Quote from: Rikafip on February 21, 2023, 09:46:24 AM

The fact that Russian local is the only one with a special board just for HYIP scams always baffled me. I mean, who would want to have something like that in your local board that produces nothing but spam and and add absolutely no value? Imho, that cesspool should be closed and all those who want to promote that crap can do it in Investor-based games board where that stuff is usually shared.

Is there some post in your local board that explains the reasoning behind creating board just for that? Were other boards spammed with this so it was the way to contain them in one place or something along those lines?

This is quite an interesting topic for conversation... This is all the inheritance of the first moderator, under whom the structure of the Russian-speaking subforum was created.
Most of the subforums in the Russian-speaking section were created 12 years ago.

There was also a whole subsection for the trashcan: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=92.0
Great, right? When users lost messages in the entire forum after deleting topics, users in our section did not lose anything.

Personally, I don't understand the logic, but we still have a separate section for coders (never been popular): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=66.0

A separate section for ideas! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=90.0
There you can discuss what has not yet been implemented. Have you seen this anywhere else?

A separate section for job search (never been popular too): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=185.0

The section of discussion and announcements of services is called "business": https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=23.0
This word has a fairly broad meaning in the Russian language and a historical coloring, so for many years we have had to explain to people why this section is for, why it is necessary to create topics in it if you want to talk about your service. Many people simply bypass this section because of the name.

A few years after the first moderator left, we managed to create several subsections, but a lot of user requests remain in the plans. Bitcointalk sometimes reminds me of slow people from a cartoon... Zootopia: Meet the Sloth