Scams involving altcoins

[Coinbuck @ BTCLot]

I've just been looking at the alternative cryptocurrencies section (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=67.0) and it is a wild scam feast.

If you look at the scam accusations most of them involve alts:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0

There is new coins and scammers popping up every minute and I think this section needs more moderators to avoid total chaos.

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[greyhawk]

The solution is not to throw more moderation at the growing mountain of "Now-I'm-gonna-be-rich-too"-type newbies crying over losing the buck fifty they made mowing the lawn. The solution is to move altcoins altogether from this bitcoin forum to another forum. One could call it specialcointalk.org. You know, like in "special coins for special people"

[🏰 TradeFortress 🏰]

The solution is not to throw more moderation at the growing mountain of "Now-I'm-gonna-be-rich-too"-type newbies crying over losing the buck fifty they made mowing the lawn. The solution is to move altcoins altogether from this bitcoin forum to another forum. One could call it specialcointalk.org. You know, like in "special coins for special people"

+1

I suggest creating a marketplace subforum in the alt cyptocurrencies section and moving all trades involving cryptocurrencies there. (Except Ripple, that goes straight to the trashcan).

[Zaih]

So true!!

100% support. It's getting out of hand.

[Coinbuck @ BTCLot]

The solution is not to throw more moderation at the growing mountain of "Now-I'm-gonna-be-rich-too"-type newbies crying over losing the buck fifty they made mowing the lawn. The solution is to move altcoins altogether from this bitcoin forum to another forum. One could call it specialcointalk.org. You know, like in "special coins for special people"

That would be a permanent solution. Altcoins can give some really bad PR to bitcointalk due to the huge volume of scams that I've seen in the last days.

Of course it's always newbies fault to avoid using a trusted escrow and sometimes it is an expensive lesson

[John (John K.)]

I've just been looking at the alternative cryptocurrencies section (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=67.0) and it is a wild scam feast.

If you look at the scam accusations most of them involve alts:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0

There is new coins and scammers popping up every minute and I think this section needs more moderators to avoid total chaos.

Well, only theymos can give out scammer tags. I'm getting bombarded with scam tagging requests so much that I wanna just ignore the damn section now.  I'm requesting theymos to give me the power to temporarily tag users, probably with 'Unconfirmed scammer' or something like that in the meantime to be able to handle such cases.

[Coinbuck @ BTCLot]

Well, only theymos can give out scammer tags. I'm getting bombarded with scam tagging requests so much that I wanna just ignore the damn section now.   I'm requesting theymos to give me the power to temporarily tag users, probably with 'Unconfirmed scammer' or something like that in the meantime to be able to handle such cases.

John K do you have any update on this ?

Many non-tagged scammers are still active in the community