Some Quirky Rules You Should Know

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These boards are great.  Bitcoin attracts a fun cross section of people, from hardware geeks & coders to Silk Road dealers to day traders to guys with more money than you can shake a stick at.  From all around the world.  Pretty much anything Bitcoin-related can be had here.  But it's also a place where money changes hands, so there are rules.  If you're new here, which is a pretty safe bet since this is the noob jail, you might find some of these rules ... unusual  I've already wasted a bunch of your time, so i won't try for a graceful segway, and just rattle them off.  Here we go:

• Sockpuppetry -- a single person with multiple accounts -- is not only common, but endorsed here.  
  On other boards, socks are at best annoying -- lonely basement dwellers choreographing conversations with their alts for friends, that sort of thing.  Once money is involved, it's worthwhile to remember the 5 guys trading & vouching for each other are... Well, you know.
• Click on "members"  in the top menu, the one right between "my messages" & "logout."  That one.  Yeah.  On the users page, click on "position," this will list the users by their post count.  You'll see page after page of "brand new" users with 0 posts to their names, dating all the way to 2010.  I'll save you some time with this protip:  More than half of the registered users were created by bots & are lying dormant, waiting ... for your Bitcoinz  Yep, they're a commodity, to be bought and sold.  A practice, as i found out, considered perfectly legitimate on this forum.  Don't believe me?  Ask the mods.
  Please understand that this is not a criticism of this site -- i don't know how i would enforce rules against selling user accounts.  Just some useful info for you, noob
• There's a board here called "Scam Accusations."  If you're going to do any trading, any at all, read that board.  Not just the first page, browse the back pages -- you'll learn more about Bitcoin ecosystem there than anywhere else.   A learning experience for the biggest, most jaded cynics.
• Self-moderation -- fun on these boards.  If you don't know it exists (why should you?), you'll miss the telltale subscript band at the top of the thread.  It looks like this: (that's full size).  Worth knowing 'coz ... well, obvious.  The person who started the thread can delete everything he doesn't agree with/like.  
  

There's plenty more, but i've got 4 more posts to type

[MilkyLep]

  Great post that certainly gets the wheels spinning. I've seen these sock-puppetry shenanigans elsewhere, but the stakes are much higher here...

[brainsinyerface]

good post

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Thanks

[utarinues]

I'll save you some time with this protip:  More than half of the registered users were created by bots & are lying dormant, waiting ... for your Bitcoinz  Yep, they're a commodity, to be bought and sold.

Why these have value when you can create new yourselves 

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I'll save you some time with this protip:  More than half of the registered users were created by bots & are lying dormant, waiting ... for your Bitcoinz  Yep, they're a commodity, to be bought and sold.

Why these have value when you can create new yourselves  

The short answer is: captcha.  Anyone can write a script to automate registration, but solving a captha?  Even virgin accounts, with no posts, are valuable in bulk.  If the registration date is reasonably old? +1 clout.  

In these toobz, people judge each other on weird metrics -- acount age, # of posts.  BTW, there's an open thread soliciting accounts, so if your post count is high enough, your account is worth money to someone

[ctarantello]

Interesting and useful information.  Thanks

[twentyseventy]

Thanks for the info, brother-

[suprabitz]

man the heat is really a problem with these rigs...

[Inedible]

Great post Crumbs

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Thanks for the good posts

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Cool thread

Nice post count
That's what, a bit less than 1 post/min?   The limit to shoot for is ~ 5 posts/min, unless you post from tor / multiple IPs.  So theoretically, you can get 5x better.   

[Dork.]

Thanks for the interesting info!

[litecombit]

Interesting and useful information

[VolanicEruptor]

thanks for letting us know you have no life
lol