A solution to the crapcoin announcements

[frobley]

I guess some tag system on a thread so it doesn't show in your first page results ever again.
There, and then those that like these threads bumped in their faces every five minutes can still enjoy them.

[ny2cafuse]

Why is there always regulation needed ? Feeling unsafe ?

Why not just ignore specfic threads ? You feel obligated to click on any anouncements ?

Just for myself, i'm pretty new in this forum. But I learned already to ignore the mass anouncements. Currently i do not have any problems with it. Let the peoples enjoy it, if they feel happy to jump on any *** coin.

Regards,
Luke

Regulation facilitates stability.  Sure, we like volatile markets... that's what the trading aspect of crypto is all about.  But most of us, it's a long term investment.  Whether that be with mining equipment or just purchasing coins.  The problem is that instead of focusing on one or two STRONG coins in their portfolio, people are spreading themselves thin on crapcoins and there is no growth.

Feeling unsafe?  No, I'm not an idiot.  I know how to watch out for scammers.

As far as ignoring the mass anouncements... it's becoming more difficult to do so.  This subforum has become a sad place.  I used to come here to read the [ANN] threads about services and developments on existing coins.  It's just not the same, and honestly it's disheartening.

[digitalindustry]

How about posting them here: https://forum.litecoin.net/

Please!

+1

why don't the litecoin guys running the forum offer to take it all on at least then they can organise it .

and it's all traffic!

[jackjack]

I love this

When Bitcoin users complained about how alt coins should not be in bitcointalk.org, all the alt coins supporters cried and yelled 'hey are you afraid of challenge?'
Now more and more alt coins users are the ones who seem afraid of challenge and want regulation

How about posting them here: https://forum.litecoin.net/

Please!

+1
Scrypt alt coins in litecoin.net and SHA256 alt coins in bitcointalk.org

[btcrich]

How about posting them here: https://forum.litecoin.net/

Please!

+1

why don't the litecoin guys running the forum offer to take it all on at least then they can organise it .

and it's all traffic!

As much as I hate the idea of all this crap moving over to litecoin.net - it actually does make some sense considering they have all just been failed copies of Litecoin.

[ny2cafuse]

How about posting them here: https://forum.litecoin.net/

Please!

+1

why don't the litecoin guys running the forum offer to take it all on at least then they can organise it .

and it's all traffic!

I'm sure the Litecoin forum mods don't want the crap coins on their hands.  Traffic or no traffic...

[RATM69]

Let's face it.  These damn fly-by-night new coin announcements are annoying as shit.  Not only are they crudding up the forums with spam and additional scammers, but they're hurting the overall cryptocoin ecosystem.  There are a lot of people that say, "but this coin does this different" or "it should stop after coin x, because the rest are shite."  I'm not going to lie, I mined some of them.  FC2 because it was the first time I was able to solo mine something and get full blocks.  I mined YAC too, and I think it's got something going for it, but not to the point where I'm dropping money on it.  But now there's vaginacoins and (insert country name here) coins, and fastcoins, and slowcoins, and who-gives-a-shit coins.  It's getting ridiculous.  We need to stop it.  So here's my proposal...

All new coins need to be voted on before they're allowed to be announced or released on this forum.  Whether that be by poll, or by a group of mods/cryptocoin leaders that are well respected and trusted.  If it gets a majority vote, it can be announced.  If it fails, it doesn't get the time of day in the forums.  If people try to post anyway, the post is deleted by a mod.  Fuck em.

I used to like hanging out in this subforum because I learned a lot about LTC and such.  Now I don't even want to look in here because of the 8,000 new coins posted everyday.

There are enough people here that are seriously getting tired of it.  So stand up and do something about it.

+1 I Agree

[ny2cafuse]

Bump for the sake of not getting lost in a sea of crapcoin posts.

[QuestionAuthority]

one coin, two coin, red coin, blue coin
black coin, blue coin, old coin, new coin
some are red and some are blue. some are Porn and some are Vag.
some are Fast and some are Lite. And Most are very, very bad.
All of them is like another.
Don't as us why.
Go ask your mother.

[Punkonjunk]

Decentralized, unmoderated, uncontrolled currency! Not the forums though, no sir, the forums need more people telling us what's allowed.


The balloon of shitcoins is deflating or bursting as we speak. we can sit and wait until someone starts innovating, or leap on the shitcoins, but the way it's handled is not going to change.

[FoBoT]

Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

[ny2cafuse]

This is just a post to say to those who said, "pretty sure this week is the last of the crapcoins" or "it's already dying out"...

You sure about that?  Looks like we're still being hit with shit coins that take away from solidarity of the community.



