The reason the WO thread is interesting is oftentimes because of the "garbage and idiots". The beautiful thing is, you can ignore the "garbage and idiots" that you don't like. There are quite a few users I've ignored specifically because of their posting in the WO thread, but some users who would most likely be moderated more often than not... *ahem r0ach*... are quite entertaining to me.
If this were to be applied in WO thread, it would have to be applied in the rest of the forum. I disagree with your suggestion.Unless there is some technical barrier, I don't see why the "on-topic" rule needs to apply to the entire forum without exception. The WO thread is often interesting because every post isn't about order depth walls on various exchanges (I'd imagine a very low percentage of them are). In fact, observing walls is pretty fucking boring, which is probably why the thread evolved into something else.
One man's trash is another man's treasure.
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I only saw xhomerx10's post because you quoted him, I have him on ignore (possibly due to me ignoring pretty much anyone with a paid sig). The reason I'm pointing that out is because I'm compelled to respond to his post with the following: L2Ignore!
For the record:I have a lot of respect for sidehack and his contributions to the Bitcoin mining community. Mine is not a paid sig.
Well... for the record: I did say possibly (I didn't bother to check). I could have also possibly ignored you because you were posting "garbage"or being an "idiot" somewhere, possibly in the WO thread!
Possibly.