Topic: Deleting Several Previous Posts/Comments To Reduce Post Count... (Read 460 times)

The way people talk about this ICO period, it seems that many shits really happened then. I think it was worse because I have read somewhere that some user alleged that the level of spamming then contributed to why some quality users left the forum. I don't know how true this claim is but I have my doubts. If the ICO spam was much, the spam should be concentrated in the altcoins board and not the forum at large. I mean anyone can ignore a certain board and continue using the forum.

Well, members who do so because they want to impress a campaign manager with their low activity but high merit will not even get accepted because almost all the managers have one similar characteristics for the selection of members during application which I have noticed. I will not mention what it is, but campaign managers don't even only look at merit earned; that's why you hear them (managers) saying that you should earn at least five merits in the last 120 days.

    It's always a member's decision to delete only a few posts (which is not bad) that they consider trash, as it doesn't look good on their profile again, but wanting to delete 100 or more posts at once is just a bit unethical.

Thanks for reminding me about the case, it's true that it happened more than a year ago which we can find in the thread referenced by @tranthidung. But during the ICO, I think some users also had similar habits like the above case. They're not doing it for merit, but I'm not sure what the motive is other than just not wanting to bother with making different posts in different threads.

I don't remember who did it, but someone seems to have uncovered it at the time. That is cheat behavior that is most likely just ripping off the campaign/ bounty manager. But deleting posts when you're not using any kind of signature for the purpose of ridding yourself of past junk wouldn't be a problem in my opinion.

That's right; thanks for the reminder. I couldn't remember the details, but I remembered that I had seen it.
Pretty tricky behavior, probably. Then I suggested that perhaps there are such craftsmen who, by deleting old posts, can write them again.
Thank you for pointing me to the right topic. There are so many events on the forum that some topics simply remain in memory but without specific individuals.

The case was solved and second chance should be given to any member who deserves it.

I believe it is the case you are talking about as I have never known about any similar case. He can receive merit by bumping his threads and don't need to archive old ones and create new ones.

That didn't happen in the ICO era, I haven't heard of that but it happened recently, maybe 1 year ago at maximum. There was a user who posted the same topic a few times. They used to delete the previous topic and create a new one exactly with the same content. They were trying to get merit twice for the same post lol and sadly they were able to get some merit until they were exposed.

There is an ulterior motive why someone would do it, but I believe they are just part of spammers.
So far I'm not sure if I've ever found anyone who did, but what @lovesmayfamilis is talking about is something that may have happened before during an ICO and the bounty exploded.

There have been a lot of bounty spammers gone since the forums introduced the merit system. Many accounts were simply abandoned and only some of them started changing their posting patterns and quality in order to rank up and build a better reputation.

That only works if you only delete the posts that have no merit on them. Because if you do, anyone can just look at your merit page and see a bunch of merit transactions for "(deleted/off-limits/ignored)", and even if you do that, looking at your post history and seeing all posts merited is going to look extremely fishy especially if people can see you are posting multiple times per day.

I do not get the privacy reason for deleting the posts. Is there any confidential information in those deleted posts that can harm the privacy? I am sure this is not the case.
Also, the merit-to-post ratio should not be a concern here because most managers will either look for the merits attained in the last 120 days or they will manually see the posting habits and sections where the person posts.

Maybe those people are deleting the posts as they think they have posted using AI or something like that and they now fear that they might get caught someday, so they decide to delete the old posts. That can be one possible reason.

Everyday in the forum we hear different stories of junky acts in the forum and this one sounds so absurd to me. I am trying to understand how stressful this will be for anyone to do. I mean does he delete the posts and paste them in notepad and later on be pasting them in the forum.

This idea doesn't follow. I mean this fellow cannot join a flowing conversation because something written months ago might not be relevant for current discussion. If I should ask, what happened to his brain. After making the first post, was the user's brain blocked from producing more posts?

You guys are definitely right, I mean like i stated in the op, for us who are not in the culprits shoe, we can only imagine a lot of different reasons why a user might decide to delete some of their posts, but in all of those imaginations, i am very sorry to say that a user choosing to delete some of their posts simply because of some sort of mistakes they made when they were newbies is the lamest of all, like i said before, I am sorry for seeing it this way but its just my opinion.

