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Topic: What's the main purpose of the Off-topics board? (Read 306 times)

legendary
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Honestly I don't have any issue with it, is just that I've been asking why is it there? Members do post in that section but it has less importance compared to other boards in the forum. We know members do make topics without knowing if it relate with the section or not all they want is start up a topic. And we have moderators who are doing their work perfectly well by removing irrelevant post to occupy the space, was saying if is not better to DELETE it completely than keep the post where even the OP won't want to continue posting.

I will also help to understand in some other sense. All of the above answers were given in favor of the Off-topic topic, but do you know how people conveniently use it to get their activity? Please note that there are a lot of new accounts on this board. By writing a few words of a one-line sentence, such accounts multiply their farms.
Find a topic about the benefits of water. You will be surprised that all the answers there that make more or less sense received merit last year (I could be wrong about the timing). And those who hunt for merit sense such topics very well, and those who catch them from farms are given tips very easily.
Therefore, the off-topic section is a kind of drain pit, where topics will be sent that do not make sense for the topic of the forum, but it is a pity for the moderators to delete them. But don’t forget, everything that could be abused will be abused by cheaters. The same thing happens in the "Serious discussion" section.
legendary
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OP, when you don't want a board or sub-board to see then go to profile - Ignore Boards Preferences - press Ctrl+F [windows] to find the board or subboard name - mark check - press the button "Change profile". The board will disappear from your eyesight. You will not even see any topic or post from that board because it is ignored from you.

Did I able to make your problem solved?
sr. member
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 Everyboard in the forum have there importance and I believe the executives of this great forum have their reasons for creating an Off-topic board, just like the name Off-topic it serves as a discussion for threads that are not related to Bitcoin or other boards and asides Bitcoin you should know that people have their personal life which they would want to seek advise or ask questions on, you don't expect them to ask them on the Bitcoin or other relevant boards so which do you think is the best place to discuss about them if not in the Off-topic boards. Despite the fact that most sig campaigns doesn't accept post from the Off-topic doesn't mean that it's not relevant, every board in this forum is very important, and if you create a very good post or give a good or educative reply to someone's post in the Off-topic board then it would definitely get merited by someone.
sr. member
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It's not really nonsense there are a lot of good topics on off-topic the only reason it is moved to off-topic is because it wasn't related to cryptocurrency, but it doesn't mean that every topic that is not related to crypto is going to be nonsense.

You could hide it if you hated it nothing is wrong with it, not all of the posting is all about having a signature campaign so not having your post counted on off topic might be a thing when you're on a campaign but the forum is not all about that it was still knowledge, information, etc.
legendary
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just because it is not an important section of the forum doesn't really mean it should be removed, the section exists so people can talk about things they are interested in but aren't related to any boards available in the forum.

why not remove it totally from the board so that whenever we don't see our post we know it has been deleted completely from the forum.
I am confused about this part, not sure why anyone would think that their post will be on the off-topic board if they can't see or find their post anymore.
hero member
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The naming is just what could have caused the curiosity and why most people think it's just some sort of an abandoned part of the forum. No, it's not. Personally, I see it as the “lounge", trying to have some fun without being penalized for saying things that's not related to anything about the forum you'll go there, catch some fun and get back to the serious part of the forum. It could be about your cat or dog. Such things wouldn't fit into any board in this forum except there.

Additionally, no board is exempted from receiving merits. Provided the merit button is there, posts will definitely get merited if it provides value to a reader with smerit. That should have been one of the busiest part of the forum but not many people know what to share in boards like that. That's why it's not mainly visited. Expect it to get busy sooner by participating there. Unfortunately, no one wants to make a post in a place where it wouldn't count.
legendary
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Moderators do move post or threads that are not relevant to the forum to the off topics section, since it doesn't really count especially those members who are in the sig campaign because no sig member I have seen post there
Tell me that you haven't really checked off topic section without telling me that you haven't checked off topic section.  Wink

Joke aside, its certianbly not the most important part of the forum and generally speaking discussion quality is not very high but its still one of the things that every forum that is fosuced on something specific (like bitcointalk is) has because people have other interests so if they wanna discuss them here, why not? Its certainly better than having to go someplace else.
legendary
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Don't think of the Off Topic board as being irrelevant just because you won't get paid for posts you write there. Signature campaigns aren't official features of the forum. It's just a bonus someone come up with years ago, and every campaign and manager have their own rules about where you can and can't post.

