Disallow Scams and Ponzi Schemes in the Forum rules.

[Dalkore]

It's like having more police because some people got robbed.  The only way to prevent scams is to make people realize nothing good comes out of it, with the force of karma at role.

Well when that day comes, the world will be a different place.   Until then, we need to be our own regulation.

I am so surprised how many people I thought might be trust-worthy turned out to be scamming.  It is really amazing.  My short-list is really short at this point.  I am honestly holding off launching my new business just because I don't want people to think I am trying to come in and take advantage of this bad situations. 

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[SuperTramp]

Disallow Scams and Ponzi Schemes in the Forum rules

OK: All scams are hereby disallowed by the forum rules. I trust that all forum users will respect this rule and refrain from scamming in the future.

I'd rather let hundreds of scam threads exist than remove one non-scam thread by accident. Maybe someone will figure out how to legitimately pay 7% interest weekly someday; who knows? It's not the place of moderators to decide which products/investments are good and which are bad. Buyers must decide for themselves who to trust.

Here's an example of someone new who didn't understand what a scammer tag meant and sent coins to a now-outed scam service where the operator has run:

If he doesn't notice a scammer tag then he's not going to notice that the thread is in a scammer section. Making scammers' posts stand out more will just give them the power to annoy people with their bright posts, and it will discourage them from being constructive forum members (as a few scammers have been). And someone that careless is eventually going to get scammed anyway.

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