Yeah, Not every user looks at the forum's achieves sure thing, I myself probably have never looked there, so if you delete some of your posts for whatever reason, not everyone will call it to mind to look at the forum achieves to find out, this simply means that many will never find out.
And again coming back to mistakes made when the user was a newbie, I myself was for a very long time a bounty hunter before I even understood that there was more to this forum than just bounty hunting, I probably have made some mistakes as a newbie and bounty hunter, if no body ever asked me about those mistakes, even the managers of the different signature campaigns I've been a participant in never asked me before accepting me, or rejecting me with a note that my past mistakes is the reason why i was rejected, if none of this ever happened, what credibility or reputation does deleting this past posts add to me now as a user of this forum?

I totally understand your confusion here. But the selection method and criteria of many managers is still a myth to me. Because i am a person who have spent most of the time in bounties. And you can check i made more than 600+ posts in bounties making report, POA etc. Such posts are spam or not that i don't know about. But, when i started to participate in discussion i started to rank.

And when i became full members i was as happy as when i got my first merit. (Which according to my mindset was not free) but when i got one i came to know that merits are free and you can also give them to others. SO, is started to grow as my words are good to others (proof is they are giving me merits means appreciating my words). Overall, is, i when applied for Signature campaigns. i was rejected by many campaign managers. But one day i got accepted in Yomix signature campaign by Royse777. I was fully in confusion at that time after getting so much rejection and become to think that my profile is total waste as i made many posts which have no contribution to the forum and i also think to delete them but i cannot do that. Well, when i got accepted by royse777 i was relaxed to know that.

There is no such thing that you have made so many spammy posts before. That's in past, if you come to know that post quality is important and started to make some quality posts then managers might consider you. But still, there selection method is still myth to me. Because there are plenty of things they might observe before selecting one member. And of course they do not only rely on tools. As recently i made a mistake by using tools and manager was at right as she did it manually.

For some sections, it is not even allowed to delete the posts. Still if the bounty manager wants to check the deleted posts, it is again possible. Even you can check it.

Merit to post ratio doesn't matter to me. People can buy merits from what I've seen other users say. Only 1 or 2 managers even cares about merits and they probably could find quality posters just as easily by not having the merit requirement.

If you are a quality poster and lack merits to get into a campaign, maybe you are posting in the wrong board. Stay out of all the altcoin boards, those will get you nowhere. I'm not even sure why managers count posts in those boards. Try engaging in discussions without repeating the 5 replies before you as well.

Was a story, the user deleted his old posts, and in the future, he published the same posts. I can't find this user right now. It did not arouse suspicion of plagiarism until one day someone noticed that the same post had been written several months ago. Sometimes it is better to show such users, perhaps they can also participate dishonestly in the forum.
I deleted my old post history as there were a lot of junk bounty reports. The mistakes of youth sometimes make it better to clean up after yourself.

all your assumptions are probably right. everyone may have their own motives. but for accounts that have been inactive for a long time, then woke up and deleted several posts that might be related to bounty campaigns or address information and social media accounts. I am more inclined that there is a possibility that the account will be sold or the account has changed hands. especially if there is a history of password changes, it will strengthen.
but still, each such case must have a different motive. there wouldn't be many people who cared about people deleting their own posts.

If someone initially thinks their post quality is lower, there is nothing wrong with deleting old posts. Most people make some mistakes in their newbie days. If someone wants to fix the mistakes they made, they are welcome. But there might be some other reasons that Yahoo already mentioned. Even though someone deleted their old posts, those are already archived.

About signature campaigns, I don't think this could be because someone wants to decrease their post count. I don't think post count influences getting hired in a campaign. Most campaign managers look at earned merits and posting habits in the last 120 days.

Deleting a lot of old posts can result in a decline in activity and eventually loss the rank. If those users are thinking such useless efforts would help them in securing a position on a signature campaign then they are mistaken. The criteria on how BM decides a candidate is suitable for a signature campaign can be known by reading the Rules. Merits, posting behavior, and active members are three common checks. Different BMs have different ways of selecting a candidate as in the end the managers only want the business to benefit. That is why high paying campaigns have members with high merits and a large number of posts that are not meant to spam boards.

I know managers will use it is their filter tool after that they will look at latest posts to assess post quality. My post is not clear about it but I have a same old-fashioned as you about post quality and post quality checking.

Activity - merit ratio, post - merit ratio can not guarantee post quality. Recent received merit can not guarantee recent post quality because a poster can receive merit with posts made months ago.

I know several users that are deleting their posts after a certain period of time for privacy reasons. I guess, most of them know that their posts are also tracked via tools like Ninjastic or BPIP, but they don't want the posts to be found directly via Bitcointalk.

I think that is a fair concern. Not everyone wants their posts to be found via Google at first glance even years later.

I do not believe that the post/merit ratio is the decisive point here.