Didn't Diablo3 get demodded in the custom hardware subforum specifically because he dared to moderate in a way Josh saw as detrimental towards BFL? Or is this an old man's faulty memory at work?
He tried to censor anyone that wanted to discuss BFL (bad or good), even went so far as to start deleting threads consisting of many pages of discussion. Remember when he moved all the threads to german off topic, then locked the only remaining BFL thread? He felt very strongly that it was a scam, and that discussion regarding BFL shouldn't be allowed or should be heavily moderated.
My post in the staff forum (before payments mind you, this was 6+ months ago).
...I think Diablo is wrong here. It isn't our job as moderators to decide what's a scam or not, and it isn't our job to restrict what information people should have (re: deleting the BFL thread as "anti-scam policy") based on nothing more than opinion/speculation. That's not why we're here,
people are more than capable of making their own decisions without our interference.
I get Diablo doesn't like BFL and thinks it's a scam, and he's certainly free to express his opinion on that, but abusing his mod privileges in this way because of that is going a little too far.
05:39 < Diablo-D3> bfl purposely had their shills start hundreds of troll threads to make it hard to find information about bfl
05:39 < Diablo-D3> I fixed the problem.
And if that's the reasoning behind moving all the BFL threads to off topic, then I gotta say I disagree with that as well. There may be specific threads that have issues, but that seems kind of a knee jerk reaction. I guess that isn't a big deal, nobody seems to care so far.
This is the whole problem with it though.
05:36 < Diablo-D3> sipa: because bfl has basically admitted there are no units and never will be
05:40 < sipa> i asked for a link
05:41 < Diablo-D3> yes, and I said go find it yourself
05:41 < Diablo-D3> it might have gotten misplaced in the cleanup
If there's a chance you're moving information like that (that appears to have solidly convinced you it's a scam) to off topic over this, or "misplacing" it, perhaps you should reconsider the standards you've set.
This part in particular I still strongly believe "People are more than capable of making their own decisions without our interference", assuming they have access to all the information, and not just what some dude who happens to be a mod thinks they should have.
Yeah, I remember that too. As I said before, I don't care how theymos runs his business and don't mind the mods getting paid. I'm all for it but it does look suspect that BFL is paying the forum admin and mods. Mods should be looked up to and their opinion should be trusted (look at the new trust system - who administers that again?). I do think people should make up their own minds about who to trust. I don't think it's a good decision to make sure that they know they can't trust forum staff. I'm glad your against it but perception is what I'm concerned with and it looks bad. How many people think that way but won't waste the time to say something: "Bitcoin - um, let's take a look - nope, just a bunch of crooks - move along."
To the dumbass above that said, "if you don't like this place go somewhere else." I do like this place and Bitcoin that's why I'm concerned about how it appears to the world. Only a moron couldn't see that.
