Quote from: LoyceV on May 07, 2019, 10:35:36 AM

Quote from: bones261 on May 07, 2019, 02:28:22 AM

How does this happen? I never registered for this bounty campaign and now my account is listed on the spreadsheet. There may be others. You may want to see if your account appears as registered for this campaign. This really pisses me off. I don't think my account was hacked though.

This has been happening for a very long time, and has nothing to do with your account. It could easily be prevented, for instance by setting up Google Docs to scrape the addy from the Location field in your profile. I've been playing around with that a while back, but didn't get it working exactly how I wanted.

There's also no need at all to post a Bitcointalk username if the bounty has nothing to do with this forum. They could just as well omit the username and only let them only spam their Telegram.

Quote from: Bitcoin_Arena on May 07, 2019, 02:41:03 AM

This mostly happens with bounties who managers do not emphasize proof of authentication

"Proof of authentication" is some sort of legalized bumping spam. It goes directly against the forum rules:

Quote from: mprep on July 21, 2014, 05:27:51 PM

1. No zero or low value, pointless or uninteresting posts or threads. [1][e]

But without this bumping spam, bounty threads quickly disappear from the first page and don't get the participants they want.
There's absolutely no need to spam the same address in many different threads, that's what a profile page is for. It's very easy to scrape that and stop all account-abuse. But that requires a bounty manager who cares, which won't happen as long as they earn more from spamming more.

Quote from: bones261 on May 07, 2019, 03:08:15 AM

I'm just hoping this person doesn't use the same token address and/or telegram address and register for a signature campaign and start posting bullshit. I don't want my account linked to some bounty cheater's account. I wonder why they picked little old me? I wonder if I should actually be flattered. Cheesy

Don't flatter yourself, it's either a bot or an idiot Tongue

Proof of authentication posts are allowed if the participants are documenting their work so long as the work is not trivial.

Campaign managers can also have participants give proof of authentication via PMs.