Quote from: 0t3p0t on April 03, 2018, 11:21:02 PM

I can see a lot of people using other member's Bitcointalk account in some bounty campaigns

As a campaign manager, it's a terrible dilemma: by using an external site, the spam on the forum is limited, but indeed, I can't verify if the application really came from the Bitcointalk account owner.

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I wonder who's fault is this, is it the manager? The applicant? Or these bastards who keep on copying our accounts details with different payment addresses.

Obviously the (fake) applicant is at fault. Maybe the manager, I can imagine many managers don't check much, so applicants are used to get away with almost anything.

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I am concerned with this modus operandi because legit accounts and applicants might be tagged with red trust as they might think it is our Alt accounts.

I don't tag plagiarism entered into the campaign, because I can't confirm with absolute certainty the account owner was the one joining.

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For me to counter this I highly recommend to post your original usernames and addressess you will be using on bounties on this thread or on your own Bitcointalk profile and I also suggest bounty managers to double check thousands of aplications on their spreadsheets because some people will take advantage of this opportunity to make something illegal by copying anyone's credentials just to earn money from bounty campaigns.

As a bounty manager, I'm not going to check thousands of addresses on Bitcointalk. That adds hours to my work load, I only check those things when I have reasonable doubt already.

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It would be much better if managers will accept applications based on applicants Bitcointalk profile where informations like usernames and addresses can be found.

Although I do like this suggestion, it still adds to the work load. Checking a few thousands profiles takes a lot of time, even if I'd automate it, I can still only download one profile per second.

I think it be possible to let Google Docs grep the address from the profile directly, but Google runs into the "one per second" limit too:

Quote from: DarkStar_ on February 18, 2018, 04:23:35 AM

Be warned: You will get rate limited eventually. My original plan was to grab 1000 users worth of data, but it was getting really slow.

I'd love to have bounty content participants confirm their entry on Bitcointalk, so I can tag the 95% of cheaters, but most of them use "disposable" Newbie accounts anyway.

Quote from: Dingdongjl on April 07, 2018, 07:41:36 AM

I'm confused I don't really get whats the reason for doing that thing, because if they don't wear the right signature they cant get the point or the stakes. Is there any occasions that they get the stakes of the bounty without wearing the right signature?

Bounties are more than just siganture campaigns.