Quote from: MagicSmoker on September 28, 2018, 03:57:21 PM

The thread I provided as an example above didn't start off as a spam megathread, but it certainly became one at some point in its 58+ pages, hence I don't think preemptively nuking threads is the right approach.

Almost any thread in Bitcoin or Altcoin Discusion could develop in to a spam mega thread, regardless of the topic. The spammers are just there to churn out a line or two. They don't read and don't care about anything that came beforehand.

In the example you gave, even by page 3-4 there is no discussion going on, and the spammers have turned up with their usual great insights:

Quote from: kok jujung on July 02, 2018, 12:50:10 AM

I think to block bitcoin sites need to be revisited in terms of governance because not a few people are dependent on bitcoin

Quote from: Master Carnegie on July 02, 2018, 12:53:30 AM

no government, however rich and authoritarian, can totally ban the use of coin. Bitcoin is unstoppable.

Quote from: kyle999 on July 02, 2018, 04:11:03 AM

There are so many people missing out here in the forumand all investors will lose their funds in bitcoin of course and will also lose bitcoin in banks I think it's great to suffer and lose work like a bounty hunter.

Quote from: Raiwenkai on July 02, 2018, 05:09:37 AM

Bitcoin is such a big help for us it gives an extra income so i can pay some of our monthly bills. I can't imagine if our government will ban bitcoin.

This is the kind of thread that could have been nipped in the bud by a dedicated board mod looking out for these kind of things. This thread could have been locked on page 5 without losing any quality content. Instead, it remained open for another 1000+ shitposts.