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Topic: To the attention of the Mods and Admins, account farms abusing bounty. - page 2. (Read 550 times)

legendary
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Campaign are trying to get impression from bounty hunter (to get more promoter) or the campaign manager is trying to show a lot of users are participating to their superior.

Good point, but as a BM of this campaign, the signup sheet is what i have to show to the ILcoin team, not the forum thread. From what i can see, these bots didn't sign up in the forms, so i don't know what the purpose of these posts are, as thread bumping has been a thing of the past for few months now

And if mods need permission to check my ip (which i highly doubt they do), it's given



I see the following scenarios:
1. Most likely competitors or some one unhappy trying to get the project down.
2. An account farm bot testing on a random bounty thread
3. Paid old school bumping service but less likely to be that case.
4. As mentioned above, fake buzz around the bount to create fake volume. It's too obvious the abuse to be that case.

The fact is that there are more than 400 alt accounts who  posted in the thread. I haven't finished the whole list yet, so probably there are more alts.
hero member
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Campaign are trying to get impression from bounty hunter (to get more promoter) or the campaign manager is trying to show a lot of users are participating to their superior.

Good point, but as a BM of this campaign, the signup sheet is what i have to show to the ILcoin team, not the forum thread. From what i can see, these bots didn't sign up in the forms, so i don't know what the purpose of these posts are, as thread bumping has been a thing of the past for few months now

And if mods need permission to check my ip (which i highly doubt they do), it's given

legendary
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Maybe multiple accounts isn't against the rules
Spamming 400 posts in a row is against the forum rules. Then again, if 400 "real" users spam the same 400 posts, it's not against the rules.
legendary
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Maybe multiple accounts isn't against the rules but to be honest, creating accounts automatically and attempting to pass their post as normal usage is very clear abuse. The forum should be very clear in auto banning and nuking such accounts if it's clear that they are automatically created.

And also, from the moment even one of the accounts created by the same person is banned, all others are considered to be evading the ban and are therefore breaking the rules.
legendary
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Please, check the IPs of the batches if you can confirm, then those accounts are abusing the bounty and should be nuked.

in this case with multiple accounts which is against the forum rules, then this is bounty abuse and those accounts should be banned.

Is abusing bounties against forum rules?
Is multiple accounts against forum rules?
I think no..

I agree that abusing bounties against the rules of the specific bounty is untrustworthy behavior, and DT can get involved in that if they want, but I don't feel too sorry for bounties that waste their money (or junk tokens) on shitposters and allow themselves to be scammed by shitposting scammers..

If anyone should be "banned" then it should be the bounty managers for paying for spam on this forum..
In this case, https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bountyilc-ilcoin-mini-bounty-already-listed-on-50-exchanges-5196724 right? It looks like they are just spamming Twitter and Facebook and staying within their own thread pretty well right?

Is it our jobs to protect Twatter and FB from spam?
You can if you want but I don't much care for those evil social media companies myself.. I lol at them getting spammed..

I'm not sure I like the mods getting involved by releasing IP evidence either, unless the users in question consent themselves..

If the Bounty manager is involved, which is a bit more difficult to prove, the whole thread should be trashed

This is where the attention should be focused IMO..
The bottom up approach of screwing with 1 post accounts isn't going to do much..
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Upon checking the usernames & their post, I guess, the accounts are created by bot. They all have the same style username; two words. They have only posted #Proof of Authentication & none of them are probably in the spreadsheet list; I have checked couple of them. Although the purpose isn't clear here, I guess it's certainly not bounty cheating. Campaign are trying to get impression from bounty hunter (to get more promoter) or the campaign manager is trying to show a lot of users are participating to their superior.

No matter how you look at it,it is cheating. If you post #Proof of Authentication in a bounty thread even tho it is a fake participation, then you are trying to participate in the bounty, in this case with multiple accounts which is against the forum rules, then this is bounty abuse and those accounts should be banned.

If the Bounty manager is involved, which is a bit more difficult to prove, the whole thread should be trashed, but I don't think the mods will take that action without a solid proof.  That's why I'm focusing on the rules which are broken so the administration can tack actions.

We are playing cat-and-mouse game all the time here with those bots. This is not an isolated case. It happens quite often.
I dont think moderator will ban those account there are no rules against having multiple accoujt ,unless they make a ban evasion . If its true that they are cheating bounty those account should be tagged  but not ban .because you are able to make many accounts here and there is no problem having many accounts the issue is how will you use that account.
If its proven that all of  the 400 accounts connected all of them should be tagged by DT.
legendary
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Upon checking the usernames & their post, I guess, the accounts are created by bot. They all have the same style username; two words. They have only posted #Proof of Authentication & none of them are probably in the spreadsheet list; I have checked couple of them. Although the purpose isn't clear here, I guess it's certainly not bounty cheating. Campaign are trying to get impression from bounty hunter (to get more promoter) or the campaign manager is trying to show a lot of users are participating to their superior.

No matter how you look at it,it is cheating. If you post #Proof of Authentication in a bounty thread even tho it is a fake participation, then you are trying to participate in the bounty, in this case with multiple accounts which is against the forum rules, then this is bounty abuse and those accounts should be banned.

If the Bounty manager is involved, which is a bit more difficult to prove, the whole thread should be trashed, but I don't think the mods will take that action without a solid proof.  That's why I'm focusing on the rules which are broken so the administration can tack actions.

We are playing cat-and-mouse game all the time here with those bots. This is not an isolated case. It happens quite often.
hero member
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Upon checking the usernames & their post, I guess, the accounts are created by bot. They all have the same style username; two words. They have only posted #Proof of Authentication & none of them are probably in the spreadsheet list; I have checked couple of them. Although the purpose isn't clear here, I guess it's certainly not bounty cheating. Campaign are trying to get impression from bounty hunter (to get more promoter) or the campaign manager is trying to show a lot of users are participating to their superior.
legendary
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