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Hello at all. After a brief analysis and at first glance, the Membrana project is an interesting project. I'll examine a little more in detail in this days. Good luck anyway  Cheesy
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Hello at all. After a brief analysis and at first glance, the Taklimakan project is an interesting project. I'll examine a little more in detail in this days. Good luck anyway.
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I’m impressed by this project. I’m waiting for the reviews of the platform and I’m sure that they will be positive.  The platform BESTMETA is bound to succeed!
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I’m impressed by this project. I’m waiting for the first reviews of the platform and I’m sure that they will be positive.  The platform Membrama is bound to succeed!
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Whitepaper lists "The trading system has an isolated environment. Access to operations through the trading system is possible only by signing an authorization session by the user using the ECDSA algorithm". Can you elaborate more on this? I find it hard to imagine what it can be.
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Whitepaper lists "A solution to help in risk management for brokers.". Can you elaborate more on this? I find it hard to imagine what it can be.
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What you will use to protect platform from DoS and spam attacks?
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What you will use to protect platform from DoS and spam attacks?
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Is there possible to pay with fiats not only with cryptocurrencies?
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is there possible to pay with fiats not only with cryptocurrencies?
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Great project. I recommend everyone to join as soon as possible!!
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Great project. I recommend everyone to join as soon as possible!!!
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It's not a bad idea to remove junk and spam messages. But I would like to know about how post quality is determined and I would be glad to hear about all the factors that makes our post spam.


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It's not a bad idea to remove junk and spam messages. But I would like to know about how post quality is determined and I would be glad to hear about all the factors that makes our post spam.
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Tiberius vision is a huge blockchain project, trust management is about transparency, and what blockchain can offer us. And the platform will be decentralized too, the project is really in the spirit of the blockchain, and its pretty huge, especially for a disruptive concept like genesi vision.
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Membrana vision is a huge blockchain project, trust management is about transparency, and what blockchain can offer us. And the platform will be decentralized too, the project is really in the spirit of the blockchain, and its pretty huge, especially for a disruptive concept like genesi vision. I’m impatient to see the platform work!
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Genesis vision is a huge blockchain project, trust management is about transparency, and what blockchain can offer us. And the platform will be decentralized too, the project is really in the spirit of the blockchain, and its pretty huge, especially for a disruptive concept like genesi vision. I’m impatient to see the platform work !
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It seems that ni project is ready, yes from the look of his thread, the white paper presented, the team working behind it, and more interesting it has been discussed by many media about this project, good luck
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I think this project is already ready, visible from the view thread, white paper presented, the team working behind it, and more interesting it has been discussed by many media about this project.
The potential for success is great. hopefully.
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I think this project is already ready, visible from the view thread, white paper presented, the team working behind it, and more interesting it has been discussed by many media about this project.
The potential for success is great. hopefully.
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There are other management platforms, but they are intended for the classic stock market. All of them have brokers and have a high cost. In addition, none of them can give a guarantee of protection to investors and traders.  Membrama is a platform on the blockchain, where the key component is a function of a documented trust. You don't need to trust your money to a little-known broker with doubtful reliability. With Membrana you can invest your money and be safe from scam.
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There are other management platforms, but they are intended for the classic stock market. All of them have brokers and have a high cost. In addition, none of them can give a guarantee of protection to investors and traders.  Membrama is a platform on the blockchain, where the key component is a function of a documented trust. You don't need to trust your money to a little-known broker with doubtful reliability. With Membrana you can invest your money and be safe from scam.
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Besides the Project contents itself I find the Project roadmap very visual. I Think alot of other teams can take inspire from this one on how to clearly communicate different dimensions of the Project in a clear and concise maner. I also find it a big + that they include the private testing and open testing of Membrana in the roadmap.
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Besides the Project contents itself I find the Project roadmap very visual. I Think alot of other teams can take inspire from this one on how to clearly communicate different dimensions of the Project in a clear and concise maner. I also find it a big + that they include the marketing dimension in the roadmap. Quite a few Tech oriented teams leave this part out but it is most often a key factor for success!
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Membrana name is the one trusted. If looks project is very interested and reputed. This platform is big project and will provide strong services. I will keep my eye on this project and going to tell friend also they also interested to participation good projects.
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Genesis name is the one trusted. if looks project is very interested and reputed. project is big project and will provide strong services. i will keep my eye on this project and going to tell friend also they also interested to invest good projects. i will also invest on Genesis Vision.
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Interesting project. The novices should like it.
What are the free services in the platform? What is the approximate price of the paid services?
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interesting project. the novices should like it.
what are the free services in the platform? what What is the approximate price of the paid services?
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'm wondering what the name of your project means. And does it mean something?
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I'm wondering what the name of your project means. And does it mean something?
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legendary
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I am quite confused in reporting prashadraj205000. Most of his posts are from a website named coindelite, I presume that he may be a paid promotional poster for the website,though he mentions only in some of his posts. Also some of his posts are plagiarized from medium and other news related sites. So should he be banned or given a chance by deleting his plagiarism posts?

