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Hey all, I figured I'd post this in Meta since I'm a substantial contributor to the forum, and I get a lot of PMs from people asking for information or giving me tips. 

Someone I respect recently told me I seem like a different person lately and it's true.  I'm in a career change and it's not going well.

The last two months I have been studying Object Orientated Programming (before I used to do procedural programming).  The end result will be a certification from Microsoft in the C# programming language.  I'll be moving my business to 100% programming down from the 20% it is now.

I get frustrated studying (I'm not learning as fast as I was even 10 years ago) and I come back to the forum and the frustration follows me.  This causes stress, which in turn, causes me to have more distractions while studying.  It's a negative cycle that has to stop right away if I can even hope to meet my time goals.

I won't be logging into the forum (even to check messages) as any news on what's going on here will get me hooked and stressed all over again.  I plan on coming back only when I get my Microsoft certification, which should be March or April.

In the meantime I'd ask other default trust members to continue to be vigilant when dealing with newbies, ponzi operators, etc.. all the things I used to handle.

There are a few of you I'll miss chatting with but mostly, this forum has become a waking nightmare to me since I started studying. 

Thanks for reading guys, and I'll see you in a couple months!

Vod

Nothing wrong with taking a break now and then. Hope it goes well for you.

Hopefully you won't return to find the forums like this: https://i.imgur.com/cMWalaa.gif

Jokes aside, good luck with your studies Vod, it sounds like you're making the right decison. The forum will be missing a valuable asset during your absence.

This is a very wise decision and I hope it helps you to get that certification. I wish you all the best!

I will keep my eyes peeled and my negative ratings ready.

Good luck with your studies! :) When you come back, please try to be more level headed instead of throwing little tantrums.

All the best.

Wise decision. This forum is a distraction if your want to study or something else which needs your full attention. Good luck with your studies and exam!

All the best and good luck with your certification.

Good luck with studying and new career.

Too bad KingofSports just left too, otherwise he would be celebrating. Also, if coming to the forum stresses you out even more, then that's when you know you should take a step back from dealing scammers and trolls. Instead of constantly getting into quarrels with these guys, just hit the ignore button to enjoy reading through some non-confronting threads. Tomatocage seems to be doing a fine job at tagging accounts without getting into the bickering battles.

Good luck. Your presence will be missed especially in this time of uber-scamming cloudmining sites and the likes.

Best of luck Vod sounds like the right thing to do. Its amazing how much time can be wasted on here :D

Good luck Vod with your study & career! You took a very wise decision and we all wish you all the best.

OK, I should stop being so cheesy and go back to my own books!

Good luck getting it done :) We will miss you  ::)

Haha. Funny thing is that's probably already what this forum looks like to most haha.


Agreed. If this forum is negatively effecting your personal life in such a way I think you're making the right decision in taking a break. Good luck and I'm sure your presence will be missed by most (but not the scammers  :D).

We will miss your licked boobs, cya after your break.

I hope this has nothing to do with a certain subset of people trolling you constantly.

Good luck with your studies :)

Good luck for everything @Vod !

Smart move.  Hopefully when you come back the forum will have changed for the better.  Good luck on your studies! :)

You have a perfect life here.

Great on programming & become a default trust on the forum.
There's will be no doubt that you will achieve want do you want to without any difficulties  :)

All can I say is good luck and god bless you

Just try not to lick someone's boob.

Of course, man. Your personal life is more important than the forums.

I hope DefaultTrust picks up enough to cover the hole, though - this may cause a bit of a problem if we don't all step up...

Oh. One last thing.

KingOfSports, please get out. That post just proves you are a terrible human being.

Always the right decision to focus on things that will help your future. Good luck to you and your certification Vod.

Hopefully, there are other DefaultTrust members that can pick up the slack and not let scammers run wild.

Good Luck, Vod. I wish you a successful career

I'll be missing your boobs a lot  ;) I've gotten used to seeing it everywhere on this forum. so come back soon~~

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Let me know when done.

All the best Vod, it's easy to get caught up with the forum sometimes.
See you back here in the new forum soon.

I was under the impression this was the status of the forum not even two weeks ago when there were 8+ threads open in meta about default trust, wanting Vod removed and wanting the trust system to be changed, along with multiple people trolling him from various angles.

I don't blame him for wanting to take a hiatus, his work here is really not appreciated by the people who he stops from getting scammed and the people he stops from scamming tend to hate him 

I'm sure vod can handle the 'trolling' and likely doesn't let it get to him ultimately, but I can see how getting involved in this sort of stuff is distracting from his studies. Even being on the Internet isn't a good idea when you're studying as it's far too easy to just procrastinate. And something tells me vod doesn't need the appreciation but enjoys the scambusting anyway  :D (though maybe not when he's got better real world things to be doing).

