Plus, I personally prefer club football over internationals as I feel that they are just more enjoyable. Yeah, I must admit I usually like the World Cup, but know nothing about how the teams play, and only know of some of their players. Although, I watch the EPL fairly regularly, and hope that will help me this time around.

Well, lets just say I hope I do a little better than the world cup. I sort of gave up in the end, and went for some outlandish scores. Yeah, that didn't work either. Champions league could be a interesting one, but I'm not sure how popular the La Liga one would be compared to this pool.

Whilst on my hunt for a specific feedback comment I see that a few users have just spammed the feedback of certain users which separate ratings. I kind of wished there was a limitation on how many times you can give a person trust every 30 days or something.

Yeah, unfortunately Serious Discussion doesn't really appeal to half the population here on the forums so the activity is pretty low. In terms of spam though I only see a couple here, and there which when reported get dealt with quite quickly.

Its probably not needed to keep a public log of all the reported messages. You could just archive any of your reports, and reference them in future reports if you wanted. If you are doing it for you to keep track of what you have, and have not reported then you should just do it locally rather than publicly.

Alternatively, there's another thread about plagiarism already in Meta which you can add too.

Probably due to a lack of reporting that the lack of moderation. Judging by the section it doesn't need to have a dedicated moderator like other sections in the forum. I don't think there's too much of an issue there personally.

Sometimes I find myself meriting posts that I don't outright like, but they bring up good points. I guess you could see this as meriting posts that I like, but there's a few instances that the user is too outspoken, and throws a bit of abuse in there. But, fundamentally they are bringing up good points. This reminds me of a user that was banned recently.
I think this is one of the problems with finding merit sources. At the moment we are pretty much relying on users applying for the position, and having an history of receiving merits, and sending them. This probably isn't the most optimal way of selecting merit sources as not every potential merit source is going to have good quality posts, but may be pretty good at finding, and rewarding others. I know that the listing of 10 posts shows your capability kind of, but users with a history are far more likely.

I think I was only accepted due to the amount of merits I received just before my merit application. I don't know if that would of been the case if I didn't have that.

I appreciate the support guys, but like I said my reports get handled pretty quickly, and there's probably others which are reporting in better timezones. United Kingdom is a pretty well covered timezone from what I can gather.

Mike hearn isn't a moderator either. He was likely given permissions there because hes the original author of BitcoinJ. Hes since quit Bitcoin, though. Shame, because he was one of the contributors to Bitcoin Core too.

Its not a very active section anymore even though their github still gets commits etc.

Yeah, I certainly don't envy him. Even with all the criticism he seems to approach things with a level head, and look out for the best of intentions for the forum, and Bitcoin. I have a lot of respect for theymos, because its far from easy running a forum like Bitcointalk.


I'm not a fan of restrictions, but regarding the bump bots it might be the only way. I think I'm pissing off a few moderators by spamming them with reports.

That's interesting looking at the comments you've left when reporting. Here's one of mine "Ref spam; Whack this fool yo". Yeah, quite happy with that one if I may say so myself.

My report statistics are a little exaggerated too. Like I said if I had downloaded Telegram, and Discord, and checked these before reporting individually I would have much lesser stats.

If it were a waste of time I'm sure theymos would of addressed this long ago.

263 bad. Some were for not explaining why I reported a few times, and had to report a few. That's what inspired the reporting effectively guide. I'm planning on creating a telegram account, and discord account dedicated to finding out these altcoins, and ICOs which are offering an incentive, and reporting them with the evidence. However, at the moment I've just been reporting the individual replies. Unless, I find them offering an incentive on their website or social medias.

I'm a perfectionist by nature, although never come up with anything ever near perfect. It's a real struggle.
I'm not fluent enough in any languages to report effectively. Except Welsh, but there aren't exactly a thriving community of Welsh people here

I've been dedicating my time for several months now for a few hours at a time sometimes. Still hasn't made a dent. They'll just make new accounts, and you have to start the process all over again. I'm not too bothered because I find reporting quite therapeutic. I invite anyone else to dedicate their time to report, though.

Honestly, the moderators still have to deal with my reports, and are likely dealing with hundreds/thousands more from other people. I think users on this forum don't appreciate how much the moderators actually do.

39744 currently. Although, I have a lot of bad reports so I'm far from a perfect record. I would disagree though. Top reporters haven't been known to get appointed, and users who can speak other languages are probably much more likely to be appointed. I don't participate in any local boards or report in any. My reports get dealt with within a few hours anyway.

@theymos requesting custom title "biggest grass" on the forum

This is happening every day with a number of different threads. I've been trying to report as many as possible, but I think we need to look at imposing restrictions. Even though I'm not a fan of that approach it doesn't seem like the current staff can handle it, and it wouldn't be as simple as adding a few more to fix it.

Yeah, I think the majority of the world will now be supporting them. Even though, they were a little bit rough with England, and gave them some tough love. I think they are a decent team, and I like some of their players like Loveren, and Modric. France aren't exactly a pushover though, and will fancy their chances here.

I believe they have been accepted before. Just make sure that is the oldest of the addresses that you can sign, and message cyrus/theymos every now, and then, and be prepared to wait for a few months. A few users seem to have been just waiting under a year. So you could be waiting a long time for it to be recovered.

Merit is subjective, and I think that's what you are trying to get at, but really there needs to be some sort of standard. For example, a few bounty projects have been merited just to gain favour with the campaign manager. This has also happened on some of the Bitcoin campaigns. There's also been a few merits rewarded for memes or because someone agrees with another users post. This isn't something I like to see merit getting spent on. Of course, we can't stop this, and in reality it's not likely a big problem in the grand scope of things, but its still quite annoying to see.

I don't think its a problem in finding the people willing to help out, and volunteer their time. Its the fact that a lot of these people who can write about the technical stuff will not be able to format the course effectively for those that are learning. Something similar to Gits pull requests should be enough for keeping it up to date, and relevant. Pedagogy is an art. Its one thing gathering the information, and setting it out in a logical order, but actually formatting it for ease of learning can be difficult.