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After receiving threadcrap after threadcrap after threadcrap on my Marketplace threads, I recently put this threadcrap fine rule in them:


A user just acknowledged and violated this anyway on one of those threads, and was consequently negrated with screenshot. It's as if people think they can commit any act of aggression whatsoever on the internet and get away with it, and act like everyone else are assholes for trying to do business in peace, not wanting flaming bags of crap left on their virtual storefront doorsteps. I don't see threadcrap ever slowing down unless the forum adopts a variant of this rule and stickies it on the Marketplace boards.

As I said in this post (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=304134.msg3263534#msg3263534), I wonder if trust rating can be separated from scumbag rating, because I'd rather not have to neg trust someone for being an aggressor who didn't steal my BTC.

No person may reply to this thread without paying a 1BTC fine. Should you post after I have posted this, without paying the 1BTC fine, a negative rating will be made against your account by me, and not removed until you pay the 1BTC fine. You may pay fines to 1FascistpopKgMzuXubvKZRwk1WqKjaiY8

(Wouldn't it be easier just to self-moderate the thread?)

It's because I self-moderate my threads that I can delete threadcrap instantly, easier than reporting to mods. But self-mod doesn't deter threadcrappers in the first place, and I can't afford to be online/awake 24/7 to delete the unrepentant scumbags. There's nothing easy about that.

It's not fascism to want not to be aggressed upon.

Your "threadcrap fine" is a terrible way to deter "threadcraping". All it does is force the user to create a sockpuppet, spam a few posts, and wait 24 hours (for the newbie restrictions to expire). Then he can "threadcrap" with impunity.

But "threadcrap" is allowed in the marketplace last time I checked. You're getting ahead of yourself by suggesting to impose fines.

To be fair, you cannot prove that the poster read, comprehend and agreed to the message. Your warning is a flimsier version of "I agree" clickwrap agreements. Also, for the situation you mentioned, you could have very well reported the post to a moderator. The post was clearly off topic. There was no need to take the laws into your own hands, issue "fines" to people, and give people negative trust.

Then what way would you suggest is not terrible? An interstitial warning before posting in Marketplace topics, in large text warning against threadcrap? I'm just trying to work within the system we are stuck with here and suggest possible improvements: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=304134.msg3263534#msg3263534


I quoted that rule in a PM to him almost immediately, and he didn't delete his post on his own, he signed off! That's pretty close to mens rea to me, unless you can detect that PM I sent is actually unread.

I'm confused, you say it was clearly off topic and report-worthy, but that threadcrap is "allowed" in the marketplace (impying threadcrap is not report-worthy). What is the difference between "threadcrap" and "off topic" in your mind? I already gave my definition of threadcrap, and my definition of off-topic would be someone talking about elephant mating rituals in a topic about hash rates of BFL ASICs.

The post I deleted referred to a different cryptocoin's sound so only slightly-offtopic in my mind as it is not a direct competitor to the bitcoin sound but still a sound nonetheless, but as it started off as "Nice try but... {here's this better sound design}" that made it threadcrap IMO.

And I could have sworn I was told off by someone on staff/a moderator that I should just self-mod my threads so I don't constantly have to report threadcrap, and wait for the removal review delay. This may have been via IRC PM so you wouldn't be able to see a record of that.

You could try locking your thread after posting the OP, and unlocking & relocking whenever you need to bump.

Of course, offers/questions would have to be in PM then.

Don't people see locked threads as "offer closed"? Poll added.

Yes; this is the normal behavior of a person whose request has been fulfilled and does not want to waste anyone's time who might be interested in a job or offer that has already passed, so there's a high chance it would defer potential viewers.

Threadcrapping is banned on most forums. But This is Bitcointalk.org where freedom is enjoyed by everyone.  ;)

Yeah, I've seen enough people who treat the Non-Aggression Principle like toilet paper, like FirstAscent, to know this forum is thoroughly infiltrated by those who would just as soon celebrate Bitcoin being banned by all governments with summary execution, because it doesn't fund aggression if the owner of the BTC doesn't want it to.

