Topic: Marco the Über Miner - page 3. (Read 6020 times)

But rules a user makes are not forum rules. People can make up whatever rules they wish for giveaways or signature campaigns but they're not enforceable by anyone other than themselves. I'm not sure what the op is accusing him of apart from behaviour he finds questionable.

I am pretty sure bpb had a rule of one per person. I agree though it is questionable but not quite a scam. I think the OP is accusing him of scamming though.

Nah. Some may find such behaviour questionable but it's not a scam nor is it against any forum rules.

So he's been giving his alt accounts positive trust? That's kind of dishonest 

Somewhat dangerous getting so much positive feedback for running a signature campaign with this kind of activity.

The giveaway might be considered to be a scam. Hard to say though

Whatever he has done is according to the rules as far as I can tell. The only slip was caught by Shorena and Marco is negged for that.

I doubt he is planning a scam. He probably has more to gain by staying here.

This should probably be in scam accusacations

Bob's giveaway was a honeypot which attracted all the sockpuppets. A careful analysis will lead you to lots of spiders at the centre of their webs. For instance, do you see a lot of low ranking accounts which get activated during a giveaway (and come backs again in the PD one). Does moko666 and Zawarniya look the same to you? Maybe Stedsm and chaosknight belong to Marco? Sink you teeth and have your fill - they are all present there.

This completes the third part of my series
Part 1: Spammathon: Brought to you by Candystripes
Part 2: Whatever Happened to Pierre11?
I would thank some fellow members who had given bits of info.
Any tips, be it a juicy story, some interesting suspicion or Bits of Coin is welcome

Our guest writer has added his own.

I can hear you asking - why would Bob be so extra generous with Marco? Well, Marco wore different faces in the giveaway, once it was fathur01, while at other times it was nizamcc, anshar, yeponlyone, TrollboxChamp, DeboraMeeks, nor9865, MikeCorleone, 2double0 and my favourite pierre11.

Most of these came to Marco in exchange for some loans which were conveniently forgotten, the others came from his 'buddy' like Candystripes (notably pierre11 and nor9865). He is usually a discreet person and hence prefers to delete the loan transaction posts, and so only a few small trails remain here and there to indicate Marco's hidden empire.

You know what fathur01, nizamcc, anshar, yeponlyone, TrollboxChamp, DeboraMeeks, nor9865 and 2double0 have in common? Their last post was on Jan 3rd, the one before on Dec 21 or Dec 15. Going back we find post number 3 is on Dec 3! and before that is our Bob's giveaway on Nov 23rd. You can go back even further and see how Marco has been collecting activity points for his non enrolled accounts.

anshar followed a slightly different path as it was enrolled in Nov, but it fell back in line when it couldn't get in
MikeCorleone is having a tough time joining the others, and its trust rating is not helping either due the perils of publicity.

If you want any of these accounts, or the numerous more which Marco has carefully collected and are enrolled in campaigns, ask ValueAccounts. He is offering a wonderful deal where he commits to beating the price provided by any other seller!

Don't feel bad for the accounts not in campaigns, they did their part to fill Marco's deposit box thanks largely to the biggest mixing company we have. Bitmixer used to have a heart of gold and paid anybody who took the effort of carrying their signature. Those days are now gone but a few of the accounts still carry the signature out of loyalty.

Bitmixer's was the signature which Marco forgot to remove, and was caught by Shorena who very unfairly didn't accept Marco's excuse and negged him. Our boy Marco was understandably furious and rightly retaliated. Marco has come a long way since that day and now glows deep green - its only a matter of time he becomes highly trusted and Shorena starts displaying the red warning.

Lets join in congratulating Marco on becoming Hero Member, his roots have spread far and wide, nourishing and nurturing the bitcointalk ecosystem.

Mining is such a fool's errand. We have been spinning up our Spondoolies and hashing away at Hashie, all the while hoping that difficulty and price moves opposite ways. Not for all of us; our Hero member, lender, trader, manager, escrower, advertiser marcotheminer has a different take on mining. Instead of wasting money on hardware, Marco utilises the array of opportunities provided by bitcointalk to stay in the black.

You have heard of BiPolarBob, rich, eccentric, kind hearted, Bob. Bob had a Starbucks giveaway which a lot of us missed, including Marco.
Bob had another incredible 0.02 BTC giveaway and while I again missed this one, Marco was right on the spot. Marco loved the giveaway so much he couldn't help coming back for more and he collected a minimum of 10 times!

Did Bob know about this? Why would we think he did? Right after the generous giveaway, Bob requested a loan from Marco, but unfortunately couldn't get an escrow for the box of mandarin oranges.