I was going through a really old post earlier. You all read it 100s times I guess. No big deal however, if you have not yet then I suggest you do. This post explains things are
related to raking up your membership. Now a days we are some much concentrating on Merit that I am sure a lot of members especially newbies does not even know about other stuffs required to rank up.
Anyway, I was going through the comments. Since the original post was created on June 19, 2013 by theymos of-course, I was curious to see what is going on (present time) with the members who were active on that time. So I was really reading the old replies on the first few pages only. No doubt all these members are now Hero Member and Legendary. These same members with HUGE reputation were newbies, Jr.Member or Member like us once. I was fascinating, thinking 5 years from now someone like me will read my contents (if BCT exists of-course), I may exist or not that time.
In first few pages I really did not find anything special from all these comments. It's the same shit. Whenever you will bring something new you will see there are always two groups. One
agree and one
disagree. The agree group will tell you all the good things about why they agree and the other group will do the same but opposite to establish their own philosophy. It's in our genes. Oh yes, there are other group as well who will be always confuse about which side to take.
Suddenly my eyes caught up on these custom titles. "
can into space", "
aka snapsunny", Untrustworthy etc. I am not sure how many this kind of interesting custom titles do we have. I will appreciate, If you can help me providing any link to any post related to custom title (Thanks in advance). I just want to know all the titles we have here.
When I saw the title
Untrustworthy but with the rank of
Hero Member, Activity: 588, Merit: 500, Posts: 6512, I stopped and wanted to see who is this user. I went to his profile and then went to his "
last posts of this person" to figure out if he is still an active member or not. The last post he made was on August 13, 2013, 11:42:56 AM
Matthew N. Wright is a Hero member. The user was a genius in my opinion. He knew that things were not working for him on this forum. His last few lines were
P.s. because theymos doesn't appreciate freedom of speech, I'm technically banned and can't respond to any threads (including this one) until dear leader decides I am now "safe" to let back in (safe meaning I won't bring up the hypocrisy of letting Garr225 scam because they are friends and give me a tag, all while saying he doesn't give tags anymore as an excuse for not giving one to avalon, BFL, Garr255, etc. Hahahaha. Wow.)
So, eventually he was kicked off from the forum (I guess). But
the guy had his valid points and guts.
Some of his statements were 100% logical.
If you choose to trust someone elses broadcast, then you are agreeing to listen to their ramblings (reverse ignore).
If you choose to trust someone for transactions, you are choosing to increase their reputation based on your reputation.
Nothing gets shoved in without notice by a moderator who invested into someone. No one gets secretly "whitelisted".
- These are some really big bold statements and really valid points.
I really did not have the luck to know the guy but after reading few of his posts what I realised was... He wanted to make this forum a better place, a place without depending on others' trust (i guess), a decentralised place I really think.
It needs to be tested and tried, but ask yourself the same question about the bitcoin blockchain. If there were something "illegal" there, how would it be "removed"? It doesn't need to, just ignored, which is the default action. When it comes to data and encryption, when no one can see it, it effectively doesn't exist. Since the server would hold no encrypted keys, complying with any and all demands of local law enforcement (hint: not a US hosted site) would still not help them do anything about the content.
Should I say the forum is unfortunate or
the guy himself is unfortunate or we are unfortunate?
I think we are fortunate that the forum still exists. Thanks to theymos and others who are giving their everything to make it a better place.
(Disclaimer: I could be really wrong about everything about him, I tried to find him on any other social media or on youtube but all the links those I went through were outdated)
