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March 01, 2014, 05:28:26 PM
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These ponzi posts and threads are entirely overwhelming the gambling board. I understand that people need to make their own decision when "investing" and that ponzis are identified as a gamble but it's beyond that.  There is a reason 3/4 of that board is filled up with PONZI PONZI PONZI. These operators are making a quick BTC. No reliable member has posted to start a ponzi. That should be pretty telling.

Is it possible to move these topics to another child board? Maybe "Ponzis" or "Scammy business ideas" Or even to "Games and rounds" under gambling. Anything to get rid of this clutter.
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March 01, 2014, 06:07:49 PM
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These ponzi posts and threads are entirely overwhelming the gambling board. I understand that people need to make their own decision when "investing" and that ponzis are identified as a gamble but it's beyond that.  There is a reason 3/4 of that board is filled up with PONZI PONZI PONZI. These operators are making a quick BTC. No reliable member has posted to start a ponzi. That should be pretty telling.

Is it possible to move these topics to another child board? Maybe "Ponzis" or "Scammy business ideas" Or even to "Games and rounds" under gambling. Anything to get rid of this clutter.

I doubt any reliable member would. They wouldn't be very reliable for long when the ponzi collapses  Cheesy.

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March 01, 2014, 07:08:59 PM
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These ponzi posts and threads are entirely overwhelming the gambling board. I understand that people need to make their own decision when "investing" and that ponzis are identified as a gamble but it's beyond that.  There is a reason 3/4 of that board is filled up with PONZI PONZI PONZI. These operators are making a quick BTC. No reliable member has posted to start a ponzi. That should be pretty telling.

Is it possible to move these topics to another child board? Maybe "Ponzis" or "Scammy business ideas" Or even to "Games and rounds" under gambling. Anything to get rid of this clutter.

I doubt any reliable member would. They wouldn't be very reliable for long when the ponzi collapses  Cheesy.

For that reason I feel it's beyond a gamble to an open scam. Isolate the ponzi posts to a dead board so they die too.
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March 01, 2014, 08:56:19 PM
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These ponzi posts and threads are entirely overwhelming the gambling board. I understand that people need to make their own decision when "investing" and that ponzis are identified as a gamble but it's beyond that.  There is a reason 3/4 of that board is filled up with PONZI PONZI PONZI. These operators are making a quick BTC. No reliable member has posted to start a ponzi. That should be pretty telling.

Is it possible to move these topics to another child board? Maybe "Ponzis" or "Scammy business ideas" Or even to "Games and rounds" under gambling. Anything to get rid of this clutter.

I doubt any reliable member would. They wouldn't be very reliable for long when the ponzi collapses  Cheesy.

For that reason I feel it's beyond a gamble to an open scam. Isolate the ponzi posts to a dead board so they die too.

Most of them are probably scams, but the forum doesn't really get involved with scams any way. I agree there should be a ponzi/pyramid section if they're to stay though as it's getting out of hand and putting them in their own section with a warning will at least tidy the gambling section up and keep the majority of newbies away from them.

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March 01, 2014, 10:37:11 PM
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Yes yes... Ponzis are making me nervous too..

I dunno why it is so hard to get rid of them.

But perhaps not all of us think that ponzis are bad - because many of users deposit their money into those charities Smiley
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March 02, 2014, 07:38:25 AM
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Looks like this complaint is falling on deaf ears. The amount of complicity for scamming on this forum is incredible.
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March 02, 2014, 09:27:02 AM
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Looks like this complaint is falling on deaf ears. The amount of complicity for scamming on this forum is incredible.

Read pretty much every other thread in meta. 99% of the time suggestions are not acted on even if the majority of people agree.

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March 02, 2014, 02:32:18 PM
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I lost more than 1BTC playing these fu.cking ponzis

Now I need to buy back my BTC

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March 02, 2014, 02:40:22 PM
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I lost more than 1BTC playing these fu.cking ponzis

Now I need to buy back my BTC

I hope people will get a lesson from your experience with ponzi.

