Topic: Why There Are So Many Premier League 2024/2025 Threads In Gambling Discussion? (Read 653 times)

Just noticed the activeness of the moderator in the gambling section, lots of topics has been locked and I was wondering what could have cause such a reaction then coming to see this topic, I just understand what actually happend.


I have an opposing opinion, we have paid threads that allows discussion for only members that paid and if there's anything I know about spammers, they won't want to pay to spam when they can spam for free and get paid.

Although the threads have similar discussion but conversation are of different qualities and while one is more interesting to discuss on, others are full of spams and low quality discussions. Just a suggestion, if all league threads gets a criteria that anybody interested in discussing on the thread has to pay to discuss, the spamming might reduced and more of quality conversations gets introduced.

Every managers with their own peculiar ways of evaluating quility of posts of signature campaign participants, and we have some managers that clearly state out that post's that are made 5 page's and above won't be counted, while some others take the time to read and grades posts regardless of what page the posts appears.


So the issues of posts quality avaluation is quite a complex cases since individuals have they own way of grading post's and marking it as low Quality or high quality posts, and also forum have a standard that it follows also and if the posts falls below the moderator standard such post get deleted automatically.

The epl season is a continuous event during weekends that’s the major reason discussions there keep increasing despite the excessive comments, it’s still okay we share our different ideas. What I observed recently mostly the premier league discussion is ideas always move round with opposition and match statistics including prediction, duplicate threads can be manage if necessary but what’s more important is if there’s any need following the rule set by Agbe whereas every new season deserves a new thread then it’s best old thread get lock, it will not look nice if creating fresh topics every season and still seeing the old topic.

Reporting such thread to moderators point to two things either the report get marked as good or probably got ignored, quite often gambling board is the most unmoderated board around the forum and that is why most reports from that board sometimes get untreated and reason why we have high rate of spam coming from the gambling board.

Although recently gambling board have received alot of attention from moderators with the rate of threads getting lucked on that board, it shows that moderators have taken special attention to gambling board.

I know in the near future we will not be seeing anymore of such repeated spamming thread's around that board since the mod would have taken care of that section of the forum and cleaning up whatever need to be clean up to make gambling discussions board more clean with less spams.

I liked this point you made in the highlighted text and well, it is common sense reasoning, unless it is addressed otherwise, I think I agree that new league threads be created at the start of every new season, so as to refute the MEGA THREAD claim and enable more participation from those who look for those kind of contents to express their wiz.

It looks like spamming though because of the similarities in thread creation and the way in which it makes the gambling section on this platform house excess repeated threads.

As you can see, moderators have recently been actively checking the relevance of topics in the gambling section, and if you open this section in search of new topics, a very sad picture emerges. Many topics are simply closed, but the discussion is conducted in old and rather long threads. I don’t know how difficult it is to do this technically, but is it possible to move all closed topics separately to the archive, leaving the archive in the gaming section as information that was discussed but has fulfilled its purpose?

Like I said before, the World Cup is every 4 years and the EPL spans across 10 months period every year. It seems to me that your concerns are really about getting your signature posts counted on these threads. Your idea of “keeping the thread fresh” sounds like you want a self moderated PL thread where the OP deletes all the posts once the thread gets to 20 pages so campaign managers can count them as eligible posts.

The gambling section is like a market place and you can't stop any activity that goes on over there, topics with similar meaning are being opened there and since is a gambling board things that happens there is like a rotational events. The season changes but some members prefers to only open their own thread (is like a thing of joy to have your own thread) instead of waiting for the OP to edit the current thread to look like a new one. You can't stop what goes on in the gambling board just like that unless the moderators or whoever is in charge does the needful, aside from that complaining won't help, let the Forum decide which thread to delete.

This is Bitcointalk forum, and not a signature campaign forum. So, things shouldn't be structured to fit individual campaign managers who don't count posts made in a mega thread. I am not a fan of locking a thread and opening a similar thread just because it's running into a mega thread.

If you lock older threads and open new ones, you didn't solve the problem of spam, instead you just started a new journey of spamming. The problem is therefore not in the threads but the individuals using them. Maybe it's a good time to lock the thread, this is not the first or second time discussing this.

I am staying away from threads like this but when you tag me I read what is says. Here are a couple of points and counter arguments from my side.

1. Couldn't care less that this thread is considered Mega thread. Actually I prefer it that way. It shows history of both bitcointalk and Premier League. Those that will write less here because some campaign manager doesn't like Mega threads can go and write posts in pointless topics that are opened every day. Not one of those people will ever enter my campaigns though. Since those threads have 0 value. if you guys want to spam, open new threads for every match day. That will give you fresh thread that counts for every manager and maybe this one will became what it used to be before some of us "oldies" shifted our discussions to paid pool topics to avoid spam.

2. Why is nobody actually searching for info before opening new threads? When I started this one, I was using the old one for 2 years and sent numerous PMs to the guy that opened it to check if he could update it. After he was MIA for a long time this one was made.

3. This is by the way at least 3rd topic on the same thing of multiple PL threads that has been created somewhat recently. And that is just where I have been tagged. Maybe there is more. Why? I am guessing so people can write all the same things once again. You are advocating about multiple threads and doing the same thing yourself.

