Haven't red completely all the feed, but do check the remarks below.
You were discussing about introducing a fee for posting ANNs to consequently reduce the number of scam coins or ICO's as well as to reduce the amount of poor posts of token hunters in general.
( I )Scammers are indeed capable to pay 1 BTC. At present time or in future when BTC will be significantly higher than at the time when this idea was suggested (Aug. 2017). There's no trouble for thieves to battle up to a few bitcoins. So I refer to the 1st reply of this topic as the trust in new tokens is going to get more exposed :
New idea: charge a fee of 1 BTC for every new ANN in the altcoin announcements.
This would drastically reduce the amount of low-quality projects / scams posted.
If this is indeed implemented, people might start assuming that coins posted in the altcoin announcement board have the forum's approval.
That could be dangerous!
And regarding the quality of posts, I think the bitcointalk ranking formula should be changed to enable measuring quality inputs and not activity only :
What's the activity level for Members, 60 or 70 ? Both of the numbers have been mentioned in this thread.
And I think that spamming up the rank should be limited by another parameter. The formula
activity = min(time * 14, posts)
should be :
activity = min(time * 14, min(posts, qposts))
where
qposts = floor(min(words, posts*20)/20)
~ a count of 'conditionally' quality posts
words ~ total sum of words in all user's posts
20 ~ minimal amount of words in one post to be considered as a quality input
20 words makes hardly one decent line, so it's not a lot, could be higher.
That would stimulate people to actually write something and avoid polluting threads with statements such as
"i'm in ! great dev !"
