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Gambling board is a board that is highly dedicated to gambling. It is a board where people that are not gamblers cannot post because they won't understand the jargon of gambling. You need to be a real gambler to post here. This board is like bitcoin technical board where people that doesn't know bitcoin technical cannot post.

What is supposed to be in this board is the ANN thread of casinos and serious gambling matters. But recently I have been seeing gambling discussion topics being created in the gambling board.
Moderators may be tired of moving these topics.

I have listed below some topics in the first page of gambling board that are supposed to be gambling discussion. If you see such topics we can call them out in this thread to see if they belong here or not.

• Parents And Their Children In Gambling..  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5415034.0)
•  Question to players: what does really drive you crazy in an online casino? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5416600.0)
• A Nigerian Man Won $51,000 in Sports Betting With a Bet of Just $1.072 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5417833.0) 
•  Which Game Have You Won The Most From And How Much In Total? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5417586.0)
• After a good gambling run (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5419742.0) 
•  Compound Gambling Race. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5420009.0)

You can use the report button for each of those threads so that they will be moved to the Gambling Discussion (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=228.0).
Or if they won't be moved there, then the mods will just have to lock those threads and they will no longer be accessible. I don't think they're tired, it's just that there could be tons of reports that they're catering and all of it are on the queue.

I agree, those who open threads in the gambling section, some posters are not aware that they have posted it in the gambling announcement instead of the gambling discussion I am part of these posters  :D I only become aware of that after a day or two but still moved it to the gambling discussion, might have been forgotten by the others who started those threads that should have been in the discussion board, we should make aware of this by sending a message or reporting the thread.

I don't think I'm going to agree on this. Gambling board is not only for gamblers. Gambling is having different areas that if you don't know one area you can know the other area because it is major in sports activities like indoor or outdoor games. Someone can have understanding with soccer and not boxing. The area is wide to discuss but I agree with you that some topics don't need to find way to this board  

I have seen quite a few numbers of such topics popping up on the gambling board instead of the gambling discussions board, u don't know if the creators of such topics do that deliberately or out of share ignorance of the appropriate sections that suit such discussions if you see such topics you can make use of the report to moderator's bottom so that such threads will be moved to the right sections.

I won't want to call anyone out since the bottom solve such issues is active in the forum some members may not even know how to move a thread they created to another board so even though you call the attention, it still ends up as a waste of time.

That is correct - the moderators are doing their job and they do it well, they keep a stricts check on the post and the threads.
So don't worry about it and relax - if you really want to report hit the button.
There are a lot of smart people like yourself who have some good suggestion for the moderators

I also disagree, and you can't compare it to Bitcoin Technical Discussion board, Lol. And that board is heavily moderated so a off topic post for sure will be deleted.

As for the gambling and gambling board, anyone can post and make a thread that can be related to gambling. If you think they are not, then report it to moderators, simply as that.

Our life is gambling per se, so all facets are covered, from those topic you mentioned to everything.

The gambling section needs to be limited to the ANN threads while we can discuss anything in the gambling discussion sections but these days i see some discussion topics in the Gambling section which just mess up the thread.
Also, due to this reason, some threads are being reported and instead of being moved, they are being deleted completely. You may find which gambling (and other) threads are deleted on this link https://bitcointalk.org/modlog.php

Can you define what a real gambler is? It's because gambling is very simple, no rules, just extreme luck and you just need money to play.

And you want us to discuss every time using jargon terms? Can you also list them?

If you feel like threads does not belong there, (just like any other topic), used the report button.

You don't need to be an "expert" in gambling just to be on that board.

1. If you found a thread that is not gambling related for you, report it. I don't think that moderators are going to be tired moving them out
2. don't reply to those board
3. ANN thread as still there, doesn't matter if they go to page 2, you can go and search for them if you are a looking for some update on the site

And this topic has been discussed many times here in the community, but with the growth of crypto base casinos, thee will be gamblers here that are going to post such topics and threads.

Definitely not the point of this section.
But argument is valid that those topics are somehow irrelevant. As I remember it correctly, Gambling section before contains ANN threads of projects wherein players could check new gambling platforms they may try as well as to check for feedbacks of that platform. General topics about gambling, would be for gambling discussion as also mentioned by other users in this topic, as the word discussion also suggest. But at the end of the day we have moderators in this forum. They',d be the one who will move and seggregate topics from one another if it is reall inappropriate or irrelevant. So let them be for now.

