Topic: This forum has become shit - page 2. (Read 1140 times)

What's changed?

We all began from something. When I look my first comments they are really shitty, cause of I have just joined and didn't actually get good enough what is going on here and with all those crypto

Nah.. it depends on your mindset.
this is a very huge forum.. covering worldwide.. so, anyone can do whatever they want..
shit or not.. well, sometimes you did shit too dont you?

I assure you I won't be offended.  What you wrote could be right from my mouth.

I did not say that people who can't write proper English are bad people--they just shouldn't be posting here.  The fact that some deodorant-sandwich eating cretins have discovered that they can become ballers by shitposting is a distressing concept to me.  It's true:  I'd rather see them go hungry and use birth control than have them make 1000 accounts all posting nonsense.  So sue me.  

You think a post like this has only grammar wrong with it?  It's a vague one-line response that adds nothing to any real conversation.  It's lazy and unnecessary.  People do this constantly just to rank up and/or get paid.  It's fucking disgusting.

if 100 people could report just one post a day then that's 100 less nonconstructive posts. Lutpin & Shorena used to be very active reporters and reported many posts each day. Last time going off they had around 20,000 posts just between the two of them. Then there were multiple other users with several thousand reports.

Of course, not every nice person is capable of speak English perfectly, but it's a fact that the majority of the people who can't speak English properly is posting threads/comments that are either very hard to understand due to their awful grammar, spelling, punctuation and sentence structuring or they state false information.
Karma doesn't exist. Revenge, however, definitely does.

If they had to pay to post, they wouldn't join. Paying $90 for posting 30 shitposts on each of your 30 accounts isn't worth it if you risk being banned from Signature Campaigns, thus losing your money.
Of course, they'll try to find a way to sneak through it, but the harder we make it for them, the lesser of them there will be.

Would be nice to have some extra coders though, as that would mean more & faster development of Bitcointalk, which is a pretty positive thing.

In addition to the ICO advertisement problem, some more disadvantages to it would include, but are not limited to:
-Exclusion of newbies, whilst some might carry valuable or simply useful information.
-A huge amount of work would have to be done to check whether the posts are quality.
-Shitposters will simply try to post larger posts and hope to get accepted, enlarging the amount of work checkers would have to do.
-Shitposters could easily post 30 posts of reasonable quality and then switch to shitposting after they've gained access to the full board.

Even if they pollute the forum,this forum is clearly created for freedom of speech,and not every person who can't speak proper english is a bad person. That is so discriminating.
Free advice:- Do not be such a cunt,for know this,Karma is a fucking bitch.
And oh,You agree you're not a nice person IRL? My photographic memory says so that you edited your message soon after you sarcastically or non-sarcastically told that you're a nice person IRL. But eh,like I care about it? I see everyone as a bastard,so pff.. And I do not mean to offend you by this,so do not get offended.

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You wish.

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Your method can be derided by shitposters,they always tend to find a way in.
But about the coding part,I do know the basics of Java(in netbeans) and MySQL. Not sure I can help him here,and I am inactive on this forum because I'm swamped with the workload that I already have.

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Probably would have been removed because of new users coming in to advertise their ICOs. Had it been there,the forum would have been much better.

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The mods might appreciate it but their workload only increases. I do wish to help but honestly my timings clash very much,so sincere apologies. But how many people can you report? There are handful of really good posters who wish to help the community and an ocean of shitposters. Additional active mods can help here.

If anyone wants to actively fight against the spam coming from signature campaigns just go to their thread and the majority of them have a spreadsheet with the usernames of all the participants, or you can scroll through the thread manually.  Then look at their posts, and report any that are spam. (I would recommend signature managers to do this when they are reviewing too)

It's literally a database for spammers. You'll find a lot of the accounts are trying to hide in the spam in the altcoin section. As well as a few accounts just rehashing what someone previously said in a thread. Alternatively, if you see someone with a shitpost, look at their history and report any other shitposts too. The mods will appreciate it and the general browser.

When I first registered in 2012 or so there was a newbie forum. Every newbie had to post at least ~30 non spam posts before he had acces to the full board.

There are bounties promising to pay after people invested on their ICO, copy and paste a white paper and change a few words, then post your announcement thread, if no body bought your scam, you could always advertise for free, post a bounty thread and promise to pay after people bought your shitcoin. that is not so hard to do, if you could sell your shitcoin to people, you'd pay with your shitcoin to shitposters, but if people didn't buy them, you could start working on your next shitcoin, post your threads and beggars would keep advertising for free until you get what you wanted.
All for free, no body cares if you are telling 20 shitposters to create 40K posts with hundreds of alt accounts.

But if shitposters would have to pay minimum $0.1 per post while wearing a signature, they would keep posting with no doubt, the only difference would be $4000 earned from them, people would also think twice before joining such campaigns.
Theymos could assign a mod to tag any bounty participants for payment, (the first attempt to post after wearing a signature should redirect you to a page asking for a minimum of $10 in Ð or Ł or Ξ or anything other than BTC to unlock 100 posts for you while wearing a signature).
Theymos is alone, doing everything by himself is difficult, if you are a coder and want something to be done about this problem, help him in coding.

