(note this post is made from the same IP address @iamnotback used)
@mprep, you're very slow to understand. Let's try one more time to drill some simple information into your retarded brain...
Readers note that the reason I am not restraining myself because the clusterfuck software here doesn't offer the features needed for me to operate amicably within my followers set, while allowing me to filter out all the riff-raff outside my followers set (presuming my followers would typically choose to filter the posts according to my moderation decisions). I am responding in kind to the abuse being levied against my 4 years of work. Also I am obviously trying to maximally offend @mprep to make a philosophical point that when we grow up and enter the real world, we come to understand that we don't have any control whatsoever over others and only some control over ourselves. @mprep can be offended until his head explodes, yet he will never be able to control me. And I have no desire whatsoever to control him.
It is a delusional ludicrous concept that because this is a privately owned forum, thus they have the incentive to abuse 4 years of investment in their forum made by an expert such as myself. What they have accomplished is made me see very clearly the very strong demand for a decentralized forum. BCT will decline in a waterfall collapse within the next year or two.
Did anyone notice LTC declined to below 0.011 yesterday as
I had precisely predicted in this thread when the price was much higher.
It's hilarious to see how delusional you are in your apparent "intellectual superiority", berating anyone who disagrees with any of your opinions (e.g. your fetishistic levels of attraction towards decentralizing everything, whether it's actually viable or not).
It will be more hilarious when what I have written comes true and you eat humble pie.
You are not an expert. Thus you can't very well discern fact from opinion.
You seem to derive nearly ecstatic pleasure
No man (are you?). I don't derive any pleasure from wasting my time with worthless morons like you.
You're so self-important.
What have you ever accomplished @mprep?
As I said, once we have the decentralized forum with the proper set of features, then I won't even need to respond to idiots any more. I will just click "delete" and all my followers who choose me as the moderator for my threads, will not view those posts (their client will automatically filter them but of course they could go peek at them if they wanted to but eventually they will come to see that my moderation decisions are expert and accurate). As for the riff-raff, you'll be able to see all your nonsensical noise trolling, which is perfect. When I know my followers are normally accepting my moderation actions by default, then I can simply click "delete" as a form of punishment against those who wish to bait me in a disingenuous and non-constructive dialogue. That will be much more efficient.
Also, is this your final-final-final clarification or should I get more popcorn for the next one?
Is this your final idiotic reply?
You're baiting and you know it. Do you ever do any real work?
I've been working. Where can we see your work?
Thus the policy of Bitcointalk.org is that expertise is trolling.
Expertise isn't. Your self-righteous rants about how great you are are.
Frame this. This is going to be so humiliating in retrospect.
@mprep, you are obviously not capable of distinguishing expertise from trolling. You're
wincing and contorted bent-out-of-shape by strong personalities. I got
inside your head and fucked you up because you are weak. And
it is absolutely true that @iamnotback
was very ill for 5 years with TB in spread all over his body in his lymph nodes, brain, gut, etc.. The normal mode of death for disseminated TB is rupturing of blood vessels and bleeding to death. I was going on 5 years of decline until the TB was diagnosed and the 24 weeks of meds started at the end of January 2017.
But obviously you've dug in your heels as all idiots do. So please dig them in deep, so when the time comes, you can't climb out of your tar pit.
Regarding the side-band defense of myself against the constant barrage of idiot baiting attacks, you characterize this defense as self-righteous. Note there won't be any need to say anything in defense in the future, I will simply click "delete" and my followers will ignore that noise (other readers can wade through the noise I ignore if they wish to mire and associate with the self-destructive idiot cohorts). The other moderation option will be to edit the users' post as the mod sees fit (and of course the readers' clients can show an icon that the post has been moderated which can be clicked to see the edit history because it will all be there immutable on the blockchain). So for example, I could have edited @dinofelis' long-winded diatribes to be more concise to the point in order to keep the discussion manageable for readers. Again each user chooses which moderator actions they wish to follow by default and they can change this setting at any time, so none of those "deletes" or "edits" are destructive rather only constructive (aka additive).
Even we had for example the reasonably smart @dinofelis baiting me into such defense with
his slanderous and erroneous mischaracterization of both Satoshi's design and his (imo erroneous) assumptions about my motivations and allegations of confirmation bias. This sort of strife and discord is never ending in Internet discussions. The only efficient way to deal with it, is to employ self-moderated threads. With a decentralized forum, the "deleted" posts are still accessible but are simply not normally shown in the default view wherein the thread creator is the default moderator.
