Does Vod deserve VIP status?

[suchmoon]

Completely up to Theymos what special rank he's going to give you.

Is Theymos even considering doing that?  Did I miss a discussion about this? 

Not special rank perhaps, but theymos has on a few occasions assigned custom subtitles to some users for fairly simple reasons, e.g.

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[LTU_btc]

VIP - I don't think it should be given who haven't donated 50 Bitcoins. Because you didn't done that.
But I really appreciate what you did for Bitcointalk and I'm sure that you deserve some custom rank. I think that theymos should give special rank for people like you. Maybe it can be called "Contributor".

[UserU]

I agree with the "Contributor" title, and the BPIP logo added as a nice tie-in

[yazher]

No doubt Vod you are an asset to this community and if VIP status will make you happy to appreciate your contribution to the forum, We would have given you that. however, the boss is the last to decide that. Good Luck though.

[Vod]

I fully agree with the concept of atomizing - "Donator" just means someone who donated 50btc - even if it was worth pennies at the time, or the btc was stolen.  I'm OK with that.

It would be nice to have a title that recognizes I contributed a lot more than the donators.   During the same period they were donating pennies, I was donating valuable time and experience - the kind that you need to pay millions for today.  (see Epochtalk).

Finally, I recognize the human/evolutionary response of valuing something less if you did not witness it.   Besides Suchmoon, I joined before everyone else posting here, but my past actions are worthless to new members and my merit has been devalued because it's not "earned", whatever that means.   So I accept even though I did more for this forum than the donators, there was no recognized title for it at the time.

[OgNasty]

It would be nice to have a title that recognizes I contributed a lot more than the donators.

LOL.  You are a cancer to this forum.  You harass people who contribute a great deal more than yourself and you are so delusional you can't even see this place would be better off without you.  VIP status?  LOL.  The administrator of this forum has you on his distrust list because you're a known liar and troublemaker.  If you get a custom title, it should be Delusional Troll.  Even that would be too good for you, as fading away into nothingness more suits your contributions here.

[Vod]

^^ Don't care what he posted then or in the future.  If I need to know when to turn left on a red I'll ask that idiot.

[LoyceV]

"Donator" just means someone who donated 50btc

Actually, it's 10BTC:

If you donate 10 BTC, you can get a special "Donator" title and a green "who's online" color. If you donate 50 BTC, you get VIP status and the ability to create a custom title for yourself.

Without checking, I always thought Donator was more expensive than VIP.

[suchmoon]

Actually, it's 10BTC:

~1 shred of cheese on a pizza

[UserU]

Actually, it's 10BTC:

~1 shred of cheese on a pizza

So what you're saying is that if I have a bag of leftover cheese in my fridge, I am a billionaire?

[Vod]

So what you're saying is that if I have a bag of leftover cheese in my fridge, I am a billionaire?

Did you see someone put the cheese in there, or just take their word they would after you paid them?

[Pmalek]

I am not sure how much you donated and when, but the value of your donation is probably higher than the value of the 50 BTC that were donated by early donators back in the time. And you created bpip, a site almost everyone here has used at least once. 

I remember that there was a discussion in Meta a while ago whether or not the 50 BTC threshold to become a VIP should be lowered, because it makes no sense in today's world where 1 BTC is worth more than those 50 BTC donated back in the times. Many members were against the idea, I thought it made sense. Taking all that into account, you will probably not get the community's approval to wear the VIP tag solely because of the fact that you didn't donate 50 BTC. 

I wouldn't mind you being awarded a special tag, if that is what the admins decide. 

[snipie]

I am not sure how much you donated and when, but the value of your donation is probably higher than the value of the 50 BTC that were donated by early donators back in the time. And you created bpip, a site almost everyone here has used at least once. 

I remember that there was a discussion in Meta a while ago whether or not the 50 BTC threshold to become a VIP should be lowered, because it makes no sense in today's world where 1 BTC is worth more than those 50 BTC donated back in the times. Many members were against the idea, I thought it made sense. Taking all that into account, you will probably not get the community's approval to wear the VIP tag solely because of the fact that you didn't donate 50 BTC. 

I wouldn't mind you being awarded a special tag, if that is what the admins decide. 

Same old story about donation, lowering it, creating an ~ alternative which is copper member...
I prefer to keep VIP and donator as it is, just for the ones donated 50 or 10 BTC respectively, or else it will not be fair at all... However for some well known members that contributed too much for the community then a special name/tag/position may be more suitable imo. You have one in your mind Vod?

[LoyceV]

I wouldn't mind you being awarded a special tag

As Jet Cash says:

Vod is vod - surely that is recognition enough.

Sample:

[UserU]

Did you see someone put the cheese in there, or just take their word they would after you paid them?

