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My arguments for doing this:

1. The chat is moving incredibly quickly now. I can imagine in 6 months it will actually be impossible to keep up with it, in the present structure. edit: guess it varies as now it's slow, but it's definitely too fast at times for me

2. With so many people investing into alt currencies, there is constant 'car sales man' talk on the chat. This was there before but now it's literally non-stop. It's a shame because I used to enjoy talking there but now it's almost a non-stop shouting match mixed with trash talk :-[

3. If I was a newcomer who had just bought some bitcoins and was investigating alt currencies and I went onto that site, I would be put off by the stream of 'Buy Ltc!', 'No buy TRC LTC crashing', 'LITECHICKUNN!!' etc. Never used to be this bad and it doesn't create a good impression.

And I know I can hide the chat, I have just stopped reading it now...

If you are a daytrader, trollbox is great!

BTC-E couldn't survive without it... So many panic sells / buys...

I think as they get more visitors, the chat will be consuming so much resources it won't be worth it.

No they shouldn't. But they could somehow reform it, I agree.

just do it yourself:

https://btc-e.com/disableChat

/sign   ;D

no

absolutely

Please use - https://btc-e.com/disableChat  ;)

You should add a link or button under the chat to disable it. It's too much of a hassle to use a special URL to do something that trivial.
I don't mind though since I use adblock to remove it.

Of course friend!

What do you think about the idea of chat rooms. This would make the chat more readable and you could have a different room for each currency to avoid so much fighting and trash talking! Good idea or bad idea?

Chat rooms would be a good idea for btc-e.

Absolutely Not! The trollbox is my main trading compass besides reading tea leaves...

It's deterred me from investing money into the bitcoin/crypto currency economy (not that I have much to invest anyway...).  Mostly because you can tell a majority of the chatroom users are kids and/or people who know virtually nothing about investing/finances.  I'm def not an experienced investor...  But I'm friends with a banker and we talk about finances a lot, and I read a book or two on it, so I atleast know some of the financial lingo.  I'm so sick of people screaming "crash!!" for every little dip in the market.  ...And how they think a 5 month investment as long term >.< (Is that even considered short term??); that's pretty annoying too.

And what's with that chicken crap??

They're just trying to get a rise out of you.

I spend some time there occasionally simply due to how ridiculous it is aka entertainment factor. It's gotten  a bit out of hand recently with people just shouting the same thing over and over, losing any form of purpose, civility or reason. BTC-e should definitely have a disclaimer somewhere near the trollbox warning users that the chat could be full of lies and misinfo, but that's obviously not in their interest. Overall though, stupid noob speculators looking to make a quick buck kinda deserve to be taught a lesson in investing, while smart investors will probably ignore the chat there altogether - so in the end it's not the end of the world.

Chat room is good but it's abused. For trading, we need think not chat.

No, they genuinely think it's l33t in some way - it's beyond tired.

absolutely not, i love the troll box!

arise chicken

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trollbox is the best thing that ever happened to cryptocurrency daytrading are you kidding me?

yes, some people might not have any common sense and be suckered, but the amount of info I get about everything in the bitcoin community through that trollbox is tremendous, don't you take my trollbox, if you don't like it go to vircurex


another one is coming and I hear it'll have a trollbox too crypto-trade.com in 8 days




also I'm thinking about developing a crypto-currency exchange company, and putting a skype webcam box in so you can see everyone's faces and hear people yelling.  it would be insane.  that would be like trollbox 2.0

What do you think all those great smilies are for?

facepalm, mad, trollface (all really fun)

yeah dude if btc-e wasn't so fun it wouldn't have nearly as much volume.  if you were the manager of an exchange it would be weaksauce.  "NO FUN ALLOWED."  nobody would want to come to your exchange bro.  just have fun

HAha, no let it be - this is so entertaining. But perhaps each currency pair could have it's own trollbox ? Love that name btw.

TROLlbox is best market indicator do opposite of what they tell u to do

I agree with the OP.

I used to have fun chatting at BTC-e. There were some trolls, but a lot of good people as well. Lately, it has been literally full of trolls and/or people trying to sway the market one way or another. Also, chat goes by so fast you can't hardly read anything.

I think some of the posters in the chat box are bad for ALT coins or at the very least might possibly make someone look differently at ALT coins than they would have before. If the BTC-e troll box is always filled with a bunch of 10 year olds trolling it up, talking about what drugs they're buying next from Atlantis, constantly spewing "U mad bros", or just generally being douche bags, then this reflects on the ALT coin community in a bad light.

The troll box was good for the amount of traffic BTC-e used to have, but now that traffic has more than doubled in size and it is impossible to moderate. I suggest BTC-e shuts it down for the good of the ALT coin ecosystem.

BTC-e, please think about it.

give alternate chats for each cross and in the main chat increase the forced delay between messages. Most of the problem solved right there.

yup chat rooms would help.

The trollbox is the only reason I stay logged in there all day, and watch the trading...

Without it, the rest of the incomplete features that I use, but are useless in their present form? I wouldn't be trading there at all.

-- Smoov
FIX THE NOTIFICATIONS PROPERLY, and FINISH THE EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS... you guys have procrastinated too long already.

I would also think the chat makes the site more dynamic. But perhaps the chatrooms could be graded - and that all of the silly chat would not make it to the front page, but be more buried ? Then serious traders could have their room, and the trolls could cook up conspiracies and pump and dumps in #trollfeast.

Just got a great suggestion from the troll box.  A feature to ignore people would be very good.  So basically if so one is spamming the same thing over and over again and being annoying you just ignore them.

The ability to ignore has been asked for for over a year now... they've given it the same priority as they do finishing the notifications...

-- Smoov

hellz yeah. trollbox is effin great.
skype cam would be the shiz-nit. clowns in there randomly yell "ARISE CHIKUN," but you get to see them do it.

+100000000

um...  yeah, I'm just not into watching a whole bunch of fat guys in their underwear and unwashed hair, in dark room, shouting "ARISE CHIKUN" and acting all mental...

I'll just stick to the trollbox.

-- Smoov

trollbox is awesome.

The troll box is BTC-E's golden egg. It's a brilliant idea and it does them nothing but profit. :-)

Just disable it if you don't want to get sucked in. The moment you do, the charts all look different.

F yeah!

I stopped looking at the troll box 3 weeks ago, how hard is it for you to look away? Damn cry harder.

Oh, I'll even try to help you beyond not looking or disabling. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.phauna.litecoinwidget


Bitch please.

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