That's basically what you are saying, they are of a certain age, therefore their lives should be managed regardless of what they have to say about it, people use the same arguments against children that they used against women and blacks.
Racial and gender discrimination is not comparable to age. If you're 16 and are not allowed to vote, you'll be 18 in 2 years, if you're black and not allowed to vote, you won't turn white in 2 years. I would suggest you keep those unpopular comparisons to yourself. |
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Here is a prime example on what goes on in threads. People go off topic on threads about things that can be discussed through PM's. This unnecessarily bumps old threads.
hehe, indeed... After all, they need the posts as they get paid by them. Also nice to see how quickly they softball each other to keep the illusion of meaningful posts/replies alive. Once given the flashlight, they react like typical cockroaches that immediately demand to be left alone as they seek the darkness. But given the overall state of the Bitcoin community - they're generally in good company. It's the only place outside Wall St. where you can see wildlife sharks trying to torpedo other sharks and scammers openly trying to compete for fresh victims on a daily basis. If I was asked to judge people with Bitcoin as an example... the term civilizatory decay would come readily to mind. I never before saw so much scum and the lowest of human greed concentrated in one place before outside the banking system. Should Bitcoin ever fail, it will likely not be Bitcoin's fault - but caused by the people around it. Hah, implying we're soft balling each other, and implying that even if we did it would be something bad. As stated above I don't 'need' the money as it's not my regular income, but then again it is an incentive, and I'm not denying that. Speaking about people looking out for each other, helping each other and working together - then speaking about the human greed and scum? I'm not sure what you're referring to. |
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Unfortunately you'll find people in power and her parents won't see it that way.
Don't get me wrong mate, I'm not discussing whether or not teenagers should be able to chose freely things that only impact their own lives, such as who they're sleeping with, drinking alcohol etc. But they should not have the position to be in power of whatever country you live in. |
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I'd vote for keeping things as they are...
I find is useful that poeple who mindlessly rent their sigs as spam openly demonstrate that they can be bought dirt cheap and have no principles or conscience.
It tells alot about someone who does that, thus I consider it useful info.
When I was advertising for bit777 he only had a few people so he checked everyone thoroughly. I made 298 posts and got paid for all of them. It's easy to not spam and still post a lot, you just have to have opinions and know stuff to answer people's questions, or participate in discussions. I joined Primedice today and I've made about 35 posts, none of them would qualify as spam imho. The change is some sort of collective punishment, for a few nutjobs spamming for their lives to get cash. Yeah, I don't even set a quota or anything. If I have something to say, then I'll say it. Some days I don't even post. Getting into conversations definitely helps! I think that I'll be a full member within a few weeks, just got to wait it out  Hah same, it's not my regular income, it's just nice to get something as a reward for doing something that you otherwise enjoy. Precisely! Likewise too - do you trade? I have a window open at work with the exchange up - though I'm sure that it only stresses me out haha. Here is a prime example on what goes on in threads. People go off topic on threads about things that can be discussed through PM's. This unnecessarily bumps old threads. We were on topic and discussing the subject matter till that response, of which I could've decided to answer with a PM. The forums are there for people to be able to communicate, and just as well as he didn't have to post that you did not have to read it. Can people stop behaving like babies that needs to be taken care of constantly and mind themselves instead? |
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I'd vote for keeping things as they are...
I find is useful that poeple who mindlessly rent their sigs as spam openly demonstrate that they can be bought dirt cheap and have no principles or conscience.
It tells alot about someone who does that, thus I consider it useful info.
When I was advertising for bit777 he only had a few people so he checked everyone thoroughly. I made 298 posts and got paid for all of them. It's easy to not spam and still post a lot, you just have to have opinions and know stuff to answer people's questions, or participate in discussions. I joined Primedice today and I've made about 35 posts, none of them would qualify as spam imho. The change is some sort of collective punishment, for a few nutjobs spamming for their lives to get cash. Yeah, I don't even set a quota or anything. If I have something to say, then I'll say it. Some days I don't even post. Getting into conversations definitely helps! I think that I'll be a full member within a few weeks, just got to wait it out Hah same, it's not my regular income, it's just nice to get something as a reward for doing something that you otherwise enjoy. |
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I'd vote for keeping things as they are...
