From my observations of the merit system it's not anything to do with the system itself that will be it's downfall it's the fact that merit sources would as Vod suggested need to be regularly maintained to assure that we have active sources. I also don't think theymos has time to remove inactive sources, and there probably isn't any harm in other inactive sources. What I would be concerned about is the amount of merit sources that will be added. Although, it seems to me that he would prefer people to make applications rather than manually identifying merit sources as that would require a lot of work regularly which could be spent elsewhere.

That might just be the issue. At least publicly there hasn't been enough users applying to become a merit source.

I really need to get around to posting that list for you. I've just been swamped recently. Plus, I've happened upon some merit recently, and merited a few of the posts. As well as others have merited quite a few of them since I initially added them to the list.

I normally consider Iceland to be extremely hard to break down, and normally defend valiantly. However, I didn't watch the match so I'm not sure if they did defend their hearts out, and were just unlucky.

I can  beat that. I got 3 pts if I recall correctly on the Brazil prediction, because I predicted 3-0 when it finished 2-0.  I thought that was pretty damn unfair. Seems like there's a lot of luck in predicting the score rather than the result. Predicting the result seems to be just pretty shitty in general.

 

It's strange because the stickies in the Meta section at least have a good number of views on the threads (I know these will be visited multiple times by the same person), but it just doesn't seem they actually read it, and take in the information presented in the thread. Instead, they just skim it or enter the thread, and then leave.

Use the "report to moderator" button on the bottom right of the thread, and include the link. Nice job on reporting this though, but it doesn't really need a new thread for it to be dealt with as all of it can be done within the report field.

Security should be the very fundamentals that you learn before anything, and not exclusively for bounty campaigns. In fact if a bounty requires you to download anything I would advise that you download it in a separate virtual machine at the very least.

I actually quite like that checkbox suggestion. You could report in bulk, and I don't think that this should be put behind a rank as it could be useful for anyone that reports. I know multiple scenarios where this would save both time, and effort. Even though I have a 4 second cool down on a report I still run into it now, and then.

Man, that sucks. Doesn't look like the results are going towards our favor down at the bottom of the leader board. Thankfully, at the moment my results in the bracket challenge are looking somewhat favorable. Serbia as a whole have impressed me this World Cup though.

I think they are open to interpretation for a reason to prevent users finding a loophole, and exposing that. I'm not sure whether a clear amount of rules would help either as the majority of people who are breaking the current guidelines haven't read the thread.

This is interesting. What sort of access? I know I remember seeing a name suggestion of the new rank; "Mythical" or some sort of variation as that.

Yeah, however there's legitimate reasons why a user might want to moderate their own thread there. You've seen how many spam posts that are made in that section as a whole, and I wouldn't blame a user from taking it into their own hands to self moderate rather than reporting to a moderator. Of course, there's going to be some projects which abuse this feature by removing posts which call out the project or speak badly of it, but that's just the compromise that needs to be made.

You can heed the advice, and open a new thread addressing the issues with the Service. Anyone should be allowed to open self moderated threads. Doesn't mean you can't make another thread calling them out for their shenanigans though.

Removing self moderated threads would just affect the people who are moderating their threads themselves instead of reporting to the moderators. Self moderated threads have a purpose other than malicious uses.

Eventually, all the people who actually contribute are just going to have most of the sections on ignore or they will just straight up leave like others have before. I think a few years from now we'll just be talking in Meta.

I don't personally have any sections on ignore, however I do understand why someone would do this as some of the sections are just getting out of hand now.

Yeah, I understand that, however honestly I couldn't predict what I'm having for tea tonight at the moment. I've been shocking. I'm glad I've learned about the joker system now though, and will be trying to get the mini challenges more often than I have been doing to try and rake myself back in this.

Wasn't expecting Nigeria to be the ones winning so fair play to them if anything I had a feeling Iceland would be the ones to win. Damn, I really need to get some correct scores in as I'm quickly becoming irrelevant in this. Correct results just aren't the way to earn pts you need to hit a few scores.

Negative/positive trust shouldn't have any bearing on anything related to moderation whether they are breaking the rules or not. Rank also doesn't have any effect on moderation.

Nigeria haven't had a shot on target yet, but sounds like they are putting in a real effort in defense. Hopefully, they can hang on to give me some points

I'm not watching the game, and if sigurdsson is playing then I'll be expecting him to bang in a free kick at the dead of the game.

You could track clicks that result in sales if the service being advertised works like that. This would eliminate most abuse, although maybe not all services would be able to do this. Monitoring just clicks would be abused by both campaign managers, and those who want to continue earning from signatures.

I agree calling it match rounds would avoid confusion I initially thought it was per day.


The thing is Messi has never really been that impressive for ARG in my opinion. Well, he hasn't been shit obviously has he is Messi after all, but he hasn't reached the form that he has when he plays for Barcelona.

Due diligence needs to be taken whenever anyone is considering tagging anyone. Your case example has almost certainly happened, but there should be other things to consider. For example, post history is normally a good indicator. People are their own downfalls to habits. We all have habits, and unique styles of writing.

There's also the possibility of doing time analysis to identify whether the alleged connected accounts timing links up together. It's not really same address = connected. There's several things to consider. A example that I can relate too because I don't personally go after bounty participates, but I've reported several accounts which were owned by the same person, and were breaking the rules one way or another. I used a combination of timing analysis, and analyzing their habits. Reported them, and it seems the staff members generally agree with it.

This is good advise. Unless, you need to send your Bitcoin elsewhere there is no reason to open up your wallet for the sake of it. Even if it is on a offline computer, and is generally secure.

I haven't accessed some of my wallets for 2 maybe even 3 years in some cases. Yeah, they are cold storage, but I haven't even accessed them to claim forked coins as that just doesn't interest me. Plus, it would require a lot of work to get my private keys.

Got my eye on my Iceland game today. I've predicted a bore draw as Iceland are pretty good at defending. But, I'm not sure on the quality of Nigeria to be honest, but have gone for a gamble on the score to dry, and get some points back.


It's pretty easy to miss, but under every score prediction there should be what looks like a jokers hat. You will need to click that on the game you want double points on. My extensions were also blocking the image so if you have extensions on your browser,and you cant see the joker hat make sure to disable them.