Several Accounts Misspelling Manchester City Footballer "Kelvin De Bruyne"

[JollyGood]

(edit: I changed the title of the thread to give the benefit of the doubt that these account not be connected but let us see how things unfold in this thread and note an edit *)

For those of you who know about football in general or the English Premier League specifically, you know who Kevin De Bruyne is.

For those that do not know about him, he is a footballer who plays for Manchester City and he also plays for Belgium on an international level.







The following members have mentioned him as "Kelvin" instead of "Kevin". These accounts are making the same error that football fans should not be making:


(newbie account) Theroyal-Ball: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3300240

(OWNR) Mistafreeze: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=23095

(ROOBET) Harkorede: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2160117

(DUELBITS) gabbie2010: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=949294

(DUELBITS) CryptocurencyKing: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2701506


It seems the Theroyal-Ball account was created a few months ago with a view to use as part of a batch. No newbie would create an account in a crypto forum, let it sit idle for a few months then make one post about football of all things then hibernate.

To me it seems a simple case of having multiple accounts to join signature campaigns, I think the accounts are operated by one person and he should post here to explain his side of the story or to use each individual account to post here to defend the allegations. * Either way, it will be interesting to read what they write to explain the misspelling.

I'm hardly sure that's the team Pep would be looking to play the EPL with. It's hardly it because, the team I saw today was a team lacking a lot of quality. No Kelvin De Bruyne, No Gabriel Jesus, Raheem Sterling and a few other first team players. This was a sustained match for me, a game meant to test out players and how well they could go on a trophy and they pretty much failed.

Are there those that really took the Leicester City team on a bet to win against Manchester City other than merely predicting it. You ought to be proud of yourselves if you did that. This is what underestimation could do to you. Pep needs to watch out for this in the EPL that is forth coming.

That is football for you the day you expected your favorite team to win will lose, it is a  pity Portugal the defending champion couldn't make it to the next stage it obvious they tried their best to win the match Belgium on the hand continue with the pursuit of winning their first major trophy, they will face tougher oppositions in their subsequent matches especially playing against italy with a likely injured Kelvin De Bruyne out this will be big huddle to cross and a challenge for the Martinez side going by the Italian performances so far in the championship.

Kante >>>>> Kelvin

Kante had just 2 days to train for the champions league final after suffering from a hamstring a week before the game and yet he was over the pitch playing from the attack to the defence, won the MOTM 4 times in a row in the champions league. Kelvin was already in Kante's pocket in the midfield before he got the injury and was taken off... Kante don't disappear in big games unlike kelvin.

West Ham vs Man City would kick in about 30 minutes, the lineup having been released. It's quite a very strong lineup from Man City with a front trio of Mahrez, Aguero and Sterling, if all things works this could be a rout, even with Kelvin De Bruyne on the bench.

well,I still think city does not need any other attacker,because they already have Gabriel Jesus who is a complete finisher delivering on daily basis for city. Giving Gabriel Jesus regular playing time will boost his confidence in front of goals.He already has the likes of Mahrez,Kelvin,and Sterling to provide him the goalscoring chances that he needs.

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[Harkorede]

Nice theory, Lol!

I don't know any of the users above but you're entitled to your opinion... If the spelling "Kevin" as "Kelvin" is your only basis of connection, then I don't know what could have been more ridiculous... JSYK I only spell it has Kelvin for two reasons, I'm never used to spelling "Kevin" perhaps due to my origin, and "Kevin" would always be autocorrected in my keyboard.

[JollyGood]

Well I read your explanation and will not be making a comment right now. I look forward to what the others say, I am sure they will feel the need to post here too then I will make a comment.

Nice theory, Lol!

I don't know any of the users above but you're entitled to your opinion... If the spelling "Kevin" as "Kelvin" is your only basis of connection, then I don't know what could have been more ridiculous... JSYK I only spell it has Kelvin for two reasons, I'm never used to spelling "Kevin" perhaps due to my origin, and "Kevin" would always be autocorrected in my keyboard.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

OP, you might be on to something here (good eyes, by the way).  Did you PM all of the members in question so that they could respond?  I see one of them did with an explanation that I have no way of verifying personally.  Maybe someone in a country where "Kevin" autocorrects to "Kelvin" can chime in.  I guess it's plausible that this could be true, but who knows.

Back when I used to dedicate a lot of time trying to catch alt accounts posting in the same thread and/or trying to cheat bounties I used to find little things like this that would give them away as being connected.  I think most of the time I was right, but be prepared to be wrong from time to time if you keep at this (and I'm certainly not discouraging you from doing so).

I'll be watching this thread.

