Ban Appeal RegulusHr and discussion on topic "good for the forum as a whole".

[bernardos]

Here is another post written by Regulus for the Croatian local board.
Original post in Croatian:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2518444.0


Experience with purchasing IT equipment with Bitcoins in Croatia

I decided to test and see how paying with bitcoins works in Croatia. I was mostly interested to find out how much the purchase would eventually cost when compared to paying with cash. I believe my experience will be interesting to other forum users as well.

Two shops that are selling IT equipment in Croatia accept BTC, namely UZI Shop and Futura Informatička Tehnologija. Considering that Uzi offers a two year warranty on graphic cards, I decided to make my purchase in Futura.
I decided to buy GTX1070 Inno3D GeForce GTX 1070 iChill X4.

The price when paying with cash was 3699,00 Kn. If you choose to pay with BTC the price increases to 3822.26 Kn which is a price increase of 3.3%.
After accepting the terms and conditions, the site redirects you to Bitpay where you can see how much BTC you need to pay (in my case it was 0.055687 BTC) and what is the current BTC rate. You have 15 minutes to finalize the transaction, when the transaction is executed you still need to wait for the transaction to be included in one of the next blocks and then the payment is considered to have been completed. In the window that opens, there are two possibilities to make the payment. One is via a QR Code, and in the other you can manually fill in the amount and BTC address where the bitcoins need to be sent.
The graphics card was delivered to my home address by a courier service the very next day.

This is how a successful transaction looks like:
https://imgur.com/a/Z3Hd7

When you multiply the BTC value (on Bitpays page) in Kunas with the amount of BTC you need to pay, the total cost for the graphics card is 3838.84Kn, a bit more than what is shown on Futura’s site. It is probably due to an additional fee payable to Bitpay.
At the time of the transaction, the BTC rate at https://coinmarketcap.com was $ 11,020.00
On 29.11.2017. the exchange rate of the US dollar was 6,360000 Kn according to HNB.
In addition to that, I also paid a network fee of 0.00089262 BTC or $ 9.84 or 62.58 Kn.
When multiplying all the numbers it turns out that the card cost me:
0.05657962 BTC
$ 623.51 (0.05657962 x 11020.00)
3965.52 Kn (623.51 x 6.36)

[jademaxsuy]

I just had a quick look through OP's posts and found one more example of copied text, it is short (98 characters) but definitely copied as it's taken from the same topic 5 hours later.

I am loving couple of things about your project. First of all, it looks well organized and planned. Very few coins care to work within a plan. Distribution of coin is also intelligent. All the best for your project and it's success.   

I'm loving couple of things about your project. First of all, it looks well organized and planned. When I evaluate the seriousness of a project I like to see the images of people in the team and especially the link to their Linkedin profile, it gives seriousness to the whole project.

I think it's a very good move that you conditioned participation in the airdrop with writing a constructive comment or question.

As a bonus there is a third guy with the same post which I'm now going to report:

I am loving couple of things about your project. First of all, it looks well organized and planned. Very few coins care to work within a plan. Distribution of coin is also intelligent. All the best for your project and it's success.

This is the fact that OP has been ban forever. The copied and paste post is enough already for OP to stop complaining. There are many ban users here in the forum and others had been accepted the fact already. So, I guess it will be a matter of time so that OP will going to accept the fate of his/her bitcoinalk precious account.

Theymos and moderators will not going to lift the ban OP. They are just silent because the permban was decided already.

[big_daddy]

We understand the meaning of the word permanently, but the admin itself established the exception of the permanent ban if the user or users "prove" that a permanently banned user meets the requirement for an exception

There's been no policy change. redsn0w wasn't permanently banned due to several factors which made me think that permabanning him would be a net negative for the forum. Nobody is banned strictly because of "the rules"; it's always handled case-by-case, but almost always, plagiarists deserve to be permabanned.

If you think that a ban should be ended, make your case in a new topic from a "good for the forum as a whole" perspective.

This is the reason why we are translating RegulusHr's posts so all users can understand it and to prove that RegulusHr fulfills the condition for the exception of the permban

[Branko]

As a bonus there is a third guy with the same post which I'm now going to report:

I am loving couple of things about your project. First of all, it looks well organized and planned. Very few coins care to work within a plan. Distribution of coin is also intelligent. All the best for your project and it's success.

