spreading, and we will keep getting affected by this if our superhero (theymos) don't come up with some poison to be expelled on them that would vanish them for at least some time.
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The Beginners board probably gets a lot more traffic than the Serious discussion board. If you check out the replies on both of the threads you posted, you will probably find some merit worthy replies in the one that is posted in Beginners section as well, but as you said, there aren't a lot of people carrying sMerits in that section to Merit those posts because most of the times people ignore these threads assuming they will be full of crap, which is true most of the times. On the other side, some people who frequently visit Beginners & Help section and they too have sMerits on them but they probably don't care to reward the posts that at least deserve to be appreciated.
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Week 2 has ended!
Hello everyone, payments for week 1 have been sent
Week 2* ArkiCrypto has been negged and received no payment, and will also be removed from week 2.
Week 3*
I confirm that I have received the payment for the posts I could make this week. Thanks Zapo. |
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Cryptocurrencies are mostly decentralized being that there cannot be anything like that within its own space. Though any specific country or state can do such things to protect their citizens from scams.
I once heard that Russia is forming a foundation that will examine ICOs, take all their information and staff before they are available to its citizens so that if the project tries to run away and scam its investors, they can catch them and save the money of their people.
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Amazing analysis!
I personally always try to take part in discussions from almost every other section/subsection of the forum, but as you said, not all of us have enough knowledge to contribute useful opinions everywhere. Though some times I skip sections because of the excessive spam in there, as I don't want to get into the eyes of people as a spammer.
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Any advice? Sure! Read through the forum before you start posting, specially the rules and guidelines. Here: And move your thread to Beginners & Help section. Follow these instructions to move your thread: 1. Scroll down to the end of this page. 2. Look at the bottom left side of the page, where you will find two options: (1) move topic (2) delete topic 3. Click on "move topic" and on the next screen, select the section where you want it to be moved (Beginners & Help in this case), and write "moved to Beginners & Help" in the text box provided there. 4. Click on "Move topic", and you are done. |
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@theymos, "sir",  We respect the fact that you are too busy with your own things, and it is not easy at all to do all this along with that, but at least things, like assigning more mods for patrolling, a welcome message for new users containing rules and guidelines, requiring at least 1 Merit to become Jr. member, or forcing campaigns or their managers to do their work and discourage spam, that don't require a lot of time and effort nor any extra thinking over them should be implemented ASAP. Postponing every single one of these issues will only make them worse in future IMO. |
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Broken grammar, useless question, and wrong section. I wish you could get at least one of them correct. By the way, how did you manage to get those Merits?  Wait, is mymenace your cousin or something?  It is totally cool to share Merits between relatives, right? |
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Burst posting is probably the reason why you have been banned. You have posted 11 messages in just 7 minutes of time. You did not even wait for one minute before posting again.    Though it is not mentioned in the rules, but burst posting is an offensive act as that is considered spamming. |
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Ultimately they will get tired and frustrated and then leave the forum.
That ultimate process would take a very long time and would cost a lot of damage to the forum. Besides, I don't think they would get tired as long as they are free to farm enough activities to reach Jr. member and then start spitting garbage out of their mouths to earn a few bucks. That is what they are here for, and that is what they will keep doing for years unless they are restricted from the very beginning from this until they behave themselves. |
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The prices of Altcoins mostly depend on the price of Bitcoin. When Bitcoin crashes, they crash too, and when Bitcoin start recovering again, they seem to get back on the track as well. So if I had the funds for investing, It would have been Bitcoin for me to invest them in, because the time now can be so precious for an investor seeing the price of it being so down. It will probably earn you some profit if you invest in Bitcoin right now, but I'm not sure where Altcoins are gonna end up.
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They reach to a respectable rank and then they offer their managing services to the community. If they are lucky, they get hired and then its their chance to do it in a very appropriate way so that they get hired again by someone else, and if they don't do it right, they end up getting no offers again.
To be honest, I think there are already enough trusted bounty/campaign managers right now that no one (knowing this fact) would hire someone new unless they are planning to scam the users.
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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.)
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. people will come up with something else to make things here ,a virtual nightmare.
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 wish you all the best luck for convincing theymos. Its not going to be easy, I can tell you that.
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. |
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How will they wear signatures if they can't access the bounties board.
"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. We have a little bigger issue here, bots spreading malware, bots getting paid 1000$ for bumping ANN threads, and other things.
I know, and I never said anything about ignoring them, but that doesn't mean we should put aside another noticeable issue only because there are other issues. We can think of solving them all, one by one. And I have just suggested something that can be implemented for a change. 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.
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. 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.
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. I do not think you brainstormed your idea properly. If Jr. Member is wearing signature is not able to post outside signature then what happen to Jr. Member post that is posted without signature and afterward user start using signature. Would you delete those post then ?
No deletion is required. The posts in history of an account are not counted for a signature campaign. So a signature campaign would not pay a user for first posting and then wearing the signature later on. The posts he made would most likely disappear and no one would see them, and the primary purpose of running a signature campaign is to promote the project, not just to make it visible on an account for a while. Actually I feel correct solution is to increase Merit requirement to 10 merits for Jr. and 50 for the member.
Whether they earn 10 Merits and become Jr. member and then join signature campaigns, or earn 10 Merits to become Member and do that, it is all the same. And I think 50 Merits to reach Member rank is a lot to ask. I believe , spam should be discouraged from all ranks, though percentage of people in other ranks are less but why should we read anybody's spam post?
....a legendary which didn't get any merit so far is not any better than the new people coming in staying at 0 merit. So any restrictions should apply to everyone.
Restricting all ranks from wearing signature is also a good suggestion. If a user does not get at least 1 Merit from the last 30-50 posts he made, he should not be able to wear a signature. His signature should only be enabled again if he manages to earn 1 Merit, and then again if he doesn't earn 1 within that range, it should get disabled again. |
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