(Not that angry... just thought it was fitting)

[Matthew N. Wright]

onecoin twocoin redcoin bluecoin

Black coin, Blue coin, Old coin, New coin.
This one has a littlecar.
This one has a little star.
This one just wont go far!

and this one lowers the bar.

edit: I have a proposal for all the crapcoin announcements. Make them polls instead. If the are downvoted by the poll, they have to be deleted.

[Oldminer]

No. I like my crapcoins.

[ny2cafuse]

edit: I have a proposal for all the crapcoin announcements. Make them polls instead. If the are downvoted by the poll, they have to be deleted.

Which is pretty much what I said in the OP.

I wish we could just implement this right now and clean up this subforum.

[metacoin]

Programming isn't a popularity contest. Exploration of new devices and implementations can only help cryptocurrency. If you want to ignore a post, you can. If the majority find it has no value, it will naturally fall to the bottom of this section and never be seen again. The forum platform works perfectly fine and there isn't any reason to bring another layer of complexity to this system which is not broken.

[Matthew N. Wright]

Programming isn't a popularity contest. Exploration of new devices and implementations can only help cryptocurrency. If you want to ignore a post, you can. If the majority find it has no value, it will naturally fall to the bottom of this section and never be seen again. The forum platform works perfectly fine and there isn't any reason to bring another layer of complexity to this system which is not broken.

You're absolutely right, except when it comes to cases of spam (which are noise, and that's what the OP is proposing the alt-coin announcements are, completely spammy noise). Do you look through your whole spam folder one by one because "reading email is not a popularity contest"?

In fact it *is* a popularity contest, a contest for your attention. That is the whole point of spam (which is what OP is proposing the alt-coin announcements basically are). I don't know if I agree with him that they are spam in essence, but I doubt we'd miss anything if there weren't new coins created every week.

[ny2cafuse]

Programming isn't a popularity contest. Exploration of new devices and implementations can only help cryptocurrency. If you want to ignore a post, you can. If the majority find it has no value, it will naturally fall to the bottom of this section and never be seen again. The forum platform works perfectly fine and there isn't any reason to bring another layer of complexity to this system which is not broken.

Unless I'm completely blind, where is the option to ignore entire threads.  I would gladly go through and self-regulate what I see.  Give me that option and I'd be happy.

I haven't been around forever, but I can tell you that this subforum went to shit right around the time feathercoin hit.  It was all downhill from there.

[Matthew N. Wright]

Programming isn't a popularity contest. Exploration of new devices and implementations can only help cryptocurrency. If you want to ignore a post, you can. If the majority find it has no value, it will naturally fall to the bottom of this section and never be seen again. The forum platform works perfectly fine and there isn't any reason to bring another layer of complexity to this system which is not broken.

Unless I'm completely blind, where is the option to ignore entire threads.  I would gladly go through and self-regulate what I see.  Give me that option and I'd be happy.

I haven't been around forever, but I can tell you that this subforum went to shit right around the time feathercoin hit.  It was all downhill from there.

Even worse, when you respond to a thread and even delete said response out of disgust of being subscribed, IT STAYS ON YOUR LIST FOREVER. AHHHHHH I DONT CARE WHAT IMAGES ARE COUNTING TO 21 MILLION. WHY DID I POST...

[thekidcoin]

Let's face it.  These damn fly-by-night new coin announcements are annoying as shit.  Not only are they crudding up the forums with spam and additional scammers, but they're hurting the overall cryptocoin ecosystem.  There are a lot of people that say, "but this coin does this different" or "it should stop after coin x, because the rest are shite."  I'm not going to lie, I mined some of them.  FC2 because it was the first time I was able to solo mine something and get full blocks.  I mined YAC too, and I think it's got something going for it, but not to the point where I'm dropping money on it.  But now there's vaginacoins and (insert country name here) coins, and fastcoins, and slowcoins, and who-gives-a-shit coins.  It's getting ridiculous.  We need to stop it.  So here's my proposal...

All new coins need to be voted on before they're allowed to be announced or released on this forum.  Whether that be by poll, or by a group of mods/cryptocoin leaders that are well respected and trusted.  If it gets a majority vote, it can be announced.  If it fails, it doesn't get the time of day in the forums.  If people try to post anyway, the post is deleted by a mod.  Fuck em.

I used to like hanging out in this subforum because I learned a lot about LTC and such.  Now I don't even want to look in here because of the 8,000 new coins posted everyday.

There are enough people here that are seriously getting tired of it.  So stand up and do something about it.

waaaa waaa you have 100 posts.  Your can't block people from announcing their coins.  Then what? you'll whine that it was pre-mined?

If this is what keeps you up at night, its time to get a life.