Topic: What do you think of the Bitcoin Discussion section? Does he need to change? - page 3. (Read 825 times)

The most annoying thing in the section is that I constantly run into topics with clickbait titles, where the news are proved to be either fake or the title misleading, like the news about Amazon, Aramco, Xiaomi, yet, despite users pointing out that in the first 2-3 pages nobody reads, everyone is shouting good news, so great, wow, such, moon, paraphrasing the same two liners. The nice thing about the section lately is that I see moderators acting more on locking topics, either these ones that start with a fake story or rumors or the ones that go nowhere, don't know if it's just somebody reporting them or the mods acting on their own but good call.

I'm trying as hard as possible to stay away from it and it's a real pain to see some subjects that are interesting, to see some posts that you simply feel the urge to reply to point the things you think are wrong there or to voice your opinion and then realize that probably the user will never come back to reply since he has done his quota, just reading your posts makes him spend twice as much time and ten times the effort 


Sounds good but it could lead to some abuse, people reporting tons of posts just to get somebody banned, or at the same time some escaping this as they only get n-1 posts deleted every day. Maybe a little tweak to (deleted posts/total number of posts over x days) ? If they try to bypass this by screening with the percentages and posting more crap they will be banned by the mods for sure.


That's why I don't revisit topics once they get past page 4 unless somebody quotes me or it's a topic I care about a lot, not that I've seen too many like that lately.

Potentially, something like a shadow ban which is then reviewed by a staff user before their posts going public again could also work. I think at the very least it would be beneficial to have an intuitive way to see when a user has had several deleted posts recently. Maybe even including posts that they've deleted themselves.

Not a joke at all. It's a reasonable idea IMO. Not only on the Bitcoin Discussion board, a lot of boards full of spam replies. Sometimes reporters report from the user's profile, in this case, spammers should be muted or temporarily ban for a short time. So that person will think twice before spam again.

Very hard to get a decent discussion in the 'Bitcoin discussions' board. There are a lot of shits there.

Some topics are interesting per se, but people turn it out to trash in a matter of a dozen of posts. They don't stop reformulating what has already been said earlier. You need to ignore 75% of the users to get proper content.
Seriously, imagine the same discussion IRL, in which all your friends repeat each others. I'm not interested in parots and don't plan to open a zoo.

When such posts are reported, it's usually moderated efficiently, but it becomes so boring to report them all. You spend more time reporting posts than reading a discussion

You gotta prepare yourself for the next huge run up in price then; because you're going to starve.

Jokes aside, wouldn't a temporary mute feature work nicely? e.g. if a certain user has like 10 of his/her posts deleted in a day, he/she is muted and unable to post for like 24 hours or so. Haven't thought of this deeply, but yea.

Nah, definitely not. If you see a spam post, and you don't mind reporting it, don't hesitate because you think it might start leaking elsewhere. It'll leak elsewhere anyway, and the more spam we remove the better for the community. Plus, you keep us mods busy; I've been getting fat because of the doughnuts I'm eating instead of handling reports.

I usually check Bitcoin Discussion first thing in the morning with my first cup of tea. I report 2 or 3 spam topics or replies and have a scan through the first page. Sometimes there’s something worth reading and replying to , but generally I can flick through the section in less than 2 mins.
Yes it is full of repetitive and spammy nonsense , but if you change this drastically , this repetitive and spammy nonsense will only appear in other sections. It’s worth trying to keep it contained to this section. My 2 sats anyway  

They will get deleted if reported. Unfortunately, its quite clear to me that signature campaign participants are much likely to engage in this behaviour, which is something that should have more exposure, since the campaign manager has to review their replies to get them paid, and obviously there's the chance that they'll even report them to the moderators.

They will, depending on the context. I'm not going to blanket statement it, and say they all will. It depends, but I've reported many especially in the Altcoin Discussion section, and they do get deleted. In fact, 100% of them have been deleted of the ones I've reported which was probably over 100 of them.

Rehashing another post isn't exactly abiding by the rules. It's spam. You don't need to keep saying the things that have already been said. Realistically, it should be a discussion, and therefore there should always be a contribution, otherwise your just talking in circles, which isn't exactly a good discussion.

Obviously, there's different angles users can take, and expand on things that have already been discussed, but if its not contributed to better the discussion, then it probably isn't abiding by the rules.

If you want to help with the efficiency of handling those reports; then just state they're rehashing another reply, and link to that reply if possible. It'll likely speed up the process of deleting it, otherwise the moderator has to read the entire thread, but if it can be streamlined from the community, even better. 

Trust me, we all do.

But I think reporting those posts won't get them removed right, as long as they abide by the rules?

I think mods/admins just need to be a bit more strict when deleting off low-quality posts; and also those posts that are obviously just rehashed versions of earlier replies(for some reason I get annoyed a bit too much when this happens to my posts).

But yea, spammers suck, but you can still see some good conversations from time to time.

In the beginning, I would only be active in the  Bitcoin Discussion section. At first I only read, and then I tried to reply to the post, and now I can publish my own post.

I have a habit of not searching for old posts, but only looking at the latest replies that are displayed.
Recently, I found that the topic of the new forum posts is similar, but the title is different. Will they be locked? Decide by quality or by the order of publication?

Recently I found that many posts in the Discussion section are locked.And I saw some comments on this section a few days ago, so I want to post a topic to discuss this matter.

1）As of 10:11 am UTC time, a total of 21 posts have been locked in the bitcoin discussion section, accounting for 26.25% of the posts on the first two [archive page1][archive page2]

2）A few days ago, I saw somebody made such an evaluation of bitcoin discussion.


I don’t know what others say about bitcoin discussion.But at least, for me. I checked this section almost every day when I was a novice.

But gradually I found that the quality of the content in this section is too mixed, and gradually I tend to read posts in other sub-sections, such as Beginners & Help, Development & Technical Discussion.

For those who come to the forum for the first time, bitcoin discussion is definitely one of the most important sections.（It's still like this for me now）.I still shared my first Bitcoin shopping in this section a few days ago,Of course, sometimes there will be posts that I am particularly interested in, as I mentioned in the previous topic.

But as I gradually deepened my understanding of the forum, my enthusiasm for bitcoin discussion diminished.

Do we need to make any changes?In other words, I have observed that the moderator has locked a large number of posts. Is the moderator cleaning up and rectifying this section?