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1221  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Failed to submit review and also did not refund the payment. on: August 28, 2023, 11:16:17 AM
I dont even oppose the flag except
the trust reference feedback was inaccurate. Tongue
It says 0.003+

(a single character ... this reminded me of that time when I first engaged in a convo with Royse)




Thanks for the Judgement I wish you guys were this engaged or enthusiastic back when I was  ... well that.


Bye for now.

Technically, the "+" is kinda justified. Other than the extra fees he mentioned above [time, tx fee, workload, etc.] there's the obvious conversion rate. If we suppose you "loaned" from Royse, with the term to return it on the exact USD value, where at that time, the rate is around 30,000ish USD, you earned 90 USD, and as per the current rate is 26,000ish, you kinda "owed" 0.0034... btc, thus, 0.003+

Even if we lock the rate at when Royse asked for refund, 6th of August, BTC rate at that time was roughly 29,000, so it'll still be 0.0031..., still a 0.003+
1222  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Megaplay.io - Casino SCAM (Rigged fairness) on: August 28, 2023, 08:49:49 AM

Casino often delete game history that happened few days ago if you are active on betting. You can request it to their support if they have backup but I experience same thing on other casino that I’m playing. It’s not a good proof that they are cheating by hiding your bets
If their intention is to scam the user in the first place giving the user the record they are finding for "backup" is impossible. But since there is no enough proof to back this up by OP  i wonder how he will succeed to this.

OP claimed that he meticulously documented data. Bets, outcomes, hashes. He should be able to provide and verify some of those bets himself to build a back-up evidences for his claim
1223  Other / Archival / Re: Sinbad.io Mixer - secure, fast and easy to use on: August 27, 2023, 09:06:13 PM
Can someone confirm the current design of the Sinbad.io site, Has there been any update change in recent days?
It seems to me that all the elements are a bit bigger, the text too. Or maybe it's just something with my browser

[...]

I'm accessing through my tablet, so I might be wrong, but I think it does get a bit bigger. The tablet version still show them in small-ish elements, but when I toggle the switch to desktop version, it's noticably bigger. I took a screenshot from the archived page [thus, it should automatically displayed what desktop version show us] and compared it side-to-side with one that's taken by yudi09 long ago




And as another reference, this below is from my tablet with "desktop version" toggled up

1224  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Failed to submit review and also did not refund the payment. on: August 27, 2023, 08:42:43 PM
[...]
Please, @ Sir Royse777... I will suggest people on campaign should be given top priority when selecting people for a review job in case of next time. Thanks

As in people on the signature campaign of the platform that's about to be reviewed to be given top priority, e.g. suppose platform "A" have a signature campaign and happen to held a review campaign too, participants of "A" should be given priority against other users who doesn't wear their signature and/or people who wear signature "B"?

Though it has its own merit in form of that the participants will have [if they didn't already] a good grasp of the platform, I actually against this idea for numerous reasons. A sense of exclusivity for one. Two, a bias. Three, it hindered a chance of reviews from broader spectrum of people.
1225  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Failed to submit review and also did not refund the payment. on: August 27, 2023, 04:44:49 PM
Unfortunately, the OP shouldn't have paid in advance, but I'm guessing that he wasn't expecting an Sr. Member to scam him for such a minor amount.
~

What do you mean by OP should not have paid in advance? Those were the campaign's terms, and they were in place to attract higher quality participants. There were a 100 participants in this campaign! And, just because of one bad apple...?  No, I do not agree with that. The OP went above and beyond to accommodate everyone, even allowing extensions for late reviews. And even after all that, jamyr had plenty of chances to return the money. Yet here we are, and he still has not. Even if he spent the money, he could have simply asked for a loan, which shouldn't have been a problem given the amount.

I'm not saying that the OP is at fault. Certainly, there's a reason that the other 99 applicants went along and stuck with the original plan, to deliver a constructive review, in which the accused failed even after receiving an extension; these are the terms he agreed to. Royse is a well-known campaign manager; I understand the reason he did it, but it's how each individual has a different point of view. Personally, in the only review in which I participated a while ago, I completed the review and then got paid for it.

