In my eyes this clash of bitcoin elitists and ignorant altcoin supporters is really counter productive.
A couple of non drastical solutions:
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remove altcoin related forums from "Recent posts" section (I really can't understand why would anyone use it in a huge forum like this)
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disable color/text size BBCode in the signatures (that would be a huge relief for all the eyes reading these forums)*
add a couple of new subsections in altcoin section* add a couple mods dedicated to altcoin section
* coin review before allowing an ANN thread (complicated, too many variables, no one will want to do that)
* developer has to send an altcoin application-description with strict requirements before creating an ANN thread (less complicated, but with current attitude no one will want to review those too)
* strict requirements for an ANN thread
* instead of removing alts (if it will ever come to this), just move alts to the different forum (
http://alts.bitcointalk.org), could be quite a bit of work, but I think satisfy both sides.
Still, scammers gonna scam and noobies gonna noob. Is there a tutorial on what to look out for in a new cryto currency? There should be one. And sticky.
* Lack of infrastructure to change the Recent posts to not shown (Hopefully will be in the forum revamp)
* Another thing we are discussing, although you can disable signatures personally if they annoy you
* I highly doubt there will be new subsection, Theymos added them so it would be easier for me to moderate, not because he cares that there are subsections there.
Most of what you were proposing is actually spot on. The one main difference is, the Alt Coin section serves a purpose. Its not so people can spam posts or create hundreds of announcement threads and coins, because as long as they aren't actually spamming, we don't care. Its intended purpose was to keep people from posting alt coin stuff in the rest of the forum. Its not because we wanted Alt Coin traffic here, we just knew there would be some so by creating the section, we could isolate it from the rest of the forum (hopefully). The goal is for people to post their announcements/important notices here for the traffic, and then lead people to their own place, or their own forums where they can discuss all they like.
