Quote from: DooMAD on July 10, 2019, 01:17:03 PM

Quote from: vokain1 on July 10, 2019, 01:52:28 AM

To whom it may concern: How was my deleted comment off topic? It discussed why Mgmt. would have incentive to ban inconvenient voices such as that of AnonyMint, namely because he may have exposed or at least asked about possible conflicts of interest that are not being disclosed.

Likely because someone (not me, BTW) reported your post because they don't accept your premise that forum donations are in any way related to the topic of Anonymint being banned. It's also likely a mod agreed because it's a tenuous link at best. The reasons for the ban have been explained. It had nothing whatsoever to do with donations, ergo donations are off-topic in this thread.

Again, start a new topic if you want to pursue the specific discussion around donations. But in all honesty, I don't see you having much success in getting his ban overturned.

I don't really care about getting his ban overturned. I do care about having a fair forum. I know it's not my forum, and I'm not really attached to BCT either. It's just a little silly.

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Quote from: nutildah on July 11, 2019, 05:08:03 AM

What a fucking nutjob. Begs the admin to delete his account, gets pissy about not being able to do so, goes away, comes back, gets banned, keeps coming back under a flurry of different accounts, gets banned again, has "other posters" "relay his posts" because he can't bear to be away, continuously fights his ban under numerous sockpuppets. That's a lot of effort for somebody who insisted on having his account deleted to the point of getting pissy about it.

I found his neverending verbal diarrhea to be boring. It was just indicative of an absurd degree of narcissism, and entirely uninteresting. Not a fan of cult-of-personality wannabes.

Quote from: vokain1 on July 09, 2019, 04:14:24 PM

I asked earlier, isn't there a mute button? I don't want for central mgmt. to decide for me what they think is noise and what isn't.

If the guy can't follow a pretty simple rule, he shouldn't be allowed to post. That should be pretty easy to understand.

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Quote from: mprep on July 15, 2018, 12:42:00 AM

Yeah, it was Anonymint (or at the very least someone pretending to be him). A statement from theymos on why Anonymint is banned from the forum:

Quote from: theymos on May 04, 2017, 03:27:36 AM

He has several accounts all banned for ban evasion. It seems that the underlying offense which caused him to initially get into trouble (and often the thing which causes his alts to get noticed) is excessive multi-posting. But when he was warned and/or temporarily banned for this minor thing, he kept evading his bans. This forum cannot operate unless its few rules are followed, so ignoring the warnings and temporary bans that you receive and continuing to do the same stuff is unacceptable. People who do so are not welcome here.

His bans will not automatically expire, and any future alts we see from him will be permabanned. I may manually reconsider his ban if he promises to actually try not to break forum rules. The rules are not meant to silence anyone, but to keep the forum usable and fair. When someone multi-posts excessively, it monopolizes a thread in a way which harms everyone else's ability to communicate. Based on his posts in this thread, I think that he will just continue to break rules if unbanned, so I will not unban him at this time.

bitcointalk.org is not a normal for-profit company. Even if banning iamnotback somehow stopped all future ad revenue, he would still be banned, since his rule-breaking is disrupting the forum's mission of hosting free discussion of Bitcoin and related topics. (As explained above, "free discussion" is not "unmoderated discussion".) Similarly, I would welcome effective competition from decentralized forums, and I would be thrilled to be able to shut down bitcointalk.org in favor of a better-in-all-ways decentralized alternative. But although decentralized forums have existed for a long time (eg. Freenet's FMS is almost exactly what iamnotback keeps describing, and has existed since before Bitcoin), they have unfortunately not been widely used since the era of the semi-decentralized Usenet system, mainly due to vastly inferior usability.

tl;dr he refused to follow the forum's rules, got temp banned several times, ban evaded and continued breaking the rules, got permabanned and continues creating new accounts and ban evading.

For anyone still not aware of the roller coaster that is the Anonymint general discussion thread, feel free to check it out: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1887077.0.

"Excessive autoposting"? ufkm? If you have ideas that you're writing on the fly, and in the breadth that is discussed, why shouldn't you be able to use multiple messages to organize thoughts? Knowing him, probably more like not kissing the ass an admin and his rules (that aren't evenly enforced). I've met at least one admin like that before. I got banned quick after debating an issue with him.

What about people's threads where they make multiple posts the first posts? Did AnonyMint continually re-enter and post in individuals' moderated topics after being asked to leave? IIRC, that's a bannable offense. IMHO, this should be as free and public a forum as possible.

I think it is ironic that the presumption that multi-posting drowns out others' voices is reason to censor and ban AnonyMint. I'd have to see what sort of multi-posts were being made. If there was meritorious discussion, there is no reason to censor the length of a message. He always writes about the technical. Allow the space. If the accusation is spam, that is subjective, and I'd like to see the case. Arguing is different than shilling. Why can't you post the same thing in another relevant thread, when the audience is composed of a different pool of individuals? That is simply how you plant seeds.