[Solve]Theymos, can you solve the mystery? newbies with 2 merit watering avatar?

[TheBeardedBaby]

The mystery is solved : those are part of the team recovering the hacked/lost accounts.

Finally we got an clarification on this mystery from theymos.

FYI: The humans handling the new account recoveries system which was implemented late last year are a company that Cyrus created called Cryptios. alanst, 3dOOm, and Rizzrack -- the "mysterious newbies" who some people noticed -- are three of their employees. They've been doing a great job.

Mystery is solved, they are the account recovery team members.

Is this a bug??

It's not de-ranked full member, should have 100 merit at least, registered after the merit system.

A bit weird user, newbie with 2 merit, registered in July 2018 but wearing avatar.
3dOOm
Anyone can explain this??

Does the copper membership allows you to wear avatar now?

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I also posted this account:
account: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2243418
alanst
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[lobcmt2]

Is this a bug??

It's not de-ranked full member, should have 100 merit at least.

A bit weird user, newbie with 2 merit, registered in July 2018 but wearing avatar.
3dOOm
Anyone can explain this??

Does the copper membership allows you to wear avatar now?

Has the demotion of merits implemented already?
Just kidding, LOL.
Even with old rules years ago, only Members and above can wear avatar.
It is totally new account, not old one, so, I am shocked.

[YOSHIE]

Rules:
@hilariousandco
Why can't I change my avatar?

You need to be a Full Member and up to be able to have an avatar.
I also posted this account:
account: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2243418
alanst

Interesting again and there is an oddity if we look at the trusts in these two accounts the Trust Reference generates we own profile account.
trust:
(Chungtuhung)(Reference)(go to moon).

3dOOmthis account Reference produces the profile that sees it.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile

I think this account is one of the mods, Admin that controls it. Because the profile system can be controlled, as members rise to the rank of Newbie to Legandary. And activity system. He can control it all.

[S_Therapist]

I think it's because of the new fee changes in copper member which enables newbie to add avatar. My assumption only.

[SplitBirb]

Not fair

I would like to have option for avatar also as Copper member.

[SplitBirb]

Not fair

I would like to have option for avatar also as Copper member.

You have your avatar already.

Only text/emoji work. I can't add image. I used Personal Text option which all users have.

[r1s2g3]

But he is not the only one wearing , I spotted one more
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2243418

There is nothing about this in Cooper membership link.
Is it accidentally done by Theymos?

[Findingnemo]

@iasenko there is one more newbie account named alanst also weaing avatar but it has only 9 posts with 9 activity.

I found something interesting here, the account alanst shared one merit to 3dOOm and name Cyrus can be found on those accounts merits history which may caused this bug?

Or those accounts were in control of any staff or admins.

[JusticeForYou]

I think this is a bug in the system, the avatar feature was available to all ranks some years back so you could see some Jr.members and members wearing avatar but there registration date should be before 2015 or so and the account you listed does not come under any of the criteria, so yes it is pretty odd.

[cabalism13]

Not fair

I would like to have option for avatar also as Copper member.

If this bug was accidentaly made by the new copper membership fee, then I suggest if you really want it badly, then pay for it again

Though this isn't reallly fair for us who ranked the way all up here just to where that avatar and I can also conclude that if that is already possible then wearing signatures upon the new Copper Members will also be like on the Full Member priviledges.

Let's wait until theymos finds this issue, and maybe this accounts was really made by the staffs.

[TheBeardedBaby]

If this bug was accidentaly made by the new copper membership fee, then I suggest if you really want it badly, then pay for it again

Do you have any reference for it? It looks like this is not a isolated case. People have posted at least 2 more accounts with the same issues.
Really want to know what happened

[SplitBirb]

If it’s something new I don’t mind paying copper membership again. Just want a clarification to make sure my extra payment won’t be in vain.

[Harkorede]

If this bug was accidentaly made by the new copper membership fee, then I suggest if you really want it badly, then pay for it again

Do you have any reference for it? It looks like this is not a isolated case. People have posted at least 2 more accounts with the same issues.
Really want to know what happened

It is most likely not a recent bug looking at those users profile, maybe no one paid attention to it.
According to this post https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5058163.msg47860162#msg47860162 it shows that "alanst" has paid his Copper membership over 2months ago.

My actual concern is how the option to add avatar was made available in their forum profile settings, I'm a copper member and I can verify that such option isn't available in my profile settings.

[nydiacaskey01]

I remember there was a time in 2018 I guess when the admin is making an adjustment in the system and everyone from newbie to highest rank have the same access to special features that higher ranked account enjoys including add/change of avatar. Some members took advantage of it and added avatars but after a few hours, system was updated and they cannot remove the avatar that they added. I even remember an admin admitting the mistake, I forgot who that was.

[cabalism13]

If this bug was accidentaly made by the new copper membership fee, then I suggest if you really want it badly, then pay for it again

Do you have any reference for it? It looks like this is not a isolated case. People have posted at least 2 more accounts with the same issues.
Really want to know what happened

The fact that both accounts was registered last year and hasn't been also a deranked Full Member, instead theyboth availed the Copper Membership. This maybe a bug or certainly they possibly achieved to bypass the limitations upon their accounts.

The said account are still active, might want to ask them on how they did achieve such thing.

As for @Hakorede mentioned that they're not a new registered Copper Members then we can say that this might be a bypass. I may sound contradicting myself here but because if it just a bug, then why is it only a number of them and not the others who availed it back then?

I remember there was a time in 2018<>...

Would you mind getting us on that matter? You can provide us a link or just a clue where you've found it recently.

[Bitcoin Smith]

I remember there was a time in 2018 I guess when the admin is making an adjustment in the system and everyone from newbie to highest rank have the same access to special features that higher ranked account enjoys including add/change of avatar. Some members took advantage of it and added avatars but after a few hours, system was updated and they cannot remove the avatar that they added. I even remember an admin admitting the mistake, I forgot who that was.

There is no suck kind of information when I used search option.But why only 2 people were using avatar when the forum has thousands of newbie accounts when there is a bug on system.

[Theb]

It's possibly brought up by the change in copper membership, theymos might have changed some unnecessary things not part of the standard feature or there is some kind of bug created with the change that is why they have access to have avatars right now. Its the only reason why newbie accounts registered in 2018 have avatars right now as compared before which your account must be 2015 or older. Avatars might not be part of it especially if copper membership only offers up to member ranked privileges

[UserU]

If the CM really does offer such feature, I'd buy me one right now 

[seoincorporation]

The copper membership allows those users to have an avatar. It should be a feature who come with the rising price of that membership. 0.0065 BTC isn't a bad price at all, but maybe the CM thread should be updated because it doesn't mention the Avatar.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=credit;promote

    Copper - 0.00675676 BTC: Allows you to post images even if you are a newbie, reduces the time-between-actions limit, and provides some of the same benefits as being of natural Member rank.

[JeromeTash]

The copper membership allows those users to have an avatar. It should be a feature who come with the rising price of that membership. 0.0065 BTC isn't a bad price at all, but maybe the CM thread should be updated because it doesn't mention the Avatar.

I highly doubt this is true, we would already be seeing dozens of Newbies carrying those avatars and with such a change even though it seems minor, Theymos couldn't have forgotten to include this information alongside the price change announcement... but then again I could be wrong.