Quote from: The Pharmacist on December 14, 2018, 09:32:48 PM

most of the members are just sig spammers writing complete nonsense. Even if someone were to write an exceptionally good post in AC, it'll be buried under a mountain of shitposts within minutes.

Quote from: cryptohunter on December 14, 2018, 11:43:14 PM

So they just build up until like we know the good posters are drown out and stop posting ( i hope temp)

This is the truth, unfortunately, and is the reason I and many others no longer bother venturing in to the altcoin boards. It is nigh on impossible to have anything approaching a real discussion as your posts are quickly drowned out by barely English one liners.

Here is one of my last posts in any of the altcoin boards: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5060609. Now, I am by no means saying this is an exceptional post or begging for merit, I'm simply pointing out that this was a serious topic that deserved some level of discussion. It got 7 replies that weren't me and a total of 120 views. Compare that to completely vapid and meaningless topics like Crypto going strong! and Buy altcoins or not? with thousands of replies. The users who are still using the altcoin boards by and large don't even want to have a serious discussion. All they want is to churn out maximum one liners in the minimum amount of time so they get paid for their bounty campaigns whilst putting in the minimum amount of effort.

I don't think any change in reporting or meriting behavior is going to change that. Until we address the root of the problem - bounty campaigns paying spammers for shitposting - those boards will remain cesspools, and any good posts will go buried and unmerited.