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I've seen so many threads complaining about posts being deleted, that it seems the mods have got a new thread Hoover.
Thank you for cleaning up the boards. The difference is noticeable.

^This and the Merit system also has done a lot of improvements in reducing the spam across boards and making the forum a lot interesting than reading the same things written in different ways in mega spam threads. When a post is merited you know it has some value to it. Also meriting for people posting art, puzzles and putting in a some effort is a lot exciting and kind of a new and a interesting way of learning.

Further adding there a lot of vigilantes also reporting the threads and making the job for mods a lot easier. Great work!

Yeah a little maybe. I noticed 1 inconsistency with my post count yesterday lol, i believe the ones complaining have line 10-20 posts deleted. Nice to see some spam threads from bitcoin discussion being deleted, but still there are so many more left.

I have also noticed a very positive change on many of the English boards. There are many spam threads disappearing left and right. There are useless posts being trashed and no spammer is safe during this time. I have seen many people complaining about their post counts going down a couple dozen posts. On the Japanese board apparently the mod is not tolerating anything off topic, even when there is no board for that particular topic. Stricter moderation seems to be taking place, but here is a thread talking about the Japanese board : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3102726 .

Thank you from me, too, mods. This has made it endlessly more pleasing to scroll through the boards.

Remember, they are volunteers and are volunteering for several hours a day all for the betterment of the forum. I'm sure they appreciate a thank you from time to time especially because they seem to be abused by the people they are trying to contain.

I regularly look through the modlog and the work they put in is nothing short of great. Don't forget to anyone wanting to thank the mods the best way to help them is by reporting anything that you see that's against the forums guidelines.

I'm sorry but I'm still stupid about this.

Why not just closed rather than delete it ? AFAIK by closed the thread , everyone will not able to reply anymore.
I'm just afraid if they send the thread into trash can and new member try to created similar topic that have been trash can. ( they search the title first )
I think it's can be like endless loop , happen all the time.

Users complaing not only because that their posts were deleted. Theymosrecently recounted posts and this is why many users now sessmaller number of posts that they made.
But I agree with you OP, mods are putting lot of effort into never ending war with spammers. Welsh is right, we should help them by reporting posts to make difference more noticeable.

I would like to see people complaining about their useless, duplicated topics about merit being deleted "abusively" in the meta section.
I don't mind also seeing shitposts in the altcoins sections massively deleted by mistake, it could unfortunately happens :P
We should regulate this (http://www.tiranaobserver.al/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/vl4.png) before it goes out of hands, hopefully merit is doing something good.

I think deleting a thread will be the most effective rather than closing a thread and move it to archival since as you said newbies here in forum will create the same thing over again and it always happens even there is a thread about it and also, mega spam threads just like in bitcoin and altcoin discussions with 40-100 pages of the same answer will make forum dirty so deleting them will make the forum cleaner and saves a lot of space.

Yeah thanks guys. I may end up one day soon going back onto the actual Bitcoin SubForum :) It has been a while.

I really think that a lot has improved since the new system has started. People are trying to make constructive posts and moderators are starting to their job and delete insignificant posts on some threads. Some people who were caught cheating on the forum has their red mark on their profile. I know that the forum still has a lot to improve and everyone is doing a great job.

Wanted to add some note, not every thread was deleted, some of them were locked.
I guess the reason why some of them got deleted was because it didn't have any value or another thread already existed talking about the same thing.
The one that got locked was because it has been answered/solved, or maybe being spammed a lot. Just a guess, though.

It's not that they've just started, it's the increase in posters trying to earn merits. They've always done their "job" and have just struggled with the constant battle with spammers and account farmers. It would be interesting in a few months time to compare the amount of people registering on the site now and compare it with the registrations before the merit system was introduced.

Even if account farmers still exist as long as they are contributing to the forum by posting quality content then there's no real issue with me.

They are getting paid. I'm a volunteer merit source. remember that.

Yeah, they are getting paid. But, it's peanuts considering the amount of work they put in and comparing it to a 'normal' low paying job. I don't see it as a salary and more of a thank you from theymos for helping him keep the site clean. Initially mods didn't get paid and it was purely volunteering.

I think the point about them having no value is the most accurate one and I would imagine that the incentive to delete it is to harm accounts that have used it just to increase posts. I can only imagine the number of signature spammers who have not received payments because half of their posts have been deleted and they did not realise.

I've been away for the better part of 5 days now, due to some technical difficulties, and thus I haven't noticed the disappearing threads.  I have seen mods do this before, and it's probably a good time to nuke a lot of the bloated, garbage-y ones again.  So if that's the case, thanks again to the mods.  I know they have all the work they can handle already, in addition to dealing with the idiots who are protesting that their post count is going down--in other words, the fools who are only here because it's their job to spam as hard as they can so they can continue to feed their already-too-numerous family members. 

This whole situation sucks, but there's not much we little people can do about it.  Banning sig campaigns is the only fool-proof solution, but that ain't gonna happen.