I've already talked to a few of the posters. Mods, please wait to move the posts for another day or so, I need to get screenshots to use as examples of good, bad and shameful.

I think by Monday the posts could be moved to a subforum temporarily, and then after a few months can be pretty much forgotten.

Its from an increase in supply of bitcoins with a paralell decrease in demand 

But seriously its a lack of goods or services.

You've got elvish in there, but then also list two elvish dialects, WTF, make some sense man.

Alright, so I have sent messages to most of the students who have been posting on the forum the last couple of days(just using the forum, I will send a general email tomorrow) thelling them to stop for the moment.

I apologise for the anoyance, but a lot of that is due to their poor English and pure lazyness. One thing for certain is that we can expect a lot of begging like activity such as this to happen once there is a significant takeup of bitcoin.

I'm going to have the students learn from what has happened here over the last couple of days. Get them to move away from begging and actually offer something.

Some good ideas that have come up is:
Chinese cook book
Chinese music selection(something decent and not just a few songs)
Chinese lessons.
I will have them go away and work on those for one or two weeks and come back with an actual decent product.

Other obvious ones are the translation services(although I would be careful with these, anything translated into Chinese should have the original English put through Google translate and compare the two, reject if both are the same, i.e. they used google translate, this is lazy and they should not be paid)

A clever one I think was offering photoshop services. OK most people on the bitcoin forums are quite technical but not evervyone can have PS skills. Its not one I had thought of.

And the jokes, This is something that had not crossed my mind, I'll have them put together a joke book with Chinese style jokes.

Thank you everyone for your patience, the next round (in a couple of weeks) with the improved products or services I think will actually make the forum a more vibrant place.

And finally, once this has all finished I will make as much information about the whole project available for anyone interested to have a look at. Its certainly something I will try next academic year in more formalised manner.

silence, outing, you can relax. There is no need to apologise for anything said. Some people here are wondering why are there so many Chinese students trying to do business, all from the same place.

grondilu, thats actually a great idea, hahaha( evil laugh ). But seriously, any bitcoin they earn is theirs, they must only return the capital( a massive 2btc) that I have given each group by the end of the exercise.

You have done enough work for this week, we will talk about it in class, where I can help you, and we will come up with some ideas. It will be great.

See you in class.

Ying I am your English teacher, dont write on this website anymore. I will talk to you and help you in class, have a good report ready. See you then.

Hi gongling, I am your English teacher. Dont write on this website anymore.
I will talk to you and help you in class. Have a good report ready. See you then.

I think you missunderstand.
Dont publish again, and dont write again on this website for this week.

Have a good report for the class, and I will talk to you, and help you when I see you in class.

Hello silence, I am your English teacher. I will talk to you in class. Dont write on this website anymore.

Tanxi, I cant understand what you said.
I am your English teacher, I will speak to you in clads, dont write on this website anymore.

lian, liuling, I will talk to you in class, dont write on this website anymore.

I am your English teacher.

Anna, I will talk to you in class.

Dont write on this website anymore.

Your English teacher.

Perhaps adding a temporary sub-forum, just for the Chinese students to post in, I understand that their posts might be....spamish, in the way they are written, or with what they offer, this is primarily to do with their poor English.

They are trying to offer real goods and services for bitcoin though so they have just as much a right to be here as anyone else.

It should also be noted that this is not a single person or account doing this, but multiple ones, which I can tell you are different people.

I think it should also be taken into account that this will not be continuing for much longer (I think 2-3 weeks at most).

I'm open to suggestions, really I'm the best one to deal with this as they do what I say, rather than giving the moderators more work.

Ideas?

Hahahaha, you make me sound like a digital pimp.

The point of the exercise is to use their English to complete a task, it's called task orientated learning, learning by doing. You can see how poor their English is, this is because they focus on passing tests. So they are good at passing tests, but can't use their English to communicate even basic things.

This forces them to USE English, which as you can see most of them have never done.

Now I must find you and kill you to protect my secret identity, my student too.

I hope not, I could get in trouble if that is the case 

outing, maybe you can use meebo to chat with people using gmail, aol, msn and others https://www.meebo.com/

I suggest you use it instead of trying to make your customers use QQ(QQ is in Chinese, it's not easy to use if you can't read Chinese)

How do we call you? We don't have your phone number.

Yes, don't make it too easy on them. Essentially you can pay them very little, certainly don't give them something for trying.

I still dont understand, are you selling clothes or pictures of clothes?