Going back the OP, it is an excellent layout by
nullius of the argument against ("
Mr Pay Me and I will Bump Your Threads")
hacker1001101001 It was an excellent touch to recognise the efforts of
marlboroza and
Lauda too. They have been very vocal about the impact scammers, serial scammers, ban evaders, sock-puppet operators, fake trust circle members, merit abusers and thise cheating their way to DT are having on this forum. They deserve credit for speaking out continuously and consistently against the users that want to turn this forum in to a magnet for scammers.
On or about 15 May 2019,
#1021758 “hacker1001101001” was issued a 60-day temp ban and 2-year signature
ban for plagiarism, as discussed below. I presume that the reason for avoiding a permaban was the user’s
purported history of forum contributions, including allegedly fighting against scams (!).
Well, as it turns out, the user’s biggest contribution to the forum was
either personally to wield a fraudulent spam sockpuppet army—
or by his own admission, to be involved with others in ICO-bumping,
i.e. fraudulent paid spamming.
~snip~
This thread would not have been possible without the tireless investigative work done by
marlboroza, the investigation by
Lauda which brought marlboroza’s investigation to my attention, and support and contributions from too many people to list succinctly without risk of inadvertently missing somebody. I must thank everybody who performs such investigative chores in the interest of protecting the forum community against the type of implosion when net.abusers take over.