Quote from: Chlotide on Today at 11:28:11 AM

Not exactly shilling imo

In Romanian we have a saying: "if you wouldn't have talked, you could have been considered a wise person". The same is true for you, Chlotide.

This is the second time when you bump into my topics, looking just to embarrass yourself (I have to admit, you are very good at it). Now as many people don't know, I have to remind them our little history:

1) So at first, when I expressed my opinion that rank up is too easy (opinion which I'm still keeping, as reaching the half of merits for Legendary in only 5 months looks still too easy), you tried to look smart, saying why I'm not yet Legendary in Jan 2020, if I joined the forum in November 2017. Of course, without saying that I was inactive since I joined and until the end of Oct 2019. However, after embarrassing yourself pretty well, you managed though at that time to almost double your merits while writing in my topic, jumping from 4 to 7.

I see you advanced a bit, heh? Now, with 74 merits, you have more than 1000% than in January. Still think it's hard to earn them, if we speak in percentages? Or are you here perhaps to double your merits once more in my topic? Lol.

2) Now, although this topic and the terminology are obvious for everybody, apparently for you it's still not clear somehow. Nor correct. Let me draw it for you, to help you understand.

Excepting the definition you kindly shared with all of us - those which don't properly know the definition of the "shill" word from ~~dictionary~~ Wikipedia (which as you may not know, it is a regular site, updated by regular users, not academicians) - a definition which may (or may not) be correct, on the Internet (including this forum), the term "shilling" is used in various meanings, including the one I chose.

Now as you can see with your own eyes, many old users of the forum posted inside this topic, users with great contributions or with great knowledge. Including, but not limited to: Lauda, o_e_l_e_o, tranthidung, suchmoon, mprerp, hilariousandco, iasenko, The Pharmacist, Welsh, malevolent etc. However, none of them suggested I used the wrong term.

Excepting these users, let's come back to o_e_l_e_o's topic, mentioned by me in OP. He has there a more precise definition of shilling (I highlighted the words which should be of your interest, in order to be easier for you to observe them):

Topic: List of advertising shills. Mods please review and ban as appropriate.

Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on February 05, 2020, 02:48:38 PM

~snip~
The users I will list below are users who either own or are being paid by a site or variety of sites to shill said sites. They largely post copy and pasted articles, add nothing of any value, and make zero effort to generate a discussion or actually contribute to the forum. Some also make low value, vaguely on-topic posts solely for the reason of shoehorning in a link to one of the sites. They are breaking rules regarding spam, low value posts, unsubstantial advertising, and advertising in other users' threads. I'm hoping that the moderators will hand out temporary bans to these users, and escalate this to perma-bans if their spamming doesn't stop.

These being said, I certainly hope you properly understood what I pointed out in this topic and, why not, double your merits again while ~~embarrassing yourself~~ writing in my topics.