Moved this into Meta, but I wont touch the issue any further since I'm involved and bias could be unfair.


To be fair, I'm planning to upgrade to a SP31/35 (as per the thread wtt request) so not being a total jerk/ingrate in selling/trading it.

The moderation guidelines say:

If an entire page is taken up by Spondoolies reviews, then that's probably too many topics. How this should be handled is more tricky, since I don't want to suppress anyone's honest opinion. We'll see if ckolivas' locking solution is helpful.

Welcome back Dogie. Have you asked the mods to delete philipma1957 poll questions ?

Updated?

General comments now Guy on what you think is going to happen in the next few months?

Guy your wasting too much of your time here, its nonsense because i dont think that more than 20% of your sales comes from bitcointalk users

 Dogie attempts to strangle the voice of the community.

It really should be worrying that Dogie a paid promoter is trying to degrade and stop open debate about the practices of the ASIC manfucturers.

Why should this community be held hostage to one view point on hardware?

Whatever the complaint is in Meta someone will always look to a conspiracy after something doesn't go their way because the truth is always far less exciting and uncontroversial.

Thank you for the explanation and the solution how to do the poll.

However, it raises more questions:

Why not simply to move the poll questions to Archival and ask Philip to change his post ?
Why the aggressive delete without any explanation ?
Are you covering for another mod action with an explanation after the fact ?
Was the deleting was done due to another Dogie complain ?

Is not worth the time&energy,  is like fighting the wind or rain...

Philip should look into:

No, because you've already made up your mind, and I don't care enough to try and change it. Maybe someone else will, maybe they won't.

add another vote from me to Spondoolies - very impressed with their equipment, service and support

Mods (as well os other members reporting them) seem to think differently. Theymos even gave you an explanation why in his opinion they are spam.


In my experience: Nope you wont. You seem to take it way to personal anyway.


Thanks for making my point.

Because spam gets deleted. If you want specific action like this taken you need to work it out with a moderator beforehand. Not just post it and hope they deal with it the way you hope they will.

Thank you for the explanation and the solution how to do the poll.

However, it raises more questions:

Why not simply to move the poll questions to Archival and ask Philip to change his post ?
Why the aggressive delete without any explanation ?
Are you covering for another mod action with an explanation after the fact ?
Was the deleting was done due to another Dogie complain ?

We get it.  You paid good BTC for those polls and are upset they got nuked from space.

But deploying minions to spam the HW sub is also an arguably "hostile action" and will predictably result in moderation.

Again, I suggest you



instead of being a Spamdoolie.

You have a successful ASIC company and should have much better things to do than badger Thermos.

If you need help brainstorming ideas, let us know.

Fair enough. In the mean time, let me remind you theymos' suggestion:


...then I'd be glad to reinstate my votes


And I'm not saying you are.

Yes, I think that plain deletion of these polls without any comment from the mods was kind of brutal. However, after theymos' answer, I would assume good faith from the mods, i.e. not make it a big deal, and just move forward. Even if Dogie were indeed the one reporting philipma1957's polls, 1) it's not public information, and 2) it doesn't really make any difference, does it?


Wait and see, I guess

Just to pipe in a little.  I was not meaning to troll with my comment.  I also did not mention person I suspected as I have zero proof.

I wish we would see a little bit of transparency on what caused this, and how this happened.   I have reported a gaming hardware build that is in BTC hardware forum - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=938212.0 and have it was not moved even though it's been days.

I'm not trying to troll just wondered the timeline of what happened for it to be removed.  I know this forum is a place I do enjoy, and it is a "Privilege" not a "Right" to be able to use the site.  I just wish on a incident like this the community was not so in the dark.

Well, I think it was a loaded question, given the phrasing and the fact that it was asked publicly. Now it's up to him to choose whether he wants to answer it or not.


True, yet you relayed them.

Anyway, my point is that I think most people will agree that Spondoolies is a great ASIC manufacturer, and I share that opinion. And that's precisely the reason why I'd like to see you stay above the crowd by not going personal against other forum members, no matter how biased and/or unfounded their posts may be. For example, seeing Inaba trolling or using ad hominem instead of arguments didn't help BFL with their reputation... just sayin'

Please make your company a PR favor by assuming good faith here, you had a sensible explanation from the forum admin himself. IMHO the first two questions are kind of legit (though picky), but the last two are slipping into personal suspicion or conspiracy theories. By now I think we've all taken notice that you and Dogie aren't friends, just let it be.

Truly sad to see it closed.  I will not post my thoughts, just that I think someone has a lot of pull on what happens. Apparently this poll he did not like.