Quote from: digaran on November 14, 2023, 03:51:27 PM

Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on November 14, 2023, 09:01:17 AM

I brought this up before: were any promises made to the donators as to the intended use of the donations?

Well, now since we are diving deeper in technicalities, we should ask this, will there be any stripers and private lap dances in a new forum, or were we supposed to get free lunch in there? What do we need here and don't have? If we have a functional forum, there is no need for a new one. So if he loves the children and provides for them, forget about divorcing him.😉

Say what, now?

I was asking that question in regards to Vod's claim of mismanagement/embezzlement of forum donations. I wasn't around when the old members made their (now enormous) donations to bitcointalk, so I didn't know if Theymos or whoever was soliciting those donations said that the funds were going to be used for any specific purpose.

And even if there weren't any stated uses, it's yet to be seen whether any law enforcement agencies will think Vod has a valid enough claim to get them to investigate. I've never heard of any US alphabet agency go after a discussion forum (and someone please point out a case if that's happened) for financial issues. There may have been a case or two about hate speech, but even that I'm not entirely sure of.