If Palace have a very weakened team then I'll probably go with Leeds but I'll need to see the line-ups first. Is Zaha the only player that's out? People are saying there's a lot out but I can't see any concrete news about that.


Yeah, he had a bit of a nightmare in the second half giving away the ball twice. Unusual for him. I wonder if Klopp will bench him?


I've put my usual bet on when I think there could be goals:



Not sure if Palace will get two without Zaha but it's worth a shot.

You can just as easily steal and defraud with cash, anonymously or otherwise. This isn't something unique to decentralized and anonymous systems. This is also just another example of why morality isn't always black and white. Is it ok to steal? Most people would say no. Is it ok to steal to feed your dying children? Most would probably say yes or would do so if they were in that situation. Is is ok to use multiple free coupons for something that explicitly states only one per customer? Who cares? Of course you can argue that it's not fair to everyone else but if something can be exploited it will and for those that get caught doing so there's likely going to be consequences. I don't think there's ever going to be a system that can't be cheated somehow though. People are pushing for things like blockchain-based voting systems and whilst I think they'd be better than the current very outdated 'counting-by-hand' system that most govs seem to use blockchain systems can still be cheated at the user end. People will just start selling their votes and without in person ID checks our some other system fraud will still be possible, but just think of how many votes were lost in the post or how many of the people counting engaged in fraud or unfair practices and there's no real checks or balancing with the current system. 


There's always a least two points of view. For instance, some people including many here believe total anarchy and no governments would be the better system. Personally I don't. I think big gov is bad and should be scaled back but I think if it was just an 'everybody-for-themselves' free-for-all then it would be a pretty nightmare-ish scenario to me and bodies would soon start piling up on the streets, but hey, the rich guys living in their fortresses protected with tanks and guns would be ok and everyone else can fight it out on the streets.


You can look at it like cheating a lottery. Imagine ten equally great posters apply for ten spots on the campaign. One guy enters with 8 accounts and three of his get it, whilst the others who don't have essentially been cheated by the odds.


He didn't steal anything. It's only stealing if it was someone else's property in the first place. He cheated the rules and took a potential spot away from someone but it's not stealing. If there's only two cans of beans left on the shelf in a store and someone gets there before me and buys two they haven't stolen them from me. They got there first. Maybe it's only one can of beans per person and maybe they jumped the que to get them or maybe they got their wife to also go in and get a can or two as well. It's 'unfair for sure but that's life and it's certainly not stealing.

Well there's certainly many more 'better' fights for him but they're also the tougher ones which are potentially not great for his brand right now if he can't win them. If Conor just keeps getting beat by every other fighter he's gonna quickly go down the rankings and become a has-been and it will end up with him being the one looking for fights rather than people desperately trying to fight him. I think he knows he can beat Poirier fairly easy so he's likely banking on that. He'll be better prepared next time and know what to expect so I think Poirier will have to mix it up as I doubt he'll win by the kicks again. I don't know what Conor will do if he loses this trilogy fight though.


Any fight involving McGregor will make big bank. His fights are all in the top 3 of all time including the second Poirier bout:



I'm sure the trilogy fight would equal or maybe even beat the second one, or for sure be top 5. A trilogy fight against Diaz would probably do even better as would a rematch against Khabib which would almost certainly take the first spot again.


All whisky taste like fire ass water to me. Most people who drink it probably don't like it or could tell much of a difference between other brands.


He doesn't deserve it. You can't get a title shot on the back of a loss. Khabib likely won't fight him anyway as he also feels like he doesn't deserve it. I think Conor is going to have to have a few spectacular results under his belt before we see any potential Khabib rematch and that's assuming he isn't done for good.


'Preparing' might be a loose term. I'm sure he's keeping fit but I don't think that fight will happen anytime soon and Conor's probably just using that potentially happening as a bargaining chip with the UFC to get him the fights he wants or he'll concentrate on boxing.




I didn't watch the card but watched the highlights of this one. I still think Masvidal's knee was the best knee knockout ever. If someone is going to beat Khabib they need to catch him with a knee when he catapults at them to take them down which he always does. If you're fast enough and you land a knee I think that would be lights out for most people. It's easier said than done though especially at the scorpion pace Khabib throws himself at people though.

I thought they played decent enough the first half even though it was pretty boring but they managed to keep it goaless. Went to shit towards the end though and City were just too strong.


