Hopefully, if mods would see more users reporting such posts, they won't leave them unhandled anymore. I have a few hundreds of such reports left unhandled forever, as they were reported more than 30 days ago and I can't see them anymore. And, as far as I know, mods don't see them anymore as well if they were reported more than 30 days ago.
+1
At best, examples provided be @Coolcryptovator should be seen as low value posts, and imho, should be dealt accordingly, and in this came it means deleting such posts. No personal comment on topic, just c/p pieces of articles. All we need is army of newbies sharing articles and getting away with it. Who knows, maybe then we would see some change.
As far as I see, mods take action when such shillings (spam) are done by low ranked members, but tend to tolerate the posts made by users with higher ranks, although I don't understand why.
Well that sucks if that's really the case. You would expect something like that from newbies, but higher ranking member should know better. Low value post is low value, no matter who wrote it, or in this case copied.
I think its time to add a new rule to the signature campaigns, like when someone wants to add an article or any other news content should be included inside tags
[quote]....... article or anything which taken from other websites....[/quote]
so it won't be counted towards the number of characters needed for that post to become eligible.
This rule should be introduced not just for signature campaigns, but for posting in general. Verbatim copying should be inside quotation marks, since bitcointalk has very strict stance towards plagiarism, and that is generally seen as such (not here though).
Wrong, if someone isn't breaking forum rules somehow then moderators will not take any action. It doesn't matter if a thousand user reports against him, still report will be unhandled.
Rule nr 1
1. No zero or low value, pointless or uninteresting posts or threads.
What's the value of the post if you just copy everything, without providing any personal comment? That way I can share news about just about anything, without knowing squat about the subject.
