Blue Summer
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I'm just here to say, that by peering over this forum over a long time, I'm led to conclude that the majority of this forum is a bunch of scamming, lying, good-for-nothing pricks. I came here in attempt to sell gold, so I presented myself in an honest manor and did what I had to do. I sold hundreds of millions of Gold and have met a lot of people, and read a lot of posts.
After my short stay here, all I can really say is this community is shit. Everyone treats each other like shit. People look at each others post counts and decide the level of respect they should pay them. Anyone with under 100 posts is labeled a fucking scamming retarded noob, and anyone with over 800 posts is deemed a God and respected spammer of the forum.
Since the only way to make sales/etc. is to be trusty, majority of the people decide to SPAM in order to raise their post count and look a little more respectful. This, in return, leads to a shitty forum. You have spammy little pricks commenting on every little thing trying to earn post count, and then the 5-6 people who post afterwsrds saying NOT to spam and raise you're post count.
With that being said, I've really only ran into 2-3 decent people on the forum (Other than Staff, which we will get to). All of these people, have under 200 post count. I'm thankful I've met these people, because they turned out to be cool guys who are really nice and mature.
On the staff note, what I'm seeing, is everyone is ignorant. I can understand though, because if I were a moderator on such an active forum flooded by spamming, flaming, scamming, liars I would slit my own wrists. I can't really blame you, but a lot of staff I've met is pretty stuck up. But as I can't stress enough, you're dealing with a bunch of fuckwits.
I'd also like to point out the fact that my reported user thread was simply read and archived, no questions asked. I lost my gold, and he keeps his reputation. I honestly and sincerely hope this guy becomes a fluent scammer and puts yet another hole in this community. The fact that it was pretty solid evidence and the fact that I STILL have his msn conversation open (after having reported him like 6 days ago) is pretty much enough to leave me to believe nobody really gives a shit.
But in all due respect, and aside from the extremely horrible community attitude, there are still a lot of smart, decent people who frequent the forum. Like I said I came, I sold, I left. I didn't get to meet the rest of you, but you're whats keeping this forums heart barely beating. I know that the staff & administrators work hard to keep this forum at its tip top shape, but you really need to crack down on the retards and scammers. To be perfectly honest, if someone posts "yo guyse this duude her scammd me for 4 mills when i sell pin dont tradee", there should be some sort of punishment. Unless this is your second week on the computer, there is absolutely no reason why you should talk like a moron.
Another thing I'd like to add in quick, is having the forum member-only viewed. Unless this had been debated, I hate how pretty much anyone can roam the forums without being registered. Atleast you can filter the members A LITTLE bit, such as if someone keeps registering a new name or something... Which they don't have to do, they can just roam the forums at random and find MSN's to scam and shit.
I don't know, that's my two cents, I hope I didn't piss anyone off and have this locked & ignored like my report thread. Thanks and ciao.
After my short stay here, all I can really say is this community is shit. Everyone treats each other like shit. People look at each others post counts and decide the level of respect they should pay them. Anyone with under 100 posts is labeled a fucking scamming retarded noob, and anyone with over 800 posts is deemed a God and respected spammer of the forum.
Since the only way to make sales/etc. is to be trusty, majority of the people decide to SPAM in order to raise their post count and look a little more respectful. This, in return, leads to a shitty forum. You have spammy little pricks commenting on every little thing trying to earn post count, and then the 5-6 people who post afterwsrds saying NOT to spam and raise you're post count.
With that being said, I've really only ran into 2-3 decent people on the forum (Other than Staff, which we will get to). All of these people, have under 200 post count. I'm thankful I've met these people, because they turned out to be cool guys who are really nice and mature.
On the staff note, what I'm seeing, is everyone is ignorant. I can understand though, because if I were a moderator on such an active forum flooded by spamming, flaming, scamming, liars I would slit my own wrists. I can't really blame you, but a lot of staff I've met is pretty stuck up. But as I can't stress enough, you're dealing with a bunch of fuckwits.
