Is it just me or has the quality of this forum dropped immensely

[ron7684]

Every topic I look at lately is just a bunch of spammers trying to raise their post count when they should really be spending some time learning English...

[franky1]

yep. its due to greed

when the sig campaign owners reduce their reward per post. the users signed up will spam post even more, just to try staying at a certain level of income. they will start making multiple accounts as another way to try increasing their income.

the problem is that asking the sig campaign owners to not decrease the reward also incentivize spammers to spam more.
the only solution is to completely stop sig campaigns.

sideline notes about English:
bitcoin is not owned by any country and English is only used as a first language by ~420mill of ~7bill.
English is adaptive,
the tom8o tom@o. color vs colour, trousers vs pants, knickers vs panties debates prove this
aswell as the differences between a british scouser talking to british cockney.
aswell as the differences between an american hill billy and someone from the bronx

in short we should not limit bitcoin to only be used and talked about by oxford scholars, because we have already begun to failed the world by pricing bitcoins usefulness out of third world countries by having the transaction fee higher then several countries hourly wage.

by the way i am a brit, yet see the bigger picture

[Chris!]

The unfortunate part of all of this is that there are people farming hundreds of accounts to earn their satoshis. Just look at this thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1597201.0;topicseen

It really takes away from us legitimate posters who just have some passive bitcoins being paid to us for something we would be doing either way.

[franky1]

Sig campaigns are such bs. Is there a reason that they haven't been banned outright?

the forum owner believes in open markets and freedoms (though has had some ironic examples of limiting freedom of speech on other platforms)

[MingLee]

Every topic I look at lately is just a bunch of spammers trying to raise their post count when they should really be spending some time learning English...

You're not wrong. There are a lot of spammers on this forum more interested in making a quick dollar by posting shitty replies to a worn-out or irrelevant topic than there are people interested in actually discussing Bitcoin and talking about it in a way beyond "this ting es coll mang". Maybe if they took some of the money they earned and put it towards learning a language I would have a bit more respect for them, but it is hard when every other post lacks basic English skills.

[Meuh6879]

if you don't love it, leave it !

[VanDeinsberg12]

Sig campaigns are such bs. Is there a reason that they haven't been banned outright?

the forum owner believes in open markets and freedoms (though has had some ironic examples of limiting freedom of speech on other platforms)

But the rules for the sig participant isn't reaching some eligible post count will be removed from the campaign is the big enemy from the forums. could remove this rules? so really strict for the participant and the forum.

[HabBear]

The unfortunate part of all of this is that there are people farming hundreds of accounts to earn their satoshis. Just look at this thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1597201.0;topicseen

It really takes away from us legitimate posters who just have some passive bitcoins being paid to us for something we would be doing either way.

Agreed!

I took a break from the Forum from about January until September. Coming back I noticed that there are very few new threads being created. It's indicative of the spamming going on from the worst signature campaigners. They just add new posts to the same old threads.

Then you get the signature campaign runners getting arbitrarily tough on the campaign participants. E.g., I just got pulled off the Bit AC campaign for "post frequency and quality". But my post count was 20 for the week, spread over 4 days, and my quality was far outweighing others. I tried to contest it but the guy running the campaign couldn't even cite a specific example of how I violated their rules!

I think campaigns are a good thing, they help the businesses, the grow the economy, the help the owners of this site make some coin. But the quality of talk on the forum is certainly suffering. Fewer and fewer new discussion. And no one is really policing the existing spammers out there. Although I have noticed there is a more strict review to be admitted to a campaign, which is nice.

We could all go to the other forum, www.bitcoinforum.com

[UngratefulTony]

Nonsense. This forum is at peak signal to noise ratio. If fact, I recommend adding a second signature space (right below the current one), to improve the forum further.

[justspare]

yep. its due to greed

when the sig campaign owners reduce their reward per post. the users signed up will spam post even more, just to try staying at a certain level of income. they will start making multiple accounts as another way to try increasing their income.

the problem is that asking the sig campaign owners to not decrease the reward also incentivize's spammers to spam more.
the only solution is to completely stop sig campaigns.

Sig campaigns are such bs. Is there a reason that they haven't been banned outright?

Well if they were banned, then there would be barely anyone left on this forum. Most people on this forum advertise for a signature campaign and I don't think that is going to change.

[RawDog]

The quality of the comments here are so fucking low it hurts.  I hate the people in here.  They are always asking about how to get women and porn to use more bitcoin.  Fuckin' stupid if you ask me.

[tanarif]

I like that the forum's open and lightly moderated. Some other forums are way too heavy handed and limit you posting the most basic of crap.

[Lauda]

You should do your own research before opening a thread though. Here's the latest one with the discussion regarding this particular problem:
Shouldn't non productive topics be moved from Bitcoin Discussion to Off-Topic?

[UngratefulTony]

Du u spend coinz on real life?

[hellomolly]

You must be slow on the uptake, its been like this for months if not years

[Johnyloco]

if you don't love it, leave it !

Du u spend coinz on real life?

[BitHodler]

Admittedly, the spam has become worse this year, but there is nothing that you can do about it.

There are two groups that are basically bringing down the quality to all time lows.

One group is recognizable as they use Google translate to post their crap in this forum, and the other group is well known for their the Bitcoin posts.

[deisik]

Then you get the signature campaign runners getting arbitrarily tough on the campaign participants. E.g., I just got pulled off the BIT.AC campaign for "post frequency and quality". But my post count was 20 for the week, spread over 4 days, and my quality was far outweighing others. I tried to contest it but the guy running the campaign couldn't even cite a specific example of how I violated their rules!

I think I can guess why you got kicked from the Bit.AC sig campaign. I was also a little surprised at first to see you kicked out (though I seriously doubt that the quality of your posts "was far outweighing others", to be honest), so I looked through your post history, and I found this entry of yours in the week preceding the payment after which you got excluded:

I make BTC0.84 per day right now.

I don't know about SFR10, the BIT.AC campaign manager, and his reasons for kicking you out (provided it was his decision in the first place), but I consider it rather strange that a guy making 0.84 BTC per day would be participating in a signature campaign that was paying him, according to his rank, only 0.00055x50=0.0275 per week for 50 posts which he still didn't make. Just in case, I'm in no way affiliated with either SFR10 or BIT.AC...

Do you really earn so much and still want to participate in a signature campaign (I am just asking)?

[dreamer81]

if you don't love it, leave it !

Haha... so true.

Isn't this always a problem? People writing crap to gain higher post counts? Isn't the opposite worse? nobody writing anything at all!!

[Your Point Is Invalid]

Every topic I look at lately is just a bunch of spammers trying to raise their post count when they should really be spending some time learning English...

This has been toe situation for a few years now, nothing new