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[Museum of Bitcoin, Bitcointalk avatars [Community-led]]

Museum of Bitcoin, Bitcointalk avatars [Community-led].

I did not update it for last two years and perhaps now it's time to do this for two following threads.  

• BitcoinCleanup.com charity signature/avatar/social media campaign Members+
• Signature Sets for some popular currencies

Personally, I would post such a topic in the Services board as already suggested - and there are already all the projects that have unpaid sig campaigns. As far as I can see, their links have already been posted, although I remembered another avatar campaign whose avatars many had a few years ago.

NotYourKeys.org - Community Contribution Avatar Campaign

You can easily vacate and excuse yourself from the forum if you wish to do so but you choose not to therefore asking for a self-ban is another attempt at seeking attention on your part. You have already made announcements to leave the forum however your self-imposed exile did not last beyond several hours.

Nothing you say can be taken seriously including your claims about your so-called formula to generate unlimited funds. Eventually you will get tired and will become less of a nuisance, until then we will have to get used to the unlimited spam you are generating.

Cyrus, I am asking you please ban me from the forum.

I've hired spammers, everyone has had a few.

So you are admitting of hiring spammers in campaigns and you think this is ok 

Yahoo62278 has managed many campaigns in the past and we know that he is a good campaign manager. I think he meant that many campaign managers have hired spammers in the past. Many of the spammers were known and tagged. Some even plagiarized and got banned. Some people were actually good posters before but you will notice all of a sudden that they are spamming.

The decline in popularity does not apply only to this forum (like all other forums), but it is a trend for the website industry in general. There are more and more projects, businesses... that have a website only for information and basically rely on hosted services beyond that.
Various social media, YouTube, GitHub etc...are taking over the dominance, also most services without a mobile app seem to not exist.

Social media like Reddit, Twitter and Nostr have absorbed most of the bitcoin-related discussion, and that of other crypto in general, but that doesn't mean that Bitcointalk is useless. In my opinion it is a hybrid between a mailing list and typical social media postings, where you can still have in-depth discussions about things, but you are not going to see a whole lot of memes and trolling until you go somewhere like that Wall Observer thread.

[There is also a new Fake Ann from an old Account with a new Github Account that copied and pasted from an other Github Account for SKOOF!]

A few days ago, such users were making a lot of noise in the forum, I think they want to back it up again. Today I see some users again spreading suspicious link with tempting title to exploit gambling platform. I think it is not enough to just red tag them but they should be banned.

Nice catch on that Links , and thanks for posting it here.


There is also a new Fake Ann from an old Account with a new Github Account that copied and pasted from an other Github Account for SKOOF!

The Fake Github was created 13 Hours ago.

Fake Github : github.com/0xshwifty/skoof-blockchain

Virustotal detecion : https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/12f20bd1f3167186fd1c160a66c6fc6c7fa68a41eb869be4c95148748033936d/detection

Code:

Trojan-PSW.Discord
Trojan:Win32

The Readme file on Github for SKOOF is mostly copied from https://github.com/xelis-project/xelis-blockchain/blob/master/README.md

Account : luckynuts  <--- Please ban or Lock that Account and delete the Thread
Registered since November 25, 2018 , Looks like the Account got Hacked or sold

Fake Ann Thread :  [POW] SKOOF NETWORK

Code:

https://github.com/0xshwifty/skoof-blockchain

This post is also a reference for the Github Report !

the decline in the popularity of forums and the rise in popularity of instant messengers.

Don't you mean social media instead of instant messengers?

Indeed, messengers are convenient in many ways: you exchange instant messages, you have very few restrictions on publications, you can actively use memes and pictures, as well as videos.

I don't want people to have instant access to my attention, I don't want memes, and I don't want videos. Bitcointalk is fine the way it is.

what do you think needs to happen for our forum to become popular again?

I'm confused: your title wants to make the forum "great", your post wants to make it "popular". Considering the level of social media, I don't think those two words go together.

If there is an overwhelming number of spamming in stake campaigns, will theymos still give them a pass? I wanted to show stake what such a campaign can cause to them, their reputation. Anyway, that's something else we are getting directed now.

I do not know the level of spam in gambling board (because I ignore it,) but some solutions are useful, such as:

 - Prepare an ignore list and ask members to add those accounts to that ignore list.
 - Report any spamming account, and collect them in one topic.
 - If you get good spam reports from most members, then sig will be banned for breaking the forum rules.

Something like AI Spam Report Reference will give good and fast results.

So I don't expect any action to be taken against them.

Neither do I but it can happen if the spam gets increased over time.

I wanted to show them what can happen for not managing a campaign properly but people took this into a different discussion.

[could]

that means you could have at least 1358 sMerits (excluding source).

3990

With such amount, i agree you're likely in 1st position . After all, there are very few member who receive more than 7980 merits.

The only problem is not lack of quality and merit worthy posts. Amidst low quality posts, there are still posts which cross the average benchmark that ought to receive merits. The problem could be that most of our merit sources have high standards for giving out merits and it's rare for their standards to be met by an average forum user.

Merit sources are human. They can't see and be all over the place ready to merit anything and everything that deserves it. Don't forget that it's a manual task, you can't automate it.
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In addition, admin doesn't pay them while AFAIK admin pay moderator.