First off, I should apologise for starting this thread. At the time, I was pissed off with the blind following of the propaganda being pushed out by the Big Pharma companies, and the puppets of the Anglophone empire. They seem to be everywhere, and they cover dominant topics like the Corona virus infections, vaccinations, Brexit, and the US elections ( as if those matter, the Anglophiles will get in whatever the voters do), and there are many other similar topics.
The last thing we want to do is to moderate forum members' opinions, provided they can avoid the personal insults from those who don't have rational arguments, and the promotion of the false propaganda that is portrayed as the word of God, and thus doesn't require any justification. You know something is wrong when you see the disgusting way they are rushing out inadequately tested vaccines for this minor infection.
I had intended to close this thread this morning, but it still seems to be generating some opinions. Let me know when/if you want me to close it. I agree with most of the points about not needing a sub-board, and the ones about thread consolidation btw.
Topic: Is it time to have a Corona virus sub-board? - page 2. (Read 500 times)
The virus seems to dominate a number of boards here, and the discussions are getting repetitive, and even boring in some cases. We seem to have two camps - those who believe the globalist Pharma propaganda, and the open minded who have done some research and thought about the situation. It seems that neither camp will be able to convert the other, and in a few cases, members are having to resort to personal insults to replace their weak arguments.
I think it is debasing the forum, as it is affecting many other forums and news sites. Bitcoin, DeFi and global economics are far more important, and it would be handy if we could get away from discussions about a minor infection that is being used to distract the world from the really important issues.
I think it is debasing the forum, as it is affecting many other forums and news sites. Bitcoin, DeFi and global economics are far more important, and it would be handy if we could get away from discussions about a minor infection that is being used to distract the world from the really important issues.
I wouldn't call any of these sides an open minded one, prefer to stay neutral in this task, both sides have good arguments to be fair.
I think it's not necessary to have corona virus sub board. First of all, what we want to get rid of is medical advices from forum users. If we create sub board, then we have to highly moderate it because of the reason that I just mentioned.
Also bitcointalk isn't a medical website/forum and I strongly believe it's not necessary to have covid related discussions but still people can feel free to post and that's okey.
Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion <-- This thread doesn't have sub board and what's corona compared to this
Hell no! I hope that never happens. The boards I visit and write in, and there are plenty of them, are COVID free. A Bitcoin forum shouldn't have a COVID board in my opinion. Mods are deleting and trashing low-value and off topic threads. If they are in the wrong place, report them, and ask for them to be deleted or moved to the right section. COVID shouldn't get any more attention than it already has.
No we don't need corona virus sub-board, or we are going to start opening sub-boards for every virus and bacteria in the world.
Maybe some people should create or join some other corona forum if they want to talk about it and brainstorm.
For me covidtalk is boring.
Maybe some people should create or join some other corona forum if they want to talk about it and brainstorm.
For me covidtalk is boring.
sub-board: covid-19 boring.
Yeah, that would be my vote. But seriously, no I don't think we need a coronavirus/COVID-19 child board. Some of the threads in Economics make mention of it, but in those cases it's usually in an appropriate context and most of the threads are at least somewhat interesting.The debates about conspiracy theories or whether (as Jet Cash mentioned) the government or pharmaceutical companies should be paying for vaccine research should stay in whatever section they're currently in, which is P&S/Off-Topic. Plus, I don't believe this pandemic is going to be long-lasting (I'm hoping that's the case) and members aren't going to be fixated on it long enough to justify a child board.
Please let me keep my fantasy and continue believing this is just a temporary thing.
I'm pretty sure you're right and it's not a fantasy. Have the world ever had a reaction to a viral outbreak that's lasted years, where people have to wear face masks and keep distance from one another and not go to work? I don't think so--and FFS it isn't like COVID-19 is as deadly as ebola or smallpox. Everyone has lost their heads over this thing, which isn't nearly as bad as its made out to be in the news. 
I'd rather not have one, purely because that would be yet another sign that this shit is never going away and it's a depressing thought, heh.
Please let me keep my fantasy and continue believing this is just a temporary thing.
Please let me keep my fantasy and continue believing this is just a temporary thing.
I think this is not necessary because I think it will fit on Economics or Politics & Society because most of the time the content is "How does it affect"
Also, the COVID is just temporarily, not all through the years we have COVID so this is a recent issue after a few months for sure this is not the main topic again.
Also, the COVID is just temporarily, not all through the years we have COVID so this is a recent issue after a few months for sure this is not the main topic again.
I don't think we need one especially if we think about how the coronavirus has changed our way of living it is inevitable to see it being mentioned in several topics especially things related to the economy. Just as long as the thread is on topic and it is created in the right section I don't see it violating anything in our rules. But for off-topic posts related to COVID-19 purely and is on the wrong board I think reporting them or just moving it to the off-topic section is a good solution.
No needed, it should be moved to Off-topic section IMO.
