Topic: Newbies, Bounties & spam. - page 2. (Read 556 times)

Theymos  brought the merit system obviously to check spam. But have you pondered  over why newbies didn't have to earn merit(s) to rank up junior members? The forum somewhat allows members irrespective of their ranks to contribute to discussions  and learn too. But in liberal societies you can't always have everything in the garden being rosy. Sometimes some of these spammers make me laugh out loud.

Good answers there Pharmacist! 

Like yourself i thought it was tolerated that spamming went on but frowned upon at the same time! Can only assume its for the reasons we mentioned

Its a genuine Catch22 scenario where you need the traffic to maintain the forum ranking but you have to put up with the crap that comes with it i guess.

I just think its a real pity that you have some wonderful content and posters on here, buy you really have to dig through the mud to find it. It shouldn't be that way on a forum with a specific niche(s), just a pity there isn't a solution to keep everyone happy.

Because they don't care what's posted as long as it advertises the ICO or whatever is being promoted.  That's the problem, which I'm sure you're now aware of.  The projects don't care about bitcointalk, FB, Twitter, or any other website that they're using to hype their stuff.  Basically they're just recruiting spammers, and they're cool with that.

You answered this question here:
And it pretty much sums up why spam is tolerated on bitcointalk.  I've never been able to come up with a better reason.  Any other forum would have put the kabosh on it long ago, along with the scammers and whatnot.  I don't know how much Theymos et al make just having bitcointalk operating as it is, but I think it's a substantial sum of money.  If Theymos did away with bounties and campaigns, this forum would be a ghost town, and it wouldn't be earning anywhere near as much.

Even though i haven't been here long, i've seen an influx of crappy/irrelevant posts and the same topic being repeated day after day- god only knows how some of you must feel who have seen the same thing hundreds or possibly several thousand times. 

Obviously i can see due to the amount of posts in Meta, that a lot of people are fed up of seeing the same crap posted day in day out. The real shame is that you have to practically hunt for something decent these days in amongst the sea of spam that plagues the site. Everyone has a say and can put forward an idea so i thought i'd give it a shot too!

I know that the bounties here are more than likely making up a large portion of website traffic. I totally understand that to stay at the top of the alexa rankings, you need website traffic and by eliminating newbies entirely- you also get rid of a shitload of traffic.

So is it not a possibility that in future we could have new bounties initially posted here as per usual in the ANN section, then any 'work' i.e. reporting of what the member done that week and contact details posted, social media links, telegram names etc etc, hosted somewhere else on a sister website a Bountybtctalk for example? Would this not rid the forum of a good chunk of piss poor posts?

Another thing i wonder is, why do bounty campaigns have posting requirements if the stuff that is posted is utter crap?

Is it not prudent to eliminate excessive posting requirements and in doing so eradicating a lot of needless comments and hopefully a better standard of posting within the forum could naturally bring people here, those who actually want to come and read organic posts instead of bounty requirement posts?

Obviously i know what i mentioned has its possible drawbacks in terms of website traffic, the rest is just general wondering why this actually goes on here when we all know the issues it creates?