I'm still getting over my shock at "herominers" posting something besides an ad for his pools...

I could use some help here. I've been relentlessly pursuing a bump-bot ring operating in the following 5 threads (perhaps more): NEOGAME.IO, SafeInsure, BIOHAL, DBX and Neluns.

Unfortunately, while I did manage to get all of the users involved in the first group banned, it seems the mods are dragging their feet with the relentless onslaught of more bots/stolen accounts that have been brought online in the last few weeks. Pretty much every user in the above threads is plagiarizing each other and in some cases I have already found and reported 4 separate instances of plagiarism per user (with a link to a/the source post), but they still aren't getting banned.

Honestly, I am about to give up on reporting because just 1 example of plagiarism should suffice, much less 3 or more.

In fact, given that there is no organic traffic in the above threads, I'd really like to see them locked and/or trashed, as they seem to be violating the "no incentivizing of posting" rule. However, just getting a few more people to find/report plagiarism alongside me should hopefully get the mods moving.

SUQA looks like a completely different - and much less compelling - coin, so not really a big deal.

In other news, you probably want to pause mining while the chain split issues get sorted out. It looks like that perennial spammer, the herominers pool, went off the reservation a few hours ago.

The GUI wallet is lightweight - if by that you mean it uses remote nodes to sync to the blockchain rather than store it locally - and it has been working fine for several transfers to and from stex.com.

Stop spamming your pool ads everywhere. See stickied rule at top of this section:

Correct.

With a cryptonight ASIC.

I just got 2.5.1-JK running on two different rigs and it was painless for one and quite painful for the other. The painless one is my "daily driver" desktop with a single RX 570 and Ryzen 5 1600, Windows 10 1803 (ie - just got the fall update), AMD 18.5.1 driver, and MSI AB 4.4.0 set to -25% power, 1200 core and 1900 mem.

The problematic rig is 4x RX 560 2GB on an Onda D1800 6-GPU mining mobo running Windows 10 1709 (ie - NOT updated), AMD 18.6.1 (ie - newer driver) and uses OverDrivenTool to setup the GPUs rather than MSI AB. This rig kept crashing either during the bin file compiling or as soon as it logged into the pool. After wrestling with different things for an hour I finally tried bumping up all the voltages in the mem and core clock profiles by 25mV and that stopped the crashing. Of course, that increases the power consumption slightly, but the hashrate is otherwise the same (this is mining Lethean (formerly IntenseCoin), which is still running what is essential CNv7).

You've been droning on about how unfair the merit system is for quite awhile now. Why do you care so much, anyway if legendaries mainly give out merit to other legendaries, etc.? In fact, why do you care about a system that has absolutely no relevance in the real world. It's not like the barista at Starbucks is going to give you a discount on your double soy-boy latte for saying you've earned x number of merits on BCT, after all.

I turned off everything except for a rig with RX560/570 cards that are mining a CN-fork coin and just barely making $0.20/day of profit after electricity. If I were selling what I mined on a daily basis this wouldn't be worth the bother, but since I am hodling the coins the modest profitability means I am making more coins per day than I could get from buying for the same cost as the electricity.

However, if the profit turns into a loss - as it has with the Equihash and Ethash coins I was mining - then I will turn this last rig off, too, and buy coins instead.

You have 1 measly merit and you already signed up for one of the shittiest shitcoin sig campaigns around. Please tell me more about your first world problems vis-a-vis merit.

(Unpaid) bump - I've been reporting more users for plagiarism in the Neluns, Neogame.io, DBX, SafeInsure and Biohal threads but I think at this point these threads need to be either locked or outright trashed as more newbies are being brought online to bump and not all of them have committed plagiarism (lawd knows I'm looking for it).

This was at turns hilarious and terrifying so I had to check out rucapri0's post history and found a lot of posts in Russian. I was very curious to see if the Russian was gibberish, too, but Google seems able to make sense of it:


Translation:

Everyone has long understood that where there is good feedback, the cryptoindustry is ready to pay very generously. So enjoy. The problem is that most often these ratings are trusted by beginners.

Which I would classify as more of a generic shitpost, rather than the epic "burly rubberneck loci" of his English ramblings.

Hmm... the phrase I underlined is an interesting point which I hadn't thought of despite that I already agreed with your 10 merits to enable sigs suggestion. I definitely would be freer with handing out merits if it took 10 to enable sigs and though I would still check posting history because that's just the way I am, I rather suspect I wouldn't be nearly so thorough about it - just skim the first page, rather than actually read each post on the first 2-3 pages. But this is mainly because of the new form of insidious bump-bot I've been hunting, which engages in "low value discussion" (that is, a two-way conversation that is devoid of real content, as opposed to low value posting, which is basically unidirectional).

I'm mostly in DdmrDdmr's camp, too, but I also get the point hilariousandco is making. If newbies haven't made at least a couple of decent posts in the month since the new requirements for jr. member took effect then it's probably safe to say they will never get better. Conversely, if a former shitposter/bounty hunter has managed a few good posts in that time then I am less opposed to meriting them. I, personally, won't merit anyone whose post history mostly consists of bounty reports, but that's just a personal preference and, like I said, I see the point hilariousandco is making w/r/t encouraging those users who (might) have realized the error of their shitposting ways.

From the "No Shame In My Game" department:

Point taken! That said, the bots never sleep, and they never get drunk! Though I'm not entirely sure of that last one...

Yo Welsh! I'm starting to go a little crazy from the bump-bots I've been chasing after as outlined in this thread: How to deal with bumping via fake conversation?.

The first batch of bots I got banned were all found to have committed multiple instances of plagiarism, but it took multiple reports to get them banned. The current group are mainly engaging in mindless conversation with far less plagiarism, but even after identifying two instances of plagiarism for several users I still find them posting and the reports are marked unhandled 2+ days later. Needless to say, this is highly demotivating, but if it is an issue with how I am reporting them I'll gladly change tactics. Here's  typical example of a report I sent in:

plagiarism - copied from another bump-bot: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4555585.msg44863033#msg44863033

So, is this a case of the global mod(s) still considering me somewhat untrustworthy for not having enough reports (394 at 99% accuracy) or incorrect report format or overworked mods (ok, that one is a given) or does it really now take multiple instances of plagiarism to get banned?!?

Quoted for posterity. Merit beggars tend to not get merit, but often get red trust.

File under: "How long is a piece of string?"
Alternate category: "I can haz marits?"