That's not a spam thread at all, but there really aren't that many spam megathreads in meta to begin with. That's why I like reading and posting in meta--this is excluding all the "I gotz hacked!" threads of course. Actmyname is absolutely right about speculation and bitcoin discussion. Those sections are filled up to the dribbling-over point with garbage topics and posts therein. I'm tempted to put both on ignore, just like the whole altcoin section.
I don't think mods owe anyone an explanation. I'm glad they're trying to take out the garbage, so to speak.
I agree with you but only partially.
Bitcoin discussion, speculation and gambling sections are full of what many people here call garbage. In some other sections there isn’t so much garbage but there is.
So, garbage accounts for 95%+ of forum’s traffic.
Therefore, if you delete that garbage what you are doing is killing the forum and leaving the place for others to take its place.
What I don’t agree with is that a forum should be a place only for what people call quality posts. I will put an example: Barcelona in La Liga, should they stay or not? (
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2183872.0)
That post, in the gambling section doesn’t have quality for many people and should be trashed. As a moderator said:
... That entire Gambling sub forum is a cancer to my brain and needs trashing as well. The amount of unbelievably stupid threads in there is mind-boggling. I think we've had almost every discussion you could possible have about gambling in there and people are only doing it because of shit campaigns like Fortune Jack which force users to have most of their posts in the Gambling sub.
I don’t agree with that. As I said in other posts about the subject, a forum is not a place where people go just to find information, high-quality one. It is a place where people exchange opinions, even wrong ones and even on not very substantial subjects.
I think those kinds of posts can and should perfectly coexist with other more “high-quality” ones in this forum, like for example a post talking about scaling problems in the Development and Technical Discussion section.
In my opinion, spam should be reduced in some cases, like when people write unintelligible posts, or post written in bad English, etc. However, I don’t agree at all with the view that bitcoin discussion, speculation and gambling sections are almost 100% trash. They are sections that don’t provide so much information as entertainment and opinions. What happens here is that spam is higher than in other forums because people get paid to post. But I’ve been participating in a few forums before I joined this one and I can tell you that there is also spam, opinions and what many people here call “low-quality” posts in many of them. The most traffic there is, the more “low-quality” posts and opinions there are, even though people don’t get paid to write there.
After I will reply to @actmyname and @mrcash02. It’s taken me a while to write this post. I’m going to take a rest.