The main point of this forum is to discuss Bitcoin and Bitcoin-related topics. However, just like in life, you aren't interested in just one thing. When you are at work, you will talk to your boss and colleagues about work related topics, but you will also discuss, sports, women, movies, holidays, favorite foods, etc. That's off-topic, not related to the reason why you are there but you still talk about it.   
hero member
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@OP, who are you? my campaign manager didn't even ban/kick the participant who post on board where the post will not counted. While you, a nobody, is asking to remove the board just because it's not active like other board, less merit circulation and didn't counted in most of campaigns.

Imagine if Off-topics board has been removed, a random user will create a new thread in Meta asking the reason why it's get removed and request to bring it back.
hero member
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 Sometimes we tend to take some words the way they are and I think that's what the Op did; by taking the literal meaning of the off topic board and seeing as a section that bases mainly on posts that make no sense, more like a section where shit posts should be dumped and coupled with the fact CMs have listed it off areas of post quota further belief that it's irrelevant to the forum.
 Op, just as the others have explained, every section or sub board here has its use and purpose, all doing their jobs to make the place as clean and organized as possible.
The other day I visited altcointalk, and believe me, that place has nothing on this forum as it's not really organized, just as if the developers weren't looking for a perfect, orderly place, but rather somewhere users can come to and share Information, offer their services and at the end of the day, every one is happy.
 If you have issues with the off topic section, then I guess you'd have a fit when you hear of the Archival board Grin
hero member
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I have been wondering why we have Off-topic board in the forum. Moderators do move post or threads that are not relevant to the forum to the off topics section, since it doesn't really count especially those members who are in the sig campaign because no sig member I have seen post there, what's the essence of keeping it? Nobody goes there to post and earn merit or anything serious is happening there, nothing counts in that section, why not remove it totally from the board so that whenever we don't see our post we know it has been deleted completely from the forum. I said I should ask because it doesn't really count as an important section to the forum.
Deleting them does not sound good; it might be meaningful to others just that the thread did not match any section or subsection in the forum, which is why they were moved there.

You can find some interesting topics in the off-topic section that do not fit any other section in the general board or local board. You can interact there, just that campaign managers don't count posts in that section, and that is the reason signature participants do not like posting there.
sr. member
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I have been wondering why we have Off-topic board in the forum.
This is another description for purpose of Off-topic board. You got one from hilariousandco above.
Off-topic - "Other topics that might be of interest to bitcoiners"

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Moderators do move post or threads that are not relevant to the forum to the off topics section, since it doesn't really count especially those members who are in the sig campaign because no sig member I have seen post there, what's the essence of keeping it?
The Off-topic board serves for everyone who want to discuss topics which don't belong to other boards. If you are not interested in getting your posts to be counted in a signature campaign, I am sure you feel well to post in any board for pure discussions.

You can see people who post in Wall Observer thread in which only avatars enable but signatures disable. They have interests in that discussion and feel happy to join it and they don't care whether signatures are allowed to visually displayed there or disabled.

Two new no-signature boards that still have posters but it's difficult to say these boards have better quality topics than other boards.
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I get the feeling that OP thinks bitcointalk is where people make money online and nothing else, but that could just be my jadedness.  

Ok let's face the fact this forum is a place where so many things can happen making money, taking loan and scammers do come here to do their bidding but we shouldn't always hide from the truth that many are here for the money for what they truly want, everybody wants to make money and I believe this forum have helped many through sig campaign. I never even thought of what you said before starting this thread and you know how serious this forum is, I don't think a place like off topic can accommodate the lifestyle of people and they dump topics that are not related over there.


Do not underrate the off topic board. Let me believe that you have not visited there, maybe a few of your post have removed to the off topic board and you feel bad about it. I will just advise you to spear for you minutes of your time to visit that board and read the contents therein. It is then that you will understand that some users will just go to the off topic board and create topic for discussion. There are a lot of general discussion that teaches new knowledge in the off topic board. Also according to the description in the office topic board, you will understand that the board is as important as every other board in the forum. Without the off topic board, every other boards would be affected with unrelated topics. Deleting the posts instead of moving them to the off topic board as you suggested will reduce freedom of expression.

I have and non of my post if I can remember that have been thrown there🤔, you know is a step up for me to know more about some certain things in the forum. Let's say I have gotten a better view of how the off topics section works but I still see it as a place of discarding a lot of irrelevant post. Are you some how saying the OT is a place to go and relax, having a non-serious time with other members? If yes then is ok but I don't see that counting for campaign members when counting their weekly quoter.
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Everyone here must not be a signature participants and there are people who still visit that section to see what is happening in that section of the forum, there must be needs for offtopic at least to move some post that doesn't have classification towards their content or that are seen to be baseless.

