Topic: Bitcoin Discussion - Corona Virus Spamming (Read 1025 times)

Same context but other problem which was better to be discussed elsewhere. However it is a habit in bitcointalk to have many topics discussing the same issue in the same sub or in different sections.
Halving, coronavirus, sudden price rise or drop, important events related to bitcoin... Members will discuss it, its relation to bitcoin, altcoins, adoption and price... Once you get used with it for years, it turns to be "normal", mods rarely interfere with it and they will be blamed if any action is done.

2 weeks ago we seen many spamming corona virus thread everywhere. But now we have many spam thread about Bitcoin halving
Most of them only give their own speculative, like "I think after 3rd halving bitcoin price will reach $50k, how about you?" or giving low value analysis.
Do we need to allowing more thread like this? 

• New ATH after halving?
• This is Why Halving will Boost up Bitcoin Price
• The Halvings impact on Bitcoins price
• BITCOIN HALVING 2020
• Bitcoin Price After 3rd Halving My Prediction
• Bitcoin Retraces Entire Crash, What's Next Heading Into The Halving?
• BTC value on halving
• BTC Halving about to make a major move?
• What is your expectations with bitcoin after halving..?
• No Suddenly price Change after Bitcoin Halving
• What this Bitcoin halving bring? Does the Bitcoin price go up or down?
• Bitcoin Halving 2020 and Altcoins
• Are you ready for the Halving Not that Halving, the PRICE Halving of Bitcoin

*I prefer to post in this thread than create a new topic, sorry if I'm wrong

This is absolutely unacceptable mostly members have been tired to read these kind of threads again and again and yes I strongly agree with your point we don't need these kind of mindless threads I hope our responsible moderators will take strong action to stop further spamming.

This is just a sign, that this Virus is even affecting the Forum Viruses✌️😂,... They just can't keep quiet about a thing who has more attention than them.

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Oh and hey, I think we can see this CoVid Topics in every Local Board not just in that Bitcoin Discussion

It's a global issues, it's everywhere because it's that serious The harms and effects of Corona are really worrying, we are witnessing the worst disease in human history. Actually, we can prevent covid-19 by staying in home. Also we can give more than enough time to discuss about the current crypto market or bitcoin price. Not only bitcoin discussion, even the active gambling sections ANN threads are also filled up corona discussion.

Not only bitcoin discussion, even the active gambling sections ANN threads are also filled up corona discussion. For example a sporting event is cancelled and we see a lot of comments that it is postponed due to coroanavirus and it is for the safety of the players and blah blah.

Just like the whole TV media and social media is filled with coronavirus, so we find nothing different on this forum too.  

I am counting now 3 related topics to coronavirus in the first page in Meta. Even this sub is contaminated 
I believe mods/admins are aware of this and since it is a temporary thing i doubt an action will be taken unless it becomes more and more problematic.
As I said before even if a megathread for covid will be created, this will not force people to not talking about its effects on the markets, bitcoin price...inside general topics. Such action will just reduce the number of topics not posts

I agree, it's becoming as contagious as Corona itself. Oh noes

Just kidding, OP your call!

Just personal opinion, but I think this topic should also be locked  This topic has been viewed more than 500 times and lots of comments. Most agree with the OP's opinion. I think LFC_Bitcoin got what he needed. @LFC_Bitcoin, can you review and lock it before it becomes another spam topic? 

It's clear that even threads like this one complaining about coronavirus topics are getting derailed with trollposts, and I'm not helping by bumping this to the front page. The least experienced members can do to keep things quiet is to stop creating threads resenting the influx of threads about [TOPIC]. TECSHARE already has a megathread about coronavirus in P&S https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/coronavirus-outbreak-5220206, just post there and ignore all the others.

The topics are creates to just discuss about the virus as it's being done on social media/internet in general. Other section are also experiencing this and we hope to see the topic go off once it's over.

The only thing we should be concerned about is plagiarism. Users should be banned if they plagiarize other people's content and post here.

Thank you for that news.
Then, we will call it as a Chinese hantavirus, as the ex-standards for virus and disease name-calling before some changes a few years ago (that does not allow or avoid to use location, nation to name viruses and diseases. Personally, I don't have any issues with ex-name-calling method. It help us instantly to know where they originally started. In the other words, I support the name-calling from Mr. Trump.

Chinese coronavirus and Chinese hanta virus.

