Topic: do you think most people reads on the forum?? (Read 757 times)

Majority of people here are bounty hunters. They're here to make something out of this forum. It's quite unfortunate only few are contributing meaningfully to this forum. Anytime Theymos remove altcoin section from bitcointalk forum, there won't be no much posting in this forum

I will not agree that this is good advice. Often in the main thread there are side threads and only thanks to quotes someone who reads can understand who you are replying to. Quoting is very important to avoid confusion.

That's good for you now that you have read the post. Please consider this as my help for you without asking back for anything. You should minimize your over quoting of a post that has a quote in it. It would only make it worst. People should read the post so that we will know what to post and understand what has been discussed.

The truth is that when someone opens a new thread, only the first few answers are directly related to the main topic. Further responses are usually only changed responses of other users. At this point I can also belong to the group of people who just change other users answers, because I have to admit that I did not read everything in that thread and this is 3rd page already. However, the freedom of expression of this forum is about being able to speak, and everyone has the right to do so, until he do not violate generally accepted rules. I mean that sometimes we have the impression that someone has not read everything, but the most important thing is to speak in accordance with the topic and the rules accepted here.

Yeah, just take a look at economics or bitcoin discussion board. There are megathreads with over 30-40 pages of topics like "Will bitcoin price recover?", "Will bitcoin overcome dollar?". Do you think people read 30 pages of bullshit before writing some other bullshit?

Most users don't read anything here. If you read before writing you become a reputable member.

I don't think most people read forums. If they were on the forum, nobody would be spamming. There are so many rules in the forum that if we post them later, there is nothing wrong. There are many sides to the forum we should all post well after the rules. If we post well then we can easily increase our rank.

I'm not sure on that point. If I have a doubt on any topic, I usually do a general search and look for answers. The post that I find might have 20 responses and there's a probability that I'd want to contribute to the discussion - just so that I understand it better.

There is a division of goal here on this forum and those people who wants to earn an easy profit by joining bounties, provide ideas and knowledge, and learn on mining and creating an altcoin.

And we can only see those people who are on discussion thread and technical ideas who are really reading the forum.

Sometimes there are topics that go out of context before the guy posted about another similar story then the guy comment on those similar stories until people, giving discussions to a thread that are out of context, it happens so many times usually it happens when the thread is very active, a new story is born out of it.

Yes i agree. There are a lot of people who just open the topic and comment sth to raise activity (which is plain ridiculous). The only thing i don't like about this forum is overview since it takes a long time to find replies...

There are people who are in these forum who have goals to learn but there are also member of this forum have goal to earn profit and it is by joining in bounty and signature campaign. I'm here because of both, I know this forum is the foundation of all learnings about cryptocurrency and I meed to read different posts here. I'm also here to increase the bitcoin that I posses.

wow this i m really learning from you all, i think this has opened my eyes and to put more effort to read most post.
i m just coming on this forum and i m luckily to meet this thread

all we have to do is just to keep track on such people, meanwhile when ever you come across such post delete or report to the moderator at the right corner hand sides.

I could actually agree to that. Most of the people here in the forum doesn't care about the information anymore, instead they focus more on the post count. To be honest, there are times when I am already tired and I end up doing the same thing but as much as possible I avoid to so. Let us make sure that whatever we comment or quote on a certain thread is dirrectly relevant and does not use too much flowering words that are not really related to the post.

What are you saying is the truth. I have red comments on some thread that are far from the subject matter. Though moderators are doing good jobs by deleting them. We should keep educating others on this. Gracias!

I don't think so because there is a lot of threads that is already been duplicated and sometimes a new thread with the same slight discussion is being created.

That is why only few people here are reading the forum and page by page. And not like the others are only reading the last page.

Its general concept on internet that no one reads lengthy blogs, descriptions, and posts. If you want to drive attention to your contents then you have to make your point short and specific else very few will read you.

most members only posting replies for the signature bounty they joined and dont have the time reading all the replies made on that topic. which sometimes lead to same replies evertime.

No, the number of people reading all posts on the forum is very small. I see lots of posts with similar topics. They discussed quite the same problem very enthusiastically and brought a lot of spam to the forum.

I'm starting to think that a large number of members here are actually just plain stupid and annoying. How the hell can you reply to something without reading? People do it hey. All the day time. Yesterday I was reading an OP about someone asking about transaction fees. Half of the people posting there did not read and went way off talking about other altcoins and stuff. -_- It really isn't difficult to be active and post things that make sense and be part of the community. Those who don't shouldn't be in signature campaigns. I see shitty work and spamming the same as theft.

