Do not post off-topic replies

[hilariousandco]

Reading through posts it seems there is an off topic reply in every thread.

There are a lot of threads on bitcointalk and I sometimes marvel at how they all get moderated. Anyways, my suggestion is if there can be a link/button on every reply on a thread where users can click to report off topic replies in a thread so it would be easy for moderators to easily find these off topic replies.

You mean the Report to moderator button at the left of every post?  

[Baskeyairdrop]

Reading through posts it seems there is an off topic reply in every thread.

There are a lot of threads on bitcointalk and I sometimes marvel at how they all get moderated. Anyways, my suggestion is if there can be a link/button on every reply on a thread where users can click to report off topic replies in a thread so it would be easy for moderators to easily find these off topic replies.

You mean the Report to moderator button at the left of every post?  

Yes that is what I mean. I already edited my post. All these while I never even noticed the report to moderator link was there but now I know. It should be used to help moderators report these kind of off topic replies.

[IKIK]

I suggest every off topic replies should be either deleted or reported. Without this action people wouldn't learn.

Some people kept posting off topic simply because they want to attain merit forgotten things aren't done that way.
Nevertheless such post should be reported and deleted

[Delighty slyde]

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.

Off Topic sometimes may gives room to a new idea of things, in this case I suggest warning at first sight.

[Ahli38]

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.

Is it when we discuss a forum and provide an explanation of a problem or opinion, do we have to include relevant sources for the answers we have given?

and may I have an opinion in commenting on a particular topic which is of course without reference and is not off topic?

thank you very much 

[Patrol69]

There are a lot of off topic posts on the forum that many people post on. I think it's better to post on the current topic rather than posting on those off-topics. Because if you post on the current topic, the current information will spread to everyone, as a result of which many people will get new information from this forum.  So I think we should definitely post in a new topic. and our refraining from posting on any off-trophic posts.

[Solokan]

That's how it should be, because the existence of such rules will make the discussion of higher quality. and to be honest my post has also been deleted in the near future, but deleting my post will certainly make me learn again, and have to improve the quality of my DISCUSSION.

having such rules means this forum is a quality discussion forum.

[Donneski]

I suggest every off topic replies should be either deleted or reported. Without this action people wouldn't learn.

Some people kept posting off topic simply because they want to attain merit forgotten things aren't done that way.
Nevertheless such post should be reported and deleted

As a newbie, I've seen several off topic replies and it does totally get a reader confused. I think the best way to address this issue is for the forum to provide platform(s) where this off topic replies can be reported so that such persons can be warned of the dangers of off topic replies and if a person is reported more than three times, such person can be sanctioned accordingly. It'll help in reducing the number of off topic replies in the Forum

[Pingrapole]

It's not right to discuss something on topic then it reduces the tendency to create something new which takes us forward and backwards which slows down our work a lot. We should be right.

If each discussion is not on topic then it becomes difficult to read and understand and distracts us from the main goal.

Those who are responsible as our boss should identify the posts and remove them quickly so that our exclusion rate will decrease which will increase our tendency to work in the future.


According to my own opinion the authorities should take proper action against them then no one will post off topic which will help us to make something better.Those who are posting outside the world should now post topically to help new comers like us to learn then our mission and mission of the organization will be fully fulfilled which is our sock.

All of us should be interested in posting on topic so that we have the mindset to do something new and act as a role model for others.
I would finally like to say that our bosses have the foresight to take notice of these and take appropriate action.

[Reynaldo]

That's because they are using ai to make every post and don't even read it... some of the cons of the new era.

[internetional]

When I want to form a well-balanced view of a cryptocurrency service (whether it's a wallet, exchange, P2P platform, casino, prediction market, or anything else), I often study discussions on the Bitcointalk forum. The community here is very active, so I can learn many different facts about any service (including things the developers themselves won't tell me) and see a wide range of opinions about those facts.

However, when a discussion dedicated to a specific project is flooded with off-topic messages, my attention as a reader gets scattered, and it becomes harder for me to study the subject I came to the forum for.

That's why strict anti-off-topic rules have practical value not only for moderators, but also for readers.

If there is a desire to discuss other topics, this can always be done in separate threads. Anyone here can create a thread dedicated to almost any question and discuss it in detail in a way that will be useful for future readers.

