The reason for altcoin projects leaking in, in Project Development, can be this:

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Project Development
Organization of Bitcoin and related projects, bounty campaigns, advertising etc.

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The tag under it clearly says that bounty campaigns or advertising stuff can also be placed in here. That would definitely draw some traffic from Altcoins to this board. Maybe that tagline should be modified so that people don't post projects that are not involving Bitcoin in any way since the board is in Bitcoin sub-forum. And users can report threads for being off-board so that mods can move them to where they belong.




It doesn't require any solution since Altcoin sub-forum has its own discussion board named Altcoin Discussion. Any topics related to altcoins posted in Bitcoin Discussion should be reported immediately and would get moved (if useful) or trashed as soon as a mod checks the report.


That's true. Having a separate board for Altcoin technical support would help categorize the technical stuff between Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.


That doesn't seem to be a necessity to me. Any cryptocurrency other than Bitcoin should only be discussed in Altcoins sub-forum since they are all alternative cryptocurrencies, no matter how popular they are. It is not only one or two altcoins that are popular, but they are many, and providing different boards for each one of them would mean a lot more moderation and even more open space for spammers. The forum already lacks moderation in some existing boards, and adding more to them would only make it worse.

A person who loves a thing and uses it in his daily life would never think negative about how it would/could be in the future, even if the situations are against his thoughts. That is exactly what happens with cryptocurrency users. Even if the market is totally red, the countries are banning/regulating cryptocurrencies, people are abusing them to be evil, but if you ask someone who had been using them, he would say, "It is just a bad time right now. The future would bring something new and all this will finish soon." That is exactly what I would say, though it is not about what we say, but it is all about what the governments think, but why be negative?


I don't really think that's true. Banks and governments would never need to accept cryptocurrencies in order to survive, but the cryptocurrencies would require adoption in order to survive in the long run.


Maybe, but that is not what every single person says in the world, and it would only make a difference if everyone has the same thought about them (The Banks).

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I said that because I think that being a moderator is quite a bigger responsibility than being a Merit Source, since a Merit Source is only responsible to choose the posts that he thinks are of quality, but a mod has to decide if a person or a post needs to remain or to go. But of course as you said, theymos has all the stats and there are already a lot of trusted users who are ready to dedicate their time to this cause. So it should not be difficult for him to choose some hard working mods around here.
The reporters would absolutely lose hope if there is no manual patrolling going on in boards like Bitcoin Discussion or Altcoin Discussion etc. where if you report one post, meanwhile, 10 more posts are submitted.

I see you have no Merits, but I still find you spamming and shitposting in about every single thread that provides you the opportunity to do so. So, what about no Merits for the likes of you, who are desperately looking for this 'One' Merit these days so that they can continue to do what the new changes are supposed to stop?

Its the mentality or the quality within a person that doesn't let him write useless things somewhere. The amount of appreciation he gets would make no difference in that, in any way. So it is not giving less Merits that can stop the spam, but it is giving them to the right people that would do it in the long run.

Yep! The "LOGOUT" button at the right side of the navigation menu below announcement section.
There is no way you are going to make it to a higher rank with what you are doing right now. So, you either don't take the forum for granted, or click that button for good. It's your choice.

He should have already done it along with the selection of Merit Sources he announced recently with the new changes. I know it is not as easy to choose a mod as it is to choose a Merit Source, but today or tomorrow, it needs to be done. The forum in current situation needs patrolling more than Merit distribution which is also for the betterment of the community. Bitcoin Discussion and Beginners & Help would definitely require more care right now or they will go even deeper in this shit.

I highly discourage suggesting Newbies to buy Copper Membership for the sake of wearing Member signatures and participate in Signature/Bounty Campaigns. The primary purpose of Copper Membership was to enable lower rank users to post images and reduce their PM or posting time intervals, but the recent changes have changed the usage of it, and people, who can afford to buy it, are using it to wear signatures of the ranks higher than them and post crap everywhere to earn a few bucks every week. If a user is a good poster, he should simply use that power and earn a few Merits to rank up manually and then do whatever they want. They should not need to buy Copper Membership for anything like that.

The ones who blame the system are the ones who know they can't surpass the restrictions put by it. You will never find a Newbie complaining about the system if they know at least something about the forum or anything that they can share with the people without any plagiarism, post-spinning or something like that.
And, I don't really understand why people think they need to search for good Newbies to Merit them. It is not like there are only a few people who have Merits to give out, and the genuine users would get none even if they make some efforts. Every single board has at least some people who have sMerits with them, and if they find a Newbie who is worth giving some, they would do it. We should simply do what we usually do; surf and read the threads that we like, and simply Merit the ones we see there who deserve it, by not only aiming to Merit Newbies. The ones who deserve to get going would eventually pop out from the crowd and won't need finding. That's what I think.

