Notice: This whole thread is kept snapshotted. Any attempts to cover up one’s own posts here are unwise.
In a minor lapse of judgment, I let myself be drawn into this thread when it was started almost two years ago. For that, I must apologize only to myself. I should have ignored this sick thread altogether. To the public, and for the record, I should explain why I lowered myself beneath my usual standards of poise and professionalism.
When this thread was started, I was still grieving over
the disappearance of
a dear friend. I was in an uncharacteristic state of emotional vulnerability and reactiveness. I should never have stooped to take suchmoon’s disgusting trollbait.
Despite many allegations to the contrary, I suppose that I am human after all. And over the years, lapses of being “all too human” have happened here two or three times with me—sometimes due to circumstances that are nobody’s business.
This forum has been a significant part of my life. Occasionally, when hit with major life events, I have not always behaved here with a stone-cold, robotic adherence to my usual reserve. I never did anything
wrong as a result of that; but I sometimes vented or reacted in ways that were decidedly inelegant—beneath my station.
Now, more recently, suchmoon and her canaille have been incessantly attempting to bait me and drag me back into this thread.
As to the smear-attacks against me, I will say only generally that some—particularly, suchmoon and DireWolfM14—have hereby and elsewhere recently spoken malicious and defamatory half-truths and falsehoods about me. They are dishonest characters. I will not stoop hereby to parsing whatever they have said to separate it into “true”, “half-true”, and “totally false”. I will simply dismiss them altogether, with the note that
this very page contains several patent lies about me—at least one of which can be debunked in about ten seconds by anyone who cares to check.
I would not ordinarily lower myself to engage in a public dirt-fight with such degenerate anthropoid scum as
suchmoon and her playground pals,
sirazimuth,
DireWolfM14, and
nutildah. They are each personally permabanned from any thread that I self-moderate, and shall be banned from any venues or services that I may ever create as adjuncts to Satoshi’s forum. They are the types who are toxic to any community. It is a disgrace to this forum that they run wild here, and nobody will say “boo” to them. In case I may ever deign to bother with them here, I have amassed not inconsiderable archives of the moments when they worst exemplify their own viciousness and dishonesty.
Otherwise, they are generally beneath my notice. I will not make the mistake of feeding trolls and wrestling with pigs here.
To
CryptoTourist: Thanks for standing up for me here. Please don’t waste your time with these trolls anymore. They are not worth even three seconds of your time. I think you’re awesome. Let’s make some new threads about Bitcoin, Greek, Bitcoin, Bitcoin, and other beautiful things.
To everyone else except CH, addressed below:
Normal, decent human beings do not participate in Internet forum threads designed as vulgar smear-attacks and harassment against constructive, intelligent members of the community. Please think twice before you feed this trash. If you wade into garbage and roll around in it, you will also stink.
I also think this thread is exemplary of why some people need seriously to reconsider their trust lists. But that is beside the point here. Ultimately, just as the people of a nation usually get the government they deserve, the forum community as a whole gets what it deserves—for now, I will leave it at that.
A concluding message to
the putative cryptohunter alt, whom I acknowledge may not be CH at all:I can now see that CH was right about some things, even if he was quite wrong about others. In my opinion, his worst mistake was to descend to suchmoon’s level of behaviour.
CH, please look at this thread, and then look at some of the threads that your alleged alts have raised. Do you want for people to take you seriously, as I believe you deserve for at least some of your arguments? Stop behaving like suchmoon! You are better than that.
In retrospect, I would even almost suspect that someone who dislikes you had created alts to get blamed on you. Actually, I think that has probably happened a few times, with a few of the alleged “CH” alts that did not fit the same pattern as the others.
CH, if you are out there—if you are reading this—please take the high road. Always represent yourself with consummate professionalism.
Mind always the proverb about wrestling with a pig: You get dirty, and the pig likes it.I think that you probably had much to contribute. Too bad it went the way it did. It may not be too late to turn that around, at least. Success is the best revenge—and he who laughs last, last best. Who gives a hoot what suchmoon says about you?
Please do not take that as condescending. I mean it quite otherwise. I owe you a virtual beer. And I don’t forget that you kindly backed off attacking my friend when I was grieving over her. I actually think that maybe, just
maybe it’s possible that you and Lauda could have eventually worked things out, if some things hadn’t gone the way they did. Too late, too bad.
Cheers.
