I'm not sure what you mean? But, higher requirements absolutely make sense. Higher ranked accounts have certain benefits such as higher PM limits, cooldowns on actions are reduced, and their signature is larger. It makes sense to have some sort of progression. Lowering the requirements would just mean they would need to get x amount, and then freely spam from there onward.

Theymos has posted about this recently. Well, not directly, but you can definitely link the two together. He stated that its not a problem with financing or hiring/delegating users with more responsibilities to take the workload of himself, and others, but the trust that this requires.

Just because someone is unbiased doesn't mean they'll be good for the forum.

I agree with your viewpoint, although I did quite like the concept of it. It wasn't perfect by all means, but I felt it added something. I still feel its better than the trust system for determining trolls. The trust system can be used to spite someone, whereas the ignore system didn't have any real effect. Plus, the trust system is horribly misused by certain users, and a lot of users are more concerned about ruining someones reputation than giving them the benefit of the doubt sometimes. Obviously, I'm referring to the lesser issues rather than outright scamming here.

I must have some sort of high tolerance to this stuff, because it just doesn't have any effect on me whatsoever. Yeah, it's not great etiquette, and does scream "I need attention", but doesn't bother me all that much.

You just triggered a lot of people.

Could be a variety of ways that you could of been compromised. Have you downloaded anything which might of been able to compromise your account? Have any of your other accounts been compromised? Possibility of compromising your login details through a phishing website.

I see the account has posted on a few altcoin threads, and downloading clients for these have been known to compromise passwords for both the forum, and Bitcoin. It's almost certainly nothing to do with the forum.

Post the username here, and a signed message of the account. Following this format: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=497545.0

If you can provide this information then your account could be unlocked. However, it might take a little while due to the amount of requests that the staff are having currently.

That's assuming that they are logging out. They are likely using virtual machines which they keep the cookies intact, and keep themselves logged in. This would be the smartest thing to do, because they don't need to use captcha solving services then, and therefore cost them less.

I think so. Newbies will likely judge users on their trust rating, and not heed their perfectly sound advice/post. Anyway, not every user is rightly tagged, and negative trust ratings are subjective. What I might consider untrustworthy could be different to you. Just because someone on DefaultTrust has left a negative doesn't mean they are actually right.

You could give Deathandtaxes as an example. They were very well informed about Bitcoin, and offered some very intellectual discussions about it. However, they have been red tagged.

This is a good point. This is kind of why I liked the ignore glow effect that was shortly implemented a while back. The more the user was ignored the more glow that was added, and what colour the glow effect was. That was good for distinguishing users that aren't worth listening too. This did have its drawbacks which resulted in it getting removed, but I feel that this was better suited than the trust system in identifying trolls.

Merit probably isn't the best solution to identifying trolls. Several members started off with high amounts which would be misleading to those that are new to the forums. Plus, merit is rewarded subjectively, and I've seen several posts that have been merited even though they don't deserve to be. Take for example the multiple bounty threads which have received merit.

Provide the information that has been suggested by trapatalce, and any other information that you think is relevant. Although, I would only try to include essential information to avoid it getting drowned out by useless information. Be prepared to wait for a very long time as there seems to be a massive backlog of lost/hacked accounts.

We've been chugging along a few weeks with only 3 Global Moderators, and I don't think too many people noticed that Salty, and grue were inactive. Salty as been logging in, but hasn't done too much moderation work based on Hilariousnadco's comment. theymos recently made a comment that its not about the budget of the forum, but the lack of trust in delegating roles to users. So, I don't expect us to see new moderators/global moderators, and would assume that existing staff members will be promoted if there is a need.

I've probably got ideas for artwork, but not the skills. Even though, the forum is text focused I would of thought some of the creative individuals here would of come up with quite a few pieces of artwork.

That's actually a pretty good one that I wasn't aware of.

Right, I'll probably add this into the original topic when it comes to editing it again. I still need to work on making the report history image smaller.

Using the "report to moderator" should be enough. If you think they are a shitposter then you can report them for such, and ask the moderator dealing with the report to take a look at their post history.

Something like "User is spamming/Shitposting. Please check their post history". The moderator dealing with the report can then decide if more severe action is necessary or they may just delete all the posts that they deem not to their standard.  90% of the time opening a new thread isn't necessary.

Are these digital or physical? I'm assuming that they are digital, but you've posted in the goods section by mistake. Anyway, what sort of discount are you offering?

I don't think its a huge problem right now. Putting restrictions on things isn't always the best thing to do, and just harms the legitimate users using polls for legitimate reasons. I don't I've ever come across a post that annoyed me because they had a silly poll. They are easily ignored, and its not like it bumps the topic or anything.

In fact, you might argue that including a poll might result in less bumping of the topic, because users will vote instead of replying.

Yeah, threads in the past have been removed for similar requirements. Just report the thread, and include the quote, and your explanation if you think it justifies removing it. The moderator will then decide based on the evidence provided. Some of these projects seem to list vague requirements on their bounties, and then actively encourage it behind closed doors in their Discord, and Telegrams. If you are going to be tackling these sort of problems then looking into depth via their website, social medias, Discord, and Telegram would be beneficial to your reports.

If it's fake, and done as a requirement for bumping a topic or getting rewards then no. I'm much more interested in genuine discussions than ones which are faked, and paid for. Its the reason why so many people dislike advertisements, and paid reviews. It paints a misleading image of the service/project/product.

From their bounty thread


Even though, they don't specifically say the post in the thread they do specify that at least one post needs to be about Egretia or mentioned. It's only natural that users would flog to their ANN thread, and then include a hashtag to fill both the criteria.

English is a second language to me. Although, it's a little different as I learned Welsh, and English at the same time growing up. Although, initially I predominately spoke Welsh. That isn't the case anymore, because of the amount of people speaking Welsh is dwindling, and thus my Welsh is becoming rusty/forgotten. Point being as long as they can string up a sentence which is comprehensible it isn't a problem if it's their 2nd or 10th language.


It's really not needed. I would say that the majority of the work the moderators do is dealing with spam.

Trust should not have any bearing on your perception of the person posting. It's only natural to see a trust rating, and assume that the person is talking bollocks or aren't worth listening to if they have a negative rating. In reality this isn't the case.

Why would you want it to be displayed everywhere? Its related to trade, and only makes sense to have it in sections concerning trading. Having it as a toggle option could be implemented, but I think keeping it the way it is as the default option is the best idea.

They were pretty inactive from what I can tell. I'm sure theymos would have them back in an instant if they could dedicate their time again. Both were top notch in my opinion. Probably better to promote existing staff than hire new ones to fill in the slot. Thanks for the endorsement though

Myself, Pugman, and yourself used emojis in our replies. 100% confirmed alt accounts.