Should newbies be restricted again? - page 2.

Jacko

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Quote from: subSTRATA on March 09, 2014, 02:15:24 PM

Quote from: jbrnt on March 09, 2014, 02:12:24 PM

Quote from: subSTRATA on March 09, 2014, 01:55:11 PM

I still think 0.01 BTC payment to join this forum would help the most.

It is very difficult to get 0.01 nowadays, even when its value is just $6. It takes absolutely ages from faucets, impossible to mine from cpu, months from first gen asics, or may be a 50 mile drive to a bitcoin shop or atm.

$6 to join is to me quite reasonable. Here in the U.K. that equates to only £3.59. Christ I spend that on a paperback book to read up on things. Also for people to get information they could do what I did. I read lots of stuff on here and got lots of valuable information without needing to join. I only joined recently as I wanted to help put a bit of what I have learned back into help.

jbrnt

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Oh I agree with newbie scams being a problem, my previous comments in this thread acknowledged that. I am just saying a membership fee of 0.01 is forbiddingly high for someone who genuinely wants to seek help from users here.

subSTRATA

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:^)

Quote from: jbrnt on March 09, 2014, 02:12:24 PM

Quote from: subSTRATA on March 09, 2014, 01:55:11 PM

I still think 0.01 BTC payment to join this forum would help the most.

It is very difficult to get 0.01 nowadays, even when its value is just $6. It takes absolutely ages from faucets, impossible to mine from cpu, months from first gen asics, or may be a 50 mile drive to a bitcoin shop or atm.

Fiat > BTC, of course. Increase demand for BTC. To allow free entrance here works directly against demand increase and on top of it all we have scam
shits going around every day! Cost to attempt scamming? Almost zero. What to do with scammed coins? Most likely sell for fiat, putting preasure
on major coins, those one can convert to fiat. So in the end very little good comes from free access to this forum. The number of damaging posts from
newbies exceeds number of beneficial posts by massive percentage.

Newbies are allowed to post links to supposedly cryptocoin GUI clients (Qt) and other executables and suspicious stuff like infecting people computers
is no big deal for Bitcoin. It is so because we need more "Bitcoins scammed!" articles in media, right?

Liberal mindset was appropriate around here but it is no more, at least not when it comes to forum moderation ... it will backfire badly sooner or later
and then bullshits like "Use your brain!" will become just echoes of failed management.

jbrnt

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Quote from: subSTRATA on March 09, 2014, 01:55:11 PM

I still think 0.01 BTC payment to join this forum would help the most.

It is very difficult to get 0.01 nowadays, even when its value is just $6. It takes absolutely ages from faucets, impossible to mine from cpu, months from first gen asics, or may be a 50 mile drive to a bitcoin shop or atm.

subSTRATA

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:^)

Quote from: Jacko on March 09, 2014, 01:44:42 PM

I went through the Newbie Jail and it just took a bit of patience.

Anyone who is into cryptocoins short or long-term will not find it hard to wait to exit newbie jail. Everyone else is provably working against cryptos,
one way or another, with eventual exception of people who are already into community and not active on forum but have some major news to post.
Like local event or something, stuff no one else could know and thus post here, so opening News section for newbies might be actualy useful.

I still think 0.01 BTC payment to join this forum would help the most. BTC earned could be used to hire some (more) professional forum moderators
or even pay known people doing investigations around here so that they become extra motivated to check new user backgrounds, claims and so on.

Jacko

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I went through the Newbie Jail and it just took a bit of patience.

Thread starting ban sounds good as it will hopefully make them read and search.

Like below post. How sodding hard is it to search for one of the 8000 posts where people have already ( including me cos I run them ) told people what PSU runs an S1 Antminer for God's sake.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=508289.0;topicseen

We need a bit of education for them. Read, Search, Read some more and if you still can't find it ask.

ak111in

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I think earlier newbie restriction was too strict and instead of moving back to it if only we can restrict newbies from creating new threads most of the current issues would be resolved and at the same time the restrictions will be acceptable.

zolace

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I believe they should be restricted to they reach jr member. I had to wait to get membership at this site, plus wait in jail.

SlidingHorn

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Quote from: Remember remember the 5th of November on March 09, 2014, 11:00:30 AM

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/support-occupy-hong-kong-507982 Another scam attempt from newbie.

If we're making a list, no one'd have time to read it. There are new ones every few minutes in the Marketplace

Remember remember the 5th of November

legendary

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Reverse engineer from time to time

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/support-occupy-hong-kong-507982 Another scam attempt from newbie.

STT

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Quote from: nahtnam on March 07, 2014, 11:28:43 PM

They would wait...

wait and do what, take part in a community reading and avoiding previous mistakes instead of endlessly going for the moneyshot. You dream big

I can remember being a noob and it wasnt a massive deal. The noob section is fairly well populated and frequented by 'real' forum users. It is the most harsh deal Ive seen for new users on a forum but due to the nature of the business I understand its for the best now.
Its only a real pain for people who have no real question or threads to read on a subject new to them; mostly because they arent new at all. Thats fine

MarshallSambell

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I'm a newbie and I agree, at least there would be a bit less advertising/scam spam on here.

jefe541

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I agree with newbies restriction, a lot of scam and virus pushing from them in the last weeks..

jbrnt

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This is the kind of newbie post i was talking about, is there anything mods can do?

New users selling email and password database:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--506615

nahtnam

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