Well, it looked like cheese and tasted like one, so I took their word for it

[KaneVWE]

I wouldn't mind you being awarded a special tag

As Jet Cash says:

Vod is vod - surely that is recognition enough.

Sample:

Exactly this level of complete and utter failure/loser aka been here since 2011 and still on welfare is an outstanding performance.
Really Vod should be synonymous with utter failure, embarrassment and disgrace. It takes a lot of exceedingly poor judgement to avoid as much wealth as Vod has.

Like if someone tries to edit their past dishonest actions you say: did you just nutildah your post history?
So the same with Vod. For example someone asked me why I didn't purchase ETH at ico prices.  I would say nah I pulled a Vod on that one sadly. Of course that would be exaggerating the mistake.
Vod doesn't just have a single string to his bow either. There are many other notable and entirely disgraceful actions that add extra notoriety to his status.
In his own way he is a very very very important member. Not many others could be used as such a classic example of how not to proceed in this arena.  I expect these same lessons would apply to a great deal of other situations where the aim is not to end up old and broke after having been given one of the greatest opportunities in history. 

Bpip? That site that rips raw data from the forum so vod could rank and weight the raw data in such a way as that he was number 1 most popular member?  A vip if you will.
Thanks Vod, this was a very funny thread.
I tried to vote give it to him. He is a gem. VVVIP.

Jetcash? Of course admires Vod. He's 84 lives in a van and gets access to the internet when he can afford another happy meal. They are both VIP's. Get them both added asap.

[OgNasty]

I am not sure how much you donated and when

That’s simple. Vod has never donated anything. He’s a selfish lying little prick that will be remembered as such. He’s far more likely to be banned or carry a Scammer Tag than receive a VIP title. This thread is a nice reminder at just how great of a disconnect there is between Vod’s delusions and reality.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

I think there should be a new rank added to those that have contributed a great amount to the forum without any monetary donation and the rank would be reserved for only those that have significant contribtions.  

And with this suggestion of yours, do you think it would be fair to the average forum user?. Before this suggestion, you felt Vod or any other user that have contributed greatly to the forum, them getting a VIP status won't be fair to the past donators why then do you think a new rank just for them would be ideal?. If theymos wants to introduce a new rank to the forum, that I would support without second thoughts but it shouldn't be restricted to just those that are fortunate to have the skills to do such.

I'm sure others would had loved to contribute too but since they're not equipped to do such they have to turned to just keeping the forum active with quality discussion and clean from scammers and spamming which obviously is enough contribution to the betterment of the forum. They should get some recognition like the art contest winners did some months back, I'm sure everyone will be ok with that development.

[DooMAD]

I'm sure others would had loved to contribute too but since they're not equipped to do such they have to turned to just keeping the forum active with quality discussion and clean from scammers and spamming which obviously is enough contribution to the betterment of the forum. They should get some recognition like the art contest winners did some months back, I'm sure everyone will be ok with that development.

It almost sounds like you're asking for a "participation award" where everyone gets something just for taking part.  Your ordinary rank is what demonstrates what you've contributed to the forum.  But if you have done something special or unique, that's a different story.

I don't think it's unreasonable for the people who have gone above and beyond in terms of the useful service they provide to be recognised for their efforts.  If people are building infrastructure that supports the forum and lots of users find that really helpful, it's clearly a more significant accomplishment than simply making posts on the forum.

[KaneVWE]

I'm sure others would had loved to contribute too but since they're not equipped to do such they have to turned to just keeping the forum active with quality discussion and clean from scammers and spamming which obviously is enough contribution to the betterment of the forum. They should get some recognition like the art contest winners did some months back, I'm sure everyone will be ok with that development.

It almost sounds like you're asking for a "participation award" where everyone gets something just for taking part.  Your ordinary rank is what demonstrates what you've contributed to the forum.  But if you have done something special or unique, that's a different story.

I don't think it's unreasonable for the people who have gone above and beyond in terms of the useful service they provide to be recognised for their efforts.  If people are building infrastructure that supports the forum and lots of users find that really helpful, it's clearly a more significant accomplishment than simply making posts on the forum.

Simply making posts on the forum? Yes nothing major has ever been achieved by people wasting time with that hey?

Certainly nothing that could measure up to being able to see your top 20 merit fans and recipients over the last year.
I think you'll find simply posting on the forum has in some instances  been far more important and useful to this movement than Bpip.

Even so their achievement would be subjective. If they donated 10 or 50 btc is not.
Notable contributors to this forum would be another mess if it wasn't objective.

Having looked through Vods history I can say I see nothing of note and no reason to believe he is important in the history of Bitcoin nor the forum. I really dont see things would have been different in any meaningful way had vod not existed. There is no sensible case to present that suggests he made any difference in any way to any project here.  

The end.

P.s your point about rank demonstrating what you've contributed here is even more stupid,  so I won't embarrass you by going into that further.