I can do a poll for this if need be but thought I'd just grab a quick opinion instead to feel it out first.
There are a few smear campaigns against us that love disrupting and derailing our conversations.
We need to focus, but Freedom of Speech is certainly one of our values...
Should our official thread be moderated or unmoderated?
IMO it should be moderated to a certain extent. I don't mind people being critical of trumpcoin at all and they have the right to voice their opinions here. But at a certain point it stops being criticism and it starts turning in to downright trolling, there's no discussion to be had there. Sometimes it's hard to draw the line between voicing opinions and trolling but often it isn't (e.g. seige his shitposting).
Then there's also annoying posts that use bold and have a massive font for example, I see no need for those so a bit of moderation wouldn't hurt in those cases either.
This is my opinion as well. Moderate moderation with a ruleset that only removes blatant trolling and personal attacks against individuals, while still allowing anyone to voice valid opinions and concerns about our mission and our politics.
I like the way you put it... Filter shitposting while allowing and encouraging productive debates.
Does anyone disagree with this?
No complaints here.
I personally feel that a moderated thread is best.
This is coming from someone who has pledged their sacred honor and life to defending free speech BTW. However even in this moderated thread I was trolled recently and I feel it has hurt my ability to contribute to this coin. I have become "controversial" just by participating due to trolls that fly under the radar as well as ones that are known blatant trolls. Maybe chickens65 enjoyed watching me get trolled and if it was someone else the posts may have been censored sooner I do not know (and I hope I am wrong). But I am an outsider to this coin (like Trump is to politics). And yet I got trolled just as bad if not worse than anyone that has ever been on this coin if you consider the recent identity theft via troll box on yobit on the eve of our treasury election with the follow up 10 pages of nonsense here just before voting day (effectively buried our vote in 10 pages of FUD). People did not know there was a vote and how to find it in so many pages or when it was happening. So yeah to say the least it is hard to get anything done in the troll environment. And what good is moderation if the mods do not like you because you make more sense than them or for whatever other reason(s)? Sorry needs to be said
I never posted rape sheds but yes that joke (about me) was funny. I do have a sense of humor. But throwing attacks around, even funny ones does nothing for the coin. So what about trolling under the radar as I have seen and we should all acknowledge? Does it not matter now because it only happened to Bitbobb and we kept away an outsider? One who potentially could have contributed massively? Hmmm I hope you will consider this. We do not really know who these newbies are.
I have noticed a serious push back on this coin toward any real progress that will actually make this coin great.
Now there is a block explorer now you can begin day one today as a serious coin. So perfect time for new ANN and new thread moderated by someone who actually stops FUD and readjust the radar to catch these newbies who pretend to have good intentions but really are FUdders from our first thread.