Why do we need spamlists of threads, when Beginners & Help has a sticky guide to help find important threads?

The sticky guide has links to forum rules, newbie technical help, and links to wallets thread, important advice about trust, important security advice, warnings about malware, glossary of forum terminology, and many other important threads... and many of these threads link to other threads, with even more detailed information. Most of these important threads are not even linked here. Did OP see all of them?

Oh, but this list has links to Defi guides, Uniswap, and other scams/scam-laden environments so that Newbies can get scammed better.

Advice for Newbies: Avoid Defi like plague! If you don't know why, ask in the Wall Observer.

This is absolutely true.

Regular posters often forget that probably most readership is lurkers, and passers-by. Forum regulars are only the tip of the iceberg for readership.

If you forget this, you can look like a fool! Don't forget your audience.

Some case examples:

This forum has high rank in search engines, links from Bitcoin Wiki, etc. Anyone who reads about Bitcoin, will read some from this forum.

When nullius was a Newbie, he was immediately accused of being old regular's alt account.  LOL.  Much speculation, many conspiracy theories.  He lurked for years before registering.  (Then lurked 8 more months before posting.)

I know some guy who has a Newbie account with 3 posts. He has lurked for years. He knows this forum better than 99% of regulars. Just does not talk.

Most casual readers, occasional lurkers, and passers-by probably never even register an account.

To be a forum regular is a sort of a lifestyle - and it is a huge time sink. Not for everyone.

And my #1 advice to Newbies: Lurk more! Only talk if you have something to say. Don't make a post only to make a post. (Sigspammers and bounty chasers, please smash your computers with sledgehammer.)


Many "Legendary" only shitpost. Also, many are hacked/bought account. If you see "Legendary" with bad behavior, look for the red trust!





YES! This. Thank you. Finally some good advice...

SKAM !

In Anatomy 101 class , they are supposed to teach you the difference between legs and arms .

I bet you also not knowing latest advances in quantum sociovirology .

Very true. Always check post history! Especially with Newbies, but not only! Every experienced user should know this.

Also, it is usually unwise to send more than 1 merit at a time to Newbie - it is risky. Newbie does not have much history for you to judge. Merit thresholds for ranking up are way too low. Spammer needs only a little bit of merit for reaching Member or Full Member, way too easy - then he can make money by filling the forum with trash. Only send >1 merit per post to Newbie if it very much looks like not a spammer.

Well - I will try this.

My best posts are, in my opinion, my "artistic" posts. But maybe not to everyone's taste.

I think so far, my best post of general interest was the post that earned the very first merit for my account. However, I do not want to ask for any merit for it. I am proud it got 2 merits from 2 different people, only because it is a good post - not because of asking for anything. Please don't ruin it.

hatshepsut93, you participated in that topic. I replied to you several times there. Is it not wrong to ask you to consider meriting a post you saw, which you did not already merit? Isn't merit system working best when you see good post in the course of discussion, and you send it merit because you think it is good?

For same reason - I will not ask you to consider this post and this post in the same topic - two more of my best, both of which received merit from people who just thought they were good.

I think that this post deserves at least 50 merits - for reason that it shows I am not trying to rank up to spam the forum:

Re: How you can earn money from bitcointalk.org?

I decided now I want 100 merits, so I can have avatar. AVATAR NOT FOR RENT. I want to put a censored version of fine art there, to make a point about freedom and culture. Or maybe something else... I did not decide yet.

THIS! Thank you. Even in case Electrum website is hacked (hypothetical), checking the PGP signature will save your security.

Also I see 2 different topics about fake Electrums in Google Store on front page of Beginners & Help now. Necessary? No. There is so much fake software. If new topic for each one, it will be a whole forum.

suchmoon made misleading sneaky edits to OP!

"your post must be about nullius being a cunt."
https://archive.is/OK3PQ#selection-539.41-539.86

"your post must be about nullius' reputation or lack thereof."
https://archive.is/p6gos#selection-573.41-573.101

I hope he knows to tell between different cryptocurrencies.


@xhomerx10, this is for you with onomastics and weird associations:


(if you understand this pic, you = nerd)

amazing coincidence. must be a conspiracy.

(and if you correct my onomastics here, then you = autistic. sniff some gasoline to expand your mind)


on teh interwebz, u r supposed to add: "...but IANAL"

Ah, the secret to forum happiness.



What was that, OutOfMemory?

Keiner über Alles ! Hail Nemesis, the sister of discord !

It is the wrath of Nemesis who punish Narcissus !


I am shorting at high leverage sirazimuth's maturity level. Observing a sell wall at age 13, trend headed for age 8 in my most bullish estimation of his bullshit.

Reeeeeeeeee: nullius is a cunt (suchmoon's original troll topic title)
Re: Reeeeeeeeee: fart jokes (post title)

You sniff Lord Nullius' farts on a topic titled "Reeeeeeeeee: nullius is a cunt", you call *ME* juvenile, and then you run away!?

Pussy!