The worst of all is that he hasn't returned the money as he should have already. I understand that something unexpected might have happened, but in that case, if he's unable to deliver, it's mandatory to refund the manager immediately and have someone else fill the vacancy in the review campaign.

The reason why payment paid in advance was because the review will require reviewers to deposit some funds into the platform. I am strongly assuming Royse arranged the advance payment so that the participants didn't have to use their own reserved capital to complete the task.
1226  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Megaplay.io - Casino SCAM (Rigged fairness) on: August 27, 2023, 04:32:45 PM
Do you aware that CG list them as unlicensed with very poor rating? On the other side, I am quite curious, as you mentioned that you've recorded everything, can't you prove the accusation of the rigged fairness using their provably fairness?

1227  Economy / Reputation / Re: Super High IQ BenCodie vs Low IQ forum posters about gambling. on: August 27, 2023, 04:15:33 PM
[...]
Also:
Here's an excerpt of some campaign rules:
Quote
CAMPAIGN RULES
▶️ Wear the appropriate signature, avatar and personal text during the campaign
▶️ Maximum of 20 posts on local boards will be considered however I can make exception if you can give me a good reason.
▶️ Posts should be minimum of 200 characters long and MUST BE constructive
▶️ Posts in the following boards/sections are not eligible: "Off-Topic", "Archival, Games & Rounds", "Investor-Based Games", "Wall Observers", "Serious Discussion", "Altcoin Discussion", "Lending", "Press", "Politics & Society", other signature campaign threads, including this one, any ANN threads (except Mixero ANN and ANN posted on the "Gambling" board are allowed), and areas where the signature is not visible
▶️ No valid negative from DT network unless per-approved by me
▶️ Multi-account (alts) can apply but will need to give up all except only one if accepted more than one.
▶️ You must have minimum 50 merits in the last 120 days
▶️ Join my Telegram group: snip

No where does it say this:
Quote
▶️ You must condone the industry that the service is in, and the service, in order to be eligible to participate

[...]

I am ready to bow down from this thread and take the spectators seat, but just two questions, where do you snip that rules from? And are you deliberately falsifying information? Because I got curios of it and take a look at it, here's the screenshot of the real rules [screenshot taken instead of a quote to prove it's an original text and not being tampered like what seems to happen with yours].

1228  Economy / Gambling / Re: Rollbit.com | Crypto's Most Rewarding Casino 👑 on: August 27, 2023, 03:37:11 PM
Hello after my KYC got approved.  I have been Lucky enough to get the additional video call with rollbit next thursday for them to keep on verifying me i guess?.
I have a hard time speaking english, so i am very worried about this call since I dont trust any betting / casino site when i know how they can operate.
What can i expect from this call? Asking you people who have gone through this before. What do they ask you to do etc or what questions may they have for me? Thank  you for any respond!

This won't take longer than 5 minutes. They just want to verify whether the person you have submitted on the KYC documents is real and alive, and not some random guy's information being submitted to their site in order to get their accounts verified. This never happened to me, though it happened once on an exchange platform when I wanted to withdraw a few thousand dollars from the platform albeit only completing the basic verification process (this is a local exchange).

Far as I know, yes, this is true. Video KYC is an "additional" KYC to verify that the data being submitted is indeed matched the person on the other side of the KYC and not a bought documents. And far as I know too, there's not necessarily much need of english proficiency, they mostly just wanted to see the user on the screen and probably asked simple questions if necessary that's basically around simple english.

