Its a feedback system, people are free to post whatever they want on it. If I give you negative trust because you are an 18 foot dinosaur that stole brownies from an old woman, I'm allowed to do that, however that would hurt my own credibility which is the deterrent. If Vod gives untrue or invalid feedback, people will stop trusting his feedback, and it will have no effect on you anyway. If his claims are valid, then people will trust his feedback.

I can 100% guarentee you, we hear people wanting us to remove stuff left and right for libel. If someone posts something mean words about you on the internet, nothing is going to happen (barring extreme circumstances like death/bomb threats). If I make a blog, and say that Apple is a fascist organization who's products will electrocute you and kill you, nothing will happen. Freedom of Speech + Internet Opinions make the individual essentially untouchable. Libel has to be the 100% known truth misrepresented. If Vod thinks you are an alien and you are intent on taking over the world, as long as he has reason to believe you are, its not libel, its an opinion. Journalists and Organizations are held to a slightly different standard, but that has to do with product competition and responsible jouralism agreements. Slander/Defamation/Libel etc are incredibly hard to claim for individuals. Perhaps the only time I've ever heard of libel charges standing, is when it was between two competing businesses. If you smear another's product for self gain, Slander/Defamation/Libel claims get a bit of legitimacy.

Like I said, check the feedback of the admins and moderators here. If we removed any feedback at all, I'd assume it would be against ourselves.

Well first, the trust system is unmoderated. The Admins wont help you, they wont even remove negative feedback from themselves. Second, Slander/Defamation is an incredibly tough subject to sue over. I dont think there is a possible situation where the owners of a forum could get sued over a comment one of its users makes. There are a lot of "controversial" forums that have very unpopular opinions, and they are protected by freedom of speech. There was a site I remember playing around on where their goal was to get sued by PEZ, so they had their members make offensive videos. The winner was a video submission about how Hitler invented PEZ and they were originally colorful cyanide tablets used as extermination tools. The site got a letter by PEZ asking them to take it down, of which they didn't and that was the end of that.

Also, think about what would happen when a similar situation happens on Ebay. Ebay is actually a financial institution and they have no liability over what people leave for feedback. They just ban your account if you cause issues to them. Technically, if there was any real liability in having your account open here, the admins would just ban you and the entire thing would be over.

He is not https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=429599.msg4720541#msg4720541

The gold/silver ones are just an oz of silver, the gold plating adds negligible value. The numismatic value is where the premium stems from, as they were a limited run of 700 coins, and Casascius is no longer operating. Previous to the 1 BTC Silver and Silver/Gold coins, the 2012 10 BTC Coins were Silver and Silver/Gold and those have sold for 25-30 Bitcoins fairly consistantly, which is where some of the investors value is deriving from from these coins, people hoping to see nice returns like on those.

He wasn't banned for scamming, he was banned for being annoying.

Anyway, mod payments are taken from a portion of the advertising recieved, not donations, donators funds haven't been touched yet, however new forum software is in the works and has been for like a month now. I would giggle to no end if MNW actually went through with the frivolous lawsuit, and Theymos spent his 10 BTC donation for legal defense.

Nope, if someone was willing to offer a bribe large enough to make it worthwhile, there is probably good reason not to delete the account.

Just change your password to something incredibly secure. Account aren't deleted.

waittime = 360;
if(activity >= 15)
        waittime = (int)(90 - activity);
if(activity >= 60)
        waittime=(int)(34.7586 - (0.0793103 * activity));
if(activity >= 100)
        waittime = max((int)(14-(activity/50)), 4);

Price reduced to be competitive with other current sellers.

Tis also a good way to get yourself banned as well as any other accounts that are intentionally spamming trying to get a thread locked.

Yes, you can give them tips in the form of presents up to a $20 value however 

I'm not sure what to say about your method, first, the chances of them opening your packages in that senario are INCREDIBLY high. So that sort of eliminates the need to have something shipped anonymously. Id say there is also a good chance that the employees at the post office would have no idea how to handle the situation. After reading this, I'm sort of tempted to try it with something like small/valueless to see if it works.

I have to say, I really hope Antminer makes a 2nd gen asic in the future to compete with the 2-3 Thash models that will be out. I wholeheartedly support any asic company that doesn't deal with pre order nonsense. If I'm going to gamble on mining hardware, I'd rather not also gamble on it actually arriving or not, or arriving a year after its obsolete. I'm a big fan of antminers in themselves, but I'm also quite pleased with how the company/distributors handle themselves. 

