Quote from: suchmoon on December 14, 2018, 11:58:25 PM

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

a system where you would search for positive things and reward them. I feel you would have a better chance of preventing spam reaching the main boards with that system than removing it once it is there.

The system is called merit and it works except for a few knuckleheads who think it's for "fun and friends".

Yet shitposts still need to be removed. Those are not mutually exclusive things.

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

I mean if you reported every low quality post in alt discussion it would be quite a nightmare because some are not exactly low quality enough to be spam but on the other hand many parrot the same message over and over in a slightly different way. I mean deleting them is kind of cruel because to some they may have made some effort to express themselves and to get it deleted could be genuinely like a smack in the face.

No, it's not cruel. Parroting is not a universal human right. If you're still on a mission to improve merit awards in Alts this is the course of action you should take. Clean that shit up. Stop being butthurt about merits in Meta. Those merits are not the reason why shitcoiners don't get merited.

I sense agitation and stress rising. Take those meds and relax before continuing to contribute to this sensible discussion. I don't want you to start blurting out any more ludicrous statements as you do tend to at this time of day. Perhaps have a lay down. I see several unsubstantiated statements and more aggressive language starting to leak out. You are better than that suchmoon.

Now

1./ saying it works is not the same as demonstrating it does work optimally or even near optimally.

I have said myself the merit system works in some ways. That does not mean we can not improve and leverage merit to be a far more useful tool in several ways and more balanced system.

I think those that are unwilling or strongly against analysing a current system and how it operates with a view to improve it are those that generally fear optimisation could lead to it being less beneficial for themselves.

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I agree with you and many good posters have stopped posting there for exactly that reason.

A ban of sigs in alt discussion is a great idea and would deal with a lot of them. However my suspicion is that icos have teams of users creating fake conversations about their projects and they could still exist without sigs cos they are on the payroll behind the scenes. I think they would ramp this up if the swarms of sig spammers were eliminated. However they are hard to ban or delete because although most of their posts are lowish quality certainly not many are good enough to get merit they can stay above certain spam levels.

Honestly though to me your post looks worthy of merit it displays technical knowledge, the effort to examine the code and the effort to warn others of this implication for their investments. Hence potentially saving those getting burned by another scam leaving crypto and bad mouthing it to others. I mean honestly these are the posts that require merit no question. I am running out and I don't know when more arrives to top it up else I would have given you more. I can only hope the merit sources here with lots can give some to that post.

I think alt discussion needs the most help and immediately because some great alt board only posters may still be checking now and again if we leave it to long they may not come back. I think it would be great to ban sigs on that forum until we could set up junior boards and dump everyone on there under 15 merit ... let them earn their way back to the senior boards and arm mods with demerit powers to send them straight back for junk posts that are not worthy of bans but will make them think twice before being cast back into the swamp.