It's just something Bitcoin will have to survive through, people just have to be smart enough to see who's posting what before drawing conclusions off the content that is posted.
Hey man, as long as my Gubmint paycheck keeps coming in you'll keep hearing from me in one form or another.
They don't pay us for nothing, y'know.
I don't know who writes your check to troll bitcoins forums all day, but whoever it is they are getting their moneys worth.
I don't understand the apparently equal incentive to demoralize Bitcoin supporters.
You know what would get bitcoin good press, contacting newegg and apologizing on behalf of the honest part of the bitcoin community. I've already contacted them and told them what's going on, and why they should not waive any shipping or restocking fee for anything ATI graphics cards. Why? Because this shit is getting stupid, you know the "I lost $10k to bitcoin because my investment didn't pay off in an hour!" and all the people who want to pull out with no cost, even though the mining and newbie areas are filled with threads about the profit of mining bitcoin and how it's not a get-rich-scheme.
Guess what? Bitcoin and bitcoin mining is an investment, as in a risk. If your investment doesn't pay off, then too bad. It's not our fault, it's not mtgox's fault, and it is far from newegg's, or any other company who's getting ATI card's back in mass RMA. Take some responsibility... oh wait, this is the internet. How foolish of me to think that there's such thing here.
If this whole mass RMA thing ends up giving bitcoin more bad press, I'm fine with it. I know there's a lot of nice, honest, and helpful people here trying to push the idea to be more mainstream, but sadly it's not going to happen if shit like this continues to occurs. To all of those honest people: I'm sorry. You're clearly not in the wrong, but you have to put up with this, and be associated with it.
Maybe this is a great time for the bitcoin community to show the honest side of this. Lets point these assholes trying to take advantage of hardware suppliers out. Lets not let companies take the investment risk, but rather have the correct person (hint: the investor) take the investment risk like all of the honest people have.
Good press doesn't make itself, something good needs to happen first.
/rant
You go boy!
I am ashamed, ASHAMED at my behavior...