I wonder if they will cancel or delay the games if people keep catching covid whilst they're on international duties? They can always play them at the end of the season and I think taking a break from them would be a good idea right now. Places like aeroplanes are probably the worst place to be during a pandemic as there's a lot of outside staff on them who might not be tested as well as athletes are and the air is constantly recycled so it's like an incubation chamber for infectious diseases. Have any managers complained about the internationals or called for them to be scrapped?


I don't think he'll be out for the rest of the year unless there's some restrictions that say people who have had covid have to do so. I'm sure they'll allow he back as soon as he tests negative. Ronaldo was out for a few weeks I think but that's because he kept testing positive. I saw that he apparently was claiming the tests were defective and giving false positives as well which would make sense since he was asymptomatic. I don't really trust those tests at all and they could quite easily be detecting something else or remnants of the diseases that aren't active any more.

Well how in depth do you want someone to go? There's only so much time you can spend evaluating a post and every mod will have a different opinion on certain things or what constitutes a low quality post or spam. I see lots of posts reported for low quality and such and I'm often on the fence about them so I just leave them be but others may be much harsh or unforgiving. A good quarter of posts here could probably be deleted for being low quality but I don't feel that's something mods should be having to deal with as it's mostly spam from signature campaigns and their managers should be responsible for that. Then of course mods also do make mistakes from time to time as well.

10k a month lol. You don't ask much, do you? The average salary in the UK is £2535 and earning 100k a year would make you pretty wealthy.


If you can suck 100 dicks a month at 100 dollars then you will have 10k a month. I know that sounds a lot but it's not at all. In fact, do the math. It's only 3.33333333 dicks a day which is easy. And before you say it's impossible; it really isn't. There's a couple of youtube channels I watch that interview homeless women/sex workers who prostitute themselves to feed their drug habits and one of the questions they get asked is how much do they spend on drugs a day and the minimum they usually say it about 100 dollars but oftentimes it's not uncommon for them to be spending 200-500 a day on drugs alone and they get the money mostly by selling sex so if they can do it then so can you. Hustle like a crackhead and you'll soon be very wealthy because if someone can spend 500 a day on drugs imagine what someone could do with that money if they saved it. 500 x 30 is a whopping 15k a month so get sucking some dicks and you'll be rich in no time. Godspeed.

He might not want it but if it's contractually obliged then he doesn't have a choice, which it was, but now it's up to arbitration to decide if it's still valid due to time elapsed. And Fury not wanting to fight him again just seems like braggadocio to me. There's still unfinished business as the first fight was a draw. I don't believe he thinks Wilder is mentally ill either. Wilder is a sore loser though coming out with all these bullshit excuses. He's probably just doing it to cause drama and interest to try get the third fight.


He still might fight someone before any rematch but I'm sure he's waiting the decision of the courts first. Would be silly not to. He might not be allowed to fight anyone if the contract is in fact still valid.

Oh. Well I don't see why that would be needed. Probably not enough demand and it's probably just another gimmick.

Yeah, it's a bit silly really. The Euros were scrapped this year so they should have just done the same with the pointless Nation's League which are just gloried friendlies anyway. The EUROs would have actually been much safer because the games are all in the same country and the individual groups are all in the same place so you could easily quarantine teams and not have them flying all over Europe like what is happening with the Nation's League and other friendly games. We really don't need them now with everything that's going on so they should have just scrapped them this but I guess money talks and they don't want to lose out on all the broadcasting rights. It annoyed me that Sky bought up the rights to the Nation's League when it was created. International team games have always been on free-to-air TV over here in the UK but this whole Nation's League thing just seems like another cash grab and to try give friendly games some value and meaning. Luckily I have the German Dazn and that shows all of them, not that I'm interested in most of them, but I usually watch the England games and if there's any other big match ups going on.

