Topic: List of advertising shills. Mods please review and ban as appropriate. (Read 2834 times)

This is a good question indeed. Maybe a mod could take a look on this topic and let us know about what's going on with thus user, from Staff perspective?

But besides this curiosity, there is something else I don't understand. This account may (or may not) be a bot. Bot or not, it should be controlled by someone. How is it possible for this person to not notice at all that all the posts are deleted? I assume the account owner didn't notice the posts deleted, as the account uses the same posting pattern. Otherwise, I believe that a rational person would change the posting pattern.

User CoinIdol News is back again.....

Reported them all again....

I just don't understand why mods just don't ban this guy.

Happened to me in the past. The moderator is accepting what you reported and he will not delete it, it will be deleted by another mod if done, or else this post is reported several times and it is automatically selected as good by mods. This is my speculation from the past.

He's back - 3 shitposts in 2 days......again.

Was asking the same question too, although I rarely report.
A side note, isn't the pic nsfw? 3 males covered and the girl is naked, covered by her long hair exactly... Sometimes this site is...trolling?

Reporting user Core83
A brand new account which have make 4 posts which consist WhatsApp number and telegram id and it all about providing trading signal.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/core83-2813100;sa=showPosts

 This member
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/jakammo-2811721
Shilling / advertising a news site - already 4 posts today

I completely agree too - but I'll continue to report him until mods finally do ban him. It makes me feel good.

Completely agree. See my posts above about this user. I've been asking for this user to be banned for weeks now in my report comments, and every time he just has his post trashed and makes another one a few hours later. This is such a colossal waste of everybody's time to continually report him and act on these reports.

What's the point in even reporting spammers if someone can literally have 100% of their posts deleted and just continue to spam anyway?

I wanted to create a topic but I prefer to use this one to talk about the user Coinidol news.

I won't report this user anymore, I feel like wasting my time and discouraged despite the fact the posts are moderated in a timely manner.
He joined a year ago about and 100% of his posts are deleted by moderators. Yes 100%. Yet he continues to log in almost every day without following what everyone tends to follow. I'm tired to report the user every day.

With such a high rate of posts moderated I think it deserves a bit more than a moderation

Oh, I see...maybe this is the reason then. I'll focus on the new ones then. I saw that many of them use the Press board mostly.

However, if any members spot any other shillers but don't have time for reportimg them, just mention the names here and I'll take care of them Of course, I'll keep looking myself as well. Let's do our best to keep the forum clean!

Those accounts are all either perma-banned or inactive. Going back months to report their posts is only wasting your time and moderators' time. Your time would be better spent reporting spam from the last few days which helps to clean up threads which people are actively reading and posting in, while also denying bounty spammers their payments.

I kept working on the saga of the accounts posted here. For some reason, all the reports I made for FXO and Vladdirescu87 were all marked as bad, although all their posts are similar to the ones of the user fourthfunction, which was nuked recently, after I reported his posts. This time I didn't report anymore all the posts of these two users, only a bunch of them.

I really don't understand the basis of how these reports are analyzed. So an user keeps spamming a website in all his posts and he gets nuked and all the reports are good. Another user does the same thing (just the shilled site is different) and his posts are good and the reports are bad.

This is very intriguing. I'll still make reports for the users mentioned here and see what happens. The ones remaining are shitcoinoffering, DimaKHV, Jdebunt, zakoliverz and JessicaVL. I still have 889 unhandled reports from the previous users I reported this week.

I understand the reason for the topic but, as you see, it didn't lead to what it was meant for, unfortunately. That's why I took action. Manual action.


Yes, it's their job. Nobody placed them in their position by force.

Apart from this, we all claim the forum is spamed a lot. This means action is needed. The action must be taken by reporters and also by mods. One side can't do anything without the other side. Reporters should report and mods should analyze the reports. To say that someone reported too many posts in a given timeframe in a nonsense. If mods can't keep the pace with the reports ratio, maybe more mods are needed...

Do you know why o_e_l_e_o created this topic?
This topic was created, so you don't have to report all posts made by a certain user.
Suppose there are only 10 users, each reporting 1500 posts daily. Do you really expect moderators to handle all of these reports?

