[bisq-network/roles] Forum Operator (#19)

[Aleksej Jocic]

## 2018.8 update

Discourse was updated twice this month on 8th and 22nd to latest current version of **v2.1.0.beta5**.
Backups were downloaded twice a week.

There was recent sudden increase in users with Pakistani IP addresses that posted off-topic posts copied from bitcointalk forum. These users are now deleted and their IPs blocked, but I am still not sure of the motive. There are more new users with Pakistani IP addresses being regularly created  from last few days ago, but they haven't posted anything yet. I contacted them and locked their trust level and will block their accounts if they don't respond within a short period of time.

There has also been a very likely scam attempt on our forum from a user seemingly providing a cash app support phone number for support about refunding or something. I didn't find that phone number on cash app's website, but I have found it on couple other places on the Internet being posted in similar manner.

As for stats this month:
**58** new signups, **5%** increase.
**64** new topics, **78** increase.
**274** new posts, about the same as last.
DAU/MAU and daily engaged users, about same as last month.
**27** new forum contributors, a **13%** decrease.

**128k** pageviews, **65%** increase.
About the same number of user visits as last month.

In conclusion, I don't think that the valid activity on the forum increased this month (other than @HarryMacfinned's daily offerbook stats), but amount of spam and scam attempts have definitely increased, especially in last few days.
This will require some more vigilance until these attacks hopefully decrease again.

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