Community split?

[hannesnaude]

The whole pirate debacle has been incredibly divisive. People on both sides have doubled down and then doubled down again on their opinions. When this train smash eventually plays out fully, there will be a lot of people with a lot of egg on their faces. I'm guessing if you were a pirate "investor" and he defaults, you would get tired pretty quickly of team ponzi asking you what you will buy with all your coin "once pirate pays out". Similarly, if pirate does pay out (yeah right (see what I mean about doubling down? (damnit  ))), Team Ponzi might get tired pretty quickly of being sent the odd satoshi along with condescending encouragement to "invest it wisely".

Perhaps  we need to provide an alternate forum where those who are  proved wrong can go to keep talking bitcoin without being continually reminded of "the events".

I suspect wheresmycoins.org and icallponzi.org are  both still available?

jk

[BadBear]

Pretty much all those sound like textbook trolling/disruptive posting (hard to say since it's hypothetical), which I have no problem banning people for, and do so regularly.

[hannesnaude]

Chill dude. If you think it's offensive/disruptive/whatever feel free to delete the post. I didn't mean any harm.

[BadBear]

Chill dude. If you think it's offensive/disruptive/whatever feel free to delete the post. I didn't mean any harm.

   I was talking about your examples, not your post.

[Vladimir]

Chill dude. If you think it's offensive/disruptive/whatever feel free to delete the post. I didn't mean any harm.

Relax, he is saying he will delete my upcoming "I told you so" posts and ban me. (just an example).

[hannesnaude]

Chill dude. If you think it's offensive/disruptive/whatever feel free to delete the post. I didn't mean any harm.

   I was talking about your examples, not your post.

Ohh. OK. Well to be honest, pretty much the entire post was a setup for the examples. I'm not seriously suggesting that the community split up based on where we stood on pirate's trustworthiness. That was just a sideshow on the road to bitcoin world domination. 

[Graet]

how about a "Pirate " subforum till this shitstorm blows over, so many threads in so many forums its becoming a joke
mods could just dump all the pirate threads there for those that care

[stochastic]

The whole pirate debacle has been incredibly divisive. People on both sides have doubled down and then doubled down again on their opinions. When this train smash eventually plays out fully, there will be a lot of people with a lot of egg on their faces. I'm guessing if you were a pirate "investor" and he defaults, you would get tired pretty quickly of team ponzi asking you what you will buy with all your coin "once pirate pays out". Similarly, if pirate does pay out (yeah right (see what I mean about doubling down? (damnit  ))), Team Ponzi might get tired pretty quickly of being sent the odd satoshi along with condescending encouragement to "invest it wisely".

Perhaps  we need to provide an alternate forum where those who are  proved wrong can go to keep talking bitcoin without being continually reminded of "the events".

I suspect wheresmycoins.org and icallponzi.org are  both still available?

jk

The other side can go use reddit.

[RodeoX]

I don't see this as dividing the community. It has only divided a few people who are into these crazy investment schemes. It reminds me of the big banks when they were rushing to buy credit default swaps. They didn't know what they were, but they thought they saw others making money and wanted in. By the time everyone figured out they were toxic, the damage was done.