Advance notice of taking someone of value from someone does not make it ok.
People are not rehashing dead arguments, they are rehashing points IGNORED by MPEx.
Looky, in the month prior to delisting the ETF traded something like 3 days out of 30. In the month after that it traded not at all. Its last trades were at the 3 cents on the nominal bitcoin level. You will have a VERY hard time proving something has value that nobody wants to buy.
More importantly, these are arguments that should have been brought a month ago (and were, and didn't carry then).
Someone showing you are wrong does not "ignore it". Somebody not doing what you think they should isn't "scamming you". This very self-centric view of the world is adequate for the mental age of three and for most internet forums, but it doesn't work in finance and it doesn't really work in BTC (even if people like Taaki and forum types figure they're what BTC is all about - they're not).
I've been through a delisting or two on the NYSE. I got all kinds of legal mumbo jumbo in my mailbox. All the shareholders get notified from the company and from the brokers.
Does bolding help?
MPEx does not give companies or issuers the tools with which to do such a notice.
It's really fucking hard to have anonymous exchanges and "the tools", now isn't it? People read if they care. If they don't care to read they don't get to claim they care.
How the NYSE, NYSE brokers and NYSE issuers handle it is night and day from this.
I gather this is your opinion. This is fine, and you're entitled to it, but it is still wrong.
I don't think document retention should die as an argument until such time as it is fixed. Simply calling an argument dead because you're sick of it does not make it so.
Let me quote
from the article you claim to have read but really didn't.
BTC-Mining And as such will keep the transactions data for the ETF.
mircea_popescu The transaction (in general, the historical) data was never in discussion.
BTC-Mining When you said you'd delete ALL data for the ETF, I understood it as ALL the data. Including signed transactions--
mircea_popescu I didn't say I delete all data lol. I said the shares are discarded as worthless.
BTC-Mining Wait-- let me fetch the bit--
smickles Oh snap, mircea_popescu.
mircea_popescu WTF, delete signed orders create chaos. Heck, why not, let's have fun.
smickles \o\
mircea_popescu Lol whazzat smickles ?
smickles He's going to quote you saying something.
mircea_popescu No harm in that eh.
smickles
02:18 mircea_popescu BTC-Mining I can't delete "all data" man. the signed stats will forever exist.
04:01 mircea_popescu you were talking about "data being deleted". a customer wanting to push a claim would be in no worse position today, on the 5th of december 2012 or 2015
04:35 mircea_popescu i'm not about to delete f.GIGA.ETF entries from the historical records.
04:37 mircea_popescu what, am I going to log into twitter and delete tweets ?
04:46 mircea_popescu I didn't say I delete all data lol. I said the shares are discarded as worthless
04:47 mircea_popescu wtf, delete signed orders create chaos. heck, why not, lets have fun
Last 1000 lines, every time mircea_popescu said delete. All times UTC.
mircea_popescu Haha fun times.
BTC-Mining Mea culpa I guess. You were talking about how it's unreasonable to keep the data indefinitely. I understood it as all the data.
Your insistence to be spared fifteen minutes' worth of quiet reading at the expense of other people babying you, picking out snippets and so forth is really ridiculous. It's not in general speaking practical to expect that clever people will drop whatever it is they're doing and start packaging extant information in little sound bytes you can safely manage just because you're screaming your head off somewhere.
More generally, this nonsense trying to hold a company hostage by some people screaming bloody murder for absolutely no reason, on the general expectation that the company imagines a world full of nitwits will not have the intellectual honesty or for that matter the intellectual capacity of sitting down, reading and getting to the bottom of things has to go. This isn't retail as implemented by some fast food restaurant, and even there calling 911 because the drive through server got your fries as you asked for them rather than as you had wanted them fails to work.