I've responded to you four or five times, I'm not going to waste my time repeating myself over and over just because you don't like the answer.

As long as people don't need to post here or in that thread to meet the criteria for it. If you want to verify BCT accounts you can use profile fields, pm's, signatures, or something else like that.

He wasn't, his ban expired before he posted dankcoin and he wasn't banned again, he's probably locked up in the psych ward based on his last post. 

Not really suddenly, it was suggested a while back because people have been abusing it for some time, someone botted thousands of votes a while back with 0 post newbie accounts. Now at least they have to put some effort into it and will increase their chances of being caught.

This post sums up alt currencies pretty well.

Lure them in with giveaways, then fleece them.

There is fact checking, users are fully capable of doing that on their own as long as they have access to all the information. If we start removing feedback based on our opinions, or our interpretation of the facts, then they no longer have access to all the information, only the information we decide they should have, which isn't right.

There is a general ban list yes, and mod logs. For the sig advertising spammers I have a thread dedicated to that viewable by all staff that has a list, for both transparency and future reference.

Not gonna say how I caught you, because then all the signature service threads will be full of "Don't do x!". They already kind of are, but it's mostly false assumptions.

Having an elite few with the ability to arbitrarily decide which feedback should be left/removed isn't the way towards an honest system. No it isn't perfect, but having it be moderated by a select few would make it worthless. The only reason you disagree is because in this instance it would benefit you, but you need to look at the bigger picture.

I rarely read the altcoin board anymore, I'd rather smash my balls with a hammer. Some of the other mods do though.

I pm'ed this guy yesterday, it's been resolved already.


It wasn't left out, temporary bans have never been appealable because only admins could do it. He added the ability for me to add/remove bans and issue temporary bans a while back since he isn't as available as he used to be, and I didn't want to be an admin.


Most people know why they got banned, they just play dumb and hope we don't realize it, or they want to stir up drama.

This IS real life, but you'd rather be lazy and have someone else do it for you. No we aren't going to get involved.

Pro tip for you, that feature is disabled.  I don't remember if it was colored when it wasn't though.

Eh, well I'm with you on that. He was voted in but only members can vote so...  

As for tysat, he isn't in default trust, only the extended list via Maged, Canaryinthemine, tomatocage, myself, and maybe another one or two.
So I find your assertion that it's because of Brock controlling things behind the scenes of the forum to be... dubious at best.

So who is Brock Pierce and what does he have to do with the forum? Does he post here?

Edit: I see, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=602198.0
Still don't see what he has to do with the forum though. That thread is also pretty hard to read with all the Bruce drama thrown in for no reason.

I didn't ban you to prevent you from pm'ing me or asking questions, I banned you because YOU, the person are banned, not just an account. Not only are you a pm spammer, you continued doing it after being banned on another account (Mondy) for it. I don't really see what there is to discuss.

I'm not going to ban you just for posting in this thread though.

Same reason as last time mondy. You send unsolicited pm's trying to buy people's accounts, since you've had accounts banned for it in the past you knew full well it wasn't kosher. Also really annoying to those who get them, stop it.

Mods can't see any of that so we can't help/verify. Get thee to theymos, but don't waste his time, read that thread and send him everything he needs in one pm to increase your chances of a response.

No.

And in general, temporary bans rarely include ips, just specific accounts.

I've been growing my own herbs and vegetables for a long time now, and I figured out a long time ago that cutting weeds when they get too tall doesn't help, need to dig the roots out.

Also, nice attempt at a strawman, but I never said all, just the ones that are promoting spam. There ways to purchase ad space in signatures without spamming the shit out of the forum in the process. TF for example didn't pay per post.  There are others that cap the post count at something reasonable.

There's nothing inherently wrong with ads in sigs, but paying per post, and some are even offering a bonus to the 'top' poster, is resulting in too much spam.
 

Yeah I did suggest that a while back. I would greatly prefer to remove the incentive for people to spam instead of punishing them after the fact. Similar to the change from post count based member levels, to activity based, mostly removed the incentive for people to spam posts. These guys are paying people for posts so it's countered that.

Still easy to see how many posts one has knowing there is 20 per page though so wouldn't really be helpful.

Personally I'm a fan just filtering out urls from these services entirely since they're ultimately responsible for the spam.