FaucetBOX takes a 1% fee on Bitcoin deposits, and a maximum of 1.7% on any other coin. I have no idea where you got 5% from.
Keep in mind that they also have to pay the fees on withdrawals, which is what has eaten up a significant amount of their money. Because faucet owners did not care for the service, they moaned until the fees were lowered. This resulted in FaucetBOX making around a 1.25BTC loss from Bitcoin's fees of sending over the network. Granted, ads helped supplement this somewhat, but seemingly not enough.

It is very simple to see that this service was not profitable to run, and calling the people running it liars after tying to do nothing but please faucet owners is pissing on their grave.

It's a shame that FaucetBOX is closing, it will certainly leave a large hole in the micropayments industry.
It's been a pleasure helping out with FaucetBOX on the forum, and I wish Kazuldur and his team the best in the future!

Are you dense or just trying to put me in a bad light?

Your post (the one you so nicely put in huge letters in a previous post) is reporting bots who use PROFILE INFORMATION (E.G the Website, Skype etc boxes found on the profile page) to spam backlinks and such. That is NOT relevant to the point I am trying to make. When I said 'In addition, the livestream spam bots and others are all removed in a timely manor once reported' I was referring to, as I was in every single other post of mine on that topic, the bot's POSTS. The user accounts, profile information, website (everything that you have in the linked thread) is irrelevant to the point I am trying to make.
How's about the question that you ignored, how many of the accounts on your thread have made obvious spam posts that weren't deleted quickly?

Please stop trying to make me look like I'm shady when you seemingly cannot understand basic sentences. The archive is also useless; I won't be editing or removing any of my posts here.
Also, my apologies for going off topic.

From my time poking around the script I haven't found any sort of backdoor for bots. Since the code is open source, ask him to provide proof instead of making baseless accusations.

The problem isn't with the signature campaign its self, it's with the untrustworthy nature and shadiness of the service people would be advertising. Anyone sporting the signature at this time is advertising a service that is not trustworthy (as is shown by your trust score, especially so by receiving another negative just today) and is by extension can be seen as untrustworthy themselves. AFAIK that is why your signature campaign is not recommended, not how the campaign its self is run.

I don't think that all accounts that do that are bots, even if some are. I expect that a fair amount of them are real users trying to spam up their post count by shitting on the forum. The same real users that come to Meta crying when they get banned.

I read a lot more than I write on the forum, so my post count is definitely not as high as it could be.

I passed 82 days recently. If you want an up to date number you can check my Stats page.

Yes. How many of the accounts there have made obvious spam posts? From what I can see, the majority of the linked thread is talking about profile information, not posts, which I already addressed.

Just to be clear, I am talking about painfully obvious spam bots and their posts only. I know about the huge amount of shill/bot accounts that use profile information.

IIRC moderators run bots of their own to deal with consistent spambots which removes the post(s) fairly quickly. In addition, the livestream spam bots and others are all removed in a timely manor once reported - due mainly to the number of moderators on at a time.
Do you know of anything that says otherwise?

There are services online that bots can use to bypass captchas and such by getting humans to solve them for a small price (this is what the majority of captcha solving jobs in the Services section are). This is near impossible to stop, as it is essentially undetectable by a server (it looks just like a real user solved it). There is no real way to stop bots registering, the only way to beat them is through moderation.

I feel the moderators do a very good job in stopping bots from making a mess of the forum, the fact that you didn't know they existed proves that. The vast majority (if not all) bot posts I see are deleted in under a minute.

That sounds better. It would still include the huge amount of shill accounts around the forum, but is probably one of the best estimates we can get of the whole population.

From what I can see in the thread, no one is accusing you of account farming.
The list that you (and I) are on is DannyHamilton's - and by extension AGD's - ignore list. This is because every user wearing a paid signature was added to this list, regardless of post quality. If you want to be removed, you should contact Danny and AGD; this isn't the right place.

My apologies. After re-reading the reference thread, I can see that no proof was supplied and the claim may be invalid. I have removed it from the list, thanks.

My apologies for not updating this in a while, will try to keep on top of it more in the future.

Added both, thank you for reporting.

I have added your post as a reference to the OP. Thank you for posting.

I attempted to make a Greasemonkey script to check if a website was on the list and display a warning if it was a while back, however got too busy to finish it. Perhaps I will attempt to recreate it sometime.

While the VirusTotal link only showed one infection, which could easily be a false positive, the gains that it is advertising is obviously fake. Added to the list, thank you for your continued reports.

Please provide a Scam Accusation thread and I will add it to the list.

Then read the stickied topics in each section rather than making topics about questions that have been asked a million times before. It makes the forum a lot nicer to browse.

You have got an answer; you can lock this topic now. You can do that by pressing the 'lock topic' button in the bottom left hand side of the page.

I can't say I much agree with that part. What with the huge number of bots that register and post here, comparing the number of Legendary members to overall members wouldn't give an even less helpful number than what is already there. Regarding the rest, if I have time later I will consider calculating the ratios.

Continue to be active on the forum. As you can see here, the minimum activity for Legendary is 775. Considering you currently have 560, you have a minimum of 16 activity periods (32 weeks, ~7.3 months) before you qualify. Read the linked thread for more information.

If the virus is somewhat sophisticated it will spread to your USB drive just as easily as it was on your PC originally. It will then just copy to any other computer you plug it into.
The best way is to prevent it to begin with. Don't visit shady websites, don't download things from places you don't trust, run virus scans every week or so and don't store large amounts of bitcoin on computers you use everyday.

Imagine you sell something for 3BTC. They send the BTC and say 'I'll ship it in the morning'. You check your wallet and the BTC is gone, he reversed it. Oh dear! Now you have no BTC and no item.
BTC would sure be great if it was reversable, you're right. Would make scumbag's lives so much easier.

To your second point, Bitcoin is meant to be the complete opposite of banks, in that it is decentrilized. If it were reversable, it would mean that a certain person would make the call on what should happen. That would create a definite bias, which is extremely counter intuative.

It's your responsibility to store your Bitcoin in a safe way. If you're like OP and just leave over $10,000 sitting around on your main PC, I'm sorry but you're an idiot.
No one is here to hold your hand or reverse anything when you cry out. Take responsibility for your own belongings instead of wanting someone else to do it for you.

In addition, I believe that signatures and personal text can be edited on an account whilst banned. The signature for the main account could have easily been updated to say that it was banned and cannot communicate, which I expect would have been just as effective without breaking any of the terms of their ban.

I can sympathize with them and understand dogie's point, however (AFAIK) they had been warned previous to their ban that they were doing things wrong and continued to do so. The ban is deserved regardless of whether they have a business to run, and they should not be given special treatment because of it.

The main PR account for this website has been banned from the forum, I assume for spamming. By posting outside of the linked thread he is breaking the terms of his ban (evading it) and can possibly be banned permanently.

Signatures show up when users aren't logged in exactly the same as when they are. Archive websites usually aren't logged into accounts, however (as you can see following the link), the website picks them up fine. Are you sure you don't have any extensions/scripts running on Bitcointalk?

For the amount of bandwidth it would save it is questionable if anywhere would do it for that reason at all. I expect that, if it were in place, it would be to prevent spam back links from promoting a website in search rankings.

If you're doing PR then it would be expected that you would be somewhat interesting, though I believe this was a typo of 'interested'.

I don't think anyone was making fun of him; just a misunderstanding.