@gmaxwell
I know you are one of the most recognised/respected people in crypto although I have not actually ever seen a thread with you in before on here.
That would probably be for one reason.
You are primarily in threads that are purely for those with a deep understanding in the field or as you would say those threads that are beyond the comprehension of the tech ignorant masses that are just your usual every day people. Mostly other developers and such.
You are busy as you say and simply don't have the time to engage with the board on things that are not important or directly for advancement of this technology. This is understandable and for sure works best like that.
Anonymint has often spent days discussing and trying to breakdown designs for others to get a brief understanding of the inner workings of these new designs.
I would say I have never seen him or his posts being used by others to pump alts. Actually he is usually one for finding issues with designs and has actually saved me personally from falling for some very exciting sounding designs (because to those that are tech ignorant all kinds of things can sound plausible and exciting) that later turned out to be as he put it "word salad" that sounded very workable but then had no substance.
Your pool analogy is a good one and I liked it but I feel it is a little too simplistic to truly represent the scenario here. Also a pool for the most part (well a public one) is kind of solitary place you may speak to your family or partner or kids but a forum is for interaction between all members as much as possible.
You see a pool can be a boring place for the broad spectrum if there is no interaction. I don't just come to a forum to talk to those I already know. Most are only able to bob up and down and are not very talkative or outgoing perhaps don't have much to say and just like to listen. Other small groups are very talkative but about things the majority do not understand. Then you get a character like AM comes in and is quite intriguing/interesting and different to most people he gets them all talking/sometimes arguing but gets a lot of interaction going ..some from that selective group (that don't usually talk to the masses) will then come and talk to the others in threads in conversations that would not have even started if not for AM. A lot of fun and interest is had by many and perhaps now and then AM may kick off and splash a few people, dunk a few people and now and again take a shit in the pool. ( i mean a shit can cause actual physical harm so maybe spashing or dunking etc would be the best analogy)
So if you took the consensus of the entire pool I would say if you want people to keep coming to this pool he could be more of an attraction than you are allowing for in your analogy even with the odd outburst of what some would deem unacceptable behaviour. I found the forum boring without him when he was gone and I noticed many of those that seem to get into discussions with him (sys dev, dinofelis, smooth, cfb, jl777 and many other smart and in their own way very interesting characters) never posted on the main boards half as much when he was not around. I don't really visit any sub boards like Ivory tower etc
I can not deny or confirm that in a highly technical discussion he may be derailing without making sense to high level designers and coders like yourself because I would not have the capacity to confirm or deny this.
However I only doubt this to be the case very often simply due to my reasoning that surely these other high level developers would always get discussing and debating things with him and often they are very complimentary to him and his ideas.
It's strange in someways because I just clicked on your post history to see if you were still a regular poster...which you are (most of what you say 99% is over my head of course ) but in a way your posting style has some small similarity to Anonymint... I mean this one I think the most recent
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4687032.msg42577799#msg42577799 ... that tone is a tone I often see that is exasperation and frustration at people not seeing things as you do (or as they really are) even after a long discussion. I did not read any other part of that thread but just from that I really could have believed anonymint could have be the author. It was a touch condescending and arrogant born from frustration and exasperation. Having said that if you are high functioning and you have a right to be arrogant then I would say that is understandable under certain conditions. Like I said I really think ego becomes a huge huge thing the more you concentrate brilliant minds. I don't think that is a bad thing either. It is a driving force and motivator.
The board is a lot of different things to a lot of different people.
You are not here for the chit chat and other social elements perhaps due to the nature of your work/interests/spare time so will perhaps see things differently to others.
I appreciate your pov and of course we need all the super smart characters we can get so we certainly don't want to see you driven from this community at all. I think though his initial ban was for a small thing compared to scamming or something very nasty. Subsequent bans were related to that first ban so..... Let's let Theymos give him his original account back and see what happens.
To be fair the pool has been filled with 1000's of ico sharks and bots lately so the pathogens from an occasional Anonymint turd (emotional outburst) seem to be the least of the problems for the pool inhabitants.
This is only my point of view of course but I am quite certain many others would like to see him given another go... the first ban reason really was not super super serious although for sure that's up to Theymos to decide.
When I read a few the high level devs comments about each others designs including VB, larimer and others they do get into the odd spat over things. I think egos at this level of intelligence are going to be big and you will get these spats but I know there is limit to the level that things can be allowed to get to and thats what the board rules are for. Let's just see how we go from here on. We should take into account that sometimes he is seriously ill and not fully himself also. That to me is quite a factor.
Anyway this is not going to be a widely read thread by most (here in meta) but I see some mods, lauda and now you are here so a lot of big players who make the decisions so I guess what will be will be. I see most mods are against a reinstatement so Theymos may not do it but he did say he may consider if If AM will not multi post in future.
Guess we wait and see.
All seem interesting characters indeed. Loved the pool analogy very amusing. This is what I mean smart people are not just useful for making great technology they are also very funny and capable of being interesting at many levels accessible by the average person. Let's all try to get along.
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