Bullshit.


Newbie accounts have severe restrictions on how many pm's and how often they can send, so yes you do need to use a higher ranked account to do it effectively.

You're a spammer, why wouldn't you get banned again?

If you're looking for a specific rule/reason for being banned again, it's ban evasion.

Have you considered the witches were following you and cursed you? Have you seen any gypsies? Have you been losing weight?

Yes, the ones that haven't been handled (yet). Sometimes they get lost in a flood of altcoin reports, or foreign language reports, or something else similar.


Depends. While it looks okay on the surface, that sort of pattern can be indicative of either account farming, or someone using multiple accounts for sig ad purposes. Neither one of those is disallowed, but more often than not, as the number of accounts go up, the quality of posting drops, so it's something worth looking into. Report system isn't really ideal for that though, I don't check it that often, I leave it to the moderators generally so I can focus on things moderators can't do. You can pm me with those sorts of reports, I will look into it.

In cases like this, the reports should, and usually are marked as handled and do count, though it isn't done automatically.

You should pm me if that's the case. I don't promise an answer, or that I'll tell you what happens, but I will look into it.

Build or buy a file server. Something like this if you're cheap http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16859107052 Or just a large external drive if you're really cheap and don't need much storage.

Or roll your own and go with FreeNAS, Unraid, or one of the other solutions. I made mine out of leftover computer parts and it works great. The original version of it I ran for 2 years had a sempron 140 in it, which is a 2.7 GHz single core so you don't need a beast just to run some hard drives. Though more power helps if you want it to perform other duties like torrents, usenet, Kodi server, transcoding, etc. Upside to a file server is you can offload all those sorts of duties to it, and not have to leave your main computer/laptop on and busy. Also some protection against drive failure.

If theymos could I'm sure he would have by now, if nothing else, getting endless pm's about account recovery is something I'm sure he would love to stop.

Because you edited your post, didn't see that.

I don't want to stop anyone from participating here on the forums, just to stop the spam. To that end, your main account is banned for two weeks, your alternate accounts will remain banned.

Yes you can have multiple accounts. Doesn't mean you can spam worthless content everywhere.

That explains it a bit better than using it for sig campaigns.

(I unlocked this thread because I don't think it's resolved)

Assuming the real RiverBoatBTC is being honest (as in he isn't faking the hack, which would be easy to do), the most likely situation given the evidence is that the account was and still is compromised, and then the Riverboatbtchacked account was also compromised. He then posted here saying he recovered it to avoid the negative feedback (and that post which he deleted, at least the way he said he recovered it, is a lie as theymos pointed out).  

The current holder of the account, after getting several of his trolling posts deleted, probably decided it would be better to just post and make money from sig campaigns, instead of trolling and getting banned and it being deleted anyway.

If sig campaigns are allowed, I don't see what's so particularly heinous about this. Targetting sig campaigns would also provide a better ROI, it's by far the worst type of corporate spam here.

I do see how it may become a problem if it becomes common. Though one would think that since a significant majority of their customers come from here they would ultimately want to do what's best for the forum, and not just short term profits, but that's greed for ya. I guess we'll find out.

Anything that significantly makes it harder for them, would most likely affect legimitate users more.

You don't need to be registered to see posts. The SEC case against Pirate involved forum posts, they had printouts of his thread from what I recall reading from the testimony, they would reference posts and ask if it was his post.

Yeah temp bans won't show up there. Some permabans won't either if they were applied the same way as temp bans. Not common but I do sometimes. Sometimes a temp ban will be converted to permanent which will result in that behavior, also may be done that way if I want to put a reason (either for myself/others, or for the user), etc.

Look at his post history before today and you'll see a suspicious gap exactly a week long in which he wasn't posting. Just saying. 


Weird, it used to be 2 weeks.

Also bans by admins don't always show up in the modlog, depends on how they were banned. I don't think that's intentional though.

Modlog is two weeks.


Why do you need to know when someone else is banned?

Then it wasn't a link, just text.