Quote from: NeuroticFish on Today at 07:19:05 PM

Quote from: 1miau on Today at 05:14:11 PM

The problem of these accounts spreading Putin propaganda in the German section: they are thinking they can abuse Bitcointalk for their agenda and post their nonsense without receiving harsh opposition for their inhuman hot takes. They are derailing our local board. That's what's wrong and we have talked to them whats wrong about it.

Although I don't follow the German board (Ich spreche keine Deutsch), I agree that the forum is full of this kind of ~~people~~ accounts.
I don't really have a solution for them and I don't know what can be done. If we do something we hurt the freedom of speech, if we don't.. the forum gets full of this kind of trolls.

I think one of the problem are paid accounts (Sigspam), so good Campaign Managers are an important point here.
But it's not limited to paid posts, see BADdecker (but he's in a league of his own).
Some people have too much free time. Cheesy

Of course, an active community is also essential where contributors are rewarded (for example Merit) and low-quality posts are discouraged, sometimes even long posts are contributiong nothing.

The moderation can discourage such spam by enforcing the forum rules.
For example, we have already rules in place like trolling spam and similar but it's not easy to decide here.
I've reported some shitposts in the international section and all of them were remowed. That's how reporters and moderators can make Bitcointalk a better place with lesse spam.

But after all, the most essential thing is, that people participating on Bitcointalk have at least some sort of self-awareness:
Are my posts beneficial for Bitcointalk or am I abusing Bitcointalk as a dump for my propaganda?

We should try to be people from the first category.

Quote from: NeuroticFish on Today at 07:19:05 PM

Quote from: 1miau on Today at 05:14:11 PM

They aren't listening and instead now, they are threatening Newbies with bans (which is funny because troll accounts don't have any power to ban anyone, their lack of forum rules, DT and other stuff is apalling)
Yes, it's not only limited to propaganda spam but also to giving out positive trust to other troll accounts, which is deeply concerning in my opinion because it's not how positive trust should be used. Such feedbacks should be neutral, see here.

Spam should de reported and removed at sight.
I've seen the threatening of newbies. Afaik it's not in the forum rules, it may be punishable offense. But we need mods' input in this. Cyrus is mod in Reputation, maybe he can help?
Trolling is punishable offense. But trolling may be a bit vague. Still, it's best we can do.

I'm in favor of adding "harassing newbies without reason" to the rules.
Newbies are very important to have new contributors.
Maybe that's a discussion for Meta.

Regarding trolling: some might consider it "trolling", others not.
Some excessive trolls have caught a negative trust, some only neutral.
Some posts are getting deleted, some not.

It's a difficult question and most likely we won't get a final answer. Undecided

I'm still hoping for more self-awareness how such low-quality posters are destroying the forum, even damaging Bitcoin's reputation. Most of the are just here to earn, some are just here to troll.
People brought that up in our local section, shitposters didn't care.
We keep trying.

Quote from: Poly#Crypto on Today at 07:15:30 PM

Meanwhile you are the biggest troll on the German board, the members laugh at you, nobody likes you.

Yeah, I like trolls like Poly#Crypto and thandie digging their own holes.
Stop posting Putin propaganda, stop harassing newbies, stop misusing positive trust and start contrubuting Bitcoin-related content.
Since you are not posting Bitcoin-related content, maybe Bitcointalk is not your forum.

And tell Unknown01 that he's very lucky to earn valuable BTC every week for his spam. Cheesy