That's incredibly sad.  Not the "incurable disease" part of your post, but the fact that your whole family is likely a bunch of bounty spammers. 

Hate to say it, but hard-luck stories don't get met with anything other than cynicism.  I would also add that your poor health has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that you stole content and passed it off as your own. 

Word up.  I don't know how anyone can navigate this forum without having most sections on ignore. 

I've got the entire array of altcoin sections on ignore, all of the local boards, and most of the technical ones (since those are above my head and I wouldn't have much to contribute).  I can't imagine how I'd find any good threads if I didn't have at least the ANN and altcoin bounty sections on ignore.

But I agree--as long as the spam is confined to the bounty and ANN sections, who gives a crap?  What I'd like to see is an end to the signature campaign part of these bounties.  I'd love it if all sig campaigns paid in bitcoin, recruited participants in the Services section, and were managed by reputable members who know what a shitposter looks like.  This is a recurring fantasy of mine, and while it's unrealistic, it keeps me going here.

You're stating the obvious here, and there's no point even discussing this.

Anything you own, whether it's gold, crypto, cash, or comic books, can get stolen if you don't have proper security measures in place.  That's been known as long as there's been thievery in this world.

I haven't seen any evidence of this claim, and I'm assuming it's complete bullshit.

ICOEthics hasn't done anything wrong that I've noticed and in fact he's done a pretty good job so far in exposing scams.  And believe me, if he levels an accusation at a person which turns out not to be true, that'll be called out by the community.  All I see in this thread is a bunch of  butthurt.

And FYI, admins aren't going to do jack shit for you.

It's good that you have a positive attitude and want to spread love among the newbies in the form of merit.

Every merit source has his or her own standards as to what constitutes a good post.  What you're going to find (if it's not obvious already) is that Newbies and Jr. Members tend to post only for their bounty campaigns, and those posts are invariably lazy, poorly-written, and don't say anything interesting.  My advice would be to NEVER merit posts like that.

If a newbie post is clear in what they're trying to say, and it doesn't look like it was written in leet-speak, feel free to merit it.  I tend to be very picky, but that's just me.

Be judicious when meriting posts.  You don't want to give them out to someone who's going to sell their sMerits or merit their alt accounts.  Good luck, and congrats on being selected as a merit source.

You're not getting what's being said here.  You're not only not reading between the lines, you're not even reading the lines themselves.

You got busted for plagiarism, which is a permaban offense.  In other words, you're finished on bitcointalk.  The ban won't be lifted.  It won't be lifted if you continue asking, whining, or giving excuses.  None of that matters.  Once you get banned for copy/pasting, that's it.  Done.

You are also not allowed to create new accounts here, and any alt accounts you have will be tagged with red if they're discovered.

Any other questions?

You have to watch out with these drugs and drugs like modafinil which are being offered without a prescription (though OP has stopped doing that).

Etizolam definitely works very much like a typical benzodiazepine (Xanax, Valium, Klonopin, Restoril, etc.).  There's potential for abuse including use as a date rape drug (though I haven't heard any stories about this happening.  Mixing etizolam with alcohol and other CNS depressants is a recipe for disaster, i.e., overdose.

I've noticed that some of the other offerings on OP's marketplace are also not supposed to be available without a prescription, like rasagiline (a Parkinson's drug) and ALL of the "Reuptake inhibitors" (Anafranil, amitriptyline, Wellbutrin) and stuff like oxytocin and desmopressin.

You're asking for trouble trying to maket these drugs on this forum and you have to be careful.

It's just ignorance.  My mother is totally averse to science and would probably believe a perpetual motion machine could exist if the huckster was confident and convincing enough.  But I'd trust my mother with my life.  There's a big difference between being stupid and being trustworthy.

But it's up to you.  If you don't trust the guy, you're well within your rights to give him a neg.  I just think it's pretty harsh.

As much as I respect Vod--and I respect him a great deal--I think he probably shouldn't have left that feedback for the reason he gave. 

Obviously joerogers8 is delusional if he thinks the Earth is flat, but I think his views on that are only loosely related to trust on bitcointalk.  There are a lot of folks who hold some very strange ideas, including religious people.  You could argue that Christians, Muslims, and Jews live their lives based on a book of fairy tales, but would I give them a neg on the forum?  No, not at all.

However, Vod is entitled to his opinion and is free to give a neg to whoever he deems worthy of one.  He's also the only one who can remove it, so this is an issue between joerogers8 and Vod.  We can all give our opinion on it, but none of us can do anything about it.

It's a tad bit off-topic here, but 2000 merits is nothing to sneeze at.  This is why Theymos ought to create ranks higher than Legendary--or at least do something to commemorate X number of merits or X number of activity. 

