Quote from: wooI_Ioow on December 13, 2020, 06:59:44 PM

Quote from: DoubleAweSeven on December 10, 2020, 12:45:07 PM

Ratimov is a pioneer.

To pay tribute to him do it under Ratimov hashtag. Look at mine https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5299795.msg55820820#msg55820820

I already did similarly—but from an English-language article, and without the #Ratimov tag. Nice touch!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5298710.0

It makes a good point, but I don’t want to encourage too much of this. —Well, maybe not. If Ratimov can build up his forum career with copy-pastes and Google Translate, then seriously, why shouldn’t others? wooI_Ioow is well on his way to becoming a merit source and DT1 with >3000 earned merits, and many opportunities!

In my evil thoughts, I have also considered that perhaps I should write a script that auto-spams the forum with 10 or 20 or 500 copy-pasted articles per day—with an optional command-line switch for laundering through Google Translate. I would name the script ratimov, because Ratimov himself is such a script. If I were to upload ratimov to Github, it would be a service to Newbies who want to rank up their accounts, get bestest bounties. Is it not a Forum Virtue to help Newbies follow the exemplary achievements of the forum’s high-trust, high-merit users? Huh

Quote from: nullius on December 11, 2020, 06:09:06 AM

Quote from: ScumBuster on December 11, 2020, 03:57:01 AM

Still waiting for links to knowledgeable posts Ratimov has made which aren't copy paste. Why does no one reply?

Still no answer. Has Ratimov made any high-quality posts from his own original work!?

Perhaps some people may not understand why this case invokes my wrath. But it should anger anyone who has spent considerable time and effort contributing original work to this forum.

If I were asked the same question as ScumBuster has asked Ratimov, then I could simply point to my post history! I only make original posts! Want a short list selection? I just tried to pick ten of my own best posts almost at random, and wound up with eleven:

Re: Why do people hate segwit so much? (2017-12-04) 16 merits, even though this Newbie post was made almost two months before the start of the merit system. Original commentary in my own words, supported by a properly cited quotation of Greg Maxwell re ASICBOOST. Post #11 in my post history.
One of my best-ever posts about privacy. (2017-12-06) This Newbie post also received some merits, even though it was made two months before merits existed. A fully original short essay, with some original ideas that I have never seen expressed anywhere else.
Bitcoin’s Public-Key Security Level. (2018-01-31) One of my best-ever posts, in my own opinion. Fully original writing, except for one screenshot of a table from the SEC 2 standard (the document that defines secp256k1).
A post about what standards of evidence should be applied by DT in forum disputes. Fully original writing (except for contextual reply quotes). (2020-02-05)
Lauda is a WITCH, who cast an evil spell on me! BURN THE WITCH! (2018-02-18) An original satire that influenced theymos’ 2018 April Fool’s joke, and gave Lauda her final permanent avatar.

Note: I was gone from the forum between 2018-04-24 and 2020-01-01, and also from late May–late August 2020.
Project Anastasia: Bitcoiners Against Identity Theft. (2020-01-05) Not only original writing, but a highly original idea: The comparison of Craig Wright’s theft of Satoshi’s identity with the imposters who pretended to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova.
[WO] The banking system doesn’t work (2020-09-18)
[WO] Brainlaundering about “money laundering” (2020-09-21) A short “Emperor has no clothes!” style post pointing out a fallacy that I don’t see being discussed. Original thinking.
[WO] Fungibility, Payjoin, and CoinSwap (2020-10-05) Mostly references or quotes other sources; but ties that together with my own commentary, explaining why this is important.
Why privacy? — Re: Buying a domain (anonymously) using bitcoin (2020-10-28) Centred around properly sourced quotations of some jlopp material, but that is only to support my own commentary.
Judge concurs with nullius: Keys = titular ownership (vs. beneficial ownership) (2020-11-25) Again! Not only do I use my own words, but I express my own original thinking, or at least independent thinking. To my knowledge, I am the first person ever to identify Bitcoin’s essential nature as a bearer asset, and thereupon to differentiate between titular ownership versus beneficial ownership—at least, I never saw anyone else say this before I did. (I first expressed this idea on 2020-01-19, as thereby self-quoted.)

Imagine what I personally invested here! Now, I feel cheated.

For Ratimov to obtain social status, forum merits, DT1 power, and financial compensation by defrauding the public with rip-off posts, it is a slap in the face to anyone who has ever spent real time, effort, and virtù on this forum.

It makes me wonder: Why did I ever waste my life contributing to this forum?

Of course, I do not mean that to be about myself only. Other contributors, or potential contributors may reasonably feel the same way. This is damaging to the long-term health of the forum: Ratimov has shown that honest hard work is stupid.

Quote from: nullius on December 10, 2020, 05:22:30 AM

Hereby, we have the same problem: A generalized version of Gresham’s Law. The bad displaces the good. The result is a state of affairs in which the honest, the truthful ones, are considered the more stupid. It would end in the belief that it is better to have a share in the wrongdoing, than to stand by with empty hands or allow oneself to be wronged.

Quote from: nullius on December 11, 2020, 06:09:06 AM

With due apologies to the gentleman who just started cursing at me under his breath. I realized long ago that this forum is not a place for gentlemen.

Quote from: johhnyUA on December 11, 2020, 11:59:11 AM

i would consider it as bad taste. But such jokes is beyond of understanding of any westerner

Ah, you are too much of a gentleman! Although nobody understands Russian humour, I hope that this is in somewhat better taste: “DT1 дива” lovesmayfamilis wants a Prada bag full of merrrritttss!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7xDfqSAdh0

Must be viewed full-sized to be appreciated; lovesmayfamilis has my permission to use it as her desktop wallpaper (full HD, 1920x1080):

I should elaborate on something that English speakers may not understand from my prior post. In the post that I quoted, wherein lovesmayfamilis depicted Ratimov as Superman, she specifically praised him as a “всевидящий сорс”, ‘all-seeing source’. Whereas “сорс” is not even a native Russian word; it is a phonetic transliteration of “source” (compare “опен сорс”, ‘open source’). In the context of her post, lovesmayfamilis called Ratimov the all-seeing merit source who surely sees many of her own posts.

Protip for plagiarists and copy-paste spammers: Get source status, and send many merits to lovesmayfamilis. She will defend your allegedly ~~God-~~ Mod-given right to copy and paste whole posts. But if you have not sent her hundreds of source merits, then she will demand that you should be banned!

Quote from: johhnyUA on December 11, 2020, 11:59:11 AM

And yeah, your try to accuse someone in hypocrisy will not work. Russians (in a a counterweight to ukrainians and belarusians) are well known for their "двoeмыcлиe".

Alas—I always tell Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians, sometimes the worst feuds are between brothers. I respect people from all these lands, although I understand why some of them have animosity toward each other. Anyway, no Russian can beat the Americans for “двoeмыcлиe”, at which Americans are history’s past-masters.

This being an American forum, perhaps I should not have such high expectations for integrity.