Quote from: Ibian on June 01, 2018, 08:19:48 PM

Quote from: Derpinheimer2 on June 01, 2018, 08:12:56 PM

Quote from: infofront on June 01, 2018, 07:58:46 PM

Quote from: BitcoinNewsMagazine on June 01, 2018, 05:43:00 PM

Swear to God (yes I am a Christian) this is the Wall Observer thread and needs more moderation. If you want to talk about Nazis, holocaust speculation, silver or gold bugs, people of different faiths like Jews and Muslims or tin foil hat controversies there are other forums that will welcome you. I don't post much here anymore because 1) I am busy day trading and 2) over about half the posts here seem to have nothing to do with Bitcoin. It is becoming a bit of a joke and a cesspool frankly. Just a thought.

Your ideal Wall Observer harkens back to the glory days of 2013. Since then, I think the thread has developed its own, unique culture that includes more than TA and wall observation. Though I'd like to see more TA here, actually.

i remember the old wall observer Cry

very sad it got this bad.

The old WO deleted posts all the goddamn time. This one is better.

I think that the old WO went through phases of moderation intensity, including a pre-closing of the thread period in which Adam's account had been compromised in September 2016, and then forum administrators were having to take a more active approach to moderating the forum (with a more "hands on" approach than what Adam had taken).

It seemed by early 2017, forum administrators, including theymos had gotten a bit much frustrated with the amount of work (and perhaps manpower) to attempt to actually moderate this WO thread that they decided to close the thread.. and then we know what happened after that with the reconsideration to reopen the thread with Infofront as the "by popular demand" new thread "owner."

So, to me, it seems that Infofront is kind of bringing this thread back to the original Adam vision, and seemingly Infofront is doing a bit more hands off than the thread had been under Adam, too.

I actually believe that forum administrators took into account various discussion around the reopening of this thread and therefore had decided to experiment with leaving a bit more discretion to Infofront, and to see how that leaving discretion to Infofront works out in terms of numbers of complaints about the thread and/or the amount of time that forum moderators would have to spend overseeing this particular thread...

I actually think that so far the forum's experimentation with Infofront has been working out fairly decently, because whatever level of activity and deleting that Infofront has been employing in the thread has been sufficient to kind of stave off the level of work (or manpower) that forum moderators have had to put into the oversight of this particular thread.

So, in essence, we are kind of lucky to have the level of "freedom" that exists within this thread that seems to have evolved partly from the balance of moderation that Infofront has chosen to employ... which I personally would not mind a few more deleted posts of the racial/hate nature, yet I think that Infofront has considerably stamped out a decent quantity of the shilling and the alt coin pumping and some of that kind of nonsense.

At the same time, I also understand that we (as WO normies) cannot really see or verify the exact level of deletions that Infofront has been employing, so in the end, we kind of have to trust that he is finding a reasonable level of balance in his chosen level of thread moderation..... and yeah, maybe he can experiment, here and there, but in the end, we seem to have a quite a bit of latitude in these here parts to express differing views about bitcoin and other topics that could somehow stretchingly be conceptualized as "related to" bitcoin.