Yeah, that's also true. I guess as time goes on the numbers of Seniors will exponentially rise.

Bitcoin-Police's feedback is worthless and always will be. Half of his 'scam busting' is just him stating the obvious or repeating what somone has already stated, the other half is just whatever he doesn't like the look of or on a hunch. He's essentially just trolling and seems to be quite the racist and xenophobe:

Newbie clown asking for loan. Of course no collatreal. Seems to be a very aggresive Paki!
This east european retard mentally unstable.Keeps on asking for loans although he has been flagged multiple times!
This is the same filthy Paki scum using the account "Madras". This clown tries to play Bitcoin-Police.But I am the real Bitcoin-Police.Step aside Pakiboy.
This African Ape is asking for a 10 BTC loan.I mean come on - 10 BTC? You gotta be shitting me,right???

Why would you take anyone who leaves those sort of feedbacks seriously?

It's not that they necessarily have the better vision, but they certainly have the money to do it. I think most of us here would invest in many bitcoin companies if we only had the wealth to do so. I also wouldn't compare Conbase to a bank but rather Paypal or something.

Maybe he will in the future. I think if any mainstream bank was going to accept - or at least offer to do something with bitcoin - it would be Virgin Money, though I am also disappointed he hasn't branched out with bitcoin acceptance in all his other companies. That would indeed be huge for us.

To be honest, what else could they say? Any intelligent person looking at bitcoin can see it's not a ponzi. Only those that don't understand it or fear it would say it was one.

Like bankers don't do drugs or launder cartel drug money. I'm sure a fair few of them engage in child porn as well, but one thing is for sure: we can't screw up the economy any more than they already have. I'd personally like to think the better and less corrupt system will win.

Possibly. I have thought there maybe could be a Service Help sub for those sorts of quandaries as simple help me with this service threads obviously get mixed up with people just generally discussing services etc.

You're right. It doesn't. It's not going to be given out to hundreds of people. It's essentially a promotional job as it looks like you have to blog, vlog and tweet about your experiences during it.

You wont need to. I just read the article. It seems Brawker want you to largely use their service which is a site that attempts to let you buy anything you want with bitcoins through it.

Seems like a bit of a hassle to implement imo and a thread discussing the need for a new board would probably suffice. Out of curiosity, what new boards would you suggest? I can't think of any that are desperately needed and more boards can sometimes create more problems than they solve and cause more hassle than they're worth.

Where did you read that? As far as I'm aware they're still considering their options for it.


A sentiment I'm sure is shared with probably half the forum (but maybe also not the other half ).

When what is reported? Someone stating that you're unlikely to sell something? Saying something you don't like isn't against the rules and the report won't be acted upon unless it does. You can say you were 'harassed' and your reputation is being 'tarnished' or whatever but these are all just exaggerations to suit your argument. You see, you would've been fine with us bending the rules on this occasion to remove the posts you reported (even though they broke no rules), but I doubt you would've appreciated staff removing any posts of yours that someone didn't like.


The feedback left is unmoderated, but you were obviously aware of the nature of the system in that people get added to and removed from the list from time to time and you were seemingly fine with that until recently. It's a working trust network until you get removed for abusing the trust then it's suddenly an authoritative bitcoin Illuminati buddy list. Can't have it both ways. If theymos or any other admins really wanted to abuse the system then they would just remove the offending feedback, but I think the system worked well in this example contrary to your belief. What exactly do they have to gain from removing you? It's a good warning to others on there; make sure to not let personal feelings get in the way if you've been trusted with a position of power or your position may be reconsidered.

Lending requests can go in the Marketplace. I don't think there's any plans to implement new subs in the future but if a Lending section was going to be added I think a lot of others should be too. It really depends on what the admins want from that section, but more subs = more moderation for those subs and I think that's one thing they aren't too keen on.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=167.0

The money is being used as a new forum is being developed and should be ready early next year so not much point trying to fix it now. Avatars really aren't a high enough priority to bother sorting out on this forum.

hilariousandco

thanks.

It's probably a grey area in many places, but it will depend on the country you're in and the ones they're hosted in. I think (though not 100%) PD recently blocked access from one country due to laws and dooglus had to close up shop for a similar reason.


Well that depends on your opinion or luck with gambling  .

Yeah, I've actually seen that happen a few times, but that's only if you accidentally send the money to someone who's a decent person. I've seen the opposite happen more times though. Was reading a negative feedback recently somewhere after they'd accidentally sent this guy 10btc or something and he refused to send it back and kept it, so be very careful where you send your money.

You wait. I'd also suggest learning to triple check amounts and wallet addresses you're sending money to. You don't want to accidentally send coins to a complete stranger, that won't come back no matter how long you wait.

Do you have to use bitcoins directly or could you use bitcoin to buy things like gift cards to use at stores? It could easily be done with gift cards as there are plenty of sites that let you buy them and you could get your groceries and day to day stuff that way, but otherwise very difficult.

You added this bit in after I posted:


Isn't abusing the default trusted position damaging the community? And funny you bring up egos as it was your ego that got you into this mess in the first place. What you really want is for nobody else's "ego" to get involved or make the rules but yours. Everything was fine and dandy apparently until somebody said something you didn't like and you abused your weight of the default feedback to try get your own way. If default trust is such an issue just disregard it, but it seems it was fine whilst you were on it.


Exactly and this is the irony and hypocrisy here. People abuse the trust system then complain when they're removed from it. Users often complain that people on the default trust have a monopoly over it and that they're free to leave feedback for whoever they don't like but if it's unjust clearly this isn't the case and the community responded appropriately. I think this is a good thing.  You can't have it both ways.