You don't have to post a personal opinion. That's not the forum rules just a user suggestion as a way to appear less spammy than just mass hit and runs but it still shouldn't matter. The current rule of the Press board is that it's for notable press mentions. CoinIdol isn't 'notable' in my opinion. Mods usually only go on what is reported so if someone reports your posts then they're likely to be acted upon. If you want clarification you should contact theymos but personally I think that board should be locked now as it's served its purpose or at the very least we should state that crypto based news outlets don't fall under the definition of notable and are therefore not allowed.
I think we should try both before we give up on the board entirely:
I think it would help if the rules were clearer. I propose the following additions to the current rules:
1. Official news agencies only. No blogs. No "cryptomedia" sites.
2. Don't just post the article. Include some of your own thoughts and insights about the article and/or the impact the news will have. This will minimise the potential for low-quality posters to abuse it.
Notability and copy/paste are both problems in their own right. I don't see how we can ignore one and not the other.
Smaller media sites have an obvious interest in generating traffic for themselves, so we need the notability criteria to combat that.
Forum users who can simply copy and paste some text and attribute a source so it's not classed as plagiarism have an easy exploit to make posts with basically zero effort. We then end up with abandoned topics where no one actually has any interest in talking about the news, because no one even attempted to start a discussion.
Well I'm up for trying it but to be honest I think that board would be pretty dead without all the blogspam so it might as well be locked/archived. How many threads are on the first page or two that are from notable sources? I just checked the first ten threads on there and all but two were from crypto-based sites and the other ones were not from sites I'd call notable sources.