It's that time of the month again!

No, I'm a guy, so not that. It's the "big flood of payouts" day which always ties me up for a long time. Further replies in this thread will be delayed for a while!

I see there are 2 outstanding applications. I'll get them processed first, then start sending out payments. This will take a very long time (hours) so be patient, please! If you have received your payment, you can apply to re-enroll immediately (even before post is updated). If you didn't get paid or processed remember that everybody due to be evaluated today also qualified for an automatic one-day extension; if you didn't meet the requirement, you will have one more day to wrap it up.

Before I can do all that, though, something else needs addressing.

Quote from: botany on March 08, 2015, 03:40:09 PM

Quote from: stingleword on March 05, 2015, 04:52:27 PM

fastBeast has been granted amnesty for his involvement in a signature campaign abuse ring that involved five other usernames. While I did positively identify this user as having been involved in campaign abuse, there is also good evidence that the ring was disbanded shortly after and the approach taken by this ring was not effective. Since there is no additional abusive activity that I have found, you are welcome to enroll but I will be watching.

The amnesty program definitely doesn't seem to be working here. Tongue

So much for Mr. Nice guy. I even gave you the benefit of the doubt on that one, fastBeast. Since you made a big stink about being "falsely accused of farming" in PM, and then get banned for alt-farming, I now have to give you the same treatment afforded to s1ng et. al.

Signature spam and campaign abuse is becoming a chronic problem. I want to keep this campaign available to people, but do not want to encourage anyone to use this campaign or any other campaign as a vehicle to get paid for spam. I won't outsource the delicate business of determining which posts are spam and which are not to a robot or a third party, ever. I will always manually process every enrollment and post history. This is a difficult business to run and determining the honest people from the money farms requires a personal touch. Ten months ago, I made a pledge to the Lucky Bit staff to execute this responsibility faithfully and honestly. Today, I renew this pledge, to the Bitcoin Talk public. Every enrollment will always be personally inspected for quality and eligibility and I will never shortcut this responsibility by using a robot or script.