Quote from: amishmanish on Today at 11:15:41 AM

The thing is that he is not even giving a sob story. In his mind, he has done something heroic

Indeed. And in some ways, that is the worst part.

Quote from: amishmanish on Today at 11:15:41 AM

which he will continue to do now that he knows about HD wallet. He has already challenged that he has more accounts. AND he is opposing the flags with his puppet accounts.

Of course, he may attempt to adapt and become more evasive in the future; and of course, there are other ways to catch him (which I will try to avoid too much describing, for obvious reasons).

I observe that anyone with the requisite skillset to get away with this type of thing in the long term could make a lot more money doing something more productive. But if he was caught with such simple mistakes, he probably lacks the skills for any real achievements; and scumbags are often economically irrational, anyway.

Quote from: amishmanish on Today at 11:15:41 AM

Lets just hope that all the higher ranked member accounts are caught. Also, If i was in the fillipino section, I would be very wary of giving merit to any new accounts. Because from the way he talked, I am pretty sure he'll be back cheating with additional accounts. It also seems that for people like him, it is much easier to get merit in the local section as people tend to trust each other and have a lot of close interaction there.

Bitcoin_Arena did a great job but every upstanding member of the fillipino community should spend sometime digging through this dirt and find more links to this stupid cheater's-circle parasiting on the forum and other people's opportunity.

This is how bad people poison a community. It is like the stage in urban decay when ordinary social relations break down, and people become afraid to talk to strangers.

Strictness toward wrongdoing is not only about punishing the wrongdoer. It is also about protecting the community at every level, including community trust. It is terrible if, as I think you are quite correct in observing, Filipino users need to be careful of whom they merit—just as on the general forums, I do a background check on new or unrecognized accounts before sending merit. The person operating “Polar91” is a parasite as you observe, and a parasite on Filipino community trust worst of all. The solution is to tear out this type of wrongdoing root and branch, so that normal community relations can be restored.

To that end, the Filipino users who have expressed outrage at the person behind “Polar91” are doing as great a service to their local forum as they are to the forum as a whole. I hope that with the assistance of investigators here, they can get rid of this problem, and focus on building a helpful community that welcomes new Bitcoiners.