You need to ask yourself before posting whether or not you would pay for the post you about to send. If no then do not hit post. I wonder if spammers are happy with their work and post quality? There is no pride with these people. People who post the same thing on mega threads are the worst. If I open a thread and see many people with wearing the same signature as me already posting then I leave and post elsewhere.
Having 5 people with the same signature posting in a row doesn't help. Spammers do not even think this far though.

Why even in this very thread people have already proven the OP and I to be correct. Let us take a look at the most excellent quality examples we have here shame we.....
Very ironic that they in a thread that's against spamming and discussing it.

Keep in mind I am not petty and I actually have very low expectations with post quality but some posts I read make me angry. Someone gets paid the same as me when I put effort in and they just talk utter shit. It's not fair and it is not right. The spammers reduce the longevity of the campaigns. Without them, we could have a signature campaign for years and years.



We have this brilliant person who is very very confused. "It is good to have a summary of your thoughts or you want to share on this forum." This isn't even English it's very broken and almost senseless but let's let it slide. More broken English (letting it slide) Then the user says in the same sentence "I honestly do not have time to read for a long article but I want to learn more. " He does not have time to read? Then why is this user even posting if they don't have time to read? They clearly didn't have time to make sense either. They want to learn more? How will you learn more if you do not have time to read? This post is just nonesense and means nothing.



This one annoys me. This English is gutter trash and the quality is pond filth. It also looks like a bot could have spun it? A bot with bad English skills..... All this user has done in his most informal post is point out something everyone knows. There is a lot of info on a bitcoin forum?? You don't say? Bitcoin is an old site?? Point out more obvious things please. This comment adds no weight to this thread. It is horrible spam.

I wonder who actually read this.... I know for a fact these two that I have quoted will not come back and reply since they just post anywhere and never return just to make a post count. I wonder if they proud of themselves? HOw does it honestly feel to contribute nothing? Such selfish people are found on this forum.

Yes it is still the better place to find information about cryptos,if we use google most of the time we will end up finding a scam site or shit site,I said its harder,those spam replies made the legitimate discussion to get vanished so we might have to spend more time to see what is present on the discussion.Already forum members suggesting self moderated thread to control this issue,but it seems altcoin board didn't get any noticeable change.

On the same thread you mentioned if you see my reply, I seriously took out time for the analysis of the reviews and tried explaining the point:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.52808053

There are users with the moto to address the query or to involve in the discussion and few are here just for publicity. It depends, when we find such post let us alert ourself that we should not become like them and it something wrong there is always a report to moderator button.

This happens every day. I think they do not have much time to find and read forum posts! They post articles with similar topics. The spam is too much on the forum.

The real reason why it's spam filled in the first place is because they do not read, it's either those replying to the OP did not read it, to know if it's a shitpost that should be reported to the moderator rather than being replied to, or they simply do not read the already made replies to know if something similar had been said already, so they wouldn't have any need to post, they just go ahead and post, no matter what it is.
It still is, I do not think there is a better place to get updated on cryptocurrencies as well as to learn much about it, as for the spammers, they are actually in every forum/online group etc, not just ours, we just have to use methods such as report to the moderator to reduce it.

there is lot of information for learn bitcoin in this site bitcointalk .yes there is lot of traders who participe theirs experience with lot of site (exchange;trade;news......)
bitcointalk is an old site that talk about bitcoin and altcois and lot of economics topics . and there are those who read only ; i mean they do not have an account on the site, for example

I do not agree with it completely because if something is relevant, then people do not mind reading the whole thing with interest. I do not mind reading through pages if i am interested in a certain topic.

The sad part is that most people come here to make money, so their focus is on the writing and not on the reading.

I think most people when making threads and posts do not realize that they shouldn't write that much. I think it's better that you write less because more people will read it and you will get better engagement in the comments. If you write longs posts many people get bored in the midle of the post and the comment irrelevant stuff.

As for me
50-60% of users just waiting for interesting news and posts
Maybe some airdrops
Information about rates or else

Here we can find all this information, and thats nice, really nice

We cannot expect people to read the whole thread and then reply. What I expect people to at least read 4 to 5 posts above to understand what discussion is going on and then reply something new.

There are two problems here:

1- People do not read at all and submit a general reply according to the topic heading
2- People do read and then repeat the same point of view. This is again non-sense as we do not want to read the same thing again and again but with different words and grammar.