If all of the documents you submitted is legit and truly yours, there's no need to be worried.
1229  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Rollbit Scam. Cannot Withdraw $30,211. Being Ignored by Support. on: August 26, 2023, 04:42:22 PM
I wonder if it's necessarily true that the amount of scam accusations raised against a gambling platform is directly related to the likelihood they're scamming the users and/or doing rugpull? Especially if we consider that the amount of cases raised is attended to and solved v. ignored. But let's amuse this idea for a while, that rollbit is questionable because they have lines of unsolved cases, or if I may borrow your words, "almost none of these complaints have been resolved", I asked, again, which case with concrete evidences and strong basis against rollbit is not solved or currently redirected to a mediator [in this case, their licensor]? Point me out and I will gladly PMing Razer and notify him to attend to the case.

Ok then, then I would also ask YOU how a player can show evidence that he doesn't have multiple accounts.

Players show the FACT that they are blocked from withdrawing. They also show the accusation/reply from rollbit. These are facts, I guess we would agree. The site, in this case rollbit, claims "they have multiple accounts", yet they don't show any proof of that or are willing to show it to a mediator. Always referring to "security concerns".
Multi account ACCUSATION are no facts. Players show facts, rollbit doesn't, I guess we can agree.

In real life, if you want to accuse somebody of something, you have to show proof as well, why not in these scenarios"

What we need in those cases are more transparency. Not being willing to settle this through an official mediator always means there is something off.

Also what I wrote doesn't mean that rollbit is so untrustworthy. It just shows that their reputaion is not as good as it gets painted here, you can also see that in their trust summary. A reputable site would have more than 1 positive feedback, and this positive one is only from the person that manages their signature campaign.

As I checked other complains I saw you also commented there, so you you know this is always the same scenario. They are hiding behind their "security concerns" and players have to deal with it basically.

I myself could have opened a scam accusation against this site actually, I chose not to because it's not worth my time. I mentioned this before but I got the "new player invitation bonus"email they sent to stake players (they bought the stolen data from the stake hack). Those bonuses was supposed to be "no strings attached", as mentioned in the email . When I claimed it all and played it 1x , around 100$, I wanted to withdraw it. They suddenly wanted a deposit and full KYC, and I mean full. That's not "no strings attached". As I don't trust this site I chose not to do those 2 things and continued living my life, leaving these around 100$ in my account.  Grin

It is my opinion and I will not stop from calling out rollbit for what they are to me. I never said they are doing a rugpull, just I don't like their tactics. They know about "multiple accounts" from the beginning, when someone registers. But they let these people deposit and the accusation only comes to light when they want to withdraw. If you think this is ok then we don't have to talk about this any longer. Anyway, wish you a nice rest of your weekend!  Cheesy

If you ask ME, I'll suggest Razer to point it out to their licensor to take the mediation, where they can freely provide evidences and where the ruling are binding to both parties. As evidences shall be asked and provided in private there, both parties are more likely to provide the facts than here.

You'll find it yourself, me suggesting to escalate it to Gaming-Curacao, once OP replied to the allegation made by Razer, or once things point out to a stalemate [of course after I get a word from Razer that they'll give full cooperation on GC, I will not advise it to OP unless I get the words that both parties agreed to move their case to that platform].

As to why they have to resort to this platform instead of publicly here, I think it's been mentioned way too often, revealing such methods will just tell the abusers how to avoid their system on later time.

Now, I am thanking the fact that you're aware of my presence on other complaints against Rollbit, because now I don't have to explain to you my stance on Rollbit and their cases, as well as how I know most of their cases "like the back of my hand" and to why I inquire you to point us out to the claim of, "none of these complaints have been resolved", which, I still can't find you point that out.
1230  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Rollbit Scam. Cannot Withdraw $30,211. Being Ignored by Support. on: August 26, 2023, 03:31:44 PM
If you check the recent pages of the scam accusations there are several complaints about this site.
So basically of all sportsbooks/casino site complaints rollbit has the most in recent history.

Even betnomi, that pulled an exit scam, doesn't have so many complaints.

And almost none of these complaints have been resolved. And so will this one for sure.  Cry

Especially this thread and the behaviour of rollbit is alarming:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5449402.40

Very sad that this behaviour even gets defended here, honestly. People can't relate because they never had a situation like this. If they had it would be different, I'm sure.

