Quote from: sippsnapp on August 21, 2012, 03:04:57 PM

What i want to suggest is a implementation of some kind of measure to make sure that everybody who is participating in the market section has at least a basic understanding of how scams, pumpndump und ponies work and how to identify them. I thought about some sort of quiz.

In my short time on this forum I've already come across many posts that warn of the dangers of fraud in the Bitcoin market.

The Newbies board contains stickies such as Trust No One and Better protect yourself from having your account/accounts compromised.
The Service Discussion board is about the merits of various services available for Bitcoin, including ones that people believe are scams.
The Important Announcements board contains good information when there are serious changes in the market.

Quote from: sippsnapp on August 21, 2012, 03:04:57 PM

I also want to suggest to better categorize the market section in different trust levels. So inexperienced users could better identify fishy services and offers.

Bitcoin, even at its core technical levels, is about only trusting oneself. The algorithms do the heavy lifting of keeping nodes honest. You are responsible for verifying that those algorithms work as intended. You are responsible for storing your private keys safely. You are responsible for not making transactions that you will regret.

Asking people to fall back on "safe" versus "unsafe" market sections is undermining their own capability to make judgement calls, which is a necessary skill to participate in the Bitcoin community. It also puts the board at risk if somebody does get scammed in a "safe" section.

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