It would be nice if you included a quote so people would know who you are responding to.
First off, not any statement you dislike that happens to discuss your person is automatically an ad hominem attack. In this case, it was just stating a matter of fact.
You were stating an opinion, and the basis of your argument is "You're stupid", which is pretty much the definition of an ad hominem attack: an argument which does not address the argument but rather the person making it.
Second off, you are ignorant enough to not have bothered to examine the income structure of MPEx/MPOE. In spite of the fact that it's freely available. Yet you discuss this. Why do you discuss things you haven't bothered to research? The account registering fees make up less than half the income of the past year. This alone reduces your poorly clobbered together "thought" to rubble, you're basically saying that someone's going to set fire to their house if their car breaks down.
MPEx charges a registration fee, do you deny this? GLBSE does not. Therefore, a higher percentage of the MPEx income comes from new sign-ups than the GLBSE (some is higher than none). Therefore, my statement was correct.
Third off, you've been here since September 2011. MPOE has been trading options since August 2011. You've run out of intelligent things to say a while back and haven't shut up yet, why would MPOE be "abandoned"?
I have been here longer than that, I opened *this account* in September 2011.
Fourthly, Mark Twain has plenty to do with idiots speaking "their mind"; he came up with the observation that in your case it's much better to stfu. If indeed you were teaching classes it'd be a sad comment on the state of that profession and an easy explanation as to why this forum is so completely filled with idiots.
Mark Twain said many things. It would have been nice if you had made some reference to the quote you were thinking of, which I am guessing is something like "It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and prove you are a fool" (paraphrasing). Perhaps you should take that to heart and stop talking like an idiot, every time you open your mouth you turn more people away from you exchange.
Finally, you are talking with offensive ignorance about the absolute and indisputable leader in BTC finance. The people everyone else copies, from Meni Rosenfeld to that Nefario joker. The people that made sense of asset contracts, the people that actually do reporting, the people that actually do security, pretty much the only people that do
everything right in a "market" where everybody does everything consistently wrong. You are talking about the one exchange which has not yet had an asset turn sour, when the standard is more like "
everything goes to shit". Very simply put, how dare you? Who are you? What have you done?
HA! The leader of BTC finance? Nefario copies you? Who has been open longer? I am not claiming to be some super genius finance guy, but I am also not trying to sell a trading platform by insulting potential users.
Also a tip: you might want to work on your search engine optimization. When I google "GLBSE", the first result is the GLBSE website. When I try MPOE or MPEX I don't even see you on the first page.