Quote from: hilariousetc on October 12, 2017, 05:25:54 AM

Games and Rounds needs to go. There are people farming hundreds of accounts in there with many likely using bots.

But... I like Games and Rounds! In my Newbie-times, when Bitcoin was worth a lot less, it was a great source of Bitcoins. Nowadays I barely use it though.
I've managed several campaigns for Rollin in Games and Rounds for more than a year, and given away thousands of dollars worth of Bitcoins. After half a year, I switched to self-moderated threads only, with much stricter rules. I've seen alt-accounts post 8 different posts in an hour, cheating and spamming.
After I made a self-moderated thread, it was very easy to spot anybody who didn't read the strict rules. I have hundreds of accounts blacklisted, and after their posts got deleted they quickly gave up on my thread.

Instead of closing Games and Rounds, maybe threads could be self-moderated by default. That also requires an active OP.
On top of that, there should be a requirement to have a game element that earns Bitcoins on Bitcointalk, not just link to an external streaming site.

Also, abandoned threads like this one should be closed:

Quote from: Doddolo on September 25, 2017, 07:24:12 PM

Can't believe this thread is still alive... should be closed by moderators.

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Off topic should also be considered. It's the go-to board for illiterate newbies who know nothing about bitcoin but have heard you can earn here and shitposting account farmers to spam their way through the ranks.

While making suggestions to improve the forum: how about a limit on the number of threads anyone can create? I found a shitposter yesterday who opened 6 new threads that day, he just dumps a random question and creates the next one! Very easy to post 30 "ontopic" posts on a day, and a total waste of time to read. I wouldn't want to block any Newbie from opening a thread, but I doubt any serious poster needs more than 1 per day. Maybe make it 2 for Legendary.

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An even better solution though would be to remove signatures from ranks somehow and it'll solve the issue we have with people trying to spam their way to x rank or farm dozens of accounts for free.

I assume the growing signature space with growing ranks was meant to be a perk for active users, and to stop Newbies from having big signatures.

Quote from: hilariousetc on October 17, 2017, 06:40:52 AM

Just look at siemonangle0007 posts as well. His entire history is almost exclusively saying variants of 'joined the airdrop'. Pointless. Account farmers and sig spammers will love this board.

Why don't you ban him?