Zerlan's rants, demeaning his customers, shows that kind of contempt.
Yifu's statements lately have had the same underpinnings.
Or maybe we just get tired of whiny, entitled little brats screaming and crying for attention. I wonder which is more plausible.
Yeah, going to have to say that we should allow to continue with various vendor hate around here until the vendors themselves start behaving in such a way that does not produce feelings of hate due to their own conduct.
Chicken, egg, so on and so forth...
...and here's the same chicken(or egg) acknowledging through his actions that he still needs these forums to maintain his supply of fresh
victims customers.
3 @ 7.75
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=284843.0;topicseenI believe that bitcointalk.org administrators would gain instant respect by simply deleting or blocking that bid.
^^ Indeed! But clearly respect does not power this forum.
At one point there was a thread to raise btc so we could outbid a certain asic vendor and i believe it was posted in custom hardware but it got moved to the woodworks somewhere in the forum where nobody would see it.. (remember the "WARNING ads")
It wasn't theymos who moved it .. it was a mod if my memory serves me correctly but i may be mistaken. I cant believe i forgot the name of the guy who started the thread. He was someone who was ripped off by bitfloor during the first fiasco. ( ill remember eventually, he saved me from the second bitfloor fiasco when he was urging people to jump ship. )
Anyway .. the issue is how do we fund the this forum with regular advertising revenue, ala outbidding the scammers who clearly have used the freedoms in this forum to prey on bitcoin and participants.
Clearly if we were to replace the regular revenue stream im sure theymos wouldn't care if there were 0 ads on this forum as long as he got his.
Blaming theymos for trying to keep the lights on wont get anywhere.
I think the forums biggest asset is its freedom of speech, we should preserve that and be an example to other community's. The trolling can be curtailed by adding a feature that after certain amount of ignores you get a temp ban from the thread.. Even if its 1 day or 2 days.. Maybe a known troll tag wouldn't hurt either.
Hate is just a feeling like love .. we cant have one without the other so its important to tread carefully.
To be honest i dont mind the contrast.. i love when people get intellectually muted and its always good to "listen" to opposing arguments as long as its constructive..
You know what they say... "If everyone is thinking the same then someone isn't thinking!" So moving forward lets find a way to power this forum with respect by eliminating the ability for asic vendors to prey on unsuspecting participant of bitcoin by plastering their ads all over the forums. Also if we could stop Asic vendors from creating multiple threads.
Every asic vendor should have a single thread for questions, comments, concerns & inquiry's. Maybe one other thread for support!
So max two threads for asic vendors!
Usually when vendors hear discontent from customers they try to oblige but here people are angry and throwing tomatoes and instead of catering to the issues the asic vendors just start a new thread! If they are quarantined to a two thread setup, one for general and one for support then they are a bit more obligated to deal with the issues then to let it boil and turn to hate!
Because once the hate machine start churning in a thread its likely to result in loss of customers.