Now that I have a bit more time, I'll share my opinion on this thread.
Cheating [BOUNTY]🔶Crowd Genie🔶 campaign
How did he/they cheat the bounty? In
the thread, I don't see any limitations on the number of accounts anyone can use. It may be unethical, but I don't think it's against the rules.
I have a hard time believing any Bounty thread that promised $1,000 in their made-up Token per week, and since they thrive on spam, I don't think they even mind if someone joins with more than one account.
Connection through merit: Favorite profiles to send sMerit to for
Sancho18 is be.open (top-1) - 8 merits sent, 1 merit returned.
These are the posts:
I don't think this is debated by the involved accounts, so I assume this is correct.
3 | Twitter accounts must be original. Fake, dead, inactive and bot accounts will not be accepted.
Obviously be.open/Sancho18 have violated this rule.
From what I've seen, the large majority of all bounty spammers uses fake Twitter accounts that only have other bounty spammers as followers.
Sancho is my son’s account, now he is 17, and for him, participating in the bounty campaigns was something like a fun game that we played together competing with each other, trying to never cross. Once I made a mistake and joined the same twitter campaign as him. This does not mean that I am a cheater, because behind us we think for more than a hundred different campaigns, and I was mistaken only once.
I've seen the "he's my family member" excuse too many times, and I can't verify it, so I'll ignore that part. But the rest: I see 2 users who each
earned much more Merit than most other users, and must belong to the top "bounty hunters" in terms of Merit earnings.
To proof you are the father and son, you will need to show your ID and your son govt. issued ID which will show the father name of Sancho.
You know this is Bitcointalk, right? Wait, let me quote theymos on KYC:
I'll get right on that, just as soon as hell freezes over.
I said earlier that I wouldn't be willing to have a video chat because that's close to doxing myself, but an equally important reason is that I don't want to ask anyone else to do this either.
So, if you have a son, then you can have two accounts, if two sons, then three, if you have friends, then you can build a huge bot farm? OK. Beautiful story, thanks.
You can have
more than one account indeed.
When you manage to interest your 15-year-old teenage son into engaging in any joint activities, and continue to do this together for two years, it will be important for me to know your opinion on this issue. I am very grateful to the forum that I managed to establish good relations with my son, thanks to the competitive quest in the bounty.
I really want this to be true, it sounds like a good thing to have.
If my son was on this forum I would have had some interaction with him on the forum that would make it obvious that we are close, or made a public declaration of our relationship at some point in time.
I've actually considered creating accounts for my kids already, but haven't done it yet. They're too young now, but when they're old enough, the first thing I want to teach them is how to protect their privacy online. I'm not sure yet if I'd want them to declare family relationships online,
especially when it comes to Bitcoin! Anyone knowing who I am could accidentally dox me by doxing himself.
I think the decision about the negative tag was made a wet cunt, which is probably why the more sane members of DT are in no hurry to support.
Don't you think this is very rude?
I can't find this back in the
unedited scraped post, nor in the current post so I can't confirm this was really posted. But if it was, it has been edited again, so I guess that means be.open agrees it was uncalled for.
One way or another, I don't really care about rude comments. It says more about the person saying it than the person they're talking about.
Whatever happens, always try to stay friendly
There are two effective strategies if I want to resolve this issue positively. And one of them is to remove lovesmayfamilis from the list of DT for abuse of power on the grounds of personal revenge.
With 9 more inclusions than exclusions on
lovesmayfamilis, that's not very likely to happen.
I want to quote myself from
LoyceV's Beginners guide to correct use of the Trust system:
These are mere guidelines
Trust isn't moderated, but how you use it is your "business card" to the community. Use the above as guidelines only. It's meant to give you a general idea of what I consider good behaviour. It's also wise to ask yourself before leaving feedback: "Does my feedback make Bitcointalk a better place? And if it's negative: is it worth destroying someone's account and reputation over this?". Consider using Neutral feedback if neither Positive nor Negative is justified.
I can't read most of their posts, but based on the amount of Merit they received, they must have been contributing something to this forum. And I think we must guard against scaring off users for relatively small things.
May I remind lovesmayfamilis that (s)he him/herself was banned, and got unbanned with a signature ban until next year?
Because lovesmayfamilis Trusts my judgement:
I suggest to give this user (or these users?) the benefit of the doubt, and a chance to help improve this forum, and turn this into neutral tags.