[gabbie2010]

 I watched EPL matches every week including Man City games DE BRUYNE was bodly written on his jersey while commentators do pronounce his full name during commentaries however I have a friend who bear "Kelvin" equally during  my high school days in chemistry and physics lessons I knew that " Kelvin" is a scientist whose name was one of the units of Temperature, I assumed that there could not be other name that bears "Kelvin" until now when I googled searched the full name of the player after reading your post, in view of that I have no link or connection with those users.

[irfan_pak10]

It might be a co-incidence, or they just copy/pasting content - post concept, or might be the name of the guy. Positive thinking 

[Rikafip]

The following members have mentioned him as "Kelvin" instead of "Kevin". These accounts are making the same error that football fans should not be making:

There is actually one more account that did the same thing.

If he decides to go to Manchester City he will have to compete with Sterling, Mahrez, De Bruyne, Fernandinho, Silva, Rodri, Zinchenko and Gundogan for a midfield position.

Zinchenko is a left full-back, Fernandinho plays at the backline he was converted from DM to CB last season where he performed so well, Sterling, Mahrez and Silva are wingers and Grealish would have no business on the wing, Rodri is no better than Grealish so this leaves the midfield wide open for Grealish, Kelvin and Gundogan to operate so I don't see any challenge for Grealish if the deal went through.

Just briefly looking at their posting style, few observations:

-gabbie2010  tends to write very long sentences, rarely using full stop, not leaving spacing.
-when quoting, CryptocurencyKingm Mistafreeze and BlackVireuse are not making any spacing before they wrote an answer (I am doing the same thing for example)
-Harkorede is using punctuation marks and does make spacing when quoting
-another thing that connects all these accounts is that users are Nigerians, based on some of their posts, or being active in Nigerian local thread.


Another interesting thing is that @Harkorede is misspelling the name of another famous person, Kevin Durant, on several ocassions.

Great call! But it wasn't never an easy one!

Finally the Bucks are heading for the eastern finals, but you've gotta give Kelvin Durant some huge credit, man's a freaking legend. He literally had too much to do, and the last air ball from the Nets could easily be attributed to fatigue, just as one of the commentators said.

Dunno, all this is still kinda flimsy to connect these accounts and it would be good to get more evidence before jumping to conclusion, like connection via adresses or use of the same social media accounts.

[JollyGood]

I did not contact the newbie account but sent a PM to the two members that have not posted in this thread requesting their input.

You are on to something when you mention little things that give away multiple account operators and like you I also am prepared to accept if I am wrong because these things can happen. What can also happen is because of a lack of conclusive proof (which is a matter of opinion in some circumstances), it allows multiple account operators to flourish in the forum.

One of the common explanations for users defence is the "autocorrect" function on the keyboard. Well, if you type the word correct one or twice then it should always show up as an option. Like others I am keeping an open mind on this allowing the protagonists to post their comments, hopefully they will respond soon.

OP, you might be on to something here (good eyes, by the way).  Did you PM all of the members in question so that they could respond?  I see one of them did with an explanation that I have no way of verifying personally.  Maybe someone in a country where "Kevin" autocorrects to "Kelvin" can chime in.  I guess it's plausible that this could be true, but who knows.

Back when I used to dedicate a lot of time trying to catch alt accounts posting in the same thread and/or trying to cheat bounties I used to find little things like this that would give them away as being connected.  I think most of the time I was right, but be prepared to be wrong from time to time if you keep at this (and I'm certainly not discouraging you from doing so).

I'll be watching this thread.

[CryptocurencyKing]

Come on, what's this?

I am greatly shocked to have seen this, seriously! Perhaps it's Kevin or Kelvin but then, it makes no serious difference or should be used as a base for suspicion or connection of accounts. I for one, I just punch the keys and most times, my autocorrect do the damn thing.

I'm sure your quite aware of the switches that occurs when your autocorrect thinks you've misspelled a word and just goes ahead to make the switch if you don't go ahead to tap on the suggestions. It happens everytime and should I give it a second look to tapping on the likely similar spellings!!! Perhaps I spelt it wrong but, you did knew whom I was referring and that's the point. Why stressing!

Just briefly looking at their posting style, few observations:

-gabbie2010  tends to write very long sentences, rarely using full stop, not leaving spacing.
-when quoting, CryptocurencyKingm Mistafreeze and BlackVireuse are not making any spacing before they wrote an answer (I am doing the same thing for example)
-Harkorede is using punctuation marks and does make spacing when quoting
-another thing that connects all these accounts is that users are Nigerians, based on some of their posts, or being active in Nigerian local thread.

