There is a lot of scammy, and potentially illegal, services being offered here and very little response from the moderators or the community to call this out. I am really surprised there are not rules about what kinds of things can be posted and that stuff that is obvious scams continue to be offered with no reprisal.
Although scams aren't moderated by forum moderators and admins, the community (DT1 and DT2 members) do everything they could in order to notify others by leaving appropriate ratings.
This is where the rules are stated:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0I am not saying the sig campaigns are scams themselves, but it is hard to find more than a handful of posts here that are not "make money doing nothing" kinds of things. The fact that we have hundreds of those going on leads to just a flood of posts that have almost no value to the forum, just so people can up their post count on their campaign.
Since on your 1st post, you mentioned "this subforum" then Services sections would always contain such threads and posts. For quality posts and discussions, you should look at other boards although I agree with the fact that the quality has been lower than what it used to be in the earlier years.
It used to be a place for people offering actual services - programming, web development, consulting, legal services. Now that is gone almost entirely and what little there is gets buried in a flood of "get rich quick" schemes.
It's still the same place but as you said, it gets buried quite soon (few hours on page 1, then those threads go down to page 2 and so on). Services section should have it's on different sections (it's very disorganized).
so they can spray their fake viagra posts all over the internet?
(like viagra posts and whatnot that I am sure they are flooded with)
I think you're mixing posts made by bots to those made by humans.
That is what I think is the problem though, the idea that because scams happen and people fall for them then we should just let them post here and search for new rubes. And furthermore that there is not even a sticky post with rules like "Straight up ponzi schemes are not allowed".
There used to be a warning on top of "Investor-based games section" about warning everyone in general but I can't see it anymore. Regardless of it, people should do their own work into identifying things and learn to not get involved (although were talking about people and in general majority always fall for such things).
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