> Researchers should also keep in mind that some of developers are immature and have limited knowledge or experience beyond their Bitcoin expertise ("Idiot-savants"). Others want to be in "charge" of drama-laced posts on reddit and they get upset if others do the same things. > In any case these rants and attacks by Todd and Garzik should be posted on their personal blogs or reddit instead of this list. I very rarely comment on list politics but isn't this the kettle calling the pot black? Back to my hole now I promise. On 5 August 2015 at 12:26, Milly Bitcoin via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > For those wishing to do actual research, esp. people such as profs >> mentoring students, ... >> > > But keep in mind that you're wading into a highly politically charged >> research field >> with billions hanging on the blocksize limit; understand that people >> aren't happy when >> flawed papers end up on reddit being used to promote bad ideas. You'd be >> wise to run future >> work past experts in the field prior to publishing widely if you dislike >> heated controversy. >> > > Or, I could just point out the obvious rather than try to be polite: you >> know exactly why >> the above makes no sense as a reply to this thread and are deliberately >> lying. >> > > If the situation is the latter, your conduct is toxic to the development >> mailing list >> discussion, not to mention a waste of all our time, and you should leave. >> > > > > > Researchers should also keep in mind that some of developers are immature > and have limited knowledge or experience beyond their Bitcoin expertise > ("Idiot-savants"). Others want to be in "charge" of drama-laced posts on > reddit and they get upset if others do the same things. > > In any case these rants and attacks by Todd and Garzik should be posted on > their personal blogs or reddit instead of this list. > > Russ > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev > -- [image: Facebook] [image: Twitter] [image: LinkedIn] Neil Fincham MineForeman Phone: +64 21 545 583 99 Sala St, Rotorua, New Zealand. 3010 Website | neil@mineforeman.com