For the past few years I've organised betting pools for the English Premier League along with the Champions League and the World Cup and now I'm starting one for the upcoming Champions League which starts on the 20th of October.

We will be using the www.superbru.com website again for both tournaments where you get 3 points for predicting an exact score, 1 point for a correct outcome (win/lose/draw) and 1.5 for a close prediction with correct outcome.

To join the pool it will be around £25 in bitcoin. The Champion's League starts next Tuesday but due to starting the sign-up process for the pool quite late I won't collect money in until a month or so, so if you want to play please state your interest and I will send you a link to join the pool. Please only sign up if you have the intention of paying. If anyone doesn't pay they will just be removed but you will have at least a month to get the money together.

The winners will be the top five users who have the highest points at the end of the season and 100% the money that is collected will be shared out amongst the winners (minus any fees).

If anyone wants to sponsor the pool by putting some money into the pot then please get in contact. Again, none of the money will go to me but will be used to boost the winnings. For sponsoring the pool the pool will be renamed to the business or project of your choice and you can have a banner with links in the OP's of both this thread and the Discussion thread.

Current sign ups:

hilariousandco

Nah, I think this would just lead to more complaints to be honest. People already complain and make conspiracies up about DT and their Chipmixer buddies and people are more likely to vote for the friends or people they like. If Darkstar is struggling to pick some I would just create a shortlist of the best users and maybe do a draw/raffle for them then at least it's random and nobody can complain.

I really don't envy Darkstar right now. Just to go through them all is going to be a mammoth task and then he's got to pick the best of the best from a shortlist which is probably going to be a longlist and ceraintly isn't going to be easy. No doubt we'll get a lot of people complaining about his choices either way. For those that don't get picked I wouldn't take it personal as there's a hell of a lot of competition here. Just keep the content up and try again next time when spots become available. Good luck.

I don't have a problem with it either, but theymos has said before he doesn't want it influencing opinion of people in other boards where trading isn't relevant. There are pros and cons to both ways though.

Well if we're going by that logic malware can and is posted on all boards and someone could steal money from you there so should we show the feedback in all subs?

Maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea in that board as it's potentially dealing with money, but they get reported and nuked pretty fast so probably doesn't matter too much.

I've suggested this before and I still don't think it's a bad idea as it will stop the majority of spam bots of malicious users, but this alone wouldn't stop the current eth pill scammers as they've seemingly hacked hundreds of older accounts including many higher ranking ones which are used to spam the malware.

It's really not worse than ever. It's quietened down a lot from a couple of years ago or so when the ICO boom was in full swing and there were also a couple of bitcoin-paying campaigns like Yobit that literally accepted anyone without any sort of verification. Their payouts were even automatic so that obviously lead to a lot of abuse. I still think we should enforce the guidelines and dish out punishments for poorly run campaigns though. With some minimum standards on how campaigns should operate the forum would be a much better place and people can still get paid for doing something they would anyway.

I very much doubt they bought them. They probably hacked them hence why they're so disposable, but I'm not sure how much money he's managed to scam with the malware and some of the accounts are decent ranked so there'd be money in just selling them.

Whoever hacked those ethereum pill-spreading accounts would probably make more money by just selling them. There's seemingly hundreds of them. Wonder how they got them as most seem to be accounts that are a year or two old.

They don't get it wrong. They get it quite right actually: More spam = more ad impressions. And May be ignored. How many users do you have ignored? It would be a full time job to ignore every spammer you see here as there's thousands of them and when it's more often than not essentially free for a coin to advertise here it doesn't matter to them - throw as much shit at the wall and see how much sticks. Anything that gets seen is a plus to them. Most of these campaigns really don't care about long-term reputation; they're just pump and dump schemes that want your money and once they have it they will move on to the next thing and rinse and repeat and we're left to clean up their mess which shouldn't be tolerated.


Spam is effective as it's all about getting your name and brand out there which signature campaigns do very well.


It wouldn't. They would probably just buy forum ad slots instead.


There would be no hoop to jump through as if signatures went then so would 99% of the spammers who are only here to earn from them as they would have no interest being here otherwise. The people who force themselves to post just for payment wouldn't bother and that means once a question has been answered you wouldn't get dozens of replies stating the same or countless threads about every possible permeation of how you gamble: do you gamble on the toilet, do you gamble on Christmas, do you gamble whilst you gamble etc.


Well I don't disagree. The forum would still tick over, but I wouldn't be surprised if at least 80% of traffic goes. You could argue that may or may not be a good thing. Certainly the only people who are here to earn would leave so you would know who genuinely does have an interest in crypto.

Yeah, it would certainly stop 100% of the signature spam. I think this forum would be pretty dead without them though. I just wish we would implement the Signature Campaign guidelines. I've long said signature campaigns could actually help improve the forum but only if campaigns are run properly and bad ones are banned and even banished from the forum. There's a lot of greedy and lazy campaigns that come here and only want to promote themselves as much as they can and when there's no repercussions for those campaigns they do what they want and that's very destructive to the forum. If they started getting bans then they'd so something about their campaigns but when there's no motive to do that they're not going to waste time and money policing themselves when as much spam as possible baring their signature is beneficial to them.

I removed the ban.


People probably shouldn't be banned merely for posting an address unless there's some other evidence as things like this can happen. People could alsoo easily manipulate evidence to try get anyone banned or tagged.

I changed it to a sig ban.

What was the original account banned for? Plagiarism? You have a fair bit of merit on Salamstar so maybe a signature ban of some sort would be more appropriate.

Went for 0-0 on the Fulham/Villa game. It's 2-0 to Villa after 20 minutes. Fml.

You can't. Only an admin or the person who removed your post can answer that. Most forums I've been on don't tell you who deleted your post. In fact, most forms seemingly don't even notify you of the deleted post which is even more annoying as it just disappears without warning.

Two different people have reported them as low value and they're seemingly reporting posts of a lot of other users so I doubt it's something personal.

I think it happened a couple of times already, maybe even last week. There's just some match ups where nobody expects a certain outcome but upsets can always happen.

Yeah, I noticed that and thought it was strange. Shows you how much the Chelsea team has changed and there's no real long-serving players on the field or even bench who deserve the band. I don't think Silva can speak English or at least not every well. His first Chelsea Press Conference was dubbed in English.

Edit: Chelsea came back to draw 3-3. Nobody went for the draw either.