First of all, I would like to thank you for noticing my elegance.

You are correct, I am not Thule. I do not use any alt accounts, and have not for quite some time now, except for one known alt very occasionally. I do however appear to owe quite a lot of people a lot of back rent, as it seems I am living in many people's heads.

When I was reading H8bussesNbicycles' thread, I was speculating he was intentionally using very poor english in order to hide his "main" account, which I assumed has decent reputation. Without knowing with certainty he is reputable, I cannot support him, and his specific methods of achieving his cause.

Timelord2067 seems to piece together a lot of irrelevant information and come to conclusions not based on logic. I would suggest to ignore his trust ratings, but it seems that many already disagree with that as he is on some trust lists.

The most recent block found was block 562554. Perhaps there could be a HF so that the genius block has a block reward matching all of the unspent outputs as of block 500000, and that all subsequent blocks remain unchanged. This would effectively cement the first 500k blocks, but they are realistically not going to change.

Would this result in a decreased ability to "verify" the blockchain and all previous transactions? Yes. However it would also save HDD space when Bitcoin users want to store the entire blockchain, and network resources when new nodes attempt to download the entire blockchain. The drawbacks should be weighed with the benefits when entities decide to support this potential HF to potentially form sufficient consensus for a HF. 

You are describing problems with globalism.

Your "a" assumption is flawed, and should be reworded:
"A. People are paid wages according to the “fair” market value of their skill with wages limited by the amount of value they add"

Companies will not pay more than a worker contributes but they will not pay an unnecessarily high wage. If a car company has a plant in Ohio, it needs to employ people in Ohio, and will need to pay a sufficiently high wage so that workers with sufficient skills will be willing to work for them, but so long as they have sufficient number of workers, will not pay so much that an abundance of qualified people are willing to work for them.

In general, the cost of living is much lower in Mexico (along with the standard of living), and as such, workers are willing to work for less than workers in the US are willing to work for.

Some have speculated The Washington Post purchase was to help with anti-trust issues it was having at the time, along as being a non-traditional way to lobby those in government in Washington.

I don't think it is appropriate for The WaPo to report on Amazon related news the way it does. For example using unnamed sources is troubling because Bezos could potentially order the identity of any confidential sources to be given to him (someone critical of him/Amazon), or he could be directing someone to be a confidential source to "leak" information it doesn't want to explicitly say (such as they are considering not using NYC as one of their HQ2 sites).   


The attorney for the Enquirer was on one of the Sunday news shows today and said their source was someone known to Bezos who has been a source for a long time.

My suspicion is it was either someone in his Wife's family or his Mistresses family (or the women themselves).

The claim the Enquirer's reporting on Bezos' affair was politically motivated came from the WaPo. If it turns out there is nothing to support this, the Washington Post would then be peddling politically motivated fake news against the Enquirer to make Bezos look good. The same is true (to a lesser extent) in regards to the WaPos reporting that the source of the leaks may be "a government" although the WaPo's source on this was Bezos' head of security.

This is too bad. He was able to help a lot of people who maybe didn't understand all the norms around here not look like a scammer (such as reminding those wanting to start lending threads that someone trusted should hold all collateral).

There are a couple of problems with this statement. First of all, using escrow costs money, so the 1% standard fee is going to eat into any potential profits.

Secondly, if someone is competing with others offering similar services and receives a negative rating for arbitrary reasons, they will lose business all else being equal. Potential customers will be wary of trading with you. Running a business will be difficult if not impossible.

If there is someone who trades here only occasionally, they cannot be reasonably expected to develop a good trust network, nor keep up with whose ratings are good and whose are bad. As such, people who only occasionally use the trust system will use DT even if they have been here for a long time.

If this was the case, he certainly should have stolen from others, right? There should be no argument against him having a warning to others trading with him. By your description he has a lot of trading experience.

Or are you saying it is not unusual to receive negative ratings for arbitrary reasons that have nothing to do with the chances of the person trying to scam others?

IMO, the best course of action is for the thread to be locked and bones to remove the negative.

Regardless of the legitimacy of the rating, locking the thread will remove the underlying issue, which has previously been the standard to remove ratings.

If the PM is from a zero post newbie, it isn’t credible as displayed. If the OP receives additional verifiable evidence about suchmoon, he can unlock the thread.

A limited purpose public figure perhaps.

In the terms of the community, of which the trust ratings are in relation to, she is most certainly a public figure.

Suchmoon could be considered a "public figure" or a "limited purpose public figure" and under CA statutory law, she would have to affirmatively prove the statement to be false.

If it were my name there, I don't think I would have a case for libel. If it were me, I would deny the message is real (as suchmoon has done) and move on.

Well he was married at the time, in fact I believe it was said that some of them show him with a wedding ring on his finger. I think many would probably consider this "improper"

I continue to think giving a fine would be the best option, but if this is rejected by the administration.....

