Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Deputy Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 6414-6420

2009-08-01 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, ais523 wrote: > Agreed with this; I've worked with such scams with comex in the past, > and have also done personal scams (without help) which required months > of setup. However, I think my favourite gameplay ever was proposal 5707 > and its aftermath; IIRC, this was similar

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Deputy Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 6414-6420

2009-08-01 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/8/1 ais523 : > Heh, it was more complicated than that. The 'subcabal' containing me and > Sgeo was actually legitimate, in that we were planning genuine scams > there (some of which we have to try sometime; I don't think any of them > were actually attempted). We disguised it as a secret cabal

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Deputy Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 6414-6420

2009-08-01 Thread comex
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 10:37 AM, ais523 wrote: > Heh, it was more complicated than that. The 'subcabal' containing me and > Sgeo was actually legitimate, in that we were planning genuine scams > there (some of which we have to try sometime; I don't think any of them > were actually attempted). We d

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Deputy Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 6414-6420

2009-08-01 Thread ais523
On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 12:52 +0100, Elliott Hird wrote: > 2009/8/1 Ed Murphy : > > comex wrote: > >> At the extreme, I remember > >> watching the creation, under a scamming organization called the > >> "cabal", of a fake "sub-cabal" as a way to trick other players into > >> participating in a scam b

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Deputy Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 6414-6420

2009-08-01 Thread ais523
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 22:58 -0400, comex wrote: > The amount of planning behind a scam can vary wildly. Even planning > out a relatively minor scam over IRC can be loads of fun, > collaborating to check the ruleset for obscure problems and make up > the exact wording to make it work properly... an

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Deputy Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 6414-6420

2009-08-01 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/8/1 Ed Murphy : > comex wrote: >> At the extreme, I remember >> watching the creation, under a scamming organization called the >> "cabal", of a fake "sub-cabal" as a way to trick other players into >> participating in a scam believing they were participating in a >> different one. > > Which s