Forum activity is both a cooperation and a competition amongst men and thus without the proper software, the competition aspect turns either into a dirty clusterfuck and/or least common denominator echo chamber of censorship and experts bailing out (have you not noticed that nearly no experts post any more to BCT not even @gmaxwell nor @bytemaster even @smooth has nearly stopped posting), which is what BCT descending into. BCT is dying. The experts are leaving, because the clusterfuck became a huge burden with a high opportunity cost.
Effectively the policy and your idiocy is to create forum which has the least common denominator of expertise. This is the Chinese Communism where no one dared lift their head above the poppy seeds so to speak, i.e. no one dared disagree and display their expertise publicly.
Nope, it's to maintain a free space for
constructive discussion, rather than allow a single person to dominate discussions via fallacies, pointless ad-hominem filled rants or outright spam.
Censoring content that some readers want to read in order to have all content be acceptable to all readers (i.e. the least common denominator clusterfuck) is destructive to network effects. You're concept of constructive dialogue seems to revolve around personality. But entirely the point is that we should have a common hub for discussion but allow different groups to prioritize/filter what content they don't wish to interact with. So that everyone can co-exist in the greater economies-of-scale of a common nexus of activity without forcing all users to the least common denominator.
With a proper forum software design, every user could filter the posts differently, thus your view of the database (and any of your followers) would reflect your opinion of what is of value.
I of course don't agree with your estimation of the value of my expertise and content. This should be falsifiable. We'll have a truth metric eventually on the Bitnet decentralized forum wherein we can compare the number of followers I will have to anyone else on this forum.
I predict you will have humble pie rammed so far up your ass the you vomit it out the other end orifice where all your bullshit normally flows out.
You're so clueless that you still haven't figured out that the salient distinction is that with a decentralized forum, all centralized power is vanquished, and if you can't stomach my superior expertise then you can choose to filter my posts from your view of the decentralized database, but in no case will idiots like you have any power to steal the property of others just because you're offended by their vastly superior expertise.
My statement above will be
a confirmation for you of all the justification you think you have for doing the inane, worse-than-useless, destructive, corrupt, thievery busywork that you do.
Note this isn't a complaint. Rather it is myself finally coming to accept that I must write software to provide a place where idiots like yourself can't do the destruction that you do.
Oh, I'm quite aware of your stance on centralized systems as well as it's advantages. However, as with all theoretical systems, quite a few fall apart in practice due to unforeseen social issues. You keep mentioning settings up your own moderators that would apply filters to the content you want to see but you seem to assume that an average person using the internet isn't lazy (which is one of the reasons why quite a few of such systems still haven't gained wide mainstream acceptance (e.g cryptocurrencies) and why successful commercial consumer systems often prioritize convenience above all else (e.g. Twitter, Google, Tinder)).
I created Cool Page which was a million user downloaded software back at the turn of the century when the Internet was 1/10th the population it is now. Obviously the theme of that product was making website creation and publishing drag-drop and "one click publishing" (this was before others copied the concept). So I am very much aware of user friendly issues and human nature. So obviously I had a long-time ago already thought of the issue you raise above and had already solved the issue. I am not going to tell you now how I will solve the issue, because I am not going to give you or any competitors to my idea any premature assistance.
A rather close to home example of such laziness is the general use of the Trust system, which was meant for users to set their own "trusted users" yet ended in most people simply using DefaultTrust.
Nobody even knows the feature exists. On top of that, trust is not something that we need immediately when using this forum. It is something we might need as a refinement later. Whereas, the filtering of posts is something we are very much battling over and aware of. There is an entire game theory on Reddit about how to get posts ranked higher, etc.. Posting and readership is the primary activity here. Trust is not.
But hey, you're the expert here -
And it really offends you doesn't it. How dare I come here and become more important than a mod or Theymos or even eventually possibly more important than Satoshi (although I hope this doesn't happen because it will destroy my life).
Your
ego issue is your problem.
if you manage to solve this and gain mainstream acceptance, I'll add in "successful" alongside "self-entitled and self-righteous smug hypocrite with a massive ego" whenever I refer to you (not that you would care about what an "idiot" does, right?).
I won't even know you exist any more. You are an entirely irrelevant grain of sand for me.
You were only ephemerally relevant because I allowed you to be, because I was attempting to use this BCT for discussion.
Lol, then why don't you get that Bitcointalk.org is fragile and is destroying itself. I can only imagine it must be because you are an idiot.
“No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” - Winston S. Churchill. Until someone develops a superior community system (and by that I mean that not only does it not have unique significant technical or social (including wide acceptance) flaws of it's own but also fixes the main issues of the best currently available system), I'll tolerate the flaws of the best system we currently have.
