Quote from: Stalker22 on Today at 08:14:57 PM

Quote from: holydarkness on Today at 07:11:00 PM

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Now, if anyone catch the same similarity that I find, and only if anyone do, to prove that I am not reading between nonexistent lines, I'd like to complete my "witch hunt" by proposing an act of "grasping at straws", a theory that's been churning in my mind since last Sunday.

Yes, I do catch the similarity that you find. Although, I think that the sample from loginsam45 is too small, and it could be just a pure coincidence. Besides, if all three accounts are under the control of the same person right now, what would be the point of his claim? Rhetorical question, I know.

It's too small because loginsam45 barely made any post, but it might be not necessarily inadequate. The signed message he gave could point to the same quirk, I even made a remark about it, not realizing the possible implication behind it,

Quote from: holydarkness on July 21, 2023, 09:07:56 PM

[...] because... who the hell add a space right after a line break?

The whole message body to be pasted to etherscan should be as below:

My Account 1. ltcrstrbrt 2. GigaBit 3. bluedeep
I am the original owner of this account
@JollyGood You investigate it properly

Dated 21-07-2023
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Is it too far fetched to think that the quirk of adding extra space after a bracket extent to adding extra space after special characters [so, it's not only brackets, but also --for the case above-- a line break]? I am honestly asking here.

Now, for your question of rhetorical thing, it might coincide with what's been churning in my brain since yesterday, that it's not necessarily rhetorical; that it actually the basis of all of this drama. So enter my second act: grasping at straws.

ltcrstrbrt was accused of being connected and abusing merit to and with bluedeep on Merit Overflow of ltcrstrbrt of which although I previously said that IMO it didn't reach a verdict, it probably serve a connection here. The thread connects ltcrstrbrt to bluedeep.

According to Halab, bluedeep was banned, with reason unknown to us. I think it's a tempo-ban as when I look at BPIP, there were not that crossed circle symbol [an account being tempo and perma ban got this symbol, don't they?]. The perma/tempo ban aside, one thing that we can say from the ban is that bluedeep account violate a forum rule. If we connect a merit abuser and a rule violator, there goes a whole reputation.

I think there is a possibility that this whole stunt is loginsam45 to get a clean sheet of his older accounts, ltcrstrbrt and bluedeep, by saying that it got hacked by his friends, thus all the action of merit abuse and tempo/perma ban is not his responsibility. If he get community support, he'll get a clean sheet. The ltcrstrbrt and bluedeep will become his again with previous record of abuse being disregarded.

As for why I think this is a possibility [though technically, me "grasping at straws" should be making statements out of thin air, but I don't make accusations without proof, so here's the possible supporting evidences], the selections of older and newer posts are not without intention. Both quoted posts by ltcrstrbrt, GigaBit, and bluedeep are taken from their recent [post long break] and earliest [prior to long break] activity.

Let's assume ltcrstrbrt and bluedeep --and GigaBit-- got hacked during the long break, then there should be a change of the writing quirk. I don't think his friends share the same quirk, or would be that careful that they copied everything down to the quirk. And, suppose they did, then GigaBit's writing will begin to have this quirk, but they aren't. GigaBit's writing style stays consistent, he never separates a bracket with extra space, before and after the long break. So, if GigaBit is loginsam45's account, together with ltcrstrbrt and bluedeep, written by the same man, why is it only his that didn't share the quirk?

My assumption on this will be that GigaBit got dragged into the mud randomly to throw away suspicions. One account is a merit abused, one account got a ban hammer, so maybe there's a need to add a clean account to the equation to make a convincing story.

Another thing about being hacked, modlog of bluedeep said this,

with ownership change mod-log refers to a one week period where someone request a manual reset and an email was sent to the original owner, notifying the original owner to check if the request is indeed from the real owner, of which loginsam45 should have known there is an attempt to hack his account, he's been notified after all. He can say, "no, that's not me, that's my friend. Please return it to me, they changed the password, I can't log in." and mods will be more than happy to revoke the ownership.

Of course, all of those assumptions above are a wild ideas chasing each others and perpetually growing, churning persistently at the back of my mind. loginsam45 can easily dispell this [and I'll profusely apologize for making a wrong assumption that he's trying to get a clean sheet] by signing a message from GigaBit's older wallet, because introducing GigaBit into the equation that he's also the original owner of GigaBit will invalidate my theory of writing quirk and clean sheet.