This is the fact that OP has been ban forever. The copied and paste post is enough already for OP to stop complaining. There are many ban users here in the forum and others had been accepted the fact already. So, I guess it will be a matter of time so that OP will going to accept the fate of his/her bitcoinalk precious account.

Theymos and moderators will not going to lift the ban OP. They are just silent because the permban was decided already.

Actually, simple google search:

https://www.google.hr/search?q=%22I+am+loving+couple+of+things+about+your+project.+First+of+all,+it+looks+well+organized+and+planned.%22&filter=0&biw=1920&bih=975

will tell you theres a lot of people using exactly the same sentence (and not banned for it). But checking most of them, you'll notice that its basically all they ever did

(making posts like that) unlike RegulusHR who made one time offense, and otherwise posted above average quality posts

[morvillz7z]

theres a lot of people using exactly the same sentence (and not banned for it).

Correct, a lot of people have copy pasted that same sentence, but as I see it everyone is banned. (10+accounts)

If indeed someone is left unreported, please give me a link and I will report him.

Consider this a free bump #freeRegulusHr

[jademaxsuy]

So now, theymos had made another update with ban appeals and ban methods. As to what I have read from the inputs of other users stating that there is no permban already but there are consequencies.

This is somehow a good way to prevent the going down numbers of users that are active in the forum. Imagine if there are 5K bans per day or per month then how many active users will stay? This will diminished the users ideas and inputs for the betterment of cryptocurrency in the future because we need everyone here in the forum to contribute meaningfully and help enlighten other users especially to the newbies or new comers.

I admire theymos now taking another step for the good of forum. Removing permban and replacing it to punishements for the offenses will make a user to still participate in the forum removing some of its features like wearing signature for about some time.

 I suggest to make it this way on the time frame for one that cannot wear signature.

6 months for the first offense
1 year for the second offense
1 1/2 year for the third offense
then permban for the 4th offense.

[Daniel91]

Here is original post from RegulusHR: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1671371.msg48630307#msg48630307

My translation is below:

It's true that cards convert almost all 100% of the current into the heat but it does not make sense to use it primarily for heating. This with a quartz heater of less power is subjective because the same curret directly converts to the heat and by me are totally unprofitable devices except for handy heating.
In the first and second case you turn your electricity into heat in a ratio of 1 to 1 which means for 1kWh of electricity you get 1kWh of heat energy at a temperature of 50-90 ° C..
Heat pumps are devices which best exploit electricity for heating with a factor of 2 to 3.5, which would mean that for 1 kWh of electricity you get 2 to 3.5 kWh of heat energy where the outlet temperature is about 40-50 ° C.
Therefore, heat pumps should be used for heating to electricity. The most famous heat pumps are air conditioners so if you have a new inverter air conditioner which can heat up while the outside temperature is approx. -5 ° C then there is no more cost-effective heating (only heating on wood is more cost-effective).
I deliberately wrote -5 ° C although manufacturers usually write -10 or -15°C but then air conditioner efficiency decreases significantly.
So, in order to avoid pretense, to buy rig for heating so that by the way some coin stay is crazy.

Very helpful and informative post from a very experienced member.

[cryptofrka]

I saw the new ban wave and it seems that it actually brought something good with it as well.

Global mods were given the ability to ban signatures only yesterday. Do you think we can get through all the appeals in one day? Be patient.

Some members already received their accounts back with signature ban so I will use this news to bump the case of RegulusHR once more.

We have demonstrated a strong case for reducing his punishment so please go through this thread as well. He is worthy of a ban removal in the eyes of all local board members.

[ovcijisir]

This is one more post where RegulusHR helped members of our local forum.

He made analysis of ICO for company that would make automated KYC.

Original thread can be found here.

Following is my translation of that post:

Idea behind project:
Truewho will be online identity confirmation service. Idea is to avoid doing KYC procedure on every exchange or project for which you are interested. Truewho service will guarantee with their reputation for truthfullness of data you have given to exchange / project and guarantee protection of your personal information. Idea seems very good to me, and team of Electroneum ponders to provide same or similar service, so probably there will be competition.

Token economy:
Nominal value of token is 1 WHO = $0,2
In whitepaper they didn't wrote how big is hard cap and soft cap. On their Telegram channel they answered me that soft cap is 2 million dollars, and hard cap is 60 million dollars. According to my calculation if they sell all tokens that are allocated for sale, hard cap should be 80 million dollars. In presale they give 50% bonus, while in ICO bonus is 5% and drops to zero when they sell half of the tokens.
At the moment presale is active for which they allocated 2 million dollars worth of tokens.

