The suggestion that focus should be more "General Topics" will damp the learning of important concepts of bitcoins.
I thought it would be obvious that "General Topics" means General Topics which are crypto related, not topics about Cars or Basketball.
The "concepts of bitcoin" are different for everyone, it does not make sense to expect that everyone should understand what blockchain is or how does it work, the majority of people don't understand how most things around them work, and they don't care, i could care less how my car works as long as it starts and stops when I want it to, if I find an article talking about "how an auto-transmission functions," I would probably ignore it, but if it's about "how to take care of your car" i would probably read it.
same thing applies to BTC and crypto in general, people are more interested in how to buy/make/earn/spend BTC than how it works, the forum is full of technical and educational topics, but they get little to no attention, so why not give the crowd what they want ?
Please do this. Education in steps is always appreciated.
"How to buy/sell/make/earn, spend, " threads would be well attended and we could learn much faster and become better members.
I think a lot a spam is unintentional. I know mine was, just out of inexperience. And I got soundly reprimanded for it! And as for locking a thread? I didn't know about that either. I thought the higher ups locked the threads. It's kind of overwhelming here.
Also, I hope I didn't intrude here either. I don't see any other newbie, or new members here, so excuse me if I am not supposed to post here. I know I did that once too .
But, for what it's worth, I think giving the " General Topic" idea is an excellent idea, and I hope you do that.