Well, if that's all it is, it's obviously craziness.  Whether it's against the rules or not, I have to wonder why you'd create a thread about it.  You've been here long enough to know you ought to let that crap roll right off you like rain from a duck's feathers.  If he was accusing you of something very specific in the way of criminality, then I might contest it in a thread--but BADecker is just throwing a nonsense word tantrum

Follow the Beatles and just let it be, eh?

Um....I'm guessing the service being advertised isn't going to be seen by the target demographic much, but these days you just never know.   

Man, signature campaigns mean so much to a lot of people.  What you described sounds a bit extreme, though.I chuckled out loud when I read that.  Dude should have had that anatomical area stretched out and had it covered with advertising.  That would be dedication.

Gawd dangly!!  These are absolutely awesome.  I'm not a big crypto collector, but I love any forum-related memorabilia, if only for the fact that there don't tend to be a lot of bitcointalk collectibles.  I appreciate you alerting the community about this gem, OP.  Satochips are great to use, but they're kind of like postage stamps and coins as well--art can be added on top of the practicality.

Nice.  There are only 5 cards being made?  That seems like an incredibly limited edition.  And yeah OP, I know you said the number but I'm just voicing my thoughts out loud here.  Wouldn't they want to make more?

I just want to stop right here and ask about this particular point you made.  I haven't looked (and probably should have before beginning this post), but I've heard that because of the newer generation(s) not being interested in sex that population growth has either slowed significantly or gone negative.  If all you're saying is that it's increasing, well, that's been true for centuries.  Probably since the beginning of man, right?

That quote in the title, I heard it in The Social Network and still remember it.  The Larry Summers character said it to the Winklevoss twins about Harvard students--and that's just the thing; it might very well be true for those who could get into a university like Harvard, but for the rest of us inventing a job and not only being able to support yourself and perhaps a family too, but to turn it into something highly profitable, is a pipe dream.  The fact that there are so many human beings on the planet makes it nearly impossible to do it, because there are only so many jobs one can invent without the need for workers, i.e., those who find jobs.

All of that blather aside, I'd have to at least agree that working for yourself is way better than being a cog in the enormous wheel of the corporate world (if you're not an upper-level boss, that is).

A lot of members from pretty much any rank are scared to contact Theymos via PM, at least if what I receive in my own inbox to be true--they'll keep apologizing for contacting me for a review, even though I've made the offer, etc.  So OP might be an alt who's trying to get Theymos's ear, and personally I don't have a problem with it.

Hey Theymos, could you possibly give us a state of the union address, focusing on the merit system?  Like how you think it's working, how merit sources are performing, and whether you think we need some new ones?  Don't know about anyone else, but I'd sure as hell appreciate it.

OP, stop bumping this thread with multiple posts.  If you need to respond to several members, do it in one post.  You're not allowed to bump your own thread more than once per 24 hours.

And since this seems to be a Collectibles-related matter, I've got no dog in the fight and no bias toward or against anyone posting here.  So I have to say that your posts are juvenile, and your response to a neutral feedback looks very much like a small child throwing a tantrum in a room full of people who aren't his parents and don't love him.  In other words, you haven't gotten any support; you're not going to get any; grow a spine and stop whining about a neutral when you've got negative feedback from members like Foxpup.  Your bearing is that of a retard.

SHH.

I haven't "fallen out of love" with doing post history reviews, nor have I gone the route of Ratimov but as of late I've been up to my ass in alligators in real life and my motivation for doing them has dropped dramatically.  I'm hoping that 'ol mojo will come back soon, but right now I've got a queue of members who've PMed me and for who I still need to reviews.  I haven't paused my offer, but just know that any new requests are going to be in for a long-ish wait time.

Sometimes doing stuff like this is a pain in the ass.  I suspect that's why you don't see more merit sources doing giveaways and the like.

Well, where the rest of us are at, this method is the most prudent when there's a contentious issue.  Some red tags can be handed out with zero debate while others are way more complicated.

No shit.  I read most of this thread when it started, and right now I feel like I need to go back and figure out just what the hell is really going on.  Guess I haven't really been paying attention to this--or at least not enough.

Nah, lots of members (including yours truly) have gotten name changes granted via a simple request to Theymos.  Hell, cryptovatorcoolvator even got two of them.  And yeah, I know this has already been addressed.

No, not off-topic for forum drama.  Either Reputation or Meta, and both of these have already been suggested and I'm pretty sure OP is thinking of one or the other.

Welcome back, TheBeardedBaby!  Compared to years past, there really hasn't been tons of drama or really serious crap go down since you've been gone.  Yeah, the Ratimov thing and Royse777 getting his reputation tarnished practically overnight.  Vod came back twice to stir the pot about OgNasty and forum funds....aside from those things, I'll be damned if I can think of anything that stuck in my Teflon memory bank.  It's been almost too quiet.

I like to think of myself as The Fallen Angel (and dammit, that's what I ought to have changed my username to) rather than some kind of lesser god. 

And boy, after bumping around DT1 and DT2 for years, I'm right back where I started....grateful to have had those god particles thrust upon me and aware of the responsibilities that come with being on either tier of the DT list.  Hopefully new additions to it and future ones realize that there are responsibilities, like keeping a relatively cool head, being conservative when handing out negative trust (and even more conservative with positive trust), and probably other stuff that my muddled mind can't bring to the fore at the moment.

