Topic: Appeal to admin to introduce posting controls in IBG - page 2. (Read 1289 times)
Is Just-Dice losing too much business to HYIP players?
Dear Bitcointalk Administrators,
As you know, the 'Investor-based Games' (IBG) section of this forum is where all the ponzi/pyramid/HYIP scam threads are sent to live or, ideally, die. A community-based action was introduced by a few of us earlier this year whereby both the operators and participants/supporters of these scam threads received negative trust ratings. This has successfully served to all but eliminate the use of purchased sock-puppet senior forum accounts to sucker in newbies to the scam as the negative rating generally destroys the credibility and monetary value of these accounts.
With the small-time con-artists mostly seeing the opportunity to profit from their fraudulent operations rapidly diminishing with the inability to create a fake public image of any substance, what we are now seeing is the emergence of the pre-Bitcoin HYIP scam industry proponents moving in to create larger, more organised threads, often with dozens of new-account sock-puppets being employed to pad the thread daily and give the impression of a viable 'High-Yield Investment Program', or Ponzi scam to you and I.
What we are seeing now is the use of HYIP-scam style promotional terms and methods, such as the following:
Experienced HYIP scammers moving into Bitcoin to run their ponzi is not good for either this industry or this forum.
In order to make it nigh-on impossible for these threads to be created and then padded with new account postings, either by the operators or participants, I propose the introduction of member-level controls for posting in IBG, namely, limiting the right to post or create a thread in IBG to only forum members of 'full' member status.
Where a scammer may seek to create such a thread in another part of the forum in an attempt to circumvent such controls the thread, once moved to IBG by staff, could be rapidly choked off by the use of our PSA's and warning posts, with the OP and shill accounts which may have already commenced in the thread unable to respond further.
I am aware that the new forum software is being beta-tested but we all know it will be many months before it is ready to migrate to. Which is why I ask for this posting policy to be introduced asap in IBG before BCT becomes seen as easy pickings by these organised and motivated HYIP scumbags.
As you know, the 'Investor-based Games' (IBG) section of this forum is where all the ponzi/pyramid/HYIP scam threads are sent to live or, ideally, die. A community-based action was introduced by a few of us earlier this year whereby both the operators and participants/supporters of these scam threads received negative trust ratings. This has successfully served to all but eliminate the use of purchased sock-puppet senior forum accounts to sucker in newbies to the scam as the negative rating generally destroys the credibility and monetary value of these accounts.
With the small-time con-artists mostly seeing the opportunity to profit from their fraudulent operations rapidly diminishing with the inability to create a fake public image of any substance, what we are now seeing is the emergence of the pre-Bitcoin HYIP scam industry proponents moving in to create larger, more organised threads, often with dozens of new-account sock-puppets being employed to pad the thread daily and give the impression of a viable 'High-Yield Investment Program', or Ponzi scam to you and I.
What we are seeing now is the use of HYIP-scam style promotional terms and methods, such as the following:
Experienced HYIP scammers moving into Bitcoin to run their ponzi is not good for either this industry or this forum.
In order to make it nigh-on impossible for these threads to be created and then padded with new account postings, either by the operators or participants, I propose the introduction of member-level controls for posting in IBG, namely, limiting the right to post or create a thread in IBG to only forum members of 'full' member status.
Where a scammer may seek to create such a thread in another part of the forum in an attempt to circumvent such controls the thread, once moved to IBG by staff, could be rapidly choked off by the use of our PSA's and warning posts, with the OP and shill accounts which may have already commenced in the thread unable to respond further.
I am aware that the new forum software is being beta-tested but we all know it will be many months before it is ready to migrate to. Which is why I ask for this posting policy to be introduced asap in IBG before BCT becomes seen as easy pickings by these organised and motivated HYIP scumbags.
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