Successor of Vlad2Vlad, Julien_Olynpic source merit abuse at CHAMBY meme token

[nipperk]

Hello,

I want bring a matter of serious abuse to the attention of the staff and the community. It appears we have a successor to the previous merit manipulation cases used to inflate memecoin popularity (such as the case of Vlad2Vlad) and potentially a huge scale account farming operation by Julien_Olynpic.


When looking at the merit history, the total are difficult to ignore. https://loyce.club/Merit/history/1166480.html shows at least 1000 merit transactions sent to replies which include the word "chamby". This frequency is obvious irregular.


The merit system is intended to reward good quality posts. However, the posts being merited by Julien_Olynpic are bland posts that do not contribute meaningful discussion.

I'm really impressed with what I saw in this thread. From the name, serious memecoin, chamby is really position as a serious memecoin with it future plan.

I look at the website and the UI is eye friendly. You guys are doing a great job here and I can tell that this token stand out as a genuine community driven memecoin. The roadmap show that it is focused on radical decentralization.

I came across a post on twitter with a telegram bot link but it seem the bot is not longer active to execute what it was meant for.

The previous permanent removal of merit source status for Vlad2Vlad was a splendid step to protect the forum from merit-sourcing for the purpose of altcoin shilling.

Just leaving this here for the next merit sorcery realignment.

IXCoin - a horrible shitcoin by any measure, dead website, no volume, etc - has the most merited (in 2020) ANN thread on Bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5284439.msg55453820#msg55453820

The reason is Vlad2Vlad who claims to be "Lead dev and CTO and CEO of IXcoin" and happens to be a merit source sending large amounts of merit in that thread. He's also doing the same thing in own thread shilling IXC: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=317658

I know the post quality is quite subjective but this looks like a massive conflict of interest and not the best use of source merits. Perhaps a different merit source can be selected for the altcoin boards who would prop up more than one shitcoin thread.

There have been many accusations regarding this user's activities. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5391203.msg59627271#msg59627271 bring 3 whole pages of proof of merit abuse. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5585914.msg66842179#msg66842179, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5586254.msg66855892#msg66855892 & https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5589699.msg66989615#msg66989615 are public discussions about issues with his chamby thread.


Can I gently suggest that the admin apply the same action taken against Vlad2Vlad to Julien_Olynpic as well, along with his other profiles.
Regards.

[hosemary]

Many users probably ignore this topic, because OP didn't create it using his main account, but he is right.
Julien_Olynpic is a merit source, and should merit quality posts. Instead, he is using a very large percentage of his source merits in a memecoin thread that he created himself. This isn't how a merit source is supossed to merit posts.

[hugeblack]

Many users probably ignore this topic, because OP didn't create it using his main account, but he is right.
Julien_Olynpic is a merit source, and should merit quality posts. Instead, he is using a very large percentage of his source merits in a memecoin thread that he created himself. This isn't how a merit source is supossed to merit posts.

I tend to agree with this.

We need more information from the local board (Pyccкий (Russian)) about how @Julien_Olynpic distributes his merits. I can't read the posts in Russian, but if they're in the same style as [ANN] CHAMBY: serious memcoin on TON, then that member should be removed from the merit sources list.

[LoyceV]

@OP: you may want to move this to Meta, as it's related to a Merit source.
I checked some of the Merit sent by Julien_Olynpic in relation to "chamby", and those snippets are taken from the first 4 posts I checked:

as you accumulate more Chamby, you accumulate future riches for yourself.

The good thing about chamby token is that you can buy with as low as even $2 or more. There's no point waiting any further

My plans is to accumulate at least 0.5 to 1% of the total supply of Chamby token by using my DCA accumulation strategy and hold for a decade.

We are encouraged to keep holding, ~. Please don't sell

They're literally all promoting this shitcoin, and if you check their Merit history, they received a large share of their total Merit from just this. Without looking any deeper, it doesn't look good if a Merit source is used to promote a shitcoin.

