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!

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I hope so.

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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.)

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It is a wise quote.  On many points.  Unfortunately.

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