Originally Posted by redietz View Post

Hey kewlJ, thanks for posting that Dan Druff post. I had never read that one. That kind of frames the whole thing. I'll argue the same thing with Dan that I argue with Mission. They tend to treat scamming to make money differently than scamming to make a reputation. My point is that most resources in life are non-material -- reputation, relationships, prestige, perceived expertise, and so on. Scamming people about one's expertise, skills, and knowledge is often worse than just picking pockets, is my point.
I've already responded to this characterization of my opinion system on this, at length, if you want to go back and we can have that discussion. I don't think, "Scamming to make a reputation," does anything that actually is to the detriment of another person until such time that it is monetized. People will read and believe what they want to believe, but as long as no money changes hands, then I think people are free to say whatever they want to. If people are, 'Scamming,' their way into reputation with a bunch of internet randoms, then I feel almost as badly for the, 'Scammer,' as the person being, 'Scammed.'

What Rob is doing, at this point, is simply trolling...whether he did the DUB or not. He's actually doing it extremely well, in either case. Are we counting into the decades yet that this has been going on?