Topic: A solution to the crapcoin announcements - page 4. (Read 3154 times)

Announcements that would be removed, therefore cleaning up the subforum.  That's the key.  Go ahead and announce your intent to release the coin.  But that original post will contain no links to binaries or code, pools, or secondary sources of info.  Just a "this is what this coin is all about" and a poll on whether it should be released in this forum.  Go ahead and let it be friend to friend to friend info passing through PM.  At least this subforum won't be a breeding ground for crap.

Like I said, something needs to happen.  Enough of us are getting tired of it... so let's do something about it.

Oh nice, now we can tell you all about all the coins we are NOT launching(*), all the ones that we didn't want to clutter up the forum with...

An additional benefit of all these coins is there are no orphans, because the miners who have been mining them, having heard about them person to person in a friend to friend fashion that avoids spamming the forum, have already brought their difficulties up to a nice stable level where orphans are rare...



(*) Not launching because we already launched them, we just were politely not cluttering up the forum with launch announcements about them...

-MarkM-

There's enough smart mods here to come up with a system to make this happen.  I know Salty mentioned not implementing something like this in his "Declutter Solutions" post, but this is getting ridiculous and hurting the overall status of crypto.  We were starting to get to the point where we were starting to be taken seriously.  Now we have people wanting to mine vaginacoins, ffs.

There was an "official alt-coin forum" made for all this.  I'd be happy if people just posted there, but lets be honest... Bitcointalk is the holy mecca of crypto.

I think this is a bad idea. Bunch of people gang up on a coin they don't like for one reason or another and it gets chucked.

How about posting them here: https://forum.litecoin.net/

Please!

An intent to release is posted in this forum with a poll in place.  If by the end of a specified period of time it gets a majority vote, it is allowed to have a place in the forum.  If it doesn't the post is deleted by a mod and any future posts regarding it's release are swept under the rug.  At least that way we can clean this subforum up a little.

I would be open to other suggestions on how it could work, but that's just the quick thought I had right now in my head.

Hello I am going to release BOO-COIN    So, I shall describe everything here and everyone can vote on whether I announce it.... but isn't that the same as announcing it?   

Voted on where?  The mods of this forum have already stated that they will not be adding any new sub-forums of Als, because this forum is for Bitcoin, not the offshoots.  If the votes are not posted here, where would they reside?

I'm not disagreeing with your intent, by the way...

Let's face it.  These damn fly-by-night new coin announcements are annoying as shit.  Not only are they crudding up the forums with spam and additional scammers, but they're hurting the overall cryptocoin ecosystem.  There are a lot of people that say, "but this coin does this different" or "it should stop after coin x, because the rest are shite."  I'm not going to lie, I mined some of them.  FC2 because it was the first time I was able to solo mine something and get full blocks.  I mined YAC too, and I think it's got something going for it, but not to the point where I'm dropping money on it.  But now there's vaginacoins and (insert country name here) coins, and fastcoins, and slowcoins, and who-gives-a-shit coins.  It's getting ridiculous.  We need to stop it.  So here's my proposal...

All new coins need to be voted on before they're allowed to be announced or released on this forum.  Whether that be by poll, or by a group of mods/cryptocoin leaders that are well respected and trusted.  If it gets a majority vote, it can be announced.  If it fails, it doesn't get the time of day in the forums.  If people try to post anyway, the post is deleted by a mod.  Fuck em.

I used to like hanging out in this subforum because I learned a lot about LTC and such.  Now I don't even want to look in here because of the 8,000 new coins posted everyday.

There are enough people here that are seriously getting tired of it.  So stand up and do something about it.