I don't tolerate. I disrupt and improve. I've always been that way, even since before age 5.
I pushed BCT as far as it could go, and then BCT failed, which was the push I need to Cross the Rubicon.
Shelby doesn't respect your centralized piece-of-shit forum, your centralized moderation, your rules, nor other idiots like @dinofelis, @Dorky, and a long list of others. That is his prerogative; and the fact that you can stop him and others from having our own choices is the reason that Bitcointalk is dying and it will be replaced by a decentralized vehicle wherein you idiots can have your choices separately from Shelby and his followers from their choice.
Have you ever tried to order "one size fits all" clothing.
Aren't you getting a clue of how incredibly dumb you are.
"Everyone that disagrees with me is dumb and I shall lead those who follow me to salvation". For someone who keeps touting decentralization, you oddly remind me of a
cult leader, who's going to have his followers commit mass suicide to ascend to a spaceship that'll carry them to heaven, rather than a "visionary developer".
Someone like you would have said the same thing to Satoshi if he had been discussing Bitcoin years before its launch.
Idiots can't ever see beyond the tip of their nose.
Shelby is not @Traxo nor @John Titor, nor any other user that has posted in this forum. He has no sock puppet accounts in reserve.
You're delusional and trying to reaffirm your confirmation bias.
Nor have I claimed otherwise. There's a reason my post contained a line separating the list of quotes and my responses.
Then why did you have checkboxes signifying a checklist of violations alleged against @iamnotback justifying his ban as quoted below:
[X] Ignore
this, as well as countless efforts by global mods to reduce sig spam while still maintaining a free space for constructive discussion.
Now you're just lying and backsplaining.
Shelby has never advertized any signature spam on any of his accounts.
You're delusional and trying to reaffirm your confirmation bias.
Again, not quite sure how this applies to you.
Why aren't you banning @smooth, @Icebreaker, @generalizethis and all the Monero supporters who have continuously complained about Dash.
You're stating that the forum policy is to disallow discussion about possible scams.
Dude I think you've dropped all the marbles out of your skull.
For a man of your "intelligence" you sure are having a lot of difficulty in understanding that possible scams aren't moderated to allow the community (or in some cases official authorities) to make their opinions on what is a scam and what isn't. Or are you trolling again (something you claimed you weren't doing, but merely providing "expertise")?
How are you going to lie and backsplain what you wrote in that context insinuating that I had violated a policy by complaining about scams in a random thread as quoted below:
I wasn't complaining about lack of forum moderation of scams.
You seem to not even have understood a single word I wrote about a decentralized forum future.
You're the one who decided to be a mod for an inane, centralized clusterfuck. That was your choice.
Need ointment for that butthurt?
Are you so delusional that you're pretending that I am butthurt because you've got yourself mired in a centralized clusterfuck that is dying
Even though the chances of his ban getting revoked after he demonstrated and continues to demonstrate complete disregard for order within the forum are near zero, I'd suggest forwarding this appeal to someone who can issue (and preferably reverse such bans) - theymos and/or Cyrus.
Stop pretending that your forum has any remaining value to me. I have no desire whatsoever to contribute content to your corrupt business.
@ArticMine please do not request that I am unbanned. Don't worry at all. We will all have a much better place for discussion soon. BCT will die.
Just because someone is "intelligent" or "insightful", doesn't grant him the license to do whatever he pleases.
Try to stop me if you can.
You can't. (in the general sense of creating a decentralized forum, etc)
If an MIT professor came to my home and kept shitting all over my furniture while explaining to me how the latest neural network tech allows for synthesizing realistic voices, I wouldn't just brush it off and say "Well, I mean he really helps me to fully grasp how neural networks operate via practical application". No, I'd kick him out, never let him back in and find a different way to acquire said knowledge.
Sure you can do that for your followers, but to impose your (imo erroneous) opinion of the quality of my activity on my followers is the corruption and theft.
But no worries, the end is near of this clusterfuck morass.
@mprep, I think we're beating a dead horse. Let it die already. Move on. We're wasting time and effort. We're never going to agree. The outcome won't be known until a future juncture.
afaik Shelby and jl777 communicate(d) regularly and share mutual respect for each others skills, but I don't want to speak for Shelby.
@jl777 and I stopped communicating ever since he got too busy after he launched Komodo.
There were some other reasons which I will not state.
@jl777 also advised me in 2015 and again 2016 to stop posting at BCT and he (like many devs) have a negative opinion of BCT.
