Pages:
Author

Topic: Will Merits get wasted if the account is banned? (Read 560 times)

legendary
Activity: 2408
Merit: 4282
eXch.cx - Automatic crypto Swap Exchange.
Opening a new account to earn merit is the way forward

Don't get misguided as opening a new account doesn't gaurantee your stay on the forum. if caught your case will be treated as a ban evasion which results to that account getting banned too. Officially a ban simply means you're no longer welcomed in the forum that includes your alts although an exception of just one which has to be used only for the purpose of an appeal is welcomed.
legendary
Activity: 3080
Merit: 1292
Hhampuz for Campaign management
I think we have gone further here with some repetitive answers, I think the OP has to close this thread as I believe answers have satisfied already the question.
jr. member
Activity: 266
Merit: 4
When merit account is banned, the merits in it, it's all gone. I believe accounts are been banned with reason, maybe your friend go against bitcointalk rules for his account to get banned. Opening a new account to earn merit is the way forward
member
Activity: 80
Merit: 39
He did appeal for Unban but nothing happened. Thanks everyone for sharing your thoughts.
hero member
Activity: 1246
Merit: 588
First of all, someone is not getting banned for no such reasons.

If I am not mistaken also the merit should not go to waste since even if the account got banned the post will remain and can still be read by other users who might need the information. Unless if the merited post was the reason why that certain account was banned (it might be plagiarized or etc.)


An appeal should be made to make it quite formal. Mods right now are quite open minded right now when it comes to perma ban appeals.
legendary
Activity: 1946
Merit: 1427
Quote
So he didn't feel bad about being banned, only about the 3 Merits? Let me guess: he can easily create another account, but getting more Merit is difficult? Just to be clear: creating another account to post anywhere else than in a ban-appeal thread is not allowed after a ban.

He felt bad that his account is banned even after not spamming or doing anything wrong. And where is the ban-appeal thread? Where he can find that?

Quote
Quote
Also, I have one doubt, all the merits he earned is it lost?
Those Merits aren't lost, they're still used to highlight good posts.

But he tried to send his merits to some good posts but he was not allowed to send it.
If you're banned you're probably not going to be able to send them anymore, but the ones you received 'publicly' on your posts will still be visible.

There isn't a single thread. He either needs to open his own topic on this board, or send a PM/email to theymos. [email protected]

legendary
Activity: 2310
Merit: 4085
Farewell o_e_l_e_o
Such users mostly come from account farms, and they are don't care about their posts (contents, quality), or too lazy to spend a couple of minutes to read previous OPs, and previous posts, to brainstorm ideas, and to compose their on-topic posts; or they don't have enough time to do all those steps because they have hundreds accounts need to publish shit posts every day.
Either how good the poster becomes over the time, their primary intention would have been to spam, plagiarise and to get a higher rank certainly joining signature campaigns. If they would have come here for the sole purpose of contributing something they would have never copied other user's post.
Yes, it's different at somewhat extent, but there are common reason of plagiarsim. That is to steal words or ideas of others in order to get financial benefits. For whatever, signature campaigns, bounties (plagiarise to hit post quota); or to steal others words (such as Whitepaper, OPs, etc.) to lauch scam projects (for example).
Quote
Copying from a news article without properly mentioning the source is completely different than copying a forum member's post. Jace Lee have used text spinning and tried to make the post as his own post which isn't really appreciated. I don't report newbies who forget to add a link to their post if they have shared a news article since in the beginning most of us wouldn't be really aware of posting a link.
legendary
Activity: 1584
Merit: 1280
Heisenberg Design Services
Most times many good posters probably started off in the forum as shit posters, and had one or two plagiarised posts, hence as they developed here and brushed up their posts, they forgot about those posts they copied and pasted at the beginning of their sojourn on the forum, and sadly if it's found, it's a permanent ban, it doesn't matter how useful they've become, the forum wouldn't bend it's rules for that, except on few occasions.

