List of advertising shills. Mods please review and ban as appropriate.

[o_e_l_e_o]

So I reported ElizabethA multiple times with links back to my post above explaining that the account is an alt of JessicaVL and obviously being used as a bot. ElizabethA has now been inactive for a couple of days, just as JessicaVL starts back up again with 4 new threads of the same spammy nonsense in 20 minutes. I'm not sure if ElizabethA was temp banned so they moved back to JessicaVL, or if JessicaVL's temp ban had expired so they just moved back anyway. Regardless, both accounts are clearly part of the same bot, and temporary banning JessicaVL has obviously not taught the owner any lessons whatsoever. Please could mods consider perma-ban both accounts?

zakoliverz, whom I also mentioned above, has turned out to be your standard run-of-the-mill Press board spammer. Including threads of his I've had deleted, 7 of the last 9 new topics in Press board are from him. All are the exact same legalized plagiarism. He also deserves a ban.

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A new publish0x spam account, reported.
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A new publish0x spam account, reported.
stysn

Likewise. They're persistent, I'll give them that.

It would be nice if mods took action against the coinsbit scammers exchange thread, it's just page after page (121 at time of writing) of bumping accounts - all of which have been tagged by multiple forum members, but the scam bumping continues & unfortunately there are unsuspecting noobs who are falling for it & getting scammed:

For a week now my account has been blocked in response to just hearing (expect). And the indicated withdrawal time is 24 hours and I'm not the only one!

This sometimes happens on different exchanges. I have had similar cases repeatedly when using Bittrex. But this does not say that the exchange is bad.

for two weeks now, the account has been blocked in the support only one word (expect) the question is how much longer to wait a month, a year? There is a considerable amount on the account and I also see that it’s suspended and not the exchange!

This is why:



You've been scammed by a botfarm posing as an exchange.

I've reported this scam thread to moderators in the hope that they will delete it before any more noobs get scammed by this bot farm:

This is a scam exchange who's thread has 119 pages of paid shills constantly bumping/spamming it. Please delete this thread & ban said accounts connected before more unsuspecting noobs get scammed, thank you.

As it says, I've reported the accounts & the thread, but I think it'll take a few more reports before the mods take action. The sooner they do, the less noobs will get scammed.

[Lucius]

I'm not sure if ElizabethA was temp banned so they moved back to JessicaVL, or if JessicaVL's temp ban had expired so they just moved back anyway. Regardless, both accounts are clearly part of the same bot, and temporary banning JessicaVL has obviously not taught the owner any lessons whatsoever. Please could mods consider perma-ban both accounts?

JessicaVL is back, I see that most post are now in Off-topic/Alternate cryptocurrencies, which shows us that the only change that has taken place is the strategy where to post.

I also notice we have new shills in Press board, along with aforementioned zakoliverz, there is blacky90 who is working for cryptonews.com.

[o_e_l_e_o]

Yup, my number of reports against the three users you have mentioned continues to increase, and yet we still seem to be taking no conclusive action against any of them. And even with the all their topics which I have had either deleted or moved, the Press Board has still been turned in to their own personal spam board:



At this point I would advocate for shutting the Press Board altogether. It is predominantly just legalized plagiarism by advertising bots or bounty shills. The few good topics which are posted there could just be discussed in Bitcoin Discussion instead.

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At this point I would advocate for shutting the Press Board altogether. It is predominantly just legalized plagiarism by advertising bots or bounty shills. The few good topics which are posted there could just be discussed in Bitcoin Discussion instead.

Indeed. I actually stopped reading the "notable" Press board completely about 8 months ago due to it being full of utter nonsense, clickbait & general sensationalist BS - seems it's gotten even worse since then. Didn't think that was possible....

It seems that as Bitcoin gets more widely known about, the more cr@p there is to read about it posted by nobodies. That's the price of success I guess, but it's sad to see once informative boards go to sh*t like this.

[hosseinimr93]

User: BestBitcoinCasino

All posts made by this user are links to a specific website.

BestBitcoinCasino's post history

[Mbitr]

ElizabethA is back

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5232275.msg54014027#msg54014027

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5232287.msg54014315#msg54014315

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5232288.msg54014367#msg54014367

 Same spam news

[Chikito]

User: cryptozink
Almost of page advertising shills >> Show post >> Archived
The last post only write his link without any information >> You Can Now Retrieve Lost Bitcoin (BTC) - Finally!

[Initscri]

User: CrisperSoft

Essentially just creating posts based off content on their site in order to promote services. See the following post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5232340.0
(archive screenshot)

The post was essentially just copy/pasted from their site: https://crispersoft.com/blog/ai-in-fintech-systems-for-analyzing-financial-markets/

[hosseinimr93]

User: CoinCode_sh

This user is posting a same content including a link to a specific website into different ANN threads.

Post history

Edit: All posts including links were deleted by moderators.

[Welsh]

This is a practice that applies to all such cases, only posts that are reported are deleted, which leads us to the conclusion that each post should be reported individually, of course if we want all to be deleted. Depending on who is taking the action (not everyone has the same viewpoint), such users are first alerted by a private message, then with temporarily ban.

I see that last posts from fourthfunction is dated to 22 December 2019, which means that he didn't get a strong enough message to stop. This is probably one of those who think: "You can't delete as much as I can post".

This can vary a lot depending on the moderator that is handling it. Some moderators don't want to have their queues filled up with reports that could have been done in one post. However, whether or not the moderator handling that report goes through all of them which they might have to actively search depends on how much time they have. I usually leave posts to others if I haven't got enough time, but sometimes we are half way through deleting them, and something comes up.

