Also, I think there should be a bit more diversity on some boards, and a bit less on others. Bitcoin discussions is one that could benefit from a bit more interest in Bitcoin as a project, and not as a free money faucet. Mining is one that could do with some attention as well. It seems to be elitist, and not newbie ( to mining ) friendly. I've made a few attempts to learn about mining as an educational exercise, and not for income, and the threads were deleted. I appreciate that discussions on setting up 1,000 ASICs on a solar farm is interesting, but it is a bit out of my income and ability ranges at the moment. Also, the mining board should come out of its cellar, and help us to understand the changes that are happening at the moment - the BCH tax on mining rewards for example, and the proposal for mining pools to allow members to select the use of blocks that they find. With China controlling over 50% of the hash rate, this change could be significant to preserve decentralisation.
Yeah I agree with your take on mining section. I like frodocooper and he is a very hard working mod.
But He deletes a lot I get at least 1 or 2 deletes a week on the mining section. ( I post 50 posts a week in that section. I am guessing it is 50 a week.)
Once in a while I will pm him and argue my point.
But yeah it is a very tightly modded section.
I think under 50 different people post there in a week.
Not that there should be 1000 different people but more then 50.
I lot of regulars can be discouraging in that section.
I used to post a lot in altcoin mining section
but it is kind of dead now.
nine threads from 2016 to 2020 just over 600,000 views in total
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/number-9-ninth-altcoin-thread-back-to-the-moon-baby-5144362 thread 9 14,000 plus
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/8th-alt-coin-thread-or-what-to-do-now-that-asics-are-all-over-the-place-3843565 thread 8 81,000
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/happy-new-years-seventh-alt-coin-thread-2674194 thread 7 33,000
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/sixth-alt-coin-thread-i-forgot-to-mod-last-thread-2138550 thread 6 79,000
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/fifth-alt-coin-thread-last-four-got-too-big-2019146 thread 5 46,000
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/fourth-alt-coin-thread-last-three-got-oversized-1877588 thread 4 108,000
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/third-alt-coin-thread-last-two-were-too-big-builds-links-thoughts-etc-1799555 thread 3 41,000
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/my-second-zec-xmr-eth-thread-builds-info-links-thoughts-and-photos-1584973 thread 2 147,000
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/my-1-gpu-now-11gpus-5rigs-for-ethereum-45-days-of-mining-photos-thoughts-1429151 thread 1 50,000
So if a guy does just this above and earns a lot of merits helping a lot of people get into mining and he only does this just this we need to help him not say you are not diverse.
Those threads are pretty cool a lot of info and history in them.