1) If those two are entitled to their opinion, then Flying Hellfish too is entitled to his opinion and is authorized to vocalize comments thereof.
2) American politics are not restricted solely to those that reside in the United States (or are citizens outside of the country). There is no reason why Canadians should not discuss American politics as well as their own.

I for one, support the second amendment. (And to create some change in Canadian law to authorize tools for self-defence)

Yep, and as you're looking at tort law, you would need to prove that there are damages.

If we're talking libel then you should show that Vod has made false statements that directly caused you damages.

But then Vod can always claim that there was qualified privilege or fair comment and dismiss your case, full stop. The latter being, "you strongly believe this person is a scammer" being applied to your asinine behavior.

This is such a trivial matter that at worst, it would cost Vod some gas money.

It seems you have a flawed understanding of the burden of proof.

The risked amount in your feedback to The Pharmacist is 100 BTC. Fact.
You have not shown that you have even traded with The Pharmacist, never mind risked 100 BTC. Fact.
Vod claims that your feedback shows a risked 100 BTC. Fact.
Vod claims that the 100 BTC risk is not substantiated. Fact.

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Your lawsuit is based upon this claim:

"Vod is committing libel by claiming that I lied, scammed, and am a criminal."

You have the burden of proof.

You need to substantiate why Vod's claim that you lied is false. You have the burden of proof.

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You're using a similar strategy to Christian apologetics in which they shift the burden of proof onto the one rejecting the claim.

It's suspicious but I would love to see substantiated evidence against these users.

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Hubris is an interesting thing.

Here's the problem. You're creating and assuming individual cases. I am not.

I realize there are a number of factors associated with gambling addiction. However, we are evaluating it from a control group (i.e. irrelevant of outside variables). Suppose our sample size is the entire population of the earth. Then, by analyzing the whole, we absolve any other factors from influencing the results.

It's like stating that all organic experiments are flawed because there are random factors associated with each organism and thus the results are skewed.

Bear in mind, these are also hypothetical ideas based on generalized principles. The average result will reduce overall gambling losses but there will always be variance. This is similar to gambling itself

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The thing is, your first example addresses a problem gambler. The behavior would have most likely happened regardless of the house edge (upon a loss) which means there is no significant change to our calculation of total losses.

Congratulations, anonymousminer!

a for anon, eh?

Sure, but the blunt truth is that save for a miraculous donation, no one would reasonably send over $1000 to an unknown user that literally just signed up to the forum to request a loan.

No. Sob stories don't supplement collateral. Words can be said by anyone.

Exactly. Your negative rating is for buying an account. I don't trust that behavior, full stop. You can choose to conflate this with being a scammer, but if this is the case, then clearly the same applies to you, correct?

All your negative feedback implies that those such users are scammers. Pray tell, why are they scammers?

Again, if you want to show a post that involves someone calling you a scammer (which you should be doing for each person you claim to have done that) then I will acquiesce.

Wrong. Vod has not called you a scammer. Vod has however called you a criminal. The only reason I didn't see this is because I was not looking for the keyword "criminal" and because I am not omniscient I did not instantly recall the thread (which I hadn't read).

Double standards? What a non-sequitur.

Here's the case in point: you put down "100 BTC" as the risked amount in the feedback.
Why? There was no BTC involved in any trade or lack thereof.

Are you kidding me?

Spam posts are just that: spam. Whether it's redundancy or generality, they contribute nothing to the topic and only create a buffer between actual, useful posts. If anyone is actually reading the thread, they don't want to see regurgitated content or one-liner replies of "good project".

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Imagine for a second. Any time you wanted to read a useful paragraph, you also had to skim through 5 (I'm being generous) paragraphs that either reference the same thing or add nothing new to your knowledge. It's absolutely absurd.

D: actmyname

Forget about Halloween, go for whitepaper!

We can stop right here.

My comment is exactly "Engaging in account sale conduct".
The reference points to a thread in which you state "If you accept escrow i will take it"

I do not see a false claim here. Would you like to tell me what is incorrect about my feedback?

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I just took a brief look at all the threads you've made. As far as I could tell, no one called you a scammer. Stop lying.

Having people be addicted to the lesser of two evils is not something that we should be seeking.

Your reply also has some parallels with various industry-funded research that casinos have been spreading. That being, problem gambling is more likely to develop in addictive personalities - that gambling is not inherently addictive but rather it becomes addictive to someone who is susceptible to it.

I simply cannot accept that a lack of gambling would causally imply a direct increase in alcohol abuse. I acquiesce that there may be some increase but I doubt that most problem gamblers will turn to addictive substances.

Moreover, it's really a matter of what someone is giving up: with alcohol, their health; with gambling, their money.

Does one really outlast the other?

This kind of safeguard to spam will ironically lead to spam attacks.

How easy it would be to flood the forum "pending post" database with huge numbers of posts to delay the moderators - Bitcointalk would have no chance.

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Consider the current state of the forum: how spam is dealt with.

User reports post.
Mod looks at report and deletes post if it is spam.

If there's still spam around the forum then certainly the problem is either not enough reporting or not enough moderating. I don't anticipate the addition of many mods which would alleviate the latter and I don't expect the former to change any time soon.

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Degradation has already set in with the Altcoin boards and I really don't expect posts to be moderated en masse. Do you really think mods will have time to pore over thousands of bounty reports, thousands of ICO comments, thousands of shills? Maybe if we get an equal amount of staff for the section

Up.

You are not going to do this. This is because it will be a waste of time. Not only that, but it seems unlikely that anyone is going to look at your testimonies as reliable especially considering your behavior in your recent posts.

If you are going to attack anyone for slander then it would be of your best interest to expunge all cases of your slander. And no, the excuse "well DT members are doing it so I can too" is not admissible. Moreover, your claim is simply untrue. All trusted feedback leads to a relevant reference. All your feedback either has no reference or leads to a circle and is utterly pointless. Seems to me that if you truly are going to do this whole marketing thing, it would lead to backlash against you.

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You consistently make the false attribution that we have been calling you a scammer. This is untrue.
You consistently make the claim that we have no proof for our feedback. This is untrue.
You consistently justify your improper use of the trust system by pretending that you are parroting. This is untrue.
You consistently lie and deflect and insult and think that you understand the trust system. This is untrue.

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I haven't made that many replies here because really - I don't have to. You keep digging yourself down deeper into the hole that you've blasted with the creation of these threads. Your vendetta is unhealthy. It's an internalized obsession and it seems that you're merely projecting everything that you have done onto other users.

Most people can see that you have blown everything out of proportion and will reject anything that does not conform to your beliefs. Beliefs that are absolutely, demonstrably untrue.
However, you keep waiting. Waiting for someone to agree. Through your confirmatory bias you hold this user's opinion in high regard and simply ignore every other opinion, attributing it to part of the gang. And of course, there will always be a user that will agree with you. And you will always have that self-serving bias to justify your actions. That is because there will always be users that receive the negative feedback and feel indignant enough to create droves of threads about the "wrongdoing", seeking the same thing you are.

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In reality, your actions are not unique. I personally have seen the same anger and process of retribution several times. The end result is always the same: the user stops posting on the forum.

The sooner you let go of your obsession, the sooner you can move on with your life.

IIRC, didn't you say you were going to do something similar last time as well? Before your hiatus.

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