Topic: remove investor-based games - page 2. (Read 2577 times)

Its more about censorship when you break the issues under attack:

1. Spamming - This has extended to anyone with a signature being stained due to which signature they are under. Often you can be discredited based on the signature alone,if this does not work you can be written off as a troll. Its a great tactic in putting the fear of god into people that have English issues or may already be working with a learning disability. Its discrimination based on how well you can write or who you are cool with. When you look through meta look at the titles of signature threads hunting members that they deem to be spammers. It usually uses language that paints them all in the same boat. Its offensive.

2. Scammers - We started by labeling people that had scammed in the past,which is fine. Now it includes potential to scam as a reason to negatively leave a trust comment. The current attack on HYIP being discussed here shows it extends to people that leave a positive comment
because they are one of two things in the groups eyes. One they are the ponzi owner using alt accounts to spread the look of postive gains or two they are leaving a comment that supports the scam. The latter makes little sense because you are turning the victim into a target.

3. Selling of Accounts - This is where they divide off and do not attack each other over. Some think the buyer is the bad guy,well others think the seller is the true issue. Due to not defining the issue they can attack everyone involved with out any one being able to say wait a minute!

Whats next?

Seems to be a movement with a religious zeal to it,as you are trolling if you bring up issues with the plight.
So no to the Nanny state and lets get back to community building.

absolutely not!
The only way to help new users to get scammed is a constantly monitoring of such section and leaves neg trust to every one support (post payment / bump discussion) OR post an hyip/ponzi scheme.
there are a lot of way to earn "clear" btc and this the baddest way to follow!

Not a good idea. These ponzis and hyips will flood other boards. In addition nobody can keep the fools and their money together by force.

Then gambling and trading should be removed too.
Probably even more people lose money on those.
Bitcoin should also be illegal, just think how many people lost money when they bought at 1000$ and sold year later.

In my opinion no,people needs to be informed if the site is trusted or not and how the the programs are working and one more thing they are still bitcoin related programs unless those programs do not accept bitcoin..

Definitely not. Because each everyone of us, have the right to choose whether what we want. In that case, dont blame the one who runs that ponzi or investment site nor blame the moderators of that thread nor the administrator coz he make that sub-forum. Instead blame the one who participated that thread or sub-forum or blame your self if you are one who participated and got scammed. And even the warning in that thread is just enough to reminds everybody what they will got if they choose to proceed. But because of what happened this days of that thread coz of this frustrated police? or whatsoever they called that. Dont think if they will stay in there to got red tags. LOL

Your logic is flawed. People are free to choose what they want to do with their money. At least in this specific section they KNOW what to expect.
If you are oblivious to what Ponzi, piramid scheme, HYIP and others very risky ways of earning money are maybe you are a fool who need to lose money to learn?

The only problem is when Ponzi is disguised as 'normal' investment project or company. This is not fine. But then again - you won't probably find these in Investors-based games subforum.

If I want to invest in a rocketship to the center of the Earth for $9.99 I should be allowed to do this with my bitcoin.
No one should control any aspect of bitcoin,so that it strangles and conforms in a foreign nature.

The warning should suffice on opening the sub forum,after that the warnings become trolling under the guise of whats good for the community. Take a look at the language our so called forum cops use and you see it has a trollish nasty side to it. Does not seem like one is out for the better of the forum when they refer to anyone that disagrees as stupid.

i think the warning is enough to make you understand about investor-based games sub forum.

Warning: You are in the Gambling section. You are likely to eventually lose any money that you gamble/"invest". Additionally, moderators do not remove likely scams. You must use your own brain: caveat emptor. Do not gamble more than you can afford to lose.

No, it was originally named investor-based games. I was here in the forum way back when it's not here yet and the main reason why they put an investor-based games sub-section is to separate the ponzi to the legit gambling games that people are advertising here. Back then people kept creating new threads about these ponzis and users are complaining on how there should be a separate setion for it so that the gambling threads will not be flooded by these ponzis.
Obviously it's purpose is to keep the freedom of those ponzi enthusiast and at the same time be able to sweep their hyips scam in one part of this forum because without it we know that people will still create ponzi threads in other sections so it's bet that they have their own part. Let's admit that mos people in here invest in them. Without investors here, there will be no ponzis popping up each day.
Also don't blame it on the investor based games. You have your own mind so you are the one who are incharge of your coins. You decide what to do with it. And for petes' sake, have you guys not read those big CAVEAT EMPTOR above every single thread of the invetor-based games. If you are complaining because you lost your money then it must have you not having a common sense to understand how things works in there.

This used to be called the Ponzi section if I'm not mistaken, and the purpose of it baffles me.  It's like gambling for the retarded, and this forum would do well to just nuke it--and I've said that in other threads.  I think this forum is probably the only one in existence that has a subsection specifically for people to willingly sign up for Ponzi schemes.

But that's bitcoin.  We have some of the smartest people here and also some of the stupidest.

If people can't read what's right under their nose (in red script and italics at the top of the board), then it's their fault. You're obviously butthurt because you invested in a scamzi. Learn to read.

Bitcoin is about freedom and the more we attack aspects of the community the more it becomes like government. This in turn renders bitcoin useless as the nannies will enforce their aspect of laws onto the majority,either creating sheep thinking or subtracting the group till its just like minds.
The people that want to control are in it mostly for personal gain and use tactics of control to eliminate competition or agendas that do not align with their own.

As much as you want to help people,the more of a problem it will become for them. Vices are our own personal paths and leaning on some one to change only makes them that much more resistant to it. This is how I view ponzi schemes and whatever other investment risk you want to drum up.

I have to be honest, I've probably had a little read of that section like once. It seems full of crap & I know that the content there isn't very well respected in other areas of this forum.

there is no investor based games section in the past and those operator of ponzis flooded the gambling sections with their shit so the admins decided to create proper section for them, now if investor based section will be removed then we will see the gambling section flooded again

yes and if newbs can't read that there own fault not ours.

it is in gambling and it is a risk the issue is people use hyip as a easy money but really they need to view them all as a high risk gambling game

No need to remove just rename. You never invest in those sites. You can play with them but never consider that investing. "Ponzi's, Pyramids and HYIPs" would be a better name

They lose money of their own free will. Any person with half a brain can spot something as fishy as this.

Some sites pay, some sites dont. But overall, it's best to tell newbies to be aware.

wow the fucking cry baby that bitch when they lose.
you knew the risk when you sent them coins. if you did not then you should read.

as for these stupid wanna be police that think they can tag people with trust for using the site as intended then your worse then scammers blackmailing people.

so suck it up buttercup and next time read .