Topic: I am flabbergasted that it actually happens on this scale (Read 814 times)

I am not malicious enough to develop such a system but I can guarantee that there are people out there who use scripts/bots to automatically copy and paste answers from one thread to another where there is a similar topic or question asked.  And they are likely doing a crappy job. Wink  I would atleast use a NLP algorithm to 'paraphrase' the answers.  (lots of them out there)

Fortunately accounts doing this can be easily tagged over time, though the benign forum crawling limit will means it will take awhile. 

When I am done wallowing in a little depression after my team at Oyster mutineed on me (still love you guys) and get back to the bitcointalk visualization project we should definitely add this to the shitposter modeling tasks.

But most people posting here are paid agents at best, puppet trolls at worse because they are running adverts in the footers of each post they make
and it's is these types of accounts that talk FUD all day long on the main forum and keep pumping old outdated posts back to the top of the forum.

It's starting to look like Twatter on BCT where bots are talking to bots, I know because I wrote one for twatter years ago after the political correct
censorship kicked in.

Just saying like.

Also, if they will have a merit requirement for Full Members and above before participating bounty campaigns. Requiring a Full Member rank and above is not enough, because there are still a lot of them who are lucky enough to reach the rank before the merit system was implemented.


LOL. His personal text was set to "Road to Member" and he is probably thinking that he will get merited by making that kind of post but on the contrary, he did not.

Non of this surprises me and I don’t think there is a quick fix.

If you change one think to stop shit posting and alt account then another thing will pop up.

There needs to be an on going effort to clean things up and seeing people in those alt groups lots not times and not being banned or even tagged is encouraging them. Bounty managers need to agree to banning people from their bounties that are on the shit list so there is no incentive to enter lots.

We joke about ‘good iso sir’ comments but they count as sig posts all the time. Why can’t they be given no stakes for that week that will slow them down.

You know we all thought the ozone layer was fucked and it was lots of small changes that fixed it and not one big one. Bitcointalk isn’t fucked it just needs some help from us all to make it healthy again.

In short, someone gave you dhop. And you believed.

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dhop- _{verb; pronounced "Dhawp",} - is a slang in Bengali; the phrase loosely means one or more claims, which are - to put it mildly - of doubtful accuracy. Like for example, I work in 200 bounties.

(definition adapted from : source)

Also,
Loved the fact how a post about dhop from shitposters derailed into the pro's & cons of the metric system.

I will gladly tell you I'm not a merit source, because it's a true one.  I'm not.  From the very beginning I've supported the merit system; I believe in it, and thus I try to give out all the merits I have to people who deserve them.  I've given out all the ones that were airdropped in January and all the sMerits I've earned from people who gave them to me.  But no, I'm not a source.  Did you ever see me apply to be one?  I didn't, because then I'd have the responsibility to give them out and I just don't want that (though it's crossed my mind).

As to the second part of what I quoted here, I think Facebook is one of the most evil creations ever shat out upon mankind and I won't have anything to do with it--so I'm not aware of what you can and can't do on the site.  I did have an account, briefly, years ago, but I've forgotten much of how it works.  Never had a Twitter account.

And if you can block friends from posting bounty-type spam (and I'm sure that's exactly what sane people do), how effective are these bounties in advertising?  These spammers are participating in dozens of bounties at once and probably employing alt accounts within the same bounty, and that's a massive amount of spam.  I can't imagine who wouldn't block people from posting on their FB or Twitter accounts.

You have given away so much merit in drips and draps, you are telling me you are not a merit source?
 
You can easily hide posts from certain users on facebook.

Theres a local crypto group on facebook for my area, and the guy literally built a "cloud-mining" company from scratch, and like does weekly meetups with people to tell them how their "mining" is doing, he even funded money/btc to buy "miners" crazy how navie people are

LOL.  Can somebody give this guy a merit for me?  And this appraisal is spot-on too.

I am thankful that most of the idiotic bounty posters confine themselves to spam threads, and only come to excellent sections like Meta when they want to take their chances sophisticatedly-begging for merits, which they don't ever get.  It's unfortunate that they're ruining the largest section of bitcointalk (Bitcoin Discussion), but I just stay away from there.