I read some news about it yesterday. Many peple worry that they may break out into pandemics. Others think this is a big purge on mankind  It also started from China 

The image is just for fun, but who knows what happens next 

I think you should check out about new hantaviruse as your hope could blew off !

All you want to know about hantavirus that killed a man in China this week

Do you know where to get figures for total number of tests have been made in the USA. ?

Trump tweeted that the USA. have tested (within one week) more than what South Korea did within 3 - 4 weeks. I believe it but I am curious about the source of that data.

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Let's consider a good effects from the Corona Virus Spamming epidemic on the forum. How I call it as a good thing. Many of them will end with plagiarism and the forum will be cleaner with less spammers.

For the others who don't plagiarise, they will stop it when the pandemic is contained globally. That is not too far from now. Depends on each nation, from epidemic peak, it takes around 1 month to stabilize and next 2 months to bring nearly all things back to normal. I guess about 4 to 6 months from now, the world will become safer and the Coronavirus spam epidemic on the forum will stop. Just my hope.

In the meantime, I am waiting to see more ban appeals from plagiarism.

   Just the top 7 states

This is all over the world it is the biggest news worldwide since the spanish flu of 1918-1919

Like it or not it is going to dominate the forum's news.  I doubt it will be restricted .


I did USA because I live in New Jersey and most of my family is in New York.

I started a thread about a week ago.

From my opinion , these are the covidiot (covid+idiot). They are just trying to make the forum full of spamming and also try to create panic among the users about bitcoin's price fall. Actually, we can prevent covid-19 by staying in home. Also we can give more than enough time to discuss about the current crypto market or bitcoin price. But, these covidiots are showing their stupidity.
At last , i only want to say that it's my own opnion .It's can be vary from persion to persion of their own thinkings.

Such negative personality. Can't even respond back with own shield. You have to use theymos all the time.

Stop being irrelevant, then we will speak about rules which are irrelevant.

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You both are alts of each other or What!!

Going off-line at the same time, coming on-line at the same time and one copies shit of others.

Anyways .  .

Ignoring you too.

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I responded with what I had to speak. Stop being judgemental.

Want to hear my opinion? Fine...
You are a idiot no more no less 
This forum is a forum dedicated to Bitcoin, it is not a goddamn place for you to discuss social security issues, education, epidemics,... What the hell is the disease affecting or involving Bitcoin? Stop giving your bullshit comments in topics  Get out of here and find a public place to talk about Covid-19
Well, you're not stupid with this saying, huh?

You are an idiot. Theymos can ban you for being an idiot completely arbitrarily, at any time. Actually, you do not even have to be an idiot. He can ban you for the sake of banning you. Rules are irrelevant.

Stop copying me. 

Oh Stop it @Lauda! You are more or less hitler of the forum and you can't just blame everyone that comes your way.


And you Sir\Madam, you speak for yourself or Luada !

Do you even have your own opinion?

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@Lauda

Anyone can register and post, basically its publicly open.

No you can't ban as long as its completely against forum rules.

Opening multiple threads on same topic is big problem on this forum, and this is especially evident in some boards that are marked as spam boards. Given the current situation, it is logical that COVID-19 is a hot topic throughout the forum, but I suggest that the moderators leave only one thread in each board, based on the one that was first started. Alternatively everything can be combined into one topic and moved to an off-topic, which will only temporarily resolve the situation, because in a few days everything will look like it did before.

The situation is somewhat better in Serious discussion regarding the virus, but only because the signatures are not displayed there.

Wuttttttttttt this question... Oh my God   he will answer like this, I was just presenting my personal opinion, what the hell is going on? I only have one account and I don't spam
Nobody will answer the truth  

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Or he just posts once and never comes back here 

FTFY. How many accounts are you spamming with making it worth to spread lies like this?

This is a public forum and you can't just ban them from posting about Covid-19.

It is but obvious that people gonna put more topics regarding it as we are under lockdown and we have nothing on our mind.

However,

The only solution I see here is to make rules more stringent against what to be posted and where!

Tell the moderators to PIN a topic regarding Covid-19 stating that the topics will be removed if they are not worthy OR it is duty of OP to create self-moderated topic so that they can control whats being posted.

It will surely prohibit shitposting.

You've missed one 

The title might not be with corona but it's still about it.

