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I also lost the draft of an extensive Dev & Tech post, due to a mishap with the ephemeral VM which contains a browser running scripts I distrust. Going forward, I hope that some means can be found to fend off Internet arsonists without impact on legitimate users.
Was it an actual draft that was saved in your drafts (
forum meta) section? Or was it just a draft you were working on locally that wasn't able to be saved to the meta? Either option is pretty messed up, but if it's the former, then there could be much more vulnerabilities and bugs from this cloudflare integration than we see on the surface.
And now, with a bow and my thanks to Joe for running this contest, I must sadly decline to enter Round 4—
well, sort of.
I
may have inadvertently entered a
fictional character who has limited purview, and thus far makes few posts. Such is life in the æthereal
0 mists of the.nym.zone: She approached me, offered her PGP key (
0x69696969), and pleaded with tremulous eyes that she must enter Joe’s contest for the greater glory of her
bitcult.faith. What could a flesh-and-blood mortal man say to that? I must stand down, lest she be barred by the alt-account rule.
Can she be competitive against people who actually exist? The contest grows more exciting yet! I am curious to see what Joe’s critique will be.
I got your note. I just wanted to let you know that I did look through the rules with careful reading and so no mention of alts, which I thought was weird because most sig campaigns have something about that. And then I realized it's becauase you wanted to encourage everyone to not join sig campaigns, so it made sense that you'd want to catch everyone and their alts too in that net.
Anyway, that said, I'm obviously only applying with this account for this round. Btw, the main official rules still don't state anywhere that alts aren't allowed.
I have added the following rule regarding alt accounts to the top post:
@BTCforJoe: very good job, again! I was thinking this thread should find an official sponsor instead of users paying from their own pockets. "Joe's Signatureless Challenge (Round 4) - Sponsored by xxxxxxxx".
Thank you, very much! Although I would love the idea of an ongoing sponsor for this, I really don't mind putting up some cash money for this. I don't want to obligate any individual or business into having to commit to this on a weekly basis. If anyone wants to donate towards the cause, they are more than welcome to at any time, but I will be making a conscious effort not to put much focus on the sponsorship aspect of this challenge, as this should be a great opportunity for members to want to make a better forum experience, not a thread to showcase sponsors
Does that make sense?
@BTCforJoe I truly appreciate your kind words. I really enjoyed participating in the contest, and I wasn't expecting a second place!!
Thank you very for all your efforts, analyzing each participants posts.
You're quite welcome, and like I said in your critique, you
really caught me by surprise this week. @nullius literally only beat you by 0.06 points. When @nullius first joined this challenge, I (semi)joked that
nobody would ever be able to beat him. Little did I know that just a few short weeks later, the race would have been so close. Great job, again! I have merited
this post (HODL) and
this post (2FA).
I'm participating again this round:
BitcoinTalk Username: MyLitecoin
Starting Post Count (including this one): 39
Current Rank: Newbie
BTC Address:
Please follow the updated instructions for submitting your application
I'm not sure anyone really cares about alts on this thread. All we want is good constructive posts here. If a user can do that with more than one account (unless I have this wrong) then they may as well do and promote this scheme further.
Unfortunately, because we now have at least one hater on this challenge, I don't want to give them any reason to believe that this challenge is anything else than what it is intended for. Having alts simultaneously enter the challenge would not be fair to other participants (I was specifically thinking of @nullius and his alt when this rule was first being considered).
@btcforjoe, you should try to get everyone to at least change their personal message to promote this campaign.
Nah, I think that if a participant wants to promote it, they can, but it shouldn't be a requirement.
Also, can I sponsor the next two weeks of payments? (with 0.01BTC, do I send this to your escrow address in the op or another address - just in case you don't want there to be too much in that address or can't recieve from bech32 addresses). This is a good campaign and hopefully it'll continue.
Wow, this would be great! You can send it to the escrow address in the top post. Thank you so much for your donation!
Finally, good news, everyone:
We officially have 25 registered participants for Round 4, which means that there will be a cash prize of $5 for 3rd place!Good luck, everyone! Registrations close at 9:00PM (GMT -6), so make sure to submit your application! The link to the application form:
https://goo.gl/forms/5ZFbI8HmeDkeoqU53