I wonder if it's necessarily true that the amount of scam accusations raised against a gambling platform is directly related to the likelihood they're scamming the users and/or doing rugpull? Especially if we consider that the amount of cases raised is attended to and solved v. ignored. But let's amuse this idea for a while, that rollbit is questionable because they have lines of unsolved cases, or if I may borrow your words, "almost none of these complaints have been resolved", I asked, again, which case with concrete evidences and strong basis against rollbit is not solved or currently redirected to a mediator [in this case, their licensor]? Point me out and I will gladly PMing Razer and notify him to attend to the case.
1231  Economy / Reputation / Re: Super High IQ BenCodie vs Low IQ forum posters about gambling. on: August 26, 2023, 10:29:00 AM
My only comment

I called one or two members low IQ because of the logic they used. I do not think that the whole forum has high IQ nor do I think that my IQ is superior to the majority of the forum


Erm... what?

This is what happens when you speak out ladies and gentlemen.

I also do not care at all about this thread and I will continue to share my opinion freely, as I have a right to.

If we're going to skew and misconstrue words or make threads about people when they have a controversial opinion, then we're up for a lot of threads just like this one if people exercise their freedom of speech and right to an opinion.

Grow up OP.

Just to be clear of your moral principles, you're against gambling due to its capitalist nature, and you'll speak out when matters being involved is about you and your opinion [which, I have to say, kinda natural], but you'll keep things to yourself when you know a platform is a scam because it's not your responsibility to keep the forum safe, and as long as the said platform paid you good money to post, you'll do that? I think I'm confused, isn't that a branch of capitalism?
1232  Other / Meta / Re: cryptofrka's Merit Source application - gambling boards on: August 26, 2023, 09:20:34 AM
[...]

Discussion about gambling is not worthy of needing a merit source. My post stands.

[...]

If you bother to read the whole proposal made by OP, you'll come to see that the reason for being merit source request is that OP acknowledged the board can be a horrible place, and for that exact reason they asked to be a merit source, to improve the situation there so more good quality posts can be better appreciated and, from it, urged people posting on that board to write better.

[...]

Final thoughts

Gambling boards are both a horrible place and a great one at the same time - depending on which threads you read.
I'd like to tip the scale in favor of the great ones a bit.

But, as on the earlier part of that quoted post you said this,

Good job picking one thing out of all of the valid parts of what I said and using it to invalidate my post. Great job, actually. Very effective. Dumbass.

allow me to return back to your initial argument,

Disagree.

No one should be a merit source for one of the most unethical boards/sections of this forum. There is no shortage of merit for the amount of quality/merit worthy posts in the gambling section; which is very little in comparison to other, more important and non capitalistic boards of the forum.

I also think merits should not be focused on posts in this section. It does not positively contribute to the Bitcoin economy. It only concentrates wealth to unethical network participants who are exploring other users with unfair odds, ridiculous terms of service, extensive and intrusive kyc checks to ban accounts, questionable provably fair claims, and more.

My 2 cents

Ironically, that board actually have some positive contribution to the bitcoin economy. There are a lot of gambling platforms that utilize crypto, thus a positive towards crypto economy. The gambling platforms on this forum also held raffles, competitions, and [as I am sure you're fully aware] signature campaigns, which kinda "distributes" helps keep the wheel of crypto economy roling by distributing some wealth to the cryptocommunity.
1233  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Rollbit Scam. Cannot Withdraw $30,211. Being Ignored by Support. on: August 26, 2023, 08:48:04 AM
The problem here, as in all cases of multi-accounting, is that the casino (rollbit in this case) will not and can not share the evidence they have against the accuse (OP) publicly. This is understandable.
At the same time, OP will never admit having alt acoounts (if he has any) and there is nothing he can do to refute the casino's allegations and prove he has no alt accounts.
This is a dead end.

