Topic: Impeachment: Is Greg Maxwell the best choice for being a mod in bitcointalk? - page 2. (Read 518 times)

For Your (and other users posted above) Information:
I'm not campaigning for "moderacy" neither any "liberal" party in this site and more importantly: I have no time for such stuff. I just said what I think everybody is already aware of:
Gregory Maxwell is the lead developer of the client software that is, almost exclusively, used in bitcoin, he has enough power to follow his visions and philosophy both personally because of his expertise and socially because of his social capital. He doesn't need a moderation position in this forum to do or not to do anything about bitcoin.

On the other hand, Bitcointalk is not the official site of Gregory Maxwell neither a representative of his visions. Reserving "bitcoin" brand for the legacy/not-forked blockchain with its huge market share is best practice and has nothing to do with any biased moderation policy in this site, IMO and it is the most favor bitcointalk could and have ever done for Core devs, i.e. Nothing!

So, bitcointalk shouldn't look like being "their site" because it is not! It is what Greg understands and puts him in a bad situation: Every move he makes as a moderator in this site is considered a political move and he needs to re-think it over and over. It is not good for Maxwell neither for bitcointalk.

How can you expect to be taken seriously when you can't even get to the point? How's that different from trolling?

Hmm... Something is a bit fishy.

From what I know, Greg's interest's are basically the same as the interests of any honest Bitcoiner.
So going by your logic no honest Bitcoiner would be OK for the moderator tasks.

If you want Maxwell impeached as a forum moderator and at the same time you do not want to go into details as to why he should, neither do you want to deliberate with the community based on facts as to why he should step down.

Then I think you should send a private message to theymos, he is the only person who can act on such request, also you need to lock this thread because when you bring forth this sort of argument to the community, you need to go into details, argue on it and try to prove beyond reasonable doubts the facts you'd have presented, but obviously you've presented none.

Lemme guess, he banned franky from dev'n'tech because he talks a load of crap. He rubbished anonymint to the ground because he talks a load of crap. You are worried you'll be next because oh yes you talk a load of crap.
Instead of looking to get gmax to 'step down' why don't you take some action you can control, namely, stop talking (a load of crap) and start studying so that one day you can make a coherent argument.

Honestly, i am not even sure what the purpose of this post is. You are trying to show that you are not against Gregory Maxwell and yet you seem to be against him in other parts of the post... Basically it's just a mixture of emotions. Maybe because you are scared of a backlash or something like that.

My point is why even bother making such a post on Meta if you are not ready to produce more details about your claims?

If you are also not ready to get different reactions from people then i don't think posting in Meta was a clever idea. Maybe PMing Gregory Maxwell asking him to step down would be a much better idea... right?

Just a quick and short entry here.

It's just a forum and Theymos and Cyrus own it, they decide who will be a moderator, so basically there are no public ellections, you can't impeach anyone, the only way is to convince the admins that he is on the wrong way, but I really doubt they will bite it.

I don't want to go into details either, I don't want to come with evidence that are clearly supporting my point of view and refuting your concerns as I deem it all unnecessary, but I ask you officially to .....stop!

Without going too far into any of these pesky "details" that you're so against going into, would you care to explain what specifically you think Gregory Maxwell's professional interests are, and how they are in conflict?

Let me get this straight:

1. You won't provide any evidence of why he is a biased moderator, and

2. You refuse to explain yourself any further.

That's not really a strategy for winning over minds.

Hi,
I'm not starting this to attack Gregory Maxwell, on the contrary, it is about praising him.

Gregory Maxwell is a techno/political icon and a legend. He has full rights to be biased in favor of or against any single topic in the bitcoin ecosystem, actually, he should be biased, otherwise, who is in charge of taking care of hypes, FUDs and scams?

My point is, such a figure doesn't need any authority in this forum to do his job as a think tank, and this forum doesn't need a biased moderator on the other side.

I understand; bitcoin is money and money was born with blood on his hands but believe it or not, bitcoin needs to evolve and nobody is in charge of its evolution path, it is not Ethereum, there is no Foundation and no Vitalik neither any stupid roadmap in bitcoin because it is not a project. It needs space and opportunity for divergent ideas and out of the box thinking.

I don't want to go to the details and put forward how Greg's biased point of view is affecting his job as a forum moderator, it would be absolutely unnecessary, it is not about this or that evidence supporting or refuting my concerns, it is about a general situation we are dealing with: a conflict of interests.



Edit: I'm not and won't be campaigning for this to happen, please don't terrorize me or try to make me quite. I have no plan to argue about what I said and won't answer stupid attacks by shills.