Quote from: Benson Samuel on August 14, 2016, 07:12:53 PM

Quote from: gizmobuddy on August 14, 2016, 04:19:00 PM

Hey guys. I raised some objection regarding the subject matter on some other section of this forum
which was being viewed by Benson and many others. to my surprise, my post was DELETED.
May be, I touched a raw nerve there. This topic sure needs addressing. I have pasted my comment
which was deleted below:

It is high time that Indian Bitcoin community addresses the elephant in the room.

Benson being the moderator of the Indian Forum has SERIOUS CONFLICTS OF INTEREST- as he ALSO runs an indian bitcoin exchange.
He can use this position to modulate public opinion to suit his privately held bitcoin exchange's interest.

Benson, I think everyone would love to hear your answer to the below:

# Being the moderator of the Indian forum on bitcointalk.org, what information of the users data you have access to>> like there ip, browser info, user agent etc.
# is Theymos aware that you also run a Indian Bitcoin Exchange? If not already aware, did you made an attempt to tell him?

i would like all the senior guys in the Indian Bitcoin Forum like buysellbitcoin, dashingriddler skang, masakali, ,subvolatil, BTCIndia to chip in on this.
i have been feeling this for at least 1 year now. Now is high time guys...

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Hey guys. I raised some objection regarding the subject matter on some other section of this forum
which was being viewed by Benson and many others. to my surprise, my post was DELETED.
May be, I touched a raw nerve there. This topic sure needs addressing. I have pasted my comment
which was deleted below:

Not deleted anything myself. This can be validated as well by any Global Mod or theymos as well.
I did see this same message notification in my email before this was posted. Neither has been actioned by me.

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Benson being the moderator of the Indian Forum has SERIOUS CONFLICTS OF INTEREST- as he ALSO runs an indian bitcoin exchange.[/b]
He can use this position to modulate public opinion to suit his privately held bitcoin exchange's interest.

You going to have to show me some place where this has happened??? Or are you just throwing random assumptions here.
My job here is not to modulate or moderate conversations, but to manage the overall health of this board, avoiding spam, cross posts, etc.
If you look through my posts, unless a personal opinion, I DO NOT involve in every thread.

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# Being the moderator of the Indian forum on bitcointalk.org, what information of the users data you have access to>> like there ip, browser info, user agent etc.

I dont have any access to any user data information. This is only available to theymos from what I am aware of. And he does clarify IP matches without divulging the same, if needed.

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# is Theymos aware that you also run a Indian Bitcoin Exchange? If not already aware, did you made an attempt to tell him?

Yup, everyone is aware that I moderate and handle an Exchange, Payment Gateway, Api, etc....
Its in my signature as well, thanks to someone who asked for me to add it.

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i think it is morally and ethically correct for Benson to resign for moderation.
may be it would also help him focus more on coinsecure.

I don't have much problem at all with this.
In fact, there are hardly 10 posts aday on this part of the forums and every once in a while, there is some long drawn drama like this that does not make sense to anybody's time.
Probably wont resign, but I have no problem backing away from this if there really is some SERIOUS conflict of interest.

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i would like all the senior guys in the Indian Bitcoin Forum like buysellbitcoin, dashingriddler skang, masakali, ,subvolatil, BTCIndia to chip in on this.
i have been feeling this for at least 1 year now. Now is high time guys...

Would love to hear some opinions as well.

I quite reading this thread after reading the above. I feel all is cool with Benson. Please PM me if you feel I need to further assess my stance. TY, all.