You're right as I'm not a coder nor do I care about the technicalities hence I haven't made a single post in the development section. Would that mean that this section is the only place where people can make quality posts?
The reason why there's almost no spam in that section is its specific nature that limits the number of people able and willing to contribute. This doesn't mean there's no spam or comments that don't add up to the discussion.
No, it’s not the only section, that was an example. But I often see what could be called quality posts opened in the Bitcoin Discussion section, which often go down and disappear because to reply to them you need to have some knowledge of something (not necessarily technical), whereas simple posts where people can just express their opinions without much prior knowledge about the crypto world remain there on the first page.
See for example: The Dream of Getting Rich with bitcoins.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1553984.0It’s currently 113 pages, what people here would say is a spam megathread. Someone who has just signed up onto this site can post his opinion there without having to know much about bitcoin. For me, a post like that is fine, whereas for many people on this forum it should be deleted because once it goes over 100 pages all possible answers have been covered.
In my opinion, the problem is not so much going over 100 pages, as long as people are giving their opinions about their dream, and in some cases exchanging them and having a debate on it. It is more of a problem that some people just post whatever with bad English, without having read the first two pages and the last two (because nobody is going to read the over 100 pages) and just to increase post count.
I don’t care about the so-called quality posts, unlike many people here. I mean, I’m in favor of reducing the current level of spam, and I report people who are spamming, but my concept of “spam” is narrower than those who think there should be only quality posts here. This is simply because a forum with only quality posts is more similar to an Encyclopedia, where only some people with deep knowledge write, and there is almost no debate, whereas a forum is a place where people exchange opinions, sometimes about trivial issues, sometimes about their dreams, and the like. High traffic comes with the latter, and it necessarily brings some amount of spam. There is spam in other forums as well, the only difference I see here is due to people getting paid for their posts, especially people getting paid for shitty posts (written in bad English, or repeating what has been said in the previous page, etc), so I favor something be done about it.