Well, early results have "When you see a locked Marketplace topic" polling 6-2 in favor of "[I think] the offer is closed". So I can let the poll run longer, or a new solution to threadcrappers can be proposed and perhaps polled upon. In the meantime, I'll just lock my topics and put "(offer open, ignore lock)" in the titles.

Depends on what your definition of threadcrap is. I have met sellers who consider any post that are negative towards their thread to be threadcrap.

Defined in my quote in the OP.

*anything negative without first transacting with me*

I was subtly asking how you define threadcrap, and how you define off-topic.

I don't think that's appropriate. I can give you a lot of examples:

* Material misrepresentations: You're selling a laptop and you say it has a 2.4 GHz processor, when in reality it only has a 1.8 GHz
* Logistics issues: You offer something recommended as a Christmas gift when there's no chance of something arriving by Christmas Eve
* Same product: You resell an ebook and someone who had bought the ebook before says it's crap.
* Scam alerts: Your pictures turn up in a google image search and is posted by another user.
* Lies by omission: You sell Randomaltcoins with no mention that the network is under a 51% attack for 3 months and the transaction probably won't confirm.

Etc etc. Instituting a threadcrap fine with your definition is a horrible idea. Anything negative to what? I think the forum already has a policy of not allowing your own advertisements, and I think that's ok.

SMH...

You do realize that mods don't even delete scams, and it's probably not their job to investigate claims of marketplace scamming?

My opinion is that having open discussion of a product being sold or a service being offered is fine as long as it's not just an advertisement for your own competing offering.

They don't need to investigate anything, you do when you make the report. PM the OP, if they're unrepentant, link your evidence to the mods, and those clear-cut violations you just described would result in the scam being shut down on any decent forum. But if you have a problem with the mods, then you should have just said "bitcointalk is nothing but chaos with a fake veneer of moderation, so just give up at suggesting improvements" and saved yourself the time of typing all the rest up.

About half of all threadcrap I've received, IIRC, has also advertised competing offerings.

Warning: Moderators do not remove likely scams. You must use your own brain: caveat emptor. Watch out for Ponzi schemes. Do not invest more than you can afford to lose.

There! Easy button.

Please start your own topic about how you think/can demonstrate the mods (synonymous with owner/admin/staff, in my mind) are derelict in moderation, or link me to your one that's already been up for a while.

competing offers count as off topic. so what's the other half of the "threadcrap" that you received? legitimate criticisms of your product/service?

Sigh, I guess I can accept that definition of competing offers. But shouldn't I be talking to malevolent? I'm only getting threadcrap in "his/her" subforums these days, not Currency Exchange.

Some recent illegitimate criticisms/craps, IIRC:

Crap: Claiming someone else made a better artistic choice than me, when everyone can play my free sample, form an opinion themselves, and move on... (but not actually putting the other thing down as a competing offer, because it wasn't/isn't for sale and no link to it was provided.)

Crap: Claiming my prices are too high (even though I research fair market values and match or undercut them, and am advised by experts directly in some cases) but not actually wanting to negotiate or give any counteroffer, just bitch

Crap: Claiming the piano I'm advertising on behalf of the non-profit I registered for BitPay and BitPremier isn't actually being sold by a non-profit and I'm committing fraud (added EIN to the topic after that, after sufficiently proving to BP & BP their non-profit status and getting fee adjustments months before)

Crap: Saying my pictures of pinback buttons with glarey vinyl covers are bad (I know that, but I can't afford to rent or buy a DSLR on spec over $1.50 items; a DSLR would cost about as much as my single most expensive personal item for sale by far, and exceed my limited homemaking income for an entire year, nor can I find anyone who wants to trade a new DSLR for said item)

Crap: Asking questions already clearly answered in the OP

I don't have a problem in the marketplace of people posting in my thread ^_^ ....... :(

In 3pt font: "Just kidding."

Deleted my own reply after screenshot taken.

LOLWUT :P That said it would be nice if people posted some critique though I'm updating the website now and getting everything fixed up.

PMing is only slightly more difficult than clicking reply (assuming you don't have Quick Reply on by default), you just have to add a title. But I guess if you are M... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhGDMPNhLLU)

Not cool, guys. I want my money.