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Since many new accounts are created each day to spew nonsense that I have no time for, I would like to just start ignoring them as they are created. I see no need to sift through obvious troll rubbish, scam loan requests, and the like. If we are not going to require nubie jail, then I am just going to ignore all new users who start off junking up the forums.

So is there a way to see all the new accounts created?

Here you go. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=mlist;sort=registered;start=0;desc)

That doesn't seem like a good idea to me. While several new users are shill accounts, there are legit new users too trying to learn more about bitcoin. Welcoming and helping them can make a big difference.
Anyway you can check the 'Members' link and order them by registration date:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=mlist;sort=registered;start=0;desc

Your right there is alot of newbie trolls but there is also a couple of newbies that know what there talking about.
Why don't you just ignore them as you read through different threads?

Oh thanks! I thought there was some kind of unlinked page for those stats.



You guys are right. I don't plan on ignoring them before giving them a post or two. But today for example I saw a new account and the first three words posted: "bitcoin will fail". Of course this account was created to just say that and I seriously doubt that the poster believes it. I'm open to hearing dissenting opinions, but not outright nonsense.  
Look at this brand new account for example.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=506960
My guess, that is not a name that is going to be a productive poster.

Wait, do you really want to ignore almost 30-40 users (maybe more) per day http://techforum.it/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/asd.gif? I think it is needed a sort of bot for this work, an hard and boring work.

I think it is around 150-200 new users per day. I don't think it is actually worth the effort or time..


Edit it is: Average registrations per day:   255.89
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats

If you're not gonna do it manually you can code (or make someone code for you) a bot.
- get the latest user id and assign it to user_id variable, assign it to checkpoint2.
A- create profile link (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=user_id)
- go to it's profile
- take it's username and write to newbie.txt
- if (checkpoint <= user_id) user_id-- and go to A;
else checkpoint= checkpoint2 and store checkpoint (for later usage).
finish.

Then copy the all usernames in the newbie.txt and paste it.
But I think that's really unnecessary.

Ps: checkpoint is the latest user_id when you did this before.

Then he should spend 2-3 hours per day I add all those forum users, 255 new users per day  ::) this is amazing !




Yes the bot it's the unique way to automatize and collect all those newbie users.

It would be possible to create the illusion of a newbie jail that only exists for you by using a bot to automatically add and remove newbies from your ignore list.

Cakir's pseudocode script looks like it would work but I'm guessing you would also need to find a way to remove newbies from your ignore list once they turn into junior members right? That would be difficult since you would need to parse through their profiles with an if-then statement. A better alternative might be to cycle through the latest user ID's so that something like only the latest 1,000 or so user ID's are added to the ignore list and those that are older are removed. Or perhaps have the list update every 1-2 activity periods so that accounts older than 1-2 activity periods are removed.


Yup. In fact, it can be pretty fun to read some of the oldest posts made by some of the veteran members here and see how much they have learned and changed since they first joined. I, for example, was trying to mine bitcoins and catcoins on a netbook. Others started off as newbies asking for loans without collateral but are now highly trusted and respected members of the community.