Quote from: The Pharmacist on April 02, 2018, 03:31:13 AM

Quote from: nioschka on April 02, 2018, 02:00:29 AM

Two things:

1) If only everyone wrote like you, there wouldn't be such a problem with post quality. What I'm fighting are people who post absolute nonsense over and over because they are incentivized to do so by signature campaigns. They are not qualified to take on a writing job, plain and simple. Ultimately this is a discussion forum, whatever your thoughts about bitcoin are. If people are actually going to be given the opportunity to make money by posting, there are (and have to be) minimum standards for quality. There is a large contingent of members who cannot form proper sentences and who keep repeating the same nonsense repeatedly. They do not belong here.

2) Do you really think any of these shitposters care about bitcoin? Absolutely not! Do you know how many times I've read "bitcoin is a job, I join bitcoin because we can get profit..."? That's the continuing mantra of these people, and all bitcoin is to them is a way to earn more fiat. I have no proof of this, so don't ask me, but I am firmly convinced of this. To them, bitcoin IS bitcointalk, and my guess is that they just convert btc-->fiat and buy what they need. They could care less about any other aspect of bitcoin and most know nothing about it.

So if your argument is that sig campaigns stimulate bitcoiners, I'd have to disagree, but the main point is about this forum and not about bitcoin and how these people are to its community. You might as well argue that scammers are an important part of the bitcoin economy.

One question: Would you endorse people who don't know how to program anything and can only write rudimentary code to get jobs at Konami or Square Enix making video games? They should be allowed to make games, right? Konami would be discriminating against them if they weren't hired, right? Think about it. It's the same question a lot of us have asked here, and it's what these shitposters don't seem to ever grasp.

When I read this, I feel like there is a sense of being overwhelmed.

Like you are getting out-numbered by shitposters.

And now it's impossible not to equate that to the real world.

But this isn't the real world, it is forum software. Very, very old forum software that doesn't do basic things like recognize spammers on registration.

Why not update it?