Ban request for user: Snowshow

[dkbit98]

Hm care to share some proof of that as somehow I doubt it given all the ban evasion that is going on. And do you mean you literally can't register, or there is that evil fee thing if you try to create new account?

There is evil fee you need to pay for that specific IP address if your banned account was using that same IP address.
So that means that you can't complete registration and write anything in forum until you pay random amount of coins.
I doubt Snowshow would pay with bitcoin for creating new accounts, but maybe this made him even more angry and motivated to write against Bitcoin 

[DaveF]

Every other place I frequent, be it motorcycle boards, tech boards, whatever trolls are removed. Some of the more fun admins have shadow ban settings where they are the only ones that can see their posts so they can troll on but nobody sees them.

Here, although against the 'rules' it seems to be permitted.
As others have pointed out unless certain lines are crossed, they get to stay. I guess page views are more important the quality.

fxsurfer/snowshow started his trolling career on the biggest Croatian forum (forum.hr) at least 5 years ago but they are not so hesitant to ban obvious ban evaders/trolls so he gets banned as soon as someone spots his new account. In the end he started avoiding it and instead focused on bitcointalk where on top of having bigger audience he can get away with one alt account after another, even though its obvious who is behind them.

Makes you wonder how much letting people like him stay along with all the other shit poster and such hurt BTC in general.
Imagine coming here as a new BTC and seeing all the crap that is permitted. Same with the altcion section and so on.
I do spend a fair amount of time here, but I do seem to be less and less active since I really don't always have the time to wade through crap.

-Dave

[AnotherAlt]

but maybe this made him even more angry and motivated to write against Bitcoin  

I think so. But, let him be angry and write whatever he wants about Bitcoin. Probably he will write nonsense things (which he is already writing). But, You can easily give him a counter answer if he is not correct. Possibly he could point out some bad sides of Bitcoin, such as volatility (this is also a good thing). But, we know. There are a lot of good things that can be written about Bitcoin. So, I don't think he should be banned for writing against Bitcoin. Let's have some haters/enemy types of people who can criticize you. Oh dang, I just noticed The Pharmacist already wrote almost the same thing.

[FatFork]

That troll just won't let go. He keeps making the same arguments, which have already been proven invalid, over and over in the hope that someone will fall for it. He's not willing to let go of his worldview, so every time he gets challenged on something he has said, he just makes up some other spin that is equally invalid. He's like a dog chasing his tail. He never catches it, but he keeps trying anyway. It's a waste of time and energy to try to have a discussion with someone like this. He's not open to the possibility of being wrong, because he has convinced himself that he's right about everything. The only way to deal with him is to ignore him completely and move on with your life.

[Rikafip]

Remember that we had those cases in the Croatian section where it was reported that friends of our local community members couldn't register because their newly-created accounts got evil points assigned to them? That happened despite them never having used Bitcointalk before.

Not that I remember people in this forum talking about, but I have a friend that tried registering on this forum ~two years ago and got that evil fee thing without doing anything wrong. He even tried using VPN but all those IPs that he used were flagged as well so in the end he gave up, and he didn't want to accept me paying the fee. He was really turned off by that approach (even though fee was very small) and I must say that I can't blame him because if that happened to me when I registered on this forum, 99.99% I would just give up and continued discussing crypto related stuff on forum.hr where I was for years before I came here. God knows how many users were lost that way.

So that means that you can't complete registration and write anything in forum until you pay random amount of coins.

That's not entirely true as from my understanding you can register the account, its just that you can't post until you pay. I also think that its not a random amount of BTC that you have to pay but instead it depends on the amount of evil you have.

That troll just won't let go. He keeps making the same arguments, which have already been proven invalid, over and over in the hope that someone will fall for it.

Keep in mind that arguing with him is a convenient way of filling up your signature quota so there is always someone willing to argue with him, even though they know its completely pointless.

[NotATether]

That troll just won't let go. He keeps making the same arguments, which have already been proven invalid, over and over in the hope that someone will fall for it.

On the reverse side of the coin, you have to be amazed by his indefatigability; I'd think that someone who could persist for months in writing the same garbage after being refuted by almost everyone must be a Turing-complete program written as a prank.