He said recently that all the false accusations were getting to him. He mentioned that since his RL identity is tied to his account anyone that knows him, or looks up his name will be able to find all the BS that people write about him. I wouldn't be surprised if it is somehow affecting his personal life/relationships. (I think this came up in the takigirl fiasco)

Oh really? Where did he say this? Though I can understand the being tied to his real name thing. I wonder if his name being known was on purpose or was he doxxed at one point? Never a good idea to post personal stuff on here especially if you're a member like vod. Very easy for people to get grudges very fast especially when you bust their scams and rub them up the wrong way.

He said it here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=915823.msg10066759#msg10066759).

His username was actually changed a while back by theymos, it used to be something like mlawrence but since he was so active in busting scams that was too close to his real name for his comfort.

He probably posted his dox/RL identity when it was not yet known just how popular this forum would be for scammers and before bitcoin became so successful.

I am fairly certain that Vod has caused scammers to lose a lot of money at at time by foiling potential scammers, and as a result they really have it out for him

Although you do much good.
Don't let the door hit ya on the ass ;)

If VOD has a problem with accusations being lodged against him, maybe he should refrain from making false accusations of his own.

You would also do well to re-evaluate some of the idiotic trust accusations you've made recently, as by your own admission they are probably undeserved.

That's a very good decision you just made mate , respect
Good luck on your studies and I hope you will your ceritification from microsoft :) Programming is a huge world & interesting I HOPE YOU accomplish a lot of things
Till then ... see ya ;D

Feel free to drop it into my BTC-address: 1ABM4BtsVA6s9J8kDkBULCQ2iD3e9r3uAK
 ;D

GL man and have fun!

I hope you don't end up completely disappearing like you did with your last pseudonym?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2228.msg29479#msg29479
"There's more work to do on DoS, but I'm doing a quick build of what I have so far in case it's needed, before venturing into more complex ideas."


Good luck on the new endeavour's......

Is this a good time to launch an honest, new Ponzi?
 / Joking  :D

Best of luck with your studies, looking forward to your return.

OMFG that made me laugh so hard!

What show is that clip from????  ;D ;D ;D

Community. It's an ok show. The good was great, but there was a lot of misses with the hits. Lot of good gifs come from it though.

https://i.imgur.com/gZ1ONTf.gif

https://i.imgur.com/HNFUWV1.gif

Good choice, Personal life is much more important than what on this forum, all the best.

Actually I was just in Cuba, where a very attractive blond girl let me bite a pineapple off her perfect nipple.  I did use my tongue while doing it. ;)

I wanted to thank everyone for your kind words.  I'm striving to be a level headed respected member of the society, nothing else.

Oh , so you are officially back ? Welcome back to the forums mate
there is some people impersonating you tho for running ponzi's or kinda shit weird :o

~ Madness

Quickseller has been standing in for you in the Lending section.
Welcome back.  :)

And shorena.

Welcome back, Vod! Scams were high after you left, now it will go down. ;D

   -MZ

first, welcome back vod
number of scammer will go down but those who complaint about being nuked by you will keep on increasing :)

Vod's back! Great to have a trusted member of the community back. I thought you might find the following threads interesting, while you were away someone impersonated you for a ponzi called "vodponzi."

Here are the following threads, I think they will give you a laugh.

https://archive.today/55m3Y
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=953003.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=958787.0

Fair bit of work to do that.  I'm flattered.   :-*

Welcome back your spirit even when it was away was not forgotten ^^
Also that part above made me a bit jealous Damn You Vod :)
(Cuba sounds nice ^_^)

Welcome back, Vod! While you were gone they made drinks named after you!

http://globe-views.com/dcim/dreams/vodka/vodka-03.jpg

Now I know what "studying" means in VOD's world.

Good luck VOD, but I think you're making a mistake by focusing on C#.  You should really switch over to java or C++ as the concepts you'll have to learn are the same but you won't be locked into a proprietary class hierarchy---your programs will be cross platform.  I know there's mono for linux but in general C# and windows is a sorta a sinking ship these days.

good luck.   now i can safely turn back on the setting that shows people's avatars.

good luck and best wishes!

edit: ehhh welcome back... i hope you made it ;)

He was studying something...  :D

BTW, have you got the certificate?

