Quote from: bitmover on Today at 09:40:27 PM

I feel that here in bitcointalk all we have is our reputation. We take years to build it, and it may be lost at once.

Personally, I would be very reluctant to make an association with someone I barely know, risking my reputation, my money and hard work.

This might be a good lesson for all of us, to avoid associations with people we barely know .

It is very difficult to argue with what you have stated based on what we have read in this thread but yahoo62278 (below) has valid points.

Quote from: yahoo62278 on Today at 09:54:19 PM

Quote from: bitmover on Today at 09:40:27 PM

I feel that here in bitcointalk all we have is our reputation. We take years to build it, and it may be lost at once.

Personally, I would be very reluctant to make an association with someone I barely know, risking my reputation, my money and hard work.

This might be a good lesson for all of us, to avoid associations with people we barely know .

I don't know that I can agree. None of us here really know each other, we know the persona we have created in our time on the forum. Not all successful companies are made from long time friendships either. It's ok to try and make a business with people you may barely know, but you always make sure you protect yourself.

In this situation Royse should have pulled the plug when funds started being late. Ok, I can understand he/she may not have wanted to be hasty, but red flag #2 is when they had to pay from their pocket. We are talking about a casino here, not a nickel lottery or something. They either had funds or they didn't.

It seems you let yourself(Royse777) be fooled and took way to long to respond to users on this forum. I don't think you personally are at fault for users getting scammed, but I can no longer trust your judgement as your actions likely cost other users more money by not closing shop/ warning the community sooner.

I'll remove my red flag and make it a neutral, but I think some sort of warning should stay on you for awhile. Good luck in the future.

I think you have have pretty much covered most of what could be said here.

It would be a difficult thing to face having covered payments from his pocket to the tune of several thousand USD$ but there is a line that should not be crossed between campaign managers and website owners/operators. I am surprised someone such as Royse777 allowed himself to be manipulated to the point where all this happened and he did not send out warnings to the community when he first ran in to issues. It seems to be multiple errors on his part.