I think this thread serves as a pretty good reason as to not reveal my source. Or do anything to help you for that matter.

You have a habit of picking on people who are weaker than you. That’s not a good quality and I hope other people take notice. Based on this thread, you apparently also pick on people through proxies, which is just childish. 

Like I said, “I don’t think I had the right to make you deny it and I now don’t fault you for not responding”.

I’ll lock this thread sometime tomorrow.

What kind of nonsense is it to ask if that statement is a threat.

It’s too bad I couldn’t care less about your social media, nor do I have any interest in your social media. I was told about the baby by someone else. Perhaps you should be less decisive and less people will dislike you. I doubt you will take that advice because you seem to have a need to be in the middle of everything and to be in the middle of drama. It’s like you are trying to be the popular girl in high school.

Im glad that’s true. I do wish you had said that earlier, but I don’t think I had the right to make you deny it and I now don’t fault you for not responding.

My advice to you and anyone else reading this is to stay away from pills, especially recreationally.

I don’t think this person was registered when this thread was opened.

Its too bad I never doxed nor tried to dox you. I only wrote things that you have written in various old posts. You are upset that you don’t get special privileges and special rules to not say things that you have said.

Based on this thread, it looks like you are very petty and vindictive. I am curious if this is why you decided to start spying on every forum member.

BTW, all this proves is that I have posted in small number of similar threads as PN7. The words in question would only be written in a small number of topics that are not common.

This is a great point! The underlying root cause of the YoBit spammers promoting a scam exchange is they want to receive the monitory reward that Yobit pays out. I agree that wolwoo should immidiately remove his signature and maybe the OP will forgive him.

Even if you give YoBit the maximum benefit of the doubt, they are still very shady and have engaged in many pump and dump scams and appear to be willing to sell a listing on their exchange for next to nothing. I don’t think YoBit being a scam is even boarder line, it is very clear cut. I think YoBit should be transparently a scam to everyone else. This is not me trying to sow discord within those promoting this exchange.

I don’t think Rodger Ver is allowing YoBit to advertise on his forum.

As an update to this thread:

The information I received was from someone who I trusted at the time, but I have seen to bend and stretch the truth. A review of my other private conversations with this person reflects even more egregious examples of this, including examples of while I cannot affirmatively say is a lie, some representations are what I would consider to be dishonest. I am not going to comment on my source, as I previously told this person I would keep his identity secret, although some may guess based on semi recent forum events.

When I opened this thread, I took what this person said at face value and did not ask to see any underlying evidence. The claimed evidence was already shaky. For this I was wrong and I apologize.

OP, are you amaclin— https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=197593 ?

I don’t doubt the information is already being misused.

The thing is that the people who are spying on forum members don’t reasonably own the data they are collecting. Ditto for those who are scraping posts and other information. So I don’t think it would be fair for these people to make the decision to disclose or not.

Most of the time when a third party adds some additional functionality to a social media platform, they connect via API and only request the specific information needed to display the additional information to their user. It is unusual for a third party to have their own database of information they display.

When someone posts on the forum, they are making the informed implicit decision to trust theymos with various information. With so many people spying on forum members and scraping various information from the forum, their information is being given to people they don’t necessarily trust and probably aren’t aware their information is being collected by these people. 

This is precisely what happens when you allow users to what amounts to spy on forum members. There is a job posting on Facebook (working for the company) for someone whose job it is to detect and stop scraping. I have been told this person would be on a fairly large team/group of people who have similar responsibilities. Other social media platforms have similar roles and all have policies prohibiting scraping (often being defined as non-human, or inauthentic or similar).

There should be a balance between allowing everyone to do whatever they want and having minor regulations, while empathizing the need for regulations to be minimally burdensome/costly, while providing a real benefit to the community as a whole that it cannot otherwise realize.

Who knows how much additional data certain people has on forum users, probably a decent amount, and probably enough to make a lot of people uncomfortable if they knew exactly what was being collected on them by third parties, even if the information is “public”.  

It is the deception that in my eyes triggered the flag. The merit he received will allow him to potentially appear more competent than otherwise and will allow him to potentially earn money from having that merit (this is not assuming he sells it — he could earn money without selling the merit).

Obvious merit farming. Using deception to obtain merit under fraudulent pretenses.

I am responding to a complaint about me and as a result any local rule prohibiting my posting won’t be enforced. The same tends to be true regarding ban evasion rules when someone is banned and responding to a scam accusation (or even to make one).

Sadly, I suspect that as a result of this, merit will flow much less freely to newer users.

I think the evidence is pretty clear that you are involved in serious merit abuse and merit farming, I strongly suspect among other newbie accounts. The evidence can speak for itself. This goes way beyond giving a few merit you received via the merit airdrop to yourself(/your “friend”). You were likely using an alt to ask a question in very poor English, and immediately use a text spinner to give an answer to the question to get merit.

Why are you posting a typing test? I thought the posts you received merit for answering questions from other newbies were the result of text spinning. I would say this more or less shows with certainty that you knew about the posts you were responding to ahead of time.

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@eddie13- i am still trying to figure out how to best run certain tests to confirm who this person is. He has posted what looks like an indication of having a gambling problem. If you look in investigations, you might be able to follow a link to find someone else with an apparent gambling problem who is somewhat close to TMAN. Other people who are close to the person I suspect this to be have also sent merit.

Being that other suspicious newbies have sent this person merit, I suspect this to be more than a one off situation.

I would question why suchmoon, who likes to spy on forum members didn’t previously catch any of this. Perhaps because someone who is powerful enough for her to not want to upset is involved.  

Fixed. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=1208

No, I am not saying that person is your alt.

I want to look closer before I name the person specifically, but based on who he has received merit from and what he is talking about, I have a pretty strong suspicion.

Edit: I am not sure if the person wants to come clean, or if TMAN wants to come clean, as I am will to speculate that he knows who this person is.

It should be pretty obvious who the person who received that merit is. At least to those who are paying attention.

I think the 50 merit is probably excessive for the post he wrote. He is probably receiving other excessive merit as well. There is a non-zero chance this turns into a merit related scandal.

I had suspected that hacker1001.. was a bought account. IIRC, he kinda came out of nowhere and lent money to marcotheminer.

I think him previously being an ICO bump spammer would support the above.

Even without making subjective, case by case judgements, if you control what the algorithm is, you control the outcome. If you control the inputs of the algorithm (such as by controlling who the merit sources are), you have even greater control over the outcome. Making the algorithm public reduces control somewhat but it makes it somewhat subject to manipulation.

Well the thing is that once a person has a strong grip on being on DT, as Lauda does, it is very difficult to get them off, even if they are scamming or doing something very unethical or illegal.

Lauda should have been excluded from DT when he tried to extort zeroaxl, and anyone who kept Lauda on their trust lists should have been excluded themselves. Lauda basically avoided this by denying he did anything wrong, even though the facts were undisputed and by using strong language that removing him from DT was amounting to helping scammers.

The same is true when he was part of an escrow team and over a million dollars worth of various coins were unaccounted for and none of the escrow agents would answer any questions. Again Lauda denied doing anything wrong and said there wasn’t anything requiring him to give an accounting of what happened to all the money he collected.

If you can come away unscathed and still be on DT after being entrusted with a million dollars that goes missing without even giving an explanation or answering any meaningful questions, there isn’t anything that will cause Lauda to be removed from DT.