Quote from: Flying Hellfish on April 13, 2018, 09:53:51 PM

Quote from: eternalgloom on April 13, 2018, 03:23:50 PM

Completely agree and just wanted to add that the reason why I'm asking is because it almost seems like 90% of the threads there are like this. Ofc this is the reason Theymos started this thread in the first place.

Examples:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3315389.0 (President Trump Is More Smart Than Before - So What He Will Do Next ? ) --> Granted, this is actually on topic, but again very low effort. Though deleting this might be seen as censorship?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2976682.0 (Our Children Nowadays)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2829336.0 (Quit Facebook)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3310363.0 (WHAT IS THE RATIONALE BEHIND AFRICAN LEADERS WANTING TO RULE FOREVER)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2374499.0 (why are people suffering from jealousy ?)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2554765.0 (TIME MACHINE!)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2877389.0 (What to do when life purpose is lost?)

Might have been better to find out which topics are actually good, that list would have been shorter... Most of these topics are obviously from people who have a poor understanding of English, but where do you draw the line?

If it's poor english + generally low effort, it should be removed.

Low effort also means just copy pasting an article, even if they add the source. If there's no personal commentary in that case, should be removed.

How many of them are duplicate or redundant topics on top of being questionable?

There is a 550+ page flat earth thread in OT (and I would guess 80% of it is redundant in itself LOL). There is a ~7 page flat earth thread in P&S. I even posted in the P&S thread advising to use the OT thread (as it's much bigger and funnier!) but still page after page of shit posts rack up in the P&S thread. So it seems the logical thing to do is lock the P&S thread and encourage (with a link) anyone interested in talking about the topic to go to the Off Topic thread for further discussion.

Obviously this is one I know about and I am sure there are tons more so the mod in that section will need community support to be effective.

I personally have been talking to badecker on the '' evolution is a hoax '' thread for easily 40-50 pages and some of it might be redundant but I think is an acceptable conversation: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1917510.1940

That being said, in between our conversation there are plenty of similar low quality answers, I think you have been following that thread too so you know what I'm talking about. I probably should be reporting more posts there, that's true.

I do agree that there are plenty of threads, easily 80% that are just stupid and would fit better in off topic.

Did you guys pick a mod yet? I haven't read all the answers in this thread yet.