Quote from: nullius on Today at 01:55:01 AM

Quote from: wooI_Ioow on December 14, 2020, 10:52:22 PM

Quote from: nullius on December 14, 2020, 10:00:23 PM

Is Ratimov habitually spamming the Russian local with Google translations of others’ articles?

Yes, he is.

With such brave investigative work, soon you will be ~~a Hero Member with >3000 earned merits, DT1 status, and merit source privileges~~ hated by certain parties. Keep it up!

Hate from certain parties is great. I have never needed statuses, merits and priveleges. These things aren't valuable to me.

Quote from: nullius on Today at 01:55:01 AM

Quote from: fxpc on December 15, 2020, 11:15:08 PM

Quote from: nullius on December 14, 2020, 10:00:23 PM

I have not had time to analyse his post history. Is Ratimov habitually spamming the Russian local with Google translations of others’ articles? If so, then even with attribution, that runs roughshod over the purpose of Global Rule #27; and it also violates the Russian local forum’s rule against “stuffing”, insofar as the posts are just copy-paste jobs.

Yes, it is.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5224353.0

Ratimov and zasad@ are corrupt. They both spammed Russian local with Google translations.

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Google translations for Bitcointalk is more valuable than anything else? I have no other reasonable explanations for the facts of farming 2 spammer's accounts into heroes in 1 year and for amount of merit exceeding the activity by ~4 times.

Thanks for the insight from a Russian local regular. I have a question that perhaps may be best answered from your perspective.

I detect from your signature (and your previous signature!) that you have a certain... dislike for sigspam. I myself have always refused a paid signature; but I am more moderate toward this issue. I think that some good people get paid for their time and effort on the forum; and because they are good contributors, they only accept signatures from campaigns with the best reputations for zero spam.

Now, in the thread to which you linked (and johhny linked before here), I noticed something that made me uncomfortable. Vadi2323 (Legendary, registration date in 2014) has a parody signature hostile to Chipmixer. As a privacy advocate, I have oftentimes defended Chipmixer’s reputation. I even ran my own little custom Chipmixer ad for nine months, with zero payment — not in the official campaign! — only to show solidarity with Chipmixer, and to protest against this type of hostility.

I wonder, why the hostility toward Chipmixer?

Is the Google Translate spam from Ratimov bringing ill repute to his sponsor inside the Russian forum, where perhaps the campaign manager may not be able to follow all activity?

My thanks for any further insight that may be provided by you, or by other Russian forum regulars who despise spam.

(Note: This text has been tested and modified, to make it a little bit easier for Russian users to read with Google Translate. Thus, it is not quite my usual writing style.)

You are welcome.

Any pay-per-post signature campaign generates sigspam because even good people obey the psychological principles of loss avoidance. I don't see any other troubles with the fact that good people are getting paid for signature.

It's hard to deny that the bulk of Chipmixer's users use it as a laundry. This isn't a reason for me to organize a crusade against Chipmixer. By the way, Chipmixer sponsors another type of sigspam in Russian local - taikuri13. Most posts of this user are similar to the output of a neural network for generating texts. Posts contain all the keywords of the topic but anyone who tries to understand them risks getting a brain fracture. Technically it doesn't violate forum rules, practically the quality of his posts is close to garbage. It seems that Ratimov's sponsor doesn't care about reputation. Perhaps this is the reason for hostility toward Chipmixer.

Thanks for simplifying the text.

Quote from: nullius on Today at 01:55:01 AM

P.S., fxpc, perhaps I would copy your signature — if my signature were not bought and paid for by my PGP key fingerprint!