I also got two scores right. Only got another two results right though.



Looks like the yellow cap this week is between LFC, Death Angel, hahay and Mosala. Looks like whoever gets the right score will win it though a close one will do for LFC.


It's a hard game to call but I'll probably go for a draw unless there's drastic changes to the line-ups. If Palace are missing some big players I'll probably go with a home win.

To be honest I'd rather just use other such platforms. They have more of an audience unless it's some niche bitcoin thing, but if you want to sell regular goods there's many better sites and apps that you're likely going to have better success with.


I've suggested things like this in the past with people being able to buy banners at the top of certain sub boards so they can target their audience better ie a gambling site would advertise in the gambling section and so on, but theymos doesn't seem to care about it. In fact, he seems to be against more advertising or doesn't want banners everywhere, but I think they'd be better than sigs and even if people find them unsightly it can't be more unsightly that sig ads especially when they come along with spam. If he did want to generate more money - and that's not something he seems to be that bothered about right now - you could easily implement more donator ranks like I mentioned above and that would be a great source of passive income and one that doesn't involve unsightly banners or sigs.

I doubt whatever he says will change anything so it's probably futile offering explanations or excuses. It's hardly a crime what he did and he could have just seen it as having multiple jobs or sources of income. I think the people who want a spot on the campaign might not see it like that but at the end of the day he probably did it just because he could and it's relatively easy money. Would it matter to most if he really needed the money or it was his only source of income? Doubt it.


Read my above post. It's none of the admins or mods business. Only admins have access to IPs and having multiple accounts isn't against the rules nor would they care about what campaigns they were on so it's not something they would look into and certainly wouldn't share that info. I can guarantee you there have been worse abuses than this gone on in the past and I'm sure there's many more who are doing stuff like this that we don't know about especially in the alt coin campaign world, but it's not something staff would get involved with unless it breaks the rules. All it would take would be to use a proxy for each account and staff would be non the wiser anyway.

I think it's the best fight for him now. Who else could he fight that he's got a chance with? Conor looked good in the first round, he just got shook in the second so I think I'd probably back him to win the rematch. It's a fight I think he can easily win just like the first match-up. Then he can go onto more exciting fights but he shouldn't be jumping the gun and going for fights like Khabib right now (not that Khabib would agree to fight him right now anyway). He needs to prove he can beat Poirier though. I don't think either of them deserve title shots right now especially not McGregor.


It seems to be around the same price as Jack Daniels over here. As with any athletes they tend to retire fairly early so they're often out of work in their 30s so a smart one will diversify, especially one like as brandable as Conor as he's one of the biggest/most lucrative fighters in the world so it makes sense to promote other businesses whilst he has eyeballs on him and that way he'll continue to generate cash once he's out of the limelight or stepped away from fighting.

Slow and steady wins the race. It's much better in the long run to have consistent scores every week than win the yellow cap once or twice or be challenging for it a few times. 


Losing Van Dijk was a big blow. City have looked a lot stronger from the start to be fair. I don't think they've been playing exceptional though. The game between them this weekend is going to be really interesting. Maybe Liverpool can get some points from it being at home and turn their fortunes round.

This wouldn't be a good idea and definitely isn't fair to others. I'm sure there are lots of people who can, would or do make more than their paid amount, but if this became a thing there would be a hell of a lot more people trying to go for multiple spots. It's best just to keep it at one per person and if someone makes more than their allotted 50 post maximum then that's not only just a bonus for Chipmixer but also proves that that person isn't posting just to get paid. Either way, I would be very surprised if Darkstar started doing something like this. He might as well just up the maximum post count to 100 or something to make it fairer but 50 post a week is a pretty nice amount and works out to 10 a day 5 days a week. Any more and people would probably start forcing themselves to make more posts which isn't good. 


Most people aren't going to disclose their alts unless it's already public knowledge, but they don't do that because most campaigns strictly prohibit multiple accounts so that's why people keep it on the hush hush. I very much doubt things are going to change regarding that or how people treat 'cheaters' of campaigns. It's best to just not get greedy and keep it to one account per campaign or certainly don't get caught but there's likely always going to be consequences for those that do.

Looks like the Poirier trilogy fight is definitely in the works:


https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/13942303/conor-mcgregor-dustin-poirier-rematch-ufc/

 
Makes sense for everyone involved really especially if both fighters want it. It's going to be red panty night for Poirier for sure. I'm not sure who I'd pick in a rematch. Conor needs to get the job done though to get back on track. Losing again is going to put him back by quite a bit.


