Quote from: Augusto Croppo on February 09, 2014, 06:10:59 PM

Quote from: SaltySpitoon on February 09, 2014, 06:07:58 PM

Quote from: Augusto Croppo on February 09, 2014, 06:04:04 PM

LoL, the d00d most likely erased his post in regret.

*Sigh* no, I erased my post to avoid this, not that it matters anyway as the last half of this thread will most likely be split from this topic now. I'll wait for Theymos to do it however, I don't like messing with Meta threads.

If you would like me to explain why you are wrong, you can pm me about it.

d00d, this is called regret. Nice try, anyway. Here!, one more post to keep you busy.

I was given the Ok to split the topic, so now that it is not going off topic, I can now post what I wanted to originally, going back to your church example.

Quote from: Augusto Croppo on February 09, 2014, 05:23:31 PM

Quote from: danyy on February 09, 2014, 05:06:39 PM

I understand that can be bad if you dond even got a subforum for that money but dont you could have made an agreement for that before the donation?? This is like if i open a lawsuit against the church of my town claiming all the donations i have made

It is your right to file a lawsuit against the church of your town if you think the church has been misusing the collected donations. This fall under charity fraud laws. If your church collects donations under the implied agreement to help the poor, they cannot just hold the collected amount to speculate in the financial markets. That was not the intended purpose of the donation and that is certainly not a charitable course of action. Moreover, churches are recognized as non-profit entities, so they cannot use the collected funds to generate profit.

It is more like a church using donations for people who you do not agree with. The straight facts are A. You do have a Donators section, any side expectations are not Theymos' obligation. The existance of a Donator's forum fulfils that. And B. the funds would be spent on forum upgrades. The Donated Bitcoins have not been used for anything besides forum upgrades which you cannot deny. There was no agreement clause stating that Theymos had X amount of time to spend the donations or you would be entitled to them back. The coins sat until they were used for the promised purpose, you do not have the ability to say, well it wasn't done in the time I had expected, so I am entitled to a refund.

One of Goat's questions in the other thread that this was split from, is will donations be refunded? Well, maybe since the forums has enough ad revenue to support itself now, but there is no legal entitlement to a refund.

Please let me know if you think the title of the thread is appropriate, I figured that was the central issue here, but if you think of a more suitable one, it can be changed.