Quote from: UmerIdrees on August 14, 2019, 07:42:41 AM

I hear every now and then that Bitcoin discussion / Trading discussion / Gambling discussion / altcoin discussion (and many others) are considered as spam sections.

Bitcoin and Altcoin Discussion especially, and it's probably because a lot of sig spammers know they can post garbage there without having their posts deleted by mods--and it's true, because there are so many shitposts in those sections.

The gambling sections seem to attract people who are genuinely interested in gambling topics, but there's still a lot of spam last I checked. There are a lot of members who can't write proper English but who persist in trying anyway, and the result is a mess. Not sure about Trading Discussion. I think there's a lot less spam there (in a relative sense), but it's still pretty bad as far as I know.

This has all been discussed ad nauseum, and it's pretty common knowledge how bad the situation is. Theymos doesn't want to censor members, and I think that's why the problem has persisted. But hey, at least we got the merit system and the requirement for 1 merit to rank up to Jr. Member. That put a huge damper on account farming and the ability to earn money by shitposting. Those actions didn't solve the problem, but they helped.