There is a main account,
RainbowKun, which earns merits and distributes it to its alts.
I highly doubt that. RainbowKun makes decent posts and I see no reason for him to create an army of shitposters.
He did however Merit a few people who were congratulating him on his achievements, and right after that
many low-ranking accounts made a similar post to get Merited:
Congratulations! !
Congratulations
First of all, congratulations
I instantly noticed those posts, but didn't want to pursue it back then. My interpretation was that RainbowKun had no idea they were only posting for Merit, and he fell for it.
Can you use
BBCode from the full Merit history if you post Merit transactions, so I can easily click the link to the post?
There are several topics on the forum where newbies can get merit
That explains why you're currently the
#1 Top Merit sender to banned accounts in the last 180 days. Meriting Newbies is tricky sometimes.
Also, who wants to add this farm to ignore and put ~
Excluding them from your Trust list makes no sense, most of them have never left feedback.
I'm trying to add those members to my ignore list, but every time I click on "ignore member options" the page just keeps loading and comes back with an error on the bitcointalk server--and that's been happening for several days.
It's "normal" to get a time-out when your ignore list is too long. You'll have to ignore them one by one by clicking
Ignore on one of their posts.
Seriously, @Ratimov, just check when I recommended him for some merits because I was following his posts for a while. I agree with Loyce here and I also had a private conversation with RainbowKun where we exchanged research papers. Does anyone really think that farming shit posters would deal with
"Nested Institutions and the Retardation of the Adaptive Process" - Sung Chull Kim*
or
"Human ultrasociality and the invisible hand: foundational developments in evolutionary science alter a foundational concept in economics"
- David Sloan Wilson · John M. Gowdy
or
"The Empathic Civilization" by Jeremy Rifkin. (
https://www.ted.com/talks/jeremy_rifkin_the_empathic_civilization)
?
With all due respect, but RainbowKun also tells the truth when he says to never have begged for a single merit. It was me who recommended him, then he went from 17 merits to where he is now... If he is an account farmer, well, hats off to him!
Probably the best and most ambitious one I have ever seen, all for just getting some merits to feed his
60 + accounts as claimed by Ratimov.
Really?
Edit: I am all against account farmers, but this would be an enormously out of order case of what we are used to here on this forum. Just my two cents.
@Ratimov I value the type of analysis you did in regards to its depth, but this guy RainbowKun, something doesn't add up here. He is deeply scientifically interested, writes back in private. He could have asked me to comment publicly to let his threads shine even more due to activity. That was not the case. I don't know...