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Re: How long does this warning stay on the account profile?
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PowerGlove
on 29/10/2024, 22:53:35 UTC
If there was an SMF forum dealing with comic books or stamp collecting, it'd seem a bit bizarre wouldn't it?
Definitely. It even seemed a bit bizarre to me here when I first joined. I think I've told you this over PM before, but I remember finding the culture here difficult to adjust to, and I'm still not completely comfortable with it... I guess it's necessary (though I'm not convinced it is) on a forum like this for there to be so much focus on rooting out bad actors. But, I also can't shake the feeling that not much can grow in this soil, if you know what I mean? There's a concrete community-wise cost to the forum's culture of suspicion, and I sometimes find myself wondering if that cost is truly worth the actual (rather than supposed) upside it produces.

And hey, I just noticed that neat little badge you got there, PowerGlove.
Hehe, yeah, it's cool, right? It was a pretty minor security issue that led to me getting it, but, I'm proud of it, all the same.

Props upon props to you for all the hard work you put in.
Aw, thanks, dude. I appreciate that! All I'm really trying to do with my time on Bitcointalk is make sure that I can look back on it one day and be convinced that the forum benefited at least as much from me as I did from it. (I mean, it's far from clear to me that I'll succeed in doing that, but, it's a nice thing to try for.)

Wish I had half the talent you've got.
Be careful what you wish for! At programming? Yeah, that's where I'm most happy/comfortable. It's been that way since I was little. At everything else in life... I think you'd be surprised to find out just how many things I suck at.