Five to ten posts a week in gambling is not an excuse for spam in my opinion. Even without the mandatory gambling post, I would still post in gambling because there are so many things to discuss, especially during a football season, since I focus more on sports betting. Even if it was not mandatory, those who want to spam will still use it to spam as long as the post counts for the week's payment. I can even make 15 posts a week in gambling just by having a genuine conversation without spamming.

Global mods can moderate the entire forum and some other mods may have limited feature like moving or trashing a topic but can't delete individual posts but that's not what I am talking about, if we need to read all the posts that is generated on the gambling board alone that will require more new mods or the existing ones can only moderate the reported posts and not beyond that due to the workload.

Avatars are hidden on topics of those that are sigbanned as per:

I believe it still shows on their profile page, just not on topics.

Aside from being a large amount of additional work, the nature of categorizing what is a shitpost or not has always been at least somewhat subjective and hard to astutely qualify. This new system is based on a combination of metrics that, when put together, is meant to lead those with an understanding of how the forum operates to similar conclusion(s) about a poster's recent body of work. Still, nothing is ever absolute.

Changes on above criteria must have to happen, right? Otherwise, what is the point of signature ban.

When learning and improving posts and posting habits, there would be definite changes on daily average and activity AFAIC.

Not everyone is same and not everyone as genius as you which is the problem here.

Yeah, now I do not have to prolong or shorten my posts with the fear of rating of my campaign and now I do not have any limit to fulfil what my campaign demands.

It is too good to chit chat rather than following and writing on soccer.

Some suggestions

• Filter for active and inactive users after their signature bans.
• Filter for at least three periods: before 2015 (the last time forum was hacked), merit system kick off on 24 January 2018, and a massive increase of source merits on 6 July 2021. The first two timepoints are for old-era users and new-era users, while the third time point is for possible farmers ranked up by merit abuse.
• You can play around with the last two timepoints like account registration dates, merited accounts after those timepoints.
• How many users that used to be the future of Bitcointalk was banned?

They deserve to get more severe bans but I disagree with you by draining all their merits to 0. It's like "merit nuke" and theymos will likely not approve that. I suggest something like more severe bans but different than yours, there.
Merited shitposts are easily to determine and community can easily agree with each other, it's more easily than plagiarism or AI checks.

It's pretty easy!

theymos actually used demerit for severe merit abuse cases in the past but I saw something. If a 50 or 100 merits is considered as abuse, why accounts with shitposts ranked up to Hero or Legendary ranks from mostly shitposts can not be considered as abuse.


The decision is

• Stop being a spammer.
• As simple as that.

But there is a challenge for them: how do they rank up will decide who they are now. If they ranked up by spamming, now they are mostly unable to write quality posts.

What they can try is writing shit posts but expand it as longest as possible to cover pointless posts and hope that readers will think their posts are quality and constructive.

Not sure, it's a bug or a mistake.

I found an account with "Unknown user" and his profile ID; 2692993


At the time checking to make some data on my Local: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/5589754.msg66992876#msg66992876.

Search the ID on Bitlish can't find the account; however the search is directing me to a post: https://bitlist.co/post/2692993
In BPIP, can search the account: https://bpip.org/Profile?id=2692993
I also found his account on Bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2692993