I wouldn't ordinarily quote myself, but this thread like a number of others, clearly seem contaminated by a certain 'element' or perhaps I should say: a silicone based compound. It seems to have leached into the water around here and ever since, has had a horribly divisive effect on members of this community, who would otherwise be more enthusiastic, supportive and cordial to each other. I would just advise anybody climbing the hillsides of the booby trap ranges, not to loose their footing and tumble into the deep crevasse of Silicone Valley.
If I were say the government or the fed, planning to send some agent of to create disharmony and to try undermine the values of this community, I might choose a sexually liberated vixen, who many guys will be quite reticent to find fault with, because most guys tend to be more forgiving with our women folk. She'd be coached in making a calculated ploy, to inflame egos and subtly troll for emotive controversy, taking a disparaging, abrasive line that she knows full well that somebody will take issue with, then precede to play the victim card, when the inevitable backlash arrives. It won't be her fault she will protest, as she's just giving good advice and being helpful. Having inflamed a hostile reaction her work is done, as those who join the discussion will tend to take sides. Others may offer some limited agreement, but not to the extent that they would have raised the issue themselves. Yet by contributing to the contentious issue, her supporters will have picked up a hand, and so find themselves playing the game.
She my also make obnoxious claims that the people here in staff roles, are persecuting her and shutting her down; that they are offensive tyrants, who insist on victimizing her. She waste no time in overtly drawing on the support of others to challenge status quo, while making not the slightest attempt to negotiate a diplomatic solution or temper her hostility, but rather adding fuel to the fire, by pulling such grandstanding stunts, as placing her brazen accusations in her signature, with links to threads where she has made her petulant contentious, confrontations. As well as this she would very likely rail against bitcoin as community, for it's ethos and values, while pretending to be a contributor with valuable constructive criticism yet patronizing those who find her criticisms disagreeable. She would never seem to just make an unreserved encouraging comment herself, but rather positing her 'advice' as stern criticism without qualifying her unsolicited opinion. It will never even be intended as friendly or helpful advice, but rather calculated, as mildly acerbic and derogatory criticism, so that the bystander, is likely to care less than the subject of her backhanded helpful 'advice'.
She should also make audacious calls, for tumultuous changes, that would undermine the community such as removing an entire forum. In this community the best target for inducing conflict and to divide the community into seperate factions, would be the politics & society forum. So that's what I'd advise her to do, post a thread calling for Politics to be removed, as either a ploy for invoking contentious flame wars, or if some how successful, to weaken the community and undermine the education of newcomers, for whom the philosophical underpinnings of generally libertarian values might empower them to turn from curious to dedicated community members, expect support for substantive Some may entirely agree, just for the sake of solidarity with (what they perceive as) the hot vixen while others. A segregated politics board on a separate website, would hardy be visited anywhere near as much, if it isn't
here on bitcoin.org.
I would also have her loudly trumpet mainstream business values, demanding consideration for crass corporate elitism and have her advocate the need to pander to the whims of corporate despots, who she claims, expect bitcoin to adopt a corporate stylized image (including the removal of the politics forum). She will insist that these so called 'business people' are taken aback by the forums being contaminated with appeals for an uprising against government an tax evasion advocacy. Highlighting a potentially negative aspect and putting bitcoin down will also be a priority even declaring that it doomed to failure, withdrawing her participation in using bitcoin for business. That's what I'd do if I were a politician or senior executive of the Fed, and I wanted to disrupt the community and spawn contention and resentment. These divisive ploys, wouldn't be neatly as effective, coming from a typical guy or a more conservative looking girl. A politician would probably find a girl of this caliber at a
B&D/S&M fetish fantasy dungeon. That's where they all go for their guilty pleasures isn't it?
I said I intended to quote myself. Reading this whole thread and putting it into the context of the above post, consider these words of mine from
another thread, which happens to be calling for the removal of the politics forum:The coming days will present many challenges, as we can expect covert attacks on the community, attempting to usurp the libertarian stronghold, have it relegated to obscurity, or just disrupt the cohesion of the community by instigation of contentious divisions, and mud-raking to incriminate community members of higher profile and foster resentment for things that might have come to nothing.