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I think censorship is bullshit.

I thought this was a forum for the free and open exchange of ideas, clearly this is not currently the case.

Perhaps we need a new forum, but I rather like this place and feel inclined to fight for it...ideas?

A whahabahuminahuh?

(Thread moved from Speculation)

If you think threads such as "dont buy a damn single bitcoin few days" are of necessity for free speech, there are plenty of other Bitcoin forums in competition. In case enough people deem the policy bad, discussion will move there.

Meh. We let Atlas tard around endlessly. Why not let someone give us their uneducated opinion on why not to buy bitcoins?

I agree with the OP. Speculation forum was fun! Please give back our old speculation forum!

Disagree.  I think this forum could use more moderation, particularly in Speculation.  Too many pointless junk posts and silly attempts to manipulate the market.  I think raising the level of discourse and quality in this forum would be a positive thing, particularly if it gets the more annoying posters to move to a different forum.

I don't mind sitting at the kiddy table. I'd just be concerned that everyone would miss out on comedy gold.

Let me provide the history of moderation on this forum and Speculation as I experienced it:

Until summer and the Forum moderation policy (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=20333.0) (which ironically many objected against in the beginning, too), there was hardly any moderation at all by the few Admins. One year ago, even Silk Road could post on this forum and advertise its business.

Now as the market went parabolic and the forum became crowded with spammers and trolls, the situation was hardly sustainable anymore, so finally, volunteer mods were promoted and instructed to take care of it. It was also an effort to combat the image it gave to people (for example businessmen) who were repelled from Bitcoin due to its community. The image damage went so far that the Bitcoin Forum was removed from the bitcoin.org domain and on the frontpage it now links to a Google search to distance the project from this forum.

Most often, the spam and trolls consisted of people who liked to create threads consisting of "CRASH SELL SELL SELL"; this is indicated in sirius’s second point. As a reaction to the crap that persisted to plague the forums, the Speculation section was created in July to contain it. Here is one of the oldest threads exemplifying this well: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28317.0

So, here we are now, with me appointed to take care of the recently neglected Speculation forum. As I have stated, I fully intend to keep intact the lax and laissez faire style of this subforum, and having you (Mushoz, I’m looking at you) judge it after two days and hardly any moderation at all is inadequate.

In case this disturbs you too much to bear this forum, I refer to my previous post here in this thread.

+1 ~ it wasn't broken, don't try & fix it

You've removed my sentiment indicator... thanks asshole.

If you guys want to speculate with no restrictions, try my signature.