I'm a fan of the classics, I highly recommend Miguel Cervantes' Don Quixote as it is actually a rather good comedy in the modern sense of the term, it made me laugh quite a bit despite being 400 years old. Its a book that I would consider light reading and very important to catch a huge amount of modern references. I remember sitting in a QED (physics) class reading it, and then bursting out laughing, everyone looked and imediately understood when I said, "d00d got knighted by a hoe" or at least they gave me an even stranger look that I assume meant that they understood.

Inferno, Purgatorio, y Paradisio by Dante Aligiheri. I haven't got around to reading Paradisio yet, but they are an interesting look into untampered with religion, not diluted by today's agenda told in a way that isn't dry and pedantic.

if we are going historical here, I had a buddy who had an original 1926 English edition of Mien Kampf that allowed me to borrow it. While it is not a light read, its essentially just a political campaign/propoganda, if you like psychology or history it has a lot of interesting things that allow you to draw connections to how the whole WW2/holocaust thing came to be.

And more modern, Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins. I feel a lot of Bitcoiners who are involved in the business side of Bitcoin will draw a lot of connections to the book. It worried me at first, but then I stopped worrying about myself and found the book rather enjoyable. If you are interested in the world's financial system as effected by large corporations, or have conspiracy theories about such, you will like this book.

Im having similar issues, I got onto my account, but it kept asking me to change my password, without a password change field available. I placed an order as a guest and received no confirmation email. I'm not worried about it as I know the order went through, but I figured I'd let you know.

I've got silver bullets if you run out.

As per the original bet quoted here, Smoothie and Chriswilmer will both send 2 Bitcoins to

this address:1Ajj2aC3BY1zJMfpvUDA58rHfdRJsY8ZMF

https://blockchain.info/address/1Ajj2aC3BY1zJMfpvUDA58rHfdRJsY8ZMF

If the price of Bitcoin touches or drops below $600 on either BTC-E or Bitstamp before 3-22-14 HST Smoothie wins the bet. If it does not, Chriswilmer wins the bet.



Question though, what if MTGox starts to suck more than it already does, and it drops down below $600, but the other two do not?

People may not like you, but in reality, if you aren't a newbie who's first 10 posts are complete and utter spam, its hard as hell to get banned unless you are trying. If they don't like your opinions, they can get over it.


The account would still be banned, the small Bitcoin fee is to un IP ban people, for example people that want to use a Tor Node that has been IP banned because of another user can pay the small fee to have their IP taken off of the ban list. Its not to make money, the logic behind it is that people that are making hundreds of accounts to spam behind Tor wont want to pay the hundreds of fees involved, while for anyone else the fee is incredibly minimal, something that you could make from using the faucets.

Agreed, the trust system is just a basic feedback system where people can leave their personal opinions and reviews. Prior trade history is not an indicator of future trade so in most cases its a good idea to use escrow for trades, and use collateral for loans.

In order to get a loan with no collateral, you have to have an amazing trade record. I highly doubt that I'd be able to get a loan without collateral, nor would I want one for that matter. And if you have collateral anyway, no one cares if you are trusted or not. So if you want a loan, your best option is to just provide collateral.

*edit* Collateral being anything that you can physically provide to your lender in case of your default, so that they can recoup their losses. Common collateral is Alt Coins, Shares, and anything that you can easily physically ship to someone, be it gold/silver, mining hardware, or anything else of value that people will agree to accept as collateral.

* Lack of infrastructure to change the Recent posts to not shown (Hopefully will be in the forum revamp)

* Another thing we are discussing, although you can disable signatures personally if they annoy you

* I highly doubt there will be new subsection, Theymos added them so it would be easier for me to moderate, not because he cares that there are subsections there.

Most of what you were proposing is actually spot on. The one main difference is, the Alt Coin section serves a purpose. Its not so people can spam posts or create hundreds of announcement threads and coins, because as long as they aren't actually spamming, we don't care. Its intended purpose was to keep people from posting alt coin stuff in the rest of the forum. Its not because we wanted Alt Coin traffic here, we just knew there would be some so by creating the section, we could isolate it from the rest of the forum (hopefully). The goal is for people to post their announcements/important notices here for the traffic, and then lead people to their own place, or their own forums where they can discuss all they like.