Topic: This section is a mess. (Read 815 times)

You guys mighyt see this as a mess but for the others its a big help specially on newbies and beginners. Im often visiting this section to finds some help due to some account issues and problems and found this helpful.

I've actually already started writing one. I also plan on suggesting to theymos that newbies are also forced to read the rules upon sign up so there's no excuses when they get permabanned for copy and pasting or whatnot.

The incident was in 2015. You can find people losing their account that was registered after 2015...

But about hacked accounts, I'm not really sure why Meta isn't a good place for these threads.

It's only for better visibilty.

Because the DB is now available publicly for free and people still haven't changed their passwords.

I've actually already started writing one. I also plan on suggesting to theymos that newbies are also forced to read the rules upon sign up so there's no excuses when they get permabanned for copy and pasting or whatnot.

I haven't changed mine because there have been so many threads about password changes causing accounts to be locked.

Because the DB is now available publicly for free and people still haven't changed their passwords.

Browsing Meta for the past short while has become nothing but a drove of 'My Account is locked/hacked' and 'How do I rank up?' topics. It doesn't help matters that the majority of the latter topics are several pages of people saying exactly the same thing to spam their ICO campaign signatures.
To show the extent of this, here's a screenshot of the Meta section's first two pages (red relating to a hacked/locked account and blue relating to activity). Out of around 80 topics, 27 are 'My account is locked/hacked' and 12 are 'How do I rank up?' topics. That's just under half of all topics in the first two pages belonging to one of these two types of topic. You can also see that the topics marked in blue usually have several pages, which is all likely spam (as the answer to the questions posted can likely be clearly defined in 2-3 posts).

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To fix this, I'd firstly suggest a new sub-board for those with hacked/locked accounts to post in. It's obvious that this is a fairly large problem as of late, and having a single sub-board for it would make life easier for those needing to find these topics in addition to making the Meta section much more interesting to read and take part in.
However, since this requires admin intervention meaning (alongside it being regarding hacked/locked accounts) there's little chance of anything happening, my second suggestion could be carried out by anyone with moderation permissions in the Meta section.
Similarly to how the [General] threads exist in the Beginners/Help section and the section is moderated using these, I'd suggest that threads asking the same questions would be moved to Trashcan and the OP would be directed to an already existing thread answering their question. Whether the threads that people are redirected to currently existing threads or new threads are written is dependent on how the moderation staff feel. This tactic would reduce the threads that are essentially asking the same question repeatedly, would remove an avenue for signature spammers to post in and would allow all questions to be asked in one single place for organization.

Thoughts?

My suggestion for the rank up threads wasn't to move them, it was to delete them and redirect to a central topic similar to how the [General] threads work in Beginners and Help. I'd be happy to report these threads and write the General thread if needed.

The 'rank up' threads should just be trashed on sight especially since most are just too lazy to read because they're so eager to spam their way through the ranks to start shitposting on a campaign, but moving them to somewhere else isn't going to do anything but just create more work for Staff (most of them are already posted in the wrong sections and are moved to Meta).

What about to find why those accounts are suddenly compromised.

To fix this, I'd firstly suggest a new sub-board for those with hacked/locked accounts to post in. It's obvious that this is a fairly large problem as of late, and having a single sub-board for it would make life easier for those needing to find these topics in addition to making the Meta section much more interesting to read and take part in.

I absolutely agree with this, and I think if noobs were redirected to a sticky or a comprehensive thread about their question they'd be much less likely to keep asking the same stupid question again and again.

There's really no good reason not to increase the number of sections here.  It does make meta a complete mess, and it's one of the most interesting sections here!  Also, the "how do I rank up" threads should probably be in the beginners & help section anyway, if not the trash can.

"How do I earn bitcoin?" is a question that frequently gets asked, and the answers are always the same standard ones--I won't even write them here.  This should either be a sticky or a redirect, because there have been numerous threads that have exhaustively addressed it.

I'm surprise that bitcointalk doesn't have a filter to flag "how do I rank up" threads. If not a flag, an auto reply pointing to one of the many other threads on the topic.