It is impossible to have a real discussion or just to find and read an non shit thread in that sub.
TBH if i would be a mod i would probaly nuke 3/4 of all people posting there LOL
I nuke/permaban many people who are shitposting exclusively in there, but I'm just wasting my time really as they're like flies round shit that have laid eggs everywhere. You ban one account but they'll very likely spawn elsewhere from their stockpile army of alts that just carry on as if nothing ever happened. Having a few accounts banned is probably just accepted as an occupational hazard right now.
Maybe this thread gives one a clue as to the reason -
How popular are you at your school?
Perhaps it explains the low quality posts on some of the other boards. Note the use of the word "are".
Yeah, you can really tell the age of a lot of these kids (which is what they are). Imagine how stupid the average person is in their early teens - myself included - then imagine someone who can't even speak English very well and add on top of that a person who probably has very little knowledge or understanding of bitcoin other than his school mates told him you can earn a decent wage here just by posting and it's a recipe for disaster.
TBH if i would be a mod i would probaly nuke 3/4 of all people posting there LOL
Nuke one, and ten more pop up in their place. It's become a colossal game of Whac-a-Mole, and we mods are getting our butts kicked.
I've used the phrase
playing whack a mole with ghosts before. It's also like trying to plug holes on a sinking ship whilst you've got multiple other submarines torpedo-ing even more holes into the side constantly. How can you compete against that? It's pretty much pointless even banning people at this point because often times they just keep evading their ban on their numerous other accounts and admin's never look into alts.
Half of the boards have turned into off-topic/garbage boards. That section isn't special and it is not likely that much will be done given how theymos is handling, or rather isn't handling this situation.
We either need to really go gung-ho and crack down on all the abuse with very strict punishments for spammers and those that pay them to do so or just get rid of essentially 99% of the rules and just let the forum run itself into further into the ground. The latter is not something I think we should do but I can't be expected to try clean this place up all by myself.
TBH if i would be a mod i would probaly nuke 3/4 of all people posting there LOL
Nuke one, and ten more pop up in their place. It's become a colossal game of Whac-a-Mole, and we mods are getting our butts kicked.
Over 90% of the problem could be solved within 7 days with a few policy changes by theymos.
I've messaged theymos about some solutions and I'm hoping he'll get back to me soon but he rarely acts on these things as you well know. The signature guidelines was meant to be a way to put a stop to all the nonsense but it's futile if theymos won't enforce it. At the bare minimum crappy ICO campaigns that do nothing but pay spammers to post or copy and paste whatever crap they can be bothered to make need to be hardly punished. Once their accounts start getting banned and threads get trashed they'll soon get the message once their cash cow is threatened.
