Topic: Who is able and willing to moderate the Politics & Society section? - page 5. (Read 2864 times)

About 4000 Dutch people have "Nijhof" as surname, and about 3000 Dutch people have "Dewy" as first name.
It's 17576 times less likely to hit "dewynijhof" at random than entering "digiran".

Why are you now responding with an alt rather than your main account?

Jesus answered, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."

Go make a difference.

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Having over 200 good reports isn't being serious enough?

It's also senseless to ask for posts by high-ranked members. Spam is spam, regardless of the origin. You'll find plenty of spammers that have high activity/rank. Moreover, the act of seeking out high-rank spamposts is not a key part of a moderator's duties.

That is against free speech and you are using biased opinions.

Delete, delete, delete.

@theymos, read latest posts of this user. they are not even using any decent username. dewynijhof is practically like a random push of a few keys.



I don't believe for a second this account to be not a farmed account. spending 15 minutes averagely in a day to earn a few dollars in a month to buy a house? investing on crypto and hope to earn enough money to buy a house and have a better life for his family? he said that his salary is just enough for his family to survive. do you think members like this one, are here with 1 account to earn money to support their families? I think they are here with more than 10 accounts. all of them start farming accounts by posting in P & S. they need their signatures disabled.



Mindset of people come to this forum. let people spam, they need money to support their families. wrong mindset.

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Deleting posts and trashing topics is not enough. stopping people from ranking up is not enough. they will continue and will post even more garbage, because they will have only low rank accounts and bounties pay small for low rank accounts. if you were posting with 20 Hero accounts before. now your friend has no other option other than posting with 100 Jr member accounts.

Let me disable their signatures while deleting their posts as well. let me start with obvious farmed accounts first and then reviewing post history of members posting low value, no-value garbage in P & S section. every section's mod doing that, we'll have no more garbage posts.

Note, I'm not against people trying to earn money here if they are posting with 2-3 accounts. it starts to hurt this forum when they are trying to milk this forum by more than 10 accounts. is there anybody here to spend time to achieve that? or you all want to get on with your lives, only having the perks of a moderator, not spending time dedicating your lives to your "job"? it's not even a job for you. how could you moderate hundreds of thousands of posts without spending time as a full job?

Removing topics with more than 40-50 pages achieves nothing, they will repeat doing the same thing. moderating in that section has nothing to do about one's education or political views. being a moderator means that you should delete totally garbage posts, any terrorist activity such as inviting people to join a specific group, organization to fight against whatever they believe is a cause worth fighting for. moving irrelevant topics. deleting off topic replies. I don't care if you worship the devil, just don't invite people to do the same by providing specific details such as posting links to websites asking people how and where to go and what to do in order to worship the devil.

If there are not much reporting from people in that section, it will be a difficult job to clean it. if you have somebody better than me. go for it. I'm disappointed to see there is no real competition. only an angry pinoy vouching for Bernie Sanders. we all know he wasn't going to be the president. or maybe Flying catfish is Trump?

People at least learn from Vod, he never replied here after he expressed his opinion about me. at least he is man enough to know the difference between bad and good in general. I'm begging you. learn from him. responsible member.

I know I am arrogant, sue me.

I would like actually to take a shot.

It is obvious, that my current rank is not anywhere near a respectable community member, yet I'm a very long-term user and reader. Also, my education (MS in Economics and minor ih the Political studies) is a good match.

Based on being a level headed person? make everybody with more reports automatically a moderator. because that is what theymos asked. you are giving your view based on reports. otherwise you would've provided a reason to justify your vote.

I'm listing your names to remember how I should value your opinions in the future.

 Flying Hellfish is my choice too, as I said earlier, I'll give a hand in the cleaning of the section.

I do support the suggestion the section to be restricted for be for newbies or maybe not to generate activity ( or require some level of merit to generate activity, a way to filter the shitposters) since it is not directly related to Bitcoin/Altcoin.

Same rules should apply also for the Off topic section.

You'll say that all the shitposters will flood the Bitcoin/Altcoin sections, yeah this is true, but there are more active users ( not shitposters)  and they can do more  reports. It can be more work but it will be more control ( and more work for the moderators)

@don Hillary. those girls in your post are good and useful for jumping purposes only. lol.

Angry pinoy. note about the level-headed. could you find the original post to read what it says after "I do believe in Jesus, I do"? that part edited out by level headed is the core of the lonely virgin's whole belief system. but it was censored, why?

Thanks by a factor of 0. master Pharmacist.

Oh, I'd say by a factor of 5 at least.

I vote for Flying Hellfish.  He's obviously level-headed and seems like he can do the job.  Meanwhile, digaran is following in the footsteps of mixan in having a very public prizefight with sanity.  And if you take a look at mixan's trust score, well...

Edit:  I'll be damned.  Looks like mixan logged in recently.  I wonder if the nutty person who earned all that negative feedback is still the one in control of the account.

And they are comprehensible!  Whoop whoop!
10 year beauty pageant answer better than those posters in politics and society.

Haha. Half of them probably are.









The sad thing is is those answers are probably more articulate than your average P&S ones.

I like to go to that board because I'm a political guy, but it really is just trash. Most posts sound like a 10 year beauty pageant contestants answering questions.

Like somebody else said, it should probably be limited to higher ranking level who are not just posting to build up posts.

Are you applying? I would vote for you.

I was wondering why alot of discussions about who will be the new Mod  since this user Flying Hellfish has 257 non bad reports even if you add all users reports ,he will still has more reports .He should be automaticaly the new mod .
 

