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Topic: Altcoin Discussion section can change name to Trash discussion - page 2. (Read 432 times)

copper member
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Most of the topics there need to be archived/locked or removed entirely. The discussion has long come to an end, but its easy for bounty participants to add a generic post in the thread, and get paid for it. The underlying issue is how easy it is to make an account, and start making money through bounties, because of the low standards of acceptance from altcoins.
It's nice to see you as a staff mate. Indeed, the problem is that bounty managers weren't professional. They accept spammers and don't really care about the quality. They only care about quantity. I think we've made progress since Lord Theymos approved this suggestion:

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• Enforce the sig campaign guidelines. If a campaign is spotted that is doing little to nothing and is abused en mass by spammers, farmers, bots and copy and pasters they are warned. If nothing changes then they are punished with such things as bans, threads trashed, signatures blacklisted site-wide etc.
sr. member
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The altcoin section has undoubtedly a ton of shit posting but there's a lot of legit discussion there too, you just have to find the good threads.
That's the annoying part about it. There is actual worthy discussion there, but it just gets labeled as a trash place, because quite frankly the majority of it is trash. Unfortunately, the amount of trash that is there stops most people from visiting the place, and contributing with good quality content. Therefore, we are just lumbered with low quality posts from low quality members.
Perception is the key word. So many people perceive that section as a junk. Yes to a great degree it is junk but that is the starting point for many people. Every new member who joins bitcointalk forum heads straight to the altcoins section. I see it as the training ground of bitcointalk forum.
staff
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Most of the topics there need to be archived/locked or removed entirely. The discussion has long come to an end, but its easy for bounty participants to add a generic post in the thread, and get paid for it. The underlying issue is how easy it is to make an account, and start making money through bounties, because of the low standards of acceptance from altcoins.
hero member
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It wasn't this bad last year, probably because the market was in a huge bull run, and people actually had promising news and realistic speculation to talk about.  Nowadays everything is in the red and people are just scrambling for the scraps. I wouldn't expect that section to improve until the market does, it seems that they go hand in hand.
legendary
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It was shitty year or two ago, but now it's indeed trash discussion. Now it's almost impossible to find real conversations there. Pretty much same situation on Bitcoin Discussion board and Economics. It's full of generic shitposts made by signature spammers and bots. And it's getting worse and worse day by day. Worst part of it that mods don't have power to change something here. And according to last post of theymos, there will be no significant changes in near future - it seams that he don't want to add suggested restrictions which may help to increase quality of posts in these boards.
hero member
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Can say the same on boards: Bitcoin Discussion, Trading discussion and sometimes Economics. We can discuss on bitcoin/altcoins when there is something new but here threads are created everyday, also old threads are bumped everytime. Trading discussion isn't wide but here is the same situation again. Aim is to just grow number of their posts.
To my mind best indicator of spam thread is not only title but replies to view ratio too.
staff
Activity: 3276
Merit: 4111
The altcoin section has undoubtedly a ton of shit posting but there's a lot of legit discussion there too, you just have to find the good threads.
That's the annoying part about it. There is actual worthy discussion there, but it just gets labeled as a trash place, because quite frankly the majority of it is trash. Unfortunately, the amount of trash that is there stops most people from visiting the place, and contributing with good quality content. Therefore, we are just lumbered with low quality posts from low quality members.
legendary
Activity: 1372
Merit: 1252
The altcoin section has undoubtedly a ton of shit posting but there's a lot of legit discussion there too, you just have to find the good threads. Part of the charm of that section is that you must really go deep in the tons of trash looking for gold, and sometimes you find some people actually talking something of value, even actual devs talking about their projects. It's not fair to call the entire thing trash tho.

This meta section has tons of people trying to recover their account due the massive backlog of unrecovered ones, it's literally filled with it, so similarly, you must search for threads that aren't the same thing a million times. Theymos said that he will fix it soon with an automated recovery system, so that should fix the meta section.

I wouldn't even waste time trying to moderate the altcoin section, this is a bitcoin forum after all. Just keep searching for the good content out there.
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What to do with topics like these, report to a moderator?
Yes, report to the moderator or you can cooperate with [CLUB]The SpamBuster
member
Activity: 336
Merit: 71
I doubt there's much you can really do to fix it without just downright over moderation.  All topics will be created again with a different title and spammed with the same responses.  Merit may limit the ranks you get but people will still have to spam their 10-20 posts a week to meet their signature requirements.  It's a battle lost long ago really.
sr. member
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Merit: 422
Yeah, there are cascades of spam posts in several discussion threads, where spam posters are copying spam/shitposts from other spammers several pages before.

Just look at patrol. An army of newbie and jr. member accounts spinning posts and articles, the result is nonsense gibberish.

Thats bountytalk, not bitcointalk.
legendary
Activity: 3248
Merit: 3098
I looked at this section and there are 99% topics/posts repetitive, and people talking about "nothing". if the idea is to be spammers separate there It may be understandable.
Threads like:
Signature Campaign
Bounties
what alt coins worth the invest?
Which is the best Cryptocurrency to invest 2018?
Doing 2 or more ICO facebook campaign?

All of them have tons similar replies I doubt it was anyone reading this.
What to do with topics like these, report to a moderator?
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