Is This Forum Degenerating? - page 4.

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Quote from: Matthew N. Wright on May 27, 2013, 11:45:40 AM

Quote from: Gabi on May 27, 2013, 11:44:53 AM

I noticed that there are TONS of sockpuppets. Everytime a new "altcoin" (yeah well more like "scamcoin") then suddenly tons of new users start speaking about it, of course all newbies/jr members. And this happens for every new altcoin. Or other scam.

It also happens to Ripple threads that decry it as a scam. "I agree! RIPLE MUST BE A SCAM" -User with 1 post who created an account 2 seconds earlier

I can't figure out how all of these utter newbs have Ripple pegged as a scam, while I've been reading about it for weeks and I just end up liking it Roll Eyes

Maybe I'm part of the degeneration without even realizing it.

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True that.

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Quote from: Gabi on May 27, 2013, 11:44:53 AM

I noticed that there are TONS of sockpuppets. Everytime a new "altcoin" (yeah well more like "scamcoin") then suddenly tons of new users start speaking about it, of course all newbies/jr members. And this happens for every new altcoin. Or other scam.

It also happens to Ripple threads that decry it as a scam. "I agree! RIPLE MUST BE A SCAM" -User with 1 post who created an account 2 seconds earlier

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If you want to walk on water, get out of the boat

I noticed that there are TONS of sockpuppets. Everytime a new "altcoin" (yeah well more like "scamcoin") then suddenly tons of new users start speaking about it, of course all newbies/jr members. And this happens for every new altcoin. Or other scam.

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Sure, the forum has gone downhill in some respects, but growth is still good. There's still countless good topics scattered throughout. Just stay away from specific sections and you're fine.

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The only subforums I check anymore are general BTC discussion, Politics & Society, and Off-Topic. Everything else is filled with "How I do the mining rig?" and "New altcoin, identical to Litecoin but isn't!"

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Quality will always suffer with quantity.

If the entire world were to use Bitcoin tomorrow, the "average" explanation would be "It's hacker paypal made by the Japanese for drugs!"

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Quote from: Ashitank on May 27, 2013, 04:43:45 AM

Getting worst or growing & expanding as crypto currency does & more newbs like me have more questions that need answering.

Exactly and that's the whole "problem".

I personally experienced this forum as very good and well educated (at least in comparison to other forums).

Due to the media buzz a crowd of new people that are completely new to Bitcoin entered the forum so the "value" of discussions here dropped significantly.*

But that's only temporary. I time this noobs will learn more and add value and more important fresh ideas to this forum.

And a inflow of fresh ideas is necessary, otherwise we would just run in circles here.

*No offense

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