Now, nothing is going to stop this flood of topics, not until the whole madness with the virus stops. It's the same during a bull run, we're spammed with hundreds of topics where will the moon be, during a crash, is bitcoin dead? but this thing is on a another level.
The whole world is looking at this, it is normal that the are people who feel the need to open a topics to try and make their voice heard.

Just as it's normal around here for all those topics to be full of spammers 
Two choices, report, and if report isn't working, ignore!


What's that, covered in covids? 

I don't know about the others threads but the first one marked in the OP is legit.
Calling the Bitcoin community to help battle COVID-19 is self moderated and the OP really keeps it clean, already 9 spam posts deleted.
The thread has a real purpose of helping scientists to solve medical problems using CPU power of everyone who is willing to help.

I agree that the covid-19 is a perfect excuse for the spammers to generate shitposts.

If someone finds a thread that is not useful and has the potential to cause a lot of spam posts, report it to the moderator to follow up. Is not this action we already know together and with this we can try to make the forum more conducive and clean of threads and spam posts.

Some other users might ignore the thread by not participating in posting so the thread wont appear. I believe this is the right solution and we as users should try to make this forum a good place for discussion and it all starts with ourselves before we apply it to others.

Of course, panic is everywhere and we all want to find the best solution and some of them dont care about the effects that will occur in the forum. It is a mistake if we let them continue to make something that is not useful both in the form of threads and posts. Report to moderator and ignore threads and I am sure this will be more useful and useful than we also contribute to threads.

try visiting the Economics section and speculation also suffered a worse fate than the Bitcoin Discussion.

Economics: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=7.0

speculation: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=57.0



I don't think the discussion part of Bitcoin is just attacked by the corona virus topic, almost evenly throughout the BitCointalk forums.

I think we can call them viruses of viruses. The harms and effects of Corona are really worrying, we are witnessing the worst disease in human history. But instead of acting, they took advantage of its influences to create meaningless topics, not just for Corona. Whenever a big event happens, a bunch of bullshit topic will be created there. It is like the viruses are sabotaging this forum  I was no longer interested in the Bitcoin Discussion section, 90% of the topics were trash.

This is similar to our local section as it is becoming polluted with multiple Corona Virus threads that is being created once there is a big news locally and or internationally. I also can't blame these people who are trying to rationalize their opinion about Corona Virus because most of the people here are being affected globally. Here's a what our local section do..

One of the Filipino local member sent a message to our moderator to create a mega thread that tackles every issues and news about corona virus to decrease redundant topics that is being created. The goal here is to decrease similar threads but not necessarily prohibit of creating another thread. Or maybe after creating a Covid - 19 megathead, locking newly created similar threads would be very appropriate  

Also some of the threads are worth reading just to waste my time since I don't have anything else to do...and our country is currently in a lockdown.

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[1] [MEGATHREAD] Pilipinas Coronavirus/COVID-19 Thread

It's a global issues, it's everywhere because it's that serious. Even most of the intelligent peoples around the world would be most probably discussing about COVID-19 and it's impact. I don't find any other issues to be more risky for me, not even red tags, so loads of threads are acceptable IMO.

the entire internet is being "spammed" with topics about Corona virus it is not just bitcointalk. every other forum you visit, you will see numerous topics about this subject. if it were any other way then it would have been understandable to single bitcointalk out. additionally when considering the fact that many believe the recent bitcoin price drop (which was huge) is related to Corona virus in one way or another, it is understandable to see so many people talking about it.

I'm luckily not on that list but I feel my thread in P&S was called for at the time, I had a quick look and couldn't find anything similar on the front page and I wanted to inform and have a discussion.

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EUROPE are facing huge problems with this virus at least, it's understandable to see the amounts of threads. I'd offer a suggestion to tackle this be that we have threads at the top of each section for coronavirus discussion, we could even link them all as pinned threads (for now) and have them all redirect to a topic in off topic or politics and society (and without sigs and avatars being shown).

Everyone seems quite worried throughout the whole of western europe at least to the implications of this virus and its effect on daily lives with most firms being forced to close and compensated/lent resources interest free for the time they're shut. A lot of people are confused at to what they should be doing and want to try to vent in these times or find something even remotely productive for them to do.

And for most threads that are deleted, there's going to be some angry mob on meta going "my post got deleted what can I do?" and if that's not more annoying than coronavirus discussion (which quite frankly I've ignored most of the other topics and can't really understand why you guys can't) then this really got out of hand fast...

This isn't a normal circumstance, go away and come back in 2 weeks if it botheres you so much otherwise just leave people to try to rationalise what they want to.

