Do not post off-topic replies

[Welsh]

No bumping posts?

Bumping isn't off topic if you talk about the thread .

[tysat]

No bumping posts?

Bumping isn't off topic if you talk about the thread .

Bumping is allowed, keep it to 1 per 24 hours

[sublime5447]

I dont know why you guys wont let people flag post.

The master coin thread is allowed to remain in the currency thread when all other alts have been moved. Looks to be favoritism to me.

Let the community police the thread.. instead of insiders playing games and giving favors to their buddies

[tysat]

I dont know why you guys wont let people flag post.

The master coin thread is allowed to remain in the currency thread when all other alts have been moved. Looks to be favoritism to me.

Let the community police the thread.. instead of insiders playing games and giving favors to their buddies

Not sure what you're talking about, got a link?

[sublime5447]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=287145.0;topicseen

[b!z]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=287145.0;topicseen

Mastercoin is sort of like Bitcoin, since it's built on top of the BTC protocol.

[sublime5447]

Ya I see that now, but still.

I would recommend a market place thread for BTC only. It junks up the thread.

[Justy]

As a newcomer i feel off topic means everything else within the realms of perceptive reality?
Bits coin research info can tax the brain a tad and the people therein
Just let it roll,I'm billy meiers love child but wouldn't shout about it

[Operatr]

Not sure how much I agree with this...

Basically it sounds like you are going to censor the board completely by yourself with zero user interaction at your discretion alone.

I would agree that off-topic posts, and even off-topic threads (does no one read the thread topic before posting in a section?) are a problem that is cluttering up the boards with needless junk, but this isn't the way to handle it.

[JaiChai]

Please don't discount the human tendency to access memory through tangents (the natural neural network framework).

It is the foundation of creativity and has incubated the beginnings of all the technological breakthroughs in recorded history.

For example, while working on secure communications, Dr. Merkle - of the Merkle tree fame - first proposed the hash of a hash security process that happens to be the basis of the double SHA256 encryption algorithm that our beloved Bitcoin is based upon...

So please, a little tolerance of off-topic submissions might promote innovation - and probably another thread?

Cheers,

JaiChai

[HomerS]

Off-topic replies have become a big problem. From now on, I will be deleting such replies without notice, forum-wide. If your replies disappear, this is probably why.

All replies must respond to the topic's original post in some way, even if they are replying to an on-topic reply. If your reply has nothing to do with the topic post, either add some content that is relevant or create a new topic.

Please report off-topic posts as soon as you see them.

Ye, i agree off-topic replies have become a big problem, but who arbitrates whats is on / off topic. Administrators feel like Mussolini in Italia or Kaddafi in Libya. They have the power which change their personality.
But i see it´s problem in most diskussion forums.

[tommygun90]

Here are too many posts that does not add any valuable information to the people! I don't understand why they even leave them

[hilariousandco]

Here are too many posts that does not add any valuable information to the people! I don't understand why they even leave them

I find that ironic since you just pretty much just copy and pasted one of my replies in another thread:

I think most get moved there, especially when they're about its service problems. Maybe if the threads are about how the general gox fiasco affects other aspects of Bitcoin etc then they stay in the Bitcoin forum?

I suppose everything related to the the general gox fiasco that affects other aspects of Bitcoin could be posted

[shaobao88]

Who is competent to decide whether this is off-topic or not?

[Nas]

I see a lot of off-topic replies. I will report them when my account gets bigger and I don't have 6-10 minutes limit.

[picolo]

Who is competent to decide whether this is off-topic or not?

The mods and bitcointalk staff are competent for that and they use common sense

[Pobre]

Is there some kind of reward or benefit you get by reporting bad posts? if no, then i think that there should be a mechanism that rewards the people who report the off topic posts.

[TheRealSteve]

Lately there have been quite a few posts made by two bitcoin mining hardware developers where they essentially attack each other.

While I'm all for some friendly competition, I think it lost the 'friendly' moniker a good while back, and lately their 'communication' has spilled out into unrelated threads, with each having supporters who make follow-up posts that escalate the situation.

They know who they are.  The mods probably know who they are.  And, sadly, more and more people are becoming aware of who they are in a negative sense

[jeffersonairplane]

I dont know why you guys wont let people flag post.

The master coin thread is allowed to remain in the currency thread when all other alts have been moved. Looks to be favoritism to me.

Let the community police the thread.. instead of insiders playing games and giving favors to their buddies

It's called the report to moderator feature. People don't use it to their benefit.

[knightcoin]

Psychologists says ... lets people talk and expresses their self ... otherwise soon we going to became followers of that guy ...




reminds me the tv movie called "the wave"

An experiment in an American High School where students learn how easy it is to be seduced by the same social forces which led to the horrors of Nazi Germany. Based on a true story.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083316/