Topic: Get Donator status by donating 10 BTC - page 19. (Read 138661 times)

Unless you refunded the difference in USD (which nobody would be happy about), this would end up turning a loss for the forum.

Does not compute: "everyone who wants can be donators" & "BTC5"
That's still a lot of money for most.

Those that complain about the Donator status being too pricey usually want it for next to free.
On the other hand, they want it as a status symbol. Also does not compute

One possibility would be to slash the price to BTC5, so that everyone who wants can be donators, and refund the previous holders the difference.

Yes. No.
It has already been discussed 9000+ times.

Is it still 10 btc to get a tag?  maybe time to drop that to .1?

how about a group buy 

let´s buy/sell/trade some donator shares ! pre-order ! 

Yes

Is the "donator forum" hidden to non-donators? What happened to it?

Well, for you as a VIP, that might be true.
As a donator, I unconditionally donated 10 BTC to the forum.
Unconditionally really is the magical word here, since everything else could not be considered a donation in my opinion but rather a bounty, payment, whatever. I did not request anything in return.

About the "vandalization" of the donator forum, I basically agree.

Here's a list of the last 10 donators to the forum.
Only one of them (guess which one) has an overall negative trust rating and seems a little suspicious.
So, yes, this is in fact a vanity title.

BTW are hosting costs fixed in BTC?

That'd be a nice addition to my
VIP / Donator Fun Facts:
I'll get to work on this

38 VIPs, 4 SCAMMERs -> 10.5% SCAM
108 Donators, 4 SCAMMERs, 1 Untrustworthy -> 3.7% SCAM, 0.925% Untrustworthy

If in doubt, trust a Donator! 

Ah sorry I haven't checked all the pages, I should have.

Thanks for the reply.


Thanks for your honest answer.

I will see how to make interest with them.

I'm willing to bet 5 BTC that if a 1 BTC or less donation option is offered while Bitcoin is under $200 USD, there will be a scammer with that 1 BTC status within the first four months. I'd have to have some sort of neutral third party determine if the person actually performed a scam or not, though, I'm open to suggestions.

Also, if someone wants to run the names of all the Donator/Scammers and collect the following, I'd be interested in it:
1) Name of Donator/VIP
2) Date they registered their account
3) Date they purchased Donator/VIP
4) Date they appear to have first scammed (best estimate might be needed)
5) Date they appear to have gotten the scammer tag (best estimate might be needed)
6) URL of scammer thread

Here, I'll do R-:
1) R-
2) March 31, 2012, 08:03:21 AM
3) April 18, 2012, 07:50:24 AM
4) July 23, 2012, 12:44:28 AM
5) January 12, 2013, 02:37:08 PM (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1450060)
6) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=94734.20

My guess is that R- would fit the mold of the typical Donator/VIP scammer and the admin/mod reaction to it.

Here's how it goes:
Someone registers and then buys Donator/VIP within the first three months of their account if not under one month, performs some regular business and enjoys their status, then within four months after getting VIP, totally screws over some poor soul willing to do a hundred bucks worth of work for them and doesn't receive a scammer tag till 6 months later.

That said, the trust system helps immensely in getting early warning signals in. As Thomas Jefferson once said on liberty, "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." The trust system is liberty and a free market. I'd rather be exposed to a slew of negative ratings by individuals upset over something someone said than see people getting scammed by Donators/VIPs/whatever the new 1 BTC status would be.

MagicalTux got "free" VIP status for hosting the forum for a long time, too. I think that him plus Hal are the only free donator statuses I gave out. You'd have to do something pretty extraordinary to convince me to give out another free one.

I don't see any point in donating 5 BTC now and then 5 BTC later. You won't get Donator status until you've donated a total of at least 10 BTC. It'd be better for you to earn interest on the 5 BTC somewhere until you're ready to pay 10 BTC. The forum isn't in need of money.

Are you talking about Hal Finney?
He did much more for Bitcoin than receiving the first transaction...

Chances of doing the very first bitcoin transaction are low today, though

Thanks for encouraging me. 

Not really, I want to be a vip.

Let me ask you again: So, you want to become a "donator" without donating?