Maybe he should use the stool this time. It's going to be interesting seeing how he adapts his game and deals with those leg kicks which he's obviously going to be vary weary of. Is Poirier going to just keep kicking or try something else?

I didn't watch either games, but did those teams play great or did Liverpool just play shite? They're playing Man City on Sunday and that could be embarrassing for them. They really need to take some points from City if they wanna stay in the title race. There's a seven point gap right now with City having a game in hand as well. I'm doing terrible this round. Didn't get any points from last nights games other than 3 from a correct score on the City match.


It was close though. Leeds hit the post twice and I think they deserved a point overall.

Spurs v Chelsea tonight is going to be a tough one to call. Don't trust either teams to get the job done.

Well it's always a catch 22 situation as you have to show the evidence at some point if you want to expose someone and some people will learn from that. You could maybe offer sufficient proof but keep something to yourself id there's more but it's always going to be cat and mouse chase. If you're smart then you'll never get caught or exposed (think satoshi), but if you're and idiot or don't cover your tracks sufficiently then you'll likely get caught eventually (Ross Ulbricht) but at some point how you got caught is going to come to light and is a necessary process so there's nothing you can do about people learning what not to do. A while back I think some people did discuss or propose some sort of hidden sub board for scam investigations but that could be compromised and even so at some point the info is going to become public so there's not much you can do. Scammers and schemesters will likely get smarter and clever trying to avoid detection and scambusters/grasses will also get more determined and thorough. Covering your tracks by not using the same addresses is pretty basic way of not getting caught and most people should know that by now though.


Not everyone knows but it's pretty obvious to anyone that isn't a complete idiot that you can be caught this way.

Depends where you live. I'm not sure it's even available in England or at least it wasn't so if some shops stock it they've probably imported it which will pump up the price. Regardless, if Conor disappears from the fighting world that's going to take away a lot of eyeballs from his whisky which he probably needs to keep in the limelight for it to be successful until it supersedes him.


Conor and Nate would be a good fight, though it's one that could be a bit dicey for Conor, but with Diaz being out of action for quite some time that could be an advantage. I think the Diaz and Poirier trilogy fights will both be on the cards at some point assuming Conor keeps fighting. I think the Poirier one is the most likely to happen especially given that they both seemed to want it and both fighters will think it's a fight they can easily win since they've done it once each before. It's for sure the biggest payday Poirier will get right now so if Conor wants it as well he'd be silly not to make it happen.

Well it should be used for obvious errors but it's being used for everything, and checking every goal is overkill and unnecessary. It's made the game worse for sure. It takes far too much time out of the game which was already an issue. They should go to a system where each team gets three appeals to check something and once they've used them that's it. It wouldn't be so bad if VAR always got the calls right but we're still seeing mistakes and offsides given for being a millimetre offside and sometimes if they had a better angle ie one straight down the line it probably wouldn't even be offside half of the time.


Well they were a man down from 2 minutes into the game so that played a big factor.

I wouldn't trust timelord's ratings especially ones from so long ago as 2017. He used to have a bizarre habit of tying people together using twisted logic that only made sense to him. My memory is hazy but I'm pretty sure figmentofmyass was well known to belong to an account farmer or was sold at one point. That name definitely sticks out.


"as they say" is a pretty common turn of phrase. It's just being rhetorical.


It doesn't really take a genius to make posts here. It probably takes a decent chunk of time and effort especially to get them onto the campaign in the first place but after that making posts is relatively easy, not to mention very lucrative especially with three accounts so it's worth it. You could probably even do it in your spare time after work to be honest if you were efficient enough. He's not exactly writing thesisis with every post so typing words on a forum isn't exactly a big deal even giving his volume.


Probably easier than doing a full time job. Would you rather write reports as a desk jockey all day or do manual labour all week or just make posts on a forum all day instead.


No need. Just use different browsers. If the forum used browser fingerprinting it might require this sort of effort to evade detection ultimately but the admins rarely look into things like ban evasion so they're not going to bother with sig campaigners.


Depends on your stance really. It's obviously not a crime, but it's against the terms of service, and a lot of people here tend to think abusing campaigns this way is shady or at the very least dishonest. Chipmixer campaign is very in demand so those slots could have been given to other people so there's an issue of fairness/greed that people won't appreciate.


