Topic: What to make of the situation if members such as "xbartoni" receive no merits? (Read 59 times)

I'm sure you can see and differentiate who is new to the forum and who is not. As for this account, it won't be a revelation when you can say with certainty that the account is an alternative. His "holes" in the posts indicate that he has heard about investing in Bitcoin. However, the stupid question in the first post about profit, and applying the DCA strategy a few days later, just exposes his claim that he is a newbie. It's funny to see his posts where, as usual, many merits are given out. I'm sure that this bunch of people, diligently chewing the DCA strategy for six hundred pages, have collected a decent alternative farm, and it is simply useless for us to refuse to give merits to such characters since they sense such sweet spots in the distributions better than anyone.

However if you read both posts, there is clearly paraphrasing. And this behavior is present throughout the entire 600-page thread.

That's right. I wouldn't put too much thought into this. If he does not receive merits I guess he will get tired and disappear from the forum. And if it's an alt account, worse for him because I don't think he has achieved anything with the other account(s) he has.


Just leave it alone IMO.

He has not received merit not because of his trust/history was tracked or not. He has not received merit because he is posting what are not worthy of merit. If he started to post something good and convincing using this same account, you will see people giving him merit. I have noticed how some newbies started on this forum and guess they are alt, but they received merit fast. I may be wrong but I guess so when they are posting what newbies can not just have known, but instead they received merit for their quality posts.

I have seen far too many accounts doing the same thing but today I decided to pick one out and post about it. I noticed a thread created by "xbartoni" with the name Is the newbie just being scammed by scammers? therefore had a look as my immediate inclination was alt-account or farmed account even before viewing the thread.

Are newbies only being scammed by scammers?

And are those who have been involved in the forum for a long time also being scammed?

I saw in a headline that it is not only newbies, but also senior people in the forum can be cheated, if they are not careful.
So my question is why is it being said that only newbies are being cheated, I hope you can help me find out.

xbartoni asked that question on 14th November 2024 and then made a second post on 15th November and in the subsequent period did not post again. He has been posting in other threads in the interim trying to get merits because obviously he was not going to receive any merits for the above thread (unless it was from any account he was potentially controlling).

A further look at his post history shows the very first post he made after becoming a member was creating a thread to ask "What should a newbie do in bitcoin investing?" and that question had a significant amount of importance that he made one more post there (which was his second overall post) and did not post again. Why on earth would a real genuine member with genuine curiosity for the question he asked not be interested in maintaining the conversation to gain more knowledge/tips/advice unless he really was putting on a facade and had no interest in the first place except to pretend to be a newbie.

In my opinion, even if concrete evidence is not there that this is an alt-account or farmed account, all the giveaway signs are there.

I am pleased the account has not received a single merit thus far and hope that all members try whenever possible to check some of the trust/history of an account before giving merits as that is the essential factor that drives them in their mission to build as many accounts as possible which could lead to nefarious conduct.

What to make of the situation if members such as "xbartoni" receive no merits? It is an improvement and I think it could be a very good turning point that will improve the forum. Do you share my opinion?