I find is useful that poeple who mindlessly rent their sigs as spam openly demonstrate that they can be bought dirt cheap and have no principles or conscience.
It tells alot about someone who does that, thus I consider it useful info.
When I was advertising for bit777 he only had a few people so he checked everyone thoroughly. I made 298 posts and got paid for all of them. It's easy to not spam and still post a lot, you just have to have opinions and know stuff to answer people's questions, or participate in discussions. I joined Primedice today and I've made about 35 posts, none of them would qualify as spam imho. The change is some sort of collective punishment, for a few nutjobs spamming for their lives to get cash. |
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I agree, need to weed out spammers. but to be honest i like seeing all the sigs and the colors added flare to this forum. niw the forum look like every other forum. generic
Well according to moderators the signatures weren't the problems. It was the spammers. Therefore they removed the signatures, and not the spammers. . .. … =)) Na but the forums are calmer now. I suppose there are benefits of that too. While there are measures to curb spammers, perhaps it would have been more community spirited to encourage forum users to report spammers, such that they could be deal with on a case-by-case basis. We have plenty of moderators, and many more users to the forum - if we can guide them to the offenders then we may see an improvement. Of course, even with this signature limitation we can still take action on the spammers as a community. And yes, I am a PrimeDice sig participant  Enjoying the lower payouts cause a minority of us spam do ye? Heh. Well a payout for posting is better than nothing, right? It does suck a little though. Stunna has kindly offered to pay his full rate for the posts between the start of the term and the date of the change, all subsequent posts will be about 1/3rd of the rate. Will be interesting to see what his revised rates will be. There are other dice sites that claim to offer more, even for Members, but whether they are as honourable as Stunna, I don't know. Will likely stay put and continue posting in any case There are better paying ones, or atleast they offer better payment. But unlike with stunna you never know if they're gonna pull a fast one. I hope he doesn't switch to an activity based payment structure.. makes no sense and would prolly result in reaaally bad payouts. |
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I agree, need to weed out spammers. but to be honest i like seeing all the sigs and the colors added flare to this forum. niw the forum look like every other forum. generic
Well according to moderators the signatures weren't the problems. It was the spammers. Therefore they removed the signatures, and not the spammers. . .. … =)) Na but the forums are calmer now. I suppose there are benefits of that too. While there are measures to curb spammers, perhaps it would have been more community spirited to encourage forum users to report spammers, such that they could be deal with on a case-by-case basis. We have plenty of moderators, and many more users to the forum - if we can guide them to the offenders then we may see an improvement. Of course, even with this signature limitation we can still take action on the spammers as a community. And yes, I am a PrimeDice sig participant Enjoying the lower payouts cause a minority of us spam do ye? Heh. |
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Edit: Oh, was the contest over feb 1st?
Nope, still active but get a picture of a pig in there  Where can I find it? The link is to a locked thread, and I'm unable to reply. Able to link the new contest? Just add a pig picture to the post you made on this thread thinking it was for the old contest. You are allowed to put it in this thread so it should be fine. Aha well look at that! Thanks for the help mate. Got a nice lil piggy in there. |
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Ah, this was posted in august last year.
Perhaps it was viable then. Is it still active tho? If so it should consider updating.
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Edit: Oh, was the contest over feb 1st?
Nope, still active but get a picture of a pig in there Where can I find it? The link is to a locked thread, and I'm unable to reply. Able to link the new contest? |
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New categorization might be good, but what exactly distinguishes a Ponzi-type game from other gambling?
Ponzi is a pyramid scheme. Also, these operators create outlandish rules where if you don't deposit in certain time frames, you don't get any BTC back. That's not gambling. That's stealing. At least with other forms of gambling, the system is "provably fair" to an extent. I suppose technically it's gambling. You deposit a sum of money that you might either lose (no more investors, or owner runs off with your money) or win, and gain a profit relative to the amount deposited. |
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New categorization might be good, but what exactly distinguishes a Ponzi-type game from other gambling?
