Quote from: The Pharmacist on November 04, 2017, 03:13:35 AM

Quote from: Dahman El_Harrachi on November 03, 2017, 11:59:35 PM

the same fucking post 'joined....'.

Yeppers. I have that section blocked--and for a very good reason--but I temporarily unblocked it just for the *ahem* entertainment value, and I was absolutely blown away by the volume of shitposts there, even after mprep posted the rule about no garbage "thanks", "joined airdrop", etc. posts. I reported a whole bunch of them, because I was bored and had nothing better to do. So yeah, that might account for a lot of them.

When I joined bitcointalk in 2015, I don't remember there being any of those airdrops. That seems to be a somewhat recent development, and one in which a lot of 3rd world country shitposters participate. And, on top of that, I very strongly suspect people are using a ton of alt accounts and that some of those accounts are created for the sole purpose of bumping the airdrop threads. That whole section is just a mess, and I would hate to have mprep's job of moderating it.

Then some of it I think is just people becoming interested in bitcoin because of its crazy-ass rise to $7000. I'm sure that accounts for some of this, but I think it's mostly that damn altcoin token section.

I dont know if you are indirectly referring to me when you talk about the *ahem* entertainment value, because Ive defended in this section that many posts which people call low-value have entertainment value. But Im not referring to the alts section at all. I think Ive been on that section like 4 or 5 times in total since I joined bitcointalk. And I also think it is the biggest source of spam and scams.