Ya I am definitely familiar with BADecker and that thread!    My view on it is yes the in between posts need to be fixed those one liners replying only to the title of the thread, they gotta go.  But you and BD are putting effort into your posts and having a debate (if talking to a wall can be called a debate LOL).  Yes a lot of has been repeated but I don't believe for a second either of you are doing it for post count.

I don't have a problem with you guys.  BADecker and I are about as polar opposite as I can imagine but I haven't once seen him break a forum rule that I know of, so as far a I'm concerned he can say whatever he wants!   I also think he is one of the funniest users on the forum 

Notbatman (as you know) is another controversial user. As vile and disgusting as he is I haven't seen him break any forum rules either.  I feel sorry for the dude, I think he has a mental illness (seriously) but he is allowed his opinion either way.

Anyways as far as I go I say keep these kinds of users talking, the entertainment value is through the roof!  They are literally the reason I go to those two boards!!!!!

No word yet that I saw.

I have heard it before, power means something different for me. I have no desire to make people cry or break their hearts by deleting their posts in bulk by removing topics or resetting the entire forum section. if there is a reset, I want to reset Bitcoin as well. just let me mine with my laptop for 24 hours first.
Resetting the entire section, looks easy, less work for a moderator. I apologize if I have acted like a stupid child, I haven't slept for 2 days.

Nobody even mentioned anything about my posted quotes and my ideas on how to deal with them, I have suggested a few methods of dealing with the garbage in that section. because I don't have any administration access to implement them (what I mean by that, you shouldn't necessarily ask for permission from theymos every time you are not sure about something, just don't make it any harder for him than it really is), I presented them (I don't know which method I should use, or use them in mixture. there has to be a time in which some of them are more productive ), though everything is not on the table yet. need to sleep and prepare my case tomorrow. I couldn't even use my source merits today, too many long posts on tech section and mostly from Legendary members.

Note, @theymos, you asked, I came. if you also need a DT moderator to care about the trust system I could act as an active measure (don't know what that means, I heard it on Homeland season 7 episode 8. lol). if I'm not qualified after presenting my full case, I will then prepare my next case for another section. thank you all for your unbiased inputs on my character. remember, ideas on moderation should be discussed, pointing out to me that I'm stupid will do me no good, if you really believe that I'm stupid, unfit and untrustworthy.

@Bill Gates, I used that other account to say those things for a reason. plausible deniability.
Note again, have you noticed 2 people are following the ~Cat like a tail? quoting Mother Teresa here like some people care.

EDIT in red above and the following:

I would suggest if any of you are serious about this job. at least make prepare 20-30 different users and different posts, not just the easy ones, try to pick on some of the high ranking members and their garbage posts as well. all I wanted was for the best to become a mod, not just a fish acting like a limp dick.

Completely agree and just wanted to add that the reason why I'm asking is because it almost seems like 90% of the threads there are like this. Ofc this is the reason Theymos started this thread in the first place.

Examples:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/president-trump-is-more-smart-than-before-so-what-he-will-do-next-3315389 (President Trump Is More Smart Than Before - So What He Will Do Next ? )  --> Granted, this is actually on topic, but again very low effort. Though deleting this might be seen as censorship?

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/our-children-nowadays-2976682 (Our Children Nowadays)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/quit-facebook-2829336 (Quit Facebook)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/what-is-the-rationale-behind-african-leaders-wanting-to-rule-forever-3310363 (WHAT IS THE RATIONALE BEHIND AFRICAN LEADERS WANTING TO RULE FOREVER)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/why-are-people-suffering-from-jealousy-2374499 (why are people suffering from jealousy ?)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/time-machine-2554765 (TIME MACHINE!)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/what-to-do-when-life-purpose-is-lost-2877389 (What to do when life purpose is lost?)

Might have been better to find out which topics are actually good, that list would have been shorter... Most of these topics are obviously from people who have a poor understanding of English, but where do you draw the line?

If it's poor english + generally low effort, it should be removed.

Low effort also means just copy pasting an article, even if they add the source. If there's no personal commentary in that case, should be removed.

I'd say "it depends":
Yes, if it's an established member who's girlfriend recently broke up with him (face it, this is more likely than the other way around ).
No, if it's a Newbie who is only posting in P&S and Off-topic to gain Activity.

One solution would be to deny new users access to those boards, but that'll move the spam to other boards. I do believe the majority of accounts that started by posting only in those boards will never contribute anything to the forum.

This example is vague because "something" isn't really defined in the topic (so this I'd probably say is worth trashing), but as a slightly revised example, if the thread title was "How do we move on from breaking up with a girlfriend/boyfriend", would this then be acceptable?  

It would be hard to distinguish whether a forum member is actually posting about this or just picking some random thing a person would need to move on from. The threads I've looked through so far appear to be started for the intent of padding post counts (which I believe merit may be slowing down) but when theymos says "without hampering the free exchange of ideas", I'm not sure there would be any choice but to leave a thread like the one I've mentioned. The replies may be easier to scrutinize, especially when there is an extreme repetition of the same idea/thought repeated by various accounts... but then do you go with the first poster who had a particular idea as sort of a first-come-first-serve basis of ideas towards the thread topic?  Or do they get left as the N^th example of "Take some time after your break-up, meet new people, and enjoy who you have in life." <- which could be seen as useful idea to the OP... but when it is repeated multiple times in various ways, it becomes painful to the reader.