Topic: The stupidest thread on bitcointalk. - page 9. (Read 3278 times)

Maybe OP made a report and it got snubbed, if not OP's thread should have been needless.

And here is my report to moderator:
Inasmuch as everyone has different motives for taking part in a thread, we can't classify everyone as having the same mindset. This thread is a kind of trolling for those who have genuine purpose for participating in a thread.

I reported this thread as trolling and trying to cause physical harm to those exercising and maintaining their health while they wait for btc to cross 100k.

I think that forum members have the right to look for their area of interest in the forum, and I don't see why the area of interest of some forum members has become a pain in the ass for others. I am a football fan even before I joined this forum, and the fun in football is that after watching any match, football lovers do analyze and discuss about the matches that have been played or yet to be played for fun and to know how to go about their next bet. Most signature campaigns requires minimum 10 post from gambling board, so where do you want these football fans to discuss about their favorite club and the live matches for every week. If your interest is not on sport, let the football lovers breath.

You can look at the gambling discussion section to see that not every campaign has the same standards. There’s plenty of people getting paid week after week for the most generic and frivolous kind of posts. Stake was notorious for hiring some of the worst spammers in the forum. As long as you meet the bare minimum requirements, some managers do not care about the substance or quality of a post.

How the moderatos failed in their duty if no one have reported the posts? the moderators aren't read every posts and delete it by themselves, but they're waiting someone else to make report first.

I think so, the @OP who create the topic do give a big influence.

For a thread that has about 174 pages, i think it's not the most stupidest thread ever but if it is, then the moderators failed in their duty and not about the creator of the thread nor the users who make replies on the thread be it those that are only farming merits or those that are genuinely taking part in the challenge. I once took path in the challenge and i know the impact it did to my health and my fitness. Whether the meme has anything to do with Satoshi or the ability of bitcoin reaching $100k or not, i assume everything that we come across with on this forum is true and if they are, i don't know why we still identify scammers, cheaters and liars here.

I don't know why people are so concerned about merit farmers when it is clear that the merit system is not regulated.

For threads that is open for users who are close to their next ranks and for post reviews for merits; if merit is being circulated without bias or by favoritism and more merit sources were to be active in distributing merits to quality posts, we will have very few users farming merits in a particular thread. BTW, are we also going to refer to high ranked users that makes replies in those acclaimed merit hunting threads as merit farmers? Let us be more transparent and diplomatic in handling things in the forum so that it will create a fair atmosphere for all, be it low ranked or high ranked. However, let us not forget that we all started from somewhere before we got to where we are today. Cheers to everyone

People are having different opinions. As some people said already that the post belongs to off-topic, some people are supporting it for it to remain on bitcoin speculation board. Although if we should see it very well, the post does not fall under what we can called bitcoin speculation because the thread is not about speculating bitcoin price. But as you see reputed people gave OP merit so many more people gave OgNasty merit. Even a staff is among people that gave him merit. OP should know that opinion of people would be different about this and nothing will be changed. But if it is a newbie that posted that topic, it would be moved to off-topic asap.

If this post was not enough, we have a new competing post here :

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/1001-questions-and-answers-regarding-satoshi-nakamoto-5513480

Do not forget to ask your doubts from real Satoshi in the thread. lol

I don't find any logic in this argument at all. A signature spammer cannot increase their post count or get paid by making low-quality posts anywhere in the forum because signature campaigns have managers who are checking posts manually, posts in any signature campaign aren't counted by bots that look only at the post count from the day previous week ended and the post count when the new week ends.

So, saying that a thread should be moved to off-topic only for the sake of signature spammers not being able to increase their post count doesn't make any sense to me. A bad poster will be a bad poster no matter where their posts are. We can't move every single thread to off-topic so that signature spammers who are posting in those threads have their posts not counted. I believe signature campaign managers have that covered already, and they don't pay or count posts with no substantial quality.

For me, if I had to choose the "stupidest thread", (and let me be very clear, I don't see any 'stupid threads' on this site), it would not be this thread or that one but the Wall Observer thread. Would it not make more sense to yelp about that one? I mean, it even went to the point where administrators disabled signatures on that thread.

This is all just pointless bickering.

It’s not any more stupid than many of the political threads where people are shilling their preferred candidate in the upcoming US election. Perhaps it should be moved to off-topic to avoid the signature spammers who are increasing their post count with very low quality posts.