Even name of this game seems like something crazy. Just say ponzi and the way how it sounds makes me feel sick.
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March 02, 2014, 02:57:21 PM
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I lost more than 1BTC playing these fu.cking ponzis

Now I need to buy back my BTC

I hope people will get a lesson from your experience with ponzi.

Even name of this game seems like something crazy. Just say ponzi and the way how it sounds makes me feel sick.

Now it does for me too

I need to get into my savings to buy more BTC and to work hard to get it back

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March 02, 2014, 03:16:24 PM
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I lost more than 1BTC playing these fu.cking ponzis

Now I need to buy back my BTC

I hope people will get a lesson from your experience with ponzi.

Even name of this game seems like something crazy. Just say ponzi and the way how it sounds makes me feel sick.

Now it does for me too

I need to get into my savings to buy more BTC and to work hard to get it back

:]

No more ponzis for those gents.

Lesson learned.
Don't do it again.

If you want to gamble your money - legit casinos only or sports bets.
Not PONZI.
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March 02, 2014, 03:23:23 PM
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I lost more than 1BTC playing these fu.cking ponzis

Now I need to buy back my BTC

I hope people will get a lesson from your experience with ponzi.

Even name of this game seems like something crazy. Just say ponzi and the way how it sounds makes me feel sick.

Some people just need to learn the hardway.

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March 02, 2014, 05:13:27 PM
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I lost more than 1BTC playing these fu.cking ponzis

Now I need to buy back my BTC

I hope people will get a lesson from your experience with ponzi.

Even name of this game seems like something crazy. Just say ponzi and the way how it sounds makes me feel sick.

Some people just need to learn the hardway.

Yep Smiley and this method perhaps is the best (I mean most working), but sometimes ward way might become too hard...

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March 02, 2014, 07:30:28 PM
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I lost more than 1BTC playing these fu.cking ponzis

Now I need to buy back my BTC

I hope people will get a lesson from your experience with ponzi.

Even name of this game seems like something crazy. Just say ponzi and the way how it sounds makes me feel sick.

Now it does for me too

I need to get into my savings to buy more BTC and to work hard to get it back

:]

No more ponzis for those gents.

Lesson learned.
Don't do it again.

If you want to gamble your money - legit casinos only or sports bets.
Not PONZI.


I don't think casino is a great way not to lose your money

I don't like ponzis because it is gambling but there are some skills which means that you loose faster when you are bad like I was + you can get sc.ammed

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March 02, 2014, 08:36:10 PM
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I wrote "If you wanna gamble your money" - casino is best way.

Gamle = you can win/ or lose
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March 02, 2014, 09:09:27 PM
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Looks like this complaint is falling on deaf ears. The amount of complicity for scamming on this forum is incredible.

99% of the time suggestions are not acted on even if the majority of people agree.

That's a serious forum issue in my opinion.
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March 02, 2014, 10:43:32 PM
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Looks like this complaint is falling on deaf ears. The amount of complicity for scamming on this forum is incredible.

99% of the time suggestions are not acted on even if the majority of people agree.

That's a serious forum issue in my opinion.

I think best way to stop it is just to let people decide do they want to play or not.
And as I can see a lot of ppls play ponzis. So ... maybe jusy we don't get it .
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March 02, 2014, 10:53:58 PM
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Honest ponzi schemes don't strike me as particularly evil. I don't know why people would want to play musical chairs where the operator gets most of the profit for no real contribution, but knock yourself out. It is like casino gambling in that the house always wins. I see a case for a subforum to distinguish it from spamming up "real" gambling, but it doesn't intrinsically bother me much.

Compare that to the many dishonest de facto ponzi schemes I see advertised here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=159.0
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March 02, 2014, 11:29:34 PM
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Compare that to the many dishonest de facto ponzi schemes I see advertised here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=159.0
You forgot the one you see here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=1.0

I do not agree with this logic, I'm simply extending it.
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March 03, 2014, 12:54:03 AM
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New categorization might be good, but what exactly distinguishes a Ponzi-type game from other gambling?

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