This has been "tested" time and time again, because some people will create clickbait topics for their threads and then say something very different

in their content and people will still reply with something that was said in the header or title of the thread. They just read the damn title without

reading the content and then start posting randomly. The OP can even post something further down in the thread for example "All off-topic posts will

 be deleted or reported" and people will still post nonsense replies. People are just too lazy to read and they get exposed when they do things like

that. Take the time to read the posts and not end up with a red face when you get exposed for crap posting.    I love to read, so it is not a

problem for me. 

Reading Blogs/Discussion Forums is very useful for getting information of different topics especially which are of your interest but unfortunately nowadays the discussion have gone very wide which sometimes are not needed for the interest of the reader.
I believe topics which are of real interest are read,irrespective of length f the content.
The spam messages should be reported to the administrator and such user should not be allowed to post again in the forum.

Some sections like altcoin discussion is getting out of control with spams and I don't think anyone will read the posts on those section since any useful posts will get buried by lot of useless shit posts in matter of minutes.But if we wanted to help in reducing that spam we can report it to moderator with specific reasons and wait for it to be handled.

Bitcointalk was one of the most informative forum about cryptos but now bounty hunters invaded every sections and its really hard to find something useful for any one who is searching about crypto related but when they have enough time to go through threads then they can find more useful replies and it can be highlighted with number of merits as well.

It's because people are posting in threads which is not of his interested area. I'm very much ineterested in bitcoin technical stuff and some other bitcoin related stuff. I spend a lot of time reading these sections, although very few times I have posted something there.
It's never a good idea to post something without reading the topic as well as all the discussion taken place on the topic. But the way signature campaigns are being managed poorly, particularly the altcoin bounty campaign manager, it will be a pain in the ass at the end, I guess someday theymos will consider removing it. It's the only way open now to get out of these low quality posts.

It is good to have a summary of your thoughts or you want to share on this forum. What I mean is not doing an essay but with sense. You can summary your post with at least important information. I honestly do not have time to read for a long article but I want to learn more.

Most read nothing but the headline or the first/last post in the thread, which is understandable if the thread has 10+ pages - but in most cases, such threads are not worthy of posting, what anyone can say but that is not already repeated at least ten times. Users should monitor their threads and lock them after some time or made it self-moderated and delete spam.

But what if thread has only two pages and most users still not read other posts? I will give you just one fresh example how not reading is producing spam - do you think user hello_good_sir would ask such question/s if he read previous posts?

@Cryptomiles1 yes those users exist and to combat spammy posts merits were introduced, and I would say spammy posts have gone down considerably but it’s not possible to completely eradicate it. It’s pertinent to note that if you quote a post that was off topic or spammy, then when that post is reported your quoted post reply will be deleted too. In addition to this there’re many members here who’ll actively report posts which needs to be deleted, but sometimes it takes few days to be deleted as mods are only human but in the end they’re always cleaning the forum.

Unless a forum board is adequately moderated, such as the Dev & Tech and Mining boards (although these boards have way less traffic compared to other sections), there are hundreds of people daily looking for excuses to post something with the minimum effort just so they get paid more for participating in pay per post signature campaigns. Bitcoin Discussion and Economics are particularly terrible when it comes to expectations <-> reality mismatch.

In the future you may want to consider posting in Serious Discussion or its child-board Ivory Tower — signatures are disabled there, so whoever posts solely for money has no incentive to venture there: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=250.0

OP, you're right. Many people didn't come here to read. Their main intention to make as many posts in short time as possible and get paid for it. Some of them aren't even interested in crypto and came here just to make money. We can't expect that they will read long articles and will reply to topics only after reading it
But similar trends happens not only on Bitcointalk. It's common on whole online media. People often read just titles without opening article. This is why there is things like clickbait headlines - they need to make something that people would open article.

I think this is the thread you're talking about, you actually made this thread in the off-topic section, and I must tell you few people visit that section, your thread just took me there for the first time in many months. Many thread there aren't really "off-topic" in relation to being outside of cryptocurrency, they are threads to be discussed by a group of friends discussing over a meal, not on a forum.(stuffs like "your favorite meal", "favorite food" etc), it isn't just appealing.

Not everyone loves to read long threads, I myself do not like to read messages that are too long, except they interest me, are about merit statistics(i love those threads), or if it has an arresting beginning. Honestly not everyone would read a really long thread by a newbie, worse when that thread is posted in the off-topic section, that should be the reason you thread lacks more than three replies as of the time of posting this.

this thing you said made me to understand something about a thread I raised some days ago, I hardly see replies on the thread due to what I posted was very lengthy and non could develop time to read what I have just posted over there. that post would help most of us today.

you can click on my profile and see the thread and raised. is all about family and relationship talks including marriage too although today I will update the thread by adding more things.

