Bitcoin Forum

So I've noticed that postings on this forum have dropped significantly.  What's up with that?

The only thing that I can think of is that there is a significant amount of members that were burnt by the GOX debacle and are now despondent. As a result, there is an avoidance of anything Bitcoin related for awhile.

Probably another result is the change in forum policy with signatures from Moderator Theymos.  He applied it globally so only Full Members and up have color, larger font, etc in their signature lines.

Less new members spamming posts all over the place because they won't get paid the same way with small advertising sigs.

That makes sense, I didn't know the new rules.

Thanks :)

K.

Did not think that it would have such an effect. Is the post rate returned to levels before newbie jail was suspended?
The total downfall in posts is probably a combination of the signature policy and lost interest due to Mt. Gox.

Agreed, a combination of residual effects of Gox, and lack of incentive to post due to lower payments.

Do you have figures or stats for this, or are you just saying it seems like they've dropped significantly?

The count of daily posts on the stats page seems normal (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats). Perhaps they've migrated to another section that the OP doesn't visit.

Seems normal to me, but I dare say a few people have stopped posting because of stunnas dropped rates, but there's other deals stil going.

Where did you get that?
The daily "New Posts" and "New Members" figures look pretty stable to me. :)

Newbie posts yet but spam by folks with activity between 5 and 50 has fallen sharply due to new rules

This. And the fact that people have stopped churning out a million new cryptos every day,thanks to Mt.Gox.

Atleast get your facts straight before posting. There are not only the newbie posts that have decreased, have a look around, this counts for everyone, including non-spammers. They removed the incentive of posting together with the incentive of posting. ( Not saying it's dead, it's far from, but it's way calmer since the change ).

What facts did I not construe correctly?

I said new members IE Newbies, Jr members, and Members.  Those seem to be the most to gain, since for the most part they're generally new to Bitcoin and have more incentive to gain from signature advertising.

I agree with the cleaning up of posts, deterring offtopic threads, and general better discussion across the board.

Not sure what your problem is.

Bold part is an implication that the -only- reason post count has gone down is cause -new- members aren't spamming anymore.
Half the truth is not straight facts.

Huh?  Only new members are getting the price decrease to .0001.  Seniors, Heroes, etc still get their .0003 if I'm not mistaken due to their big sigs.

Oh geez man, Primedice isn't the only paying advertising service. Check services board for more.
Also, I re-read your post explaining what you meant as 'new' accounts. I would myself not include members into 'new' accounts, newbies mainly and perhaps jr members. But if that's what you meant you're basically right, my bad.

I know there are other services providing advertising.  PD probably had the best or one of the best pre-forum cleansing.

I still consider myself new, even though I'm a "Member".  No worries bro, we're all on the same team.   ;)