And even if we were completely impartial with those posts, the perception of bias would still be there.
I'm sure I took the criticism about Yobit spammers personally and someone accused me of being one on my trust wall, but I don't remember there being nearly the amount of scam accusations against Yobit back then as opposed to now. My demeanor and attitude have probably changed somewhat from my Yobit days.
However, though I tried to be diplomatic about it, I was in Lutpin's 777Coin campaign and at one point posted this in the thread:
Payments are today, right? The first week payment was at noon on Sunday, it's now 11pm Sunday where I'm at. No offense Lutpin, I'm a fairly patient guy, but a little communication (including responding promptly in the thread to those who applied ) and consistency would be good.
I finally quit the campaign because of stuff like this, but I'll also admit I was 1) too impatient, and 2) not nearly so well-versed in how "flexible" campaign managers are in terms of when they make payments. I think I deleted my final post in that thread because it was basically something juvenile, like "I'm done with this campaign". I never disliked Lutpin and still respect him, and I don't mean the neg trust on him to reflect anything personal or vindictive because of crap like the above. If I were him I probably would have told me to STFU and be patient.
However....the latest delays that the Lutpin/Lightlord campaigns have experienced go far beyond defending like I did with Yobit or you, suchmoon, might have done with the Asicminer campaign. Neither of those made their participants suffer quite like Lutpin/Lightlord's have as far as I know (though now that I'm remembering Yobit, that fucking "withdrawal" button used to get frozen quite often).
It bears repeating that not only were the Bitvest/777Coin participants made to wait weeks to get paid, but bitcoin dropped severely during part of that time they were waiting. That's doubly wrong.
And boy, I'd really love to hear from more of the campaign participants themselves. Some have spoken up, but most have not and I can't imagine that it's because they don't have an opinion on the matter.