Topic: [LIST] ANN threads that are using bumping services - page 8. (Read 7384 times)

All my reports are justified by an appropriate comment, reflecting the problem. Basically, based on Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ, I am writing comments like "Breaking rule 2. No off-topic posts." / "Breaking rule 32. Posting multiple posts in a row" and so on. Even for these spam there is a rule - more important, the very first rule of the forum - "1. No zero or low value, pointless or uninteresting posts or threads". In this case, sometimes I comment the reports with "Breaking rule 1. No zero or low value, pointless or uninteresting posts or threads" or I simply write "Zero-value post".

One quick off-topic question: when you report such posts to moderators, what do you put under the comment? Is it ok to simply write "shitpostng", or should you give a little more explanation?

After a long day of "report spree" I reported all the spam from the topics mentioned above by FatFork and keyscore44 -- 912 reported posts in total. Whoa Like in old good days. Sadly, I did not have so much time for making reports lately, but I believe I'll have a more free period in next days thus I'll return to my "old habits"


I see that Vitor Services is still up and running. I'll do again all I can to limit their impact.


Rikafip, all the topics mentioned in OP are still active? I'm asking to know on which one to jump next

It's probably the latter, their activity depends on the package you buy. At least that's how Vitor Services are doing it, which are by far the biggest thread bumping providers. This is how their packages look like.

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Nice work, I will add those threads shortly. By the looks of it, it's yet again before mentioned Vitor Services. Those guys are simply unstoppable, kudos on selling their useless thread bumping. Those buying their services have to be completely clueless on how things work around here as that's the only explanation how they manage to keep on going with this.

Rickafip, I found a few more candidates to add to your list:

• [ANN] Micro Santa by Microsantacrypto
• [ANN] Shibmas Inu by shibaclaus
• [ANN] QUPPY by QuppyTeam
• [Ann] NEXT Smart Chain by nextsmartchain
• [ANN] Virvia by vdvtoken
• Decentralized Future by WallStreetNinja
• [Ann] BlueEarthProtocol by blueearthpro
• [Ann] KAIZILLA by KAIZILLA
• Rebellion Protocol by Rebellion_Protocol
• [Ann] Bit Lounge by bitlounge
• [ANN] Avalon by  Avalon-legends
• [ANN] Crypto Jackpot by cryptojackpot

The same newbie accounts are bumping all of these threads as the one I mentioned earlier today.

It looks like bumping services are more gentle now. They used to spam 5 or more posts a day, now there is less. Or this version of the service has been ordered.

Self moderated thread and almost the entire thread are fresh accounts with short and typical comments.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-the-new-metaverse-project-metaloop-tech-5375367

A couple of newbies are active in bumping this self-moderated thread: [Ann]BlocVault is creating a suite of mobile-based apps for crypto investing! In addition, as I have already reported here, the ANN post contains plagiarized content.

I hope I would be wrong and we observe an increase of interest to forum from new people, but, the appearance of silly topics by newbies make me think they would become shillers in a future.

Today I've noticed, that a bunch of newbies with registration date morning of November 04 created lots of topics in Altcoin Discussion. They have common nicknames - "name + number". That cant be a coincidence.
Check this out:



Helen_1
Marie701
Monica301
Julia205
Eugene8@
Leslie012
Barbra!
Jason06
Keith010
James68
Charles310
Thomas2205
Donald250

We should follow them, as one day they will start to shill some crap.

P.S. I expect more newbie from this shilling farm to create topics today, so the list would be greater.
P.P.S. They wont become bounty hunting farm, because they could have started posting reports directly from creation date.

Yep, those are basically shitposts that doesn't look any better than thousands of others. Just take for example this post by JackieAinsley for which got his merit from Ratimov. In this post he promotes some shitcoin failed project that is allegedly giving Ferrari to one lucky IDO participant.


What's interesting about this DragonBite project that is being promoted in that post is that it has ANN here on bitcointalk, and you can see several other members of that bumping group writing there.
⚡️⚡️⚡️DragonBite ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Platform for loyalty market

Having seen this post in the past, I thought that the competition is not only in terms of rank but also in the generosity of distribution from sources of merit.
Therefore, it is not surprising to see that the first merit can be easily given to a beginner, thereby being the first in the generosity competition.
But of course, it's just motivation, I understand. 

All of the post (not only those 5) follow however the same pattern: a small text explanation+social media link. But even if it's a pattern, there must be thousands of posts like that in the forum, so what the hell

Nice find. And yeah, those are a little bit better than an average bumping service as they took some effort in appearing like a regular members since they wrote in general threads outside altcoin section, which is something that sock puppet accounts usually don't bother with.


Hm yeah, that is weird coincidence.  At first I though that maybe they got merit from one of his merit giveaway threads, but I don't see that. For example, Lunafox got merit from Ratimov on July 27th for the post that was written on  March 27th), and I don't see him applying to any merit giveaway thread around that time, or I simply can't find it.



This is even weirder; those 5 got merit from Ratimov in under 9 minutes, for posts written several months before, across 5 different threads. How the hell did he find their posts, since they were so scattered, assuming they didn't apply in merit giveaway thread?

Another bumping service. Yesterday I reported on many of the posts this company makes until I realized it is a farm.
To avoid being discovered, they also write their posts not only in the announcement threads but also on regular topics. But almost all of their messages are one-line shilling.

