[Discussion] Bitcointalk Community Awards 🏆

[Bitcoin SV]

I think that icopress is cheating and wants to take up the prize money, covering up behind the conflict in Ukraine as a convenient reason

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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5385028

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[icopress]

I think that icopress is cheating and wants to take up the prize money, covering up behind the conflict in Ukraine as a convenient reason

icopress does not have access to the Bitcointalk Awards funds.

[Bitcoin SV]

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You should not to discriminate competition participants for political reason - if you don't want to be redtagged & distrusted. And you may also be excluded from the administrating of following contests because of the loss of confidence in you

[n0nce]

I think that icopress is cheating and wants to take up the prize money, covering up behind the conflict in Ukraine as a convenient reason

icopress does not have access to the Bitcointalk Awards funds.

Don't worry, he's a troll with apparently nothing good to do with his time.

I have to use archive with the quotes since he seems to edit often.

I think that all winners should refuse to win this competition and ask sponsors (Sportsbet, CryptioS, ChipMixer, BestChange) to donate money for help to injured Ukrainian peaceful civilans

It will be fair

http://archiveiya74codqgiixo33q62qlrqtkgmcitqx5u2oeqnmn5bpcbiyd.onion/o/vPZwI/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5277804.msg59398463%23msg59398463

icopress, it's okay we are all understand your situation.
The entire crypto community is watching and experiencing with you what is happening now.

Hey guys, let's let's give moral support for icopress

https://ninjastic.space/post/59426119

icopress, it's okay we are all understand your situation. It is right that yo're saving your family at first.
The entire crypto community is watching and experiencing with you what is happening now.

Hey guys, let's give moral support for icopress

#PEACE

I'm sorry that I called your competition dishonest. Thread closed

https://ninjastic.space/post/59426119

icopress, you fraudster

WHERE IS THE WINNERS?

Stop whining and meddling others in your problems. Why should others suffer because of your problems?

Your problem - it's your problems

Your situation is no excuse to scamming the competition

ICOPRESS - M0THERFUCKER IDIOTO

http://archiveiya74codqgiixo33q62qlrqtkgmcitqx5u2oeqnmn5bpcbiyd.onion/vPZwI#msg59426119




Just putting out the facts here, no further comment from me.

[Bitcoin SV]

explaining for the stupid

Initially, I thought that icopress was an honest person, but then I realized who he really is.

At March 04, 2022, 05:24:26 PM I am finally realized how slick and deceitful he is

We are all people and we can all change our minds about people, especially if it turns out that a person is dishonest contest cheater.

[n0nce]

It was changed again... Check history here: https://ninjastic.space/post/59518272

NO

Initially, I thought that he was an honest person, but then I realized who he really is.

One last comment: It should be obvious to anyone with any ability of compassion, but you honestly said this?

Why should others suffer because of your problems?

Let's compare icopress' problems with your personal suffering:

icopress:

• Home country invaded by other country
• People are starving
• Children are killed
• Civilians are bombed
• Everyone tries to protect their country
• Logistical problems
• ...

Bitcoin SV:

• Has to wait for the results of an online contest in which he has no stake, nothing at risk
• Life not in danger ^{(oh, that's not a problem..)}

We are all people and we can all change our minds about people, especially if it turns out that a person is dishonest contest cheater.

How is he a contest cheater if he doesn't hold the funds and he's just busy saving his family from being bombed on?
I can't believe you're being honest here and actually meaning the things you are saying.

He even finds the time to log onto a forum and finding someone (GazetaBitcoin) he trusts to count the votes!
Honestly, I don't know if I would even think about an online contest if my country was under existential threat and attack.

[GazetaBitcoin]

There's no doubt that some of the voting members are purely driven to nominate users giving out Merit if you nominate them. It's obvious and somehow an act of "buying" nominations. The people giving out Merit are getting more nominations and the people nominating such members will obtain a cheap bunch of Merits.
That's not how it works and it's outright manipulating the contest.

In my opinion, nominations where a Merit was given by the nominated member, should be removed by half because it wasn't defined in the rules but awarding full points would be manipulation. [...]

And next time, we can add it to the rules that giving out Merit, if someone is voting for you, will remove this vote entirely.

As always, 1miau speaks the voice of ration. Only a blind one would not observe everything that 1miau emphasized so well here. Fortunately, most of us are not blind.

icopress, it's okay we are all understand your situation.
The entire crypto community is watching and experiencing with you what is happening now.

