to reduce multiple account bounty with merits system is enough, maybe we just wait how effectively this merit system works to reduce spamers
yes its help but it would not stop people to have multiple accounts specially if they already at middle rank when merit was launch they have enough merit to gives to their alts but it help to make them productive by posting much quality post to be able to earn merit to other users. 
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to reduce multiple account bounty with merits system is enough, maybe we just wait how effectively this merit system works to reduce spamers
Well there are numerous reasons. Maybe you want one business and one personal account and not to mix the two. Maybe you might want to sell or talk/promote something that is considered controversial by some or maybe you want to discuss politics etc without it effecting the way people perceive or do business with you here.
Hm, sounds like a quite good reason. Good point.
But you agree that there is no need to have more than 5 accounts for sure? The persons who participate in the bounty campaign with multi accounts, they most likely have more than 5 accounts, and they are posting from all 5 thus increasing the spam level on the whole forum. I would say that technically possible to create limitations based on MAC/Hardware address, for instance, there are 2 accounts allowed per one device. The business people will be happy enough and bounty-cheaters will be down.
Well sure there's probably not many good reasons to have more than a handful of accounts but the exact number is of course subjective, but yeah, the people with dozens - and in some cases hundreds of accounts - create them just to milk bounties and campaigns for all they're worth and when this happens the quality of their posts are usually severely diminished. Check this guy with his 200 accounts all making shitposts for example: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.18975980
That's what happens when you get greedy. Maybe he should have stuck to a handful of accounts and it might not have been so blatantly obvious what he was doing. Now he lost all those accounts. Was it worth it? Probably not. As I and others have said the merit system severely restricts how many accounts people can likely have but as we've already seen multiple times people are still trying to farm and trade merit between themselves and their alts.
If that's the only thing that you want, then give the merit system time. Bounty cheaters will not get their accounts ranked up with merit system now and because of default trust members who are on the move to track merit abuse, they will get red tag those giving their alts merits or those who are into buying and selling of merits. Also, a default trust member can give them red trust if they are proven cheating a bounty campaign with multi accounts. I think it is enough countermeasure for that.
Merit system will eliminate bounty cheater, account farmers. Give it time, magical effects will occur. Hm, sounds like a quite good reason. Good point.
But you agree that there is no need to have more than 5 accounts for sure? The persons who participate in the bounty campaign with multi accounts, they most likely have more than 5 accounts, and they are posting from all 5 thus increasing the spam level on the whole forum. I would say that technically possible to create limitations based on MAC/Hardware address, for instance, there are 2 accounts allowed per one device. The business people will be happy enough and bounty-cheaters will be down.
If that's the only thing that you want, then give the merit system time. Bounty cheaters will not get their accounts ranked up with merit system now and because of default trust members who are on the move to track merit abuse, they will get red tag those giving their alts merits or those who are into buying and selling of merits. Also, a default trust member can give them red trust if they are proven cheating a bounty campaign with multi accounts. I think it is enough countermeasure for that. But you agree that there is no need to have more than 5 accounts for sure? The persons who participate in the bounty campaign with multi accounts, they most likely have more than 5 accounts, and they are posting from all 5 thus increasing the spam level on the whole forum. I would say that technically possible to create limitations based on MAC/Hardware address, for instance, there are 2 accounts allowed per one device. The business people will be happy enough and bounty-cheaters will be down.
Well there are numerous reasons. Maybe you want one business and one personal account and not to mix the two. Maybe you might want to sell or talk/promote something that is considered controversial by some or maybe you want to discuss politics etc without it effecting the way people perceive or do business with you here.
Hm, sounds like a quite good reason. Good point.
But you agree that there is no need to have more than 5 accounts for sure? The persons who participate in the bounty campaign with multi accounts, they most likely have more than 5 accounts, and they are posting from all 5 thus increasing the spam level on the whole forum. I would say that technically possible to create limitations based on MAC/Hardware address, for instance, there are 2 accounts allowed per one device. The business people will be happy enough and bounty-cheaters will be down.
The business people may be happy enough, but the Global Moderators, Administrators, and Eldest members of this forum probably would not be. Most of them have more than two accounts. Hilarious here has an account for his/her Global Moderator role on this forum, and then a second account for personal stuff (like the conversation here). It's likely he/she has even more accounts that aren't used very often
Nearly all of the most senior leaders on this forum have many alternate accounts.
Well there are numerous reasons. Maybe you want one business and one personal account and not to mix the two. Maybe you might want to sell or talk/promote something that is considered controversial by some or maybe you want to discuss politics etc without it effecting the way people perceive or do business with you here.
Hm, sounds like a quite good reason. Good point.
But you agree that there is no need to have more than 5 accounts for sure? The persons who participate in the bounty campaign with multi accounts, they most likely have more than 5 accounts, and they are posting from all 5 thus increasing the spam level on the whole forum. I would say that technically possible to create limitations based on MAC/Hardware address, for instance, there are 2 accounts allowed per one device. The business people will be happy enough and bounty-cheaters will be down.
Well there are numerous reasons. Maybe you want one business and one personal account and not to mix the two. Maybe you might want to sell or talk/promote something that is considered controversial by some or maybe you want to discuss politics etc without it effecting the way people perceive or do business with you here.
No, there are currently no plans and likely nothing will be done about multi accounts as there are genuine reasons for having multiple ones.
By any chance can you shed a light on this one "there are genuine reasons for having multiple ones"? Don't get me wrong, you might be right, but I am just confused, I can't see any objective reasons to have more than 1 acc, besides bounty campaign which in turn includes shitpost and spamming.
No, there are currently no plans and likely nothing will be done about multi accounts as there are genuine reasons for having multiple ones. However, I think certain restrictions could be put in place like possibly limiting IPs to one sign up only and after that they are blacklisted like tor connections and IPs that have been abused in the past are with 'evil' points, but maybe the merit system will have to suffice at severely limiting how many accounts people can have for campaigns.
Nowadays probably around 90% is dickering over "new" merit system. There are some pros and cons, but let's forget about that hot topic for a while.
I would like to understand, is there are any plans on shutting down the owners of multiple accounts? Ultimately this can be done just by configuring the script which will store the special file in cookies forever without a delete option. I know this kinda weak option and it can be overcome with the full reinstall of the OS, but that's definitely better than nothing. There are a lot of complaints right now in regards to a merit system, and I would say that the big part of it comes from the fact that merit is hoarded on the oldish accounts who just send the merit to their alt accounts. Thus restricting users from using multiple accounts might be the way of making the merit system a bit better.
I found the last official statement in regards to the multi accs and it is dated 2016, that's not quite promising.
I would like to understand, is there are any plans on shutting down the owners of multiple accounts? Ultimately this can be done just by configuring the script which will store the special file in cookies forever without a delete option. I know this kinda weak option and it can be overcome with the full reinstall of the OS, but that's definitely better than nothing. There are a lot of complaints right now in regards to a merit system, and I would say that the big part of it comes from the fact that merit is hoarded on the oldish accounts who just send the merit to their alt accounts. Thus restricting users from using multiple accounts might be the way of making the merit system a bit better.
I found the last official statement in regards to the multi accs and it is dated 2016, that's not quite promising.
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