Either how good the poster becomes over the time, their primary intention would have been to spam, plagiarise and to get a higher rank certainly joining signature campaigns. If they would have come here for the sole purpose of contributing something they would have never copied other user's post. Copying from a news article without properly mentioning the source is completely different than copying a forum member's post. Jace Lee have used text spinning and tried to make the post as his own post which isn't really appreciated. I don't report newbies who forget to add a link to their post if they have shared a news article since in the beginning most of us wouldn't be really aware of posting a link.

Some prominent solid posters who were temporarily banned for plagiarism have copied other person's post and tried to make the post their own which certainly deserves a permaban even how good they would have changed over time and how well they have contributed to the community after that.
legendary
Activity: 3080
Merit: 1292
Hhampuz for Campaign management
The common reason is plagiarism, or what I can always see as their excuse is they don't know it was an offense and it was an old mistake.
Most times many good posters probably started off in the forum as shit posters, and had one or two plagiarised posts, hence as they developed here and brushed up their posts, they forgot about those posts they copied and pasted at the beginning of their sojourn on the forum, and sadly if it's found, it's a permanent ban, it doesn't matter how useful they've become, the forum wouldn't bend it's rules for that, except on few occasions.
There are members who got banned but made an appeal and actually they get their account back but with some restriction, like they can't use signature for years, but that's alright, I mean you'll accept that as the sentence was reduce. However, it's sad to say that majority didn't even care, they just accept and go, maybe create a new account and start from the beginning.
legendary
Activity: 2184
Merit: 1302
The common reason is plagiarism, or what I can always see as their excuse is they don't know it was an offense and it was an old mistake.
Most times many good posters probably started off in the forum as shit posters, and had one or two plagiarised posts, hence as they developed here and brushed up their posts, they forgot about those posts they copied and pasted at the beginning of their sojourn on the forum, and sadly if it's found, it's a permanent ban, it doesn't matter how useful they've become, the forum wouldn't bend it's rules for that, except on few occasions.
legendary
Activity: 2310
Merit: 4085
Farewell o_e_l_e_o
Based on my observation, there's a lot of accounts which are constructive posters but they are still banned.
The common reason is plagiarism, or what I can always see as their excuse is they don't know it was an offense and it was an old mistake.
Sadly the forum rules says the punishment of that is a perma ban.
Since the ban wave started around April this year, due to unknown plagiabot, lives become easier a little bit for perma-banned users. Only easier if they have good net effects, because if they are positive-net-effected users, they might get a second chance, with perma-ban uplifted, and replaced by temp-ban with signature ban for 1- or 2-year period. I think that kind of second chance is fair enough.
legendary
Activity: 3080
Merit: 1292
Hhampuz for Campaign management
I knew about the vphasitha01 because that guy and me was in the same race to Full Member rank. That guy actually hit Full Member rank before me, he/she is actually a constructive user, so I am curious why he/she banned permanenty. He/she even did not care to create ban appeal. I don't know that he/she knew about new procedure to unban constructive users whom have good net-effects or not. If yes, he/she might come back and create ban appeal.

Based on my observation, there's a lot of accounts which are constructive posters but they are still banned.
The common reason is plagiarism, or what I can always see as their excuse is they don't know it was an offense and it was an old mistake.
Sadly the forum rules says the punishment of that is a perma ban.
hero member
Activity: 2030
Merit: 578
No God or Kings, only BITCOIN.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.51830829
That is the report of @Heisenberg_Hunter to the newbie member Jace Lee as you input it on the image below of who the member is.