Presale is active from 15.09. until all the tokens are sold or 19.10.2018.
ICO starts 19.10.2018. until 21.1.2019.

Project will make income by selling user verification services to various companies. They also plan to make income from users if they want to share access to their personal information to third party, but third party is not willing to pay for it.

Bounty:
Details of bounty campaign are not yet published, but they will be soon. They start with marketing campaign starting October.
For now you can earn some tokens with registration and passing KYC on their webpage.


Team:
I found out for this project because I follow the news about Dropil project, and first five people behind Truewho are the same people like in Dropil. Dropil is good project with stabile price of the token even in bear market and I have good opinion about the team. The idea is that Dropil will be first user of Truewho services. Difference between Dropil and Truewho is that Dropil is ERC20 token and Truewho is Stellar platform token. Team promises that you wil get activated Stellar address with enough XLM to cover the expenses of large number of transactions. Truewho company is registered on Malta 04.07.2018. The reason why Malta is chosen is because of EU directive of personal data protection, and the founders are from USA.

Impression:
The core of project is user database, and initial webpage is open and the database is starting to fill. Until the start of ICO they plan to have working solution. Everything is still in early phase, they are at the beginning, and they focus on web page optimisation.
2 million soft cap is in my opinion more then enougt for project to start. For this type of project the marketing and contact with potential clients are essence. That is why there is so big difference between soft cap and hard cap. I don't see other reason why would they need 60 million dollars.

Conclusion:
Idea behind this project is good and it comes in the right time, because there is KYC flood coming. In the end fate of this project will depend on marketing, and if the project builds reputation I believe that a lot of teams will let Truewho to take care of KYC, not only in crypto world.
Negative side is extremely high hard cap.

Links:
Web page: https://truwho.com/
Telegram: https://t.me/truwho
ANN thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5039376.new#new
Bounty thread: -

[slocker]

So now, theymos had made another update with ban appeals and ban methods. As to what I have read from the inputs of other users stating that there is no permban already but there are consequencies.

This is somehow a good way to prevent the going down numbers of users that are active in the forum. Imagine if there are 5K bans per day or per month then how many active users will stay? This will diminished the users ideas and inputs for the betterment of cryptocurrency in the future because we need everyone here in the forum to contribute meaningfully and help enlighten other users especially to the newbies or new comers.

I admire theymos now taking another step for the good of forum. Removing permban and replacing it to punishements for the offenses will make a user to still participate in the forum removing some of its features like wearing signature for about some time.

 I suggest to make it this way on the time frame for one that cannot wear signature.

6 months for the first offense
1 year for the second offense
1 1/2 year for the third offense
then permban for the 4th offense.

This I think could be good for forum. If this could be done with RegulusHR case. He could be here but not allowing to wear signature but think that its long period for this. It could be 3, 6 and 12 months as final then permaban with some list of tracking users on this list.

[Daniel91]

It's great to see that so many bans are removed, some even just in a few hours but here, user RegulusHR still waiting that someone answer his ban appeal almost half year!
I think that we already many times explained very well why ban for RegulusHR should be removed and it will be great that admins finally review this case.

[Daniel91]

Here is another great post from RegulusHr about mining.
Link from original post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3052292.msg31914563#msg31914563

Just wanted to write how ccminer/enemy-1.03 is much better when mining x16r algo then other options when I saw it is included in new version of cryptoguiminer. I am still testing it for now but it reports average hashrate of 46MH/s on pool page (average in 12 hours, 5xGTX1070) which is in line with declared values on https://cryptoguiminer.com, the miner itself shows hashrate of 47-52MH/s. Pool always reports little less, so I am happy with results.

When you notice that your miner has lower hashrate then declared, first check mining software. You can check what other miners use on pool pages which can help a lot.
https://cryptopool.party/site/miners

@Z.X. has made a good point that in case when you often switch the coin you are mining you end up with small amount of coins on multiple exchanges. I decided to solve this by mining coins from same exchanges instead the most feasible one at that moment.  
Exchanges have exit fees which can significantly change the total feasibility of mining. Ie. Crypto bridge has exit fee of 0.0010 BTC, which means that my machine needs whole day of work just to cover that exit fee.

[ovcijisir]

Here is another great post from RegulusHr about mining.
Link from original post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3052292.msg31914563#msg31914563

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One more post that shows RegulusHR's dedication to our local crypto community.

