Merit buyers / beggers
« Sent to: gmaxwell, mprep, Cyrus, Mitchell, hilariousandco, achow101 on: February 11, 2018, 12:20:15 PM »
Dear mods,
I understand your enthusiasm about implementing a merit system, however it has created "merit beggers" and "merit buyers"
One of them is a user called "
pitipawn":
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1076869You will see a spike of increase on his merit in recent days.
If you check his merit history you will understand that it comes from topics such as:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2895261.0You need to come up with a punishment system to ban or erase merits of such "merit buyers", or completely remove the merit system.
Perhaps if you erase merits of few users such as this and announce it globally that it is not allowed, it would be seen as an example and will prevent further abuse of the system.
To me, this is no different than creating threads with reference links, and remember reference links are instantly deleted by mods, while "merit beggers" and "merit buyers" are still allowed.
Thanks for your support and Best Regards,
/goodsson
I am Turkish and I don't give a shit about nationality when it comes to "justice" and enforcing "rules / principles", otherwise you will have a system which friends protect each other and "others" are always justified unfairly.
I have sent above message to mods mentioned and did not get a reply.
I have sent another message to Turkish moderator "EFS" and did get reply "I can't do anything" but at the same time noticed that he removes all improper posts except pitipawn's posts. I have strong belief he is friend of EFS and have been enjoying double standards in the Turkish forum, despite his bad attitude, foul mouth and ego-centric threads.
He goes to threads and boasts how good he is and how pathetic others are. At times some laugh at him, some ignore him and some get aggressive with him. Recently, I have changed my tone and replied him with his own attitude, we traded some threats and bad mouthing.
It's 100% known that pitipawn is an alt-account. Through IP search and Login times, it can be easily found who is main account is.
It's also obviously he is supporting his threads through his alt-accounts and pump/dump group, you can easily identify his group by looking who has sent him merits in a short period of time. You can also see majority of people who merited him has minus trust ratings as well (no surprise).
Now this thread is deleted to public, but I am sure mods can still see the contents:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2895261.0This forum is still the best source in Cryptocurrency. But if you want to keep forum clean or have long term vision on your "merit system", you have to have a control mechanism against abusive behaviour and take actions when needed.
I expect I will get a lot of -trust from his group soon by telling these but I don't give a shit about e-honor so here you go, it matters more to me that forum stays clean.