The number of puppet accounts created recently with thousands of useless posts is incredibile. They are either spamming the latest mining/exchange scam, or adding useless contributions to the conversation to increase their postcount.
I find the "activity" of a user to be a good indicator of the quality of his posts. That, along with the number of "likes" a member received on his messages over his postcount should be used to grant access to privileged areas of the forum, imho. You could also create filters to catch groups of people spamming the "likes" system.
Basically a bitcoin forum is needed, we can't live out of reddit, but there also needs to be limitations, areas with restricted writing privileges, etc.
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April 14, 2014, 03:55:01 AM
April 14, 2014, 03:21:43 AM
Another part of the problem is the relaxed newbie restrictions; with so many new accounts being registered every day, the bar to post should be raised, not lowered. Who wants to see 16 newbie spam accounts push down some of the rare pearls of wisdom, say posts by DeathandTaxes to the point where you cant possibly find them?
+1. Maybe we should have the newbie jail back.
Finally the forum software thats absolutely unhelpful. Despite the fact that Theymos was given enough money to buy a medium sized software development company, in all these years, it hasnt improved one meaningful yota. The few changes that were made, made things worse, not better (think trust system)
IIRC, a new forum software is being developed, and it will cost us $1 million...
April 14, 2014, 02:31:37 AM
Ive been using this forum for 4 years or so now, with different accounts, I used to spend several hours every day on here and early on actually read most posts, but its just become unusable to me, its impossible to keep up with the flood of posts, and 99% of them just arent worth reading. Whats worse is that its impossible to find the few posts that are worth reading.
Part of this is due to bitcoin going more mainstream and logically creating a lot of new users, but whats greatly exacerbating the problem is forum policy and forum software.
The policy that allows users to put spam in their signature and have casino's and what not pay out (newbie/alt account) posters based on how much (nonsense) they post each day is the straw that broke the camel's back. At least 2/3 of the activity I see is just alt accounts posting whatever in order to boost their activity and collect more bitcoins for their signature spam. How this is allowed is beyond me.
Another part of the problem is the relaxed newbie restrictions; with so many new accounts being registered every day, the bar to post should be raised, not lowered. Who wants to see 16 newbie spam accounts push down some of the rare pearls of wisdom, say posts by DeathandTaxes to the point where you cant possibly find them?
Finally the forum software thats absolutely unhelpful. Despite the fact that Theymos was given enough money to buy a medium sized software development company, in all these years, it hasnt improved one meaningful yota. The few changes that were made, made things worse, not better (think trust system)
Its really sad but these days I need to get my bitcoin updates from google news or reddit.
Part of this is due to bitcoin going more mainstream and logically creating a lot of new users, but whats greatly exacerbating the problem is forum policy and forum software.
The policy that allows users to put spam in their signature and have casino's and what not pay out (newbie/alt account) posters based on how much (nonsense) they post each day is the straw that broke the camel's back. At least 2/3 of the activity I see is just alt accounts posting whatever in order to boost their activity and collect more bitcoins for their signature spam. How this is allowed is beyond me.
Another part of the problem is the relaxed newbie restrictions; with so many new accounts being registered every day, the bar to post should be raised, not lowered. Who wants to see 16 newbie spam accounts push down some of the rare pearls of wisdom, say posts by DeathandTaxes to the point where you cant possibly find them?
Finally the forum software thats absolutely unhelpful. Despite the fact that Theymos was given enough money to buy a medium sized software development company, in all these years, it hasnt improved one meaningful yota. The few changes that were made, made things worse, not better (think trust system)
Its really sad but these days I need to get my bitcoin updates from google news or reddit.
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