There are two more things that shitposters tend to ignore (not read) before posting:
- Day of last post inside topic they visit and have intention to post.
- Warning message of the forum whenever they click on Reply on long-inactive topics.
Consequently, I remind posters to pay their attention on last posting day and warning message before making their posts.

Most of the people come to this forum to gain money by posting. They want to spend more time on posting and less time on reading which i think is totally wrong. If we spend more time reading, and less time posting not only our posts will be valuable but also we will be saved from burst posting and spamming.

It really depends on what you are replying to. If you reply to the OP, you should quickly skim through the whole thread to check if someone has made the same reply as you are about to write. But if you are replying to someone else's reply, and especially if that reply is recent, there's very little posts to read. So, to avoid both unnecessary posting and unnecessary reading, you shouldn't reply to the so-called spam megathreads - threads that have many pages of answers and ask some general questions that have been asked many times already.

I would say 60 -70 % dont read before they write something .


Depends realy on what board you are and specialy on the Altcoin board you are right as long the thread owner is active with what they doing ( But there are not much).

The most just read the First post mostly or the first lines on it if the post is longer.
At the other side if there are more replys on a thread specialy that one that the OP have posted they share all there view and a few of them there Experience.

okay thank you sir, I shall do that and also keep an eyes to every thread I m reading. I duely appreciate you for the knowledge because I have never taught of this before but now I have learn from you.

I m really ready to work for the forum.

Well there are really some that isn't reallt after the content of every thread while there are some who are really aiming to know what is up and want to learn something. I've stumbled upon a topic about what did the people here in forum learned upon joining. There are lots of them that enlisted their learnings from here which is because of reading articles here and involving to threads which adds up to their learnings. While some are only here for bounty campaigns and just accomplishing tasks given to them.

It actually surprises me that a scaring amount of people are not reading the ranking system on the forum and is actually thinking that your post count is the one what raises your rank on the forums, which is one of the factors contributing to the massive spam that has been going on for quite a while. It's honestly fun to see accounts with several hundred or thousand posts that are stuck on Newbie and/or Jr. Member/Member ranks.

The guy you are giving example (complaining) about is just an shill account of an already proven scam exchange Coinsbit. I think he is just upset about people discussing on shady exchanges, and considering Coinsbit's name to pop up somehow. It has no moto than spamming afterall.

I don't think you would commonly find such irrelevant stuff from most of the members here other than newbie shill accounts. The best way to deal with it is, as suggested above by using "report to mod" and they would be nuked soon. But yaa, you cannot stop someone from creating more accounts to shill and post baseless shit, sad to say.

90% of the users do not read before writing. If you do, you will get many merits and will be considered a good poster.

I recommend that you just ignore any thread with more than 15 replies. Some very specific threads are an exception to this rule imo. After 15 replies, most of the time, everything was already said and spammers join in

And it’s not only regarding OPs. Often, there are answers within the thread that answer well enough, or narrow down the focus of the article or issue at hand. Nevertheless, you may then find posts that, whilst being on topic technically, are none the wiser that the context has been already narrowed down thorough the thread.

As an example, I recently tried to narrow down the focus of what Bitcoin ATMs meant to Venezuelans in a thread on Economics (see First Bitcoin ATM in Venezuela). Since the OP was written on that thread (January 2019), some events has changed, so I resurfaced the thread in October 2019 to explain a bit further (an adecuate necro-bump in this case). Some people catch-on, but many add some sort of "yupi dupi” type comment without having read about the situation there at all, that contextualized the depicted events.

It really is unfortunate as most people only read the headlines and it can definitely be frustrating at times. But lets be honest here, this doesn't happen on Bitcointalk alone. It's pretty much the same with any community or any social media site, especially on Facebook. Laziness can only be fixed by the reader himself/herself unfortunately. The only thing we can do is to call them out, and or report the reply if it's way too off-topic.

You have the "report to the mod" link in the bottom right corner of every post.
Just use it when you see something spammy. We are keeping eye on the forum, don't worry. It's a matter of time such 0-value posts to be deleted

A good place to start looking for those is here : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;patrol

greetings all

I want say something very important to us, I recently noticed that most people don't read lengthy article on the forum and it makes them posting out of the writeup on the thread. most people barely spend time while reading any post in the forum this has made many of us commenting irrelevantly on most posts.

please before posting READ properly to comprehend the contest of the post before commenting on the forum.

please make a reference to this link here https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bad-experience-with-exchanges-5192804

what do you think about this?? please let watch over this

drop your comments and reduce some spamming post.