A post of his, which are being plagiarized from news related sites. Most of his posts have been given proper reference to coindelite site rather a few.

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It was recently revealed that hackers have found yet another way to mine cryptocurrencies. Reportedly, they are employing fake Adobe Flash updates to install cryptocurrency mining malware on networks and user’s computers. This results in severe losses, a significant drop in system performance and increased electricity bills for the affected users.

While Adobe Flash has long been a popular method for pushing malware onto computers. It used to be easy to identify. Hackers have since come up with innovations that allow them to silently download cryptocurrency miners on Windows computers.

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Are mods checking for when spam in a thread would become to much to lock it or delete it? Or would it help to also crowdsource that kind of reporting?
Most of the threads generating insane amount of spam are being deleted or locked up if we report them. These kinds of mega spam threads are common in Alt Discussion. Mods would be quite busy in the Alt Discussion, they might have more work apart from locking and deleting a thread as the board is a hotbed for Referral Code Spams, Scams and Phishing Sites.

Hence, it would be better if we report the mega spam thread rather than waiting for MOD to lock them.

The OPs of the thread and the projects being promoted? Why should the rest of the thread remain up if it is generating so many pages of spam in a day.
You can better check that up by joining the SpamBusters Club. They discuss these sorts of issues quite often.
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Please ban Alexbuksh. Posting the same messages.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/airdropbounty-auto-exchange-the-innovation-of-exchange-market-4517414
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ended-4692793

Nice blockchain project!
The team is working professionally, wish the project a great success.
One in the potential project in year 2018.

Nice blockchain project!
The team is working professionally, wish the project a great success.
One in the potential project in year 2018.
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Please ban grigoriy31   bannned
This project will be a great and promising encryption for Blockchain

Another, older same comment:
hi. project seems very interesting
This project will be a great and promising encryption for Blockchain
legendary
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I have another question:

If a thread is obviously filled with low effort responses, many of which are plagiarized, then I think it would be safe to assume that much of this spam is done for promotional purposes. Those are obviously against the rules, as incentivized posting in a specific thread is not allowed.

Are mods checking for when spam in a thread would become to much to lock it or delete it? Or would it help to also crowdsource that kind of reporting?

Right now I see most of the  accounts reported here banned, often in the same day... Which is good. But what about those that actually paid for the spamming? The OPs of the thread and the projects being promoted? Why should the rest of the thread remain up if it is generating so many pages of spam in a day.
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Yeah, I just caught him plagiarizing another one:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5066518.0;topicseen, which is straight from this article.

Amazes me that people think this is OK and that they're not going to get caught.  It's unfortunate because the one I found had some pretty interesting info in it, and Mister99 could have done what Hydrogen does, which is to quote the article with a citation and then provide a little discussion-opener on it.  

Here's a reasonably decent guide on how to cite a source:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.46149905
Thank you for that link--I'd never seen it because I have B&H on ignore.  But I think the forum needs actual rules and not just suggestions (regardless of how good those suggestions are).
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Copy with minor edit a text from another website without citing the source. A newbie account trying to fishing some merit.

Post : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/cryptocurrency-vs-real-money-5066183

Original Source : http://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2017/09/27/cryptocurrency-vs-real-money/

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Bitcointalk really, really needs some sort of style guide, like an MLA Handbook specifically for bitcointalk--not necessarily as a standard of how to write posts, but at least a set of guidelines for citing sources when quoting material that's not your own.  Right now it's a hellish mixture of opinions as far as what constitutes proper citation and what constitutes plagiarism.

Here's a reasonably decent guide on how to cite a source:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.46149905
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Thanks for checking it out, and that was my opinion on it from the beginning.  I'm not surprised at all that I came across something copy/pasted (that's happened many times before), but I'm disappointed that had that been the bitcointalk member's original work, it would have been worthy of merit and it would have been a pleasure to give merit to a Newbie.  As I've said before, it's really sad that you have to check for plagiarism before giving merits to lower-ranked members.

So long as the biggest part of what a user writes is original, I wouldn't consider including some text from another source a bad thing.
Judged by academic standards, it would be considered plagiarism and unethical if the source wasn't disclosed though. or even if the source wasn't cited correctly.
Eh, I don't completely agree with that.  If you're copying words from another site, you should cite the source and ideally should provide a link for the reader to verify it.

Bitcointalk really, really needs some sort of style guide, like an MLA Handbook specifically for bitcointalk--not necessarily as a standard of how to write posts, but at least a set of guidelines for citing sources when quoting material that's not your own.  Right now it's a hellish mixture of opinions as far as what constitutes proper citation and what constitutes plagiarism.
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I found this thread in which the OP was pretty interesting, and I was going to give him some merit--then I checked and found that part of it was copy/pasted from https://u.today/10-bitcoin-friendly-countries-that-legalized-cryptocurrency.

