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(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.

Sure, you're not restraining yourself not because of your ego but because you can't have your own dedicated echo chamber. Also if you're trying to offend me - enjoy trying. I'm merely having fun with someone who's of above average intelligence yet thinks he's a visionary genius. You're merely the flavor of the month self-entitled prick - controlling you (as in unrelated to my job as a moderator) is of my least priority. Ironic how you lecture about none of us having control yet you actively keep coming back trying to fight anyone who disagrees with you or attempt to shut down or at least dominate discussions that didn't go your way.

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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.

You really seem to struggle to not stroke your ego while trying to make your point. Putting that aside, you're free to back all your posts up and host them somewhere where you're welcome (writing a scraper for someone like you shouldn't cause much trouble, won't it?). Every time a post is deleted, you should've received a deletion PM - backup that too. Other than that Bitcointalk owes you nothing - it provided a service for free and it can revoke that service at any point in time (which it did for breaking the rules multiple times). If you don't like it, go and actually spend the time developing that decentralized forum software you keep talking about, instead of trying to prove a point your followers probably already agree with and other people don't give a crap about.

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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.

Great, then stop talking and start building. Also, it doesn't take an expert to tell that your ideology of centralized systems being inferior in every way to even the most basic decentralized ones is an opinion, not a fact.

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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.

Highlighted for irony. You seem to have an obsession with achievements, acolades and appraisals of your intelligence. While I can understand and sympathize with the reason behind it, I can't really sympathize with a person who berates others for not chasing pointless social validation, that in the end will be forgotten by all come pass a few generations. We may be vain creatures, but try being at least a bit self-aware about it.

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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?

My work can be seen in the shit I clean every day, dropped by serial visionaries like you. Unlike you, I don't try to pretend I'm important. I'm a digital janitor in a small to medium community. What I think you're mistaking as "self-importance" is my thorough annoyance and dislike towards people like you - vain, egoistic lunatics, who think they're hot shit, just because they achieved something in life. News flash: to me, you're just another guy dragging his ass across the floor I try to keep clean for people who actually enjoy being here.

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Frame this. This is going to be so humiliating in retrospect.

@mprep, you are obviously not capable of distinguishing expertise from trolling.

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.

Just when I thought you calmed down, you're back to ranting how I'll regret everything and how I'm an idiot. Figures...

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Censoring content that some readers want to read in order to have all content be acceptable to add 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 where all the bullshit normally flows out.

Your usual "dick measuring contest" crap aside, great. You have your idea of a perfect community, so enjoy developing and managing it. As long as it's not here.

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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.

Awesome. Since you seem to have both the tech and social design down, the only possible pitfall for the project is that the dev is an emotionally unstable asshole. That and possible societal changes in the past 20 years.

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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.

Fair point.

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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.

Not really. See my previous comments in this post for clarification. Also, it isn't even Christmas and your dishing out gifts one after the other: the irony of a self-entitled self-righteous smug guy lecturing me about how my ego is the main problem is sweeter than honey.

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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.

Yet you keep coming back every time I post an answer to your bullshit. Hipocrate through and through, ain't ya? Also, that cult leader comparison is getting more and more apt.

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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.

That's what assholes say to justify their inconsiderate and self-centered actions. Another keyboard revolutionist that argues with a janitor about how the place should be round instead of a square...

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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.

Except Satoshi wasn't a self-important dick (comparing yourself to Satoshi, really?) who thought his ideas / systems were perfect (or at least he didn't show it).

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Then why did you have checkboxes signifying a checklist of violations alleged against @iamnotback justifying his ban as quoted below:

Quote from: mprep on May 01, 2017, 02:02:51 PM

[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.

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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.

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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. Roll Eyes

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:

Quote from: mprep on May 01, 2017, 02:02:51 PM

[X] Ignore explanation why possible scams aren't moderated and instead of reporting them to the authorities actually equipped with dealing with such matters, complain about it in a random thread.

I wasn't complaining about lack of forum moderation of scams.

Sigh, you truly are thicker than you comprehend (that or you're pathetically trying to grasp at straws that aren't even there). The checklist was an expressive form of "checking off" all the obvious answers the user ignored (that being the explanation of why possible scams aren't moderated, the efforts of global mods to enforce stricter guidelines) as well as pointing out the user's disposition towards people holding a different opinion. A suggestion for next time: before attacking someone, make sure the statements are actually aimed at you.

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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 Huh

As much as you try to deny it, you're still here, you're still replying to my posts while simultaneously talking about how you're not going to post here anymore.

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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.

Yet you're here, doing exactly that. Ironic, huh?

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Try to stop me if you can. Tongue

You can't.

When it comes to this forum, we'll sure as hell try.

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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.

I didn't ban you for trolling nor have I (AFAIK) deleted your trolling posts - not quite sure how my opinion on your posts factors in all of this. I've only dealt with your ban evasion, a few consecutive posts and your cripplingly paradoxical character traits (which confirmed my suspicions on you being a troll).

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@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.

You are free to stop at any time. For me, this is merely verbal exercise that I enjoy partaking in my free time.