I am a proud Nigerian like no other and I'm open about it, thank you! When you brought up these guys, a few of them are familiar forum users but not as Nigerians to me. I had to look them up on there posting styles and from observation, You can tell that,

Harkorede is a complete gambling discussion poster.
Gabbie2010 and Mistafreeze are a lot flexible on the boards they frequent but not in the Nigeria Local Board, All board discussion welcomed. {No Official Language}, at least the first 5 pages of there last post doesn't reflect any post from them on that board on like me. I am a frequent user of that board and my Nigerian pighin, is always never far behind. I share a common goal at heart along with other Nigerians in the forum that, Nigerians can be seen as straight forward and genuine people and we hope that one day, our local board would be pinned.
Reading replies on your thread has made you @JollyGood obsessed at certain things like wrong spelling on a word or name as the case is now but, its not so thrilling for a pointy finger.

Do your investigation with due diligence but, I am nothing like those users neither are we connected in anyway. Thanks for the pm.

[Harkorede]

In my case, It's not coincidental but completely stereotypical... If I were to have written about the famous comedian, It would have been "Kelvin" Hart, because I just checked to confirm if I would have been wrong about that as well.

It's weird to see that all users mentioned are from the same country, but that probably explains the basis of the mistake. The name is "Kelvin" in this part of the world.

[dragonvslinux]

Without really judging either way as to whether these accounts are connected (as much chance either way that they are or aren't imo), here's is a little data for you. This is based on a bit of "rough statistics". Searches for "Kevin De Bruyne" bring up 12.6 million results on google, whereas "Kelvin De Bruyne" brings up 75,600. That means 0.6% of individuals referencing Kevin are likely to spell his first name wrong (1 in every 166). Probably a bit less given the number of people actually named Kelvin De Bruyne however.

Given there are 5 users who have mispelt his name, if there are 830 users who have mentioned Kevin on this forum, then this would be the "rough estimate" of the number of users you'd expect to misspell his name. If someone can find out the number of users who have referenced this player on this forum, then it might lead to a better indication of the likelihood of these accounts being connected. It's worth looking into for sure, but far from conclusion it seems.

Ironically the third google hit I find is from ChannelsTV, who managed to misspell his name in a photo caption, even if correctly in the article  

[NotATether]

I'll be blunt and say I don't see why it matters. By itself, it isn't even anecdotal evidence for a solid account connection.

[lovesmayfamilis]

OP, I don't think you should count on these accounts to tell you the truth. If they are really alternative accounts, then there is no benefit for them to admit it. By the way, the account https://bpip.org/Profile?id=23095 was recently blocked, and another of his alt is also blocked
https://bpip.org/Profile?id=219801, consonant nickname with
CryptocurencyKing, isn't it?
I agree with Rikafip with all my hands, as I carefully looked at the style of their publication, but this or this person is cunning, and I think he has long since deleted all matches on social networks or wallet numbers.

[NotATether]

I agree with Rikafip with all my hands, as I carefully looked at the style of their publication, but this or this person is cunning, and I think he has long since deleted all matches on social networks or wallet numbers.

Or maybe there's no connection at all?

It's common for people on the gambling threads to mindlessly copy words that other posters are writing without using a spell checker (usually to meet sig campaign quota). With this logic, you can pencil-draw a connection with most posters there with each other.

[lovesmayfamilis]

I agree with Rikafip with all my hands, as I carefully looked at the style of their publication, but this or this person is cunning, and I think he has long since deleted all matches on social networks or wallet numbers.

Or maybe there's no connection at all?

It's common for people on the gambling threads to mindlessly copy words that other posters are writing without using a spell checker (usually to meet sig campaign quota). With this logic, you can pencil-draw a connection with most posters there with each other.

Where you see what I wrote, there is definitely a connection. But in the meantime, one of the specified OP, caught by me, had an alternative account. And if you look closely, his second account is also blocked, and he also wrote beautifully on the topic of gambling. Why, after I have found a connection, should I not doubt the rest?

[zanezane]

Nice theory, Lol!

I don't know any of the users above but you're entitled to your opinion... If the spelling "Kevin" as "Kelvin" is your only basis of connection, then I don't know what could have been more ridiculous... JSYK I only spell it has Kelvin for two reasons, I'm never used to spelling "Kevin" perhaps due to my origin, and "Kevin" would always be autocorrected in my keyboard.

If it gets autocorrected then why not turn off your autocorrect or at the least delete the autocorrect suggestion to type the appropriate name, I do this and it's not that time consuming so I don't get why you're too lazy to do that.

[JollyGood]

We do not have anything conclusive to link these accounts but what is for sure is that no football fan using this forum or any other would misspell iconic players names such as Ronaldo (Portuguese Cristiano or Brazilian el Fenomeno), Maradona, Pele, Cantona, Zidane, Beckham, Henry, Zola, Lampard, Gerrard, Van Basten, Maldini and others including Kevin De Bruyne and blame it on autocorrect or copy and paste. Those are probably seen by the majority as lame excuses trying to get themselves out of a situation they find themselves in.