Nemesis Adrestia , Nemesis Erinys , goddess of Vengeance , like Atë shall punish the shameless tongue !
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4985868.msg55650473#post_achill

ps God-Emperor Nullius , pls dont post Michelangelo's rendition of Leda and the Swan. u may be BANED ! Michelangelo painting of nude woman being fucked by a bird may perhaps be NSFW ?

QFT!


Nullius is Like an absent-minded Professor sometimes, with n00b mistakes. SURELY he knew that.

I say This as #0 Nullius Fan. Keiner über Alles!

For my part , I thank you for eXplaining so All here can better learn how the system works .


Yes, good point !

You used the Electrum signing format. Not compatible with OgNasty's software. Very usual mistake of Newbies - even some very smarter smartest Newbies make this mistake, I have seen.

Standardization of message signing for Segwit "bc1..." addresses is a work in progress.

Signmessage doesn't work with segwit addresses
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/10542

BIP 322: Generic Signed Message Format (Status: Draft)
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0322.mediawiki

Electrum issue: Segwit message signing is not compatible with other software
https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/3861

Mailing list discussion:
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-December/015374.html

Also, maybe instead of try many times the same thing, there may be better way... Like, give the message a massage, see if makes happy.

Quote for reference:

Note: A longer version of the following was deleted three times by moderators. I now cut the scam documentation below, on hypothesis that something in it triggered a spam filter bot (probably necessary - and I think deletion was faster than humans report or respond).

My apologies for the noise, for those who get new posts mailed. I had "*" all PM blocked, so I didn't realize - that is why I reposted. The first time, I thought I must have hit the delete button by accident when trying to edit, correct quoting mistake. After repost disappeared, I unblocked PM, tried again, got PM notice and confirmed in modlog.


Unfortunately, in the substance, BSV is even worse than BCH. They don't claim to be "BTC". They claim that BTC is a scam, there is only one Bitcoin, the one and only Bitcoin is BSV. How far they go turning truth to lies, lies to truth? They present Faketoshi as a reluctant hero, returned to save Bitcoin from the BTC fake-coin scammers. "After a period of denial, Dr. Wright admitted that he is Satoshi Nakamoto" - see below.

BCH is bad enough scam, exploiting Roger Ver registration of bitcoin dot com domain. BSV is badder, bolder, more brazen.

BSV propaganda turns everything upside-down and inside-out. The BSV scammers accuse others of their own wrongdoing. They say that BTC is the scam, BSV is the real Bitcoin by "Dr. Craig Wright a.k.a. Satoshi Nakamoto".

note: next activity period begins 2020-12-16T03:40:00Z. After this, I will make Jr. so my embedded images will show! For now, I ask to people >= Jr. Member rank: please Sir, quote me so others can see the important images.

This is cropped from a BSV propaganda image, displayed in full below, I found on the BSV shill thread:


As you can see, not only it claims BSV is Bitcoin. It claims that BTC is *not* Bitcoin. They say that BSV is the one and only real Bitcoin, on authority of (fake) Satoshi Nakamoto himself.

On the main BSV shill thread on this forum, they also have a small army of sockpuppet shill accounts... who accuse everybody else of being sockpuppet "trolls". I have seen BitcoinFX, Cryptotourist, JayJuanGee, and nullius all accused of being sockpuppets of the same "troll". If o_e_l_e_o posts in that thread, he will immediately be called sockpuppet of nullius, inter alia. It shows the extremes of BSV total inversion of the truth. Same as they do with identifying "real Bitcoin".

The following excerpt from a much longer post was selected carefully by me. Please read it carefully to understand how deeply, subtly insidious this propaganda is. Text size is in the BSV post.
...snnnnniiiippp...

It is much more than that.

Cypherpunks Public License is from cypherpunks, a part of the history leading up to Bitcoin. For more general information, see: Bitcoin: The dream of Cypherpunks, libertarians and crypto-anarchists

On the topic here: "Open source" is often copyrighted. Bitcoin source code is MIT licensed. Legally, it is copyrighted code with an original author of unknown identity, pseudonym "Satoshi Nakamoto".

CPL is not directly applicable to Bitcoin. But in the abstract, it shows concepts that answer the question of who can defend the Bitcoin name. Nobody controls Bitcoin. There is no legal Bitcoin trademark, and no entity with proprietary right to hold a trademark on the name "Bitcoin".

It would be dangerous if such an entity existed. Craig Wright has tried fraudulently claiming copyright of Bitcoin source code. If he could, he would probably claim trademark on "Bitcoin" name for his scam.

I myself disagree with CPL in some parts. But it succinctly summarizes the key concepts here.


Not a random site. It is the old personal website of Adam Back, the inventor of Hashcash (as cited in the Bitcoin Whitepaper, footnote 6). There is stuff there very interesting to history that led to the creation of Bitcoin.

wtf is wrong with YOU!?

"juvenile nonsense" is making fart jokes to support shit-stirring suchmoon troll thread titled, "Reeeeeeeeee: nullius is a cunt"

for SHAME, sirazimuth, you have mental level of middleschooler:


very MATURE. surely, you are Mature Ethical Expert like suchmoon.

suchmoon is a troll. this is a troll thread. it is 100% "juvenile nonsense" as smear attack against one of the forum's best members.


