Quote from: Mr.Spider703 on January 25, 2018, 01:07:33 PM

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Quote from: thecryptoconsultant on January 25, 2018, 12:48:05 PM

Next step is KYC to open a BitcoinTalk account. haha!

Victor

i lol'd hard

absolutely true and would definitely kill all those newbie farming accounts in an instant

I believe that there would be better solutions than current Merit system as phone verification upon registration, it would dramatically decrease account farming .
Other possible solution award system for reporting spam and low quality posts.

Hope that Merit system will work.

I will fully support you and I will be only glad if such an opportunity arises. there are also software developers for mining, but not all have 2fa on the mail

Quote from: iasenko on January 25, 2018, 01:03:57 PM

There are also ways to farm Merit Points so the Mods/Merit Sources have to be careful, here is just a scenario:
You create 10 accounts, then you start spamming with all 10.
You report all the spams accounts you created from your main account and there you have Merit points for reporting spammer.
There always be someone trying to cheat the system unfortunately, so Admins and Mods have to be aware of this.

create 10 accounts is easy, the mail is specified any, even if it does not exist, the forum skips such registration = the spammer

This is nonsense. This forum is privacy friendly, Tor friendly and so on, theymos doesn't mind people using Tor or the use of other accounts. Bitcoin within itself is privacy friendly and goes against the concept of KYC. What's next, requiring a selfie ID to open an account?

The point of this system is that since you have 0 merit points by default, you cannot get high level accounts to spam 400 times a day on sig campaigns by mere farming. Now let's just see how it works in practice, because these kind of systems are typically gameable/exploitable and potentially unfair, as in such an huge high volume forum, good quality posts may keep getting unnoticed and not valued enough for people to rank in a reasonable time, or people just forgetting the system even exists and not remembering to rate a good post and so on.

I would like to see more mods banning the obvious spammers and third worlders (nothing against third worlders, but just stick to your native language section or learn some basic english) and more efforts put into the account recovery problems to make it faster rather than this tbh, but we'll see how it goes.