"I'd be treated with more respect if I paid 18K at a car dealership." isn't a thread created by BFL pitching their ASIC.
The other is though, heck if I remember why it was moved and it was _probably_ me that did it, as I think I've done most of the thread moves in the form. If it was it might have been because by the end of it was totally offtopic and I wanted people to start new ones, or it could have just been a mistake. I'll ask that it be moved back.
A lot of both the PRO and ANTI BFL people behaved in ways that made me think they were double-agents really shilling for the opposite side. I've seldom seen behavior so reprehensible.
It got badly out of hand.
Of course, in the same time frame if you said pirateat40 was running a ponzi scheme, or mining bonds were an investment designed to part fools from their money you would be flamed into oblivion.
It's a shame the message of "I'd be treated with more respect if I paid 18K at a car dealership." didn't get through. The idea that it is reasonable to pay 100% upfront months in advance of delivery has cost many, many people on here huge chunks of money. I did spectacularly well investing in FPGAs that everyone thought were worthless because of the fraud perpetrated on this community by BFL.
Better yet, they soaked up most investment money interested in Bitcoin so difficulty stayed largely flat from June '12 to Feb '13.
Thanks Josh! :-)