For lower ranking members, perhaps for junior members and below, there will be no change, they will be permabanned for the first instance.

For higher ranking members, the ban functionality can be modified so that for someone caught plagiarizing, a three day temp ban will start will start once they acknowledge they should not plagiarize, and that future instances of plagiarism will result in a permaban.

The above would prevent people from claiming they didn't know they aren't allowed to plagiarize, and will prevent the promise they will never do it again because they would have already broken that promise. It would also prevent established people from being excluded from the community for a single mistake.

I think in the majority of cases, the above is giving more chances than necessary.

I also think anyone who is banned for plagiarism should have their ban message explicitly say this. Perhaps any mod who has the authority to ban for plagiarism should have the ability to give this type of ban. The ban message could also say the ban is unlikely to get overturned if you actually plagiarized. This should cut down on the appeal threads in meta of people claiming to have no idea why they were banned.   

Maybe I am reading the tx history incorrectly, or maybe looking at the wrong eth address, however neither address in the OP (0xfb17eb2cf70ca13a7e4bed5a8479c8725ce08353 and 0xe9602ee7f7a74c03bb751bf54242ce75fc4a3831 have anything close to a hundred transactions within a few minutes. I don't even see anything close to a hundred transactions within an hour.

I do see several "bursts" of transactions of one transaction every 5-10 minutes over 4-5 transactions, but this would be well within the range of reasonableness for someone buying up ERC20 tokens (perhaps at a discount).

In order for something to be libel, it needs to be proven false, and cause damages, often via harm to their reputation, but can also be to decreased business income and similar.

The fact a statement can not be proven to be true is not libel, the statement must be proven to be false. Suchmoon admits above she cannot prove the OP to be false:

I am also not aware of any business that suchmoon conducts around here on any regular basis, so I cannot say she would win damages, even if she proved the OP to be false.

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People are allowed to post their own public information in their posts, and as such, reporting those posts would not be appropriate.

I don't need your consent to repeat information contained in your posts, we aren't having sex (gross, I got the shivers even thinking about that), I am repeating information I see in your post history.

Perhaps you should stop making people so mad at you they decide to post things that "triggers" you, such as your name. I have not seen you stop anyone from scamming someone, so there isn't anyone mad at you because you stopped them from having money they weren't due anyway.

This is never going to be put for a vote, as it is dead on arrival in the House. Pelosi has publicly said what amounts to that it will not be put to a vote, and she is smart enough to not put it to a vote based on the amount of ridicule it is receiving alone.

Trump is wanting to give this as much attention it can get to highlight the extremism on the left.

They would get redistributed to those with less. The miles would not be good for anything though.   

Bezos dick pics would be news worthy because he is the richest man in america and he runs Amazon (among other companies). He is a public figure, and the pictures would speak to his judgement.

I am not sure if you are a troll account or not....

If you believe Trump has the national intelligence in his back pocket, I would refer you to https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan and "A Higher Loyalty" by James Comey.

It would be a violation. A thread with 100 alt accounts talking to eachother is going to get locked, and the accounts banned.

FYI - Your scenario would make more sense if a single bot were to carry out this task.

It is effectively trying to outlaw the use of Airplanes (no fossil fuels after 10 years).

Trump seems to think AOC and democrats should move forward with the Green New Deal

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1094375749279248385

If there is evidence of this, articles of impeachment will probably get filed, and the democratic congress would probably impeach if the articles said he was driving 1 MPH over the speed limit, even though Trump doesn't drive. I would suspect Trump would release information regarding his campaign being spied on by the Obama administration not long after evidence that he ordered the CIA to hack Bezos' phone, which will probably mean he survives (I wouldn't necessarily continue to support him, but that is my prediction).

The "rumors" are actually Bezos' head of security (who is investigating the hacking) saying he believes this may have happened. I would note The Washington Post (wholly owned by Bezos) has gotten many stories wrong about Trump, and have been so wrong that months after the fact, I suspect they were made up to make him look bad. WaPo is so anti-trump that one of their editorial writers blamed Trump on one of the hurricanes last year. It has been claimed Bezos lets WaPo have editorial independence, but I don't believe it.

IIRC, the head of security for Bezos previously though the brother of Bezos' mistress was the one who leaked the texts (he denied it), and has not proffered anyone else who might be responsible; in essence he said "it is either her older brother, or Big Brother"
This really depends on the details of how the texts were stolen/the phone was hacked. If the actual phone was hacked, encryption would not do anything because the hacker could obtain the decryption key when it is in the phone's RAM, which would be as frequent as the phone reads/accesses text messages. If the texts were intercepted between the two phones (eg via cell towers), then maybe encryption would have protected him, although I understand iMessage uses encryption the government was unable to break as of 2015. I am not sure if Bezos and his mistress were using iMessage or not.