Quote from: minerpools on August 07, 2014, 08:27:46 PM

Quote from: rugrats on August 07, 2014, 08:09:43 PM

Quote from: alani123 on August 07, 2014, 08:29:15 AM

Quote from: rugrats on August 07, 2014, 04:21:58 AM

I could be wrong, but I don't think so.
I've yet to see a single mod chasing users away from Bitcointalk.
Bitcointalk needs the alternative currency section to stay relevant, aside from the revenue the traffic generates.
There is a reason behind this silly rule - and I personally think it has more to do with SEO than anything else (I think the administrators are afraid of being penalized by Google for link spamming).

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Quote from: BadBear on August 05, 2014, 08:45:03 AM

Wow. For the guys suggesting one post per thread, how exactly do you expect us to enforce that? There is no easy way to see how many times someone has posted in a particular thread. Even looking through the post history won't work because you can easily change the subject of a post to hide what thread you're posting in, not to mention that's too time consuming. Also all you'd have to do is delete the old post, since mods can't see deleted posts (and I suspect more than one of you who suggested this knew that).

And yes, you guys are right when listing the problems inherent with using this forum as the sole source of information about an altcoin, along with a thousand other coins. Which is the reason people spam in the first place, because there is no specific board for mining a particular coin, or for services for a coin, or whatever else. The only real answer is to setup coin specific forums, any serious coin will do this. The rest are pump and dumps, or scams that won't be around long enough, and we aren't going to cater to them. We won't setup coin specific boards here either. Spamming is a crutch people have used to get around these limitations, and it's getting out of hand.

Even BadBear suggests we could use another forum. Sure, not chasing users out of the forum, but this new rule makes the life of traders/miners harder. They will no longer be able to get updated the moment thei come in. My suggestion to those guys was that yhey should open an account in cryptocointalk (or any other suitable alternative) and lurk there as well. Neither I said that we should abandon the forum, just use a nother one at the same time but for different purposes.

He didn't, as far as I can see. It was just a general speculative statement.

Well, it's simple, if they don't allow us to do such an important part of our job which is posting in the forums for so many reasons, and of course this affects everyone in the Altcoin world, they're just chasing everyone out of here. I've never even touched Cryptocointalk before this happened, Bitcointalk was the only forum for me but not anymore.

Well, it's not simple at all. Your assumptions and interpretations does not translate to them chasing anyone one out. As I've mentioned before, Bitcointalk wants and needs the alt coin traffic.
There is no way they will voluntarily let go of it. I would not be surprised if the alternative cryptocurrency section accounts for half of pageviews here.
I really do wish Cryptocointalk or some other alt coin forum becomes more popular.
Like monopolies, market leaders will gradually become more authoritative and impose their terms without much thought to the users.
Credible competition for Bitcointalk will change their attitude, and stop taking us for granted.