Theymos to me is not dirty or corrupt
To me he is. All the trust system and merit system designs were and are constructed to keep the scamming clique on top a the hierarchical ladder, even at the cost of the on this forum well cherised decentralisation. He's not a total idiot, is he? He can see the faul games that are being played on this forum. He's fully aware of it, no doubt. And he supports it to the full! He's got no principles and no integrity. Sad but true.
He is not dirty.He allowed to buy ad space for the special thread.I would claim myself he has not much experience in running big forums even he runs BCT since every owner which forum gets main stream has the same issues like BCT.
And its always the same what is happing.A small group (mainly losers) who are abusing the reputation system to gain massiv reputation in the community for only 3 purposes.
1)Milking the community
2)Destroying competition
3)Controlling their market and defaming anyone who is a threat.
I mean i'm working online fulltime since 1998 and have seen so many forums getting successfull and onces it goes mainstream these rats always come and try to take a big part of the cake.
I remember the marketing forum which is now the biggest online marketing forum in the world.I was a member there since 2007 (it was created 2006) and what happened is the owner changed and the forum went thanks to massiv marketing and its high quality content to the mainstream.Since noob flooded the forum people started selling their massivly overpriced marketing shit and every of these shit sellers tried to look like the biggest king who knows everything and has the biggest success where everyone of the senior knew these are just punks trying to milk the community.What they did is they created a reputation cycle and the reputation points started to explode.Normly people had to gain these points for really awesome posts.If you made an awesome post you got like 2-7 rep points depending on how good the thread was.
They instantly changed it and a single reputation vote of them was worth first 50 and later 100 reputation points.These fuckers had the highest reputation points and most amount of posts and thanks because of rehashed shit content they posted.
Its like a 1:1 copy with BCT.
And what happened at the end was that the abuse was so massiv so many old seniors got false banned that all seniors stopped posting on that forum.That forum turned completly into a noob forum cause seniors are not going to post for the benefit of a small group of punks.
Just have a look at that forum a few years ago you paid $100 for access to VIP Content produced by seniors.Today you pay $100 to support that forum since the content in the VIP Section is now worth shit.
The owner of that forum banned all of these abusers which later have been proofen there were in reputation cicle and made a lot of big scams where members mostly Buy/Sell/Trade members how been scammed out of big money and were all sitting calm because they knew once they say something they will lose their income.
How similar it is isn't it ?