Damn, I forgot being kicked from the Slack channel removes the user's right to post on the forum. How silly of me.

I don't fully understand the situation between minerjones and CanaryInTheMine, but from what I've heard it doesn't sound like minerjones did anything wrong. It would be interesting to hear what actually happened.

Do you condone Quickseller for doing the same thing? (Collecting doxs of other users without any right to do so).

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Thank you for saying so.

Funny how Zeroxal says the same thing. Also funny how someone hiding behind a shill account is trying to call out others. Maybe that second one's just me though.

When you reach 1337 posts, it displays as 'leet'. This is a little easter egg put into the forum software.

If you don't know what leet is, read about it here.

Because the managers currently on SMAS all share similar views on what spam is and can therefore make a somewhat consistent list of people that fit that definition. Other managers may have stricter/more lenient views on what a spammer is and would therefore make the list inconsistent and less useful.

Is there any proof of MJ not doing this?

While this isn't on topic here, do you have any sort of proof of this happening?
From what I understand, CanaryInTheMine was saying in his trust rating that it is possible for MJ to dox people. However this is the case for anyone that sends or receives packages, and it is unfair to call out MJ specifically on it.

IIRC SolveMedia can be abused very easily by bots, or at least more than reCaptcha can. I think that reCaptcha is the best solution currently.

The forum already uses some DDoS protection, however theymos doesn't want to implement external services like Cloudflare as they are a risk to users privacy and the site's security.

This solution is impossible to implement without making regular users lives difficult.

Lets say we lock an account after too many wrong password attempts, what would stop me from spamming someone's account with incorrect login attempts to get them locked out? If it were only locked for the current IP, that would be near enough useless as those looking to abuse it could just connect VIA proxy services.

It should be kept in mind that (currently) 162.76BTC of that was distributed within the organization (to NastyMining) and 0.2BTC of that was used as transaction fees.
It should also be kept in mind that there is almost 4BTC not yet distributed throughout the organization, for whatever reason.
It should also be kept in mind that a large amount of that BTC figure was likely distributed within the early days of Bitcoin when a larger amount of Bitcoin was required to purchase a seat.

Now let's look at some practical examples of the huge amounts distributed by NastyFans.
This coin has had a seat associated with it since 2013. It has so far earned around 0.004BTC from the NastyFans program.
This coin has been active for coming on a year, earning the massive total of around 0.0003BTC in that time.
This coin has been active for over two years and has earned a total of around 0.0074BTC. However, this coin has five seats directed towards it, meaning that it makes sense this coin has earned more. This coin has earned around 0.0015BTC per seat on the coin.
You can see more examples here. Keep in mind that any coin with a large amount of Bitcoin on it was likely funded through other means than NastyFans.

While I don't know how much these coins originally cost in BTC, I can almost guarantee that is significantly more than whatever they have earned + silver and minting costs is worth currently.

A YouTube creator doesn't market its self as an investment platform. My scenario was also completely made up, in an attempt to show how absurd the notion of 'fun and coolness > profit' is for an investment platform.
Perhaps a better example would have been a gambling website that allows for investment. Such a website provides much more fun (whether it be through the gambling or interacting with others using a chat function), and most likely provides a much better ROI.

If fun and cool is what matters then you should give me your money instead. Rather than spending it funding free electricity for an organization I have a great financial interest in (and conveniently having said free electricity wired to my own home), I'll travel the world looking for fun and cool things to take pictures of.

To boot I'll even pick up any spare change I find on the way and spread it out to my investors (while keeping 25% of it to get a better camera). You'd get about the same return on investment.

In all seriousness, if you are running an investment platform then it is only fair to expect some sort of ROI. NastyFans does not offer this.

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God forbid that you pay for your own electricity for an organization based around you. Good lord MJ, have some civility! Look at what this poor man has had to go through!

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I'll expand on the facts about NastyFans as an investment in the near future.

Unfortunately, it seems that Quickseller does not like it when people even ask questions about his trades.

I would avoid doing any kind of business with Quickseller after seeing his lack of reaction to this thread.

The report functions are to be used on any post, topic or PM that you feel needs moderator or administrator intervention. Whether it breaks the rules, is miscategorized or you require an administrator to review it (only in the cases of PMs) then this function should be used.

Similarly, most of mine are just 'Move to (section)' if I know what section it should be in.

For those having trouble keeping up:


(With 'your' regarding NastyFans).

I don't think that I have ever seen a larger collection of shills in one thread. This has to be a new feat.

0.085BTC

0.075BTC

0.04BTC

0.015BTC

This is going too be a long one.

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And? If you do this and he doesn't trust you for it, do you think that he should hold is tongue and not say so? If you can't handle people saying that they don't trust you, and showing such on a platform built for doing just that, log off the forum and turn off the computer.

You gave him the option of sending the BTC back to the sending address, or not sending the BTC anywhere. It's not like he had much of a choice.
Before you go off on one, I'm not saying you did anything wrong through doing this.

You don't seem to understand why someone would counter a negative rating. I should explain why later on in this post.

No.

What a hard life you must lead, being constantly 'extorted' and 'attacked'.

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It's absolutely relevant. The whole point of countering a trust rating is that if it affects a user's trust score unjustly to the majority of users it can be undone somewhat. If for 99-100% of the forum, your trust score is untouched, there is no reason for a rating to be countered.

And it is irrelevant to the point you are trying to make. You're just looking for things to try and make your argument look better and Lauda's look worse.

cough. cough. cough. cough.

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And me, and Hhampuz, and Zepher. Whether or not this is extortion is semantics, you have to be either lying or stupid to think that this user is trustworthy (especially in regards to the other things that he has done in the past).
If you truly care about the community like you always big yourself up to, whatever trade deals you have had with him are irrelevant.

I've seen Lauda talk to people that aren't on DT (and never have been) about their trust ratings on people like defcon. Don't think that you're being singled out.

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That was shorter than I was expecting.