LOL    ... is it joke?

Many thousand players attract in HYIP-sites.
You can check it easy - just look at monitors:

http://www.hyipexplorer.com/
http://www.alexnews.biz/
http://www.goldpoll.net/
http://www.davidnews.com/
...
and so on (more than +200 monitors)

Example - https://forexking.biz/?a=rateus

Main error in your logic... you come into HYIP section and begins write about scam in all sites. It is stupid. All know about risks in HYIP projects. It is all a game.

You are BIG and FAT trololo 

Vas

As you know by now I think your opinions of this thread are worth as much as the toilet paper I use on my ass. As I am sure many others feel the same.
But you are entitled to your opinion. This thread will continue. And yes I realize there are many other outlets on the internet that post similar stuff.
Thanks for the links. We can now advise others to stay away from the links you so choose to advertise in here.

That is true, but you will only lose out on gambling, but you don't see people telling everyone to stay away from casinos, do you?

Or to help them make informed investments with high risks...

See, this person understands that their first instincts about a site may be wrong, and makes an effort to point that out before accusing them of being scams.

But are you going to put them on the list, or are cloud mining sites exempt?

Honestly I'v got dizzy looking at the long list of x/double sites in the list, If you could remove them all since they all say the same thing which is to give us your moneyz and we will double it in no time(thus easily could own the entire world's economy within 1 year if that was true).
About cloud mining I figured most of the members lost their money in past by something everyone believed in to be honest and legit?
But as I did some research and came to the fact that if one is not a scam and thief the only way they could run a profitable cloud mining is to  attract double investment of what they could have on their own in total, and of course to put at least 40% of the funds in solar energy.

And if there is a big enough company to be able to handle huge workload and already has access to cheap energy, then why not take advantage and partner with outside investors and take a percentage off then return the rest as profit.

How ever I think it's a matter of opinion whether that company going to stay legit and do as I said above or after they got big get greedy and run off.
For those who say if it was profitable why would they rent hash power? and why not keep it to themselves?
Well I guess they do but they have limits as they mine and sell the coins they can increase their power little by little so if some people could lend a hand and put money then they could be more earn more.
Cloud mining is more like a loan, you lend your money and earn some% profit and of course they are making and earning more profit than you with your money, but if you don't have experience and money is not much to start a business, then you could be happy with that small profit it's only matter of trust.