Account farming, copy and paste spam monkeys

[markj113]

Dont you just hate account farming, copy and paste spam monkeys that fill the forum with shit posts just to earn a few satoshis either selling accounts or joining sig campaigns.

I think the below speaks for itself, get the ban hammer out :

I've already seen some similar ICO, why are you different?

I've already seen some similar ICO, why are you different?

I've already seen some similar ICO, why are you different?

I've already seen some similar ICO, why are you different?

I've already seen some similar ICO, why are you different?

I've already seen some similar ICO, why are you different?

I've already seen some similar ICO, why are you different?

I've already seen some similar ICO, why are you different?

I've already seen some similar ICO, why are you different?

I've already seen some similar ICO, why are you different?

I've already seen some similar ICO, why are you different?

I've already seen some similar ICO, why are you different?

I've already seen some similar ICO, why are you different?

I've already seen some similar ICO, why are you different?

I've already seen some similar ICO, why are you different?

[DarkStar_]

Another copy and paster, Burks. (who may have been hacked)

Bitcoin Mining is a peer-to-peer computer process used to secure and verify bitcoin transactions—payments from one user to another on a decentralized network. Mining involves adding bitcoin transaction data to Bitcoin's global public ledger of past transactions.
Bitcoin mining is a lot like a giant lottery where you compete with your mining hardware with everyone on the network to earn bitcoins. Faster Bitcoin mining hardware is able to attempt more tries per second to win this lottery while the Bitcoin network itself adjusts roughly every two weeks to keep the rate of finding a winning block hash to every ten minutes. In the big picture, Bitcoin mining secures transactions that are recorded in Bitcon's public ledger, the block chain. By conducting a random lottery where electricity and specialized equipment are the price of admission, the cost to disrupt the Bitcoin network scales with the amount of hashing power that is being spent by all mining participants.

From https://www.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-mining and https://www.weusecoins.com/en/mining-guide/

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[hilariousetc]

The quotes in the op lead to non-existent posts so I'm assuming they've already been nuked. This sort of bullshit will only get worse though for as long as signatures are tied to ranks. Farming and botting will never stop otherwise.

Another copy and paster, Burks. (who may have been hacked)

Bitcoin Mining is a peer-to-peer computer process used to secure and verify bitcoin transactions—payments from one user to another on a decentralized network. Mining involves adding bitcoin transaction data to Bitcoin's global public ledger of past transactions.
Bitcoin mining is a lot like a giant lottery where you compete with your mining hardware with everyone on the network to earn bitcoins. Faster Bitcoin mining hardware is able to attempt more tries per second to win this lottery while the Bitcoin network itself adjusts roughly every two weeks to keep the rate of finding a winning block hash to every ten minutes. In the big picture, Bitcoin mining secures transactions that are recorded in Bitcon's public ledger, the block chain. By conducting a random lottery where electricity and specialized equipment are the price of admission, the cost to disrupt the Bitcoin network scales with the amount of hashing power that is being spent by all mining participants.

From https://www.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-mining and https://www.weusecoins.com/en/mining-guide/

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Banned.

[markj113]

The quotes in the op lead to non-existent posts so I'm assuming they've already been nuked. This sort of bullshit will only get worse though for as long as signatures are tied to ranks. Farming and botting will never stop otherwise.

Yes, looks like an admin has now nuked them.

Each had around 15 shit posts so someone is going to be pissed  

[Turing]

Just keep reporting them, that’s what I do.

[Welsh]

It's getting worse recently, but if you sit on the patrol page you'll normally be able to report them all as they normally tend to post directly after each other. Just report them, but make sure to put in the comment referencing the other accounts doing so too.

I know account farming has always been a thing, but I'm seeing a lot more trying to bury themselves in giant threads that we have these days.

[darklus123]

The more people get's in to this forum. The harder the situation will be. Most of us are here for just one purpose to earn much likely than learning. If this newbies are here then they started doing their work without even  understanding that copy pasting sh*ts are illegal. However it does not closes to that situation because there were really sh*t people that are too greedy regardless of they know how sh*tty this things are they are still doing the copy pasting.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Just keep reporting them, that’s what I do.

