https://monero.town/comment/38729
This comment is very rude and lacks the necessary information to change someone’s thoughts about Monero. But this does not warrant calling this person a “glowie”. He is a known developer in the crypto (cryptography and cryptocurrency) community and has participated for many, many years. We do not know his circumstances for this kind of behavior, but the responses to his behavior need to be addressed. Calling someone a “glowie” seemingly out of thin air does nothing but discredit the Monero community and give us the image of paranoid fools who will seemingly lunge at any privacy software to appease our constant paranoia, as the term itself was used as commonly as the very paranoid schizophrenic man who coined the term.
That guy has been trolling this site for a few days. Block, ignore, whatever.
I fully respect the sentiment of this post. Baseless name-calling is definitely counterproductive, but he didn’t really approach with a positive attitude either, right? I absolutely agree with you on most of your points here ethically, but would like to inquire about the intentions involved here, considering the circumstances.
It’s certainly rude and precisely good fun to call someone a glowie–It’s also not an honest argument, right? No need for treating it that way either, right? Calling a codebase shitty without explaining any logic or further premises beyond “I worked on a monero-fork bro, trust me; monero is honeypot–if you can’t discern that from auditing the code, then you are 0 iq pleb not worth the time” is also the epitome of deceit b/c you can say that about most codebases ffs.
Idk, maybe jeff(if we can even assume it’s the real jeff that the crypto fam is familiar with) has laid out his arguments and critiques better elsewhere and just intentionally chose a tragic post to say “I told you so” in the worst-spirited form possible(0 empathy and respect for the post being commented on), but I have doubts because he also refused to meet anyone halfway with the slightest shred of evidence or logic
Captains log, day 3: Things are already getting spicy 🍿
But for real, hope everyone is having fun, don’t take what people say online too seriously guys.
Is it just me or is linking to a comment seriously broken? When i hover over the “link” button, it seems like every first reply to a comment has the same link as the comment they are responding to?
Am having time of my life(reminds me of my first thrilling days discovering great communities on Reddit) with a hint of nostalgia.
Can confirm broken comment link too
nothing wrong with calling people glowies, it’s funny, that being said jeff is an intelligent genuine man from what i’ve seen in my interactions with him so i don’t think he is one. while i’m not a c++ developer by any means, just by using the programs and glancing at the code, the monero codebase definitely isn’t very well written, like most c++ projects
if you know rust or have some spare xmr i suggest considering helping out with the development of cuprate https://github.com/Cuprate/cuprate. i still really don’t think monero is a honeypot but there are a lot of improvements that could be made
teh internet iz srs bzns. maybe you need a separate space where it’s against the rules to shitpost. it’s not wrong to appeal to people who use excessive 4chanspeak and it’s not wrong to appeal to tightwads either. we can’t make everyone happy.
Anyone trying to smear Monero with only used for “crime” is a total moron or a fed and deserves to be smacked down immediately, regardless of their “dev work”.
This guy was most likely hired by feds to infiltrate, gain some “dev cred” by forking code that goes nowhere, then start smearing.
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