OK, after reporting 1500 posts in less than 24h I was contacted by a Staff member to stop Not kidding, this is serious. I started reporting on May 20th, when I had 300 reports and I ended on the evening of May 21st, when I reached 1799 reports. I reported almost all members mentioned in this topic, posts by post, after seeing these:

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That being said, I reported hundreds of posts (about 1500) made by Jgilpulg, -Multivitamina-, crabby, CoinCode_sh, CoinTrendy, Bitcoin_chaser, bitintruder, Denial11, market pearl, Xangle, BestBitcoinCasino, cryptocointrade.com, Alex077, mamamu111, star7dust, HB Wallet, cryptozink, fourthfunction, voskobojn and FXO - all these being members mentioned here. All the operation took me about 14h of almost non-stop reporting posts. I did it because as I understood from the above mentioned quotes, nothing is done unless there is a post by post report. However, I saw that a few members mentioned in this topic which were nuked or which have almost all their posts deleted, but these were just a few cases (such as ElizabethA, JohnPerino, stysn or CrisperSoft). All the others remaining (which represent the biggest part) had their posts deleted just one by one, for each report made.

So while I was in frenzy yesterday, reporting post after post, I received a PM from 3dOOM which, in case you don't know, works with Cyrus at Cryptios, a company helping the forum with account recoveries. He thanked me for all these reports but also asked me to not make hundreds of reports anymore for a single user which has a same pattern for all his posts. I sent him also all the above quotes, explaining him why I did it.

His reply was this (I'll translate it, as it was written in Romanian): "indeed, there are cases as the ones you mentioned but, if you don't see any actions taken, it doesn't mean that no action was taken. Reporting all posts of an user is not a way for solving the problem, as it overloads the reports section and instead of helping it does more bad than good. As you said yourself, it was difficult for you to report all the posts of a single user; think about the fact that the mods receive the reports from thousands of users and all the actions are manually made".

That being said, I reached the following conclusions / questions:
- what 3dOOM says is sound, but in the end all we can do is hope that sometime some mod will take care of the other posts of an user (the ones not reported but having the same pattern as the ones reported). So all we do is based on hope and if we really try hard to eliminate the spam we overload the mods. Of course this leads to the fact that the spammers are free to spam until a mod will take care of him, although this could mean after a long time. Long live the spam!
- I reported so many posts that the mods couldn't keep the pace with my reporting ratio - while this sounds funny, it is also sad
- while 3dOOM is not an official Staff member (as nothing is stated on his profile), the only "somehow-official" rank he has is the one that he is helping Cyrus for something completely different than analyzing reports (as I explained above, he is involved in Cyrus' company for account recoveries), somehow, for a reason which I'm missing, he has access to the reports. Meaning he also has access to members' emails and who knows to what more. This third conclusion mentioned here should raise serious questions, such as: why does 3dOOM have access to the reports section? What else can he access? If this is legitimate though, why doesn't he appear as a Staff member or as am official of the forum (at this moment he is only a Member with copper membership).

Looking forward for what are the thoughts of all those which previously posted here and which gave a lot of time for reporting posts -actions which now seem to be based on pure hope.

I don't know if this is the right place for me to talk about this
It is the third time I saw this content posted by a new account. The topic is locked right away and I cannot post a warning there   It is clearly a form of advertising for scammers. I have reported them, but what if the situation continues? Many people will be fooled, is there any way to stop it  

Example: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5249477.new#new

He's back. It seems he was temp banned for a week, since he had all his posts deleted and didn't make any new ones. His temp ban has now expired, and I've had 6 of his threads trashed in the last 3 days. All threads followed the exact same pattern as the previous ones he was temp banned for.

This is quite obviously a bot, the owner quite obviously hasn't learned, and nor is he going to. Please nuke.

This member - Bitcoinmoon12
See post history
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/bitcoinmoon12-2746403

Shilling / advertising a news site

User: bitintruder / (This user recently woke up from a long period of inactivity.)

Shill spammer posting links to its own website. It's trying to capitalize on the current spike in price in the crypto market which translates into more traffic to crypto related websites. It did the same thing during the 2017 bull run.

Latest posts of:  bitintruder: https://archive.vn/VryDq