@coinlocket$ - Nice work! I think this is the biggest case ever in Bitcointalk with that much account... Keep up the good work, be a contributor and bust the cheaters.
limiting ppl who join to be member+ will only work for a small amount of time. If these ppl figure out a merit scam and rank up, it will be the same thing over and over again
It's not a bad idea, though. I do think these bounties really need to tighten up their rules, or that Theymos needs to put the smackdown on them and force them to do so.
I'm sure these project developers and bounty managers don't care one way or another as long as they get their advertising. It's disgusting.
@Yahoo - I don't think it will be easy to find a merit abuse system unless some of the merit sources and some members become corrupted.
It's been a while now since merit introduced but we haven't seen any major merit abuse except some high ranked members merited in huge to their likings.
@Pharmacist - You are correct on the bolded statement. Why should they care if they just want good advertisement? More participants equal to more awareness.
They are not paying anything extra because of the abuse, they are paying only the amount which was already allocated for the bounty. I don't think anything will change in alt section anytime soon or ever.
Alt section is like Amazon Forest where there is no rule, you can do whatever you want like animals, just hunt down!
If the devs and founders don't show any concern for the abuse then why "WE" in btc section do such efforts? I haven't seen yet any founder or dev of a project complained of an abuser, Do you?
I'm confused should I be appreciating the calibrated efforts that he put to take care of that many accounts or should be mad that we couldn't track him down any sooner.So basically, you can become a millionaire from the forum if you are smart enough to manage 1000+ accounts ? How is it even possible to login into 200 of them without losing your mind ?
If this is true, then the guy is very smart. But I don't think its a 1 man army thing, probably they are a group of people handling all those accounts.
I need to book a seat in mental hospital first if I have to handle that much accounts.