Limit Newbies daily post and restrict them from creating a thread.

[demonic098]

Good day guys, This idea came up on my mind because I always see a lot of spam megathreads started by a newbie and being bumped by newbies with their redundant replies. My suggestion is to limit newbies post to 5 per day and restrict them from creating a thread until they reached a certain activity or Jr. Member rank (Copper Members excluded).

I would like to see your reactions about this idea do you think this can help us with the spam problems? or this is just another problem .

[Jet Cash]

The established method is to restrict new members and possibly juniors to starter boards, and only allow them onto the main boards when they have achieved sufficient rank. Because of its international nature, Bitcoin Talk would need to include local language boards in the permitted list.

The current time restriction between posts could be extended, but that would probably be of minimal benefit, other than to increase the sale of copper  memberships.

[theyoungmillionaire]

I always see a lot of spam megathreads started by a newbie and being bumped by newbies with their redundant replies. My suggestion is to limit newbies post to 5 per day and restrict them from creating a thread until they reached a certain activity or Jr. Member rank (Copper Members excluded).

I would like to see your reactions about this idea do you think this can help us with the spam problems? or this is just another problem .

Have you read these topics?
Ideas for improving post quality?
How long is newbie status?
In addition, look for newbie jail here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=search

Read before you post.

[demonic098]

Thank you theyoungmillionaire I tried to search before I post but I think I've searched the wrong keyword . I've just read about the newbie jail but i don't think that's enough I've seen a lot of newbies starting a thread and abandon it right after, and after a few days viola!! another spam megathread. I also just read Theymos thread(Thank you for the link. ) about poster restrictions I hope that'll be implemented on alts section except the signature because campaigns requires it's participants to post on that board. Can we just simply restrict newbies on altboard.

[Tyrantt]

Thoae guys are persistent, whatever you do, they'll find a way to ignore it. If you want my honest opinion, leave them spamming in mega threads, no one even goes there besides them and with that you know they'll be posting 99% in that topic. Otherwise, if you restrict them there or something, they'll find some other place to use.

[bitart]

Thoae guys are persistent, whatever you do, they'll find a way to ignore it. If you want my honest opinion, leave them spamming in mega threads, no one even goes there besides them and with that you know they'll be posting 99% in that topic. Otherwise, if you restrict them there or something, they'll find some other place to use.

If they really want to spam, in order to increase their activity, they should go to the Off-topic section and post there anything they want... Newbie jail/Merit jail is also a possible solution, to limit the spammers to specific boards/threads...
I know you just can't reward the people for reporting spammers with merits or with anything like that becuase if you do, they will create some fake accounts for themselves and post rubbish with them just to have them reported with their original account... brave new world...

[jackg]

Read before you post.

You don't so why should he?

Ever looked in the Bitcoin Technical Support section and noticed a brand new user with an issue with bitcoin core that they have newly installed?

What do you want those users to do, earn the right to post here so that they can get help with their issue a few weeks after getting it - that's just stupid right? It leads to two potential issues: (1) loss of funds, (2) giving up on Bitcoin altogether - or both. We DONT need this, we want to be supportive of newbies that WANT to LEARN and should give them a facility to do so.

And if you say, let's just open up that board only, then all of the spam from the other threads will be directed there. I would say maybe limiting them to the bitcoin parts of the forum would be very nice (for making new posts and new threads) but then you might also have to include local boards. And then altcoin boards will also pop up and users will get scammed by accidentally installing viruses because they can't generate discussion of something before they install it and their wallet.dats get stolen.

Our mods are very active here. If it's a bad post/thread, report it and it will be deleted if the mod agrees with you that it is spam.

[bill gator]

jackg sums up most of what is wrong with this suggestion pretty nicely. It definitely will discourage people from Bitcoin and this forum if they are unable to receive any kind of support, assistance or guidance when they are first getting started. I know that without this forum I would have found it extremely difficult for me to get involved and knowledgeable about Bitcoin to any significant capacity. I wouldn't have gotten involved or invested, at all. This forum has made me a better person, literally. I more inquisitive, more critical thinking and I have a technical understanding that would be impossible without the passionate interest that drives me towards Bitcoin.

Outside of that, the people who are truly malicious and are out for blood would simply make multiple accounts. So, it would hurt those genuinely just getting started and serve as no obstacle to those that are maliciously spamming around as you suggest.

[Tyrantt]

If they really want to spam, in order to increase their activity, they should go to the Off-topic section and post there anything they want... Newbie jail/Merit jail is also a possible solution, to limit the spammers to specific boards/threads...

Maybe, but as you can see, they're mostly spamming in airdrop, bounty or [ANN] threads (from what I've noticed), so they're here for that, nothing else. Also probably not for activity or merit or any other thing that would be considered as contributing. 

[demonic098]

Thank you for your answer jackg I missed that one. I failed to see that we have a real newbie in crypto because I saw a lot of newbie(dummy) members posting on alt section with a lot of technical knowledge. I'm locking this thread now thank you for your answers.