Bitcointalk Account price estimator

[Financial_Genius]

seems like a great idea

[AncilVTwo]

the site didnt work for me before ( it always used to get stuck on processing for me ), but today it seemed to have work  .

[B4RF]

the site didnt work for me before ( it always used to get stuck on processing for me ), but today it seemed to have work  .

Was the same for me.
I was always in queue at 8th position or so and didn't gain any postions.
But I tried it some days later again and it worked fine.

Although this makes no difference because no one will get these huge prices for any account I guess.

[XinXan]

the site didnt work for me before ( it always used to get stuck on processing for me ), but today it seemed to have work  .

Was the same for me.
I was always in queue at 8th position or so and didn't gain any postions.
But I tried it some days later again and it worked fine.

Although this makes no difference because no one will get these huge prices for any account I guess.

What were the prices? It always depends on how many sig campaigns are active and what they are paying, if the site could also have in count if the account was banned before that would be really helpful to determine the price of it.

[achow101]

What were the prices? It always depends on how many sig campaigns are active and what they are paying, if the site could also have in count if the account was banned before that would be really helpful to determine the price of it.

It is not possible to count if the account was banned before, or at least I don't know how. I think the only way to know is if the banned message shows up when logging in and whether you remember that the account was banned before. If there are publicly available logs of bans, then please let me know.

[notaek]

Please try to lessen the 10 minutes limitation to at least 5 minute or release an offline version of the script so that anyone can use it with XAMPP or any other local web-servers without the need for waiting like this!

Reset it for you. Should work. I did not remove the time restriction yet. I will do that later.

Unfortunately, the way that I wrote the site makes it so that it is kind of hard to run it yourself, it is just part of the way I wrote it since I used Java and not PHP or any web language (I don't know PHP well enough to write a script with it). You will need Apache tomcat to run it,

Worked fine now! Thanks. Besides that, I noticed the price of all accounts are displaying quite low compared to the price generally sold by the members of this forum. Can you please calibrate the script? Maybe it's not matching after the recent price rise!

[achow101]

I have reduced the wait time to 5 minutes.

[XinXan]

What were the prices? It always depends on how many sig campaigns are active and what they are paying, if the site could also have in count if the account was banned before that would be really helpful to determine the price of it.

It is not possible to count if the account was banned before, or at least I don't know how. I think the only way to know is if the banned message shows up when logging in and whether you remember that the account was banned before. If there are publicly available logs of bans, then please let me know.

Im pretty sure I have seen on the ''meta'' section before that someone mentioned something about seeing ban logs but only some of them not all, I will try to find it. By the way when I try to use your website there is always queue and it just stops there.

[xdrpx]

I tried the account price estimator yesterday, took it quite a while to estimate the price of my account and I was 1 behind the 9th in the queue. I did wait for about 15-20 mins and gave up later. Checked today morning and it has already calculated my price. Overall, I like the parameters you're considering to estimate the price of the accounts, but I'd love to see it speed up the calculation process a bit.

[achow101]

I tried the account price estimator yesterday, took it quite a while to estimate the price of my account and I was 1 behind the 9th in the queue. I did wait for about 15-20 mins and gave up later. Checked today morning and it has already calculated my price. Overall, I like the parameters you're considering to estimate the price of the accounts, but I'd love to see it speed up the calculation process a bit.

The queue system is a little broken. It works sometimes but if a lot of people are using it simultaneously, it can fail. That was probably what you were waiting for.

The actual calculation cannot be sped up since bitcointalk imposes a restriction of 1 request per second so the calculation cannot go any faster since it needs to request each page of your post history from businesslike which can sometimes take a while with the restriction.

[achow101]

Unfortunately there is something wrong with my server right now, so the website is down. I am trying to fix it however I won't be home until 8 tonight ET and I won't be able to access the server until then.

Edit: problem has been fixed

[zencomp]

today only saw your thread and i also went to your site and tried my account and wow i got the result within seconds , but what the estimator price you are quoting through your software will i get if i am going to sell the account. just asking in excitement

[notaek]

today only saw your thread and i also went to your site and tried my account and wow i got the result within seconds , but what the estimator price you are quoting through your software will i get if i am going to sell the account. just asking in excitement

The price of accounts that are currently displaying here is quite low compared to the price generally sold by the members on this forum. You can head on to the digital goods section and can get to know about it yourself.

[HarryKPeters]

Unfortunately there is something wrong with my server right now, so the website is down. I am trying to fix it however I won't be home until 8 tonight ET and I won't be able to access the server until then.

Edit: problem has been fixed

Does your site use caching, or are accounts and post updated with every request to the server?

[achow101]

Unfortunately there is something wrong with my server right now, so the website is down. I am trying to fix it however I won't be home until 8 tonight ET and I won't be able to access the server until then.

Edit: problem has been fixed

Does your site use caching, or are accounts and post updated with every request to the server?

They are calculated on the spot by grabbing all of the show posts pages from the profile and then scraping them for the time posted in order to calculate the potential activity.

[achow101]

today only saw your thread and i also went to your site and tried my account and wow i got the result within seconds , but what the estimator price you are quoting through your software will i get if i am going to sell the account. just asking in excitement

The price of accounts that are currently displaying here is quite low compared to the price generally sold by the members on this forum. You can head on to the digital goods section and can get to know about it yourself.

Is it really? I thought I was still overestimating the prices. Can you give me some examples? From what I can find, it looks like it is still close.

[crazyivan]

As far as I know, selling accounts is illegal so I really do not understand why this thread is still around. When you sell your account, all you do is enable scammers to scam other people who rely on BTT reputation. Fuck that.

[jacktheking]

As far as I know, selling accounts is illegal so I really do not understand why this thread is still around. When you sell your account, all you do is enable scammers to scam other people who rely on BTT reputation. Fuck that.

From what I seen and heard so far ... it is not illegal. In fact there is a few Bitcointalk accounts being sold and bought every week (or even day). I think it is illegal in the past but so far I have never heard of anyone being banned from buying or selling of account.

[mexxer-2]

As far as I know, selling accounts is (not) illegal so I really do not understand why this thread is still around. When you sell your account, all you do is enable scammers to scam other people who rely on BTT reputation. Fuck that.

Read up rule 18 again:

18. Having multiple accounts and account sales are allowed, but account sales are discouraged.

At any rate, most people buy account for Signature campaign.

[shorena]

As far as I know, selling accounts is illegal so I really do not understand why this thread is still around. When you sell your account, all you do is enable scammers to scam other people who rely on BTT reputation. Fuck that.

From what I seen and heard so far ... it is not illegal. In fact there is a few Bitcointalk accounts being sold and bought every week (or even day). I think it is illegal in the past but so far I have never heard of anyone being banned from buying or selling of account.

Its not illegal nor is it against the forum rules (see mexxer-2's post for a ref). It was common to leave negative rep on bought accounts for a while, but this only lead to brand new accounts doing the sales (with the rare exception). There is also the argument that buying and selling accounts in combination with paid signatures makes it more difficult for scammers to ROI on a bought account. Since there is an honest way to ROI from a bought account prices are higher than they would be otherwise, which increases the amount someone needs to scam with a bought account. This in turn makes the scam less likely to happen or more difficult to pull off.