Quote from: Quickseller on February 01, 2021, 03:49:11 AM

It seems that timeloard believes one of the accounts is a farmed account connected to a different farm. IDK if the accounts are still “connected” to the same person as the connection is from several years ago. My guess is that all the accounts in the OP were likely available for sale at one point, if not actually sold.

I wouldn't trust timelord's ratings especially ones from so long ago as 2017. He used to have a bizarre habit of tying people together using twisted logic that only made sense to him. My memory is hazy but I'm pretty sure figmentofmyass was well known to belong to an account farmer or was sold at one point. That name definitely sticks out.

Quote from: nutildah on February 01, 2021, 05:49:29 AM

Another good example is this one. This guy said, "as they say", so I wondered who does he mean by "they" because I've never heard the expression said that way before. It turns out it was himself.

"as they say" is a pretty common turn of phrase. It's just being rhetorical.

Quote from: dkbit98 on February 01, 2021, 11:00:58 AM

Quote from: nutildah on February 01, 2021, 10:54:19 AM

Which is too bad because he's quite an intelligent guy.

He has to be intelligent for writing so much posts everyday in same campaign with 3 accounts and from bitcoin he earned this is probably his full time job, and playing poker with himself figmentofmyass vs manchester93 it's a winwin situation for him until he lose it all Cheesy

It doesn't really take a genius to make posts here. It probably takes a decent chunk of time and effort especially to get them onto the campaign in the first place but after that making posts is relatively easy, not to mention very lucrative especially with three accounts so it's worth it. You could probably even do it in your spare time after work to be honest if you were efficient enough. He's not exactly writing thesisis with every post so typing words on a forum isn't exactly a big deal even giving his volume.

Quote from: yahoo62278 on February 01, 2021, 06:37:20 PM

How the heck do users even post with that many accounts? They have to be posting in the same threads and answering each other. I barely post on my 1 account, couldn't imagine the hell it would be to try making quotas weekly on 10+ accounts.

Probably easier than doing a full time job. Would you rather write reports as a desk jockey all day or do manual labour all week or just make posts on a forum all day instead.

Quote from: Mitchell on February 02, 2021, 10:38:43 AM

Quote from: NotATether on February 02, 2021, 10:17:21 AM

If these guys all used the same device for posting then I'd imagine one of them would've posted something using the wrong account and get busted much earlier.

Wonder if they just have a bunch of cheap chromebooks that they use to keep everything separated.

No need. Just use different browsers. If the forum used browser fingerprinting it might require this sort of effort to evade detection ultimately but the admins rarely look into things like ban evasion so they're not going to bother with sig campaigners.

Quote from: eddie13 on February 02, 2021, 06:13:41 PM

I personally don’t think bending the rules of a signature campaign is all that big of a deal..
I think entering multiple alts in a free contest is much more “cheating” than breaking a sig campaign rule..
In fact I’m not even sure “cheating” the campaign is the correct word to use if he did in fact create all of that quality content and therefore quality advertising which probably had zero effect on the value of advertising he was paid to provide..

Depends on your stance really. It's obviously not a crime, but it's against the terms of service, and a lot of people here tend to think abusing campaigns this way is shady or at the very least dishonest. Chipmixer campaign is very in demand so those slots could have been given to other people so there's an issue of fairness/greed that people won't appreciate.

Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on February 02, 2021, 07:07:55 PM

Quote from: eddie13 on February 02, 2021, 06:13:41 PM

Also wonder if mods knew this by IP the entire time and kept their mouths shut..

Only theymos and Cyrus have access to IP logs, not the moderators. I would also be very surprised if it turned out they were arbitrarily looking up user's IP logs just for the fun of it without some prior suspicion or indication.

Correct. And this wouldn't be a forum issue anyway so not something they'd get involved with. It's probable he used proxies as well, or would have been smart to do so, but then again wouldn't have been necessary but not something you'd want to leave to chance.

Quote from: eddie13 on February 02, 2021, 10:26:40 PM

It’s just more sensational because it’s chipmixer...

This isn't really true. This sort of farming/abuse has always caused a stir here and has always elicited negative feedback. The fact that it's chipmixer just means it's a bigger payday and more of a headline given the financial loss to the farmer. If someone was discovered with ten accounts on another campaign the thread would be very similar to this one.