Quote from: teddy5145 on February 24, 2018, 12:31:08 PM

What not allowed is to use multiple accounts and enrolls it to a signature/bounty campaign, that is considered cheating (you taking spots of other users) and can lead to a massive spam.

In my opinion enrolling into the same campaign is cheating, enrolling alt accounts into different campaigns is not cheating.
It is like doing few jobs. You can't work for one employer and receive 5 salaries, but after you do 8 hour shift, you can work for another employer and receive second, third etc salary.
Cheaters will be negative tagged by DT members and moderators will ban spammers, there you go, solution for both problem. If someone is constructive I don't see problem in having alt accounts, as long as they are not cheating or abusing anything.
Other than this I agree with hilarious:

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Maybe you might want to sell or talk/promote something that is considered controversial by some or maybe you want to discuss politics etc without it effecting the way people perceive or do business with you here.

And I don't agree with hilarious(bold part):

Quote from: hilariousetc on February 24, 2018, 09:34:08 AM

That's what happens when you get greedy. Maybe he should have stuck to a handful of accounts and it might not have been so blatantly obvious what he was doing. Now he lost all those accounts. Was it worth it? Probably not. As I and others have said the merit system severely restricts how many accounts people can likely have but as we've already seen multiple times people are still trying to farm and trade merit between themselves and their alts.

If you check this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2544574.0 and click on only one etherum address used by someone with 20+ accounts or even more you will see how much money they have earned abusing campaigns.

I'll take this post https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2544574.msg29216389#msg29216389 as perfect example.
That guy has earned more than 100,000$. In a month!
Yeah, he was negative rated, and now he is rich junior member with negative tag. I am sure he is laughing at his negative trust and enjoying his $100K.
Imagine that, $100K for a month posting shitty posts on forum! And as some of his alt accounts are members and above he is still active and still earning money because most bounty managers don't give a fuck about negative trust as long as their signatures are visible.

Imagine this: you are living in third world country and you are doing shitty job for 200-300$/month working 10-12 hours shifts. And you have just found a way to earn money in a month which you could earn if you would work for next $100,000/200$ = 500X = 500 months = 41.5 YEARS Shocked

No, imagine this: you write 600 posts and someone pays you $100K for it.

I don't agree with you when you say that it wasn't worth for them because I see it was worth for them losing(?) junior member accounts in exchange for $100K. On side note, merit requirement for member rank should be 50, not 10, just because of abusers like this one.

On side not, again, Hilarious please respond to my PM, both you and Cyrus ignored me, should we make topic about mentioned user in meta because that guy has 2500 posts and probably I(we) will spend couple of days posting links to his posts? Cmon, this should be easy, lets remove one scumbag from this forum.