He felt bad that his account is banned even after not spamming or doing anything wrong. And where is the ban-appeal thread? Where he can find that?
@Polina_21 your friend really did plagiarism, he can appeal though by creating a new account in the forum but posting is solely to the appeal and nothing else.
legendary
Activity: 2310
Merit: 4085
Farewell o_e_l_e_o
And how and where he can create appeal on "Meta"?
Creating only one account, and use only that account to create a ban appeal thread in Meta board.
Remember to give enough basic details of banned account:
- Account name
- Profile link
- Ban message, that includes type of bans (temporary or permanently); and potential reasons of bans (spamming, plagiarism, etc.).
- Most constructive posts and / or threads that user made before the ban. It will gives forum moderators proofs to assess that user's net effects. Staffs will do their own research, but it is also helpful if that user can show off his or her most constructive things. If he or she even can not find a single constructive post or thread, it means that user does not have good net effect.
member
Activity: 80
Merit: 39
Quote
So he didn't feel bad about being banned, only about the 3 Merits? Let me guess: he can easily create another account, but getting more Merit is difficult? Just to be clear: creating another account to post anywhere else than in a ban-appeal thread is not allowed after a ban.

He felt bad that his account is banned even after not spamming or doing anything wrong. And where is the ban-appeal thread? Where he can find that?

Quote
Quote
Also, I have one doubt, all the merits he earned is it lost?
Those Merits aren't lost, they're still used to highlight good posts.

But he tried to send his merits to some good posts but he was not allowed to send it.
member
Activity: 80
Merit: 39
I have not seen that banned accounts can send their sMerits out to others or not? Banned accounts can be used in view-mode only, and can not post anything, but to send sMerits, how about that? Just curious that banned accounts can be able to see Merit button or not, if they can see it, they can send their sMerits. If they can see Merit button, but can not send their sMerits, it is a bug of forum, and should be fixed by disbable merit button with banned accounts (permanently banned ones). For accounts that don't receive a single merit, they don't see Merit button.  Lips sealed

Yes, he can see the Merit button but he is not able to send sMerits to any posts. That is the problem!
member
Activity: 80
Merit: 39
He got a message saying that he is permanently banned probably due to spam or plagiarism. Attaching the image of the message he received -



And how and where he can create appeal on "Meta"? He did appeal on the email provided on the image but he did not get any response from them.

He tried giving merits to others and he is not able to give them as well, the merits are wasted.
legendary
Activity: 2310
Merit: 4085
Farewell o_e_l_e_o
I knew about the vphasitha01 because that guy and me was in the same race to Full Member rank. That guy actually hit Full Member rank before me, he/she is actually a constructive user, so I am curious why he/she banned permanenty. He/she even did not care to create ban appeal. I don't know that he/she knew about new procedure to unban constructive users whom have good net-effects or not. If yes, he/she might come back and create ban appeal.
legendary
Activity: 2730
Merit: 7065
Recently, one of my friends' bitcoin talk account got banned without any reason.
99% of banned accounts are banned without a reason according to the banned users.

I felt that if any account is banned, atleast some message should be displayed with proper reason for the Ban or a warning before a Ban. This will help them to know how they can improve on that.
If it is a permanent ban he surely received a message saying that he was banned for plagiarism or spamming (those are the most common reasons) and an email address where he can appeal the ban. 
legendary
Activity: 3290
Merit: 16489
Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
Recently, one of my friends' bitcoin talk account got banned without any reason. He had earned 3 merits for his posts. He felt very bad about that.
So he didn't feel bad about being banned, only about the 3 Merits? Let me guess: he can easily create another account, but getting more Merit is difficult? Just to be clear: creating another account to post anywhere else than in a ban-appeal thread is not allowed after a ban.

Quote
Also, I have one doubt, all the merits he earned is it lost?
Those Merits aren't lost, they're still used to highlight good posts.

Example:
Quote
Merit received by vphasitha01 Banned! from January 24, 2018 until July 19, 2019 (source)

