Blowing up today on Reddit - go upvote!!

[molecular]

It's amazing how many people don't get it. What is funny is they are seeing the future of how everything is going to go right in front of them. What is there not to like about Bitcoin?

edit:Also, good jobs to the guys who are putting up the good fight !

bbit, can you use a different avatar? I discard every post of you at the point I realize you're not gavin, no matter how good your post. I just think: what an ass, posing as gavin. Maybe it's just me but I thought I'd let you know.

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[MemoryDealers]

Please upvote this video as well:

http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/14pt5m/how_to_create_a_free_bitcoin_wallet/

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Where's Genjjix when you need him?

[molecular]

Where's Genjjix when you need him?

why do you need him?

[greyhawk]

Where's Genjjix when you need him?

why do you need him?

He's very experienced in explaining Bitcoins to people.

[Roger_Murdock]

bbit, can you use a different avatar? I discard every post of you at the point I realize you're not gavin, no matter how good your post. I just think: what an ass, posing as gavin. Maybe it's just me but I thought I'd let you know.

Dude, you're posing as a deity.  Are you really in a position to talk?

[molecular]

bbit, can you use a different avatar? I discard every post of you at the point I realize you're not gavin, no matter how good your post. I just think: what an ass, posing as gavin. Maybe it's just me but I thought I'd let you know.

Dude, you're posing as a deity.  Are you really in a position to talk?

Are you sure I'm posing as the deity. You better watch out, I might have good connections with fortuna!

[benjamindees]

wow, just saw that bitcointip bot. That's awesome.

Unfotunately it doesn't answer my messages ;(

Could it be down or am I doing something wrong?

/time traveler spotted

[Roger_Murdock]

Wow, that thread is great! I think this is my favorite comment:

Are you kidding me? Is this thread filled with as many BitCoin promoters as it feels like? Pretty much every upvoted comment/thread looks like it was planned out. I don't know why, but something feels really fishy about this whole thing.

And this response to the above is also classic:

It's almost as if people had asked these questions before!

It reminds me of a similar phenomenon I still see (although less and less frequently) in comments on stories dealing with drug prohibition. Some God-fearing, red-blooded, flag-waving American wanders in and becomes confused and alarmed.  ("Drugs are BAD. And BAD THINGS should be ILLEGAL. I mean, everyone knows that ... right?") He's astonished to encounter a well-informed and articulate counterview.  And he's even more astonished to find himself in the unfamiliar position of holding the minority viewpoint.

[foo]

The concept of mining makes the folk suspicious. Creating money out of thin air? Blasphemy!

How about explaining it like this instead:

All 21 million bitcoins were instantly created when Satoshi designed the algorithm. They just haven't all been distributed yet.

That way the mental image will hopefully be coins being taken out of a vault somewhere and given to the miners, rather than the miners creating coins out of thin air.

[Yuhfhrh]

The concept of mining makes the folk suspicious. Creating money out of thin air? Blasphemy!

How about explaining it like this instead:

All 21 million bitcoins were instantly created when Satoshi designed the algorithm. They just haven't all been distributed yet.

That way the mental image will hopefully be coins being taken out of a vault somewhere and given to the miners, rather than the miners creating coins out of thin air.

I like this much better. All the Bitcoins have been created, just not distributed.

[giszmo]

Wow, that thread is great! I think this is my favorite comment:

Are you kidding me? Is this thread filled with as many BitCoin promoters as it feels like? Pretty much every upvoted comment/thread looks like it was planned out. I don't know why, but something feels really fishy about this whole thing.

I don't know if it is good or bad but rigging a reddit should be quite easy. Consider an issue tracker that treats each reply to one reddit as an issue. The interested community could mark issues as resolved as soon as a sufficiently good answer was given. This way a far smaller group can answer far more posts without all having to read all posts.

A more generic approach would be a browser plugin that allows me to mark reddit users as competent/my team/insiders and the plugin automatically collapses all posts that were already dealt with by a marked users.

[molecular]

Wow, that thread is great! I think this is my favorite comment:

Are you kidding me? Is this thread filled with as many BitCoin promoters as it feels like? Pretty much every upvoted comment/thread looks like it was planned out. I don't know why, but something feels really fishy about this whole thing.

I don't know if it is good or bad but rigging a reddit should be quite easy. Consider an issue tracker that treats each reply to one reddit as an issue. The interested community could mark issues as resolved as soon as a sufficiently good answer was given. This way a far smaller group can answer far more posts without all having to read all posts.

A more generic approach would be a browser plugin that allows me to mark reddit users as competent/my team/insiders and the plugin automatically collapses all posts that were already dealt with by a marked users.

I like it. Would definitely use it together with you guys. Call it "crowd control" or something .

[Rudd-O]

The EnoughPaulSpam crew of professional astroturfers raided the thread and buried the comments of pretty much anyone saying factual things about Bitcoin, with 40+ down votes each comment. They also introduced and up voted their usual FUD and disinformation.  They are quite the destructive  cointelpro force, have been since the Digg days.

But it was one day too late.  Har har.

However, one comment at the top which contained some concern trolling did get visibility. Perhaps next time such a situation can be dealt with more, ahem, effectively.

All in all,
Well done my fellow redditors.

[Rudd-O]

Wow, that thread is great! I think this is my favorite comment:

Are you kidding me? Is this thread filled with as many BitCoin promoters as it feels like? Pretty much every upvoted comment/thread looks like it was planned out. I don't know why, but something feels really fishy about this whole thing.

I don't know if it is good or bad but rigging a reddit should be quite easy. Consider an issue tracker that treats each reply to one reddit as an issue. The interested community could mark issues as resolved as soon as a sufficiently good answer was given. This way a far smaller group can answer far more posts without all having to read all posts.

A more generic approach would be a browser plugin that allows me to mark reddit users as competent/my team/insiders and the plugin automatically collapses all posts that were already dealt with by a marked users.

Something like that could be built as a RES plugin.

[giszmo]

Wow, that thread is great! I think this is my favorite comment:

Are you kidding me? Is this thread filled with as many BitCoin promoters as it feels like? Pretty much every upvoted comment/thread looks like it was planned out. I don't know why, but something feels really fishy about this whole thing.

I don't know if it is good or bad but rigging a reddit should be quite easy. Consider an issue tracker that treats each reply to one reddit as an issue. The interested community could mark issues as resolved as soon as a sufficiently good answer was given. This way a far smaller group can answer far more posts without all having to read all posts.

A more generic approach would be a browser plugin that allows me to mark reddit users as competent/my team/insiders and the plugin automatically collapses all posts that were already dealt with by a marked users.

Something like that could be built as a RES plugin.

what is an RES plugin? (yes, I duckducked it a bit but didn't find it).

[kjlimo]

Made sure to up vote.  Not sure if it matters as much 5 days later... heh

[repentance]

Soliciting upvotes is a good way to get yourself shadowbanned.