Quote from: LeGaulois on November 13, 2021, 08:04:52 PM

The board isn't active as some others but at least it's one of the few where we can get a discussion without seeing shitpots all over the thread

Yeah. It's a real shame, because the usual one line sig spammers tend to avoid the Press board for whatever reason, presumably because it is easier to churn out nonsense in Bitcoin Discussion or Altcoin Discussion. On the odd occasion someone like DaveF posts a good topic, then you get a good discussion with minimal spam. The spammers who take over the Press board are a different breed as I highlighted in the first post in this thread.

Quote from: The Pharmacist on November 13, 2021, 08:44:54 PM

I don't think I've looked at Press in well over 4 years, and honestly I forgot that section even existed until just now. Lol. And to think that I get 99.9% of my crypto news from this forum. You'd think I'd leave a section like that un-ignored, but nope. It ought to be one of the best ones, but just like Bitcoin Discussion it's turned into a travesty of what it's supposed to be.

And so goes on the downward spiral. Spam isn't addressed, non-spamming users put it on ignore, the spam worsens even further, more users ignore it, and so on, until we reach where we are now where it is pretty much an unusable board.

Quote from: Upgrade00 on November 13, 2021, 09:23:46 PM

Bitcoin discussion which should be the top board on s forum like this (and indeed is the top board by arrangement) has become almost impossible to read through, Economics board which was also one of my favorites had also been run over.

These are urgent issues, but the response to them is not so urgent or non existent.

I've been saying this for literally years (see my post below from 3 years ago), but for some reason we have done absolutely nothing to address it and Bitcoin Discussion is still a spamfest:

Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on October 29, 2018, 01:45:52 PM

This is bitcointalk, first and foremost a forum about bitcoin. Bitcoin Discussion should be the main board people are interested in. It's the first board most people will visit when they discover the forum, and it gives off a terrible first impression. As it stands, many senior members won't even venture in to it because of all the spam. The sub needs a dedicated mod that can clean up the spam and monitor any thread that reaches 5+ pages, as 99% of them are spam mega-threads which OP has long deserted.