Whether you invest in altcoins or not, there are legitimate discussions going on in the altcoin section, which are sometimes very high quality. It's just that because of it being one of the most popular sections, it comes with the territory that there's a lot of spam there too. We must remove thousands of posts a day in that section.
The statistics on the OP are largely inflated due to the activity in announcements threads, they seem to be absolutely full with artificial comments, or when a project has caught the eyes of many, actually has some decent conversations. I must admit though, a lot of projects seem to look to artificially increase the hype of their project via bumping services, which also play a part in these statistics since there are thousands of accounts which partake in it.
Thank you for the input, I appreciate it. I've always loved this forum, with its warts and all--even when the shitposters and trolls were seemingly running the place. Maybe I posted more because I kinda-sorta bonded with members like Vod, Lauda, Jet Cash, TMAN, and probably a few others who've disappeared. And yeah, I did participate in a lot of the drama threads. Sometimes they could be fun, depending on how serious the drama was. There hasn't been any real tension going on that I know of in quite some time, and often that sparks up some great threads.
Yeah, that's another thing. Users do tend to slot in with other users, and once some of those users go it can effect the whole group. However, I think drama has definitely caused quite a few of our users, some definitely high quality to leave prematurely.
I haven't visited the altcoin section in a while, and I probably should since I have an interest in some of them. The section is just so damn spammy, though. Everytime I click away from it I feel like I have to rinse my eyes out. There are definitely some good threads that get started, but more often than not they're quickly overrun with shitposters. That said, the last time I noticed that was maybe a year ago. Have things changed much?
There's at least a collective effort going on to try, and clean up that section. It has gotten slightly better with the implementation of the bumping changes, and by that I don't mean that magically projects have stopped trying to artificially inflate their threads with fake conversations, but at least they aren't rewarded as much for it these days, and therefore when they do this sort of thing, less users actually see it.
