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> anti-flamewar This is a story about a company 1) in the crypto space, that 2) lost all of it's users money, and 3) used misleading disclaimers (and potential
by nrmitchi 4y ago
> anti-flamewar
This is a story about a company 1) in the crypto space, that 2) lost all of it's users money, and 3) used misleading disclaimers (and potentially trying to change them after the fact)
It has already devolved in multiple threads to discussion about what is-and-is-not technically a ponzi scheme (vs other forms of scams/fraud).
This whole thing is a recipe for a giant flame war.
- Cederfjard 4y agoTo be fair, do you really expect a community as nerdy as this not to engage in pedantry about semantics? I would anticipate that in every discussion, inflammatory or not (I might even participate).
- nrmitchi 4y agoKind of beside the point, because pedantry about semantics with respect to "what kind of scam/fraud/etc was it that lost $42M of user's funds" leads directly to flamewar-style threads, which is what can reasonable cause a story to be deranked due to and anti-flamewar filter.
- grogenaut 4y agoI do enjoy that much of the thread is down to arguing semantics and terms over what kind of scam it is. soon we'll be arguing over if the P is capitalized or not. https://xkcd.com/915/ https://xkcd.com/915/