Do you actually know what an analogy is?  The point is that people can get sick of you proposing projects you won't follow through on, even if you don't actually steal people's money, in the same way they'd get sick of seeing a contractor competing for contracts and then not showing up to do the work.  See, the situations are analogous, even if the details differ.

What a load of BS.  If you saw a contractor bid on your neighbors' jobs again and again and again and never show up or do any work, you'd get pretty pissed off when you saw him bid on yet another job, regardless of whether he eventually returned their deposits or not.  

Reputation matters.  If you don't want a bad one, stop proposing shit you can't follow through on.

Why do you keep asserting this when the evidence clearly points to the opposite conclusion?  The fact that you cling to your delusions and refuse to attempt to ascertain the truth is just further evidence of your unreliability.

Go read post #45 in this very thread.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=48325.msg576554#msg576554

Honest, except that you told everybody you were dedicated to projects you now admit you weren't.  Reliable, except you've never finished a single project you've proposed.

Right.

But all these people who trust you will still vote, right?  So we'll at least get a count of the people who believe in you.  How many do you think that is?

And yet when given an opportunity to back up your statements, you just backpedal and change your story.

Atlas:  People on the forum trust me.
Me:  Why not start a poll and prove it?
Atlas:  it doesn't matter what people on this forum think about me.

So that's a yes, then.  You didn't believe in any of those projects, despite what you said in all of those threads.  After all those lies, why would anyone believe you when you say you believe in this one?

Really?  You are delusional.  How about you start a poll asking if people believe you will see this project through to completion?

So you haven't believed in any of the projects youve proposed before this?  Because you sure sounded gung ho at the time...

So, out of the many many projects you've proposed and then abandoned, your successes are (a) being in a robotics club in high school and (b) making a phone call.

I stand by my statement: your reputation is crap, and anyone who gives you money deserves to lose it.

Name one project that you've finished.

You have proposed MANY projects and gone through with NONE of them.  You are the last person anyone should trust to accomplish anything beyond writing spastic Internet posts.

I don't think he was being sarcastic.  In addition to begging, Bitcoin enthusiasts also enjoy sketching out crude prototypes of things and hoping someone else will show up and make them. 

Oh as long as you're only begging ironically, I guess that's OK.

Thanks for spamming the thread with a link to a thread where you link to an empty GitHub page you made telling other people how you want them to code your project for you, but how does this address any of the security / confidence issues that have been raised?

If only there was a third option...  What's that thing that's the opposite of shame? 

Bitcoins:  the cutting edge of begging technology.

Bitcoin:  the cutting edge of begging technology.

I'm sure it makes you feel important to think Powerful Forces are behind incidents like this but get real.  At this point Bitcoin is so comically far from threatening the status quo that even if the secret cabal of fiat money overlords you're all worked up about existed, they'd be more worried about asteroids hitting the Earth than a niche cryptocurrency you can't actually buy anything with.

Before inventing conspiracies, look to the obvious.  In this case:  greed or boredom.  Someone's either trying to up their mining output by taking out the pools or just felt like fucking with other people's stuff because they were bored and wanted to see if they could.