Greetings, I noticed a strange activity in some topics and most likely discovered a whole bunch of users with some kind of centralized control, whose main task is (probably) to keep topics alive by asking similar, almost meaningless questions and sometimes answering to them from other accounts.

I divided the list on some groups, which I called "generations", since these accounts were created in a bunch of different periods.

All these accounts have similar characteristics and behavior:
1) Similar ranks and activity within generations;
2) The same topics they post in (look for the last posts, it's almost exclusively Edgecoin, but also the some of them post in Coinlance Airdrop and Futourist. Before that they were all posting in the same threads too. It can be easily verified by looking into posts history. I'll show a couple of examples in the end).
3) Similar dates of registration. There are 5 "generations" I managed to find:

a) First generation (19-22 May, 2011);
b) Second generation (May(20, 26) and October(21, 27), 2012) - some of them (3 out of 4) have more personal info than other generations;
c) Pre-third generation (October 12, 2017) - the most active of them all. All are registered on the same day. Have 250-340 posts.
d) Third generation (October 20-21, 2017) - the biggest one. 18 accounts were registered within 2 days and have so much in common. Strange!
e) Fourth generation. The last one. Were registered in a period 13-15 of November.[/li]

4) Russian speakers (see their first posts);
5) Most of them started to post something in the end of October (20-22) of the 2017. Except 2nd and pre-third generations.

1st generation

exlpains23 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=13913
akramali - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=13668
valessiobrito - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=14302
farland7 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=14338
ZellaAnders - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=13875
candiela - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=13885
chenjkai - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=13934
Winifred364 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=14160
susankhardman - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=13060
parttime38 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=14195
Moore787 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=13428
AshdiD22 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=13406

2nd generation

boris0148 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=70786
raudisomiya - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=70121
ettaburger4 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=58717
derverss - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=58282

Pre-3rd generation

alexsmalex - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1209122
snos-boss - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1209105
persefona - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1209090
sahabond - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1188303

3rd genration

lina.potushanskaya.84 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1232552
sabina.gnusareva - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1232529
evgenij.burchak - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1235277
yaroslava.pryanchikova - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1236083
mediocre777 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1232588
fbatyshev_007 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1233101
stalin2517 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1231932
Kpss_pro - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1231924
Lina_Malina - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1231942
Mix_Fix - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1232346
mad_max777 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1231918
hov777 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1231878
kept-1986 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1235294
armchair-84 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1235324
choice84 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1236115
avtaev.savva - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1236064
obulynin - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1236149
oficman - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1232342
napkin1989 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1235340

4th generation

angrygerl - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1314665
orchideja75 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1307499
PchelkaMaja95 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1311196
Letopisets - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1308204

If you look into the last messages of all these accounts you will see that they post their messages only in a couple of the same topics in a similar order. This guy doesn't even try to hide and just login into his accounts one by one, asks some stupid question, re-login with another one and answers to himself from another account. Here are typical examples, which can be seen through the whole history of his messages:

A user sabina.gnusareva posts a message in CROM ICO ANN and you can scroll down a little bit to see other members of this list (lina.potushanskaya.84, mediocre777, fbatyshev_007, exlpains23, etc).

A user lina.potushanskaya.84 posts a message in 1World Tokens ICO ANN. The same story here. Scroll down and see people from the list (mediocre777, fbatyshev_007, exlpains23, etc)

I know that my proofs aren't 100%, but can you disagree that it is pretty strange? Maybe it's not one guy, but rather some group of individuals, I don't know. Maybe it's a promotion service or someone creates a lot of accounts to participate in bounty campaigns. Just wanted to inform you about this finding.

Looks like 1 person holding the account and using multiple website apps simultaneously. Usually they are account sellers , Airdrop spammer or service providers of "Thread Bumper"on some ico, like the previous case. I'll try to see some other accounts, maybe they post their address and I can make proof that every account is connected.

Especially for both accounts is suspicious

Yeah, I think the same. But I don't know how to get rid of them. As far as I know only admins can ban users. We can use "Report to moderator" feature, but I don't know how to use it is this case. So I'm hoping someone from the staff will notice this thread. Or at least someone with green Trust to make them red.

OK, thank you, I'll try to do that.

Thanks a lot! Glad someone decided to help.

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Unfortunate.

The only way I can punish spammers on a mass scale now is by contributing to signature campaign blacklists, which I have done—I pasted a list to aTriz's thread containing all the spam negatives I sent out.

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Merit farmers can still be tagged though.

OK, thanks for clarification.

Why did you merit my post? Are you trying to bribe me?

Oh well. Time to send those 25 extra sMerits I gained to some useful posts.