I believe this board has been here even before you signed up from this forum and if admin or mods noticed it wasn't good they could have removed it for long now but instead it's still there and doing it's function. I know it's a very rough section were most people don't like visit except for the newbies or some other who just noticed their post has been moved from where it was created to another section.
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I have been wondering why we have Off-topic board in the forum. Moderators do move post or threads that are not relevant to the forum to the off topics section, since it doesn't really count especially those members who are in the sig campaign because no sig member I have seen post there, what's the essence of keeping it? Nobody goes there to post and earn merit or anything serious is happening there, nothing counts in that section, why not remove it totally from the board so that whenever we don't see our post we know it has been deleted completely from the forum. I said I should ask because it doesn't really count as an important section to the forum.
Do not underrate the off topic board. Let me believe that you have not visited there, maybe a few of your post have removed to the off topic board and you feel bad about it. I will just advise you to spear for you minutes of your time to visit that board and read the contents therein. It is then that you will understand that some users will just go to the off topic board and create topic for discussion. There are a lot of general discussion that teaches new knowledge in the off topic board. Also according to the description in the office topic board, you will understand that the board is as important as every other board in the forum. Without the off topic board, every other boards would be affected with unrelated topics. Deleting the posts instead of moving them to the off topic board as you suggested will reduce freedom of expression.
legendary
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Have you tried visiting the board? I'm not sure you have. That because if you did you would have seen by now that there are some members who even post on that board some constructive post that earn a good number merit.  

And it's pretty active, too, as far as I can tell from my infrequent visits. 

My experience with other discussion forums has been that pretty much every one has had an off-topic section or at least a politics & society one, because members of forums (but not this one so much) tend to get to know one another and sometimes like to talk about topics that don't pertain to whatever the focus of the forum is.  If sections like the two I just mentioned didn't exist, you'd probably see a ton of posts veering way off-topic into things like religion, politics, and so forth.

I get the feeling that OP thinks bitcointalk is where people make money online and nothing else, but that could just be my jadedness. 
hero member
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I have been wondering why we have Off-topic board in the forum. Moderators do move post or threads that are not relevant to the forum to the off topics section,
Not all topics that are moved to off-topic are irrelevant; there are really some important topics that are educating newbies, especially on security aspects, that have been moved to off-topic. Most of the threads that are 2FA-related are now all off-topic. Do you want to tell me that they are all irrelevant?
 
The topic might not be forum-related, crypto-related, or even fit into any of the subsections that we have in the forum, which might be the reason why moderators consider off-topic to be the perfect place.
 
Aside from those off-topic topics, there is somewhere you can go talk about your husband, your favourite TV show, and the rest of things that might only interest a small population of the forum. I do visit there once in a while, as do some other reputable members, as I have seen a few other threads on that board.
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...And we have moderators who are doing their work perfectly well by removing irrelevant post to occupy the space, was saying if is not better to DELETE it completely than keep the post where even the OP won't want to continue posting.
Irrelevant posts gets trashed regularly. For a thread to be moved to the off-topic board, it is relevant enough to remain on the forum and will attract good discussions for those interested, but does not fit into any of the general boards.

Mods do not use off-topic board as a quick fix.

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I said I should ask because it doesn't really count as an important section to the forum.
All boards and child boards on the forum are important and serve their own purpose. In my estimation, they help to keep the forum well structured and very organized. I know you may soon ask about the archival board so let me answer it to the best of my knowledge. Just like the off-topic board, the archival board is equally important, it's almost like a personal draft book for some users or a scratchbook. They put their thoughts, if it makes sense they proceed to posting it, if it doesn't they move it there if they don't want to delete it. Also the mods move stuff there too that doesn't fit in off-topic or other boards.
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Do you have any problem with the off-topic section? All non-related to crypto will always moved to off-topic and I think the reason why we have this section is that some people want to talk about any nonsense or non-crypto-related topics that they want to discuss.

If you have a problem with this section and don't want to see this board then you can go to your profile and then "Ignore Boards Preferences" and look for that section and mark it check.

Honestly I don't have any issue with it, is just that I've been asking why is it there? Members do post in that section but it has less importance compared to other boards in the forum. We know members do make topics without knowing if it relate with the section or not all they want is start up a topic. And we have moderators who are doing their work perfectly well by removing irrelevant post to occupy the space, was saying if is not better to DELETE it completely than keep the post where even the OP won't want to continue posting.
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