It's Time For Theymos To Kill The Alt Section

[BitcoinEXpress]

This Alt Sub Forum has out lived its usefulness and needs to go.

Just look at the seriously unappreciative threads trashing Theymos and BCT for banning "Give Away" threads.

Hint:They want Alt coin people to go elsewhere!

It's time for Theymos to give them the nudge out the door by shutting down this section.


~BCX~

[kelsey]

Although I collect and trade alts, I don't disagree, the alt section now has just become a haven for scam after scam, too much work for any group of mods to sort.

[Oldminer]

This Alt Sub Forum has out lived its usefulness and needs to go.

Just look at the seriously unappreciative threads trashing Theymos and BCT for banning "Give Away" threads.

Hint:They want Alt coin people to go elsewhere!

It's time for Theymos to give them the nudge out the door by shutting down this section.


~BCX~

No-one needs your opinion. STFU.

[kokjo]

No-one needs your opinion. STFU.

I do, and i like his opinion.

[coinrevo]

What precisely are you saying - no alt-coins at all should exist? What mechanisms are you proposing? I'm working on a solution (see my recent thread), at least for the launch of coins. Yes, some kind of filtering would be good, but its not up for a mod to determine. the way this should work IMHO is through a tiered section. in the US stock market you have pinksheets which are equivalent to the crap coins, with 90%+ fraud rates. then you have OTCBB with 80%+ fraud, and finally NASDAQ with 5-10% fraud rates. you can never eliminate all fraud, but you can get to some useful signals for investors. the problem with bitcointalk in this regard is that threads are not useful. all topics should belong to the individual coins.

I think it would be wrong to ban all alt-coins. There are useful for experimentation, and maybe some day something useful will be done. Those Alts can leverage the existing platform to some degree. If X launches an Alt-Coins on his website, nobody would take it serious now. And getting traditional venture capital is not a good idea.

[SirLolicon]

They have to be shown a little something but closing down the alt section... isn't that a little too harsh perhaps?

[Dweeb]

Im sure someone else will be happy to pick up the advertising income from the high volume of traffic the alt section drives through your forums

[tk808]

Im sure someone else will be happy to pick up the advertising income from the high volume of traffic the alt section drives through your forums

Yeah, this would hurt bitcointalk for the future. There is more profit potential (then currently) to be made in the future from alts. That's what keeps the fire burning in alt-currencies, not bitcoin alone.

Bitcoin is just the gateway drug.

Just depends on the philosophy of how to proceed. But 1 thing is certain, alt-currencies will never go away, Even if they remove this entire section. 

[kelsey]

What precisely are you saying - no alt-coins at all should exist?

Don't think anyones saying that here, not having an alt section on a forum about bitcoin is not saying alternatives shouldn't exist. There's other forums dedicated to cryptocurrencies, alts, and any alt worth anything has its own forum.

In summary its bitcointalk not cryptocurrencytalk. Alternative sub forum was just that a sub forum, now its kinda grown too big (and mostly just spam, with little actual alternative currency talk).

[Amph]

you can't stop it, even if you close it here, another forum will be created deal with it, scamcoin gonna scam

[btc-mike]

This Alt Sub Forum has out lived its usefulness and needs to go.

Just look at the seriously unappreciative threads trashing Theymos and BCT for banning "Give Away" threads.

Hint:They want Alt coin people to go elsewhere!

It's time for Theymos to give them the nudge out the door by shutting down this section.
~BCX~

I feel the same. Theymos isn't fond of the alt coin sub-sub-forums.

Let's move the alts to a new forum.

[lonesoul]

Whilst we are limiting people places to find information on a whole sub section of the next generation currencies, could we also start campaigns (1) to limit free speech (2) to start hunting whales again!  (3) to Stop being dicks (4) raise funds for me, to help with my sarcasism


If you dont like reading something, then dont type in the address, click on the link, and read it, just stay in the bitcoin section. its fairly simple really.


Just for referrence

Statistics for Altcoin section
921397 Posts
25870 Topics


Statistics for Bitcoin Section
355901 Posts
24614 Topics


Fairly clear winner if you ask me for shear usage, it doesn't make sense to remove the most active section.

my 2 cents ;-)

[kalus]

close the section becuase there is nothing left in this section.  people can't even put Mining hardware or fucking announcements in the right subforums.  

the increasing number of putative scams in the altcoin section will do nothing but confuse, frustrate, and victimise newbies.

the altcoin section is failing to do what it should be doing, which is providing timely, useful information rather than promotion.

nuke the site from orbit.  it's the only way to be sure.  

[traderman]

I think the more logical thing would be to make a sub forum for each Alt coin and no posts allowed outside. So each alt coin will have its own section and everything pertaining to that coin will be in that section. What we have right now it too much clutter and it becomes very difficult to browse and find topics.

[atp1916]

Just to be clear.

I am not saying there should be no alts.

I am saying Alts need their own forum, off this site.

Close the Alt sub form and force the change.


~BCX~

Just to be "clear", no.  I don't care if you've been around since 2011 or 2014.  If you honestly think your "seniority" means anything, you are naive and dillusional.  

You even use your hash to destroy the work of other people.  You should be removed from these forums, not alts.

[eon89]

OP is an asshole.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=435921.0

If anything needs killed off it is his access to these forums.

[coinrevo]

bitcointalk can't keep up with innovation and the communities are diverging. the solution is in the code.

* create a new board open to alt-coins
* make a section for each alt-coins
* establish some guidelines to reduce #posts/section or forum
* instead of restricting free speech enforce some crowd intelligence

I would vote for a Level system. Everyone can post, put there is a level where low quality posts go. Good posts can be leveled up. This can be a mixture of voting and trust.

[lalakies23]

Your Fear is obvious with regards to altcoins!!!

Although you will force the most of the users in other forums. Well done

[ltcifc]

Just to be clear.

I am not saying there should be no alts.

I am saying Alts need their own forum, off this site.

Close the Alt sub form and force the change.


~BCX~

This makes perfect sense.... if you want to be alone with the owner and mods on this forum.

[slavo]

Just to be clear.

I am not saying there should be no alts.

I am saying Alts need their own forum, off this site.

Close the Alt sub form and force the change.


~BCX~

Just to be "clear", no.  I don't care if you've been around since 2011 or 2014.  If you honestly think your "seniority" means anything, you are naive and dillusional.  

You even use your hash to destroy the work of other people.  You should be removed from these forums, not alts.