OP wrote this as the only indication that anything he wrote was taken from another source:
According to an official press statement,

I reported the post as plagiarism.  Since this is similar to the situation with Rambotnic, who keeps pleading with me to remove my neg on him, I'd like to hear opinions on whether frozen2017's post in the linked thread above would be considered plagiarism.  It certainly isn't cited properly, and I'm convinced it should be enough to get him banned.
So long as the biggest part of what a user writes is original, I wouldn't consider including some text from another source a bad thing.
Judged by academic standards, it would be considered plagiarism and unethical if the source wasn't disclosed though. or even if the source wasn't cited correctly.

I think that the forum equivalent of critically unethical plagiarism would be disguising someone else's text as your own orignal forum post, where in fact most of the content is unoriginal. And this is the case here! If you look at frozen2017's post history, it's full of articles pasted often 1:1, with just slightly different formatting on occasion.

Example:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.47734494
from
https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-gdp-definition-of-gross-domestic-product-3306038
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OP wrote this as the only indication that anything he wrote was taken from another source:
According to an official press statement,

No, this isnt his indication as a source, this is all the same text of the article:
http://archive.li/3gPkG#selection-1633.191-1633.232

plagiarism without a doubt. http://archive.li/30Lg1#selection-475.191-475.232
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I found this thread in which the OP was pretty interesting, and I was going to give him some merit--then I checked and found that part of it was copy/pasted from https://u.today/10-bitcoin-friendly-countries-that-legalized-cryptocurrency.

OP wrote this as the only indication that anything he wrote was taken from another source:
According to an official press statement,

I reported the post as plagiarism.  Since this is similar to the situation with Rambotnic, who keeps pleading with me to remove my neg on him, I'd like to hear opinions on whether frozen2017's post in the linked thread above would be considered plagiarism.  It certainly isn't cited properly, and I'm convinced it should be enough to get him banned.
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I will hold my DV8 coin and will I  exchange it or sell it later .
because has  i seen the price of the coin is getting increased from day to day and now maintaining consistence price I think I should  wait
for some more days ofter getting increasing rate in market price I will sell them and those who are having coin please wait for the right movement. u have to wait for right moment so u can earn more profit as well....
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I will hold my LABH coin and will I  exchange it or sell it later .
because, I seen the price of the coin is getting increased from day to day and now maintaining consistence price I think I should  wait
for some more days after getting increasing in price I will sell them and those who are having coin please wait for the right movement.
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I'll be using bpip from now on.

Initscri has created a nice Chrome and Firefox bpip extension. It's working pretty well, you can get it here.

It's awfully helpful to check a large number of accounts and see whether they're already banned. It saves a lot of time and energy, just don't know why theymos hasn't added this feature to the forum already.

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Even though I see the posts of others after me led to bans, accounts I posted about don't appear in the modlog.
I'm wondering if I did something wrong or anything I could improve?

Did you report the plagiarized posts you found? Only to post it in here isn't sufficient, you have to report it, too.

Sometimes the mods are deleting the posts I've reported, but the account is still active.
Then I've to report another copy/paste post to get them actually banned.

Also, banned users don't have any indication in their profiles. Maybe those users I reported were already banned?
And since there isn't a full list of banned accounts, maybe the ones I reported were already banned?
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Change the forum's software to include a public tag in every banned user's profile.

This suggestion was already answered by theymos here:    
Re: Community generated suggestions to improve the forum (+ eventual voting on them)


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No. Or not yet. Or the idea would need to be significantly modified.

The only way to verify if an account was already banned is bpip.org, made by Vod, as Kemarit mentioned.

Thanks for this whole post. Very insightful.

Yes, I did report the posts and for the most part the posts were deleted.
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Even though I see the posts of others after me led to bans, accounts I posted about don't appear in the modlog.
I'm wondering if I did something wrong or anything I could improve?

Did you report the plagiarized posts you found? Only to post it in here isn't sufficient, you have to report it, too.

Sometimes the mods are deleting the posts I've reported, but the account is still active.
Then I've to report another copy/paste post to get them actually banned.

Also, banned users don't have any indication in their profiles. Maybe those users I reported were already banned?
And since there isn't a full list of banned accounts, maybe the ones I reported were already banned?
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Change the forum's software to include a public tag in every banned user's profile.

This suggestion was already answered by theymos here:    
Re: Community generated suggestions to improve the forum (+ eventual voting on them)


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• A publicly displayed 'banned' rank under a person's username for permabanned accounts (people are wasting both theirs and staffs time reporting already banned users and bots).
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No. Or not yet. Or the idea would need to be significantly modified.

The only way to verify if an account was already banned is bpip.org, made by Vod, as Kemarit mentioned.
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