The only way to solve this dilemma is to use a mediator.
Or, in case OP is afraid of proving himself guilty (with all the consequences), Razer has to promise they will let OP withdraw his funds if he lists all his alt accounts.

There's a slight complication on that, Rollbit is not on any mediator that mediate sportsbet problem, where OP's case is sportsbet-related. And, given that Razer accuses OP of multi-acc abuse to bypass limitations, if rollbit agreed to this term, it will open to a situation where future abusers [if we're assuming OP did multi-accing] plead to the same resolution. Though, to be fair and to laid it out on the table, Razer already suggested a... "middle way".

1234  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Rollbit Scam. Cannot Withdraw $30,211. Being Ignored by Support. on: August 24, 2023, 06:03:12 PM
Hey there,

For this one we simply need OP to list the other accounts that they have on Rollbit.

On our side, we see very obviously linked accounts to the one they listed here, accounts that have been previously limited on our sportsbook.

For whatever reason, OP has failed to list them so far.

Thanks,
Razer

Nonsense.
So then, IF you are right, and he lists those accounts, then what? Then you would pay him, yeah right.  Cheesy
If he says there are any, you would say "violated our terms" and still don't pay, 100%.

Rollbit has a solid reputation now for doing this, not only in our forum there are reports about these tactics.

Still a reminder, rollbit bought the stolen data from the stake.com hack last year to promote their own site, this has been mentioned and proved before. A site doing shady things like this also comes up with excuses to not pay honest customers.

From what I have read seen on different  forums and the alike...when it comes to multi accounting,  75% of the time these casino's are never wrong to flag accounts based on multi accounting as they have the flagging techniques in place to find such users because this is their business to stop any possible promo abuse and the alike...just hope your docs haven't been stolen and used for KYC here..
Btw, use of a VPN can get your account flagged as IPs show up on other accounts hence this hurdle..but if nothing in these lines was committed then I trust Rollbit will sort this out asap! Good luck.

Have we ever seen any proof of those claims? I have actually never seen them. They always say there are multi accounts "but we can't tell you how we found out, for security reasons" .

Sites like rollbit are happy to take deposits, but when it comes to pay there are suddenly problems. If there are multiple accounts you knew when he opened it, you should close it immediately, not after depositing over 10000$.

Umm... aren't most, if not all, of the accusation topics raised against rollbit currently solved, and those that can't be solved here for security reason, e.g.: sportsbook abuse or invalid bet, were redirected to their licensor where they're fully cooperating and participating on the investigation?
1235  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: [WARNING] Whirlwind.money - withdrawals are not being processed ⚠️ on: August 24, 2023, 10:57:41 AM
Instead, I'm talking about a valid suspicion (to the best of my knowledge) that someone might scam, even before the actual act of scam occurs.
I suspect that anyone can scam at some point, just like anyone can commit a murder. But we shouldn't tag everyone, just like we don't jail everyone "to prevent crimes".
We can warn people, but that's where it stops. Negative feedback loses it's "power" if everyone has it.

I agree with that. We shouldn't tag everyone, that's why I said "with valid suspicion." I think it's important to strike a balance between warning others about potential scams and avoiding hasty judgments. Negative feedback indeed loses its impact if it becomes too widespread and indiscriminate. But, things are hardly ever just black and white, and there are a whole range of shades of gray in between.

Let me break it down with an example: Just the other day, me and some other DT members gave a negative tag to the account OldCat over this topic. As far as I know, the scam hasn't actually happened. But based on what we can see, there's a legit reason to be suspicious about a possible scam. So, in this case, is my judgment flawed, and is the negative tag unwarranted? I don't believe so. Waiting for an actual scam would basically make the whole reputation system useless as an early warning signal.


If I may give my two cents, I personally think the trust system of this forum is not preventive in sense of a posteriori. Some things and some users are indeed tagged after an incident happens, but it's not necessarily means every case are handled and the DTs taking action only after something occured.

