Come on admins.
I PMed theymos the day I opened this thread, explaining in more detail the issues with the Press board and linking to this thread. I have had no response, which I can only assume means he is content with the current situation. Given that, and that we have also had no response in this thread or any of the many previous threads about the Press board, there is probably no point in us continuing to push to try to clean the board up.
I remain confused why we are happy to let spammers run bitcointalk in to the ground and push away good users and good discussion in the name of free speech. I will continue to always defend free speech, but there is a very obvious difference between protecting controversial thoughts and ideas and allowing utter spam to ruin the forum.
I have argued previously that the press board is sufficiently empty that the spammers are not crowding out the legitimate members from posting. Your response was that the spammers are enticing legitimate members away from posting.
I think the above is a fair argument, even if I don’t necessarily agree with it.
I would also point out that threads in the press board is a function of news articles about bitcoin. I might ask which news articles you would like to see discussed in the press board? In the past few weeks, I have created threads (actually thread, singular) about an article I found in a reputable news organization.
Really since bcash split from bitcoin, there has been very little drama, or contention about the future of bitcoin. There really haven’t been any contentious BIP proposals that split the community. As you are aware, bitcoin had no “leader”, so there is no single person that bitcoin writers will write about that affects bitcoin.
I think the reality is that there is little that will or could happen in the bitcoin world that would potentially make front page news. There is the price, but that is about it. Difficulty changes are automatic, halvings are a fun celebration for those who are involved in bitcoin because of their infrequency, but is really not news. It is difficult to write a news article about some upgrade that ~everyone agrees on.