I don't really think my problem is with Provider X or @mpkossen's general failure as an admin, but more so that I'm a softy for a lot of the hopelessly lame scams out there. Like the scams you can see from a mile away, the endearing ones that are really transparent and clumsily executed (i.e. 'Binary Options' or LowEndTalk or NASA). It's as if I'm attracted to them out of this strange conflation of amusement and pity, so much that I actually want to pay to be 'victimized' by their dull theatrics for the comedic value, or just to see if they will 'actually' try to go through with it. I think I'm curious about the extent to which they will continue to reappear and repeat in the face of rising tensions and chagrin. There is something sublime in that quality of hopeless repetitiveness. Or maybe it's just fun to search for its 'limit point', as they say.
