+8000
you forgot scammers can scam, run free, come back and repeat. I understand the forum isnt responsible to track them down, nor should they... but jesus christ, ban them or something... do something..... You can't just wipe hands clean because you have a disclaimer.
i used to enjoy coming here and reading some of the stuff back in 2012 and early-mid 2013.
but the fact the scammers are allowed to do what ever the hell they wont without being banned is beyond any logic and makes me sick.
fark half the time its staff members who are running the scams.
It seems like every forum rule change is to enable more people to scam.. i.e no scammer tag, trust system which allowed mods, and people on default trust list to scam, no newbie restrictions....
and the disclaimer under advertisements prooves the forum had a think about how the ads there running is assisting in helping people to get scammed.. but they thought... fuck it, we make money off this!!! lets just put a disclaimer in!
I'll await some mod/staff who has probably ran some "security" into the ground and lost all "investor" bitcoins to come to the defense, as normal.
Ive been using this forum for 4 years or so now, with different accounts, I used to spend several hours every day on here and early on actually read most posts, but its just become unusable to me, its impossible to keep up with the flood of posts, and 99% of them just arent worth reading. Whats worse is that its impossible to find the few posts that are worth reading.
Part of this is due to bitcoin going more mainstream and logically creating a lot of new users, but whats greatly exacerbating the problem is forum policy and forum software.
The policy that allows users to put spam in their signature and have casino's and what not pay out (newbie/alt account) posters based on how much (nonsense) they post each day is the straw that broke the camel's back. At least 2/3 of the activity I see is just alt accounts posting whatever in order to boost their activity and collect more bitcoins for their signature spam. How this is allowed is beyond me.
Another part of the problem is the relaxed newbie restrictions; with so many new accounts being registered every day, the bar to post should be raised, not lowered. Who wants to see 16 newbie spam accounts push down some of the rare pearls of wisdom, say posts by DeathandTaxes to the point where you cant possibly find them?
Finally the forum software thats absolutely unhelpful. Despite the fact that Theymos was given enough money to buy a medium sized software development company, in all these years, it hasnt improved one meaningful yota. The few changes that were made, made things worse, not better (think trust system)
Its really sad but these days I need to get my bitcoin updates from google news or reddit.