As do I, but I haven't caught any lately.  Wicked good catch, OP.  I would disagree about the 'few satoshis' part of your statement, though.  Sig campaigns are becoming ever more lucrative as bitcoin goes up.  That might be chump change
to an old school bitcoiner, but it's a lot of money for a 3rd world blackhead with a family of 20 and no job. 
The account sales part of the farming scheme is dying out, thankfully, but the spamming/plagiarism for
hire aspect is alive and well and will continue to be until campaigns are banned.   We all know that's not
happening anytime soon.   I don't know how these clowns think they're going to get away with copy pasting,
but they never do for long.

[BTCMILLIONAIRE]

Just keep reporting them, that’s what I do.

As do I, but I haven't caught any lately.  Wicked good catch, OP.  I would disagree about the 'few satoshis' part of your statement, though.  Sig campaigns are becoming ever more lucrative as bitcoin goes up.  That might be chump change
to an old school bitcoiner, but it's a lot of money for a 3rd world blackhead with a family of 20 and no job. 
The account sales part of the farming scheme is dying out, thankfully, but the spamming/plagiarism for
hire aspect is alive and well and will continue to be until campaigns are banned.   We all know that's not
happening anytime soon.   I don't know how these clowns think they're going to get away with copy pasting,
but they never do for long.

If they could think this far ahead they wouldn't need to rely on account farming for an income in the first place.


I've also been noticing a ridiculous amount of foreign language posts outside of the local forums by the way.

[pixie85]

If they could think this far ahead they wouldn't need to rely on account farming for an income in the first place.

I've also been noticing a ridiculous amount of foreign language posts outside of the local forums by the way.

The income from signatures has reached some incredible numbers lately so you can expect the spammers to keep working. When you can earn $500 a month writing posts and a standard full time job in your country pays $200... If you take a closer look the biggest spammers are illiterate. They are either copying stuff or using google translate or writing simple things like the ones you're being taught in primary school. Coin good like to invest and make money good luck with your project!
Last guy I caught a week ago was farming multiple accounts by saying something like that in every thread.

[J. Cooper]

That's the lowest effort account farmer I've seen to date. You would nearly think these guys have bots to create all these accounts and post the same post over and over again. I will also start reporting if I can spot shameless copy pasters like this guy.  I also feel pity for these guys who are most likely very poor and reside in a 3rd world country but that doesn't mean you have to ruin it by spamming the living cr*p out of this forum. One well established account is a lot better than 100 shitty ones.

[BTCMILLIONAIRE]

If they could think this far ahead they wouldn't need to rely on account farming for an income in the first place.

I've also been noticing a ridiculous amount of foreign language posts outside of the local forums by the way.

The income from signatures has reached some incredible numbers lately so you can expect the spammers to keep working. When you can earn $500 a month writing posts and a standard full time job in your country pays $200... If you take a closer look the biggest spammers are illiterate. They are either copying stuff or using google translate or writing simple things like the ones you're being taught in primary school. Coin good like to invest and make money good luck with your project!
Last guy I caught a week ago was farming multiple accounts by saying something like that in every thread.

Can't we just ban campaign managers who don't blacklist these types of spammers though?

Someone who just posts phrases completely void of any information shouldn't be getting paid, since they are actively creating a bad image around crypto and the projects they are supposed to promote with their actions.

[Str1x]

Can't we just ban campaign managers who don't blacklist these types of spammers though?

Banning campaign managers won't solve the problem. The problem is that account spamming is not solved quick enough. Especially on the foreign boards with no admin you could just spam 1234 in a different language and nobody will look at it. The only thing we can do as a community is recognize these accounts and report them.

[BTCMILLIONAIRE]

Can't we just ban campaign managers who don't blacklist these types of spammers though?

Banning campaign managers won't solve the problem. The problem is that account spamming is not solved quick enough. Especially on the foreign boards with no admin you could just spam 1234 in a different language and nobody will look at it. The only thing we can do as a community is recognize these accounts and report them.

But if we banned the campaign managers who pay spammers, there eventually wouldn't be any campaigns left that were profitable to those people. And then they would disappear. It would take a bit until the full effects are felt, but sooner or later the spammers should be gone.

