Is the team for both BQT and IOU projects the same? Because the pics you have posted are the one's from the team of BQT as it seems.

Though its a shame, but the amount of spam generated on the forum comes mostly from our ranks (Newbie, Jr. member, Member). Hence, I cannot suggest disabling signatures for any higher rank but nor I would lay my weapon down if someone tries to attack me only because I belong to a cast that is nasty as shit.


I too have said the same things in past, but just a bit differently. I said, that campaigns should be forced to either accept users above Jr. member rank, or only select the users that are at least mildly constructive. A campaign, if found accepting users that are extreme shitposters, should be punished by either locking down their thread or something like that.


I agree that no board is less in terms of spam posts these days, but "Bitcoin Discussion" is the only board that comes to your mind when you hear the term "Bitcointalk", and it deserves to be clean, and if it cannot be cleaned, it should at least have some quality topics, in self-moderated mode where constructive posters can come and have a good discussion for the day.


How is this similar to the spam? 
Its not the same topic that is repeated, like how spammers do. Every person, who condemns the act of spamming tries to bring up something that needs to be done to tackle it, and as long as the spammers exist, these anti-spam posts would keep coming.


I don't think it is useless as long as the creator of that topic takes this responsibility to keep the thread clean from spam and spammers, and that is what I want to see. Besides, I think every single person, who comes to the forum everyday with positive energy to have some good discussions and read some good posts would surely open up a thread in that section if the creator of that thread is someone who is known in the forum to be among the good ones here.

That's exactly what happens there. A day before, I visited that board and posted on a topic that was almost newly started and didn't have a lot of replies, and I thought it kind of deserves to post something on it and I did it, but what I found today is that topic has grown to 5 to 6 pages already, in a single day, and all you can find there are useless replies from extremely useless spammers. Now, who would open every single page of such a thread to see if there is a post worth reading?


That's what I suggested. Self-moderated threads can have a very big effect on the quality of that board. People starting useful discussions making the threads self-moderated to clean the incoming spam can give us some hope.


I don't completely agree with that since I'm a Member, and I believe I deserve to wear a signature because I have earned my position. I was a Newbie when Merit system was introduced, and I reached this rank because, I think, I have been contributing something to every discussion that I have been a part of. Removing signatures for Jr. members can do the work because they cannot reach Member rank without earning Merits, and if someone can manage to earn at least 10 Merits, I believe they deserve to have the right to wear a signature.

The quality is dropped because we have stopped trying to get our hands in there anymore. Starting useful and constructive discussions in moderated mode can still show up some quality discussions in that board but only if we try.
And, of course, not every single person, wearing a paid signature, is a spammer. I'm wearing one too, and I can totally speak out about me not being a spammer.


Appreciate that! We need more people doing the same, and along with reporting, you should also think of initiating some discussions that can catch attention of some of the good posters and hopefully we will see some quality in that board again, soon. Just make the threads moderated to not let spammers get in.

It really breaks my heart when I visit 'Bitcoin Discussion' board and see the amount of spam there. And believe me, I'm not saying this only to show that I care for the forum, though I do, but I really mean what I'm saying right now and it is really saddening to see this, honestly.

The amount of spam and spammers are increasing all over the forum, but it seems like that board has become their ultimate destination to spit their shit and increase their activities or meet their post thresholds for their campaigns or whatever their reason is behind this. The situation hasn't been this bad before maybe, but now, you cannot find a single thread/topic that hasn't turned into a SMT (Spam Mega Thread), and it takes only a few hours for that to happen. That is how much spam they generate in that board.

I know that almost every single person knows all the things that I just said, but what compelled me to start this discussion is that I wanted to ask everyone that why have we left that board just for them? I know they are way more in quantity than us, but that doesn't justify leaving them all alone, so that they do whatever they want and we won't even touch that board at all.

The forum is named "Bitcointalk" which technically means "Talking about Bitcoin" or something like that. And the place to do that (Bitcoin Discussion board) is covered totally with useless discussions that we don't even want to see. I know that we can't just get them out of there, but at least we can discuss our own things, separately, in that board. That is what Moderated Threads are all about.

I just wonder how nice it would be to have some nice and qualitative Bitcoin discussions with the people that I see and read in Meta or other sections of the forum. What if all of them come together, discussing something regarding Bitcoin? A topic, totally free of spammers, with only quality posters. We can achieve that by creating Moderated Threads in Bitcoin Discussion board where we have the power to delete unsubstantial posts and only leave the ones that contribute something to the discussion.

We should not leave that board only to them. It deserves way more attention from the ones who care for the forum than what it is getting right now.

I think Vod and pugman deserve to be among the nominees if its mainly about being humorous (they are good in everything, no doubt). I personally enjoy reading these two a lot, on every single thread they take part in. And what about JC (Jet Cash, in case a reader doesn't understand it that way)? His sense of humor is also noticeable most of the times.

You don't need to buy a complete Bitcoin. Bitcoin has 8 decimals, which is why you can buy even the smallest amount of it, according to your price range.


I wish someone could know that so that we all could buy it and become millionaires after a few years. But it is a mystery, known by no one in the world.

