Posts: 0, Activity:0, merit: 136

[hosseinimr93]

Yesterday, Blitzboy posted about a user who had sent 50 merit to a newbie for a post that didn't deserve any merit.
Now, I want to draw your attention to a user who has earned 136 merit while has zero post.

Newbie1273819 has received 136 merit from phr0stbyt3, JL421 and dancingnancy.
The merited post has been deleted. Merits have been sent recently, but as the merited post is an old post created before LoyceV started to archive the posts, I couldn't find it using Loyce.club.  

[Pmalek]

Interesting. All 3 accounts that sent the merits woke up on 27 December 2019 in the evening hours.
The merits were sent between 09:46 and 09:50 PM on that same day.

[hacker1001101001]

Interesting. All 3 accounts that sent the merits woke up on 27 December 2019 in the evening hours.
The merits were sent between 09:46 and 09:50 PM on that same day.

Looks like some dump merit transactions. Not even look's like merit selling.

Even the newbie account was created on February 15, 2017. Looks more like some experiment.

[logfiles]

Very annoying.
This sort of merit abuse cripples the main purpose of the merit system. Imagine if a number of individuals realize that they can abuse merit to such an extent and still get away with it.

I know we are discouraged from tagging such chaps but something has to be done... or at least members can be asked to vote on whether to reverse merit transactions of such cases when discovered.

[Kunnu]

Interesting. All 3 accounts that sent the merits woke up on 27 December 2019 in the evening hours.
The merits were sent between 09:46 and 09:50 PM on that same day.

Another common thing I have found between those three accounts those accounts was created during 2011-2012 maybe the accounts have been hacked and getting involve for negative use that's really strange.

[DdmrDdmr]

The three sMerit Sender accounts have not gained any merits through their posts, so all their sent sMerit is airdropped. This looks like a (hopefully sparse) case of bough/alt merit abuse, sending some stocked sMerit amount to a new account in order to start building it up from scratch, but without needing to pay attention to merits.

The fact that the post was deleted piles on to this suspicion.

Edit: It Could be related to this off-topic thread:Is it possible to shut down the facebook?

The account shows linked to it here (although not the actual deleted post):
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Newbie1273819%22&t=h_&ia=web

<…> I don't know why it says No results found for "Newbie1273819".

It did retrieve a result yesterday when I looked into it (albeit the link between the username and the thread was in the search results themselves, not in the retrieved thread). It is not retrieving anything now though.

[bL4nkcode]

Is this something like a nuked user?

And the merited post/reply is the same based on the link of the merited post on merit page which either deleted by the user itself or some mod.

If not, probably, a merit abuse or just experiment ┐(￣ヮ￣)┌

[skarais]

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I think not only 3 hero accounts woke up and sent merit to the newbie account, but 4 accounts including the newbie also woke up on the same day on December 27, 2019. There wasnt a single post we could find where all the services were sent, but it really pisses me off.

[yazher]

There's no way he will use that account for farming merit, I think this account will be used for merit selling. What do you think guys? by deleting his post he thinks that there will be no way to track him. until OP caught his account. maybe this is their way to hide from the DTs.

[NeuroticFish]

Looks more like some experiment.

I see it as some sort of abuse. If it would have been just an experiment he wouldn't have cared to delete the post(s).
And I tend to believe that a proper account made in 2017 should have quite some posts if it wouldn't be shady / getting its posts deleted more than once.

Maybe the account is getting prepared to be sold?

[hilariousetc]

Very annoying.
This sort of merit abuse cripples the main purpose of the merit system. Imagine if a number of individuals realize that they can abuse merit to such an extent and still get away with it.

I know we are discouraged from tagging such chaps but something has to be done... or at least members can be asked to vote on whether to reverse merit transactions of such cases when discovered.

People are always going to find ways to cheat the system and merit abuse is inevitable, but it's probably quite rare that people do it to this extent, but it's easy to spot when it happens. Sending large amounts of merit always sticks out so abuse is easy to spot, but it's the smaller numbers that fly under the radar.

Is this something like a nuked user?

And the merited post/reply is the same based on the link of the merited post on merit page which either deleted by the user itself or some mod.

If not, probably, a merit abuse or just experiment ┐(￣ヮ￣)┌

No. The account isn't nuked so he must have deleted all the posts (unless another staff member did it). Likely trying to hide something but kinda stupid if his intention was to rank up as he's now going to have to post consistently over time to get the activity to rank up to Full Member which is what I'm guessing was his intention.

[sheenshane]

There's no way he will use that account for farming merit, I think this account will be used for merit selling. What do you think guys?

Probably farming account nor selling merit, and let the merited account sleep until 120 days passed and you can't able to view merit transactions on the profile unless if you are using via bpip by Vod. All accounts who sent merits was stopped posting since the year 2018 and I think they are the same owner.

But unfortunately, I can't find any transactions of merit on Vod bpip. https://bpip.org/profile.aspx?p=Newbie1273819

[YOSHIE]

Newbie1273819 has received 136 merit from phr0stbyt3, JL421 and dancingnancy.

It's a shame, dear, what has happened lately, as if Merit was just a game and entertainment, was ignored anymore, the real meaning of Merit.

Intimidation, there are thousands of accounts here that contribute and very good and useful posts, but not as lucky as those who get 136 Merit at the same time with very funny posts, really ironic that happened in this forum the last few.

I am very concerned about what happened to the account, if this continues it is likely to make others frustrated with good posts going forward, like a fairy tale before going to sleep.
Somehow, who is wrong and who is right.

[Bodykeepers]

Yesterday, Blitzboy posted about a user who had sent 50 merit to a newbie for a post that didn't deserve any merit.
Now, I want to draw your attention to a user who has earned 136 merit while has zero post.

Newbie1273819 has received 136 merit from phr0stbyt3, JL421 and dancingnancy.
The merited post has been deleted. Merits have been sent recently, but as the merited post is an old post created before LoyceV started to archive the posts, I couldn't find it using Loyce.club.  

In this case what happen to the merited account and those 3 accounts who have merited the newbie with zero post? It is punishable by admin or what they are going to do. I am curious with this since i am a new user of this forum, as i read forum rules good posts are only merited other users.

[dkbit98]

Interesting.
It is obviously one guy with his alt accounts and merit abuse.

I would like to hear what he has to say about this, from any of his accounts.

[UserU]

Interesting.
It is obviously one guy with his alt accounts and merit abuse.

I would like to hear what he has to say about this, from any of his accounts.

I doubt he'd care to respond, knowing it's gonna draw more flak.

[Murat]

That was a very stupid use of merit.

if someone bought those merit then it was a dumb move as he already deleted all his posts.

if an account farmer sent all the merit to his new account then he just ruined his 3 hero member account reputation.

I don't see any other possibilities. looks like all the 4 accounts belong to one person.

[Findingnemo]

I guess that user aware of what theymos said, never tag anyone for merit abuse without clear evidence so he abused and cleared all the evidence.

But not that much smart though since he forgot that these kinds of things will get easily identified, only theymos can say these accounts belongs to same person or not until that tagging will be appropriate for that newbie.

[TheBeardedBaby]

Interesting, i remember the case of this user https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2189580 but he goy banned.
This one is much smarter:

He got merit for old topic/post created before Loyce started to scrape the recent posts.
The posts were quickly deleted, no archives, no cached versions, nothing.
I haven't give up yet but i have a reduced time now... Something i was waiting for almost 9 months is keeping my attention busy... ;l

[elmanchez]

To get my 21 Merits, I killed 3-5 months on the forum.
I feel that I am bewildered now and my heart is stabbing.