Never make a standard for yourself. This could be an insult to the moderators such as teaching them what to do;they definitely know their jobs for years.

that would be the necessary thing to do. also, sometimes i commented that the topic be moved to gambling discussion board.

on this note, will this thread be considered as serious gambling matter? because from OP's statement above, this board should have ANN thread of casinos and serious gambling matter. because if not, this thread should also be moved to the gambling discussion board.  :P

Though some the topics highlighted in the OP belongs to me, I wont try to deny that I don't know that those topics really belong to the gambling discussion board, but i really did not care as both boards seems to be the same based on other kinds of posts i see there that no one talks or says anything about moving.

But if ya all check my recent gambling related post topics, you discover that I've started posting them in the discussion board where they really belong.

My personally take on this is that, we should not blame those making gambling discussion topics in the gambling board, it is both our individual responsibility and that of the moderators to correct such mistakes, we as community members can not move topics that is not ours, but we can remind the poster that he or she posted on the wrong board and should move it, but most times, we too fail to do this and the moderators for some reasons don't move the topic.

But then, thank goodness we have this topic now, hopefully, this will serve as a reminder to all posters here to know the right kind of posts to make in the gambling board , and also the right kind of posts to make in the gambling discussion board.


By the way... gambling has no technicalities that any one can not understand, it is wrong to compare this board to bitcoin technical board. my personal opinion.


EDIT: All topics mentioned in the OP belonging to me have been moved to the gambling discussion board, i will still search for others and move them appropriately.

I don't think the board should be restricted to only gamblers, but I agree that if you don't know what you're talking about you shouldn't be posting. I feel like alot of the posts we see in the Gambling section (not the gambling discussion, just the gambling section) is only there because some of us managers are asking for 5-10 posts a week in gambling campaigns. People want to make money so they will go outside of their comfort zone in order to do so.

You and others should report these posts so that they can be moved to the appropriate section. You could also pm the OPs of these threads and link them to this thread so that they may see the discussion.

Technically this thread doesn't belong in gambling as well. Maybe Meta or gambling discussion.

I agree with the OP about this issue but He should create this in the gambling discussion if he points out that gambling is for gambling announcements only, sometimes I am confused whenever I drop by the gambling section to see a discussion on gambling topics which should be an all announcement topic if the creator of the thread sees his thread created on the gambling board he should take the initiative to move it, I'm sure he will drop by on topics he created.

I'm sorry to say that but this kind of answer is laughable. If you don't know what is (and what should be) a real gambling forum, just look at the Wizard of Vegas Forum (https://wizardofvegas.com/forum/) for example. The 10% worst posts there are better than the 10% best posts here.
Everyone knows that people are posting here just because their signature campaign requires to do it or because they know their shitposts won't be spotted into the piles of spam. Most of real gamblers from Bitcointalk don't even try to post here anymore. And at least 2 topics on the matter have already been opened in the Meta section, even moderators are complaining about the amount of spam.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5419987
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5403475
Several members advise to always open threads in self-moderate mode here to prevent spam.

This might be better in gambling discussion if you want to push attention to it, or Meta.

On the topic, I think it's wrong to say that this board is for people who are "gambling experts". Rather this board is for threads that center around official discussions instead of "What do you think" topics, which I do agree with (I'm only disagreeing with the way OP said it). It's like separating the discussions between official and non-official ones. With the number of threads made though it might just be for the best to report the thread to bring attention to it, or personally PM the OP as others has said to move the topics.

I also saw some of the topics were already moved to gambling discussion btw.

 It's not about the mods doing their work but rather people can do it by themselves without the mod's intervention in the first place, so why don't they?

You have a point in what you said here dude, I just have a question about what else you said here that "Non-gamblers can't post on this board" I think you are a bit wrong on this matter. I have been posting here in the forum for a long time but I have not seen or read anything here in this forum with such rules.

Because before I learned to gamble here in crypto gambling on this platform I was already posting in the gambling discussion and on this board. Although I won't question the ones you listed that you think shouldn't be on this board.

Those topics you listed are gambling board topics, although an advice. So far you want to correct people about the topics that should belong to a gambling board, that means some people are posting wrongly to gambling board and moderators are not moving the topics away from gambling board, is there anything like that? I have noticed that moderators are active on gambling board, especially locking old threads and moving reported threads that are off topic from gambling board to the appropriate boards they belong. You can specify if there is any wrong topic that was created and stayed on gambling board but that does not relate to gambling board.

Really? Can't believe that.


Not really. It is precisely members of some campaigns who are accused of not knowing about gambling and of writing here to get paid.


Not a chance, LMAO.

I generally disagree with this kind of threads. The gambling board serves its purpose and is very important to this forum today as it has been since practically the beginning of the forum.