What struck me was that every account, except for one, had one merit. Somehow, magically, they managed to get these merits from Ratimov.
Considering that yesterday about 100 of the messages were deleted by the moderators, I wonder why they could be given merits.  

[ANN] 🐶🐶🐶 DeFido 🐶🐶🐶 Meme Coin
[ANN] 💿💿💿 Inery Blockchain 💿💿💿 Data Storage    
[ANN] Verlux - First Decentralized Cross-Chain NFT Marketplace    
[ANN] 📈📈📈 Agile Finance 📈📈📈 Lending & Decentralized Swap Finance    
[ANN] ⚡⚡⚡ AutoBitco ⚡⚡⚡ The safest P2P trading platform    
[ANN] ⚡⚡⚡ CSPro Chain ⚡⚡⚡ Feel empowered!
[ANN] RavenDex - First lending and decentralized exchange powered by cardano.
[ANN] 🌍🌍🌍 Pacific DeFi 🌍🌍🌍 An ecosystem which will unify DeFi landscape
[ANN] 💿💿💿 EDAIN 💿💿💿 AI-powered knowledge creation ecosystem


Lunafox       November 13, 2020, 03:22:16 PM
alan228       November 13, 2020, 05:32:50 PM
JackieAinsley      November 13, 2020, 03:25:28 PM
zayika570       November 10, 2020, 04:46:41 PM
nikita2020       November 10, 2020, 04:00:37 PM
cryptoserega       November 10, 2020, 11:26:36 PM
Bertyda       November 11, 2020, 12:36:51 AM
i8v8i      November 16, 2020, 01:22:00 PM
SDKmaster         November 16, 2020, 01:17:17 PM
Garsipop       November 17, 2020, 05:12:16 PM   
TmHsHel       November 17, 2020, 05:14:46 PM               
altixz       May 22, 2021, 01:13:31 PM
jorjeIII       February 03, 2021, 09:51:53 PM
   
https://bpip.org/smerit.aspx?to=jorjeIII&from=Ratimov 7/23/2021 8:25:21 AM
https://bpip.org/smerit.aspx?to=Lunafox&from=Ratimov 7/23/2021 8:25:57 AM      
https://bpip.org/smerit.aspx?to=JackieAinsley&from=Ratimov 7/23/2021 8:20:56 AM      
https://bpip.org/smerit.aspx?to=Garsipop&from=Ratimov 7/23/2021 8:29:47 AM
https://bpip.org/smerit.aspx?to=altixz&from=Ratimov 7/23/2021 8:29:04 AM
https://bpip.org/smerit.aspx?to=TmHsHel&from=Ratimov 7/23/2021 8:27:19 AM
https://bpip.org/smerit.aspx?to=i8v8i&from=Ratimov    7/25/2021 9:06:55 AM      
https://bpip.org/smerit.aspx?to=alan228&from=Ratimov 7/25/2021 8:55:11 AM
https://bpip.org/smerit.aspx?to=nikita2020&from=Ratimov 7/27/2021 11:23:45 AM
https://bpip.org/smerit.aspx?to=Bertyda&from=Ratimov 8/4/2021 6:56:48 PM
https://bpip.org/smerit.aspx?to=cryptoserega&from=Ratimov 8/22/2021 8:42:10 AM

Since I have a rule that I am not adding threads retroactively (and I see that those two threads are not active anymore), I won't add them to the list. Reason is simple; there are so many threads that were being bumped in the past and if I add each and every I ever come across, list would probably be five times bigger than it is now.



Yep, that's how it starts and we can expect more shitposts soon.

These are just a couple of accounts, but they were registered at the same period, and they just woke up to bump and ANN. I think they are just getting started

ANN - IXFI

Bumping accounts
1. Warison185
Registered on 3/2/2018 and then woke up on 10/26/2021 to bump the thread

2. Medicament
Registered on 3/1/2018 and then woke up on 10/27/2021 to bump the same thread

Hey Rikafip, I've found a few more threads to add to your list that use bumping services:

[Ann] Studyum is a next-generation learning platform!
Buyzooka - checkout at lightning speed

All newbie accounts that have been dormant since they were created, mostly around January 23, 2018.

Yep, another one that hired bumping. Same accounts that are active in that thread are doing the same in bunch of others as well. These are just a few examples:
[Ann] Passive income with MOONFLIGHT!
[Ann] The first blockchain marketplace for physical goods!
Ann]A decentralized crowdfunding portal for startups, entrepreneurs, businesses

Would you guys say this is using a bumping service? Most of the replies are one liner basic/generic questions. Most accounts have close to 0 activity too

Yeah, I  focused on ANN threads that hired bumping service and are doing that inside their own thread.


Those project are obviously using shillers as well, but  imho this type of "guerrilla marketing" looks much better than standard mindless shilling inside the ANN thread, and might be even effective if done properly, as I've seen similar things in various Telegram groups.

I just found this thread, I've always used the Spambusters one the be reporting this sort of things, but since it has lost a lot of tracking from what it used to be, I rather ask here before keeping on bumping it.

Is this intended for only ANNs using paid bumps, or any altcoin project shilling their name over the forum is counted as such?

Should the case be the second, I've come across 2 projects using the same sentence structures with many different accounts promoting (so far) 2 projects:

Bondex
YouClout

I'd normally simply post this Spambusters, but I rather post it somewhere it's going to be seen to try have more eyes on the lookout

Edit: going for the third

Nftyplay