However grateful I am, though, I'm going to keep saying that being on DT isn't what it used to be because of the rotating system.  Don't know if anyone agrees with me on that or if it even matters, but that's how I see it.  DT is dead!  Long live DT!

One would hope any campaign wouldn't skimp on the fees, but when they're sky-high it'd be smart on the project's part to not go overboard.  That kind of reminds me of all those internet startups in the late 90s and early 00s that burned through capital as fast as they got it--and on unnecessary stuff, too.

Sorry, that sounds like I'm against them taking care of campaign participants, which I'm not.  In fact, it's a generous gesture and when fees are high bitcoin is usually acting pretty volatile and who knows what could happen with the price when you're waiting and waiting?

Kudos on you, icopress, and MixTum as well.

I'm sorry OP, but I have to stop right here and give you a suggestion: if you're creating a thread to ask a simple question or to address an issue that doesn't require a ton of elaboration, don't blow up your first post like a blimp, i.e., fill it with all of this bloated nonsense.  Especially if your grasp of English is tenuous.

It's a very thinly-veiled merit grab attempt.  That's it.

Suggestions and questions are absolutely appropriate--I guess since I mentioned the lack of upgrades in the context of the forum having enough money to make substantial upgrades, I qualified that by saying that I've got no financial stake in anything Theymos has planned and certainly wouldn't make demands that he hurry up and finish that pie-in-the-sky new forum software and the like.

I'm guessing if that project ever does get completed, I'm probably not going to like how the forum looks as much as I do now--but it's been the same since I registered, so I've known no different.  OP's complaints aren't unreasonable IMO, since forum accounts do have value and said complaints are about security.  The emotion might have been turned down a notch or two, but if nobody bitched about anything then there would be no progress, right?

I'm shocked, I tell you.  Shocked!!

Now this is actually what I came to the HW wallet section for, because I was just on Bitbox's website and saw that they were developing their own little device from which you could run a bitcoin lightning network node, which they called the BitBoxBase.  I'd never read anything on the forum about this and was wondering if anyone knew about it.  It's not revolutionary for experienced users, of course, but for retards like me it might be a neat thing to blow money on.



Guess they put the development on hold for some reason.

The website for this is the most loaded diaper I've ever seen, and I've seen a-plenty.



Uh, yeah.  I have an easy solution to that psychological problem.  Just step away from whatever screen you're using to look at the market when it's going crazy, take a breather, take a dump, whatever.  Come back when calm.  I didn't bother to see what "data-backed recommendations" you're providing, but your coin is a whole lot of bloated nothing.

Seriously?  Gotta take a look at when you registered, BRB.

....OK, looks like you've been in the altcoin space for years now.  I suspected yours might have been a bought/hacked account, because it's hard for me to believe any member at Hero rank would look at the website for this shitcoin and think there was any substance to it. 

SocialFi?
Nano-influencers?



What the hell does any of that even mean?  It's a bunch of word salad that's been left out in the heat too long, that's how bad it is.

Digaran, can you elaborate on what the issue is with NeuroticFish?  I've been off the forum more in the past week than I usually am so I think I've probably missed a few things.

I'm gonna have to agree with you on that one.  I don't get the feeling that you're trolling with these threads (as provocative as they are), and even if you were you shouldn't get negative trust for it--and especially not from anyone on DT.  I thought we'd all gotten past that issue by now, or at least most of the senior members had.

Challenging the legitimacy of someone's standing on DT is fine, but you've got to make a solid argument.

What about that big hack back in 2017?  Wasn't that a hack of the forum and its data itself rather than of individual accounts? 

And to be fair, there are many aspects of bitcointalk that are still in the 2009 era and really shouldn't be.  I mean I like the consistency of the UI and all that, but 1) Where's that New Forum Software that's been in the works since probably before I joined in 2015, and 2) At least a small amount of the forum's funds should probably go toward upgrading a few things--maybe 2FA, improving the search function, creating a mobile-friendly version, and also a dark mode.  Just my 2 sats; those aren't my funds, so it's not like my "vote" matters.

Props to you for acknowledging an error instead of doubling down for ego reasons like most people do.  That's to be respected IMO.

But Jesus, I'll have to go back and read everything again since it looks like there's been some drama added to the already-existing drama, or at least an attempt to escalate the pre-existing drama.  I might be wrong, but when I saw this thread a couple of days ago, Symmetrick's name was not present--and I'm not even sure I've seen that username before.

Is there an established correlation between the price of bitcoin and the level of forum drama?  I've not done the analysis myself, but if I had to guess...

Could be.  I haven't read through every post here, but I checked to see if OP made some sort of followup post (and he didn't that I can tell). 

If there's any grain of truth to this story, hopefully it wasn't that OP had $74k worth of crypto on an exchange, because that's a major mistake that nobody ought to be making these days.  However, if there was ever going to be an accusation of money laundering being slung against someone, it'd probably be because they were dealing in amounts that high.  Sure, $74k could be peanuts to some people....but it's not peanuts, and I don't think there's an exchange in existence that should be trusted with that high a dollar amount.  Yikes.