@dgex_victim (no quotes because that would fill a page
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UP plz correct me if I'm wrong here. I might have missed a few things earlier on in the registration process...
I wan't to give my perspective on the matter as well because I wasn't involved when NEM started but I am now especially with the taint analysis and the stakeholderlist.
First I want to say to so far NOONE has been kicked from the list because of sockpuppeting. That's what the audition is for which is still ongoing but I think it'll be finished by next week.
I also want to point out that noone will be kicked willy-nilly. Every one will be given time to make their case. Additional to that we're only weeding out people with more than 5 stakes which is imho already generous. Also we're only refunding additional stakes. This means that people are not even being kicked out of the movement they just get their money back for additional stakes and receive only one stake (plus the sockpuppets we didn't find
) so I don't think we're stopped attracting newbies by kicking out sockpuppets.
I can't comment on the retrospective part because I was under the impression that the disclaimer about the dev team to refund if they feel someone is being unfair has been there from day one. All in all I think the process is very fair. It has absolutely not been ideal and some people may get out of it with a bad feeling but in the end we're going to have a community where everyone has relatively the same amount of NEM and that was the goal. Rule changes or not that's what matters imho.
If you'd like to discuss this further I think we might wan't to move it somewhere else since this thread is currently still the main source for updates and it turns people off. We can totally keep it public I just think this thread might not be the right place anymore.
patmast3r, thanks for not dismissing me as a simple troll deserving of insults and nothing else! I agree with nearly everything you say, and I can obviously see that NEM is trying to be fair, and I appreciate utopianfuture's efforts.
Thanks also for the offer to continue this discussion elsewhere, but I've had my say, and I'm over the sockpuppet issue.
I will say that the original NEM post was edited & changed so many times, so when exactly the 'disclaimer' was included I'm not sure. I do know it wasn't there in the original post, and my belief is it was included sometime between the 26th & 29th of January.
I believe UP started to appreciate the sockpuppet problem when he wrote this on 26 Jan
Sun Jan 26, 2014 10:40 pmSo I saw an attempt to accumulate NEM stakes by one person making 5 accounts in the same manner
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic ... msg4750698 which somewhat goes against our egalitarian principle so my first instinct is to refund him the money and allow the sockpuppet only one stake.
But I realized it is explicitly said in the front page that multiple buy-ins are allowed. So I added a qualification in the front page "the development team reserve the right to refund you the money if an effort to unfairly accumulate NEM stakes is discovered"; however this qualification is added retrospectively so I think I would have to let Mr. sockpuppet to keep all of his 5 stakes if he wants to.
I want the community input for this decision.
https://forums.nxtcrypto.org/viewtopic.php?t=678&p=3161#p3159 And he probably added the 'disclaimer' around the time he made this post on 29 Jan.
January 29, 2014, 12:52:47 AM
Thanks for all who support NEM. This post is page 80 cut-off.
Please check the front page because a counter- sockpuppet measure has been introduced." Counter sockpuppet measure: Sending address could be checked and if there were already two payments made to NEM's addresses before, then the third payment would be considered donation.
This measure comes into effect at page 81 and does not apply retroactively. So DO NOT SEND the fee to NEM from an exchange, you would need to withdraw to your account first. Thanks for your understanding. "
In addition, meme promotion for stake spot is temporarily stopped. But remember that NEM still love memes.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.4809186The line "Please check the front page because a counter- sockpuppet measure has been introduced." does indicate that UP changed the first post on 29 Jan, so that's when I think the disclaimer was included
Utopianfuture might know when he added the 'disclaimer'.
Either way, there was a grey period when sockpuppets were allowed. There are a whole bunch of UP posts where he's talking about why sockpuppets should be considered ok, but they've all been disowned, and replaced with the 'but now we have new DNA profiling type tech so sockpuppets have ALWAYS been fraudulent .....", which is the type of spin I'm disappointed by.
Utopianfuture should be above that sort of stuff, "read my lips, I did not condone sockpuppet relations with that woman ... NEM Lewinsky".