My friend introduce me to btc. At first I was hesitant.....

[stompix]

Equally, I also experienced such things. I can think objectively and critically.
I see the reality is not fantasy. I finally follow in his footsteps, and now I can enjoy the results.Btc real, not fantasy.

You have got to be fucking kidding me.  Did you not read the OP?

Now you're being naive..

You open a thread with the title "My friend introduce me to btc. At first I was hesitant" , complaining how the thread "how did you involve with bitcoin ?" was a spam fest where nobody bothered to read, just type two lines and you didn't see this coming?
He's not the first and certainly not the last that is going to post the same crap as long as this thread gets bumped in the the  Recent Unread Topics
Ups, I did it too...
 

But at least it's going to be a nice honeypot, so you're going to get a lot of friends of friends of friends with this one.

[hilariousetc]

Oh look, another thread that is probably the fifth this week that has been trashed:

What has changed in your life by Bitcoin?

Bitcoin has provided positive monetary effects in my life. My view of the current financial system has changed.
What are the changes in your life?

Bitcoin has provided positive monetary effects in my life. My view of the current financial system has changed.
What are the changes in your life?

Bitcoin changes my life in financial aspect. Yes bitcoin  help me in my financial status it give me income with big profit. So many things that change me with the help of bitcoin.

Bitcoin has provided positive monetary effects in my life. My view of the current financial system has changed.
What are the changes in your life?

bitcoin helps me apot in mny things bitcoin is the reason why im so successful right now so im very thankful to bitcoin

bitcoin has changed my finances and I'm sure bitcoin will make my future brighter

And not surprisingly people are copy and pasting from reddit again:

I have gained so much more than wealth from Bitcoin. It has opened my eyes to the world of computer science, taught me about markets and economics, pounded into my head the importance of being street smart and never trusting any person or business unconditionally with financial matters, and, most importantly, given me exposure to some of the most interesting, intelligent people around.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7gax42/bitcoin_has_changed_my_life/

Shit's mind-numbing. I swear I've lost IQ points moderating this forum.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Now you're being naive..

Yeah.  I keep having to awake to the reality that I'm not dealing with human beings with brains and/or functional eyes.  Maybe if I ratchet down my expectations below sidewalk level I won't be constantly disappointed.

Shit's mind-numbing. I swear I've lost IQ points moderating this forum.

I can only imagine.

[TMAN]

The farmastif strikes again.. you man are becoming a legend

[apoorvlathey]

I just thought what would happen if similar situation happened in real life. People roaming about and asking similar questions to each other in broken english and getting same repetitive answers. As @hilarious said it would definitely be mind-numbing.

Btw, I would have to stop introducing crypto to my friends or their posts might end up here. /s

[GoldenLad]

Whoa! The Pharmacist! Hey man, you really took out your time to fish these out. And I agree with JetCash,  I think its not only the family and friends that caused the overflow if alt accounts shit posting in this forum. Most articles on the web have really contributed to this.  I saw an article on steemit that stated how one can open 10! Accounts here and post to make money. I am very sure whoever wrote that article is equally an account farmer here.

[Jet Cash]

  I saw an article on steemit that stating how one can open 10! Accounts here and post to make money. I am very sure whoever wrote that article is equally an account farmer here.

What really annoys me is that those guys are promoting Steemit as the Bitcoin info forum so that they can promote their posts and blogs to pick up Steem payments.

[Steamtyme]

I read the title and was like " what the f*** is going on"

Then I figured some alt/or someone you blackballed found your first forum post or something and was throwing you under the bus.

I actually think people out there are running "call spam centers" hiring locals for pennies a day to log in and use their "scripted responses" and just type away all day long.

At first I was hesistant on this theory; but then the business model made sense when my friend introduced it to me.


* I demand 40% of any spam center that takes my business model.

[Cobalt9317]

Check this out.
~snip~

Nice finding out those dreamers however it doesn't end their dreams in sleep paralysis.

LOL I wonder how much time you have spent finding all these comments
I blame the signature campaigns for this kind of actions.
Hey, great job!!!

PS: I guess I have now a ready template to spam the forum. 

Actually the template has been already made by yours truly theymos it was called Bitcoin Discussion.

I see several threads and videos on Steemit and YouTube about the money that can be made by exploiting this forum and members of Bitcoin Talk, and I am sure that similar posts appear on Twitter and other sites. The basic concept seems to be to sign up for as many accounts as you can, and inter-post to increase activity and merit. You sign up with the bounty scammers to pick up a bit of income on the way, and when you have received a bit of rank on some of the accounts, you sell them for a few hundred dollars. I assume that the buyers will be other bounty pushers, and it is probably cheaper for a bounty manager to buy a few accounts to run himself, than to pay members to post rubbish to promote his scam,

Until Bitcoin Talk pulls itself out of the cesspit of bounty hunting and account farming, it is going to have to face up to ever increasing costs of moderating the boards, and the evaluation of new members. I hope that the admins will consider the position of the forum when bounty hunting and ICOs are made illegal in most countries.

Either anyone would do anything for the survival of their species or just do it for (gold) always believe in your soul they are indestructible.

I have an idea why theymos was against with paying for wearing a signature (probably) he saw many account with the same IP address and thought that the database will be against all odds also could leave a really deep collateral damage with the system for being in an obnoxious state just my two cents.

[Tyrantt]

LOL I wonder how much time you have spent finding all these comments

Finding them isn't that hard, I know that thread and every post is like that.   Copy/pasting here probably took longer.

