Topic: This is what I call spam feeders - page 3. (Read 889 times)

Instead of encouraging everyone to put them in ignore list which isn't realistic, why not consider a situation we report such users to moderators and moderators will enforce a punishment like "inability to start a topic for the next 7 days". This kind of measures could curtail or slow the spam feeders as you called them.

If someone falls victim to making a comment under a post that's created by a scammer, does that automatically make those users who replied there a spammer too? 
 
How about if it's a spam topic interest that the OP just lacks the proper information or it's being blinded by its spamming content and other members who reply either to correct the OP or warn the OP of his or her spamming behaviour? Are those members automatically spam feeders? 

Let's take this his thread, for instance. Topic: Can this happen with price resets and cryptocurrency? The post has about 5 replies. Will you consider everyone there as spam feeders? 

How did I know, before I even looked at that dude's post history, that those threads would be in the Economics section? 

Economics was a great place to read up until about 2-3 years ago, maybe less.  Now it's just become a cesspool of shitposters and it's almost as bad as Bitcoin Discussion--and that's a fucking shame.  Why is this guy creating so many threads?  Can't be sure, but I'd venture it's for the same reason random, unknown members have been creating the same "gold vs. bitcoin" type of topics for years now, so that their alt accounts, friends, and whoever else can jump in and make some money.

I'm so tired of it, too.  The quality of writing and importance of the content within posts/threads has dropped off a cliff on bitcointalk.  I doubt I'm the only one who's noticed this, but I'm not sure what can be done about it except to keep hitting the ignore button--but that's not a solution for the forum, just the individuals who don't mind ignoring a bunch of morons.


Is anyone checking to see if posts are being made or helped by AI?  Every single time I come across a post made by a newbie in decent English, red flags start going off.  I doubt the percentage of newly-registered members who can write well and contribute something even close to substantial is <1%, and that's been true for years.

@Synchronice, from what we can see, all these meaningless topics are the work of one man, I think he performed under the name polo (something like that) in the past. The man literally destroyed that board and you can literally do nothing to him except to try report topics, but I think it would be a long-term mission with little success.

I personally do not support any such discussion, and the question is why some others do not do the same - maybe a person would give up if he saw that no one is interested.

Accounts created these topics can use those accounts as tools to feed spammers that can be their own accounts too. I don't know but there are similar topics created in Gambling board with many boring questions which I believe unnecessary to ask because answers can be very clear.

In months, there were complains why these boring topics in Gambling board were moved to Off-topic board and spam feeding can be a reason or one of reasons.

You can report these topics that can be trashed or moved to Off-topic board or ignore those topic authors.

Honestly they're not that bad, as long as they didn't use AI or commit plagiarism, they're better than plagiarists.

Although sometime they discuss about absurd and bizarre thing which we never thought including the stupid one, but we shouldn't limit our ideas especially this forum is supporting free speech.

In this case, it seems not.

It's easy to spot a merit hunter, I don't see the "merit hunting" sign here.

Yeah you have a point. It's high time we start taking out plagiarist and spammers. sometimes there are too many low quality posts. As for sequencial posting, it's not against the rules of the forum . Posting very frequently isn't a wrong thing to do the problem is when you post frequently and the post are just plagiarised articles, or AI generated or just too low in quality. Also A newbie creating do many topics though isn't really a big deal if similarly those topics are of quality or the op was simply asking a couple of important questions.

I probably haven't really come across these users before or probably I have but didn't take note. Spam still occurs on the forum but it affects some boards and not all boards. Boards like technical discussions hardly get spams and I've noticed the moderator there deletes generic posts ASAP.

The best thing to do is to report these post when you spot them. It helps the moderators notice them on time.

This is a nice observation and I hope the mods can do the needful. 242 topics and 11 merits is a confirmation that the topics are not worth being topics here which is just spam. I wonder why people rush to create topics when they have nothing new to bring to the forum. I also noticed that most of the people who are eager to create topic do not even follow the discussion in their topics. Maybe they were advised that creating topics is how merits are earned in the forum. Some of them will learn the heard way because they are not willing to learn.

He is a known troll/shitposter that operated under other accounts as well.


Good luck with getting everyone on board.  

There's simply too many spammers that will use every single opportunity to dump their weekly post quota for that list to be effective.

He probably has some mental problem. I talked about him and his many alts on this thread:

Likely low quality poster alts.

Some of us have ignored him and his alts but:

Simply have a look at this user: Fullbear2222. 11 merits and 450 posts from which 242 are topics. Can you imagine? 242 topics.
What's his point? Nothing. He simply created new topics and feeds spammers.
Another one here: UTON Blockchain. 10 posts (8 topics).

What about to make the list of spam feeders in this thread? Everyone should put these people on ignore list. These people create topics, then bunch of spammers post in their thread and spam grows on this forum and that's bad.