To me this is the best clear-cut guidelines for DT behavior. It seems fair and comprehensive.
However, I wanted to get additional input on these two items:
ANN bumping, which is negative to the forum.
Colluding *subjective
Short of concrete evidence that alts are being used to bump a thread, what constitutes as "proof" of an alt?
I look for:
- same style of writing, vocabulary, use of BBcode and general formatting of post
- registration date (suspected alts registered within minutes of each other is pretty compelling)
- concentration of posts in the same section(s)
- replies to own comments frequently
I'd like to tag some thread bumping alts, some of which are doing so for promotion and some which are doing so for the purposes of FUD. Because they are alts (or so I strongly suspect) they aren't self-bumping threads per se, so they're not breaking any forum rules.
I reported about 50 instances of spamming with alts (using my
Russian bump bot ring thread as proof/evidence) and they were all marked good. Yet none of their posts were deleted, and only a couple of them were banned (and for other reasons).
So, they're not explicitly breaking forum rules, and you shouldn't tag somebody just for being an alt, but for the purposes of ceaselessly hyping a project or relentlessly trying to discredit it I think a tag is deserved.
Here's an example from the FUD side:
I HAVE RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING INTERNAL INFORMATION WHO WANTS TO BE ANONYMOUS.
Nimiq signed a deal with WAG Bank to PAY 1 MILLION DOLLAR FOR 9.9% OF WEG Bank with an evaluation of a "bank" of only 10 million dollars. But the deal is not in Fiat or Eth or BTC. The deal was in Nimiq. Because team nimiq didn't own enough coins just 10% of the 1 million USD deal in nimiq, they started buying coins from the market on HitBTC. The entire pump is caused only by NIMIQ / WEG BANK buying over ~ 1 billion coins from the market. This is the sure way to lose money: buy your own coin buying high and selling low.
Wow. This smells so much like market manipulation bullshit. Also possible insider trading. I wonder how high they will try to pump their shitcoin. Facts proved about price manipulation
1. Trading Bot was proven by bitcointalk and confirmed after Robin Linus asked them publicly to tell to the community if they run trading bots, and they said YES
2. They confirmed that they acquired coins from the market to pay community projects. Btw here are the community projects? Does any of them work? Is one working? Is any of them used by anybody
3. They confirmed that every month they acquire coins worth $35,000 to pay for developers.
4. They acquired 9.9% of WEG Bank. So they invested over 1 million dollar buying coins from the market
5. They announced that the WEG Bank acquisition is under NDA. Although we know that they acquired 9.9% for 1 million dollar investment, they don't want to tell us.Annoying, right? They've done this literally hundreds of times between their 3 accounts. I actually don't care/know if Nimiq is a scam or not but that's besides the point.
What do you guys think?