Well, we could have a thread for people who want to do KYC or prove their identity with their PayPal account but the admins likely aren't going to use that info to recover accounts so it's futile. There are hundreds if not thousands of currencies out there and it would be very messy if we were to have hundreds of threads for staking addresses for every one of them and it would inevitably just lead to much more spam as people see them as just another thread to get a +1 post in. Signing a message from an alt coin should be something secondary or used as a last resort if someone can't prove ownership via other means and accounts have rarely been recovered using alt accounts. I can think of only one I know of.

Yeah, I put my provisional scores in before the international break and I've gone for many draws including two from the ones above but I'll likely change some though it will be hard to decide which ones. I've provisionally backed Liverpool to win at home but I might go for another draw given Liverpool's injuries. They still might be too strong for them at home though.


They should probably scrap the international breaks and just do them at the end of the season in the years where there's no EUROs or World Cup. Managers are already complaining about domestic congestion and the internationals just make it worse as they have to then play catch up at some point which then leads to teams playing 2 or 3 games a week at some point.

Maybe theymos could do that but the trouble with automating it is that people could also automate the deleting and reposting process which could be taken advantage of so maybe it's better to just manually do it. You can always report the post to mods if you wish to have it deleted. Just state so in the report and a mod will likely remove it, but it's not really a big deal really.

Well it depends on the level/type of plagiarism. If someone asks a question like what is the colour teal and someone goes straight to google/wikipedia and posts Teal is a blue-green colour. Its name comes from that of a bird—the common teal (Anas crecca)—which presents a similarly colored stripe on its head. The word is often used colloquially to refer to shades of cyan in general. then I don't think they should be permanently banned for that. A warning would suffice for 99% of people to not do it again.


I'm not talking about specific cases but not everyone reads the rules or ventures into Meta. The rules should be made available upon sign-up. For many users they have little no reason to go here in Meta or it's often the last board they do. A welcome message stating a few of the most serious rules would help tremendously.

Yeah, I don't mind sharing what the report was for as people have a right to know it requested and it can help prevent further mistakes either by that user or staff, but who reported it should be left up to the individual if they want to make themselves known.


It shouldn't be removed as people can post malicious stuff in there that would need to be removed quickly. There's been multiple waves of spambots recently and many or posting malicious links so they need to be acted upon ASAP.

Forgetting that this is bitcointalk for a moment, it has been suggested before but it's probably largely useless as most staff probably aren't going to verify accounts in such a way. Also, due to the bounty section there's plenty of options for people to post their addresses there. If they're deleted or modified admins can see that anyway but people should be sure to stake a bitcoin message or their PGP key somewhere. There will probably be many more ways to secure your account on the new forum as well so probably none of this will be needed anyway in the future.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/54954122


I didn't think this was going to happen. Seems like a bit of a pointless fight and he might be in some sort of legal limbo with the Wilder rematch since it's in arbitration right now. The wise thing to do would be to wait to see what the outcome of the arbitration process is before he makes any decisions. Regardless, I still think he should fight Wilder and put that speculation to rest and he's going to have to wait for AJ anyway. It's still going to be the biggest fight for both of them.

Fury's younger brother even called out Wilder's younger brother recently:

https://talksport.com/sport/boxing/789293/tommy-fury-deontay-wilder-brother-marsellos/

Maybe that fight could be on the under-card. That would certainly add some more heat to the fight. Can even bill it as a war of families.

Can't research them that much just in case of injuries during the internationals. There's some big games when we return though: Spurs v Man City, Leeds V Arsenal, Liverpool V Leicester are all worth a watch and could shake up the table a bit.


The league couldn't be more open right now which is a good thing in my opinion. Liverpool probably won't win it due to all their injuries. City have been very inconsistent and have drawn three games out of their last five. Leeds and Everton were doing very well but both have three losses out of their last five. Leicester are currently first but I don't think they've got the squad or stamina to keep it up. Spurs and Chelsea haven't been playing too bad but not looking unbeatable though I wouldn't put money on them. Southampton are currently fourth and only two points behind first place but you'd be foolish to think they'll be able to keep up their current form for the entire season, so I've no idea who will end up winning it.