Correct. And this wouldn't be a forum issue anyway so not something they'd get involved with. It's probable he used proxies as well, or would have been smart to do so, but then again wouldn't have been necessary but not something you'd want to leave to chance.


This isn't really true. This sort of farming/abuse has always caused a stir here and has always elicited negative feedback. The fact that it's chipmixer just means it's a bigger payday and more of a headline given the financial loss to the farmer. If someone was discovered with ten accounts on another campaign the thread would be very similar to this one.

The value of bitcoin is higher now - doubly so - than it was back then so people are probably even more reluctant to spend their bitcoins.


It's a discussion forum primarily not a marketplace, but either way there's nothing the forum can do about it or promote it. What would you suggest? Offer to cover escrow fees or offer free shipping or something? There's nothing you can do if people don't want to trade here and the forum shouldn't get involved in that just like it doesn't get involved with many other things like scams and such. It's a niche market and always will be for numerous reasons.


There should be another rank as many people got to Hero before the merit change. The new rank should require a large amount of merit to distinguish it from others and so it's hard to achieve, or maybe just make Legendary require it and fix the activity to 780.

Didn't watch any of the games but just watched the highlights. They didn't show the offside in the Man U game for some reason but if the VAR had that angle/image and still gave it it's a joke but it's not like we didn't know that already. Thought the second red was harsh as well. Didn't look intentional.

The David Luiz sending off in the Arsenal game seemed harsh also. Clearly accidental. VAR checked it apparently according to SofaScore but gave it anyway. I thought VAR was meant to be for these exact situations.


I'm not so sure after losing 2-0 at home to Newcastle last week. Leeds played well as well. Either a home win or maybe a draw for me but I wouldn't back Everton especially away.


I don't think they'll have any trouble with Brighton despite them beating Spurs last week.

All fighters are done at some point but I think Connor has a lot left in him, but with every fight he loses his stock goes down and probably along with his hunger for the game and when your heart's not in it any more you rarely win fights. If he just gets battered in all his next matches it'll be pretty embarrassing and he'll have to walk away at some point. His sponsorship deals rely on him to keep fighting though as nobody is going to keep offering him big bucks if he's not active or in the public eye so he needs to get back on track really for multiple reasons. His other business interests rely on it as well. Nobody is buying Proper 12 whisky because they think it's better than all the rest; they're buying it because it's Connor's and the stock in that brand will decrease drastically if he walks away. Connor was one of those fighters that got casuals attention because he's entertaining in and out of the cage and had lots of witty and quotable lines. Up until his loss against Diaz he also looked unbeatable. Trash talking every fight is just going to get tiring and it has its place. He's probably not going to do it to fighters he respects but I'm sure we haven't seen the last of it especially if he fights someone he doesn't like like Khabib again. I suspect he'll probably reign the trash talking in a bit though as you have to grow up at some point.

Don't forget the new round starts today. Nearly half of people haven't done their scores yet.


A round consists of ten games. Or should do. Any more shouldn't be included. At best they should probably put the rescheduled games in a separate round. Nobody is taking points away from toke nor am I going to mess about adding them on to the previous rounds as that is just ludicrously silly and obviously isn't feasible, but it should be noted that toke's winning round was literally a round and half hence the abnormally high score.


Who said we're playing by Superbru's rules? They're just a site we use to keep a tally. They don't issue payments or free bets. Sportsbet has been issuing free bets to all the yellow cappers even when tied even though superbru orders them via their own system. I just won't award anything for the highest scorer if it's going to cause issues and since that was the plan anyway.

With any measures you employ to stop spam you need to make sure it's not effecting real or genuine users or effects them as little as possible. If you turned signatures on and off again then all this will lead to is the bots having a vacation during that time whilst genuine users are penalised during it. Many people use their signature for different things other than signature campaigns like you do, but I don't think genuine users should be penalised because of potential bad actors. These restrictions won't even be a inconvenience to bots and they'll just reconfigure to work with it and then fire back up when they can monetise it. I think this now more than ever needs to lead to urging campaign managers to do their job properly. If campaign managers thoroughly vetted their participants and only accepted quality posters then there wouldn't be a problem with spam or shitposting and bots probably wouldn't even get on the campaigns in the first place. I've long said signature campaigns could help to actually improve the forum but only if they're run by managers that do their job properly.