   -MZ

How did you get on with your C# course? I've never used that. I've been using Google's Go language lately, been quite impressed.

Whoops.  Haven't got the certificate yet.  :(  It's a lot harder that I thought, which is why I'm not as active on the forums.

Now that you're semi-back and I've done tens of thousands of dollars of successful trades, how about you remove that idiotic negative feedback you left on a whim several months ago?

Switch to java or something cross-platform.  No reason to tie yourself to a sinking ship.  Windows is going to be nearly non-existant in 5 years.  Just sayin'

well... c# is way better designed than java and is opensource and crossplattform as well.
i've worked with both and my impression is: java is way slower (develop-time-wise) than c#

just my 2c
(i have used both at work... 2yrs java, 7yrs c#)

I have heard that Microsoft was going to be open-sourcing a compiler for C# or something like that, maybe they were open-sourcing the object hierarchy, I dunno.  And I have heard of people using the mono compiler to try to compile a c# program on linux but can you really say this is open-source?  Can you really build a cross-platform app in C#?

That is what I've read also.  I don't think Microsoft will be "non-existant" in 5 years.   ;)

yes you can easily build cross plattform apps using mono.
last time i checked wpf was not supported...but the gtk# and winform support is really nice.

a few years ago i have developed a webapp for a company for quality control (sqlserver/c#) and tried it just for fun on mono: it worked without even changing a line. (though production was a win-server *ugh*)

classlib is oss, and the c# decompilers are really good (imho better than java because of reflection support).

not sure about the runtime itself but IL (the "asm" of c#) is standardized and fully implemented by mono.

Indeed, I'm sure microsoft will be around, selling subscriptions to "office for android" or something like that.  I'm just saying that the days of windows hegemony are behind us and fading fast.  If you write a .NET program that uses Windows only code, the first thing everyone is going to ask you is: "what about all my users who only use iPads" or something along those lines.  Nowadays android is getting worked out well enough to run those conversion tablets with detachable keyboards.  I can't imagine anyone paying a yearly subscriber fee to run Windows when they can have a free open-source OS with all the features they need and none of the old security flaws of the centrally managed (read: single point of failure) or shopped out to sophos/mcaffee whatever security.

My point is mainly that if you want to learn an object oriented, compiled language then you should probably choose java because there are jvms for basically every platform.  If you choose .NET/C# then my grandma can probably run your program because she still has a windows computer.

i'd say i mainly depends whom he wants to target...

bitcoin users: c / c++
windows users: c#
server apps: go, nodejs

java is just dead for me (oracle even put adware in their installer! - well i know openjdk and stuff; but just use mono ;p)

You may be right about oracle java vs openjdk.  Openjdk is the default on debian so I don't think I've used the sun/oracle java in a long time.  I tend to use bash or perl for server apps but other than these points I guess I agree with you (except for the part about mono, never tried it).

And then their's android, an OS app environment written in java, I think that makes it demonstrably not-dead given the popularity of android devices these days.

i'd suggest to give mono a try. i use linux (private) and have developed some nice things with it... its just fun...

http://www.monodevelop.com/
(just make sure to make a gtk# project to keep a native feeling. it will still run on windows)

here is list of apps developed and running with mono:
http://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/showcase/software/

Well, I may indeed check this out.  I can't say I'll be using C# for my next big dev project but I appreciate the links to the mono project so that I can see what's going on there.  Also, very interesting that they've got links into the GTK objects.  I will take a look at these links (@VOD I still think you should think twice about java :))

EDIT: what does the (private) mean when you say "I use linux (private) ..."?

it means at home all of my pc's only run linux (xubuntu to be specific)

@vod: sed is right that you should look into java also... its always important to know how others solve problems.

i'd appreciate if you would give me some feedback once you tried mono (even if its in a year or such). as i am mainly a c# developer i am interested in your first impression compared to your main language.

oh, hey Vod. I didn't notice you were back..  :P

I'll send you a message if/when I get around to it.  FWIW, I don't actually even use java very regularly.  I'd say my "main" languages are bash/grep/sed/perl.  Sometimes I use python.  I've written some java in order to make android apps.  I've written some C programs for fun and learning, but really my strength is writing pretty useful scripts and apps to run experiments or to automate this or that aspect of a workflow.  I don't think of myself as actually a software developer.  I think of myself kinda like the country mechanic of back in the day.  I can open the hood and look around and figure out what's broken and how to fix it but I don't actualy design or build cars myself.

EDIT: I just wanted to add that I too use GNU/Linux on all my home pcs (and at work too). I track debian testing.