[Majestic-milf]

Many users probably ignore this topic, because OP didn't create it using his main account, but he is right.
Julien_Olynpic is a merit source, and should merit quality posts. Instead, he is using a very large percentage of his source merits in a memecoin thread that he created himself. This isn't how a merit source is supossed to merit posts.

Supported. Most times, instead of facing the topic of discussion, the op would get lashed just because he didn't use his main account and deliberately shift the attention from the message probably because they're guilty. I know everyone is entitled to do what they please with their merits but as a merit source, it's expected that the merits are distributed evenly but this seems like abuse to me..isn't there a way to strip him of his role as a MS because if attitudes like these get overlooked, others could follow and he'd just be breeding and enabling more account farmers.

[ABCbits]

Many users probably ignore this topic, because OP didn't create it using his main account, but he is right.

I also skipped this thread, because i saw so many weak or non-sense accusation from new account. But from what OP shared, it's definitely worth for further investigation either from admin side or any member who're willing to do it.

https://bpip.org/smerit.aspx?&from=Julien_Olynpic&start=2026-03-15T08:02:18&end=2026-08-12T08:02:18 shows his sent merit history in last 150 days. There are 715 records and 290 of them went to post that contain title "chamby", which is about 40.5%. I don't feel like checking any of those 290 posts, so i can't be sure OP accusation is accurate or not.

[hosemary]

There are 715 records and 290 of them went to post that contain title "chamby", which is about 40.5%. I don't feel like checking any of those 290 posts, so i can't be sure OP accusation is accurate or not.

I fully agree with OP, and I support his claim.
If you check the posts merited by Julien_Olynpic, they are either in the Russian local board or in that token ANN thread, which means that the only English thread he is interested in spending his smerits on is a token thread that he created himself.

I don't have anything to say about the merit Julien_Olynpic distributes in the Russian local board, because I don't understand Russian. But if you are interested in English boards as well, what would you merit posts only in that token thread? If you are interested in altcoins discussions or tokens announcements, why would you merit posts only in your own token announcement?

Julien_Olynpic is a merit source, and I said in my previous post, that's not how a merit source is supposed to use source merits. theymos has made Julien_Olynpic a merit source for a purpose, and I am sure the purpose wasn't to award posts that promote a specific token.

[lovesmayfamilis]

OP gave a link to my post mentioning that the topic of the Chamby token has become so popular among those who like to suck up and write praising posts, thereby getting merits quite easily, and I'm glad that the issue of such improper behavior has finally begun to be raised.

I see that Julien_Olynpic is sending merits for posts in the Russian section, and they may not be as bad as those laudatory "songs" from those who actively advertise the Chamby token.

We have written many times that alternative accounts will appear where the merits are distributed very easily. This topic, and the behavior of Julien_Olynpic, is a real example of how some, not newbies at all, create accounts specifically for posting on this topic.

Next, we see the sale of such accounts, the sale of merit, and other abuses.

Check out the third post, and then the merits are only for advertising the token. Do we need to think about what will happen next with this (example) account?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=3745258

[hugeblack]

Today

Merit sources
There are 84 merit sources with a total merit generation of up to 30597 sMerit per 30 days

Two weeks ago

There are 85 merit sources with a total merit generation of up to 30972 sMerit per 30 days

I don't want to guess, but it seems that @Julien_Olynpic has been removed.

[hosemary]

I don't want to guess, but it seems that @Julien_Olynpic has been removed.

Your guess is right.
I messaged theymos and asked him to visit this thread. I received a reply a few minutes ago, in which theymos confirmed Julien_Olynpic is no longer a merit source.

[Rikafip]

I messaged theymos and asked him to visit this thread. I received a reply a few minutes ago, in which theymos confirmed Julien_Olynpic is no longer a merit source.

Many of those who were active in that shitcoin thread will be in mourning when they find about this, as I'm sure they thought they had found an easy way to milk merits for a long time.

If this hadn't been reported and dealt with, I'm sure many of them would have reached higher ranks just by being active there.