People really should be given a warning about plagiarism as obviously not all plagiarism is equal. There's obviously a huge difference between someone who comes here and tries to milk signature campaigns or farm accounts by using someone else's postings either from this forum or elsewhere but if someone just posts an incorrectly quoted/sourced answer from google to a question someone asked then that really shouldn't be the end of their account. A warning or at the very most a short temp ban should be enough.
Obviously most of us know that plagiarism is wrong but sometimes it's just down to naivety more than anything and a lot of time won't be done with malicious intent with or without a signature. We also really need to get that welcome message sorted where users are urged to read the rules or are given a handful of the most important ones upon sign-up. That alone would stop a lot of this from ever happening.


It probably won't happen on this forum but hopefully it'll be on the new one. It would be a useful feature for sure.

Lots of people want to see it including me. First fight was a draw and the second was finished by the towel being thrown in regardless of Fury dominating so there's still unfinished business in my opinion. Joshua has a fight in the meantime as well so taking the Trilogy fight isn't going to delay anything. Also, it's probably not as easy as fighting someone else in the meantime for Fury especially if the belts are on the line because Wilder was contractually allowed to try win them back in a rematch.

Wilder responded to Fury's offer of help yesterday:

"Hey Tyson Fury, don't worry about me I am fine, blessed.

The only thing I want from you is for you to honour your agreement and fight me. I gave you two shots when I didn't have to and it changed your life. Now it is time for you to be a man and give me my shot as you agreed to."

https://www.sportbible.com/boxing/news-deontay-wilder-responds-to-tyson-furys-offer-to-help-him-20201112

I think Fury should honour the contract and if he wins then it will be undisputed and we can all look forward to the Aj fight.

You can have a duplicate thread in both the bitcoin and alt coin marketplaces obviously providing they accept the relevant currencies, if that's what's happened here. You can always PM a Global mod at the time and ask them what the report was marked bad for.


Damn. I'd suggest maybe not reporting things if it makes you irate or only reporting things you know to be 100% correct as there are a lot of grey areas and things that are completely subjective. . Like I said above, you can always PM a mod to try find out. I think it would be helpful if staff could state the reason why it was marked bad on the report.

It might be annoying but it's just part of the cryptosphere now and if you want bitcoin to become mainstream then things like this are inevitable like it or not. There are pros and cons to it though. Would you want someone who isn't you to be able to withdraw your coins? At least it's another layer of security in that regard but if you're not comfortable with this sort of verification I would look for other exchanges that don't require them.

Mods handle thousands of reports a month so occasionally ones will be incorrectly marked though it will be fairly rare. I remember one time back when I was a reporter I had one marked incorrectly as bad and BadBear did manage to sort it for me and get it changed but it honestly doesn't matter really unless you're going for a perfect 100% or something. I think theymos has mentioned before that anything over 80% is considered very good so one or two bad reports or incorrectly marked bad reports really isn't going to make a difference.

I don't think the interest is going anywhere and I'm sure most would want to see a trilogy fight than one against someone like Agit Kabayel. Surely people would rather see him face Wilder again than some bum or journeyman? The AJ fights are a long way away and AJ is fighting this month so there's no point Fury waiting around. The fight against Agit Kabayel might not even happen either and if AJ loses again there'll be another rematch.


It carries a lot of meaning to Wilder as it's his only chance to win his belts back along with the biggest payday he'll be getting, not to mention he will feel like he's owed it as the rematch was in the contract and that's what mediation will attempt to sort out. I don't think the Agit Kabayel fight is a done deal anyway or it certainly didn't seem that way in the interview Fury did yesterday so if that doesn't happen he can take the rematch or put that aside to do it next month, which is probably a bit too soon in my opinion but if Fury is ok with fighting Agit I can't see why he can't fight Wilder but maybe Wilder isn't ready.