Nice try.........
Oh? That makes sense. The merits might have thrown me off too.. even though maybe the first two merits that came from bumbacoin for 50 merits and sukamasoto for 30 merits should have had been clues that it was a fake screenshot... especially since I had never heard of those members, but I did not even really look very closely at trying to figure it out.
Initially, I had thought that the forum might have activated satoshi's account for the mere purpose of the joke.. which does seem a bit much, but sometimes we seem to tolerate a lot of extremes in order to make April Fool's jokes.
c'mon JJG.. you simply needed an excuse to merit your favorite and highly trusted farmer-bot "Lainta"
We're buds (me and Lainta).
We go way back.
Sure, Lainta has issues... and there were some other members in this forum (and also in this thread) who have issues, too.. some have worse issues than others... and surely there are some of us who are way the fuck better at backing up our points or at least attempting to back up the points that we make (if any) within our posts than others..
Oh.. and I just looked at Lainta's profile.. and yeah.. holy fuck, Lainta has a couple of negative trust write-ups.. so sure that is a potential problema for me to be buddying up too muchie with such a fellow (or government, or institution, or bot).. - even though I do not send merits based upon whether a member has negative trust or not.. even though it could influence me.. but I do attempt to judge if there might be some value in the post for me or potentially for others.. and yeah.. if the member ends up being a pretty fucking BIG dooshbag, then maybe I will stop sending merits to such member.. You know I merit some posts (and therefore members) that I really do not like very much.. but I still might value some of their contributions from time to time.. I cannot really be in a position of morally judging at too high of a level.. there are ONLY so many hours in the day.
and, I am not going to deny.. people come to differing judgements about what to do or how to spend their time and resources.. and so.. sure, there is a bit of a dilemma.. I won't deny.
If I could delegate some of my merit sending abilities, I would.. at least in spurts, but theymos has not yet implemented such capabilities/features in the forum.. (maybe I should request to be able to get such abilities for my lil selfie - like special treatment from theymos?... .. .hahahahahaha.. theymos if you are reading this post, consider my request for getting special abilities to delegate some of my merit sending abilities having had been made.. and could either you (or PowerGlove) get working on some software changes for such or maybe special treatment for yours truly?)... and currently, I cannot think of any reason to give my forum account password to any peep... even if I "like" such person.
I must say, very well argued!
I wonder what you mean, when you say that you both are going way back?
His account is just a year old, so you could only mean another account of him, or that you know him from somewhere else, no ?
I also wonder how you guys communicate... he seems incapable of having even the simplest dialog.
But whatevs... I just hope he learns from you how to post something else than tenuous twitter copies