None of this has anything to do with or any impact on Hashrocket.
...a company founded in part by some guys that run what is, at best, an ethically bankrupt company preying on the fears of gullible small-business owners, and at worst, an outright fraud?
Sure, that'll have no impact at all, because people don't care at all whether the consultants they hire have a reputation for dirty business practices...
At the end of a very long and tiring day I have no reason to doubt my friends' character.
That's more disturbing than you probably realize. If Hashrocket and its people refuse to condemn a pretty transparent attempt to trick people out of their money, and instead focus only on the technical legality of it, that says to me that Hashrocket is probably a pretty amoral company.
Don't delude yourself, whether the legal shrapnel hits Mark, Chris and Marian or not, this reflects terribly on Hashrocket because of the poor ethics displayed, and others from the company publicly jumping to their defense and declaring that they've done nothing wrong worsens the perception substantially, it shows us that Hashrocket as a whole sees no ethical problem with running a straight up scam, as long as it's done within the letter of the law.
We would appreciate everyone's support in promoting facts over rumors.
The details may be relevant to the legal situation, but one look at that "advertisement" is all it took for me to throw out any doubt that these guys operate in an ethical void.
If you want to be a just-barely-legal scammer, that's fine, go for it, you might get rich and you might even avoid prison if you're smart enough. Just don't expect your more legitimate businesses to slip the stink of the scammy ones, that's not the way trust works.
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None of this has anything to do with or any impact on Hashrocket.
...a company founded in part by some guys that run what is, at best, an ethically bankrupt company preying on the fears of gullible small-business owners, and at worst, an outright fraud?
Sure, that'll have no impact at all, because people don't care at all whether the consultants they hire have a reputation for dirty business practices...
At the end of a very long and tiring day I have no reason to doubt my friends' character.
That's more disturbing than you probably realize. If Hashrocket and its people refuse to condemn a pretty transparent attempt to trick people out of their money, and instead focus only on the technical legality of it, that says to me that Hashrocket is probably a pretty amoral company.
Don't delude yourself, whether the legal shrapnel hits Mark, Chris and Marian or not, this reflects terribly on Hashrocket because of the poor ethics displayed, and others from the company publicly jumping to their defense and declaring that they've done nothing wrong worsens the perception substantially, it shows us that Hashrocket as a whole sees no ethical problem with running a straight up scam, as long as it's done within the letter of the law.
We would appreciate everyone's support in promoting facts over rumors.
The details may be relevant to the legal situation, but one look at that "advertisement" is all it took for me to throw out any doubt that these guys operate in an ethical void.
If you want to be a just-barely-legal scammer, that's fine, go for it, you might get rich and you might even avoid prison if you're smart enough. Just don't expect your more legitimate businesses to slip the stink of the scammy ones, that's not the way trust works.