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[LoyceV]

I wish mods get a little bit more strict and delete all ANN threads where 99.99% of the posts are made by sock puppet accounts.

That wouldn't be fair, as it can be abused to get competitors' threads deleted.

[Rikafip]

I wish mods get a little bit more strict and delete all ANN threads where 99.99% of the posts are made by sock puppet accounts.
That wouldn't be fair, as it can be abused to get competitors' threads deleted.

Yeah I am aware that could happen (even though its imho unlikely) but can't you do the same already, by organizing giveaway on one of those airdrop sites and including posting on bitcointalk as one of the requirements to get the airdrop? Forum staff usually accepts that as a valid evidence of incentivizing posting, and deletes/archives the thread.

If deleting is too drastic and could leads to manipulation, what could be done alternatively is to at least lock those threads until its confirmed that creator of Ann didn't have anything to do with it.

[LoyceV]

but can't you do the same already, by organizing giveaway on one of those airdrop sites and including posting on bitcointalk as one of the requirements to get the airdrop? Forum staff usually accepts that as a valid evidence of incentivizing posting, and deletes/archives the thread.

I don't visit airdrop sites, and I wouldn't use it as evidence. It this is abused and Mods delete a thread based on a fake site, I think it deserves a thread in Meta to complain about it.

If deleting is too drastic and could leads to manipulation, what could be done alternatively is to at least lock those threads until its confirmed that creator of Ann didn't have anything to do with it.

That gives the same problem: it's not possible to prove you didn't do something.

[Rikafip]

but can't you do the same already, by organizing giveaway on one of those airdrop sites and including posting on bitcointalk as one of the requirements to get the airdrop? Forum staff usually accepts that as a valid evidence of incentivizing posting, and deletes/archives the thread.

I don't visit airdrop sites, and I wouldn't use it as evidence. It this is abused and Mods delete a thread based on a fake site, I think it deserves a thread in Meta to complain about it.

While I can't find now some examples of my reports from airdrop sites, what I am 100% sure is that ANN threads usually get deleted if you provide screenshot of the the project's TG group stating that they are giving tokens in exchange for comments in thread. Like with everything else, Telegram groups are extremely easy to fake, you can even get tens of thousands of fake members for peanuts to appear group looking real and get the thread deleted.

Point is, if you really wanna get competitor's thread deleted or even reputation ruined, there are so many ways to do it. Anyway, it was just a suggestion that I think it could help clearing up the forum.

[acroman08]

these two accounts(most likely created by the same person) hyx7788 and Ethsun are an obvious shills of "hkethsun"(a cloud mining platform). they are spamming their website and pretending to be different person creating threads and talking to each other. the platform is most likely a scam too.

[Rikafip]

these two accounts(most likely created by the same person) hyx7788 and Ethsun are an obvious shills of "hkethsun"(a cloud mining platform). they are spamming their website and pretending to be different person creating threads and talking to each other. the platform is most likely a scam too.

Yep, that's an obvious shilling of a scam website, and pretty bad one. I see that hyx7788 posts have been deleted already (afaik not nuked yet) while I tagged and flagged @thesun for a scam promotion as he still has one active thread in which he promotes that ETHsun website.

[Rikafip]

@mods that are following this thread.

Yesterday I reported low value thread called 7 crypto acronyms you need to know as it was just a copy/paste of an article without providing any personal opinion. Report has been marked as good, but it's still there so I guess that you just forgot to delete it. Looking at @Nathrixxx seems like that is his MO, and more of a rule than an exception.

[LoyceV]

It looks like rugrats was sold/hacked. The user's email address and password were changed recently, and he turned into a shitposter spamming his signature:

We have to remove us to prevent scams on this forum, it is possible to report to moderators on this topic which is not true. I have seen a lot of topics reported like this and it is something we need to take immediate action against those who are acting suspiciously. damn if I killed people without committing a crime, I would have killed those bad guys. that's why we should all be on the lookout for sophisticated scams on our forums.

[hosseinimr93]

It looks like rugrats was sold/hacked. The user's email address and password were changed recently,

How did you find out the user's email address has been changed? Security log doesn't show email changes at all. It only reports password changes. Am I missing something here?
BPIP (which also uses seclog for exporting the data) doesn't show any email changes.

[LoyceV]

How did you find out the user's email address has been changed?

Trust Summary for rugrats

This user's email address was changed recently.

[acroman08]

is action needed against this user pechtalker? this user just created the account today and immediately started spamming "timingswap" on bitcoin discussion board by copy-pasting the same post over and over again(most likely their project) on several threads. the user also created a thread basically saying the same thing.

[LoyceV]

is action needed against this user pechtalker?

Modlog:

Code:

Nuke user: N/A in topic #0 by member #3391893

[acroman08]

is action needed against this user pechtalker?

Modlog:

Code:

Nuke user: N/A in topic #0 by member #3391893

great! thanks for updating. I also reported most of the user's posts after creating my first post about the user but now instead of my report being marked good, it is all marked unhandled. haha. anyway, at least I  learned that if a user was nuked without the posts being deleted first, all the reported posts from that user will become unhandled.

[hosseinimr93]

at least I  learned that if a user was nuked without the posts being deleted first, all the reported posts from that user will become unhandled.

Today, I reported a post made by goldpattern and asked moderators to nuke him/her.
To see how status of reports is displayed if the user is nuked, I reported his/her other posts as well.
As shown in the modlog, three posts were deleted and then the user was nuked.

All my 6 reports have been marked as Good.

[Rizzrack]

at least I  learned that if a user was nuked without the posts being deleted first, all the reported posts from that user will become unhandled.

All my 6 reports have been marked as Good.

Normally when a reported post is deleted the report should be automatically marked as Good. Or at least this should be the expected behavior

[acroman08]

at least I  learned that if a user was nuked without the posts being deleted first, all the reported posts from that user will become unhandled.

All my 6 reports have been marked as Good.

Normally when a reported post is deleted the report should be automatically marked as Good. Or at least this should be the expected behavior

yeah, I guess that's what really happens. I just checked my reports again after logging in and it is all marked good now(my bad on quickly going to conclusions). anyway, I'm glad mods were able to take action quickly after being reported. I am pretty that the user would have posted more if ignored.

[acroman08]

is this ok? this dude DPR_lives is advertising a website that sells illegal items including child pornography. I am all for people being able to advertise their project(or whatever it is) but I draw the line when it comes to child pornography. I hope the mods agree with me.

Hey everyone.  There is a new forum that sort of combines the Silk Road, Craigslist, and Backpage sites into one.  Basically, just sign up and post your product.  Transactions are conducted via cryptocurrency of course, and offline between the seller and buyer through their anonymous email accounts so there is minimum information logged on the server. You can buy drugs, hacking tools, stolen software licenses, child nudism vids (cp too), and other things.  Check it out.

-snip

edit: the threads were quickly deleted after being reported and the account is banned. thanks!

[Csmiami]

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As a future reference; I'd check the rule list in case of doubt. For this particular case, rule 11

11. No linking to illegal trading sites.

[Csmiami]

After seeing a bunch of "good project" like posts in patrol on a single thread, I decided to take a closer look. Last 10 pages aprox are full of shitty one-liners, and the previous ones are not looking good either. There's a few posts of "high ranking" members over there too, but most accounts are old and most likely hacked or sold (they have GIF avatars...).

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[TheBeardedBaby]

Old spamming farms waking up again?