I'd also like to point out the fact that my reported user thread was simply read and archived, no questions asked. I lost my gold, and he keeps his reputation. I honestly and sincerely hope this guy becomes a fluent scammer and puts yet another hole in this community. The fact that it was pretty solid evidence and the fact that I STILL have his msn conversation open (after having reported him like 6 days ago) is pretty much enough to leave me to believe nobody really gives a shit.
But in all due respect, and aside from the extremely horrible community attitude, there are still a lot of smart, decent people who frequent the forum. Like I said I came, I sold, I left. I didn't get to meet the rest of you, but you're whats keeping this forums heart barely beating. I know that the staff & administrators work hard to keep this forum at its tip top shape, but you really need to crack down on the retards and scammers. To be perfectly honest, if someone posts "yo guyse this duude her scammd me for 4 mills when i sell pin dont tradee", there should be some sort of punishment. Unless this is your second week on the computer, there is absolutely no reason why you should talk like a moron.
Another thing I'd like to add in quick, is having the forum member-only viewed. Unless this had been debated, I hate how pretty much anyone can roam the forums without being registered. Atleast you can filter the members A LITTLE bit, such as if someone keeps registering a new name or something... Which they don't have to do, they can just roam the forums at random and find MSN's to scam and shit.
I don't know, that's my two cents, I hope I didn't piss anyone off and have this locked & ignored like my report thread. Thanks and ciao.
Thanks Snowboard Ninja for a contribution to trying to help out
Also, to the people complaining about staff being allowed to scam...
Obviously, as stated several times by Sythe, if someone were attempt to buy an admin account (which would be ONLY used to exploiting the trust and scamming LOADS more), he's given them permission to 'punish' these scammers by taking their money. Yes, from an outside view, it IS scamming... But guess what, this is Sythes site. He can basically decide whatever the fuck he wants, and that's how it goes. If you don't like the idea of staff scamming, don't offer to buy their accounts
I've been thinking of a few ways in which we CAN eliminate most scammers.
I was wondering if Sythe or any other admin could post numbers of how many members sign up daily, and how many of them get banned for scamming instantly? Just curious to see the rates of how many people join to scam vs people here to play legit. Honestly, if it were up to me, I would probably make this a private members board.
Think of it, you can ban ALL you want but people will CONTINUE to use proxies, and absolutely NOTHING in the world will stop them from returning... Unless you completely prevent them. See, rather than catching and banning scammers, let's just prevent them ALTOGETHER! If you think about it, people who scam here are repeat offenders... You rarely get the good-guy-gone bad.
Here are some of my ideas, which I think are pretty good.
First off, we need to stop scammers from coming back, and an IP Ban isn't good enough. The main site attraction is the Black Market, right? Why not hide it. Just hide it. Make it so you must be on the board, actively for 1 month + 100 posts before you're allowed in the black market. It sounds stupid, and highly annoying, but I'm pretty damn sure it will reduce scamming by a great number. Of course people will make loads of accounts at once & probably spam to each other in order to gain this reputation, but hell, to go through all that trouble to scam a pin or a few million? I think this will repel scammers.
My idea is to block off the black market to 'leechers'. Make them post around the forum, contribute. Once ready, a moderator can decide whether or not he's worthy of entering the Black Market based on his posts, whether they are spam or meaningful. I think this is a lot of trouble for scammers to go through for barely any money, and just a minor inconvenience for someone who comes here and plans to do business. The only problem I can see here is a low traffic problem, which could end up losing Sythe money in advertising. But we're losing money too ya know.
Anyways I'm tired as piss so I hope you guys caught most of that & can contribute and altar my ideas to something Sythe may consider. It will be a big step, but after reading every single post here, I do believe there are people out there who are willing to make this a better forum.
What do you think guys? Make the Black Market 'VIP' to repel scammers and leave only the trustworthy in it, or allow nubs to repeatedly bypass and continue scamming?
Obviously there will be drawbacks; you won't get much interest in your thread. Ya with the lack of people there, you may not get so busy anymore in your black market thread, since most people posting would be trying to scam. But hey, would you rather lose your money, or lose people taking interest (Interest to scam)?
Hope you guys can contribute to my thoughts.
. I've tried some other sites, but they are practically empty so I have to keep coming back to Sythe. 
