Quote from: PirateButtercup on December 13, 2013, 10:36:28 PM

Quote from: tehbizz on December 13, 2013, 10:20:46 PM

Quote from: codegeek on December 13, 2013, 06:52:44 PM

So, what's your role with Ripple? Obviously not just a patron.

A straight answer, you will not get. It's obvious this person is a part of Ripple-affiliated organization but can't say so for whatever reason.

Geeze...I think I've answered this twice now, haven't I?

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My question is ... Why are do people intentionally slag off something they don't understand?

Or, why be willfully ignorant?

Study a concept THEN falsify it.

Support your arguments with evidence...statistics, quotes and examples..... not opinions, heresay or conjecture.....

....and now that I've written that, it's painfully evident to me that I teach English.....

Actually, you answered it once prior. And it's extremely suspicious when someone is so GLOWINGLY enthusiastic about Ripple, a gateway/payment system that is not only confusing (on purpose) but quite obfuscated. But yet, Ripple has been out for quite some time and pretty much no one else on this board is this enthusiastic about it, so this makes this look like some serious astroturfing job. I have not, at all, tried in any way to falsify anything about Ripple, its network, or anything about it at all, I haven't tried to falsify anything.

But like I said, some quick Google-fu reveals interesting things. Such as, this is the only place you've used the handle PirateButtercup to discuss Ripple. In fact, it's only in the Newbies section of the forum as well and not in any other sub-forums. So while you are obviously over-the-moon about Ripple and its concept, if you're talking about it elsewhere, you're using another handle to do so. That in and of itself is revelatory. And like I said, other people propping up Ripple are from other forums that are Ripple/XRP-centric, so this all comes across as a giant promotion (like I said originally). This is why many people are so skeptical, it's not because of Ripple or any misunderstanding of it, it's because this looks like astroturfing.