If I were to reply to a post where the name of a player was misspelt I would make sure it was correct when I replied and I am sure others would just as can be seen by many subsequent posts where Kevin was mentioned as Kelvin. Since when do members need to copy and paste a reply? The rest of us usually click on the 'Quote' button and type and why would I then need to type the misspelt name myself?

Maybe you are right, maybe these accounts are not operated by one person. Maybe you are wrong and they are part of a FOMA style group of accounts operated by one person.

I agree with Rikafip with all my hands, as I carefully looked at the style of their publication, but this or this person is cunning, and I think he has long since deleted all matches on social networks or wallet numbers.

Or maybe there's no connection at all?

It's common for people on the gambling threads to mindlessly copy words that other posters are writing without using a spell checker (usually to meet sig campaign quota). With this logic, you can pencil-draw a connection with most posters there with each other.

[Harkorede]

what is for sure is that no football fan using this forum or any other would misspell iconic players names such as Ronaldo (Portuguese Cristiano or Brazilian el Fenomeno), Maradona, Pele, Cantona, Zidane, Beckham, Henry, Zola, Lampard, Gerrard, Van Basten, Maldini and others including Kevin De Bruyne and blame it on autocorrect or copy and paste. Those are probably seen by the majority as lame excuses trying to get themselves out of a situation they find themselves in.

I strongly disagree with you on this, of all the iconic names listed above, you only included De Bruyne's full name... There are certain names that always different, I'm not so sure if you're anymore involved or interested in football or NBA than I am, but what I've come to learn is that especially with first names of British or English origin, there is always difference and you occasionally find the wrong ones even in big articles, we all might know De Boer, Ribery, Muller and Lampard, Kessie... Some are "Franck" and some are "Frank", some are Gerrard, some are Gerard... You might want to even check these kind of names to even see how many users have made this same mistakes.

EDIT: I most definitely wouldn't have misspelt their common in these cases, but I'm not sure I would have been consistent in writing their first names, it doesn't mean I'm in any manner less interested these sports or just posting to get any so called signature "Quota".

You might even want to check here in the forum for the popular: Vieri, Pavon, Tello, Eriksen and Romero, all of who are either "Christian or Cristian" for consistency.
https://i.imgur.com/uCDyf3E.png

[JollyGood]

You have a valid point, it is not time consuming to deactivate or even ignore the incorrect spelling option and just type the correct word/name.

As for the incorrect autocorrect being used because a member is used to using incorrect words/names even though they know they are incorrect, there does not seem to be too much of an issue with incorrect autocorrect with other words - Kevin/Kelvin seems to an issue.

I would like the other two accounts mentioned in the OP to share their views on this matter, it would make interesting reading.

Nice theory, Lol!

I don't know any of the users above but you're entitled to your opinion... If the spelling "Kevin" as "Kelvin" is your only basis of connection, then I don't know what could have been more ridiculous... JSYK I only spell it has Kelvin for two reasons, I'm never used to spelling "Kevin" perhaps due to my origin, and "Kevin" would always be autocorrected in my keyboard.

If it gets autocorrected then why not turn off your autocorrect or at the least delete the autocorrect suggestion to type the appropriate name, I do this and it's not that time consuming so I don't get why you're too lazy to do that.

[CryptocurencyKing]

By the way, the account https://bpip.org/Profile?id=23095 was recently blocked, and another of his alt is also blocked
https://bpip.org/Profile?id=219801, consonant nickname with
CryptocurencyKing, isn't it?
I agree with Rikafip with all my hands, as I carefully looked at the style of their publication, but this or this person is cunning, and I think he has long since deleted all matches on social networks or wallet numbers.

I just don't get you on this one. It's nothing really, nothing. I'm sure to have come across a few users with similar users and still, it doesn't mean they are the same person. Let's take the user Laudanum for example, does consonant make the user same as Lauda? Or again, should you see a user with the user Lovesjunefamilis or Luvsmayfamilis does that make the user same as Lovesmayfamilis ?
Whats the whole back and forth thing n trying to make a link between myself and all these other guys. Comparing us as a distinct pair and as a single individual even when the claims isn't binding!

Everyone on the forum is capable of making an error every now and then. That some other person makes the same mistakes like you doesn't make you them. It's a fine job you guys are doing here, trying to get a logical conclusion on your claims but in this particular instance, I'm 100% sure your wrong!

You have a valid point, it is not time consuming to deactivate or even ignore the incorrect spelling option and just type the correct word/name.

What helps in one instance can also create some problems in others. Why must I deactivate because of some few spellings only to activate later?
Mind you, the autocorrect feature isn't just used for correction on words but it also helps for easy and fast typing. There is virtually zero point to this. You state the fact being autocorrect @JollyGood  and then you try to obliterate it and make it seem as though that isn't it. Don't do that, its wrong!