Quote from: DarkStar_ on November 17, 2019, 02:53:36 AM

Quote from: Quickseller on November 17, 2019, 01:57:49 AM

I am not aware of any other forum in which the mass collection of posts are allowed.

So, go to another forum and hope that no one scrapes publicly available information. This is a 'problem' with the forum administration, so I suppose you could consider making a thread in Meta to petition theymos to ban those scraping posts. Pretty much every forum has Google/Bing crawlers that essentially perform mass collection of posts for indexing purposes. Reddit has user created mass collection of posts too.

You are missing the point. Google/Bing takes what they scrape and incorporates it into a publicly facing service. Ditto with pushshift.io. You didn't mention this, but ditto with LoyceV. Suchmoon on the other hand is not running a publicly facing service.

Maybe a better way of explaining the situation is like this: sites such as walletexplorer, and entities such as Chainalysis, and others who analyze blockchain data to group transactions to be belonging to a single person/entity are using public information that anyone can look at, however they nonetheless attempting to harm the privacy of those who use Bitcoin. Their goal is to reduce the privacy of those who use Bitcoin. The business model of ChipMixer, the entity that is paying everyone in this thread to advertise for them, is to get people to pay/donate in exchange to be able to maintain their privacy while using Bitcoin. Obviously ChipMixer would not sponsor an entity such as Chainalysis to attempt to break the privacy of Bitcoin users.

Similarly, suchmoon is using publicly available information to reduce the privacy of forum users. She is not providing any kind of publicly facing service with the information she collects. It would not be unreasonable to ask what she is doing with this information, but that is another discussion. Paying suchmoon to advertise for ChipMixer is akin to ChipMixer sponsoring Chainalysis.

I believe that ChipMixer paying suchmoon to advertise their services is enough to question just how much ChipMixer is committed to ensuring the privacy of their users.

Quote from: tranthidung on November 18, 2019, 01:56:32 AM

Quote from: DireWolfM14 on November 18, 2019, 01:17:31 AM

Quote from: Quickseller on November 17, 2019, 01:57:49 AM

I am not aware of any other forum in which the mass collection of posts are allowed.

Lol, please define forum. A collections of posts, maybe? All publicly accessible posts? Roll Eyes

I think this just became number one on QuickSeller's List of Asinine Accusations.

Posts made in the forum are visible for all, excludes special boards for staffs and VIP members (as far as I know). Everyone have rights to use quote button to quote posts and they can save, scrap, archive any post they want.

If one care about their privacy, just don't use public forum or don't post personal information publicly.
As I read from the Welcome message by theymos, the forum is a place for discussion, not private or secret discussion.

Quote from: theymos on September 23, 2018, 08:58:25 PM

This forum exists to provide a platform for the free (but ordered) exchange of ideas. If you have an idea to express, then it is probably possible to do it here as long as you follow the rules.

It is trivial for someone to look at one post, or one thread and read what it says. It is not however trivial to look at a 1,000 or 100,000 posts or threads and look at what they all say. That is the difference. If someone were to setup many cameras on Main Street in your city, and on other adjacent streets, and use facial recognization software to look at who visits the downtown area, and where they go, the fact that all information being taken is public doesn't change the fact that these people's privacy is being invaded.