Quote from: PowerGlove on October 29, 2024, 10:53:35 PM

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.

Have you seen the great post by eddie13 on this subject?

Quote from: eddie13 on August 06, 2021, 12:30:31 AM

Should never have put the temporary illusion of safety above personal liberty..
ie tagging and chasing away “likely scammers” and crushing the unique economic dynamic of account sales..

This forum started acting like protecting idiots is more important than letting users express their free wills..

How many countless good and intelligent users have been chased away because they “might” scam..

A new startup can’t come here and start a signature campaign for example without completely being bullied into “trusting” some escrow they have probably never heard of, so heaven forbid they couldn’t possibly scam some users willing to take the risk..

A new user can hardly post anything for sale here without being bullied into some 3rd party “idiot protection” scheme because OMG they might try to scam you..

A new user here can’t start lending on any sort of collateral because holy shot they might scam the collateral..

All new economics here CRUSHED by regulatory bullying in the name of “protecting idiots”...

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I’m glad y’all saved sooooo many imbeciles from getting “scammed” by shutting that entire thriving economy down..

Oh right, the morons probably just threw their (saved from scam) money at one of the great 2017 ICOs instead..
I’m sure their filthy rich now thanks to all that saving grace..

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Especially the part where he uses the word "regulatory" got me thinking. The forum's mission is to be as free as possible. That includes allowing people to hunt scammers, but it makes it very difficult for new users to have the freedom to do business here.