[athanz88]

I am from Indonesia, and i feel embarassed too by this kind of members. People here tend to have poor mentality and they will do anything to get money, even though it is against the rules and their belief (which is a sin). I will not feel sorry if someday they got tagged or banned because people have proof of their cheating act. In fact, i really hope that higher authority like mod or admin can clean this forum from spammer like that. If you have time, maybe you, ThePharmacist, can do some work together with Indonesian local board mods, BitRentx and dbshck.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Whoa! The Pharmacist! Hey man, you really took out your time to fish these out.

It did take some time, but it wasn't hard finding the posts--they were all in a single thread. 

I was searching for copy/pasters, and I happened to stumble on that generic mega spam thread.  The way I search is the old-fashioned way, close reading, so as I was doing that I started seeing endless variations of what I wrote in this thread's title here.  It actually blew my mind, because I just started seeing more...and more. 

What I'm wondering is how many people are involved, and whether this is some sort of ring of spammers--AND how they all came up with this idiotic outline of what to write (My friend introduced me to bitcoin.....).  It seems bizarre to me, but I know exactly why they're doing it.  They're making bank.

[BTCeminjas]

And that's what people why they are coming here just to earn a profit on the signature campaign or other bounties rewards.
Some of them making an alt account just hoping to earn more and that's part of being human a "greediness".

Finding them isn't that hard, I know that thread and every post is like that.  Copy/pasting here probably took longer.

Yeah, we could help them DT members, Moderators, and Admin in cleaning the forum by clicking "Report to Moderator".
Probably copy-pasting is made by those handling many alt accounts, they can't manage it well. lol.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Probably copy-pasting is made by those handling many alt accounts, they can't manage it well. lol.

This isn't copy/pasting, though.  This whole thing reeks of something big and organized--organized enough such that there was an outline of a template post that was used to create all of those posts I quoted.  How that was done is perplexing to me. 

YES, I'M NAIVE.

[TheQuin]

YES, I'M NAIVE.

Nah, you're not naive. They just learned how to bend not break the rules. I learned that in that 70's. The simplest way to solve this problem is just telling the moderators to ban every spammer.

Let's go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOJSM46nWwo

[digaran]

When I read 50, 70 posts in a thread and see them all talking about the same thing, I'd report the OP and say that, this thread should be trashed.
I did exactly like what you did, I reported 40-50 garbage posts and at the end said that I'm done, this is just taking too much of my time and nobody
Is really stopping them.

Here theymos, have your free speech, offensive and extreme opinions. enjoy bro.
If you want a forum without these garbage producers, let a few volunteers disable their signatures. I wouldn't want you to hire me as a moderator/staff.
Just let me and OP here to clean some of the sections. you have our reports, you know what we would generally consider to be junk. I am offering my time. I don't want any power other than power of deleting posts of newbies, Jr members and members.

[vintages]

One guy contact me on Facebook some time ago, asking some stupid questions about the bounties here, then ask me, home many account I have and that one of his friends was managing a few accounts with more than 80 bounties simultaneously, and he was wondering how can he managed all this work....so this is the result...

80 bounties simultaneously?! Dang it! Some people can be fucking selfish. I know most people may want to earn few BTC through a signature campaign, but at least do it and have the best intentions for the forum in mind. I guess this are the accounts that shit posts. Sometimes, I find it hard to complete my signature task for the week cause I have an offline work and activities to manage. It's so heart breaking that some people can do things to the extreme because of money.

[athanz88]

YES, I'M NAIVE.

Nah, you're not naive. They just learned how to bend not break the rules. I learned that in that 70's. The simplest way to solve this problem is just telling the moderators to ban every spammer.

Let's go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOJSM46nWwo

Yeah admin should use that legendary ban hammer given by Thor since he will get a new one in 5 days  . It is very hard to get rid of spammer if someone is not using it. By the way, what the f is that songs intro man @TheQuin, it is weird, very weird.

[TheQuin]

Yeah admin should use that legendary ban hammer given by Thor since he will get a new one in 5 days  . It is very hard to get rid of spammer if someone is not using it. By the way, what the f is that songs intro man @TheQuin, it is weird, very weird.

I know that they get an instant permaban for copy pasting but I don't really know what the policy is on banning spammers. It's all a bit subjective which is why that lyric "bend not break the rules" came to mind. They seem to find a way of doing just enough not to get banned most of the time. It's probably a good job I'm not moderator because my ban hammer would be worn out.

Weird was cool in 1979!

[seoincorporation]

^  Not a good idea imo.  Those idiots are obviously doing this professionally.  So they'd be willing to pay no matter how high the fee is.  While it's the real users who would rather leave.

Edit:  I posted this a while ago, but it's still a good read.  They gamed and cheated the first Stellar giveaway done years ago.  Lol.

The Bot Bubble:  Click Farms Have Inflated Social Media Currency
https://newrepublic.com/article/121551/bot-bubble-click-farms-have-inflated-social-media-currency

Nice article, man!!
There are many bot farmers, you can actually buy a Youtube or instagram visitors for a low price. In my country, if you want 2.000 followers on instagram, you will pay around of 200 dollars, and behold!! You're famous!!
Recently I saw an experimental documentary showing how to become a successful instagramer in a week. They just picked a girl (an actress), borrow some clothes from fashion shops, dress up the girl, take some pictures of her and buy 5.000 bots-instagram followers. In less than a month she was ask to go for free to some nice restaurants, and she was invited to any social-fashion event you can imagine. The girl acted as if her account was real, and now she's actually getting huge profits from it.
Many, many middle-famous people begin this way, for the social media is programmed to give them more views based on their followers, and to scale up is easier if you make a tiny investment.
It is amazing how important bots has become. But it is amazing this kind of stuff has any probability of survival in a Forum like this one. Instagram is one thing, but here? Really?
That's the reason why I think we need as soon as possible a report button in each profile section...