That's a bit like calling Lance Armstrong's competitors "uninvolved third parties"
. If DarkStar_ knew that they were alts he wouldn't have accepted them so deception resulted in someone losing out.
If I created a thread giving $100 to first 10 users who reply, and stipulated that no alts are allowed, someone cheating with 3 accounts would be essentially stealing from users who reply #11 and #12. This FOMA situation is not much different.
It's easy to name Armstrong's competitors as the parties who have been wronged. But it would only be comparable if FomA's deception led to other campaign participants losing money.
If I created a thread giving $100 to first 10 users who reply, and stipulated that no alts are allowed, someone cheating with 3 accounts would be essentially stealing from users who reply #11 and #12. This FOMA situation is not much different.
Getting accepted into a campaign is not akin to winning a no-fee raffle but conditional on being the most suitable forum member DarkStar_ is looking for. Other people applied, and yet FomA's alts were chosen over them, clearly indicating who was a better fit for the campaign.
My "hope" is basically to get a peek into the minds of this fraudster and not really about him asking for an apology. He is anonymous. He could easily write a short memoir and it'll be a hit.
I think he's laughing all the way to the bank. Milked what he could out of it when the campaign paid the most.
It doesn't sound ludicrous at all. Ass broke campaign rules to hog the spots which could as well have gone to someone else. Considering that 100+ applicants apply for the spots and only 1-2 get in, it is unfair to those who could have been selected.
You make it sound as if participation in a campaign is some sort of natural right, as if he depleted groundwater or otherwise abused a rivalrous but non-excludable good, when it can be better compared to someone applying under different identities, somehow getting accepted, and successfully working at two (three) jobs within the same company. The biggest loss to the company in such a situation is the extra overhead of having two (three) employees instead of one.
Then there is the whole issue of decency and conduct. As Staff, it is understood that you cannot make enforceable "rules" about conduct and cannot define decency. This is subjective but its importance shouldn't be diluted, least of all by staff; by refusing to take a stand on the ethical debate over such actions.
I absolutely don't condone deception, but as far as scamming and defrauding goes, this is all very tame by bitcointalk or cryptocurrency-sphere standards.
It doesn't at all compare to, for example, cheating at no-fee raffles, and the main reason people are so angry is because of the amount of money involved.
Personally, having replied to all of his alts on more than one occasion, I feel trolled. Actually, thought creeped in to my mind a couple times that FomA, exstasie and even gentlemand could have been the same person, probably because I've seen them post so often (too often) in similar threads, but it was all just a very weak hunch (according to other posters the last person is legit so I was wrong), but learning that squatter was FomA's alt really caught me by surprise.
