New form of shit-posting

[Vindon]

I new here so newbie question. What is account farming? And yes, copy paste articles from other places isn't ok.

Account farming is where a person creates multiple accounts with the intent to sell them in the future. The higher rank an account is, the more they can sell it for. Before we had the merit system, all the account farmers had to do was post 2 insubstantial posts per day with each account and eventually rank up their accounts. Now, it is a bit more challenging because the account farmers also have to have their farmed accounts earn merit to rank them up. So now the account farmers have to resort to tricks in an attempt to get merit.

Thank you for in detail explanation. Never thought people do such business. I mean, they selling forum accounts.

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[Lucius]

Shouldn't threads like these be in the press section and not Economics?

I can agree that some users use this method to make post on a regular basis and some of them are high ranked members who participate in sig campaigns like ChipMixer. Just one example : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=68364;sa=showPosts

Ah, that would be Hydrogen.  As I said, he tends to do more than just quote news articles even though most if not all of the threads he starts do include news quotes.  If you look at what he writes after whatever it is he quotes, it's usually pretty good.  I think in his case his intention really is to stimulate discussion.

Threads like this should be in Press section, it's the only place where such a thing is allowed. I agree that mentioned user spends a little more time in creating such treads, but you have to admit that it does not take too long to quote some article and make a short summary of it.

I have personally written several times in his threads, but he never replied to any of my post - in most threads he actually does not participate, so most are just one or two page conversation.

I would not call it "shit posting" in the true sense of the word, just a a pretty easy way to open threads/write posts. If mods not see problem in that, and his campaign manager is pay for such posts, then really does not matter what we think about it.