^^^ Exhibits 3-4: TROLL

Nullius is Very Wise, this is quotable:


on that note...

FUCK YOU BITCH !

Nerds, spoiling the fun.

nullious hides many secrets in his Posts, much subtler than the VERY OBVIOUS Miss Miggs/Lechter/Dickens/cunt thing. it is coded message for elite High Wisdom readers, who can see it and smile.

a Professor of Textual Criticism could advance the state of the art with academic papers about Nullius Posts!

Illiterate n00bs see nothing. It would be a shame to explain.

case in point of "shame":

hacker1001101001 , you shitcoin spammer Imbecile ,, you are hypocrite with double standards supporting suchmoon attack on nullius for calling out suchmoon double standards. suchmoon enforces her local rules on her threads. suchmoon defies nullius rules on nullius threads. suchmoon thinks the rules do not apply to her, and calls nullius "a cunt" for standing up against her hypocrisy.

suchmoon = hypocrite, you (hacker1001101001) = double hypocrite with ultra subjective standards, both = corruptly milking this forum for every satoshi . the only reason why you are not sigspamming like suchmoon is you are sigbanned plagiarist . CH should kick your ass !

also, [size=100pt]I am not named after "The-One-Above-All"!!![/size]



"A Book for All and None" If it was not pointed out above, Nobody on this suchmoon troll thread would have noticed. alles of you = IDIOTS

The-None-Above-All is copycat of Nullius joke based on Nietzsche. It is inside joke of smart people who read Nullius posts .It needs Latin, German , and Englisch to understand . "nullius", "keiner", "none".

The anthem of Terra Nullius: "Keiner, keiner, über alles!" = "none, none above all!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_nullius

Nullius is the Glorious Leader of Terra Nullius, population: 0. By law, every citizen of Terra Nullius must sing "keiner, keiner, über alleS," or else be slapped with a large trout. None Above All!

The Great Seal of Terra Nullius (nullius avatar, now censored due to sexual implications of the Eternal Cunt) is also All and None. Also sprach Nullius.

cRyptohUnter hates Nietzsche. CH must be a closeted homosexual, given his mental fixation on anal felching. Nietzsche does not like to think about anal felching. But I am not Nietzsche , and more importantly , the audience of this topic is not Nietzsche. Your symbol, the lot of you , is the Goatse Pic , which is an artistic representation of suchmoon . In the context of this mythopoetical allegory, of course , Nullius is The Giver . It is better than a logical Argument, because it can be understood by such small minds as the suchmoon-nutildah-hacker1001101001 gang .

fUCKING hELL, NOW i NEED TO DEMAND tHERMOS FOR A NAME CHANGE OF MY VERY VALUABLE ACCOUNT!!

so sad. as a Brand New registration , i did not realize there is ch alt with similar name.

WHY THERE IS SPAM, ILLUSTRATED

This gets 0 merit, and people argue against it, and arguments against it get merit from big name accounts:


It is correct.

If you're ONLY here, or MAINLY here for signature campaign, then you should go away. You are spammer.

Everybody should stay away from the shitcoin bounties.

OP gets 9 merit by focusing users on rank and merit, and sending them to chase shitcoin bounties, spam campaigns, and scams:


"SHUT UP AND EAT YOUR SPAM!"

OP is very wrong.

If good user here for discussion, then rank up and merit will happen naturally. Don't even think about how to do it! (unless, lolz, you are like me, Newbie want to post noncommercial images with no paying for Copper account... stupid restrictions only made because of spammers and other abusers! Less than 24 hours after signup, I already got 1 merit I need... this is my 14th post, next activity period starts in hour and a half... I will post images freely, starting in about two weeks from now. )

Best users are those who DO NOT CARE too much about mere status symbols = rank and merit. (Same like in the rest of life.)

"What makes the forum looks magnificent is that, it's filled with" great places to show your paid signature, bump your activity, by posting in SPAM MEGATHREAD. Did you even read OP? It is shitposter who does not want knowledge.


Another completely useless post:

Except for my posts, all posts after page 1 are useless blah blah blah generic fluff with paid signature , and not even responding to OP.

It is the problem with merit system. Merit system makes people optimize for merit. Like search engines make people SEO instead of focus on only best content, see:


For merit system to work, people should IGNORE MERIT WHEN WRITING , only think to send merit when reading.

But that is idealistic wishing for perfect world. If perfect world, no need for merit system anyway... people just do the right thing.


Error, sorry, I corrected the post.


Why I want to bump your services?

Owner of bitcoin.com: Roger Ver (MemoryDealers), very distrusted person

People should stop to link it. I just saw some person warn about scam, link to bitcoin.com article about scam, send people to other scam.







No.

Bitcoin has no central authority. Nobody controls Bitcoin. Advantages , disadvantages and tradeoffs.

It is much worse than Filicius says. "dubious practices"?

bitcoin.com is a SCAM site. Do not link to it. Thanks for warning about scams, don't send people to other scam.


Owner of bitcoin.com: Roger Ver (MemoryDealers), very distrusted person

There is now active topic in this: To newcomers: make sure when you buy bitcoin you are buying bitcoin!

what you say:

It's what bitcoin.com does.