I do have substantive questions and comments on this thread. Whereas Ive needed to turn my attention and my time to other matters; people are laughing at me, and justifiably so:
I mean, nullius has been pretty preoccupied spending the last week in a high school-like gossip and drama circle, whereas if this challenge would have started last week, his posts most certainly may have been outshined by any other participants' posts haha
A few notes for now:
@amishmanish, good summation of some important points. I think that Alia did herself no favours (so to speak) with her responses to accusations against her. Guilt tends to show itself in belligerence and manipulativeness.
@all, I really dont think its productive to engage in endless back-and-forth. Some pages ago,
scam_detector left the thread open, after I suggested a need for a place for Alia-related evidence. Certainly, I also think that some
substantive discussions are warranted. Please, lets keep to that.
On that note, one of the significant questions I have for Alia:
Why are you insistent on Skype, specifically Skype, and Skype only?Surely, you realize that anybody wanting to contact you for the purpose of sorting out questions of your identity would be benefitting you,
if you be telling the truth. Surely, too, you understand that the benefit would not be mutualquite to the contrary, insofar as such a person would be spending time and risking reputation for no motive other than an interest in abstract justice.
You would expend minimal effort by installing some alternative; by contrast, anybody outside the MicroMacSoft walled garden and behind Tor would need to expend
great effort to get Skype working, if it could be done at all.
To be blunt, why do you feel entitled to demand that someone else should jump through hoops to help you?I ask because I
do have reasonable doubts as to whether or not Ive only been speaking all along to a 15-year-old boy. Reasonable doubts. But I dont jump through hoops for anybody, and I certainly wouldnt for you.
EDIT BEFORE POSTING: While I was writing the above (and juggling a few other things), this came in:
The only weird part about her conversation was that she was trying to consistently ask me do bets over 1BTC. .25BTC i could lose, 1BTC was still an acceptable cost, but I just considered it overconfidence, so i was working up to larger amounts. My last .25BTC, she stated that she was going to raise the minimum deposit to 1.2BTC, and that is when I tapped out, as people lose alot of money due to overconfidence. I still have our skype convo.
As I stated upthread, Alia also tried to push me from 0.01 BTC to 1.2 BTC. Same minimum: 1.2 BTC. If/when I have time, I will try to find the post where I said that about ten pages ago.