Every time I read bitcoiners trying to understand Ripple ...
Sick of seeing these debates.
I know how you feel but your post was unhelpful, NWO. Bitcoiners are a natural ally to the Ripple ecosystem, though and we can't forget that.
People get abused or treated poorly daily on bitcointalk for not understanding Bitcoin....
People get abused or treated poorly on the WoW forums or youtube for understanding/using Bitcoin.
This is bitcointalk.org, it is kinda expected that people are critical towards anything that might look like endangering BTC. Also, maybe I need to remind you that you were also kinda trolling against Ripple for some time.
Calling people who don't understand a concept stupid, dumb or dense does not help at all. Also generalizing from a vocal minority to "bitcoiners" is a bit far fetched. English is not my native language and probably also not the native language of a lot of people around here, so there can be just very simple misunderstandings too.
ripplescam is relatively well designed and written and I regularly have to fight down the urge to create a similar page, just with Bitcoin as an example of how FUD and twisted words from someone who is relatively well informed about a system really can look like. Then again I constantly try to remind myself that Ripple as well as Bitcoin a few years(!) ago both took some time for me to really "sink in" and that it took quite some time of reading and asking until I understood it better. Pointing out (or making up) flaws of Bitcoin will not make Ripple any better or trustworthy, it will just make Bitcoin look worse. My hope is that while there are usually a handful of trolls showing up who try to upset me from time to time there are people that are genuinely interested in understanding more about Ripple and how it benefits Bitcoin as well as the anonymous mass of "lurkers" who do not post in these threads but just read them and form their own opinion.
Also it helps my own understanding a bit better to be asked beginner questions or to debunk common myths (like the "it's not open source" or "it's centralized" stuff).
You commented on how someone didn't post your entire quote, yet you fail to include the section of mine which refutes your first sentence...
Bold is what annoys me. Underlined is what doesn't. I'm talking about trolls or general hatred towards Ripple.
When you constantly witness 'senior members' still not grasping Ripple (considering it is so simple) and still
yapping on about it being closed source, premined etc it just gets annoying.
I don't mind helping genuine newcomers to Ripple (I have activated well over 10+ accounts for new members, friends, family),
it is the people who constantly whine like broken records or understand nothing about Ripple (and just post links to RippleScam etc) that annoy me.
It is true, I also didn't like Ripple and then I did my own research. I'm an example of someone who has both perspectives. But anyway, like I said. I'm going to keep calling people out for being retarded if they come into Ripple threads going "derp... derp.. closed source, centralized, scam.. derp derp" because that is just idiocy. As mentioned, I don't mind newcomers, general questions, language barriers etc.
Edit: Do you need some perspective? Go take a look at the comments on that article I linked to earlier.
