Heads-up:
Since my last post I cleaned the following topics:
I made a
triple check over the threads posted since December 2021. Two of them are still active:
It seems the newbies spamming them are very tenacious. I reported 107 posts from both threads. It seems that Fundraise topic was completely trashed after my reports from today.
Miner Performance-Boosting Firmware By MSKMINERI found MSKMINER topic by pure chance. Following Rikafip's previous post,
I noticed he quoted icopress there and icopress mentioned 4 topics full of spam. Uncommon was already clean; AMEPAY and Monolith were previously cleaned by me, but MSKMINER needed cleaning services though. I reported here 83 posts.
Then I started cleaning the biggest thread ever mentioned here, this one being one of the 3 which I still want to clean:
This thread has
251 pages and 5016 posts 
and I started cleaning it from page 251 backwards. Now I am at page 215 and I reported 607 posts so far. I will continue tomorrow, hoping to finish it. This topic is absolutely amazing, in a way, as the total spam goes from 2018 to 2020 without stop. While reporting post after post from last page backwards, from posts made in 2020 to posts made in 2018, I noticed that about 3 "generations" of newbies spammed. What was even more incredible was the fact that during 2019 and 2020 99% of the posts were made almost only by these newbies. It's like someone paid for bumping services for more than a year and also paid for different generations of newbies. Who would do something like that, seeing that his shitty product does not attract any other user? I would understand if the topic was spammed for a while, to keep it look like it's active, in order to attract other users curious about the product. But seeing that only 2-3 posts were made by other members in more than a year, this means that the service provider paid for these bumping services... for nothing! I really don't understand the logic behind this. It's like... OP was not even interested in selling his product anymore... like he simply paid to harm the forum through spam!
All in all, I reported
774 posts from all these topics!
btcltcdigger was likely the announcement manager, and wasn't involved with the project itself.
I believe that too. However, I think that a topic starter has responsibility for what happens inside his topic. At least, this is what I think about my topics. As the situation is now, the following questions pop in a natural manner:
did btcltcdigger know that his topic will be used for bumping services?;
if so, was he paid too, to allow the spam?;
why didn't he do anything to defend his reputation (e.g.: clean the topic or state somewhere that he is not involved anyhow in that spam nor he was paid for initiating a topic for pure spam)?The amount of spam, and sockpuppets communicating there was ridiculous. I removed the thread completely.
The topic was removed indeed, but prior trashing it you flagged as Bad a few reports I made there. It's not fair :p Since you completely deteled that topic, you could also mark as Good those reports which were flagged as Bad
spam from bots quickly ended (at the moment there is none)
Thank you again for your help, Ratimov!
