I don't know why you pontificate in such a categorical way in a forum that is not yours, but theymos'. I have said before that I find it reasonable in principle to see a potential conflict of interest, but if theymos has already appointed a manager as a merit source it is clear that he studies the cases one by one and does not see things as categorically as you do.

Right, you always have to keep in mind that it is not a static thing.


Well, I would qualify that this is at a specific price. In the last year the trend has been that supply has not matched demand by very little, so the price trend has been increasing. If there is demand for 900 bitcoins a day at a price of around $50k and only 850 are sold the way for those left not buying to prompt those holding bitcoin to sell is to raise the bid price.

Years ago I bought a car that I partially financed, which I no longer do as I have not had consumer debt for some time. With a good streak I caught with poker, what I did was to pay off the loan. I believe that I could not have used the money better because from then on I started to build real wealth.

That happened to me once as well. I requested an "instant" withdrawal that took almost 24 hours to be processed. And it wasn't a very large amount, like $100 or so. But I have never had a similar problem with freebitco.in again.


I guess even though they are supposedly instant they require someone's manual approval and I don't think they have many people running the site either, but I didn't see any messages as you say. I have to say that other times I had also requested an instant withdrawal and everything worked perfectly, but since that time I have not done it again (why would I request an "instant" withdrawal that sometimes can take up to 24 hours to process?).

Sure, I'm going to get down to providing evidence of what everyone can see, lol.


Sure, sure. The fact that you earn merits at 0.64 times your activity despite the walls of text you write and the lessons you pretend to give everyone and you call me a garbage poster when I earn merits at 1.54 times my activity is a big lol as well. Don't you get tired of making a fool of yourself?

Oh, wait, it turns out that you don't earn enough merits in this forum because the forum members have a low IQ, is that it?

 


That's all well and good philipma1957 but what you don't explain is why he hasn't done that already. icopress has earned almost 7000 merits, which is almost 3500 smerits. Look at his post history and tell me a single case that is as you say. It is no more a conflict of interest than the 7,000 merits he has earned. Shall we ban him from using smerits too?

Giving your girlfriend money instead of a gift is a bad idea. No wonder it's a bad idea around the world. It seems to me that the protagonist of the story doesn't understand women, to try to talk about money, or give her money the least ideal day of the year is Valentine's Day. And I am surprised by those who say that the one who did it wrong is the woman. They don't have a fucking clue about women either.

In my case I don't worry too much because the profits I have from playing poker are not excessively high, and I also have tax deductions that compensate me for those profits. I also have a good emergency fund and sinking funds to draw from if I suddenly have a high bill.

Well, as I commented recently in a thread, I practically only play poker and in fiat rooms. For some time I play a season in Pokerstars and when I get tired I play in Pacific, I play another season and then I go back to Pokerstars. The advantage of Pokerstars is that it has more traffic and better software but the level is higher. In Pacific it is easier to win but it has less traffic. Also from time to time I try some crypto room with casino games but it is not my thing.

When I joined this campaign I made a deposit and played on the site because I believe it is reasonable to test the service you are advertising. But my thing is to play poker and on fiat sites, because crypto sites are not nearly as good as the main fiat ones for poker.

In this case I don't have a twitter account and wouldn't mind supporting the room again but I agree with PytagoraZ that the required deposit seems large, as it is roughly equivalent to a week's campaign. But I see that there are already people taking advantage of the promo, so good luck.

Saving should be a habit like brushing your teeth or taking a shower. If you get into the habit of spending less than you earn, you will greatly improve your financial situation over time. Of course, after you have enough savings for an emergency fund you should invest the money in good quality assets, including Bitcoin of course, because if you simply save in fiat money you will lose purchasing power due to inflation.

Yes, in my case it doesn't affect me much, because although I have some satoshis there that give me a little interest, the interest of a lost day is almost nothing. I do not know what those who have large amounts will think but if they were 18 hours without being able to run the business it is also understandable that by generating much less revenue they may decide not to pay the interest if they finally decide to do so.

You were a hypocrite who is not to give moral lessons in August 2023, and you are still a hypocrite now, because nothing has happened since then to think that you have stopped being a hypocrite, on the contrary.