I just hope that all the posts we translated to show RegulusHR's contributions to the forum will hasten the process of ban removal...

[Lucius]

I have to admit it's really weird that RegulusHr perma ban is not removed so far, especially since the members of his community have made great efforts to show that this member deserves punishment for plagiarism as everyone else. I am not sure how much posts of RegulusHr is involved with plagiarism, maybe 2 or 3, but I see members like this whose post history is full of plagiarized posts, and they get almost instant perma ban removing.

I also see that this user is get red trust from DT (Lauda) for plagiarism, is this even something that deserve negative feedback?

[Lauda]

I also see that this user is get red trust from DT (Lauda) for plagiarism, is this even something that deserve negative feedback?

I'll undo it if he's unbanned, sig. banned and removed as a merit source.

[cryptofrka]

I'll undo it if he's unbanned, sig. banned and removed as a merit source.

Whole community would support this.

[big_daddy]

Here is the original post from RegulusHR: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5029505.0

My translation is below:

Exchange voting is another way to earn some coins, it can bring a small but secure revenue, cause those coins/tokens are already issued and have some market value.

The idea is to vote for a coin or token to be listed on the exchange, and as a rule, the exchange does not charge, for the cost of listing, the winner of the voting contest.
In order to win in voting, the team leading the project encourages the community to vote for them, and offer some incentives as a reward. Those incentives are usually tokens/coins, sometimes it is a fixed amount per vote, and sometimes it can be a prize fund shared by a number of votes or voters.

The bad side of this way of making extra money is that teams sometimes have a condition to give the prize for the vote only if their coin is victorious (listed). Another bed side is that sometimes to be able to vote you must be a verified user on the exchange, which means the KYC protocol.

So far, I've been voting for projects that I've participated through an airdrop or signature campaign because I've seen a call to vote, from their team.
I earned the most with Rebelious tokens (~ $ 100 at the time of listing), but this was the golden age of crypto, December 2017. I recently earned something on the Ubex token as well, I received 1746 tokens worth about $ 20 at the current market value.
Usually, you can expect a ~10$ revenue from voting, and it's a really easy way to make some extra money.

I would like to hear your experiences and information about similar events in this topic. Share here if you find some interesting coin/token to vote for listing on some exchange, describe it in a few words and give the instruction on how to vote in order to receive the prize.

Another post where RegulusHR is explaining to our local community how to make some e extra money

[ReguluHr-alt]

I also see that this user is get red trust from DT (Lauda) for plagiarism, is this even something that deserve negative feedback?

I'll undo it if he's unbanned, sig. banned and removed as a merit source.

Signature ban is fine for me.
As I already stated, I have no problem to lose status of merit sourcer.

Can someone help to draw attention of responsible administrator on my case and this topic? It's been five months since I got a ban and I did not get any answer.

Lauda you are the most influential member of the forum who visited (wrote) on this topic, can you help?

[Daniel91]

I also see that this user is get red trust from DT (Lauda) for plagiarism, is this even something that deserve negative feedback?

I'll undo it if he's unbanned, sig. banned and removed as a merit source.

Signature ban is fine for me.
As I already stated, I have no problem to lose status of merit sourcer.

Can someone help to draw attention of responsible administrator on my case and this topic? It's been five months since I got a ban and I did not get any answer.

Lauda you are the most influential member of the forum who visited (wrote) on this topic, can you help?

It seems that admins still didn't see and review your appeal.
I'm sorry you have to wait for so long and I raise this topic for better visibility.

[ovcijisir]

I also see that this user is get red trust from DT (Lauda) for plagiarism, is this even something that deserve negative feedback?

I'll undo it if he's unbanned, sig. banned and removed as a merit source.

Signature ban is fine for me.
As I already stated, I have no problem to lose status of merit sourcer.

Can someone help to draw attention of responsible administrator on my case and this topic? It's been five months since I got a ban and I did not get any answer.

Lauda you are the most influential member of the forum who visited (wrote) on this topic, can you help?

It seems that admins still didn't see and review your appeal.
I'm sorry you have to wait for so long and I raise this topic for better visibility.

If all of those contributions discussed so far are not enough to end a ban, I wonder what contributions one person must have to have ban ended.

So far there were a few bans withdrawn, but I didn't explore why were they withdrawn. I guess for years of being contributing member of forum like RegulusHR was, or am I wrong?