There does seem to be a disproportionate amount of lower ranking accounts posting in that thread. Maybe it’s because it has very low standards for post quality or maybe people are farming merits for their alt accounts.

The topic itself does not break any rules and is intended to have fun with a statement from Satoshi that has become a sort of meme. It is fine to have threads that are less serious. I would only go as far as to say that some of the posters in the thread should be considered spammers.

Maybe those who participated are actually doing some push up, why not its healthy, if its reaches a dozen pages means that it has users engaging with the thread and some are interested.

I cant see why the thread should be called a stupid one, but I believed people joining are just simply like the idea and participated thats all no hiccups. I think not a big deal OP, like others opinion. It was just for humor and I think it is.

The idea of it being on an off-topic rather than on the speculation section still depends on the moderator discretion.

Now I see people starting to criticize the OP for creating this thread. If you guys can accept a thread like that one, why don't you accept this thread? Whoever is saying that thread is helping people stay healthy and wait for the 100K, did you guys verify if they were push-ups or not? How do you do that, actually? I can just go to that thread and post every day that I did a hundred pushups while I was sitting on my couch.

It would be best if you did not make fun of everything. Even if that thread is just for Humour purposes, you should know that not everyone will get it. People are stupid enough to believe everything on the internet. Otherwise, they wouldn't invest in those Ponzi schemes that promise 100% returns within 24 hours.

It's obvious you don't like humor, neither do you love exercises, I would like also to mention to you that the thread is made up of people that keep fit thoroughly and not just those that pushup only. Reporting only pushups is in a bid to control unnecessary spamming of that thread, I can remember asking questions about full body workout sometime ago and I was informed to do my full body workout privately and only report pushups (I couldn't even meet up because of my busy schedule, hence I'm not reporting). So I think that topic is spam controlled from the beginning and efficient. You shouldn't have problem with such threads if you're optimistic enough.


I think you're not a fan of sports, that's the best way to explain your seeing those threads as unimportant. Discussing about football and football matches outcomes that brings happiness to even the depressed soul is considered something that sucks by you. It's appalling to hear honestly. I know many times I've had meaningful discussions about the form of teams, play patterns and updates that helps me stay informed and make better decisions while gambling.

Truth is that if it doesn't make sense to you or you don't understand it, try to seek clarity and not being pessimistic immediately about a good idea. It surely would help you.

It's common for people to criticize and call names to whatever thing they don't like or buy the idea, yet that doesn't make it what they think of it. It's just their opinion anyway. But it's very bad when people want to use their opinion to subdue and make nonsense about those of others.

Am quite convinced that there are lots of persons that got back to doing exercise and keeping their body fit health-wise through the influence of that "most stupidest thread" as op refers it to. And aside the health benefits of the push-ups, it's also a way to keep alive on a daily the anticipation of those interested in the topic ideology on bitcoin getting to 100k at anytime possible.

The pushup is optional also looking at the thread I see a lot of reports which shows people making comment don’t just make a post without reporting their push-up count. I participated for awhile during the early time surprisingly I stopped doing the push-up due to stress but still that doesn’t mean the thread is actually stupid, from my view the thread is mostly active for those participating so if you’re not I see no need creating awareness, I have seen alot of bitcoin enthusiasts participate while watching YouTube making it a world wide activity for bitcoin.

Both the alleged message by Satoshi and OgNasty's 100 push up threads are being misconstrued by you. How did you manage to understand the posts so literally. A deeper thought about the posts could give a better connotative understanding.

In the case of Satoshi
"If this catches on, and I'm no longer around, please let other users know that 100 push-ups a day will send the price to 100k"
Do you understand what is meant by 100 push-ups;
100 push-ups means hard work;
100 push-ups means determination;
100 push-ups means consistency;
100 push-ups means believing;
So, if you want to see bitcoin at $100k, be very determined as someone who doesn't joke with their workout routine.

You can apologise to Satoshi here. You are the one that took him off context. Satoshi is intelligent and didn't say any nonsense.

The most absurd comment Ive seen on this forum recently is someone suggesting all humor should be confined to the Off-Topic board.

By that same logic, all serious discussion should be confined to the Serious Discussion board, right? So whats left for the rest of the forum? 

That thread is not in anyway stupid and it is very far from being the most stupid thread in this forum, why are some users so serious all the time, i think it is very unnecessary. If you have no interest in the thread nor in the challenge, then pass, and if you have reported for it to be moved several times, and yet it stays, it basically means the moderators do not agree with you and they think it is in the right section; just move on.