Topic: Can we have newbie jail back, please? - page 2. (Read 3669 times)
Imo the Beginners & Help board would just become a cesspool and legit newcomers might be thrown away.
it would be good if newbie jail would be until
he moves to jr.member then no spaming would be made!
he moves to jr.member then no spaming would be made!
I think he is trolling, not spamming,
But the newbie jail would also keep trolls at bay, so it is indifferent.
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Would anyone like to necro my, "Should newbs and Jr. members be barred from creating ALT ANN threads ?", thread/poll ?
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/new-poll-should-newbs-and-jr-members-be-barred-from-creating-alt-ann-threads-627917
I necro'd it for you... let's stop this madness. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/new-poll-should-newbs-and-jr-members-be-barred-from-creating-alt-ann-threads-627917
Would anyone like to necro my, "Should newbs and Jr. members be barred from creating ALT ANN threads ?", thread/poll ?
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/new-poll-should-newbs-and-jr-members-be-barred-from-creating-alt-ann-threads-627917
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/new-poll-should-newbs-and-jr-members-be-barred-from-creating-alt-ann-threads-627917
Oh thanks for reminding me , I've voted. Maybe we will see these changes in the new forum software.
Would anyone like to necro my, "Should newbs and Jr. members be barred from creating ALT ANN threads ?", thread/poll ?
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/new-poll-should-newbs-and-jr-members-be-barred-from-creating-alt-ann-threads-627917
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/new-poll-should-newbs-and-jr-members-be-barred-from-creating-alt-ann-threads-627917
Another account by him https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--882034
Can you make a poll on this, I believe it will get more attention with a nice ol fashioned poll... 
On some other foruming sites, I didn't bother making an account since I'd have to post ~50 times or however specified before I could access a lot of the subforums.
The difference here is access. There are some forums in which the information is kept private so you can't even read it unless you sign up (and others are even worse by showing only partial OP contents so they show up on web searches but nothing else). I don't bother signing up in those either, go to hell with your draconian rules, however bitcointalk is public and browseable without having an account. Then if you want to chime in, it's ok to have to jump a couple of hoops.
Mm. That seems reasonable; I guess it'd just be a matter of determining the difficulty of such hoops
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Another account by him https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--882034
I really agree.. have requirements to browse the forum a X amount of time before being able to post. This forum could really need this, I've seen a substantial increase in newbie troll or bump accounts as of lately. They are inevitable but a thing like this would decrease the amount of them, and contribute to better content here.
That sol adoni,247news, 247poker guy is making several new accounts per day and spamming the forums. Please, do something about this.
Can't his IP be banned from creating new accounts?
Would be much easier than figuring out which accounts belong to him, and banning then one by one.
Most of his accounts were nuked, which does include an IP ban. He also created quite a few accounts when he first showed up, just banned a couple from June/July. IP bans don't affect already existing accounts.
Now he uses Tor. He's a plague on many forums, not just this one.
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Futile banning IPs as persistent people will just use tor or proxies if they wern't already. It's very unlikely he was just using one IP or his 'home' connection anyway and if he was it probably has been added to the blacklist already.
That sol adoni,247news, 247poker guy is making several new accounts per day and spamming the forums. Please, do something about this.
Can't his IP be banned from creating new accounts?
Would be much easier than figuring out which accounts belong to him, and banning then one by one.
On some other foruming sites, I didn't bother making an account since I'd have to post ~50 times or however specified before I could access a lot of the subforums.
The difference here is access. There are some forums in which the information is kept private so you can't even read it unless you sign up (and others are even worse by showing only partial OP contents so they show up on web searches but nothing else). I don't bother signing up in those either, go to hell with your draconian rules, however bitcointalk is public and browseable without having an account. Then if you want to chime in, it's ok to have to jump a couple of hoops.
I support bring the newbie jail back as well. It will annoy genuine new bitcoiner users a bit, but I believe it will bring more goods than bads to the whole forum.
I like this idea... Right now we have new accounts being made just so these scammers can bump\support their scam posts. Bringing back the noobie jail will help with this epidemic.
Stats for the 50% increase? I'm on the fence about whether it should be brought back and could go either way. One thing for sure is persistent trolls or spammers will just wait it out or bypass any precautions we put in place and it'll annoy and potentially scare off genuine users who just want to post valid stuff elsewhere. That being said, it is good as a quarantine for spambots etc and all beginners questions are at least forced to be there rather than in the wrong forum. I'm 50/50.
Yeah, I agree with this dude; it would decrease spammers, but for the genuine members, it could also act as a deterrent. On some other foruming sites, I didn't bother making an account since I'd have to post ~50 times or however specified before I could access a lot of the subforums.
Personally wasn't here when the newbie jail existed, but I don't think it's necessary. Does the staff do IP bans, or no (I understand it's easy to change IP addresses, but it still decreases the amount substantially).
Newbie jail wouldn't be a bad idea.
It kept me locked down in the beginning. I could only post like once every 45 seconds and was restricted to newbie section until I was online for a few hours. Gave me time to read topics I was interested in.
It kept me locked down in the beginning. I could only post like once every 45 seconds and was restricted to newbie section until I was online for a few hours. Gave me time to read topics I was interested in.
Yeah I think the same , we need it back at least for "obligate" the newbie to read the various rules topics.
Newbie jail wouldn't be a bad idea.
It kept me locked down in the beginning. I could only post like once every 45 seconds and was restricted to newbie section until I was online for a few hours. Gave me time to read topics I was interested in.
It kept me locked down in the beginning. I could only post like once every 45 seconds and was restricted to newbie section until I was online for a few hours. Gave me time to read topics I was interested in.
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