Quote from: hilariousetc on February 05, 2021, 10:34:32 AM

Quote from: amishmanish on February 05, 2021, 06:07:42 AM

Against hop hopen, I hope he comes back and uses this anonymity to come clean with the story of how he feels about doing this and shares his thought process about the "ethics" of it all.

I doubt whatever he says will change anything so it's probably futile offering explanations or excuses.

My "hope" is basically to get a peek into the minds of this fraudster and not really about him asking for an apology. He is anonymous. He could easily write a short memoir and it'll be a hit.

Quote from: hilariousetc on February 05, 2021, 10:34:32 AM

Would it matter to most if he really needed the money or it was his only source of income? Doubt it.

Yeah it wouldn't and it shouldn't. Third worlder newbie accounts have been negged and shamed for much less. The forum is filled with lots of stories and the pure disdain shown by the elite lot including CM participants equivocating on this. I cannot check all his post history but i guess "Ass" and his alts never engaged in the shaming as they were doing the same.

Quote from: hilariousetc on February 05, 2021, 10:34:32 AM

Only admins have access to IPs and having multiple accounts isn't against the rules nor would they care about what campaigns they were on so it's not something they would look into and certainly wouldn't share that info.

Okay so they do not have the capability to investigate. Got it.

Quote from: malevolent on Today at 12:43:46 AM

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And it sounds even more ludicrous to claim other uninvolved third parties were somehow 'victimized' because of FomA 'hogging' campaign slots when it's an affair entirely between ChipMixer represented by DarkStar_ and whoever he accepts.

It doesn't sound ludicrous at all. Ass broke campaign rules to hog the spots which could as well have gone to someone else. Considering that 100+ applicants apply for the spots and only 1-2 get in, it is unfair to those who could have been selected.

Then there is the whole issue of decency and conduct. As Staff, it is understood that you cannot make enforceable "rules" about conduct and cannot define decency. This is subjective but its importance shouldn't be diluted, least of all by staff; by refusing to take a stand on the ethical debate over such actions.

Those talking about CM campaign getting its moneys worth, well, you will find multiple comments on the forum about how CM members are some of the best members of the forum. All of that is up in the air now. Who knows, there could be more of such things within the forum. Maybe there actually is this kind of nexus between a select few and the forum/ campaign has been milked by them while at the same time proselytizing about "Spam" and "ICO scams".

Quote from: JollyGood on Today at 02:35:00 AM

That is just the amount of known BTC he made from the Chipmixer campaign but what about the all the other known and other unknown/undiscoverd accounts that were used in other signature campaigns? The true extent of his manipulation may never be known though connected accounts might be discovered from time to time.

Ass may well be reading and smiling right now. I think the lesson to be drawn from this is that decentralized and anonymous systems will never really be able to implement even a semblance of fair business practices. There will always be the need for a way to track participant actions that affect the business. While this forum and bitcoiners proselytize about the benefits of "decentralization", they accept wrongdoing, fraud and plain corruption as "sleight of hand". We all accept this "He did it because he could, lets forget about it" mentality over such things. This is one of the biggest hurdles for the concept of decentralization to truly become useful. Because if you are going to be vulnerable to the same scheming and collusion, why really bother to change the present system. Lets just keep morals, ethics aside and everybody go mooooooon.