These people do spam social media like nothing else, and I'd be pissed if I had friends who polluted my Twitter feed with this crap, or my Facebook wall.  As I mentioned, I don't use either one of those services, so I'm good.

Whats the difference between a signature campaign and being in a bounty program?

If the bounty program only has a thread listed here and than requires off site posting I don't see the issue with that, there aren't even that many signature campaigns running. I think it would be fairly easy to see who has multiple accounts in them

I'm getting swamped with twitter and youtube email notifications. I don't remember signing up, but I suppose I must have at some stage. I don't read any of them, and I'll probably just do a bulk delete.

I am not using telegram from more than one and half month. Unfortunately I have joined with a lot of groups (cryptocurrency related) these guys posts tons of messages. Information overloaded actually. I thought to remove them then again thought let it be like that since I am not using the telegram that much.

200 bounties at the same time is a feat. I wonder if that guy gets regular sleep at all.

When those Bounty Hunters come across your thread!  


This forum is dead due to the insane bawnty hunters registering and spamming to the core for 50-100$. We will never get back a clean forum as it was, until bawnty hunters leave this forum or the whole lot of Btc and Alt Discussion boards are moved to Trashcan.

Ah,is it Bounty or Bawnty? Most of the shitposters spell them as Bawnty!  

EDIT : Meme is spell checked 

I can get that its worth it, however its still impressive someone can manage so many bounties.. having to post/retweet/like 200 different campagnes every day?! That takes some serious micro and macro management skills.

I believe the consensus will be that they damage the community and the forum as a whole, if that is the case then it will be down to Theymos to fix it with some fancy new system. I would say 50%+ of these participants are spamming shit and providing no value to the ICO's anyway, so to me it's theft, same as multi accounts with signatures, thes people are stealing from the community. it is creating an ecosystem of total shite

Yup I agree with you, judging by some of the quotes you provided they are actually proud of what they are doing and their co-hunters are actually envying the time and dedication of the one who is participating 40 bounty campaigns. What I am not agreeing is stopping all the bounty campaigns of ICOs, maybe filtering them is a better option. Before they can create ANN threads and a bounty campaign thread they need to go through a screening process on whether or not their threads can be published in the forum.

Nice "profession" he's got. Professional spammer, world is getting weirder every day.
If he's doing so many bounties, he's accounts are pretty much worthless, and with the amount of bounty campaigns being scams that don't pay, he's doing half of his work for free. That rodney guy says he has 2 accounts in sig campaigns, somebody should find his forum polluting socks.

The metric system is actually much better. That's why it's being used in physics.
Every time I hear imperial it reminds me of medieval times. Like i'm about to hear "one ell of cloth for a penny" in the distance.

It's more about the culture that it breeds, the self entitled fucks that then move onto sig campaigns. There were a few people in that thread talking about multiple accounts for signatures as well. My belief is that these "hunters" come here for bounties, then see the higher paying sig campaigns and then want some of the action, if there were no bounties being organised here then Much fewer registrations would be happening

The EU does that. It makes the sums they claim from member states seem smaller. They also use the metric system, because that makes body parts seem larger.

Hey there TMAN as far as I know Facebook, Twitter and other Social Media Bounties does not directly affect BCT as a forum. Unlike Signature Campaigns where you are required to post here in BCT, Bounty campaigns only requirement is to share their tweets, fb post, Reddit post etc. which does not directly affecting the forum, they are not contributing to any kind of Spam or Shitposting outside their subforum.

But thinking of it differently I can say that they are not abusing any campaign rules as most of the Bounty Campaigns does not prevent you from participating to other bounty campaigns, this way the members are maximizing their time to participate in a lot of bounty campaigns. But I did not say what they are doing is good but in other sense is bad as they are sharing to the social media a lot of Altcoins which maybe some of it will turn out to be a scam or if the investor is new to Altcoins will eventually lose his/her money from trading or even holding the cryptocurrency. All of these is bad advertising where the participant will share right away and let others see, what they are doing is simply irresponsible campaigning.