I used to think it was going to be a major problem when the influx of newbies started to rank up based solely on activity.  That would have allowed anyone to reach Legendary rank simply by meeting an activity quota.  Now, however, the chances of the average newbie ever reaching even Hero status seem infinitesimal.

On-topic:  I'll take a look through the list of members who are close to ranking up.  I'm glad such a list exists, because just randomly going through threads and members' post history is a huge waste of time.

That's an empty statement, because the only way it CAN be legal is if a pharmacy is presented with a valid prescription from a doctor.  Not only that, but it's a controlled substance.

How is it you can sell modafinil in the US without a prescription?  I realize etizolam is considered a "research drug" and can be sold as such, but modafinil needs a prescription.

Dude, we're not English teachers.  It's their choice whether they mangle the English language in an attempt to earn money, and you'll notice that many of the posts sound suspiciously similar.

You obviously haven't gotten cynical enough or you're completely blind as to what's going on.  Noobs like coolcryptovator who actually try to help are welcomed.  Others who obviously read nothing here and keep posting the same garbage are ridiculed.  If you don't like it, you're free to do as you please.  Newbies are obsessed with merits and rank because they spam for signature campaigns.

As far as the "utility" of a derogatory name--it's an honest statement of feeling and a mechanism for shunning.  You can disagree with it all you like.

Done.  I'd like to hear from the participants here, just for my own edification and just for their verification that they received everything they were due. 
 
Looks like this worked out, and I'm happy for that.  I never expected the participants to not get paid, but with that huge delay you never know what's happening behind the scenes.

The question that always comes to mind when I read posts like the above from noobs:  Why are you so concerned about newbies being inhibited from ranking up?  First of all, it isn't true.  We were all newbies at some point and every member you see with a rank higer than Jr. Member has ranked up.  Second, rank is only important here because you can earn more money having a higher rank.  Low-ranked members can still fully contribute and can learn everything there is to know about bitcoin.

Thus, members complaining about how they can't rank up get infinitesimally close to zero in the amount of sympathy they generate.

I pulled this statistic from teh interwibz:

Looks like 4 companies in the United States account for 92% of cigarettes sales.

If I'm not mistaken, back in the early 1900s there were far more tobacco companies in existence.  Competition drove a lot of them to consolidate with buyouts or drove the lesser companies into bankruptcy.  That's my recollection based on something I read a while back, and it could be accurate.  However, my point is that only a few tobacco firms survived and thrived.
 
In the early days of a new industry, there emerges an abundance of new companies trying to capitalize on the new technology.  It happened with railroads, cars, internet stocks, and more.  Keep in mind that very few survive and eventually become profitable.  I think this new marijuana stock trend is just like all those other examples I mentioned--while you might be able to make good money by day trading them, I think it's foolish to go long on any of them until they concoct a solid plan to become and remain profitable.

Word.  I don't know any of the altcoin bounty managers, but my gut feeling is that they shouldn't be trusted as merit sources--I base that on the fact that I've seen a lot of them who couldn't care less about the post quality of some of the members they select for their signature campaigns. 

I don't know how Theymos chose the 36 new merit sources, but hopefully those individuals are ones he trusts not to abuse the system by either selling merits or trading them with friends and/or alt accounts.

It would be much better if you didn't preface a post like this by stating what your real intentions are, i.e., to earn merits.  This would justifiably be construed as merit begging.

Everyone here knows gambling CAN be a problem, just like alcohol, sex, and drugs have the potential to be problems.  The fact is that most people who engage in all of these activities don't develop addictions.

There's already lots of help for problem gamblers, like Gamblers Anonymous and a tip I often hear around bitcointalk is that if you're a compulsive gambler you shouldn't be hanging around casinos, playing cards, or participating in discussions about gambling (unless they're related to how to overcome the problem of gambling addiction).

It's not a new issue here.

Then do what I do:  if they're making a post in meta and you suspect it's just to gain sympathy and maybe a merit, check the rest of that member's post history BEFORE 9/17/18.  If they've made any decent posts, feel free to give them merits.  

Also, I would suggest you don't need to rush to give out your sMerits.  Wait until you see a really good post and then pull the trigger on it.

I will echo this statement.  I remember how bad Meta was back when the merit system was introduced, and it's kind of funny--the newbie posts we're seeing now trying to beg for merits in what they consider stealth mode are almost exactly the same as the ones in January.

I would encourage members with sMerits to give--and especially merit sources--to ignore most noobie posts in Meta.  By all means, check their post history, and if they've made some really good ones feel free to give merit to those posts.  I just did that recently, but there was no way I was going to give the guy a merit for a Meta post which I felt was a veiled attempt to earn one.

Only when these newbie Meta shitposters realize that their strategy isn't working will they stop their attempts to spam Meta.  We have to do our part in not rewarding them for their garbage.  And yes, it'll eventually die down.  The average bounty hunter could care less about discussing the forum, except if the topic is merits.