Quote from: pebwindkraft on February 27, 2018, 08:36:31 PM

You seem to have your fun in responding to the fud.

I was always wondering, why lightning nodes should be banksters and centralization (cause they take fees! Chorus of outrage), where miners are not.

The ideology of these people is hard to be discussed at a non emotional level, and always has some Monthy Python elements. I stopped to argue with fundamentalistic people. They appear to be too many levels below scientific levels. And in these discussions they pull you down to their level of (non-)understanding, and beat you there with experience. Waste of time?

Sometimes things have to be confronted head-on before they snowball. All it takes is a few impressionable newbies to come into the thread, read the FUD and go away with completely the wrong idea. Then they go around the boards spreading the same FUD because they don't know any better. Hell, I was probably guilty of it myself a few times in the past back when I was a newbie. It's so easy for this sort of thing to get out of hand. It can't be quietly swept under the carpet either, or people start to think it's some sort of conspiracy and post it even more. It's best to catch it early before it becomes more serious, even if you have to be a bit blunt in the process. And a little humour always makes it less of a chore for everyone else to read. At the risk of sounding too cornball about it, it's never a waste of time to educate and inform.