Quote from: owdbetts on August 23, 2012, 10:43:10 PM

Quote from: Gyrsur on August 23, 2012, 03:56:35 PM

imagine you are new in this forum and take a look around and read some of the topics. what will your impression be at the moment or if you will also in the last months with all the bitcoinica and pirate and anything else issues. you won't tell me that this is a healthy, non greedy community with a good spirit?

So far I think:

1. Bitcoin is an awesome piece of technology, and Gavin and co are doing an excellent job at maintaining and advancing it.

2. This place is an absoltely aweful advertisement for Bitcoin. Full of people ripping people to pieces for daring to point out that if an offer seems to good to be true then it almost certainly is too good to be true, for a start. This place is a hotbed to people soliciting for schemes that are criminally illegal.

Not to mention that civil conversation is non-existent in pretty much every part of this forum. If I ran this forum I would be thinking about shutting it down, for the good of Bitcoin.

ETA: To be fair, I have learnt a lot from reading this forum. It probably does server a useful purpose at the moment - but it is certainly not a friendly place.

Well, this forum hasn't changed much in many months. I think it's a testament to bitcoins that their price can still rise LOL

Thanks for sharing your perspective. Cheesy