Okay let me breakdown how this works. In this article there is a link to subscribe to his news letter on that landing page there is an ebook called 'Getting Your Gold Out of Dodge' he was previously peddling this ebook for the likes of $35 if memory serves me in one of his many previous posts prior to this.
If you visit the main homepage of his site you'll notice he offers all kinds of lovely services I'm sure one of those would be more than happy to help facilitate a gold purchase.
He is making money on selling services and information around gold and using selectively biased source material to prop up unfounded conspiracy theories and scare the shit out of people to get them to buy his useless services. He's doing it for the profit, plain and simple. He get's overpaid for posting this trash here with upvote bots then gets another pay day on the back end when people sign up for shit on his website.
He emanates the qualities of a sleazy con-artist, it should be setting off alarm bells for anyone who is level headed.
Selling services is a legitimate business. If people want to buy information based on the knowledge he present in his articles - well that is free market capitalism. If people find value in his work, then they are free to spend money on it.
The only person who can make you scared is yourself. He's not forcing anyone to be scared or to have any kind of emotion and he is definitely not forcing anyone to act on their un-evolved feelings. Im fact, if you are relying on your emotions to invest in gold, you probably shouldn't be investing at all. And definetly not based on information from only one source.
Please provide proof of upvote bots that are favoring him over other authors. If that's true, then you should be posting articles in #abuse
1 & 2 You didn't really make a point counter to mine all you did was say it's not his fault if his intentional fear mongering causes fear. Also just because he's found a legitimate business does not remove the con-artist moniker or make his practices not sleazy.
Assassins and drug dealers are also apart of the free market that you praise so I'm not sure why you think that is a virtue. Just saying the words 'free market' doesn't make a point for you. So what if it's the free market? That wasn't the topic.
3 Are you serious? It's an open issue being addressed by the site developers. You should look into how the curation bots work. The bots aren't abuse either they are just voting in an optimal manner for gaining curation rewards. I didn't even say they were his bots they probably aren't.
You should reread what I wrote. All I did was label his posts as redundant fear mongering for personal gain. I then explained how he makes that gain. You didn't say anything on that topic.
@contentjunkie I think you misunderstood me a bit. A con-artist is someone who scams people into giving him their money without giving anything in return. This is not the case with @dollarvigilante as you have absolute freedom to believe his information and to buy his services or not. Free, voluntary market transaction by definition can not be a con or a scam.
Your emotions and your ability to comprehend information that is presented to you is on you. You can't really blame others for not doing your research.
In the case of the curation bots, you just stated yourself that this is a problem with the platform, not the authors, so then your original point is neither here nor there. This author brought in a lot of new members who are obviously happy with his services and are upvoting his content because it adds value to their life.
The real con is the Federal Reserve, not people who expose them.