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Security / Re: have i been compromised
« on: January 18, 2013, 03:11 am »
They can't do that. Certified mail is used for legal documents that must be delivered to the recipient. They can't take the sticker off and stick it in the mail box so the recipient can say, oh, sorry I missed court / didn't pay my taxes / whatever, I never got that letter.

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Silk Road discussion / Re: Finally a newbie board
« on: January 17, 2013, 05:17 pm »
Except, ironically, the Newbie board is the only place the scammer can post. :)

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Silk Road discussion / Re: Finally a newbie board
« on: January 17, 2013, 05:07 pm »
t would be a little more forgivable if members with more than 50-posts could actually post in the Newbie Section of the forums and maybe then, the countless spam threads to boost post count could be avoided.

This. I still don't understand why we can't post there. If we could, then we could answer questions and have fruitful discussions rather than making it a kind of purgatory that everyone is trying to get out of.

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Silk Road discussion / Re: Finally a newbie board
« on: January 17, 2013, 04:23 pm »
I think switching to vBulletin would be better as it supports a lot of plugins and has a lot of spam prevention addons.

vBulletin is proprietary and requires a $100 per year license. Of course, there are pirated copies floating around, and really, what are they going to do, threaten SR to take it down? :)

There are other more severe methods of preventing or in some cases completely eradicating spam, (especially when it comes to registration) but these would require users to loose some of their 'anonymity' - some high-end forums, and websites like Google.com etc., employ phone verification.

A simpler solution is to require a Gmail address when registering. Then you hand the problem over to Google's very effective spammer blocking mechanisms. Obviously we can't do that, though.

The easiest and most effective solution is just to have more moderators. Get more moderators who live in different time zones, which would be able to monitor the forum at certain times when others can't if their busy with work/college etc.

That has problems of its own, namely trust. That was the solution they tried a few months ago and apparently someone went rogue.


BTW, to anyone who says they don't care about the spam, if you are a vendor, then all the money going to the spammer is money not going to you. The $1000 that somebody sent the spammer a few days ago is a pretty big sale that some vendor lost. This potentially affects you personally and financially, so you should care.

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Silk Road discussion / Re: Finally a newbie board
« on: January 17, 2013, 03:57 pm »
The problem with both auto-promoting after 7 days and rate limiting posts to 10 per day is that the spammer can create 100 accounts ahead of time and wait for them to auto-promote or post 10 posts per day until he reaches 50. It may stop the spam for a week, but as long as he pre-registers tons of accounts, he will eventually be able to keep spamming.

It does make his job harder, at least, but it looks like he makes enough money to justify the work (I heard of $1000 off a single scam).

An effective solution must involve *making account creation more difficult*.



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Silk Road discussion / Re: Finally a newbie board
« on: January 17, 2013, 07:11 am »
Actually, this might be an even better idea. At any rate, something needs to be done, because this plan clearly isn't working out...

I still support a newbie section, but yeah, it needs to be refined.

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Silk Road discussion / Re: Finally a newbie board
« on: January 17, 2013, 06:59 am »
i run 3 forums and i think this is the weirdest solution i ever saw...

It's partially the solution bitcointalk.org uses. There you need 5 posts, but 4 hours logged in. That way you actually have to spend time reading the forum rather than just spamming to get to a number.

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Silk Road discussion / Re: Finally a newbie board
« on: January 17, 2013, 06:32 am »
It will also prevent whistleblowers from creating shill accounts to out dirty practices or report on something that has happened IRL.  There's a lot of reasons people might not want to make certain posts under their usual handle.

And there's nothing preventing them from posting that in the Newbie section, but let's face it, there a probably twice as many shill accounts spreading FUD and bullshit as actually useful information.

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Silk Road discussion / Re: Finally a newbie board
« on: January 17, 2013, 06:30 am »
noobs to the forum or not, they'll still need access to their vendors, and the vendors to their buyers.

The best channel for that is messaging on the marketplace. I think the benefit of quarantining the newbs is that by the time they earn the privilege to post in vendor review threads, they'll be able to write higher quality reviews, and they'll have some posting history on which others can judge them, as opposed to all the shill accounts that pop up now.

And I realize that they are spamming their way to 50 posts, but realistically that means they still have to spend a few hours on the forum, in which time they'll learn the ropes, at least a little.

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Silk Road discussion / Re: Finally a newbie board
« on: January 17, 2013, 02:28 am »
scout just posted in there, though he's a global mod. What's weird is that danknugsdun posted in there. He's a vendor and a hero member, other hero members can't post. So is it just global mods and vendors?

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Silk Road discussion / Re: Finally a newbie board
« on: January 17, 2013, 01:46 am »
I was surprised by that too.

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Silk Road discussion / Finally a newbie board
« on: January 17, 2013, 01:34 am »
Looks like it just went live. Hopefully this will be the end of the spam.

It's interesting that we can't post in it. That might spell the end of PGP Club, since most of those posters are newbs. If I could post in the Newbie section, I'd restart it there.

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Silk Road discussion / Re: WHO CHANGE OUR AVATARS TO WORLDS?
« on: January 17, 2013, 01:28 am »
R U SERIOUS? I SEE 3 WORLDS UNDER YOUR NAME,INSTEAD OF YELLOW BLOCKS ITS 3 WORLDS

I ate acid once too.

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Shipping / Re: LE and the secrets of stealth
« on: January 16, 2013, 05:56 pm »
If LE is going to find out about shipping methods anyway, we might as well make it cost them and allow some drug dealers to make money.

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