4. World cup is every 4 years. Leagues have continuity.

5. Spam and low quality posts are a real problem and I considered shutting the thread before because of it but decided against it. I am against moderated threads and will never open such thread on bitcointalk. In these days free speech should be cherished and not moderated.
 

Yes but what I am also conveying here is that, Premier League is a Seasonal event and Trofo thread too has entered into Mega thread so he can lock it and create new one so that all discussions will be as fresh. I am not saying that they should locked it permanently but lock it and create new one so that for the first 20 pages will be accepted by those campaign managers who don't like to count from 20 pages upward. The rule applies in world cup should also done in Premier League. In 2022/2023 world cup threads have locked 🔒🔐. And if World Cup will start, it is new ones we are going to see to make the discussions fresh. Though there is one currently but it is to discuss the pre Match events.

I have taught of this before, because its not nice to have series of thread that's emphasizing on one thing, but the thing is that those threads established in different years but only thing that differs them from each other is when it was established.

I may say that Trofo thread should remain because he was the first to establish such thread, if they will be any needs to wipe other related threads, but I have not see any means of deleting them because some of them have stayed almost three years plus and some have stayed has stayed almost a year plus, if they will be amendments let it be incoming thread since all these has already gotten ground from when it was created.

If I am not mistakenly same issues has been addressed but even as that what is this forum all about?
We discuss and share common ideas together but at some point restricting people from doing what they want to do is not actually a good ways to handle the whole matter. Let say, in as much as the said user follows the rules of the forum and obeyed every single aspect of it then theres no need to do so neither would I encouraged people to increase the spam, what happened is that if you find any spam post or thread it's best advisable to report them to moderators to iron the whole matter than you creating another topic to still repeat what that has been before, although I know that you might even came across the post where it's already handled before.

Have you also think that if much rules are being set on the gambling section how would the forum remain active, or did you just want a thread like WO as other gambling discussion to put inside? Is that what you wanted. To me the efforts are being channel to gambling section after the ban of mixers and of course people won't stop creating topics and mega thread because they always have a reason to post and expressed themselves here. What matters is that let your post or topic be on set, easy and simple for discussion then we would have people to contribute over there, just as you already said that most manager do not accept post from mega thread after 15 pages then you don't need to worry about because after page 15 or so the thread might not be that active where people would keep spamming.

1. That’s the managers own way of making sure their campaign participants do not fish on mega threads. Some campaign managers do not count posts beyond the 10th page. It is assumed that answers would have already been posted in the first 10 pages. This does not apply to sports discussion threads which are updated daily on events. Sport fans are always discussing what's going on in the leagues during the course of the season. Like I said before it is impossible for such threads to not exist as mega threads.

2. Igebotz suggested some good solutions to this problem.

Then you will be surprised to see this thread below

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.64386610

Some sig campaigns have rules that they do not pay for posts after a certain page, some others that do not care too much about quality but only about quantity do not have such restrictions. In other words, if there is a "motivation" for someone to write a meaningless post on 222 page of a topic, then he will do it.

Yesterday I opened a topic in the Gambling discussion that should be interesting for discussion, but considering that the topic is self-moderated and that I have set local rules, so far only 3 members have participated in it - obviously those who plagiarize, use AI or are ordinary sig spammers do not want to risk their post being deleted.

The same can be said about many open topics, which carry the same meaning. But they all exist, and if we talk about spammers, then they have created the perfect ground for rephrasing the same answer on all open topics.
I was surprised by mega threads in discussions of dozens of pages, and from post to post people write the same thing, but taking information from their local sports news sites, and to avoid plagiarism, they add a few words from themselves.
Who reads all this? Don't managers realize that there are thousands of sports "reports" that say the same thing in different words?

There ways some threads have been known to operate on the gambling board:

We have threads that are season specific,
We have a thread that is more like a general thread, runs through all the seasons,
We have threads that are meant for the polls where there are buy ins and rewards.
The twist here is, several groups can have there polls, sponsored and buy in fees for member players and they don’t really look like the same thread.

I know how it looks but, a couple of the threads you would find there are self moderated and users who post there always have there posts moderated which reduces spam to its minimum.

This has been like this for a while and the community has discussed it severally. None of those threads is less than 100 pages, so they are already established. What I will not like to see is another person creating new thread again. Let's make due with these ones available. That is the reason I made this appeal at the beginning of this season and locked the thread. Hey! It's a new season
So, no one has created an identical thread since I raised the topic.

I never noticed on this until Op made the mention on it, though by seeing it, what i sue to think of is about their season differences, but seeing that we have many threads on the same season is what should be more checked on, though there are lots of threads on the gambling section and the creation of more topics and posts are often observed as well, which may also make it hard to notice except one is checking with a closer look, just as Agbe did.

I understand - but so far I have never reported duplicate threads when both owners have different motives. I mean - one of them makes the thread self-moderated, the other one doesn't and it already has thousands of pages. But maybe - I'll also get some other threads to report if I think one of them is breaking the rules.

One thing that annoys me about reports on gambling discussions is that - many of them are not handled or even end badly. That's why I rarely report posts there anymore - but whenever I find a useless post, a report will definitely be sent.