Not anything really I suppose when you look at it, but it's still a big enough part of the forums to have it's own sub forum imo, even if it's within the same category. It would make it easier to navigate and find what you're looking for, for sure. |
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Good read, but everything is basically summarized in the 1~ minute video on youtube called, surprise surprise, "What is bitcoin?". I recommend it to everyone new to the concept and on this forum. |
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And this little piggy went hashing!  173oNFXDhT7s3HBhRVhMTDTcn3S5PWXAdZ #12 |
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I might have checked it if you had little more credibility and activity on this forum,,!
with
Activity: 3
Posts: 3
Its little hard to go on with
Not enough to recommend something doesn't matter how good it might sound.
Hah exactly my thought. Atleast he better put some time and effort into his account before trying to prove that his risk site is legitimate. |
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It is called localbitcoins
Very incorrect! I will love to see what the OP is talking about HAPPEN! Yeah what are you talking about? That's nothing related to what OP is asking for. I'd love to see that happen too, it would remove the risks of getting goxxed again. |
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So I've noticed that postings on this forum have dropped significantly. What's up with that?
The only thing that I can think of is that there is a significant amount of members that were burnt by the GOX debacle and are now despondent. As a result, there is an avoidance of anything Bitcoin related for awhile.
Probably another result is the change in forum policy with signatures from Moderator Theymos. He applied it globally so only Full Members and up have color, larger font, etc in their signature lines. Less new members spamming posts all over the place because they won't get paid the same way with small advertising sigs.Atleast get your facts straight before posting. There are not only the newbie posts that have decreased, have a look around, this counts for everyone, including non-spammers. They removed the incentive of posting together with the incentive of posting. ( Not saying it's dead, it's far from, but it's way calmer since the change ). What facts did I not construe correctly? I said new members IE Newbies, Jr members, and Members. Those seem to be the most to gain, since for the most part they're generally new to Bitcoin and have more incentive to gain from signature advertising. I agree with the cleaning up of posts, deterring offtopic threads, and general better discussion across the board. Not sure what your problem is. Bold part is an implication that the -only- reason post count has gone down is cause -new- members aren't spamming anymore. Half the truth is not straight facts. Huh? Only new members are getting the price decrease to .0001. Seniors, Heroes, etc still get their .0003 if I'm not mistaken due to their big sigs. Oh geez man, Primedice isn't the only paying advertising service. Check services board for more. Also, I re-read your post explaining what you meant as 'new' accounts. I would myself not include members into 'new' accounts, newbies mainly and perhaps jr members. But if that's what you meant you're basically right, my bad. |
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So I'm sure this is covered, but I'm just not finding it.
I gave a user negative trust for attempting to send another user an infected file. There are screenshots etc. showing proof that they did this.
As retribution, I assume, this user came back & tagged me with negative trust and said that I stole BTC in the form. I've never had dealings w/ them, and I want this removed, as I have done nothing wrong, and there is absolutely no good reason for me to have a negative trust rating.
What can I do here? Am I simply screwed?
As other guy said your minus trust doesn't show up to us, however - the bad part about that is that his trust rating won't show up either. The system is a bit flawed imo, but that said I can't think of a better way to do it. |
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So I've noticed that postings on this forum have dropped significantly. What's up with that?
The only thing that I can think of is that there is a significant amount of members that were burnt by the GOX debacle and are now despondent. As a result, there is an avoidance of anything Bitcoin related for awhile.
Probably another result is the change in forum policy with signatures from Moderator Theymos. He applied it globally so only Full Members and up have color, larger font, etc in their signature lines. Less new members spamming posts all over the place because they won't get paid the same way with small advertising sigs.Atleast get your facts straight before posting. There are not only the newbie posts that have decreased, have a look around, this counts for everyone, including non-spammers. They removed the incentive of posting together with the incentive of posting. ( Not saying it's dead, it's far from, but it's way calmer since the change ). What facts did I not construe correctly? I said new members IE Newbies, Jr members, and Members. Those seem to be the most to gain, since for the most part they're generally new to Bitcoin and have more incentive to gain from signature advertising. I agree with the cleaning up of posts, deterring offtopic threads, and general better discussion across the board. Not sure what your problem is. Bold part is an implication that the -only- reason post count has gone down is cause -new- members aren't spamming anymore. Half the truth is not straight facts. |
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