Forum troubles

I'm just writing to weigh in on the issue with admin going missing.

Basically, I agree with @eravsar that it's no longer fit for use.

Personally, I don't care about the ethics of punishing a scammer and I don't really even care about messages getting watched.

But think about what we are actually doing here? What are we actually hoping to achieve when we write to each other here? For one we are discussing the emerging technology and monetary systems, from the perspective of monero users. This could be very important. Secondly, we are creating a resource for the community to come and take part in the discussion and to make connections.

Now consider that the discussion here is entirely intermediated by a privately controlled server. In my opinion this is not a problem because they are replaceable; we can always put up another server. That being said, it is not rational to keep trusting this forum's server because it is likely to have been hijacked! (wake up sheeple!)

The problem is not that we are getting spied on. The problem is not that anyone is running off with the tip money (dis forum not bank). The problem is that this server is not a trustworthy custodian of the value in this discussion itself. (If there's any left after the bickering bullshit. oh well better than a circlejerk)

So this is why I'll be writing posts on monerouserforum.com. Its pretty much got a lot of the same features as this forum but without some of the more gimmicky ones.

I don't think we need a darknet forum because there are plenty of those, and most people don't even have tor installed. This forum is much more accessible.

There are some other clearnet monero forums but Monerica's is the most smart and accessible.

btw if you think I'm a government agent pls send a tip and I'll delete your file ;)