As repetitively pointed out by many members, this forum [or if I may narrow it down, this board] runs on evidences, i.e.: give strong evidences to back up your claim and/or accusation, and DTs will take action. We don't need to wait for the incident to occur as long as someone has substantial proof about it, or as stated by PP [so he's partially correct about this], evidences to prove something beyond reasonable doubt. But DT will not works on hearsay. Just because someone said [for example] I scammed them, should DT run and tag me?

Instances that action are taken before the scam happens are plenty. You raised a nice one. The others are projects with questionable traits; plagiarized whitepaper, fake team members, fake testimonials, phising platforms. Do DTs wait for these projects to scam people before tagging them? No. DTs took action and paint them red the instance evidences are brought that they indeed are very likely to scam. Thus, a priori.
1236  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: SPORTSBET.io falsely accuses me of multi-accounting, and REFUSES to pay my money on: August 24, 2023, 10:53:50 AM
How about all of the users who don't know how to speak English fluently like anonymousxm, and all of the users who don't have the emotional patience or thought to make a thread here on bitcointalk? How many more consumers and value of BTC are locked because of ridiculous/impossible KYC restrictions/conditions?

I've investigated many complaints and I say that you are lucky so many users are in your pocket, or else you and your business would not exist here.

That is a serious allegation, that they're so lucky because they have so many users in their pocket. I've been overseeing a lot of SB's cases, and last I check, I am sure as hell I am not on their pocket. All the cases served to them are solved nicely. On one notorious case of multi-acc [I won't give the link here, but if you did what you said you did, investigated many complaints, you'll know which one I am talking about] they even give strong evidences of connected accounts that serve as a basis of beyond reasonable doubt. So where is this allegation of yours coming from, again? Please point me out to those cases.

As for complainants that doesn't have emotional patience, that depends. Do their emotional patience runs out because SB's representative talking in circle? If so, please point me out to such cases, I don't think I've encountered any. They addressed a concern, pointed out the situation and their side of story, and they leave. Straight answer. Do their emotional patience runs out because they're on short fuse, let's say because they know they accuses SB on wrong basis? If so, should this question of yours really be answered?
1237  Other / Archival / Re: Sinbad.io Mixer - secure, fast and easy to use on: August 23, 2023, 05:02:23 PM
[...]

Also, regarding this link, it appears that both me, icalical, and tjtonmoy have submitted multiple entries for selection. I've observed that the votes are being counted per participant and not per designs entry.

I assume Royse will let participants choose their own final avatar from the winner with multiple entries, for instance, suppose icalical's design is the winner, the available avatar valid for use will be both of his entries and the participants are free to choose which of his two design, much like there are previously two design for avatar that participants are free to choose which fit them the most.



it's so sad to see i just received 4 votes after producing this much creative avatar's: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5462254.msg62680588#msg62680588


FWIW, I really liked your hat design and will absolutely choose yours suppose the pirate hats are available for votes.



Sorry @Royse777 late for an opinion, Almost everyone did well. Thanks to everyone for participating.


But most like is this and updated.

I understand correctly that your choices are PX-Z and icalical?
1238  Economy / Reputation / Re: Strange behaviour of too many alts at once. on: August 22, 2023, 11:13:24 AM
This could be a phishing scam of sorts as well. Users connects their wallets and the site empties them. Heard about that happening a couple times in the last few months.

If it is, it called a drainware or a drainer, I caught one being offered back then.
1239  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: "RESOLVED" Scam from duckdice.io on: August 22, 2023, 10:49:54 AM
As I said earlier, words about multiaccounting are just funny for me, because that was my first and last duckdice.io account.
Transaction was really approved, which was surprising for me. Here is screenshot. https://ibb.co/C951JXx
But they decided to send funds not to the wallet that was specified in the withdrawal form, but to the one which I used last time. That seemed strange to me, but in general I have the money and I'm glad that my issue is closed.


Sending fund to the deposit address instead of another address that's been specified as recipient for withdrawal is a known practice to fight against AML/ATF for accounts that's raises suspicion. As you still have control over this wallet, and given your account's situation, it's an understandable measure taken by duckdice and shouldn't be a problem.

