Topic: Do not post off-topic replies - page 5. (Read 262783 times)

I agree. Do not post off topic because on the first place, this website created to give personal opinion about the topic or answer the question ask. Posting off topic may cause like the page is like a game. If many of us post off topic its become meaningless.

Dear admin ....
please release my banned my account .. my name account Reza16...
im really dont know off topic ...
please give me this time only .. Please

You' re absolutely right Sir.  I will be with you and I report this kind of things.

I think there are too many of them to get rid of them, but if everyone would do what you ask then who knows we could get rid of this problem forever.

indeed why is it ,, is there any effect besides if sending through the topic or really not be allowed.

I very much agree with you, it's time to fight with spammers and such kind of people, clog the airs make a discussion of a serious topic in the farce.

I just want to ask, what if you see the off topic reply and your reply it but your reply is connected on the topic what happen if dev removed the said off topic you post will removed too?

uhh what ? LOL

How about people stick to their sections ?
If you don't know English how about STFU ?

And off topic ? Gimme a bloody break 
That section is worthless garbage and should be deleted.
Account farming scumbags have raped it beyond comprehension.

Check out this crap.. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/is-really-life-is-beautiful-2007985

It's a spam fest and i don't know why staff are tolerating it.
They added a sticky and it improved slightly for a bit then they went right back to it.

Yeah I agree, I have post that been deleted 2 times. But now I've learned a lesson so I check my replies before posting it. More power to the founder, staffs, and devs of this site. Hoping for long business with you.

it is true that this forum does  not accept off-topic replies if you do so then it may be you are excluded from this forum without any information. so we sugest you that never give any chance for exclusion.

perfect, there are far too many forum posters and members on here that believe that being on an internet forum for a few years makes them something special.  off topic replies and posts is the topic of this thread and the OP CLEARLY states that every reply should contain some portion that is on topic(as per the OP) and that all others would be deleted.  Your reply here has violated that very protocol and the post was not deleted.  this is because there is simply not enough time for the mods to get every one.  self moderation on some of my threads gives me the ability to delete posts of members that think an internet forum rank based on nothing more than time and typing giver them the right to break rules.  

if you wrote the posts and you can only state that they are "somehow" related to the topic, then something is wrong, and, in addition to that if you do not like the choices the mods here make, then you should start your own forum and apply whatever rule set you want to your membership

Dear author, my two posts were deleted and the reason that is given below is a template and nothing mre. I don't think that the posts were supposed to be deleted, they were somehow connected to topic.

If you start a self-moderated thread, I (and many others) will not post in it.
If the moderators questionably delete any of my posts, I can at least appeal against it in Meta.
In a self-moderated thread, I wouldn't even have that option.

One thing to anyone that starts a thread here on the forum.

Make sure that you always mark the self-moderated box on any thread that you start.  Make sure that you watch your own thread and try to take part in it.

Many times the subject starts off as one thing and nature guides the thread into another subject that takes over and continues.  There are open threads on here about exchanges that closed 3 years ago and I still see them pop up.  That is because the subject went from that bad exchange into scamming and stealing and security and such and is still getting posts based on that last reply. 

If you self-moderate the thread, you have the ability to close it at anytime.  If you do not, that means the admins have to close it and there are way too many threads here to track and read them all.  If the subject wanders off-topic and stays there, post and let everyone know that you are going to open a new thread based on the new topic and because the OP has gotten lost in the thread, give them 24 hours notice.  Be nice, this is not you playing God, it is you guiding the forum users to a new thread that is titled more subject appropriate. Come back the next day, start the new thread, title it to make the new subject, tick the self-moderated box, and post the link as the last post in your old thread.  Read back to your announcement and make sure no one protested what you were doing and then, close the old thread. 

Also, if there is a single person posting off-topic and the rest are on-topic, you can delete their posts from a thread.  This is not a license to remove those comments that you do not like from the thread because you dislike the person or the comments are against your service or subject.  If you are selling a service/product/coin, it is a real important thing to show your people how you handled a client/complaint.  They all saw the reply before you deleted it and that is a bad way to show your business ethics.

Is this to define as silencing if staff members allow offtopic and delete ontopic?

It seems like if definition of on/offtopic varies from user to user, there is no specific definition of what is offtopic and if you suggest splitting sentences into posts to void confusion, you will get even more bytes used by this forum and number of posts will grow, of course if you dont ban every user before.

What is offtopic and if it is forbidden why do I see it everywhere?

. You can reply to threads in off-topic, just not with off topic replies IE discussing music in a thread about apples.

why should i not reoly in off topic

Trolls are becoming a huge problem throughout the forum for unknown reasons to me so far; maybe we're just sitting ducks. I'd propose the newbie jail v.2.0 where 3 older members could bring someone out by voting. If the new member has 0 posts, he won't be allowed into the main forum. If he's a troll we will know it sooner than he posts japanese naked men and homo pictures into a 14000 long page thread.

Quite a good idea! What comes to my mind is the concept of marking, just like Poloniex did. Mark the good post and it'll be recorded on a ledger, maybe even could be calculated into activity score periodically. That might prevent all those "I like it", "+10", "I agree" empty comments needed moderation.