That is true, but I've seen a couple of impersonation attempts where the impostor is bold enough to post in the original seller's thread trying to lure a user into sending them funds, so the Newbie warning message isn't shown. I think Operatr's idea of having a confirmed/verified account sounds like a good idea (much better than the idea I proposed earlier in this thread).

Denied. The campaign is currently full, like the title says.

Yes, we have a special deal with that user, which is why he's permitted to be in the campaign even though he is Newbie rank.

Unfortunately the campaign is currently full. Please apply again when you see open slots.

I agree with the fact that it probably isn't beneficial when trying to appeal to newcomers to the site. However, Bitcointalk (seems to) really push for freedom of speech, and I suppose this avatar would fall under that.

I never mentioned that at all in my post. I was discussing coins101's idea that since the ISIS flag is illegal in a few countries, then it should be blocked when accessing Bitcointalk from these few countries as well. I was trying to explain to him that that's not how things work on the internet.

It seems you completed ignored my post except for the first line, so I'll pose my question to you once again:

The site is being hosted in the US, so I'm assuming they're abiding by American laws.

I have a question for you though; is CBC.ca blocked in the Netherlands? They're often running stories with images or videos that include the ISIS flag. According to your logic, CBC.ca, or at least the CBC.ca stories on ISIS should be blocked when they're trying to be accessed on a Netherlands IP. Hint: Neither CBC.ca, or the ISIS articles on CBC are blocked on Netherlands IPs. I see no problems with this forum allowing images of ISIS flags, because I suspect if CBC is allowing anyone worldwide to see the ISIS flag, Bitcointalk won't get in any trouble for doing the same.

I don't agree with having an ISIS flag as an avatar, but there's a great ignore feature on this forum so that you don't need to see that avatar, or any posts from that user anymore.

That's not true. If the original owner contacts Sony and tells them their account was hacked, Sony will reset the account email/password for them, so a PSN account isn't valid collateral.

Speaking of Keybase invites, I have three invites remaining on my account. Send me a PM if you're looking for one!

Wrong, I manage the Rollin.io signature campaign and manually review each post made by each user. When a human is checking out posts it isn't tough to find a copy/paste post, or a completely off-topic post. For most of them I just need to take a peek at the thread's title, and if the post doesn't relate to it at all I can double check the context of it, and confirm that it's off topic. It doesn't take a huge amount of time to check posts either, probably 20 minutes a day or so.

It would be difficult to detect different names, but an idea that came to mind would be generating a small image, or a certain color from the hash of someone's username. That way, each color or image should be (at least slightly) different, even when a username is extremely similar. The one problem I could foresee with that approach would be having an ugly color, or small image beside every user's name on all posts and PM's.

It happens more often than you'd expect.. Especially when the legit user doesn't have an avatar. I've seen a few people get fooled and scammed by these impostors in the few years I've been on the site.

Although your bot would have a ton of options like you listed a few posts ago, there are a couple big problems that I would see using a bot like this:

• A user may make a post that meets the requirements of a post to be counted, but the post might be completely off-topic - there would be no way to police this
• The user makes a copy/paste post with content from an external website - this is a bannable offence on Bitcointalk, and I suspect it would be tough to implement a feature that checks for this

Sure, but before I change the address please sign the following message from 1CDtTNXkXXaEonr6z6UV4Qk2dUouKf679V:


This needs to be done just to ensure that your account hasn't been stolen.

Sure, I'd be willing to accept you. Change your signature, and make a post with your details and I'll slot you in.

Bump, two slots have opened up.

Accepted, you'll be slotted in shortly. However, remember that we don't count posts in the Off-Topic or Investor-based Games sections. I noticed that quite a few of your recent posts have been in those sections.

I'd have to deny you due to low quality posts.

devthedev has replied here already... devthedev still owns the source code of the website, but unchi purchased the passphrase.io domain after it expired. devthedev originally owned the domain, but let it expire and didn't bother renewing it.

Campaign is full right now, but when users are removed (probably later today) then you'll be the first person I'll review.

Well, I send messages out to the users that will be removed letting them know why they're being removed. I give them some time to read the message, and tell them to contact me if they feel they were removed accidentally. So the crossed out state is a sort of "limbo" state. If the users have a reasonable explanation to counter their removal, then I'm sometimes willing to give them second chances in the campaign.

A slot is open when there's a white slot in the spreadsheet, but a crossed out slot usually means there will be an opening in the next 24 hours or so.

Denied due to lack of constructive posts.

Denied due to poor English.

Accepted, but keep in mind that we don't count posts in the "Investor-based Games" section - I see that quite a few of your recent posts are in that section.