The reason probably is that you have participated in a giveaway where you had to only like or follow some pages or something and post your address to receive the tokens from the giveaway. But someone can only verify if it's the right reason or not if you share your banned account to let us have a look at your post history which will reveal the actual reason behind this ban.

Nice find.
You should probably post this in this thread by following the given format there. That thread is for alts of everyone that are caught and I think there are DT members involved in that thread who would negative tag these accounts.
About plagiarism, you should have reported that to a moderator and it would get what it deserves for that.

It should not affect your studies unless you have a hundred accounts in signature campaigns and you are writing posts from all of them everyday, sitting every hour in front of your computer. If that is not the case, you should do fine with both your studies and crypto involvements.
Trading cryptocurrencies does not require you to spend all your time on it. You can simply fix a time for your trades and you do them in that time and dedicate your remaining time to your studies. If you are a panic seller or something like that, it would definitely be difficult for you because even if you are reading a book, your mind would be on the crypto market, thinking where the price might have gone by now.

They can get activities by posting in latest topics as well. Why would they do it in those very much old threads?
And, signature campaigns should be limited to Member+ accounts. It has been said a lot of times before but isn't enforced yet. It would definitely reduce spam to a very large extent.

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Saw one again today:



The last reply on that thread was about 8 months ago, in December 2017, and people, I don't know from where, have found it and started posting in it again just like it has been started yesterday. I don't really understand the mindset of such people who don't even bother to read the starting post before starting to reply, or maybe they read the starting post but just don't see the date it was posted on.

This is the thread I'm talking about here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2610924.0

It still sounds ridiculous. Decentralization is what makes cryptos different from fiat, and if there are crypto banks just like the traditional banks then there is no meaning of using cryptos. Because, such a bank would obviously make it centralized and they will be in control of all the cryptos people deposit in there.
Countries adopting the technology does not change anything about the concept of the technology which is decentralization, and creating a bank would change that which is not good.

Asking 1 Bitcoin for a channel that barely gets 3 views per day even after having 35k subscribers is totally insane. Its not the number of subscribers that make a channel worth something, but it is the activity of the subscribers, and it seems your channel has about zero active subscribers.


I don't consider a video to be popular if it gets about 600k views in a time frame of 5 years or so.

This particular problem doesn't really have anything to do with signature campaigns because Newbies cannot join them anymore and I haven't noticed any of them wearing any paid signature when I saw them posting. It is just lack of care that draws them to do this I guess.


They basically surf more than one pages in a section in search of a topic where they can fit at least something that is somehow on-topic regardless of the date of that thread and the quality of their post.


Exactly!
When a topic is bumped to the top, people start replying to the posts from the bottom without noticing the date when that discussion was started, and that process keeps killing the new topics in that section which move down in numbers when the dead start coming back to live.

Why on earth would you need to share your thoughts on a topic that has been inactive for months now while there are other new and ongoing discussions that you can be a part of? It doesn't make any sense. And its not even like the posts that are made on those threads are somehow constructive, but they are utterly useless replies that even deserve to be deleted.


I understand that some higher level accounts might do the same thing, but that is very rare to find. All I have seen so far have been newbies posting in those dead threads making them alive again. And, considering the fact that a higher ranked member would understand such a basic thing, I just pointed out newbies doing this because they are the majority behind this new kind of spam wave.

And even if it doesn't lessen the spam, it would definitely not bring down the threads/topics created recently and might are important to be seen for some people. When old threads start getting spaces on the top, all the new threads start getting down on the list which is what should not be happening.


Good!
At least someone accepted this. I hope everyone else do too.


Exactly. You see that in every other section these days. They simply just open the last page of the thread and I even doubt if they even read a few replies and then they just post something regardless of the date when that discussion was started.
I just wanted to post this so that if even a few of them read this and don't do this again, I will think I, at least, did a very small thing for the betterment of the forum.

There has been some other complains as well about replies and threads being deleted without any known reasoning. Mods will surely have to clarify this as users would get disappointed by such things. I, personally, would definitely feel bad if any of my replies or topics get deleted while they shouldn't.

You're welcome.
I'm actually getting a little confused over here. The coins are in the blockchain or do you mean they are in a wallet? If they are in a wallet, why aren't you being able to send them to an exchange? Can you please clarify that a little more?

Nice work!

I can see in the "Weekly Merit Evolution" section that the amount sent every week is gradually decreasing. Is that because we are getting low on quality posts or that just indicates that Merit abusers are running out of 'em as the time is passing? As theymos said, that they would eventually run out of sMerits if they try to cheat the system and keep sending them between each other.



Oops! I'm not confused but I just unknowingly wrote "satoshi" instead of "theymos". God, he never gets out of my mind! 
I edited the post and changed it to theymos.

Are you willing to sell them? If so, you can simply do it by singing into your MetaMask and then opening Etherdelta and depositing them there. Once the transaction is confirmed, you can put them on sale and then withdraw your Ethereum balance to your MetaMask once they are sold out.
I don't have or had any EOS tokens, so I have no experience about its wallet and stuff.