Sure. For scamming. Here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=358020
Not that it makes much difference. Quickseller is just an alt account, owner has many more, many with positive trust. This is perfectly legit, because reasons.

What does my liking/disliking thermos have to do with him not being the owner of this forum?
Do you read before typing, or are the few satoshis you make from posting just too sweet?

Not this again.
Thermos is not the owner, he doesn't even claim to be. He is no more the owner of bitcointalk than Stalin was the owner of Russia or Hitler was the owner of Germany.
Stop parroting shit you've heard other say & spreading misinformation.
If still not clear:
Shit came together in such a way as to enable thermos to control bitcointalk, Stalin to control Russia, and Hitler to control Germany. This doesn't make any of them "owners."

For the time being, I'll overlook the likelihood of you posting just for the sake of getting a few satoshi from your 'provably fair casino' sig, and explain to you why every forum on the internet doesn't have a subforum dedicated to ponzis, illegal gambling, or selling shitty drugs, rusty AKs and child porn.
You ready?
Here we go:
Because, surprisingly, yes, yes, you can stop those things. In fact, it is the duty of the forum operator to stop such things.
Even 4chan stops such things, why can't thermos?

Am I the only one to find humor in a disgraced account merchant with red trust moralizing about scamming & trust ratings?

>I dont go around paroling for these things
No?

But now that you're aware of 'these things,' I'm sure you'll go & do your stuff

Thanks, but no

Might "8ball of Meth and Rusty AK47 Gift Set" get a separate section if the support posts are too much for the goods section?

If not, why

As useful as any ghetto, i suppose. The problem's the public face of Bitcoin is now a ghetto.
Grills are laughing.

^

*cough*

Bitcoin Forum > Economy > Marketplace > Gambling > Investor-based games

Why would thermos do that?!

No.

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I'm not SNavy, though I may share its sentiment, so I'll field this one too.
I'm a little hazy on why you haven't chosen to leave a negative rating to every user advertising his wares on Bitcoin Forum > Economy > Marketplace > Securities.
Do you not feel that these users "are scammers or likely to scam in the future," in light of 99% of offerings in this sub being scams? Noobs may not know this, you know

In that case, we agree. Txbtc actually took an extra step to inform his investors of the perils associated with his reputable firm, by thoughtfully adding "Please invest at your own risk" to his sig.
An extra step, I might add, which Bitcoin Forum > Economy > Marketplace > Gambling > Investor-based games chose not to take

I'm not SNavy, though I may share the its sentiment, so I'll field this one too.
I'm a little hazy on why you haven't chosen to leave a negative rating to every user advertising his wares on Bitcoin Forum > Economy > Marketplace > Securities.
Do you not feel that these users "are scammers or likely to scam in the future," in light of 99% of offerings in this sub being scams?

Presumably, "✔ 100% Payouts Guaranteed as long as the business is operational."
No different from any other guarantee on bitcointalk

And that's wrong? You're gonna leave him negative trust because he advertises his perfectly legit operation? What happened to free trade, caveat emptor & freedom of speech? Nanny State much?

@txbtc, I don't see any difference between what you are promoting, and every thread in Bitcoin Forum > Economy > Marketplace > Gambling > Investor-based games.

As far as QS's alts, who cares? QS itself is an alt, created to deal in forum accounts. It has been at it for quite a while, has a show-stable of quality aged, pre-owned, and antique accounts. Which it trots out whenever the need/fancy takes it.
Nothing wrong with that, that's what this forum is all about

Let me see if I follow:
This forum creates a sub for ponzi schemes, allows them to buy trusted senior accounts and promote themselves via banner ads (i.e. provides them with all the tools they need to operate), and then, if these illegal ponzis turn out to be ...illegal ponzis, ~catch breath~ AND if the operators return to do it again, the evidence will be right here, to be used to catch the criminals leave them a negative rating?
Tell me, how many times was the evidence this public ledger of shame ever useful in reuniting victims with their coins?

Bitcointalk must be the craziest, longest-running honeypot/entrapment scheme on record, no?

You mean, the evidence is deleted, so that the scammer could return and try again?

What's wrong with selling used stuff? It depends what the used stuff is, doesn't it?
Some feel that selling used passports, used identities, and even pre-watched child porn might not be the best idea. You may disagree.

Please understand that sort of thing can get you some serious time. Running a shooting gallery, for instance, would. Even if you tell the nice judge that had you not provided your service, the junkies would shoot up in playgrounds, and you sold drugs at your bangasorium only as a means of containment, and to avail LEO with evidence when needed.

Protip: A sign saying "SHOOTING DOPE MAY BE DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH, AND I MIGHT SELL YOU SOME RAT POISON INSTEAD OF H -- CAVEAT EMPTOR!" may not be enough to get you a [used] "get out of jail free" card.


Right. now go to auctions and digital goods subs, and nuke users selling accounts.
Get back to me when done

Of course, this is just an example. I remember there was some huge cloud mining ponzi too, with signature campaigns etc., can't think of the name offhand, but huge. Account dealers don't disclose which accounts are being sold, so compiling a full list is difficult.
You're welcome.

>I don't care about account sales, I care about promoting free trade
Could you explain to me why no other organization promoting free trade is, simultaneously, pimping scam/phishing websites, selling used rubbers, and promoting ponzis?

> and open discussion as much as possible.
Please explain how:
-Accounts being bought & sold promotes free speech.
-Sig campaign spam?
-Gambling/ponzi scheme subfora?

I don't want you to "disallow" things because I personally find them detestable, I hate them, or disapprove of them.

It's a general ideological commonsensical position, this isn't going to change.

There are several other forums where people can go if that's what they want.

>If there is a system, there will always be a flaw. If account sales are banned, people will just find new ways of buying them and then all trust ratings will be considered valid which will in turn cause more scam.

Not sure if joking or can't read:

There is a reason why my bank doesn't have a roulette wheel/gun shop/guy selling used condoms/hookers sucking D in the lobby.
Guess why that is.

ELI5:
- Stop hawking shit on an internet discussion forum, and you wouldn't need any kind of trust system, flawed or not.
-Stop promoting ponzi schemes (illegal pretty much everywhere, and certainly in US, where thermos hails from), or have no foot to stand on when mainstream press paints bitcoin as the currency of scammers and idiots.

>Over and out
Have a nice one, QS

>Gambling happens to be a big part of Bitcoin
So is scamming and halfass criminality. From this we should conclude that bitcointalk should promote shit crime and cater to thieves and scammers? Or?

The rest of your post is simply irrelevant -- "inventing" a trust system would not be necessary if this place wasn't a scamfest. Let me repeat:

P.S. re. "Trust system, which cannot be abused by any random newbie with lots of alts": But abusing it with bought alts is just fine.
You bought this account what, Sept. of this year?
Cancer, you are

Satoshi left this place a long time ago, thanks, partially, to you & your ilk.
He has not "chosen the admins carefully," no more than Lenin has carefully chosen Stalin. If you have evidence to the contrary, please present it.

He also did not create this forum in hopes of, someday, getting awesome Alexa ratings by attracting all of the internet's petty thieving lowlifes, thus supporting the mainstream conception of Bitcoin as the currency of greedy but otherwise laughably inept criminals and degenerate gamblers.
You'll have to just take my word on that one

Dead wrong, Friend. It is a forum started to advance Bitcoin.

Satoshi didn't start this place for you to scratch out pennies by whoring out your signature, and then lose those pennies to other, slightly smarter scumbags in the gambling section.
Fuck you