Quote from: LoyceV on October 17, 2017, 07:36:35 AM

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'm talking about it needs to go from post count. The entire board is a spam fest. There's no good reason why it should contribute to post count. The Alt coin bounty board needs to go the same way as well. People are massively abusing it to farm accounts. Entire threads of just 'watching', 'interesting', 'waiting for airdrop', 'joined airdrop' 'received airdrop' type posts etc.

Quote from: Lutpin on October 17, 2017, 09:03:25 AM

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

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.

Something similar happens in Politics and Society.
I don't see how discussing about scientific proof whether a god exists or not should give you activity on a bitcoin forum.

The sad thing is people used to actually have decent discussions in there. Now it's just been taken over by shitposters because most people who sign up here have little to no knowledge or interest in bitcoin so struggle to talk about it, but they can talk crap about subjects in there all day hence why they just create utter crap threads. Economics is going the same way now as well.

Quote from: LoyceV on October 17, 2017, 07:36:35 AM

Instead of closing Games and Rounds, maybe threads could be self-moderated by default. That also requires an active OP.

Ha, nobody is going to waste time doing that. They don't even look after their signature campaigns so they're not going to care about policing their own thread. I wouldn't be against making alt coin devs responsible for moderating their own threads though and if it becomes full of posts that break the rules then their threads should be trashcanned and accounts banned. Spam from crapcoins takes up the vast majority of moderation time and effort and this isn't something staff should be doing for free.

Quote from: sinner on October 17, 2017, 04:42:56 PM

Quote from: 155UE on February 19, 2016, 02:03:04 AM

why not we just report accounts and ban those obviously posting just to gain potential activity? that could be more effective in the long run

Perhaps accounts that have been ignored a high number of times should be reviewed by mods and banned if the mods are confident that the account in question is merely trying to increase activity? Maybe display the number of times accounts have been ignored (display ignore count)?

The ignore button used to glow different colours with the amount of people who were ignoring that user but it was removed.