This story can show everyone a clear example of how someone who decides to illegally appropriate someone else's account will sooner or later be caught by some random situation, and the owner of someone else's account will have to justify himself and lie for a long time, posing as the real owner of the account. It's quite an ugly situation, and you, OP, need to come to terms with it and admit that you can't prove anything. Your tag was there long before the event when you claim to have lost your email, and the person who left it for you is rarely wrong.

The most I know about post bursting is in signature campaigns where managers frown at that and often punish any individual who is fond of it with things like no payment or removal from the campaign. However, I do not think there is any rule that forbids that and even if there is, there is no punishment spelt out unless such posts are continuously reported to the mods, perhaps they can take action against such users. Although I have seen some decent post bursting by some reputable member of the forum, the intention of which is to draw attention to a topic that was discussed in previous years that deserve attention or relevant to today. I don't know if such is right or simply creating new topic and referencing the old thread would have been better.

What's the point of reporting if the moderators don't take proper action? I understand mods are only human, and they can't clean everything all by themselves! Anyway, as far as I'm aware of, some moderators can only move or delete posts but cannot ban a person (not sure though), maybe that could be a reason for not perma or temp ban? At altcointalks, users are categorized into certain groups with specific name tags. Like bounty cheater, warning, spammer, translator, and teleported, I wonder if such a feature would be effective to reduce spam and certain negative things at Bitcointalks. Not every person checks the feedback left by others, but when the tags are showing directly beside the profile, many would try to avoid interacting with that person!

Quick question: What is the requirement to get the report handled page? I mean, I don't remember exactly, but we have to have a minimum number good reports to be able to enable that thingy! I just don't remember

If Mods would be less forgiving for spammers, none of this would be necessary. So maybe it's necessary for spam to get worse before Mods start banning them again.

This comes to mind:

You know sometimes I had to think if there were form of communication like connecting with each others via video to know whom they are actually passing any important details to, but it's surprising to see that administration power is being passed to one another without any formal or verbal communication to know whom they are really dealing with, although the trust has been established.

I certainly agree. Report to the campaign manager instead so that he will be automatically warned and if there’s no improvement after that, then the campaign manager will be responsible enough to remove the poster or ban his account in all of his campaigns.

However, with regards to spamming, I have observed a lot of members are still doing this, but because their posts are also having a quality content, then they’re still in the forum. But still, posting with just a two-three minute interval should be corrected also, since that could still end up spamming in the forum.

Is it possible to create something you so much valued and something you wish to stand the test of time. Then, you hand it over to a random online stranger who you cannot trace by any means.

Maybe Troytech is suggesting a lil behind the scene relationship between Satoshi and Theymos that triggered that level of trust. But if anyone considers that it wasn't directed from Satoshi to theymos, you'll understand that there could be alot of dots to connect or there could just be only one dot to connect.

To me, there's no point trying to uncover that mystery of the administration of the forum, just like it is futile trying to uncover Satoshi. Everything is fine and theymos has been great over the years, maybe we should just be content with that.

There're already penalties for spamming or in anyway forum users tends to break the forum policies.
So applying if there could be a law guiding that fact to prevent it from ongoing hasn't been a new development in the forum because I can remember that spamming or related going against the forum rules are banning, suspension and even reputational effects.
Just as other users has suggested on reporting the users posts, I'd also call on his mentioned to the board maybe sanction him with warning to refrain from the acts.
I actually made some research if he's doing it to meet up his campaign payment tasks but don't find him in any. So then I wonder what else could make me bursting his posting counts.

But if you don't report his posts, his account will not be banned. If you want him to be banned, keep reporting and you can visit his post history page like once a week, to report all his spam post. It can take you some minutes to do it each week if you feel that account is very bad for the forum.

Many reports, many deleted posts contribute a first temporary ban. Many temporary bans cause a permanent ban. It's the flow of spammer to Archive bin of forum.

The rule is only 3 temporary bans, and a fourth one is a permanent ban but if a first temporary ban need like 100 or 200 spam posts to be executed, a permanent ban with spam reasons, maybe will need up to 400, 800 or 1000 spam posts, that is unbelievable. I agree, it's hard to expect a permanent ban on a spammer.

I don't see any benefit for him in increasing the post count because he isn't making quality posts and earning merits. In that case, one would think he is trying to rank up, but that isn't even the case with him.


Hoping for that, time should have been due already by now considering he has been doing this for some time now.


His motive isn't to get the attention of CMs because his rank doesn't qualify him to join a campaign.


Considering the amount of posts he makes, it's true that manually reporting every post will only waste our time. Reporting a few of his posts and then putting him on the ignore list is probably the best way to go with.