Image loading from loyce.club...
Sun Feb  3 15:38:15 2019: 1 from DdmrDdmr (Trust list) (history) for Re: Enhanced newbie restrictions & requirements
Thu Jan 17 04:26:19 2019: 3 from Welsh (Trust list) (history) for Re: Democracy is dead.
Sun Jan  6 13:58:50 2019: 1 from actmyname (Trust list) (history) for Re: Democracy is dead.
Tue Jan  1 14:08:18 2019: 1 from Majormax (history) for Re: Democracy is dead.
Wed Oct 31 00:21:02 2018: 1 from paxmao (Trust list) (history) for Re: Digital Search and utilities to "Brick" my device
Sun Oct 28 15:22:39 2018: 1 from Veleor (Trust list) (history) for Re: Ban Appeal from a Member [vphasitha01]
Sat Oct 27 13:46:39 2018: 1 from krishnapramod (Trust list) (history) for Re: Reporter Statistics
Mon Oct 15 07:06:24 2018: 1 from TMAN (Trust list) (history) for Re: merit game... 50 merit to the most entertaining poster..
Fri Oct 12 07:22:11 2018: 1 from BTCforJoe (Trust list) (history) for Re: [1 OPEN SLOT] ChipMixer Signature Campaign | 0.00075 BTC/post
Tue Oct  9 16:03:28 2018: 1 from RivAngE (Trust list) (history) for Re: [1 OPEN SLOT] ChipMixer Signature Campaign | 0.00075 BTC/post
Mon Oct  8 18:28:39 2018: 1 from iasenko (Trust list) (history) for Re: [RUPL] Ranking-Up Pipe Line of Forum Members
Thu Oct  4 18:06:44 2018: 20 from QuestionAuthority (Trust list) (history) for Re: Merit System Upgrade
Sat Sep 29 07:22:24 2018: 1 from Piggy (Trust list) (history) for [RUPL] Ranking-Up Pipe Line of Forum Members
Sat Sep 29 07:20:05 2018: 1 from vlad230 (history) for [RUPL] Ranking-Up Pipe Line of Forum Members
Sun Sep 23 19:06:41 2018: 2 from Flying Hellfish (Trust list) (history) for Re: If you have a chance to lead your country what will you change?
Sun Sep 23 10:54:50 2018: 1 from dbshck (Trust list) (history) for Re: If you have a chance to lead your country what will you change?
Sun Sep 23 07:58:17 2018: 1 from dbshck (Trust list) (history) for Re: Are we losing the Meta board?
Thu Sep 20 22:39:14 2018: 1 from DdmrDdmr (Trust list) (history) for Re: Enhanced newbie restrictions & requirements
Thu Sep 20 22:20:45 2018: 1 from cryptothief (history) for 3days and 19hours of Bitcointalk....
Thu Sep 20 22:18:08 2018: 2 from bones261 (Trust list) (history) for Re: Enhanced newbie restrictions & requirements
Wed Sep 19 07:53:01 2018: 1 from dbshck (Trust list) (history) for Re: [Beta] @mention notification bot open for testing
Mon Sep 17 13:45:52 2018: 2 from The Pharmacist (Trust list) (history) for Re: Enhanced newbie restrictions & requirements
Sun Sep 16 12:40:39 2018: 10 from Welsh (Trust list) (history) for [RUPL] Ranking-Up Pipe Line of Forum Members
Fri Sep  7 15:08:59 2018: 2 from Direwolve735 Banned! (Trust list) (history) for Re: Best topic for newbie to gain merit
Fri Sep  7 15:04:54 2018: 1 from Direwolve735 Banned! (Trust list) (history) for Re: Expiry date for topics?
Fri Sep  7 14:54:51 2018: 1 from mprep (Trust list) (history) for Re: [Beta] @mention notification bot open for testing
Fri Sep  7 11:34:48 2018: 1 from malikusama (history) for Re: Bitcointalk Merit Dashboard
Fri Sep  7 11:34:00 2018: 2 from malikusama (history) for Re: Expiry date for topics?
Fri Sep  7 11:32:20 2018: 2 from malikusama (history) for Re: [RUPL] Ranking-Up Pipe Line of Forum Members
Thu Sep  6 19:57:53 2018: 2 from The Pharmacist (Trust list) (history) for Re: [RUPL] Ranking-Up Pipe Line of Forum Members
