Quote from: jokers10 on Today at 09:16:52 AM

This user is using AI for posting and that's why his comment has nearly no sense. I've just checked and the result is 94% for AI for both his posts which are not bounty reports.

Probably we have less users on the forum, but it is good when users of this kind leave us. The less nonsense posters, the less AI posters the better.

Thank you for looking in to this. It is evident AI is becoming more of a problem within the forum and it seems to be growing on a daily basis. As far as a I can see things will only get worse.

Quote from: nutildah on Today at 09:27:18 AM

He appears to have gotten into an argument with ChatGPT and just copy/pasted the last response Cheesy

So annoying.

And for this reason 56k active members is too many. We need to cut that number down to about 10k; I reckon half the people logging onto the forum at any given moment are either at or below this level of comprehension.

I would say there are not that many real/genuine active users. What I mean by real/genuine active users is a number well below 56,000 (possibly a couple of thousand at most). That number would increase by several thousand if including real/genuine users that are logging in every 3+ months.

Quote from: nutildah on Today at 09:27:18 AM

I voted for "Other" in the poll, no surprise its the leading result. The simple reason is peeps have gone elsewhere to discuss Bitcoin- and altcoin-related matters. And that's fine. As I've often said before, this forum is now more of a museum that serves to house Satoshi's posts. That's its primary role. So long as it keeps doing that, everything is fine.

Can you provide links to where have people gone to discuss crypto related matters? Apart from "altcoinstalks" and "cryptotalk" there is not much that comes to mind except occasional questions you might find on "stackoverflow"

Quote from: nutildah on Today at 09:27:18 AM

Also, a lot of guests/passerbys simply don't want to wade through the enormous ton of shitposts to find the occasional nugget of interesting information. That's probably the main reason why regular people - who aren't interested in making money from the forum - don't sign up and contribute. From the outside looking in its an absolute spamfest.

I agree, any external party looking at the forum from the outside will most probably (at first glance) see this forum as a spammers paradise and that has to be one of the most off-putting elements for new user base retention.

Looking through the posts made in the early years of the forum the priority for those members overwhelmingly seemed to be about learning and contributing.

At some stage after it became monetised beyond the point of PayPal (or pizza) for BTC the momentum shifted to something that is more to do with an individual making money for themselves from bounties and signature campaigns rather than contributing for the better of the community as a whole. I am not saying there is anything wrong with that but if the whole premise of using this forum is based on making an income for the individual it no longer is about what it originally set out to be.

It was mentioned before if signature campaigns were removed from this forum in the hope of cleaning it up, there would be almost nobody left to post and it would render the forum effectively as a museum (as you put it).