I actually like to read both anonymints posts and lauda's.

One does not have to agree with or like them personally to gain a lot from reading good posts from those that present very useful content.

Both seem okay to me anyway. of course strong characters will butt heads that is part of the creative/evolutionary process.... it is healthy.

The forum is poorer for banning anonymint ...there can be no sensible rebuttal to this.

The forum would be poorer for banning Lauda too. His posts are interesting and he has even got the kind of personality that can admit when he was wrong about something ... although in the past we have had many arguments before he was a mod.

Theymos has offered a fig leaf in saying he will allow AM back ...because I secretly think he knows this is the case that AM does bring a lot to this board and many other members can appreciate that too. I know the argument about board resources is valid and sure the rules should be followed. However the rules really are not working that well for this board right now. I would say 90% of this boards resources are being used and 0 useful content is being added. I say 0 but really most content being added to the main boards is negative to the board since all the junk drowns out and smothers the odd gems of useful discussion. ICO shilling and spamming is rife.

I actually see the main boards becoming unusable lately. I did post an idea to reduce it in meta I hope it or something similar can be implemented before the board is too difficult to use.

The solution is simple I feel from here.

Anonymint makes an agreement directly with Theymos to reactivate one of his legendary accounts ... maybe the anonymint original or which ever AM wants on the basis he WILL follow the rules as they are.

Then in future ONLY Theymos can ban him, but then if banned will not return.

This may seem like special treatment for AM but then sometimes if someone has put in exceptional effort for the board then they can have a bit of special consideration from the board owner.

Let's face it would there be this fuss over ANY other member here being banned??

If Theymos will give AM the opportunity to have one of his old accounts reactivated and AM agrees to not break the rules it should be fine. I think though because all rules have some small element of subjectivity only Theymos who made the rules himself should decide if they have been broken in special cases like this. It also nulls any bad feeling any of the mods may or may not have toward him.

 Of course even anonymint will acknowledge he can have outbursts (probably due to poor health and people goading him) that can make him temporarily hard to communicate with unless you can immediately comprehend what he is trying to explain and agree. You see that is not the fault of anonymint or the person that does not agree really... they to the best of their ability believe they are correct but it is usually because they don't understand it to a deep enough level. Frustrating to both sides.

I don't understand most of what he says but do rely on the conclusions he often comes to. When I see sys dev, dinofelis  smooth and so many other obviously smart people engaging him over and over and even asking his opinion then it is all a "normal" person can do to form an opinion his level of expertise. The very best bit about anonymint was.... that no other members that had the skillset would evaluate a design then publish their opinion with an explanation of every point made 100% FOR FREE for everyone to see. Most that were able to evaluate new designs keep this secret for their own benefit only.

. That is just part of anonymint and if someone is contributing  A LOT for 90% of their time here and 10% blows of some frustration and steam I think the onus is on others to just accept this or not engage him at all. It is their choice not really an issue for mods unless what he says breaks the forum rules. Mostly it is just harsh criticism (that may be true but not expressed within the usual confines of forum etiquette) on the other hand some members have said some really nasty evil stuff to him over the years.

The mods are just doing their job as they thought best so not being critical of those mods either.

I am not commenting on the past now this is just going forward.

Seems fair from all sides then.

Sometimes extremely focused people have personalities that may seem extreme to "normal" folks. However, if you want to benefit from their extreme focus you have to take a little rough with the smooth as they say.

This board is the best place on the net imho and that is in part to the free speech and lack of moderation. Theymos is operating a great board here and I like his style he has a good balance and seems quite fair. Sometimes delegation of tasks works great and has to. Then again sometimes direct intervention is the most economical and fruitful way.

I would think a nice resolution here could work out well going forward for everyone.

Let's do this before the board is beyond help.
I think even better to bring back a form of decentralised noob jail.
100 merit to post on the main boards at all and junior boards for all the rest.
Instead of wasting time reporting the never ending ocean of spam and shilling and bots... it would be better to visit the junior boards now and then and do something positive like merit any good new posters and read what they have to say.
I don't feel good reporting negative shit that will do no good anyway but it does feel good to give some merit to good posts or those making an effort to help others on the board.

The old noob jail was okay but it was too restrictive and it was a lot of hassle for the mods. This way is just like a decentralised noob jail which would encourage a higher level of posting.

stopping them having sigs is good but it will not stop bots spamming and shilling icos all over the main board. Some of these ico shilling threads are just full of zero merit accounts that just repeat what the first reply says over and over.

snake oil like all alts claiming improvements upon btc

only noobs fall for it

there are a few alts below value for what they offer but that is not one of them

nobody cares what he says

Are you sure this project is a similar design to raiblocks?

This is why trying to guess what whales are going to do is pointless.
Better to look at the news concerning adoption and regulation. To me it all looks bullish. However the demand for btc is still confined to speculators most whom are sheep who can be pushed and scared out at any point. This will change over time as real demand for crypto grows.

If you are in for the very long haul you will not lose holding btc unless a black swan event happens now.

if they have a working platform good but i would prefer


bitbay
blocknet
sys
komodo
byteball

when crypto blows up to REAL multi trillions china will be crying at blowing their huge head start for nothing

when the winds of change start to blow....

every single project listed in the OP are long shot low probability gambles

of course the under 10 cents is completely irrelevant anyway


the only real projects on this board that are way below value are

bitbay
blocknet
pivx
sys
byteball
komodo

do your homework and pay attention to the initial distribution

As adoption grows then whales gradually over time will hopefully be reduced in power.
Of course gamblers with weak hands are not adoption so those wont help.

Even if true over all the adoption and good news coming out daily is great. I would rather see progressive adoption and steady growth anyway. If there are really on 17M bitcoins going to ever be in circulation (assuming it is true approx 4M lost) then even reasonable adoption ahead means we are still just at the start here.

A lot of the weak hands have been shaken out now. The strong hands are either weaving in and out or holding hard for the future.

Better to invest in projects that are proven and can easily pull a x50 at any time

bitbay
blocknet
komodo

Yes I think bitcoin will start to fly now..
Still I don't think the same for most 2017 icos

It makes sense to the devs teams

raise funds and keep large % of minting.... gradually dump as you lie about great progress...

abandon

come back with another great idea for an ico later

do the same again

ICO in unregulated form = 99% of losing money now.

Keep to BTC and REAL alts

Send your btc to the burn address..... it will save you time

Wise up keep hold of your BTC

317 is not enough

surely from over 1M users a higher % can locate the real projects and vote

LOL at the mentality of these noob trash.

Please try to put up some reasoned and logical rebuttal

If I could reduce you to negative merit where you deserve to be I would surely do so

So here try again to refute the points I have made

I'll await more garbled nonsense with no substance.

Cardano can not be compared to trustless decentralised crypto like BTC ... get your 50 bucks out whilst you still can.

Over price
Too centralised
Narrow distribution
Looks dangerous
Not trustless

lots of low merit accounts pumping it like the OP

I would not even consider any narrow distribution easy to manipulate scheme like this comparible to btc or even ETH

china is not an issue... stop worrying about them

But you can make 5000% profits in crypto in a few days.

Gold and silver weights too much

Money in bank is NOT 100% SAFE

Soon need to change thread title to chinese billionaire loving hodling btc buys a 100 tons of gold and a few banks to diversify.