Hey guys, let's let's give moral support for icopress

[...]

icopress, you fraudster [...]

ICOPRESS - M0THERFUCKER IDIOTO

n0nce, you may be too new here to know the "iconic figures" of the forum (I suggest you to read mostly the unedited posts from ninjastic.space). Bitcoin SV and others may suffer from severe dementia or, at least, they share the same syndromes. Similar to the old troll Timelord2067 (which, probably after evading from a mental institution started to believe that he lives on Galiffrey), Bitcoin SV probably took him as a mentor and started editing his posts with something which is somehow exactly the opposite of what he stated before. It is not unseen before and, after smoking certain types of shrooms it is possible to get such a severe brain damage that to think exactly the opposite of what you stated just 10 minutes earlier.

But not to worry, we all know them and, in time, you'll also get to know better these "remarkable figures".

[o_e_l_e_o]

I would encourage everyone to come join the Thick Skin Gang!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzpndHtdl9A

[Bitcoin SV]

Let's compare icopress' problems with your personal suffering:
icopress:

• Home country invaded by other country
• People are starving
• Children are killed
• Civilians are bombed
• Everyone tries to protect their country
• Logistical problems
• ...

Okay, your right... I understand his situation...
But it is not a reason to discriminate good russian users. Ratimov - is a politically neutral person.

Bitcoin SV probably took him as a mentor

I hate Timelord, he is a sexcoin scammer

[Pmalek]

But it is not a reason to discriminate against normal russian users. Ratimov - is a politically neutral person.

Where did this discrimination against Ratimov or his Russian origin happen exactly? Did I miss something or are you just deliberately trying to cause controversy here? I don't see it in this thread. Did it happen in the local section?

[n0nce]

But not to worry, we all know them and, in time, you'll also get to know better these "remarkable figures".

Gotcha, thank yo so much! Your explanations seem realistic, honestly.

I would encourage everyone to come join the Thick Skin Gang!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzpndHtdl9A

Thick skin shouldn't even be required not to get butthurt over a fun online event such as this. But I agree that it's always good to have one!

[NotATether]

Good grief. I just checked the Awards thread for the first time in several months after trying to ignore it, and it has already become a dumpster fire for arguments and personal attacks!

In my opinion, if icopress is not able to process the votes and determine the winners at this time (which is completely understandable), then he should lock this discussion thread and unlock it periodically so he or Gazeta can post periodic updates about the contest status. And then leave it unlocked once the winners are announced. This will put a halt to the garbage that's been going on in the last dozen or so posts.

You're not helping him by putting pressure on him to finish the results.

It feels very unfair to bombard him with complaints about the contest when he's got more important priorities to deal with at the moment - namely, getting out of Ukraine alive with his family.

I didn't vote, or was voted for, so speaking as a neutral here.

[LoyceV]

But it is not a reason to discriminate against normal russian users. Ratimov - is a politically neutral person.

Where did this discrimination against Ratimov or his Russian origin happen exactly? Did I miss something or are you just deliberately trying to cause controversy here? I don't see it in this thread. Did it happen in the local section?

It happened here. Ironic, isn't it?

[suchmoon]

Good grief. I just checked the Awards thread for the first time in several months after trying to ignore it, and it has already become a dumpster fire for arguments and personal attacks!

That's what happens when people disconnect their brains from their fingers and start responding to gigamegtrolls like ExcimerBitcoinSVkorner.

[GazetaBitcoin]

It happened here. Ironic, isn't it?

Looooooool what were the odds for this post to exist?!

But not to worry, we all know them and, in time, you'll also get to know better these "remarkable figures".

Gotcha, thank yo so much! Your explanations seem realistic, honestly.

Thank you as well I am glad I can help you. If you want, fore more info about various illustrious forum members, you can check this topic. There is very much history well detailed there.

[Bitcoin SV]

It happened here. Ironic, isn't it?

Then I had a different opinion about him



But when I realized what icopress really is, then everything fell into place. icopress - is a political addicted person.

This contest was originally dishonest. But since icopress originally introduced such stupid rules - He must to follow them. Changing the rules during calculating competition results - even worse & unfairer

...I stated that I was a Russian-speaking Ukrainian...

As my BSV followers from russian sub reports to me - your russian speech look likes an accent of US speaking user. And as you know, any Ukrainian has a good Russian speech

You are using pronouns incorrectly. BTW, nobody seen any word of ukrainian from you

icopress - you don't speak both Russian and Ukrainian


WHO ARE YOU MR. DARKNETIAN?

