And Inaba is free to post his bullshit for whole year. Now who is right about BFL being scam and who is jealous for not ordering his ASIC? Mathew made some very bad moves and is a general jerk but he makes useful posts from time to time.
Yep, that is an issue imo. However, if you read through Inaba's posts, a good portion of them are inflamatory, however, in response to another inflamatory comments. So the question becomes, whos more at fault, the angry customers, or the angry company representive. In a real business world, it wouldn't be tolerated, people would stop buying that company's products and that would be the end of it. However, that doesn't seem to apply here. What the community needs to stop doing however, which has been getting very very irritating, is provoking a response from someone, and then playing innocent and trying to use that person's response as damning evidence. I agree that Josh is an ass, but that doesn't give people the right to ask smartass questions of him, and then expect a calm response. He is posting bullshit in response to bullshit. There are exceptions of course, people asking actual questions, but there are also replies from Josh that are actual answers to those questions. In Matthew's case, I'm sure there was some more stuff going on behind the scenes, people aren't just banned for messing with a poll.
My solution would be to penalize everyone involved, the provoking and the responding party to the provokation, however, then we really do get into censorship and to what extent is Ok. Normally, if someone is having a spat with someone else, I'd forgive them as long as the heated words are flying from both directions, however, its been a nonstop spat for the last year, there is no progress to be made anymore by trying to further prove that BFL is or isn't a scam. There is enough info on both sides to write a book *starts writting* so starting new threads every 10 minutes isn't helping, its just spamming.
Back to the matter at hand, I find it somewhat ironic, that people are throwing the censorship flag, yet at the same time demanding that BFL's Ads be removed and Inaba censored. In a completely uncensored enviornment, wouldn't everyone be free to spam each other with Ads, Malware, hateful comments, people's personal information, and useless walls of text about making the perfect breakfast in a thread about recieving mining help? The fact of the matter is, the forums has a very very strict no censorship policy, and the only people who are banned or censored are those who abuse the rights of others to speak freely and read freely. If someone's asic device isn't working, and that person has to sift through 30 pages of pancake recipies to get to help, there is something wrong, and its time to start censoring.
What irritates me further, is people claiming misconduct on Theymos' part, especially when he isn't involved in half of it, or when it just doesn't make sense. He is not my boss, I am not covering for him, but for example, had I compiled together 10 posts from MNW that were all spam and troll posts, theoretically, I could ask a global mod, or more likely Theymos or John K to ban them. Would that be Theymos' fault? I explained a few posts ago, that unless Theymos decided that BFL's additional .017 BTC per week in ad revenue was enough to pay him off, the conspiracy theories as to why BFL is still allowed to purchase ads here are rediculous. Perhaps the Ads are still allowed here, because people have seen the hundreds of threads, and can judge for themselves whether or not they want to order from BFL. Perhaps Theymos doesn't feel the need to insult your intelligence by filtering out all unpleasantries and things that you need to think about for yourself.
also, I enjoy Gweedo's posts, for the most part he doesn't seem to be an annoying extremist who refuses to read anyone else's comments, so I don't mind reading his comments, even if they are critisms. No need to harrass him for a poorly worded sentence which he clarified a post later.