[Pearls Before Swine]

When you can earn $500 a month

'We' can't.  Only somebody like Theymos could, and that isn't likely to happen.  I would also suggest
that if you have a Hero member account, you can easily earn over $500/month with just one account.  Just
one account!  These farmers who have multiple accounts in multiple campaigns or who are doing airdrops and
whatever else, they have to be living large in Indonesia/Vietnam/Philippines/Wherever.  I understand the
motive very clearly.  The only thing to do right now is to report the garbage posts and the copy/pasters.
Don't expect campaign managers to get banned anytime soon.  I don't care if people have several accounts
in sig campaigns...it's just that the quality of posts from some of these idiots is lower than dirt.  They can't
even write a proper sentence in English, and it's all 'you can get profit by holding or mining investing and
bitcoin is great', that sort of thing.  It makes this forum unbearably dull.

[BTCMILLIONAIRE]

When you can earn $500 a month

'We' can't.  Only somebody like Theymos could, and that isn't likely to happen.  I would also suggest
that if you have a Hero member account, you can easily earn over $500/month with just one account.  Just
one account!  These farmers who have multiple accounts in multiple campaigns or who are doing airdrops and
whatever else, they have to be living large in Indonesia/Vietnam/Philippines/Wherever.  I understand the
motive very clearly.  The only thing to do right now is to report the garbage posts and the copy/pasters.
Don't expect campaign managers to get banned anytime soon.  I don't care if people have several accounts
in sig campaigns...it's just that the quality of posts from some of these idiots is lower than dirt.  They can't
even write a proper sentence in English, and it's all 'you can get profit by holding or mining investing and
bitcoin is great', that sort of thing.  It makes this forum unbearably dull.

Those kinds of post probably contribute to some people thinking that Bitcoin is just a shady ponzi/scam. Good thing some big names jumped on and cleared that superstition though.

[pixie85]

Can't we just ban campaign managers who don't blacklist these types of spammers though?

Someone who just posts phrases completely void of any information shouldn't be getting paid, since they are actively creating a bad image around crypto and the projects they are supposed to promote with their actions.

It would be a bit excessive IMO. They aren't guilty of paying people to spam. They are guilty of neglecting their job as managers and not monitoring users like they should be.
If people are spamming they are negatively impacting the campaign and through it the business that paid for this campaign.

There should be a 0 tolerance policy for spammers. If you're caught spamming you should get nuked and start from scratch, so that there's no chance that you'll by mistake get paid for the posts you managed to fart out before getting banned.

Just look at the shit some people are posting:

Yes Its True Some Friends Have to  Advantage only

Yes i did for almost 3 years of my life. Bitcoin was beautiful with alt coin

Yes

No

Sometimes

[BTCMILLIONAIRE]

Can't we just ban campaign managers who don't blacklist these types of spammers though?

Someone who just posts phrases completely void of any information shouldn't be getting paid, since they are actively creating a bad image around crypto and the projects they are supposed to promote with their actions.

It would be a bit excessive IMO. They aren't guilty of paying people to spam. They are guilty of neglecting their job as managers and not monitoring users like they should be.
If people are spamming they are negatively impacting the campaign and through it the business that paid for this campaign.

It's not like campaign managers have to get banned straight off when a spammer gets through the sieve every now and then. But they should be held accountable in some way if they repeatedly proceed payments for spammers. It seems like the easiest way to solve the issue, since there are far less managers than spamming accounts.
It's going to be difficult to stop spamming without stopping the root cause of it, which are the monetary rewards that these spammers get.

[digaran]

Dont you just hate account farming, copy and paste spam monkeys that fill the forum with shit posts just to earn a few satoshis either selling accounts or joining sig campaigns.

I think the below speaks for itself, get the ban hammer out :

I've already seen some similar ICO, why are you different?

I've already seen some similar ICO, why are you different?

I've already seen some similar ICO, why are you different?

I've already seen some similar ICO, why are you different?

You included both of them twice, I've already seen some similar duplicated quotes, why are they different? OK lol.
We need low life beggars with no dignity, preferably pervert ones. OK lol part 2.
Don't we have all of these spams and shit posts? they are here regardless, so why not charging $0.1 per post if you are going to wear a signature?
Do you even know why your governments ask for tax from you? because they can't run a country for free, when you are posting for free and even are getting paid for it, you'll get Bitcointalk.org lol part 3.

[panorama]

It's definitely getting worse and is ruining some of the threads I like to follow.