Let's compare icopress' problems with your personal suffering:
icopress:

• Home country invaded by other country
• People are starving
• Children are killed
• Civilians are bombed
• Everyone tries to protect their country
• Logistical problems
• ...

If that's true, why does icopress keep hanging out on the forum? Because while he counts the votes - a bomb can fly into him. Why he does not transfer the managing of the competition to someone from DT?

This is very stupid. If all this is true. He must going to build barricades instead of wasting time there. Freeze that stupid competition or transfer management of competition to a trusted person

You missed a good opportunity to transfer competition management to Ratimov. He would honestly count the votes. Because I don’t see anyone else who would be successful in this role

Either icopress doesn't value his life, or he's not who he claims to be.

[n0nce]

Why he does not transfer the managing of the competition to someone from DT?

He transferred the counting task to GazetaBitcoin. DYOR before whining and crying all day. I can't stand it anymore; will put you on Ignore now.

If all this is true. He must going to build barricades instead of wasting time there.

He basically is. Check his topic:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5387774.0

[Mpamaegbu]

I advise that one of the changes to specify that all the users voting on any post will be automatically disqualified (in case they will be nominated by someone). In this way, we can avoid all the drama (and / or abuses?) that took course on this contest and, if I remember well, on the previous one as well.

Is it like saying someone standing in for an election shouldn't vote? I really don't understand that point of yours. Nonetheless, I'm suggesting that every comment on the voting thread shouldn't be merited once the thread is opened going forward. No merit should be sent at all, whether to nomination posts or to comments suggested during the voting process. I believe meriting posts tilts the votes. I'm not sure I merited any post that nominated me.

Another suggestion that I am making is to take the contest to Ivory Tower board, thus ensuring that no members with ranks below Full Member are able to interfere. This way we will avoid a good amount of spam. Indeed, this would mean that members with ranks of Newbies, Jr. Member and Member will not be able to vote

That will be another good way to look at it because those within the ranks mentioned may not have been long in the forum to truly understand its activities and to be familiar with some of the usernames to the point of  knowing what categories to nominate them for.

[GazetaBitcoin]

Is it like saying someone standing in for an election shouldn't vote? I really don't understand that point of yours. Nonetheless, I'm suggesting that every comment on the voting thread shouldn't be merited once the thread is opened going forward. No merit should be sent at all, whether to nomination posts or to comments suggested during the voting process. I believe meriting posts tilts the votes. I'm not sure I merited any post that nominated me.

I think you misread what I wrote. I said to be disqualified all those which are sending merits to voters. By doing so they encourage some voters to vote for them, thus influencing the final result, in an abusive way. Please read the posts made within this thread from page 12 forward and you'll understand better. Then please read this post to understand even better.

Another suggestion that I am making is to take the contest to Ivory Tower board, thus ensuring that no members with ranks below Full Member are able to interfere

That will be another good way to look at it because those within the ranks mentioned may not have been long in the forum to truly understand its activities and to be familiar with some of the usernames to the point of  knowing what categories to nominate them for.

This suggestion, together with the previous one, were both aimed to offer more fairness to the competition. This contest was made 2 years in a row now and we noticed that there are ways of abusing it and influencing final results. Therefore I made some suggestions for better preventing fraud.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

This contest was made 2 years in a row now and we noticed that there are ways of abusing it and influencing final results. Therefore I made some suggestions for better preventing fraud.

Didn't we have similar controversy last year as well. A user who was giving merit to guys last year and he became a winner in one category? We should have learnt something from that experience.

Let me put my two sat in this conversation.

I voted for El duderino_. He sent me 4 merit. Will the community say that I voted him because to get those 4 merits?
Ratimov seems sending merit to those who mentioned him at least once at least after checking some post before and after my voting post. Will we say that those who voted for Ratimov knew that they will get merit for it?

What will and what will not is an argument but it seems merit was playing a vital role in this fun event which none of us expected. There are always those culprits who are okay to ruin the fun to get their personal gains.

I think since this has gone out of the hand, it's better to suspended this season and from the next season make a strict rule that no one is allowed to send merit to any post. If anyone found to send merit to a post that contains his nomination or even do not contain his nomination they will be just disqualified. Consider this, when a name is always in front of you, you are biased to mention the name. Watch it! This is a classic example of the power of suggestion that works with the subconscious mind.