The gold standard was a success in the sense that the price of gold stayed constant because that's what the whole system was designed to do.

金本位制度是一个成功,因为金子的价值保持不变，并且这也是,人们当初对这设计整个系统的意图所在。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Still, what one could say about this system was that it took the global supply of money out of the hands of central bankers and politicians (as long as the system stayed in place).

FORBES: Connect

But what appears to have happened is a few rogue agents stayed in the system and managed to hack their way to 77 million PSN members personal information, including birthdays, addresses, emails, phone numbers and possibly credit cards.

FORBES: In an Effort to Protect Itself, Sony Fails to Guard its Customers

Those who stayed with the current system would receive their promised benefits.

FORBES: Fact and Comment