Those topics should be moved to offtopic or trash.
I also noticed several suspicious topics asking for crypto payments, miracle fake anti-virus herbs, apps with fake covid tracking, virus shitcoins... all junk

  Fact) Most posts on bitcointalk are made to earn coin via signature campaigns.


So  for the first time in all of our live's  there is a true world wide issue. Just like BTC  this virus does not give a fuck about borders.

And people  in this thread want to ban postng on it.

No just ban signatures for the next 2 weeks.

 The bullshit earn money for a signature  posts go by by.

I for one have zero issues  with the corona-v posts  even the end of the world whack a doodle ones are fine by me.

I vote for a 2 week signature lock down.

The reason is simple and obvious. Most of those people do not care about discussing the actual subject. It is merit farming and sig. campaign spam.

There are 14 topics in "Bitcoin discussion" 17 in "Economics"
Pretty boring, it's so repetitive, worse than when the Merits system was added.

They're turning the boards to "Epidemiology discussions". While it can have relations with the worldwide economy etc I don't see the need to create endless numbers of topics with COVID-19, at least it's better to have only 1 topic about it and we can all discuss in. The forum is being COVIDed

Merge all topics in 1 or trash all the latest to keep 1...
 don't know

99.9% Coronavirus trends every place where people involved, I don't think its a spamming as you all know this is just period which passes even if we don't know until when, but we can't ignore how different economy affected by the virus and those people try to look that in a different perspective if it affects Bitcoin or not the trends are not only in bitcointalk every news worldwide and forums, the trends are even in the heads of people and every class.
Every time when some issue passes involve in economy  mostly touch Crypto and those period topics about the issue prevail.


Many of you says shitpost yours at high Rank which means some your here for a long time which I believe you saw things like this. Although I agree with you it's too much  saying About CoronaVirus

Lots of shitposts and shitthreads around it of course, but there are aspects of it that'll impact BTC in a big way so it can be a relevant subject. The economic moves that are happening feel like they've been written by Satoshi.

I'd move some to economics, bin plenty of course and the rest to politics and society.

The Covid19 is a major world issue right now affecting nearly every single person right now. I suspect that over half the world population is on some kind of lockdown or restrictions because of Covid19.

I think I would suspect many threads about this topic to appear both in P&S and elsewhere (that are correctly posted).

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I do wish that more would be done to fight the misinformation about Covid19. Perhaps the forum could donate an ad spot to a link to an authoritative source about good information.

Why is very often the proposed solution to a problem here indulge the offenders?

Or even create a temporary COVID-19 sub section & all the crap can go in there. I love bitcoin, it’s made my life. I’m very passionate about it & this forum. It’s upsetting to see all the crap spewed all over Bitcoin Discussion (which incidentally, is supposed to be the most important & informative part of this place).

Remove the threads and ban the authors.

This is how Politics & Society looks like.



Can't we merge all these threads from Bitcoin Discussion and Politics & Society into three or four meaningful threads in the Politics & Society-Section? Even the Gambling-Section gets massively spammed with Covid-19 discussions, which mostly have nothing to do with Gambling itself or the threads posted there.

Those are all indeed shit-threads, but they're mostly on topic.  I don't know if there's really anything you can do about them.  You can try reporting them, but I have a feeling they won't be deleted.

What gets me is the seasoned members starting threads with a OP like the one below, when they could have just added that bit of useless information to the shit-tonne of other threads about Covid.


ETA: good to see you back off restriction, LFC.

No, sending them straight to trashcan would be better. P&S is already overrun with every virus topic imaginable plus the usual conspiratards working overtime derailing other threads.

Agreed with overall sentiment but Covid-19 affecting EVERY THING and people are very diverse due to their posting habit so its makes sense in some extent though. We can call it shit posting or whatever we want but no one can't do much about it atm.

hm yes it's everywhere I also would not like to see this threads 

I just had a little look in the well known spam/shitposting part of the forum, aia Bitcoin Discussion.
This is what I discovered on page 1 (There are currently, as I type this 8 threads on pate 1 with Corona Virus in the subject title) -



Do we really need to keep allowing mindless threads about COVID-19?

It gets even worse when you read all the shitposts inside the thread.

Any chance we can merge them all & shove them in Politics & Society? - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=34.0

They’re all boring & don’t provide any positives to actual Bitcoin Discussion.