Your correct, but not in the way that this person has been posting. I would argue that a thread dedicated to the discussion of POTcoin is NOT the place to make accusations against another coin. The long ass posts that this person is spamming the forum with does nothing except bury whole pages of discussion and makes it harder for people to keep up with the conversation and ask questions/get answers/help.
IMO the correct way to do it is to start a new thread titled "Xcoin Accusations, is it a scam?" and then post a simple request in ALL relevant threads asking people to join the discussion.
IMO the correct way to do it is to start a new thread titled "Xcoin Accusations, is it a scam?" and then post a simple request in ALL relevant threads asking people to join the discussion.
This. The first thing I thought was "why is this guy posting a novel here?"
I will say this though... that was one hell of a post. It's the type of post that when you write it the first time, you pray that nothing happens that makes you have to rewrite everything again. I get pissed when I write a 1 line post, and BCT says "unable to post at this time", and then somehow I lose the post in the process of trying to go back and resubmit. lol
-Fuse
This I could agree with. All he had to do was post a link to the long explanation in this thread and I don't think anybody would have batted an eye. People just didn't want to scroll through all of it. But to say the information in his post was not relevant I think is wrong.
Where did anyone say that what was said was irrelevant? As far as I am concerned the threads for specific coins/companies should be used for ONLY discussions pertaining to that entity, its not the place to post accusations or praise for any other coin/company/etc. If you wish to post a request to join another discussion, I have no problem with that.
...You were the first to say it...
I flagged it as off topic, would someone please delete it.
Edit: I'm not trying to start something I'm just saying the information he posted was entirely relevant, and thus very much on topic.
Do you honestly think that posting a fullpage post not once but TWICE bashing another coin is on topic for this thread? We can split hairs all day long but the truth of the matter is that this is NOT the place to spam accusations or praise for another coin. As I and nyc2afuse said there are better ways to go about getting a message out about a coin being a scam or the mana from heaven, whatever your POV is. All that novel of a post did was bury other relevant posts and discussions making it more difficult for people to see the current and active discussions taking place.
It didn't bury anything there's been no real activity in this thread for a year. The only thing people were coming to this thread for in recent months was when they botched the POSv transition and wanted answers. Yes it was annoying to scroll through the long post but so what? In a day its on an archived page and everybody moves on.
At this point anything that gets people talking about Potcoin and coming to the thread is good. Its been in decline for a year and that trend is going to continue until either something happens out of our control that pushes more people toward this coin (like a CANN scam) or a massive effort by the development staff and their team to get the coin accepted in real world stores. Barring that, we're in for a long and slow decline and we'll be bickering about it till the end.
