Update as to under what circumstances newbies can be banned

I believe he actually added 8 new merit sources because one was removed.

Because scans are not moderated here and because the mods cannot know for sure if something is a scam or not.

I am glad he went out of his way to help you participate in a new signature campaign. Your antidote doesn’t really have anything to do with Hhampuz personality benefiting from the campaigns he runs while harming his clients.

Are you talking about integrity such as accepting his friend who recently had plagiarized at the time?

Second chance? At what exactly? Speak slowly so I can understand.


I think I already know the answer....not criticizing you and your friends.

You are correct I have no altruistic reason to keep my signature up, as stated the signature remained up because I wanted to point out there are no negative reputation harm to livecoin - the entity Hhampuz is ultimately getting paid by to maximize advertisements for -- of my wearing their signature.

Hhazmpuz's reply confirms that:
He confirmed the reason he did not want me wearing the signature was because I was no longer being paid.

This is my point. Hhampuz is specifically declining to utilize the most effective advertiser, so to personally benefit. He also accepted a friend of his, who at the time had been caught (and had negative trust for at the time) plagiarizing in recent months. I am not calling him out on this because I am involved, I am more than willing to call him (or anyone else) out on this, regardless of who is involved. Neither of these things can align with any claim that Hhampuz is acting in the best interest of his client. The line that he has "full authority" or whatever over his advertising campaigns is BS because that does not give him a license to act to the detriment to his clients (who are ultimately paying participants), especially when he receives a personal benefit.

This sounds good, but creates disincentives to work and be a productive member of society. If all of these needs are met, why would someone work?

Providing all of the above is not only expensive, but it will lead to very few people having adequate of the above because there are not enough people working to produce the above.


In general, few people will intentionally have their property sitting vacant. Most people who invest in real estate will attempt to find tenants willing to pay rent who can produce income for the investor until he sells the property.

I continue to wear the signature to show there is no repetitional concern of my advertising for livecoin.

You are intentionally not hiring the most effective advertisers so that you obtain personal benefits. This is in effect you taking a little bit of the advertising budget off the top for your personal use.

Your post indicate my advertising for livecoin is no detriment to their reputation, and your PM indicated to me that you acknowledge livecoin has received an outsized positive benefit to my advertising.

This is not unlike how you accepted a friend of yours into another one of your campaigns that you knew was plagiarizing post -- you accepted an inferior advertiser who you knew was not going to make good posts into your campaign because he was your friend and you would benefit.

I don’t think the ban message being displayed is preventing anyone from getting a second chance.

Signature advertising should not be someone's job. If this is someone's primary source of income, they are not someone we particularly want here.

I am not saying someone should absolutely, under no circumstances ever get hired to advertise on their signature again if they are caught plagiarizing. I am saying potential advertisers (employers) should be warned as to their history so they can take this information into consideration.

There are a decent amount of circumstances in which I would *not* personally hire someone who previously plagiarized, especially if they tried to cover it up after they were caught.

Like I said, what they did is very similar to stealing money (from advertisers) when they believe no one was looking.

I am not sure this is something I would want associated with my business. It is also an added risk because these people have shown themselves willing to try to obtain money under false pretenses.

The message is only displayed when directly viewing the profile and is not under every message they post.

It remains that plagiarism is very unethical (in addition to being harmful to the forum), and is not unlike stealing when the person believes no one is watching.

I see the message as a warning to anyone who will potentially consider paying for advertising in the future that the person may not be someone who will be the most effective advertiser. I also do not believe this warning to be inappropriate.

I think for the most part, someone who is banned from wearing a signature is probably not going to be posting very much anyway, and mostly were here solely for the signature money.

I am not sure what you are trying to say. I have not received any trust ratings since I joined his campaign.

Hhampuz confirmed via PM that he removed me due to personal pressure (benefit he would receive) and not due to the effectiveness of my advertising. Further, he has made *zero* attempts to get me to try to remove the signature I have been wearing since removing me from the campaign.

He is obtaining personal benefit to the determent to his client, the entity who has hired him to maximize the value of their advertising dollars.

It is ridiculous to suggest posting this in a censored (self moderated) thread, and it is worthless to leave a trust rating when multiple of his friends (who are getting paid by hhampuz money from his clients) will leave ratings covering this up.

I am not sure why someone with a history of plagiarism thinks he can speak to the integrity of someone else. This is someone who effectively stole something when he thought no one would notice.

I see no reason to engage in any kind of debate with you considering you are incapable (refuse) of debating anyone who disagrees with you.

I would point out that your post was paid for by hhampuz, out of money from one of his clients. 

IMO 1-2 year signature ban is fair.

The forum is not a place in which people can earn income for doing low effort tasks, and it not a place where posting should be considered a "job". You should post if you have a genuine interest in the topic of discussion, and any signature income should be an added bonus.

If you have outstanding business, you can message theymos to ask if you post/PM for the sole purpose of satisfying any outstanding obligations you have, or to collect any money you are owed.

I don’t know if they will grant an exception or not.

Are you the original owner of your account?

You have a two year signature ban so I presume you were caught plagiarizing.

Frankly I think you should just admit to the plagiarism if you are guilty of this. If you don’t, you are within your rights to have proof of your plagiarism presented, but I have no doubt it can easily be presented.

Was it *you* that actually posted the plagiarized post?

The last I checked, hhampuz doesn't kick people out of his campaigns for being a dick

I have no reason to believe anyone wants me to remove my signature. No one has made any effort in any way to get me to remove it

Says the person who received zero merit in ~18 months....

Hhampuz appears to be making decisions on behalf of those he is working for (eg his advertisers/clients) that benefit him personally, that are detrimental to his clients/customers.

If you are considering hiring Hhampuz, I would suggest that you not.

Untrustworthy

I was actually PM'ed yesterday about a dox of someone else I have posted, and I will give the same explanation I gave the person...

OgNasty is not reasonably accused of (trying to) obtain money belonging to someone else that he is not entitled to. In other words, there is no one seriously saying that OgNasty tried to steal money from them, nor is anyone saying that OgNasty tried to force them to send OgNasty money that he was not entitled to. Similarly, he is not accused of conspiring (nor being an accomplice) with anyone else to do the above.

Vod had accused OgNasty of not paying taxes and/or not properly reporting all of his forum/bitcoin-related income to the IRS. This was based on what appears to be baseless speculation, and the wording of OgNasty's description of certain fees he received, and Vod did not claim (to my knowledge) to have any non-public information. Further, Vod appeared to be extorting OgNasty by threatening to report OgN to the IRS if OgN did not stop being critical of Vod -- an IRS investigation/audit is expensive and time consuming, and would generally be harmful to someone even if no payment is made to the IRS at the end of the investigation/audit -- there was not explicit threat that I am aware of, and the threat was somewhat "between the lines" of statements made by Vod.

Owlcatz on the other hand (the person whose partial dox I posted, who I was PM'ed about), stands accused of being a conspirator to an extortion scheme. It is my conclusion, based on the available facts, that he played a roll in trying to force zeroaxl to give lauda money that he was not entitled to. The claim that the extortion scam was a "sting operation" is utter an complete bullshit, and anyone touting this line is either afraid of speaking out against the people involved, or is defending these criminals, and will forever have zero credibility in my book. What these people did was very wrong, and they absolutely deserve to be held accountable.