Theymos said that in early April.
Hopefully we don't repeat that in the next month as I will likely post about it again.
And true it shouldn't be based on popular vote, but you can not discount the community at large on this forum from being able to gauge what WE as a majority believe is true or not.
Actions speak louder, BFL's actions speak of scam. Pirate delayed on his payments and was given a scammer tag.
BFL promised a 1000 BTC charity donation if they didn't meet their power specs/hash speeds when they shipped. Which they did not. Yet they have not paid their bet. Even Josh has admitted that they do not view the bet (although was done in good faith on this forum publicly) as high priority.
My point being is I do not see ANY difference between the two scenarios described above, yet BFL gets away with whatever the fuck they want.
Just sayin...