Tue Sep  4 13:12:05 2018: 3 from hilariousetc (Trust list) (history) for Re: Best topic for newbie to gain merit
Tue Sep  4 08:16:14 2018: 1 from Don Pedro Dinero (Trust list) (history) for Re: 6 sendable merit left
Sat Sep  1 10:09:22 2018: 1 from Shitcointalk (Trust list) (history) for [RUPL] Ranking-Up Pipe Line of Forum Members
Sat Sep  1 09:29:14 2018: 3 from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for [RUPL] Ranking-Up Pipe Line of Forum Members
Thu Aug 30 19:04:22 2018: 2 from hilariousetc (Trust list) (history) for Re: Expiry date for topics?
Mon Aug 27 15:55:10 2018: 1 from hilariousetc (Trust list) (history) for Re: The Reality of this forum
Mon Aug 27 15:54:19 2018: 1 from hilariousetc (Trust list) (history) for Re: The Reality of this forum
Sun Aug 26 11:01:40 2018: 1 from mdayonliner (Trust list) (history) for Re: Defination of some short Abbreviations used on forum. Everyone should know;
Sat Aug 25 11:20:44 2018: 1 from DdmrDdmr (Trust list) (history) for Re: Follow users by merit instead of threads
Fri Aug 24 23:35:24 2018: 1 from morvillz7z (Trust list) (history) for [RUPL] Ranking-Up Pipe Line of Forum Members
Mon Aug 20 22:25:54 2018: 1 from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: [GUIDES] on Bitcointalk. Index thread (until there is a dedicated subforum?)
Mon Aug 20 19:36:01 2018: 3 from Welsh (Trust list) (history) for Re: [GUIDES] on Bitcointalk. Index thread (until there is a dedicated subforum?)
Mon Aug 20 16:05:55 2018: 1 from Hexah Banned! (Trust list) (history) for Re: I deleted all my posts.
Fri Aug 17 15:15:20 2018: 2 from hilariousandco (Trust list) (history) for Re: Merit? This got to be a joke.
Tue Aug 14 04:46:04 2018: 1 from Hexah Banned! (Trust list) (history) for [RUPL] Ranking-Up Pipe Line of Forum Members
Fri Aug 10 06:08:02 2018: 1 from The Pharmacist (Trust list) (history) for Re: The Serious Discussion Board is not "serious" anymore
Thu Aug  9 15:55:18 2018: 20 from TMAN (Trust list) (history) for [RUPL] Ranking-Up Pipe Line of Forum Members
Wed Aug  8 18:27:18 2018: 7 from suchmoon (Trust list) (history) for [RUPL] Ranking-Up Pipe Line of Forum Members
Wed Aug  8 11:24:31 2018: 1 from iasenko (Trust list) (history) for [RUPL] Ranking-Up Pipe Line of Forum Members
Wed Aug  8 08:11:04 2018: 1 from theyoungmillionaire (Trust list) (history) for [RUPL] Ranking-Up Pipe Line of Forum Members
Tue Aug  7 22:09:26 2018: 1 from DdmrDdmr (Trust list) (history) for [RUPL] Ranking-Up Pipe Line of Forum Members
Tue Aug  7 20:04:38 2018: 1 from The Pharmacist (Trust list) (history) for [RUPL] Ranking-Up Pipe Line of Forum Members
Tue Aug  7 18:45:21 2018: 1 from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for [RUPL] Ranking-Up Pipe Line of Forum Members
Tue Aug  7 18:30:01 2018: 1 from Reatim (history) for [RUPL] Ranking-Up Pipe Line of Forum Members
Tue Aug  7 18:20:04 2018: 1 from iasenko (Trust list) (history) for [RUPL] Ranking-Up Pipe Line of Forum Members
Sat Aug  4 01:02:00 2018: 2 from Vod (Trust list) (history) for Re: How recognized are you in the bitcointalk world?
Sun Jul 29 22:59:41 2018: 1 from 1miau (Trust list) (history) for Bounty campaigns in a nutshell...
Wed Jul 25 01:03:42 2018: 1 from xtraelv (Trust list) (history) for Re: Instructions on how to use BBCode
