Thanks, locking the thread again. BTW is it established that posting in high frequency in that board leads to a warning? I've got someone questioning it, who would like to discuss about it.
That would be me. Thx for unlocking.
What happened was mexxer-2 pmed me with a friendly warning to stop 'spamming' the press board. I know he had good intention, but it annoyed me as the only problem was the frequency of posts, not quality or relevancy (I followed all the rules).
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warning/ban, depending on how much they were spamming and whether they're in a sig campaign.
Could you clarify on that? Would you ban/issue a warning to a poster who follows the rules, posts constructive posts, just because of too high frequency? If so, what's the tolerated frequency (and why)? If that's the case, does it only apply to press board, or entire forum?
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My opinion on the issue:
You can question whether 'Press' is still needed or not. I reckon when it was created 'press hits' relating to Bitcoin were rather rare, now we see those on daily basis. But, since it's still here it could be useful to get some clear rules (possibly new mod, as jgarzik is no longer active). I'd suggest:
- Strict adherence to suggested format (date-source-title)
- Duplicating links strictly disallowed (obviously)
- Only major non-bitcoin related sources allowed, so no CoinDesk, Cointelegraph etc, also no obscure sites/blogs (those could be created for sole purpose of abusing press board), maybe set minimum Alexa global rank as a rough indicator.
- Translations from foreign-language major news allowed.
- No links to articles older than 1 week.
The above would likely solve the issue of spamming. Keep in mind that (if rules are followed) the number of new topics that could be created in 'Press' is limited by the number of new notable press-hits (could be zero on the quiet day), so with the clear rules it could be the cleanest board on this forum.
I know it looks weird when you see multiple new threads started by the same poster in a short period of time, but that's just the specific of that board. Whoever first do the news search can start all the topics, and there's nothing wrong with that, since that's what that board is for.
On the side note, it's funny to see how signature-wearers get blamed for all the spamming, while they're actually the only ones who can get financially penalised for that (by not getting paid or get kicked out from campaign). You do realise that there's shitload of account farmers (non-sig wearing) making much more damage? And have you noticed that most of intentional shitposting is done by non-sig wearing members (same goes for one-word or meme replies)?
