Quote from: Vandroiy on July 25, 2012, 05:16:57 PM

Quote from: Maged on July 25, 2012, 04:11:02 PM

[I don't know about some people *cough* Vandroiy *cough*, but I don't see the people that support Pirate as being paid off or dishonest, just ignorant.

To be fair, most of the times I mentioned these things, I just wanted to see their reaction. IMO, most of them indeed fall under the category "conveniently ignorant" -- or at least I couldn't tell which it is.

Still, changing the reasoning doesn't make the actions any better.

Yeah, I doubt that anyone was directly paid to say anything. No evidence of that.

But consider: when one is invested in a Ponzi, one has an incentive for it to succeed as long as possible--for you to make some money off of it yourself. If one had thousands of coins with the Pirate, you wouldn't say a word against him until your principal is back in your wallet. In fact, you would probably say how brilliant and reliable he was--especially if you had doubts about him. I think this must have happened--not everyone is so stupid.