The majority of that paragraph applies to Bitcointalk too (I have no idea about the Reddit; I don't go there frequently).

Similar to here. Bitcointalk has a board specifically for posting scam ponzi websites.

This likely applies to a large portion of the signature spammers here. They clearly show disregard for the forum its self, so it wouldn't surprise me if they felt the same way about Bitcoin.

Did you miss out an adjective here? Best? Worst?

This is the same here. Providing you don't make too much of a mess the mods don't involve themselves if a user is scamming or if a dispute is going on (bar personal reasons).

This sounds like it was due to the hack that happened here. In May 2015 the forum's database was leaked which gave away your email and password hash. This leak has seemingly become more public now, so I expect that your account was targeted due to it's high rank and lack of recent activity.
If you had the same password for the rest of your accounts it would explain why those got hacked, even if the emails/usernames were different. I would suggest that you make sure all of the passwords to services you care about are different (perhaps using a password manager to help) to prevent something like this happening again.

Provided you can show an unedited/quoted post containing the address in the event of something like this happening in the future and sign a message from said address it does not matter where you post it. However, I would suggest that you post it in the official thread regardless for archival purposes (if nothing else).

This exists, you can see it here.

That's a rather stupid reason to go against an Arabic sub forum. There is nothing stopping anyone from talking about possible terrorist activities in any language, so by that logic this forum shouldn't exist. Right?

It has to be the other way around. There must be a large Arabic community on the forum posting in their designated thread before a sub forum is made for them.

I truly cannot understand your extreme aversion to making things easier for people that want to try and help the forum. From what I've seen your entire argument against the 'Banned' rank is that you don't like the people that would take notice of it, which seems pretty silly to me. If there is more to it, feel free to correct me - I may have missed some parts of what you said.

No doubt. There are problems with this however.
For starters, the biggest problem is that it would not have legacy statistics. While the information collected by a script may be useful later down the line, currently it wouldn't help anything much. All information about every ban given is stored and is at theymos' disposal AFAIK. It would be better to have something official for this reason alone.
This is also making the lives of people that want to use a tool like this more difficult, though no doubt that is your intention. To have to make and maintain a script for general use which would provide incomplete information at best is certainly not as helpful as it being already built into the forum.

Doubt it, not that this is relevant whatsoever.

Yeah! He didn't say he hated them, just that he didn't like them!

This isn't real life. If you don't like people that do this, the forum has a built in 'Ignore' function that is very handy.
Shame that this function was added at the forum's inception though, people should have had to develop external scripts to hide posters that they don't like!

It's arguable if it's necessary. I doubt the forum is currently serving it's initial purpose to most users, therefore behaviors have to change along with it.

That's not the idea behind these ignore lists. Granted, part of the problem may be solved by removing the signatures themselves however the huge amounts of spam and shit posting that comes along with it is still there, even with signatures turned off.

The problem is that a large number of people posting with paid signatures produce nothing but mindless spam.

OP has shown in his first reply to this thread that he isn't interested in unblocking anyone with a paid signature as they are endorsing the root of the problem. While I do not agree with him at all, and I believe he is severely missing out by blocking people such as staff members and high quality posters, I can understand his stance.

Bitcointalk has an upgrade in the works coming SOON™. The sub-board called New Forum Software is used to cover this.

If you have something to suggest you can make a thread in the sub-board I linked above. Please check to see if it has been already suggested before posting though.

That's intentional to try and prevent spam. Obviously, with users such as yourself, it isn't working very effectively.
You shouldn't even be hitting that limit; to make a post that requires some sort of thought and effort takes much longer than 50 seconds. However, this is not to be discussed here.

There are threads such as this one where other users attempt to link accounts through blockchain and other evidence*. If you look at the first few posts you can see multiple users with several accounts each.

*None of it is hard proof, however it is fairly likely it is correct.

We have the whole story, it doesn't change anything.

Not everyone is on this forum for monetary gain. Bitcointalk is supposed to be a hub for Bitcoin related discussion, not a GPT site.

Let me make a list:

• Spamming prior to his ban,
• Ignoring several warnings by Staff as to what he was doing wrong,
• Death threats,
• Ban evasion,
• Spamming after his ban.

There are probably more that I'm forgetting.

Spammers and all around scumbags like girlbtc are not welcome on this forum. This, by extension, involves you too.

Most members of the forum don't care, plus (as your employer has so nicely shown) what would stop several of your alt accounts from doing something that only benefits yourselves?

Lutpin is no where near a 'president'; he isn't even part of the staff team. He does however understand the rules of the forum, something that you and your employer do not. If you understand the rules of the forum (which isn't difficult) then you are likely to know the staff's decisions on matters before they post.

Yeah, I am. Until the 2^nd January.

How so? The trust system is used to show who you trust/distrust and give your reasons as to why. This is what Lauda is doing.

These shady things being?

Staff need to start limiting and censoring feedbacks that they deem as 'abuse'? What a flawless plan for an open, free forum.

Indeed. Let's start with getting rid of the spam and scams; the top.

Girlbtc (a chinese user) got banned a little while ago and announced their new forum. Ever since accounts with similar english skills using chinese characters have been complaining about this forum and promoting girlbtc's.

It would be a big surprise to me at least if it wasn't them.

The thread will only be locked if the OP decides to. As said earlier in the thread, moderators don't remove or intervene with trades even if they are scams.

Anyone can tell this is a scam if they bother to read the thread, if not it's their own fault. My advice would be to stop replying to this thread and let it just get buried by new auctions.

This wasn't always the case. At the beginnings of his spam what he was posting made perfect sense. I expect that this changed to try and avoid automatic spam detectors.

The post you linked is a different situation completely to the girlbtc spam. For starters, the link on the referenced post is a news article that is used to source the information on the post. The girlbtc links are not news  articles and are not used to source informaton. They are simply a copy-paste of the post here with no further information (AFAIK). This is nothing but blatant advertising, which is against the rules.

I'm sure I don't need to explain why a post just saying "this forum is shit, join girlbtc.com" is against the rules.

I doubt that's the case. If there is a reason that isn't blatant advertising I expect an exception can be made. This isn't the case, and considering that girlbtc doesn't have the brain capacity or english skills to understand what spam is I doubt it ever won't be.

It's common sense. If you put your personal vendetta to one side it is simple to see.

What Lauda means is that there is no one that you can officially appeal to in order to get a feedback removed. If you want it to be removed, you must contact the person that included the user in their trust list (E.G Blazed included Lauda and can therefore exclude them) or contact the person that left you the feedback specifically (AKA contacting them privately).

While you are completely allowed to make threads such as this one, it probably wouldn't do much that contacting the user specifically wouldn't.

I wouldn't hold your breath. If I know Lauda I know how stubborn they are on their decisions. I can't imagine that your escalation would be anything other than a waste of time either.

Disliking Bitcointalk? Promoting girlbtc? Using Chinese characters?
Gee, I wonder who you could be.

Your post was deleted because it is useless shit only used to promote your poor excuse of a forum. Please, follow the rules of your ban and stay away.

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It's likely that the OP locked it themselves since they cannot seem to handle any negative comments about themselves.

Doubt it. No one cares about their forum; it will probably die out as fast as the rest of their site did.

Bitcoin is illegal in neither of those countries, just unregulated.
Hacking into and selling accounts is illegal no matter where you go. It is very easy to assume that a thread such as your own falls into this category due to it looking extremely similar. This is why your thread was deleted. I do not understand why you are having such a hard time understanding this.

What on earth are you going on about? This isn't relevant to anything you are arguing about.