I see much less spam than I did when I first joined the forum, and to improve the situation, simply having campaign managers scrutinise what their members post would improve the level. There is no need to think of overly complicated solutions. The problem is that campaigns like 1xBit's are allowed on this forum, and that's the way it is.

This is a quick act and you have done your part to keep the gambling board neet. That is a great job by you.



What I mean is the later. Which means anyone who doesn't understand what they are saying shouldn't be posting in gambling board.
I cannot suggest that people be restricted from a particular board. What I mean that a non gambler should on their own avoid gambling boards because they may not be able to engage in the conversations there.


It may sooth in Meta or gambling discussion. But I chose to keep it where the problem is discovered. Many people hardly visit Meta. My quest is to sanitize gambling board, that's why I kept it here. If the moderators feel here is not the appropriate place, they can move it to the appropriate board.


English is not the native language of many of us. I don't know how you understood this to be an insult to moderators.  I didn't say moderators are lazy, I said they may be tired. Which means tired of doing same thing everyday which is caused by our carelessness.

I personally feel topics like that needs to be discussed and that it should be posted in the gambling discussion section, but the moderators of that section are deleting those kind of posts in the gambling discussion section, so that is why people are posting it in the gambling section.

I also think... people who wants to discuss gambling topics like that.. will go to a gambling related section of the forum and not to a meta or general section... where everything else is discussed.  ::)

I partially disagree with you, even your post of complaint shouldn't have been here if the same penalties should be meted out on these posts. There can't be perfection here, but it would still be good for posters to maintain any gambling-related posting in the 'Gambling Discussion' area, while a dedicated discussion about casinos/companies should be posted under their threads in the 'Gambling' area. This will limit mistakes, but we should not be deprived of anything related to gambling as I've grown to like them.

Who can indicate a person is a real gambler? technical members sometimes drop by here (even if he's not a gambler) at the request of other members to help sort out "probably fair" issues on certain platforms that have been the subject of much debate, especially since it's their ANN thread.

I can't even tell the difference between people who are only involved in sports discussion are bettors or are just passionate about sports talk. However those topics are on the gambling board.

I have seen also some quiet numbers of such topics over here and I see no reason calling them out since there a button for reporting such topics to the moderator, so as to move them to the appropriate section which is the gambling discussion.
Most times people post all of those topics ignorantly with paying attention to them or knowing the right place to post them and most times this mistakes are done by less ranked memmebers who obviously are still seeking their ways round the forum and all we need to do is possibly point it out to them and direct the topic to the right thread.

Most times I feel we don't encourage the new members rightly because from our actions, we tend to treat the low ranked memmebers of the forum as if they automatically ought to know everything at once which isn't right.

Definitely, OP, use the report function. It's easier and works better than anything else. Threads like these only attract the very users you're complaining about (also I recommend OP self moderates and help clean up the forum by deleting spam).

I do feel reporting, over time, improves the quality of posts from poster. Forcing them to put in more effort. I don't know if that's good in the long run, they're essentially still garbage posts with little to no value to the gambling subforum, just with better spelling and better-constructed sentences...


This is the easiest thing in the world to tell on this forum. Real gamblers post bets. Know the odds, know the markets. It's not even about showing off as a lot of people hide their bet amounts (I do myself). If it's technical assistance as you mention or ANN thread owners, then they're gambling industry people (trust me, that means they were gamblers at one point themselves).

The vast majority of posts in Gambling Discussion aren't either. I've noticed people now talking about odds and betting but it's pretty clear most are just parroting or Googling.


Very fair point but it works both ways and you can also easily find the ones who don't want to make an effort. In my self moderated threads I do reach out to new users to talk about why I delete their posts, very, very few respond. They're clearly just there to spam and not interested in contributing.

I think the technical discussion of bitcoin should not be compared with the discussion of gambling. there is a dedicated section for creating ANN Thread of gambling sites and section for Discussion about gambling, what does it mean to discuss about gambling? in my opinion discussing about gambling is simply talking about everything that has to do with gambling, these topics you mentioned are talking about gambling, you can see they are talking about gambling, i don't know what you want to be discussed in the gambling section? because in the gambling section there is a discussion about tennis, UFC, soccer (almost all major leagues are discussed), NBA and many things, but it is also necessary to talk about people who win lottery and lose everything, people addicted to gambling ... so these topics you posted have nothing wrong in my opinion


you just need to click the report button until the post is removed or you can also PM the person who created the Thread to move it to the correct section, I think it costs nothing to do that. you can start by send PM to all members who created these threads to move them to the correct section, of course if the moderators don't move the thread early



most people on the forum still fool themselves into thinking that just because a person is a newbie then they don't know anything, but they forget that this classification is only here on the forum and a person can be a professional gambling and come on this forum to be a newbie, but there will be people who think he knows nothing about gambling. Anyway this is a misunderstanding problem that many people have had.

