Quote from: frodocooper on February 18, 2020, 03:20:59 AM

I deleted wwzsocki's posts because I have reason to believe that he made those posts merely for the sake of qualifying for ChipMixer's signature campaign. Note the timestamp of wwzsocki's application:

Quote from: wwzsocki on January 20, 2020, 06:39:14 PM

Username: wwzsocki
Post Count: 5031
BTC Address (must be SegWit): 3K4SRdXd6225BQufBPC3qLH2vz4tsadC3Q

As far as I'm aware, wwzsocki had never posted on any of the Mining boards throughout my time as moderator. He started posting there only after being apparently advised by DarkStar_ to do so:

Quote from: wwzsocki on January 23, 2020, 12:24:59 PM

... Last time we have a talk after recruitment and you advised me to write across more boards (which I did), but seems to be still not enough.

Would you be so kind and answer, please? I want to know what shall I do or change to have a better chance next time?

He has also referred to posting on this forum as "work":

Quote from: wwzsocki on February 13, 2020, 01:12:18 PM

... these are long working hours that have been irrevocably removed.

Quote from: wwzsocki on February 13, 2020, 01:12:18 PM

... but in 1% of the cases hours of someone's work disappeared and there is no easy way to find out why?

Wwzsocki doesn't appear to be working for the Bitcoin Forum as a moderator or an administrator. Therefore, I believe that it is reasonable to infer from at least these words that he sees this forum as primarily, if not exclusively, a mere opportunity for financial gain through signature and bounty campaigns. His post history, especially with regards to his various endorsements of something called GOLD, his participation in its bounty campaign, and his recent application for at least one other signature campaign, bears witness to wwzsocki's motives for posting. DarkStar_ himself noticed this, as did asche and suchmoon:

Quote from: DarkStar_ on January 25, 2020, 05:55:38 PM

Yeah, I mean posting style. I agree with asche here...

Quote from: asche on January 25, 2020, 12:51:21 PM

It kinda looks like you are trying to change your postings habits to match the campaign... That usually doesn't go too well... I would be better to find a campaign that suits your natural posting (without any paid incentive) and not the other way around...

Quote from: suchmoon on January 25, 2020, 11:10:31 PM

You're trying too hard and you're using 500 words where 5 would suffice: "Thanks, will try next time".

Also, posts are just that: posts. What significance do they have in your life that you feel compelled to make such an earnest effort to vindicate the worth of your posts and your self-perceived literary and intellectual prowess? Is not life more important than posts on a forum that 99.99% of the world isn't even aware of? Unless, of course, this forum serves primarily or exclusively as a mere means to financial gain for you, because any action on the part of the forum's staff that is detrimental to that goal is then taken as a threat to your material self-interests.

Therefore, to be clear, I have zero tolerance for anyone whom I have reason to believe is posting exclusively or primarily for mere financial gain through signature or bounty campaigns. This forum is intended to facilitate reasonable discussions made in good faith according to its rules. (I'm of the opinion that signature campaigns are generally detrimental to this forum's usefulness.) Additionally, the Mining boards are for facilitating serious discussions of bitcoin mining-related topics according to the rules of that section and the standards of the Serious Discussion and Ivory Tower boards. Unless wwzsocki is deemed to exhibit a genuine interest in bitcoin mining and a genuine eagerness to contribute quality discourse without regard for financial gain through signature and bounty campaigns, then he is not welcome in the Mining section.

I think your frustration at those posting exclusively to make money from sigs is warranted.

His posts appeared reasonable quality though.

I would scan the post histories of all chipmixer / any other highly paid sig campaigns run by hhampuz yahoo and start deleting any posts that do not provide objective value.

Most of chipmixer spammers never produce original thought provoking credible / useful / valuable content. One of them will generally voice some opinion on another members ' behavior' and the rest jump upon an opportunity to parrot the same thing 40x in slightly different words.

He seems to be a more worthy chipmixer champ than quite a few others being paid to fill the forum with worthless noise.

Darkstar does not have transparent criteria for selection other than the gameable subjective metrics those in / are eligible for chipmixer happen to control

Go take a look through chipmixer spammers post histories to confirm. Delete anything that looks it is only there for the 6 bucks spam reward.

You will find a ton of far less valuable garbage. Mostly just opinions on petty squabbles.

We need more mods that ensure members are only paid for presenting valuable content.

I think objecting to people viewing this forum as a posting cash cow is likely about 8 years too late.

I don't think it is essentially damaging to the forum for people to view it as a job if they bring real value. It is far worse to let people game the system so they get paid for filling the board with valueless nonsense.

Rather than preventing him, lobby darkstar to remove members who's post histories you analyse and discover are filled with valueless junk.

I agree it would be nice for people to post naturally and without consideration of the money they can squeeze out of this board. That is not the world in which we live.

Nice to see some not wearing signatures full time.

Really darkstar should rotate positions anyway.