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@OP, may I give you an advice? I wish you don't mind this, but you should probably practice your English a bit more. Since you are a good poster and you will need to continue that, you should probably learn the grammar which is not that difficult if you dedicate some time to it. It is not that your writing is not understandable, but I think it would look much more convincing for the readers if your sentence construction is a little bit more precise.
I hope you take this positively.

Regards.

"Merit". Mostly when it is used by someone who doesn't even know what it is and what is the fundamental function of it, and, specially when it is used in the title of a thread which indicates there is nothing good to read inside, but I still read it, I don't know why.  
Meta and Beginners & Help have most of them in the recent times.

Other than that, the word "shit" also annoys me a lot of times when non-English speakers use it more than often and in totally inappropriate manners. If someone doesn't know when to use a word, they shouldn't do it. They might have a feeling that using these words make your writing better, but that's not right. It rather makes it more frustrating if you are not using the words in the correct way.

The guy has a complete history of utterly useless and none-required one liners which are not even worth reading, Meriting is a very big thing even to think about them. I don't see any fault of the system in that case, though there can be a lot of quality posts that are missed and are not Merited, but in that particular case, it's not the system that is serving injustice, but it is himself who is not honest enough to the forum to get the respect he asks for from it.

As far as I know, a user only with a rank of Sr. member or above can start new threads in that section. I also can't see that option nor does OP, since we are still Full members and we don't have the permission to do that.

@OP,
There are only two ways to achieve this. You should either ask someone in a higher rank to create the topic for you, but in that case, you won't have the self-moderation to yourself. Or, you should just PM both theymos and Cyrus and wait for a response from any of them.

There is no way the guy can scam the OP since he is putting his own money on risk and isn't asking OP to put any of his money into the business. The thing is, the other guy might be transferring the money from an illegal source and doesn't want himself to get tracked for its usage and that is the reason why he offered a guy, completely inexperienced and never known to him, the job so that he gets the business going but no harm should come to him in case something goes wrong.

Ideally, you should be looking for good posts, but not only good posts from lower ranks, but if that is what you want to do, it is your choice.
Since you would surely need some time checking the qualities of the posts you are going to Merit, so that you don't Merit posts of pure plagiarism or even the spinned ones, so maybe being a little more active would make you a better source for the community.
Just avoid looking for posts in boards like Bitcoin Discussion, Altcoin Discussion, Economics to save your time since even though it is possible to find some in them but it would definitely consume less time to find some in other sections.

Services section is only for services that either offer something to do or ask others to do something for them by paying money. It is not a place to discuss anything.
You need to move your topic to Altcoin Discussion since you are discussing ICOs and they belong to altcoins.
In future, make sure where the thread belongs before posting it.

No. A self-moderated thread means that the creator of that thread is himself the moderator of it, meaning he doesn't need to report anything to a forum moderator, but instead, he can delete them himself and keep the discussion clean.



I don't know what you are talking about, since the population of this forum as well as Bitcoin users database are increasing rapidly. A percentage subtracted does not count when a percentage added is bigger than it.

The reason why Merit circulation in English boards is more is because there are more people in these boards. But I believe local boards have their Merit Sources too, who are constantly meriting posts that are worthy. And those boards with more population and much better posting qualities would probably have more Merits in circulation, i.e English boards.

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Now I'm curious to know if to which board you belong, because what you did here can be a reason why your board lack Merits in circulation.

Are you talking about the HTML? If yes, then you can do that by simply removing underlines of all anchor elements (links) in CSS by using " * a { text-decoration: none; } " and then putting all the usernames in span tags and then assigning underline to them by using  " span { text-decoration: underline; } ".

Example:



Copy this code, paste it in a text editor and save it as a .html file and then run it. You will see the result.

Sorry if this was not what you were asking for.

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No worries. Glad to be able to help.

You can consider wallets to be electronic banks as they are used to store digital currencies like Bitcoin which don't have any existence outside Internet. The only differences that a wallet has from a bank is that a wallet is decentralized while a bank isn't, and they don't generate profit in the name of interest for you.

The new changes have undoubtedly made a difference for the forum, but as you said, and many others have been saying, a requirement of more than 5 Merits to make the signatures available would have made the difference much more bigger than this. But, as they say, something is better than nothing.


Filtered words won't prevent spammers from spamming, since they can always use different words if they come to know what words are being filtered. And it is not possible to stop this by filters since the words they use to spam are the words other users also use to post, so it won't just stop the spammers from posting but it would not allow others to use the same words as well. That solution won't work in this case.


That is what I suggested here, if you read the OP, you would have known. I asked people to create self-moderated threads in Bitcoin Discussion board to keep the spirit alive, and don't just let the spammers take over the board. A self-moderated thread can do good since the creator can easily remove useless comments and keep the discussion clean all the time.