I would like to give an example. In the Polymarket thread that I started, a number of posts are not about Polymarket itself, but about the impression created by the thread title. In my view, this distracts readers from questions that help better understand Polymarket and what is happening there. I do not want to respond to those remarks in that thread in order to avoid going off-topic and to keep it useful for me as a reader.

I am writing this post to encourage everyone who raised concerns about the Polymarket thread title (Fivestar4everMVP, Kelvinid, Davidvictorson, Z_MBFM, un_rank) to create a dedicated thread in the Meta board about how thread titles should be formulated for the convenience of everyone. Even better, it might be worth checking first whether such a discussion already exists in Meta, and joining it if it does.

In short, let's move off-topic discussions to where they can actually be useful.

[SeriouslyGiveaway]

I am writing this post to encourage everyone who raised concerns about the Polymarket thread title (Fivestar4everMVP, Kelvinid, Davidvictorson, Z_MBFM, un_rank) to create a dedicated thread in the Meta board about how thread titles should be formulated for the convenience of everyone. Even better, it might be worth checking first whether such a discussion already exists in Meta, and joining it if it does.

Guides on writing better thread/ topic titles. People just don't read and apply helpful guides and methods for their thread/ topic title creations.

Topic title style guide.
Make your topic title, posts more attractive.

[un_rank]

I am writing this post to encourage everyone who raised concerns about the Polymarket thread title (...un_rank)

It is not often you get a tag for a post you made over 3 months ago especially when the conversation on that thread has moved past that 

This was my first response on your thread:

It is marketed as a decentralized prediction website, but it is not. You get that clearly when you sign up and you are giving addresses generated for you. There is an option to export the private keys on this address but if you did not generate it yourself it is not your keys and if it is not, the platform is not decentralized.

The way your title is worded and also the way the OP begins, one would easily think this is an official ANN for polymarket. You can include there that it is an inquiry.

- Jay -

This was very much in line with the topic of the discussion, and I had another replying to a user still on that topic. If you are picking out the last line suggesting that your topic title is misleading it will seem like your problem is with getting those suggestions at all and not with off topic replies.

No one should be making a separate thread to point out something in a post they read, that will just spam the forum. A user will not read a thread and then go and start another about using too large images when they can just point it out to the OP on that thread.

Your title looked misleading, it even led to people asking questions about polymarket probably thinking that was a dedicated thread for it.
 
- Jay -

[internetional]

This was very much in line with the topic of the discussion, and I had another replying to a user still on that topic. If you are picking out the last line suggesting that your topic title is misleading it will seem like your problem is with getting those suggestions at all and not with off topic replies.

Yes, this aspect has already been touched upon here:

Quite often an extrapolating answer is judged by some as off topic.
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Also often a thread consists of mitiple diaglouges on different elaborations of the OP, like two or more threads in one.

Conversation drifts and develops, this may not be the best thing to do, you may be discouraged from posting something interesting for fear of it deviating from the original article too much, although it may still be relevant in the context of the flow of discussion. In this case posting a new topic would risk losing momentum if they missed the new thread.

And strictly speaking I don't have a clear or fully constructive position on it myself.

I often write posts in exactly this way: generally staying within the topic, but also adding a few sentences about something that interests me, even if it doesn't really help to develop the main subject. I've never seen this explicitly prohibited on the forum, and I never considered it a problem. But your comment made me look at it from a different angle.

You are absolutely right: it would be incorrect to call your post off-topic, since overall it is clearly related to the discussion. At the same time, the last sentence encourages a shift away from the main topic - it invites a response. I'm judging this by myself: I did feel the urge to reply, but I chose not to, because I didn't want to go off-topic in a thread that is personally important to me, as I'm trying to better understand Polymarket.

I tried to understand what exactly made me initially perceive it as off-topic. And I realized that, as someone who writes posts, I wouldn't consider such messages off-topic at all (again, I use this approach myself quite often when I want to stay within the topic but also add something extra). But as a reader, there is no real difference for me: whether participants go off-topic in a separate post or in just one or two sentences within an otherwise on-topic post. From a reader's perspective, it still feels like something unnecessary that distracts from staying focused on the subject.