Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on Today at 08:03:19 PM

The issues with the Press board have been going on for years and have been discussed for years. See this thread from Foxpup 6 years ago: New Board Suggestion: "Actual Press". See also all these threads discussing the mess that is the Press board:

December 2020 - @Best_Change spams in the Press section
June 2020 - Moderation of @CoinIdolNews constantly shitting in the Press board
August 2019 - New guidelines are needed for the Press board
June 2019 - Press Board - Limit Number Threads Per User Per Day.
July 2018 - News spamming in the press subforum
February 2018 - Let's retire the Bitcoin Discussion > Press sub-forum
November 2017 - The Press Board - Moderation Required
February 2016 - Bunch of idiots/bots spamming the hell out of press board

6 years we have had complaints for this board of legalized plagiarism in which >90% of topics are simply advertising spam for crypto "news" sites. If after 6 years of complaints there is not even a response, then the only logical conclusion is either satisfaction with the current situation or complete apathy towards that board. Either way, it doesn't seem worth our time to continue to push to clean it up.

Thank you so much for that o_e_l_e_o. While I registered in 2018, it was only during this year that I started being more active. I wasn't aware of the history of reports similar to the same one that we are discussing now and honestly I'm baffled to the - apparently - lack of feedback from the administrators. What leaves me even more baffled is that, after reading all those threads posted by o_e_l_e_o, at least some moderators seem to be on the opinion that the Press board needs something to be done to it. Here's one of the most interesting quotes from hilariousandco:

Quote from: hilariousandco on December 03, 2020, 09:59:52 PM

I brought the issue of this up in the staff board back in late 2017:

Quote from: hilariousandco on November 01, 2017, 05:47:11 AM

If theymos isn't going to archive this section then I think we should prohibit any articles from crypto related sites and blogs etc. The sub forum is meant for notable press hits anyway, but now it's just any old crap that vaguely mentions crypto by sig spammers that some shitty site posts. Coindesk and CryptoCoinNews etc are not noteable press hits. Any threads that are not from mainstream media should just be trashed (or the sub board is just locked). There are also some Press boards in the local subs which are easily abused by sig spammers and farmers using bots. Thoughts?

Most of us agreed that it should be locked via the poll I did:

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Question:    What should we do with the Press boards?

Lock/archive the entire board    - 9 (75%)
Trash any non notable threads    - 3 (25%)
Nothing. Carry on as is    - 0 (0%)

Total Voters: 12

At the very least we should stipulate what counts as a notable Press hit as otherwise people will continue to post anything in there. I still think the board has served it's purpose though.

There are two interesting facts regarding this pool:

Staff clearly reckon that there's something wrong with it - 75 % is a strong indicator
No one agrees that the board should be left as is - 0 % of the votes

And yet, almost one year after nothing was done to follow up this poll. I reckon that the poll was just made to have a generous knowledge of how each staff member felt regarding the board, but I'm finding it really hard to believe that they went with all that discussion to have it let rest for a whole year - after all they all agreed that it was something to be looked into. I wonder if we could have an insight on the follow up from this meeting/poll? I reckon that most of us are open to counter arguments, that's just how discussions happen and it's totally fine to have them. I think that its worse when we don't ear anything back, it kinda makes us feel that we aren't being listened, while we're just expressing our thoughts regarding this current scenario.

Here are more replies from hilariousandco - from different threads linked by o_e_l_e_o - that, from my reading, happen to be aligned with most points being discussed here (quotes presented in a descending order):

Quote from: hilariousetc on August 06, 2019, 11:04:11 AM

Multiple suggestions have been proposed in the past including just locking/archiving it completely or only allowing posts from non-crypto related sites to stop all the advertising spam. Doing the latter would stop most of the crap but I think that board has served its purpose and is no longer needed now. Any relevant or important article can just be posted and discussed in the main Bitcoin board but at the moment the majority of people who create threads in there are either promoting a site or are getting away with legalised plagiarism which they can get paid for on most campaigns.

Quote from: hilariousetc on June 05, 2019, 11:08:18 AM

I'm still of the opinion that that sub should be locked/archived. So are seemingly most of the staff last time we discussed it. It should be for notable sources, but it's been spammed with everything and everything for the past few years, not to mention all the alt coin spam which don't even belong there. It's also being abused by various websites as a promotional tool just to drive hits to their site. Any worthwhile article can just be posted and discussed in bitcoin discussion as they do anyway so losing it isn't really a big issue to me. When it was created any mention of bitcoin in the media was probably a big deal, but now it isn't. At a bare minimum we should change what can and can't be posted there and any bitcoin-related site should be prohibited and enforce the notable source rule more strictly to stop the promo spam.

Quote from: ETFbitcoin on June 04, 2019, 05:56:21 PM

People got paid to share news/article from news media? I was sure it's clever way to fulfill their signature campaign rules.

But it's pretty much useless idea without limitation such as only Member/Copper Member and above who can make thread on Press board.

It's abused both by sig spammers and the people who run the websites. Some people in the past have even used bots just to scrape sites, format them properly then post them there. It's a place where you can legally get away with copy and pasting because doing so isn't against the rules and for sig spammers they can grab an easy post without having to contribute anything.

Quote from: hilariousetc on November 06, 2017, 07:04:04 PM

If you report them they'll be trashed. That entire board should be retired and locked/archived now anyway as it's redundant and serves no real purpose other than to facilitate sig spammers to legally get away with copy and pasting (whether manually or with bots). Any notable press mention that is worthy of discussion can just be posted in the main sub anyway.

If we're all so well aligned with staff members - in what concerns that something needs to be done - why hasn't been any sort of feedback regarding this issue or even a thread created by anyone of them to openly discuss this? Is there something that I'm missing that's making me make a bad evaluation of the situation that we have?