Topic: Links in Threads and Newbies (Read 290 times)

Actually there are lots of request to do the same like what you said but still nothing was done.
Let me quote this reply of @dzungmobile from the same topic/issue raise for newbie accounts posting links just few months ago.

I think theymos also said that there will be no new jails and restrictions for newbies.

Right, I don't care about making money from the forum personally. (I've actually thought about getting rid of the forum ads, since it's often a big headache and the forum has enough reserves for a long time, but operating at a significant loss while there's money basically just sitting on the table feels wrong, even if the level of loss is sustainable for quite a while.)

The things on the forum which encourage spam are allowed mainly because it's part of the forum's mission to be as free as possible. Eg. banning bounties would undoubtedly reduce spam, but that'd be destroying an entire economy/population/culture which has been able to develop due to the forum's freedom. I am willing to take this sort of action, but only as an absolute last resort. It's always preferable to handle these problems by reshaping the environment to make them non-problems, rather than removing some freedom.

It's wonderful when someone is able to constructively do something on the forum instead of continuing with whatever they were expected to do under the status quo. Enabling that sort of thing is exactly why Bitcoin and this forum were created. Though bitcointalk.org is not a worldwide welfare organization, and people are not entitled to make money.

Limiting newbie participation is very harmful for a community. Newbie jail will never return: I consider the newbie-jail period to have been extremely damaging to the forum. When barriers to participation are too high, then the best people often just won't go to the trouble of joining, and the people who are willing to jump through the hoops are often people who aren't good for the community: people with nothing better to do, scammers, get-rick-quickers, etc. Having a permanent newbie jail policy would improve things a lot in the short-term, but would end up being a fatal poison to the community.

The low signal-to-noise is a real issue which seriously annoys me and is often on my mind. But as you mention, fixing it non-destructively is difficult.

I suggest that users below the Junior Member rank should not be allowed to post links on the forum.
This could help prevent similar threads where experienced users might not be misled, but those new to crypto or Bitcoin could be at risk.

I suggest that users below the Junior Member rank should not be allowed to post links on the forum.
This could help prevent similar threads where experienced users might not be misled, but those new to crypto or Bitcoin could be at risk.

Let me know what you think. I'm sure the mod team or @theymos will take this into consideration.  

Like if there is a security wall, they will try to break through it. If there is an "Internet Fire Wall", they will try to break it too. If there are many scam warnings, they'll try to ignore these warnings.

Warnings against scam, education about scam and how to avoid scam, are enough for newbies. It's up to newbies to read, learn and absorb these available scam-avoiding resources, and apply these advises into their practice, or skip these advises and try to interact with scammers.

Individually some personal things like curiosity, greed, and carelessness are keys to make people falling into scam.

OP, you can save newbies from forum scammers by keeping them from suspicious links, but you can't save them from everything dangerous on the Internet.

Best thing to do is for us more seasoned members to just report such posts and move on.

I somewhat agree, but what about it being a string of text and not clickable if the user who posted is below Junior Rank.
That way, we will have user post the link but others will have to copy and paste it, making it secure for everyone.

I somewhat agree, but what about it being a string of text and not clickable if the user who posted is below Junior Rank.
That way, we will have user post the link but others will have to copy and paste it, making it secure for everyone.

There are many ways to fight against this issue, I was just making a point which can be further discussed.

I suggest that users below the Junior Member rank should not be allowed to post links on the forum.
This could help prevent similar threads where experienced users might not be misled, but those new to crypto or Bitcoin could be at risk.

I saw this post from the user and this is his first post on the forum. And he's basically advertising without disclosure a Bitcoin Lottery, which is more likely to be a scam.