Sorry to hear about your losses. There is already a massive thread on the issue:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4612714

You can go there to look for advice... though unless you live in Singapore there probably isn't much you can do.

You can also write comments in their main thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2791504.0

It is self-moderated but they rarely delete comments.

ROI isn't the same thing as having more coins. You can buy and thousand coins for a dollar each and if the price goes to zero (which is what I strongly suspect will happen with this project, otherwise they wouldn't need to hire a cheesy bumping service in order to promote itself), then your ROI is -100%.

Really, I can't believe anybody would hire you to bump their project with nonsense, low-intelligence questions that could all be answered by looking at the project's website.

Its obvious that the only other person here besides you is me. Nobody cares about this project. Not even a bumping service can save a poorly executed idea.

Defaulting on a loan is a pretty standard reason to receive a negative trust. It may be argued that it is one of the most objective of standards.

"Negative impact on the actual victim" = "little red mark by his name", does it not?

I should clarify that 37 is the total number of times sent... you may have sent 1000 merits between those 37 instances (but I doubt it).


Thanks, I just played around with tr and td and think I figured it out... Will fix when I have some more time.

Getting a negative trust shouldn't dissuade somebody from acting like a decent person, or doing the right thing.

I still have mine, keeping it for a rainy day.



I had an avatar of the dog wearing the hat but I didn't save it :/

Using DdmrDdmr's Bitcointalk Merit Dashboard, I did a rough analysis of all merits sent to Deleted topics/replies. It should be noted that this database counts all merits sent to the Investigations board as "Deleted" (are there other reasons why they would be put in the "Deleted" category?).

Out of 3997 users who had Deleted merits, the average amount of times sent per user was 1.91, with the standard deviation being 10.5.

Here is a list of the top 20 users by total number of instances:

Name   Rank   Instances
xandry   Staff   640
OgNasty   Donator   73
suchmoon   Legendary   60
frodocooper   Staff   55
bones261   Legendary   54
dbshck   Staff   46
Vod   Legendary   44
Foxpup   Legendary   41
paxmao   Sr. Member   39
LoyceV   Legendary   37
Vadi2323   Legendary   34
chimk   Sr. Member   29
vapourminer   Legendary   29
LFC_Bitcoin   Legendary   25
o_e_l_e_o   Hero Member   24
The Pharmacist   Legendary   23
DdmrDdmr   Sr. Member   22
deisik   Legendary   22
EFS   Staff   22
DarkStar_   Legendary   20

If you arrange members (with 10 instances or more) by the ratio of instances to Total Sent Merits, a different picture emerges:

Name   Rank   Instances   Tot. sMerit   Ratio
Vangardo   Sr. Member   17   31   0.55
fxpc   Sr. Member   10   21   0.48
xandry   Staff   640   1450   0.44
deisik   Legendary   22   74   0.30
ImHash   Hero Member   14   90   0.16
dumbtool45   Sr. Member   12   81   0.15
Parodium   Sr. Member   10   97   0.10
ace4549   Sr. Member   11   111   0.10
fruit   Legendary   11   118   0.09
foserfox   Legendary   13   141   0.09
Vadi2323   Legendary   34   390   0.09
TimeTeller   Hero Member   12   187   0.06
pawel7777   Legendary   10   193   0.05
richardsNY   Legendary   11   217   0.05
OgNasty   Donator   73   1742   0.04
o_e_l_e_o   Hero Member   24   775   0.03
ebliever   Legendary   10   327   0.03
frodocooper   Staff   55   1878   0.03
vapourminer   Legendary   29   1335   0.02
The Pharmacist   Legendary   23   1215   0.02

If you'd like me to give you the stats or ratio for any given member (based on my data set), let me know and I'll post it in this thread.

I apologize for the ugly formatting; don't know how to fix that except by investing a lot of time into it or else posting images of the spreadsheet.

Oh, right, "work"... Offices, co-workers and bosses and such... totally forgot about that 

Anyway, probably a good call.

Every word and every scene is perfectly placed. There's absolutely no filler. The Cohen Brothers have a lot of masterpieces, my other favorites include:

- Fargo
- No Country for Old Men
- Burn After Reading
- A Serious Man

I would probably like Raising Arizona if I rewatched it but its been so long, I don't remember how I feel about it...

LOL @ Bob... did your photo comment get nuked so soon or did you have a change of heart?

I was just reminded of how odd it is that we have such a programmed reaction to seeing bits usually covered.

"People forget that the brain is the biggest erogenous zone." - Jackie Treehorn

"On you, maybe." - The Dude

That's a fair question -- I looked at the source of the cached content and sure enough, it was from September 2017, after the post was written. It also appears to be just a random collection of snippets of articles and comments...

I have to retract my statement and admit that particular comment doesn't appear to be plagiarized.

There might have been plagiarism in a different comment, however -- somebody else will have to continue the hunt.

You can't post URLs to photos? Its been a while since I was a Newbie, I don't remember...

Also plagiarism.

Your post:


Original:


This low-level spam has been copied and pasted about 160 times according to Google.

OK, here's some questions.

1. Where is your team?
2. Do you have a GitHub repository?
3. Why does your white paper only include a few paragraphs from Wikipedia and your coin specifications?

I agree that a half-baked project is not necessarily a scam but its pretty easy for anybody to put out a plagiarized white paper and then say "it was a mistake" after they get caught. It looks like you quickly threw something together after getting caught and are now claiming it is your "version 1.0".

His comment referenced me posting a news story about Monero. Has nothing to do with Dash. The Dash part of his comment has nothing to do with finance. It stemmed from when I asked him what was up with his multi-year obsession with trolling Dash. If you want to argue that does have to do with finance, OK fine, but as far as them actually being a fraud is concerned, that point is not well evidenced by iCEBREAKER. As I said previously I don't even hold Dash anymore, I was just intrigued when I saw iCEBREAKER had returned to continue his epic trolling saga.

After seeing my comment, he dug up and commented on several old threads of mine, looking for a reason to red tag me I suppose.


The difference is he left his rating for me spreading what he considered to be "fake news." Has nothing to do with finance or transactions. My ratings all implicate the user of having financially-related motivations and being involved in what is potentially a scam, and they are backed by evidence displayed in the referenced link.

Do you believe "being critical of some one" is a good reason to leave a negative trust? If the answer is "no," then you should remove iCEBREAKER from your inclusions.

No, I just looked at his first page of posts and saw they were all about Deep Onion. Skipped to a middle one, all about Deep Onion. So I went to the beginning of his comments and finally found one not about that project. I copy/pasted the first sentence in Google with quotes around it, saw that the link was redirected to some spam b.s., then saw there was a cached version of the article.

Screenshots aren't 100% proof but they are a lot better than just quoting the message. If you can include a screenshot of the email, with the subject title / to and from email addresses, it might help your case (emphasis on might).

You're not going to like this, but it appears that your very first post was plagiarized, even though the source is no longer online (using cached link):

Your post:


Original:

This is pretty funny.

Old white paper: 4461 words
New white paper: 371 words

Here's the kicker: the new white paper is largely taken from Wikipedia. While they did source Wikipedia in the new version, its quite obvious they haven't an original thought in their heads.

I would be wary of any project that doesn't take the time to come up with their own description of their own product. Also, having an anonymous team is a big no-no in this day and age...

You were chastising newbs for not buying BCH.


K... You're entitled to your opinions, but I can't guarantee they won't be mocked.


Well, my name is just bullshit I made up, so I wasn't offended. Apology accepted.