I disagree with OP. Some forum users may be former gamblers in the past. And now they want to protect other players from their mistakes. As we know, gambling is for fun and relaxation. But for many people it becomes the meaning of life and destroys the person's personality afterwards. I think every user should be able to warn the gambler about the risks in the casino.

I can say the forum is very large enough and many people don't know where some post are belong to and this required them to go lot of search. Although I found such post all I do is reply to let them know such post doesn't belong the place they are being posted, for instance a newbies who wants to lodge a complainant about gambling site might not know it belongs to discussion section.

It just funny to see a user who're registered since 2014 still doesn't know what is report to moderator :D also this topic shouldn't belong to Gambling board since it's actually discuss about the forum, so it should be moved to Meta section. It would be make sense if the @OP create this thread because he have reported those thread but the moderator still not move it to Gambling discussion.

As I checked, the other 3 threads has been moved to gambling discussion and the rest I already report to moderator.

Sometimes those thread starter actually knows on what board does their topic belongs to, since it will be moved by mods anyway later on so its okay for them to do it. Some of them just post on particular board just to make sure that more people will see it other than on other board.

As what I can understand in your point is that you want people to post a thread that is not an announcement thread in the gambling discussion and the gambling board should only be used to post only ann threads. If that's your point in this post then this thread of yours should also be in gambling discussion and not here which means you also post a thread here that isn't an ann thread. That's just wrong if you can only post here if you are a real gambler then how would someone know you are a real gambler?. You are even registered on this forum than me and yet you still didn't know report to moderator if you found a post that is of low quality or out of topic

This is a good point and a hilarious way to show the OP that he’s guilty of doing exactly what he’s complaining about. Granted it’s a topic about this forum section, so it makes sense. However, I’m sure others posting threads also believe their thread is applicable to this section. As others have stated, you can report to moderator if it bothers you, but I think it would be a difficult challenge to try and move every topic to it’s proper place if you’re picky about it.

or simply report the thread and get it moved to gambling discussions board. no offense but I don't think a thread for "calling out" such threads is needed as members can easily report it. now regarding the threads you mentioned, yeah, I agree that they should be in the gambling discussions board, I was gonna report them to be moved but it seems that three of them are already moved there and the other two have been moved to the trashcan.

Sorry mate, I don't mean to sound negative or to try to discredit your genuine interest in seeing that things are done right, but honestly, it not your job to sanitize the gambling board or any other board here, maybe wait until you are made a moderator, it is the job of the moderators to see that every topic started on this forum is done in the appropriate board, and if a topic is started in the wrong board and we feel the moderators missed it, it is our job to report such topics to them, and the beautiful thing is that, the user who started the topic won't even know the topic is reported until the topic is moved to where it should be.

With the above been said, I think the job here is done, six topics you highlighted, four have been moved to the appropriate board, and two, which seems to me some sort of spammy, I believe have been deleted, so I will suggest you lock this topic, so that spammers do not hijack the thread.
Atleast, now, we all know the right board to post our gambling discussion posts, and when we see one here that's not supposed to be here, we now know that the appropriate thing to do is to report it , so kindly lock this thread.
My 2 cent.

Yes those words from Yastan in a thread asking to sanitize the gambling section are weird. He shouldn't be disturbed by someone being concerned by the amount of spam here, if he likes this section and interesting discussions about gambling.
And he should read those words from the moderator if he's not aware they are tired of shitposters.


Only blind people or people of bad faith won't see any problem with the amount of garbage posts because as I've already said in the Meta section, 4 to 5 moderators fully dedicated to the gambling sections are missing to cope with the current amount of spam IMO. A sub section without visible signatures could be an alternate solution though.

I am happy that this post has gotten result, in less than 24hrs that this thread was created, the few posts I listed have all been moved by either the topic creators or the moderators.

A look at the first page of the gambling board now gives joy because it looks decent. Expect  one post (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5418052.0) which is a gambling discussion post.

For people saying that this post need to be in gambling discussion or meta:

I disagree and I have my reasons. If this post was to be in gambling discussion or Meta, no action would have been taken till now. I have to strategically position the post where the victims of the thread are and where others can quickly see and compare.

I have to lock this thread for now because it has served its temporal purpose. I will unlock it when I witness similar situation in the future and will call the posts out in this thread for quick actions.