If you notice that this has happened you can always report one of the posts again, and ask for the rest to be cleared up. So, instead of reporting 100, you could report 1-2 in a span of a few weeks if they haven't been handled.

[GazetaBitcoin]

User: goanadupabitcoin
Shilling their website in 77 out 202 posts (38%), all reported.

User: Nea Sandu
Owner of goanadupabitcoin's site (user goanadupabitcoin being his alt account); shilling the same website in 24 posts out of 462 total posts (5%), all reported.

[posi]

Shills advertising reported.

User:   JohnPerino

Registered on July 11, 2019 but start posting on the forum today (has made 3 posts with the same darkweb site link) and i think hes targeting the newbie.
Post history : archived

[hosseinimr93]

User: HB Wallet
This user is posting links to a specific website in different topics.
Post history

[Mbitr]

These two users appear to be advertising/shilling some website - Authlink ?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2797608

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2797601

They only back each other’s posts .

[o_e_l_e_o]

User:   CoinIdol News

I seriously cant fathom how this guy isn't banned yet. He posts some copy and pasted nonsense from CoinIdol.com either once or twice a day, every day, in the Press board. He makes no other posts. Every topic he has made for the last 2 weeks has been trashed, except one which was moved to Speculation. I have reported him 17 times in this two week period, with all of them marked good. Sometimes when his post is deleted, he reposts the exact same article a second time. More often than not, the things he posts are just baseless price speculation. They certainly aren't news, newsworthy, or from a notable source.

If you have every post you make for 2 weeks trashed and you continue with the same behavior, then obviously you don't care at all about the forum or its rules. I've asked in the comment box for this user to be banned countless times. Can a global mod please review? Thanks.

[stompix]

I seriously cant fathom how this guy isn't banned yet. He posts some copy and pasted nonsense from CoinIdol.com either once or twice a day, every day, in the Press board. He makes no other posts. Every topic he has made for the last 2 weeks has been trashed, except one which was moved to Speculation.

None of us can....
Vladdirescu87 wasn't banned for that either, his saga ended only when he was caught with plagiarism and he had almost 100 posts deleted by then.

Some (I think that even you !?!) say that it's about time for the press section to be closed down and I tend to agree with that if it's a major news article the situation it describes can fit on any other board like speculation, economics, politics. It's no longer a thing that CNN or Fox or Guardian writes about bitcoin, it's not 2010 anymore. Besides, every real discussion that happens in the press section has at least one similar topic somewhere in another area and most of the times it predates the one in the press section.

Oh, and the drawings!!!! Every time I make the mistake of opening those topics and I see those cartons I want to punch the screen.

LE:
Speaking of the devil:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5244541.0
http://archive.vn/wip/ouswt

How the hell can you call this a topic:

Bitcoin Sees Massive Rally Hitting and Surpassing $8K, Bulls Celebrate
Bitcoin has broken the $8,300 line, and this seems to have triggered strong bullish sentiment. The community anticipates its further growth.
Read the details in the article of Coinidol, the world blockchain news outlet: https://coinidol.com/bitcoin-sees-rally/
#Bitcoin, #Rally, #Bullish, #Community, #Market, #Cryptocurrency, #Price, #Stock, #Billion, #Investment

[IconFirm]

I seriously cant fathom how this guy isn't banned yet. He posts some copy and pasted nonsense from CoinIdol.com either once or twice a day, every day, in the Press board. He makes no other posts. Every topic he has made for the last 2 weeks has been trashed, except one which was moved to Speculation.

None of us can....
Vladdirescu87 wasn't banned for that either, his saga ended only when he was caught with plagiarism and he had almost 100 posts deleted by then.

Some (I think that even you !?!) say that it's about time for the press section to be closed down and I tend to agree with that if it's a major news article the situation it describes can fit on any other board like speculation, economics, politics. It's no longer a thing that CNN or Fox or Guardian writes about bitcoin, it's not 2010 anymore. Besides, every real discussion that happens in the press section has at least one similar topic somewhere in another area and most of the times it predates the one in the press section.

Oh, and the drawings!!!! Every time I make the mistake of opening those topics and I see those cartons I want to punch the screen.

LE:
Speaking of the devil:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5244541.0
http://archive.vn/wip/ouswt

How the hell can you call this a topic:

Bitcoin Sees Massive Rally Hitting and Surpassing $8K, Bulls Celebrate
Bitcoin has broken the $8,300 line, and this seems to have triggered strong bullish sentiment. The community anticipates its further growth.
Read the details in the article of Coinidol, the world blockchain news outlet: https://coinidol.com/bitcoin-sees-rally/
#Bitcoin, #Rally, #Bullish, #Community, #Market, #Cryptocurrency, #Price, #Stock, #Billion, #Investment

I tagged that account 9 months ago for shitposting & so far I'm the only person to do so. Maybe if others would follow suit mods will actually ban him at last?

[o_e_l_e_o]

Some (I think that even you !?!) say that it's about time for the press section to be closed down

Yeah. Although the quality of discussion you get on a good article is generally much higher in the Press board than you would get in Bitcoin Discussion (as fewer spammers tend to visit the Press board), the vast majority of new topics posted there are complete trash and are used just as advertising by sites exactly like CoinIdol. If we aren't going to moderate it in line with the stated guidelines (notable, independent reliable sources, not crypto "news" sites or blogs, etc.) then we might as well just shut it down.

I tagged that account 9 months ago for shitposting & so far I'm the only person to do so. Maybe if others would follow suit mods will actually ban him at last?

He has been banned. As much as he was a complete shitposter, I don't agree with using the trust system for that reason.