Also, direct answer to OP's idea (quote from theymos):
there are an awful lot of newbie restrictions, and I don't want the forum to be unwelcoming to good newbies.
Maybe theymos is purposefully selecting hardcore Bitcoin users.
The
lack of Newbie and safety restrictions would probably eke out a small percentage of incoming users, which would have to stomach the nonstop spam in all the discussion boards. If you're trying to enter a forum and talk about this massive new technology you've discovered, you probably don't want to do it around people with broken English ranting about how
The wind for Bitcoin is on our side but anytime it could change that is why I don't fall for FOMO at all because I've learned the lesson way back 2017 and that lesson really hurts. The basic "buy low sell high" still works for me and at the moment I got nothing to invest coz I lost my job.
I don't know how many times I've seen the same post rewritten in slight variations. Hundreds. Thousands? Certainly at least a few thousand.
Asking for users to make their own ignore list is like saying, "fuck that whole moderator concept, do it yourself".