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unitron writes:
"Via Twitter, Cmdr Taco passes this along
'A crazy theory, MtGox had its btc seized by us govt during Silk Road investigation, but gag order prevents disclosure'
The actual article, by Chris Pacia (who links to and credits PuffyHerb on Reddit for most of the thinking behind it), is here:
http://chrispacia.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/this-is -what-most-likely-happened-to-mtgox/"
[Ed's Note: The paragraph above is pretty much how it was received. I leave it up to the readers to draw their own conclusions on the plausibility or otherwise of this report and the linked article. It is, by its very nature, speculative but worthy of further discussion nonetheless.]
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A Theory - MtGox Was Mugged by Uncle Sam
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A woman was in love with fourteen soldiers. It was clearly platoonic.
(Score: 5, Informative) by MrGuy on Monday March 03 2014, @04:48PM
So, we have the former head of Slashdot on twitter repeating the speculation of a blogger that got his theory from an unknown person on Reddit.
Interesting idea? Sure. Conspiracy theories tend to be. News reporting? Not on your life.
I know we're all finding our way here, and all our editors are new editors. But this doesn't belong on this site for multiple reasons.
1.) There are no facts here. It's all one guy's speculation, and other than his Reddit handle, we don't know his name. It's a story that can make certain selected facts hang together well. But that's not different than "the CIA assassinated JFK" or "NASA faked the moon landings" stories.
2.) This is several degrees from the actual story. TFA is a blog post from someone who's repeating someone else's speculation. Not a primary source. If we don't have the actual story, we shouldn't be posting it.
3.) We have a submission process. There's plenty of stuff out there, and there's quite a lot of content on this site. Why exactly are we monitoring Cmdr Taco's twitter feed as an alternative to our article submission process?
(Score: 1) by hubie on Monday March 03 2014, @04:52PM
Damn. Not only did you beat me to the point by several minutes, but you made your point much better than I did! :)
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @06:35PM
AND he beat you joining up and has a lower UID
(Score: 5, Insightful) by kebes on Monday March 03 2014, @05:14PM
Posts such as these are possibly a symptom of the desire to have "a post on topic X", in which case any recent news/blog/twitter item (no matter trite) is used as a summary; mostly to give a focal point to a discussion on topic X. I feel like Slashdot would very frequently do this: post strings of terrible articles on topics that would generate tons of comments. (Cynically, you could say they were fanning flame-wars for ad impressions; or you could optimistically say they were trying to give a space for topics that the community (sorry: audience) cared about.)
I actually think posts that amount to "it's been awhile since we talked about X; let's start a new thread" can be good. But if that's what's going on, then the editors should be straightforward, with a post along the lines of "What's going on with X? Here are some links to recent developments and stories (some well-researched, some highly speculative). Discuss!"
(It's of course possible I've entirely misinterpreted the editor's intent. But I believe my central point remains...)
(Score: 1) by neagix on Monday March 03 2014, @07:51PM
mod this up, Scotty!
(Score: 1) by TGV on Monday March 03 2014, @07:57PM
Yup. But if they want to screw up soylentnews before it gets any traction, this would be the way to go.