This is interesting and I agree in principle if we add the word potentially: A campaign manager and a merit source are potentially a conflict of interest. Maybe if I were theymos I would think about not giving merit source status to any campaign manager for this very reason. Now, if this is not the case, as Hhampuz says the merit records sent are public and if there was a misuse some people would immediately complain about it in the Reputation section.

In fact, to me the strongest proof that icopress will not misuse merits if given merit source status is that he earns merits at 5 times his activity and does not misuse them now.

Well, everything here is circumstantial evidence, and in this topic I guess I'm biased because I've had a candidate in mind for the airfinex main account for some time now, and I'm surprised that this account has not tried to join signature campaigns while airfinex has, and that in the thread asking about spammers he has not included some campaigns that he knows very well. Although I could be wrong about that too, because the "evidence" I have for that is even less than for thinking it has changed hands. I am deleting the neutral tag.

Do you mean that you, with your (supposed) super high IQ, do put the interests of the community first by wearing a casino advertisement in your signature, while saying this?


You're not here to give many ethics lessons yourself. I'll summarize it for you in a sentence, which is not mine:

Gambling without using money is not gambling, period. Gambling is often talked about as entertainment or fun but without using money it would not be the same, the emotion of winning or losing is what makes it fun (as long as it is played responsibly, otherwise it can become a drama).

When people bet, everyone wants to win money, the problem is people who bet on non-skill games and think that they are a good way to earn money in the long term or people who play skill games without putting in the dedication, study and effort required to make money.

If the sample is large enough, yes. But it's like when the RTP is less than 100. If you're playing a game with 90% RTP, that doesn't prevent you from walking out of the casino that night with a 1,000x, but if you go to the casino many nights, the more times you play the closer the total result of money wagered for you versus money won will be to getting 90 for every 100 wagered. In the case of RTP over 100 it is the same but in reverse.

It is a thing that stands out and that I already commented in the thread he opened to ask a stupid question, more typical of someone new to the forum than someone who has been at least 6 years in it.

airfinex is obviously an alt account, which until now had been characterized by playing a role of "vigilante" so to speak in forum issues. Most of his posts were written in Reputation and he was the first to draw attention to Ratimov's plagiarism, for example.

After a small gap of about three weeks, nothing unusual for him, his first post is to apply for a signature campaign and since then all his posts are in soccer threads in the gambling section, apart from the banal thread below:

Which campaign has the most spammers?

Aside from the stupidity of the OP's question, he commits a gross error by putting WO next to casino names, as if WO were a campaign, and apart from that he does not include in the poll the casinos that all of us who have been on the forum longer know have more spammers.

This is quite striking compared to how intelligent and detailed his posts were prior to this change of pattern (regardless of agreeing or disagreeing with what he advocated).

To me it is very likely that the account has changed hands, as we have seen this story before: a clear pattern change where someone who had never posted in the gambling section starts posting almost exclusively there and also makes stupid statements or questions that do not match his previous history in the forum.

In my case I am going to leave a neutral tag, as I am quite in favor of red tagging the accounts for having changed hands but the evidence is not conclusive.

Well, I would qualify. In casino games with a House Edge, the control of emotions can make you lose less in the long term, and therefore you can have more punctual sessions with profit, but it can't help you to beat the House Edge. In games like poker that do not have a House Edge, the control of emotions is essential to win money in the long term.

Lol, that's the first time I've heard such an explanation, although on reflection it sounds plausible. It occurs to me that maybe they not only don't go to church if they get addicted to gambling, maybe if they have a big win they will devote themselves to enjoying earthly pleasures and forget about religion. In any case, religions usually prohibit what are known as vices, such as alcohol, as you say, everything that can make people deviate from the behavior considered morally upright.

I find it hard to honestly believe that the OP doesn't know which campaigns have the most spammers. It's clear to me that it's someone's alt account, and seeing the things he knows about reputation it doesn't quite make sense that he doesn't know what he's asking.

Another thing I find surprising is that he has started posting in the gambling section when he had never done it before, to the point that I wonder if the account has changed hands, but without more data we can not know for sure.