If my memory serves me, I have already told you several times that xtraelv is all right and what he is doing now.
You probably did. It's possible that I missed your repy or replies, or I might have just plain old forgotten what you wrote. However, I won't forget now that you've rapped my knuckles. In any case, I liked having xtraelv around; he was a good member.
Speaking of faulty memory:
The whole things took on a significant economic angle too with the drama about people doing un-solicited "background checks" on users who would get onto Chipmixer. With the change to USD payments, it seems to me that the stakes aren't that high anymore.
Oh yeah, I remember that! I don't follow the Chipmixer campaign thread, but now that you mentioned that I do remember at least one instance of that background-checking behavior on the part of rejected/potential applicants.
As far as I know, Chipmixer is still one of the highest paying campaigns on the forum even with the payment being pegged to USD. So while it's nowhere as lucrative as it used to be, I'm a little surprised that there isn't any of that sort of drama anymore.
Most newbies now flock over to telegrams or TGs directly from the host of bounty aggregator websites. There isn't a constant influx of people dissatisfied with what they could have earned if not for a few red trusts here and there. The forum isn't the place for "power struggles" the way it used to be, both economically as well as in terms of reputation.
I'm not sure what you meant with that first sentence. This isn't a thread about newbies and their participation in bounties, but I'm curious about what those bounty aggregator sites are all about.
You're right, though, about red trust not being a deterrent anymore. Reputation used to be full of threads asking for negative trust to be removed, but nowadays it seems like bounty managers will take any Jr. Member with a pulse, feedback be damned. And I'm still not sure why reputation doesn't seem to matter to people all that much anymore, because it certainly used to. I'm thinking partially it has to do with the emphasis that was placed on it by those members I mentioned who've now left the forum. They were members who gave out a ton of negative trust and created threads exposing scammers and other undesirables, and we don't see as much of that these days.