I'm a curmudgeon who dislikes people, regardless of ethnicity.  That just happens to be the easiest thing to insult.

Edit:  However, everybody's got to die sometime and there are a load of people on this earth who should not be having children in the first place.  Especially those who pollute a good forum with garbage as a full-time means of supporting those rodents.  Merry Christmas!!!
And a happy new year.  Hoping for less shitposting in 2018.

This thread is not for insulting anyone in terms of their ethnic background,but I cannot help agreeing with you on the fact that "working" on this forum can be financially boon for a lot of people. Since theymos isn't going to agree on banning on account sales,or limiting people to not have more than one account or banning signature campaigns,people are going to take advantage to their very best. This is just adding up to the pile of workload on mods. And theymos isn't willing to add new mods too.
Don't be this rude towards people who don't even know you. You cannot put the entire blame on the people from the third world countries,because they do not have proper education facilities for learning English or any other subject.They just byheart whatever they are asked to and just continue doing so. The blame is on campaign managers too not all of them but some,who use bots to manage their campaign. Some of them don't even bother to read their participant's posts. And please,control your anger,you'll have a cardio attack. And one more reason for shitposting is that the lack of knowledge people possess on bitcoin,if they bother to read,they can improve their Englsih as well as their knowledge. But I don't think they are going to do so until and unless managers,and theymos start taking some serious action.And screaming spam also, so shut the fuck up and please come back to the main discussion.
Was there ever such a rule for 30 post limit ? What the fuck are you on about?
So what do you expect me to do about it?

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Please stop posting off topic and spamming this thread.Get back on the damn discussion.
Should have created a self-moderated thread.

Hmm, I don't get why the 30 post limit for newbies in the newbie forum got removed. I think this was an somehow effective way to make multiple accounts unattractive for spammers/rankers.


These are things that exist since I know this forum.

Merry Fucking Christmas to you mate  

Yeah this thread is screaming maturity 

I don't consider myself rich, though the country I'm in may be considered better than some dirt-poor 3rd world country.  

Right now it looks as though campaigns have dried up--I can't find one to join!  I'm OK with that, but it is definitely fun earning an extra income just by posting here, which I do anyway.  It just galls me that these morons earn that much money, enough to live like a king in their shit country--and they're so fucking lazy and ignorant about it that they can't even be bothered to put in a minimum amount of effort!  Really, if you can feed your family with one day's work on bitcointalk, don't you think you should be writing pure fucking gold?  But no, they either copy/paste or rewrite those garbage "bitcoin is going up day by day so our profit increase" type posts.  It's sickening.  I want their money.  They don't deserve it.  They should be left to starve to death.

This is for now second best strategy right after banning them, but it will keep working only as long as tagged accounts remain banned from entering campaigns. If you tag enough of them some managers will surely set new rules that will allow tagged accounts post with reduced rates. Business is business.


It's not just a lucrative business for the poor, it's a gold mine. Some of you rich boys should realize that in those countries you're earning 20$ a day in a job, working your ass of in construction, docks, or driving a cab. Recently, when Bitcoin was closing to $20,000, campaigns were paying over 10$ for a post! One day spent on a forum can feed a family for a month in Pakistan, India, or Bangladesh . This is a life changing deal for those people and they will keep swarming here like locust trying to copy-paste and google translate until something is done.

What can you do bout it too? Most of the bounty managers do not even read the participant's posts and they just put a limit of 100-500 participants and use a bot to count posts and check other stuff like signature or avatar. Though I don't know much about it,this is an issue here though.Shitposters ruining the forum.I wish you good luck for your good cause and your future endeavours.
Though this is going to hurt of a lot people ,especially shit posters who don't understand anything,what you are saying is true. This forum has become more of a income generating site than a forum.
You think he is going to work on it? Y'all already know the answer for it.
Maybe you are only bull-shitting.
And what is there to be jealous of?

LOL.  I haven't looked at the rest of this guy's post--I hope he just posted that to be ironic or whatever.  But it's posts EXACTLY like this that are making bitcointalk suck.  And we all know why, too.  Because of sig campaigns and the value that's placed on being a high-ranked member.  I'm seeing a ton of new accounts making bullshit posts like "Agree wit u bro", and they do that just so they can rank up (multiple) accounts.  Who wants to read garbage like that?

When I finally get a desktop computer and internet access from home, I'm going to start tagging account farmers/shitposters in earnest.  And in my mind there's little doubt who's doing it.  It's like pornography.  It's hard to define exactly, but you know it when you see it.
I was lurking in 2014-2015 before I created this account and it was pretty damn bad then.  Lately it's gotten a hellova lot worse, though.  Sig campaigns have turned into lucrative money-making ventures for the Philippines and other poor, undereducated (not just in English, either) countries and they've attracted people in those countries by the thousands.  It's great for them but horrible for the forum.
Every fucking post of yours is completely uninteresting, zero-value garbage so far.  You might want to work on that.

That's not my account. If I had anything to say I would just say it since I'm negged anyways.