In regards to the accusation, there is a difficulty to check whose said the truth if case being involved is a multi-acc. The platform will not provide their findings in concern of their security and privacy, and the accuser's statements themselves can not be taken as the whole truth. We're in a moot here, and given that the case is solved with all the funds successfully withdrawn, I suggest you both to go separate ways [that is, OP, you never play on DuckDice anymore]. Meanwhile, I'll take my note of the situation surrounding this case and use it for future reference in case other accusations ever raised.
1240  Economy / Reputation / Re: Haunebu and 3kpk3 - merit system abuse on: August 21, 2023, 04:44:32 PM
May I ask your opinion if I counter hilariousandco's opinion for red tag with the one given by theymos, [I stole it from nutildah's on previous page]

- Forgiveness: Often people make fairly small mistakes, but then they seemingly get red-trusted for life. This isn't really fair, and it discourages participation due to paranoia: if you think that you have a 1% chance of running afoul of some unwritten rule and getting red-trusted for life, you might just avoid the marketplace altogether. Red trust should mostly be based on an evaluation of what the person is likely to do in the future moreso than a punishment/mark-of-shame.

if we consider that as it's been five years since both account exchange merits, then it's probably safe to assume that the mistake happened in the past and won't happen in the future. Thus, red tagging them will pose as a mark-of-shame instead of a warning for others.

What's your thought on this?
I'm very much in favor of forgivenness. For example to give people a second chance after they admit their mistake, even for plagiarizing under certain circumstances and that's also why I'm not in favor of our current "ban evasion" rule, because such a rule is exactly the opposite of forgivenness. Everyone needs a fair chance to admit his mistakes and a fair chance to improve.
But I'm also in favor of drawing a clear line to prevent abuse from getting more common. Every member should know that certain practices here are frowned upon and it's important to avoid such abuses, like Haunebu and his Alt did. If these members are really valuable for our comunity, they will admit their mistake, accept the consequences about the involved accounts getting tagged and then, they can start from scratch building a new Account, where such abuses are avoided. That's a fair second chance in my opinion.

As a DT member, consistency is very important for me. When Merit was introduced, the consensus was pretty clear that sending of Merit to our own Alt Accounts will almost certainly lead to red trust.
If Haunebu and his alts are getting out of this untagged, we are at risk, that someone else will come here, setting up a bunch of own Alt Accounts and sending them Merit from his main account. In case he's getting a negative tag (which would be deserved in my opinion) he could point at Haunebu and his Alt, where no negative tag was issued.
And DT would be in trouble to explain it properly because it would be a very inconsistent story.
That's why I'm in favor of tagging the abusers because DT needs to be consistent about our Merit guidelines and issue a fair punishment for the abusing accounts because it's important to prevent abuse in the future.



I took it to my sleep and mulled over it the entire day after, I have to say I'm still inclined more to the idea that as Haunebu did not scam any forum members [at least none proven or being pointed out so far], a negative tag is not warranted [in spite of what hilariousandco said].

In attempt to gain a deeper insight on how to face this matter and what DTs did on such cases, I ventured through the reputation board and from a quick glance that I did, I found that what case of merit abuse warranted is a neutral tag with mention to the said violation, unless there is another violation being involved [account sold, hacked, the merit is being sold/bought, and the likes]. For example, ltcrstrbrt, or the older one, HunnyFinance.

Nonetheless, I have to agree that there should be a consistency in DT on what warrant a tag and what doesn't [though, if I'm not mistaken, the general consensus is cases should be taken on case-by-case basis], and that if this case is not cleared, one might use this case in the future to argue their negative tag.

Thus, unfortunately, the best way I can see from my position right now is to bow down from this thread until there are more DTs giving their opinion on what to do with Haunebu, and I will adhere to the consensus once it is reached. I will respect whatever tag you're leaving to Haunebu and 3kpk3, though.
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