Yup, "Off-Topic" or even "Politics & Society" can have all of those.
No needed, it should be moved to Off-topic section IMO.
Nah.. some of the COVID-19 related topics are having a correlation with either Bitcoin or with the cryptocurrency in general and most is about its effects, outcome, and affected changes in the crypto-world. Hence, moving such to off-topic isn't a fitting idea nor a better way than the OP's idea. But if the OP would pursue such board, then it would be on the Off-topic subsection if ever- as it generally started as a physical world problem yet only affected the crypto-world by the people it affected, and primarily having no connections with the crypto per se.
Exactly, as said by the posts above me I dont see why we should have a sub board for Covid19 where the main subjects are Bitcoin and other Crypto.
It should be off-topic.
It should be off-topic.
No needed, it should be moved to Off-topic section IMO.
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If these threads are related to bitcoin or cryptocurrency, I think they are okay to be posted but they should be on economy board only I think. Otherwise, they can be sent to offtopic discussion. Creating another board for covid is less important than creating a local board for Bangladeshi user.
I often see topics about Covid-19 on certain boards, but I rarely read, feel a little bored, repeated discussions.
Instead of arguing about the covid-19 case, in the forum, I took the decision to keep one link about covid-19, which has updates every time on case by case each country.
I will monitor every moment here:Reported Cases and Deaths by Country, Territory, or Conveyance, Maybe, can also be used by other people for information for themselves, rather than making a topic that is repeated.
sub-board: covid-19 boring.
Instead of arguing about the covid-19 case, in the forum, I took the decision to keep one link about covid-19, which has updates every time on case by case each country.
I will monitor every moment here:Reported Cases and Deaths by Country, Territory, or Conveyance, Maybe, can also be used by other people for information for themselves, rather than making a topic that is repeated.
sub-board: covid-19 boring.
Can we have a conspiracy board for those who feel everything is a conspiracy? Maybe a board for Left Vs Right. Right Vs Wrong. Atheists Vs Religious. Bikers vs Scooters. Flat Earthers Vs Square Earthers. Anti-vaxxers vs Vaxxers. I don't know whether this is a serious request or not but we don't need a sub for this. It'll die down as soon as covid does. At best we should probably start trashing duplicate threads if there's nothing new in them.
The binary board
0 or 1
It's a pandemic and almost everyone would have something to say about it, reporting would help, but this could lead to Meta getting flooded with complaints of deleted/thrashed threads.
As a last resort, you can mentally ignore such quoted replies. I rarely put profiles or boards on ignore, but I still filter the content I read and engage, the fact that it's visible to you doesn't mean you have to assimilate or reply to it.
It is annoying to see, but if less people fed trolls and conspiracy theorists with 3 pages of discussions, there would be less of such threads at the top of various boards.
As a last resort, you can mentally ignore such quoted replies. I rarely put profiles or boards on ignore, but I still filter the content I read and engage, the fact that it's visible to you doesn't mean you have to assimilate or reply to it.
It is annoying to see, but if less people fed trolls and conspiracy theorists with 3 pages of discussions, there would be less of such threads at the top of various boards.
I've got some people on ignore, but unfortunately many of their posts get quoted.
I wish all of BADecker's shit would be merged into one thread but a few attempts to report them didn't succeed. Other than that, I've made my peace with the efforts to make everything about COVID-19. Bitcoin goes up, down, or sideways - obviously sick with covid. Trump farts on Twitter - but but but what about 180k people he personally murdered. Some moron doesn't know what escrow means - it's obviously the fault of Chinese communists who made the coronavirus in a lab.
"Ignore" works for the most part.
"Ignore" works for the most part.
Put all the posts into one thread. There isn't much new coming out. Well, except for governments squandering money on vaccines that should be funded by the pharma companies.
The virus seems to dominate a number of boards here, and the discussions are getting repetitive, and even boring in some cases. We seem to have two camps - those who believe the globalist Pharma propaganda, and the open minded who have done some research and thought about the situation. It seems that neither camp will be able to convert the other, and in a few cases, members are having to resort to personal insults to replace their weak arguments.
I think it is debasing the forum, as it is affecting many other forums and news sites. Bitcoin, DeFi and global economics are far more important, and it would be handy if we could get away from discussions about a minor infection that is being used to distract the world from the really important issues.
I think it is debasing the forum, as it is affecting many other forums and news sites. Bitcoin, DeFi and global economics are far more important, and it would be handy if we could get away from discussions about a minor infection that is being used to distract the world from the really important issues.
Can we have a conspiracy board for those who feel everything is a conspiracy? Maybe a board for Left Vs Right. Right Vs Wrong. Atheists Vs Religious. Bikers vs Scooters. Flat Earthers Vs Square Earthers. Anti-vaxxers vs Vaxxers. I don't know whether this is a serious request or not but we don't need a sub for this. It'll die down as soon as covid does. At best we should probably start trashing duplicate threads if there's nothing new in them.
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