Wed Jul 25 00:59:29 2018: 1 from xtraelv (Trust list) (history) for [Tips] Bulletin Board Codes(BB Codes)
Sat Jul 21 20:22:40 2018: 7 from suchmoon (Trust list) (history) for Einstein's theory was challenged by a Sri Lankan scientist....
Fri Jul 20 23:41:34 2018: 1 from Elwar (Trust list) (history) for Re: Showing I merited 3 people 2 days ago but I never even visited those threads..
Fri Jul 20 07:03:17 2018: 1 from nkampala (history) for Re: Showing I merited 3 people 2 days ago but I never even visited those threads..
Thu Jul 19 08:03:48 2018: 1 from Steamtyme (Trust list) (history) for Re: Where do you draw the line, Freedom of Speech/Misinformation
Sun Jul 15 15:10:29 2018: 3 from leowonderful (Trust list) (history) for Crypto Trading Strategies for Beginners...
Fri Jul 13 09:37:47 2018: 1 from digaran (Trust list) (history) for Re: What happens if someone copies sig code for phishing
Fri Jul 13 05:44:51 2018: 1 from digaran (Trust list) (history) for Re: Wall of fame / shame. Shit posts so bad that they are actually funny
Thu Jul 12 18:00:52 2018: 1 from Jet Cash (Trust list) (history) for Re: Require a small amount of merit to become a Junior Member
Mon Jul  9 00:22:49 2018: 5 from suchmoon (Trust list) (history) for Re: language difficulties
Sun Jul  8 09:39:50 2018: 2 from Vod (Trust list) (history) for Re: Is This the New Way of Marketing in ANN threads?
Sat Jul  7 12:06:01 2018: 1 from Jet Cash (Trust list) (history) for Re: Newbie Interested in Learning
Wed Jul  4 09:41:39 2018: 1 from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Merit source applications of senior members....
Mon Jul  2 18:35:50 2018: 1 from seoincorporation (Trust list) (history) for Re: Climate change and the power crisis..
Mon Jul  2 18:22:05 2018: 1 from NadiaHel (history) for Re: The Merkle and the Nonce
Sun Jul  1 12:22:35 2018: 1 from mjglqw (Trust list) (history) for Crypto Trading Strategies for Beginners...
Sun Jul  1 11:45:24 2018: 2 from frowsiter (history) for Crypto Trading Strategies for Beginners...
Wed Jun 27 16:54:02 2018: 1 from seoincorporation (Trust list) (history) for 3days and 19hours of Bitcointalk....
Wed Jun 27 09:56:14 2018: 1 from mdayonliner (Trust list) (history) for 3days and 19hours of Bitcointalk....
Sat Jun 23 10:26:34 2018: 1 from Coolcryptovator (Trust list) (history) for Bounty campaigns in a nutshell...
Fri Jun 22 23:08:42 2018: 1 from Welsh (Trust list) (history) for Bounty campaigns in a nutshell...
Thu Jun 21 15:46:33 2018: 1 from qwk (Trust list) (history) for Is there any automated system for sending sMerits?
Sun Jun 17 21:23:33 2018: 2 from Vod (Trust list) (history) for deleted post
Sun Jun 17 21:05:34 2018: 1 from odolvlobo (Trust list) (history) for deleted post
Thu Jun  7 21:45:07 2018: 1 from The Pharmacist (Trust list) (history) for Why can't we build mobile version of Bitcointalk?
Thu Jun  7 21:01:45 2018: 1 from theyoungmillionaire (Trust list) (history) for Re: How bad posters reduce the availability of merits - by a merit source
Thu May 31 21:53:12 2018: 1 from mdayonliner (Trust list) (history) for Re: How bad posters reduce the availability of merits - by a merit source
Thu May 31 21:33:49 2018: 1 from Jet Cash (Trust list) (history) for Re: How bad posters reduce the availability of merits - by a merit source
Pages:
Jump to: