It's Time For Theymos To Kill The Alt Section

[flower1024]

i am ok with the alt-section as long it would focus on technical improvements or do some real inventions. but there are nearly none.

as of now bitcointalk is just given them free marketing and an existing userbase.

[tvbcof]

It is sucking up a lot of moderation resources, which along with the newbie restrictions geing removed, is probably affecting the forum negatively as there is only so much to go around.

Seems to me that if you close a forum section, there will be pressure for people interested in that section to spam elsewhere.  At least a fair fraction of people probably self-moderate I'm sure, but I've not visited the alt one for a long time.

I was surprised at the loss of newbie stuff when I set up my last sock-puppet (which I did mostly to figure out what was up with the newbies thing.)  Seems like as I predicted, the net effect of closing that section was to provoke a larger newbie count distributed about the board.

I'll bet that the pressure for individuals to spray about alt coins will be vast.  You'll spend a lot more time policing up and deleting alt posts and pissing people off than it would take to simply move them in a brain-dead manner current steady state.

Next phase will be to try to eliminate socks and newbies.  Some sort of population control.  Forced-fee? proof of sacrifice? IP analysis frameworks?

Generally I bet you'll find that the tighter you wish to police the forum and allow 'freedom only to do good things', the more laborious it will become to maintain.  Also, right now the forum is known to us old-timers to cooperate with fraudsters who use it to further their fraud.  Being 'free' gives Theymos an out in a dog-eat-dog free-speech Libertarian sort of a way.  If you build the forum into a more totalitarian organization, it will be harder to play that card as TradeFortress-II, -III, etc take their cash-outs.

Just my thoughts on the matter.

[Adrian-x]

+1 for ultcoins

Bitcoins value is determined by the size of its user base, while these altcoins trade for XBT, Bitcoin is growing in so far as it is being distributed. Most alt developers are profiled as early Tech adopters, implying we are still in the early adoption stages of Bitcoins growth.

The sheer number of altcoins reminds me of Bitcoins mining lottery. I think it is amazing bring it on.

[Adrian-x]

This is crazy
http://mapofcoins.com/

What percentage are scamcoins? Time will tell.

[rhino34567]

I have always thought of this forum as more liberal, and should allow altcoins. But then again, many altcoin are just useless and use up space and bandwidth.

[RodeoX]

Well I have set up my preferences to ignore the boards I do not want to see. It works great. No more alts or foreign languages to sort through. Much cleaner forum now!

[Lauda]

This is crazy
http://mapofcoins.com/

What percentage are scamcoins? Time will tell.

This is becoming insane. We need to move them away from this forum.

[Lethn]

I love that map, bookmarked

[Sheldor333]

I think most people got that, but they can't do it all of sudden or they'll lose too much members.

[leannemckim46]

Noo, alt is here to stay..

[oda.krell]

This is crazy
http://mapofcoins.com/

What percentage are scamcoins? Time will tell.

This is becoming insane. We need to move them away from this forum.

You and I look at the same map, and see absolutely different things. You see a web of scam coins (it seems), I see a beautiful cryptocoin network. (Disclosure: so far I own no other cryptos but BTC, but am not against buying alts in principle)

[Lauda]

You and I look at the same map, and see absolutely different things. You see a web of scam coins (it seems), I see a beautiful cryptocoin network. (Disclosure: so far I own no other cryptos but BTC, but am not against buying alts in principle)

Then you need to land on Earth again. A realistic, objective view is needed.
Even though I have some of these scam coins, I hate them.

[oda.krell]

You and I look at the same map, and see absolutely different things. You see a web of scam coins (it seems), I see a beautiful cryptocoin network. (Disclosure: so far I own no other cryptos but BTC, but am not against buying alts in principle)

Then you need to land on Earth again. A realistic, objective view is needed.
Even though I have some of these scam coins, I hate them.

And you tell *me* to "land on earth again", huh?

 

[Lauda]

Then you need to land on Earth again. A realistic, objective view is needed.
Even though I have some of these scam coins, I hate them.

And you tell *me* to "land on earth again", huh?

 

A beautiful network would consist out of innovative coins, where going through them would be an enjoyable journey. The altcoin section here is equal to crypto hell.
I Have those coins because I'm a miner, that's it.

[Adrian-x]

Then you need to land on Earth again. A realistic, objective view is needed.
Even though I have some of these scam coins, I hate them.

And you tell *me* to "land on earth again", huh?

 

A beautiful network would consist out of innovative coins, where going through them would be an enjoyable journey. The altcoin section here is equal to crypto hell.
I Have those coins because I'm a miner, that's it.

You are suffering from stress, this is a dynamic situation it is the new normal you need look no further than a passionate development team.

I've been watching this http://coinmarketcap.com/ for movement and researching the movers (the big ups and downs)

[Lauda]

You are suffering from stress, this is a dynamic situation it is the new normal you need look no further than a passionate development team.

I've been watching this http://coinmarketcap.com/ for movement and researching the movers (the big ups and downs)

Crypto stress? Yes.

[zemario]

A bit of feedback after i disabled ignored the altcoin forum.

Pathetic wannabes spread their electronic sewage all over this forum. It is leaking to all the forum. In the speculation sections there is topics like:

Will 1.000.000.000.000  myshitcointhatonlymeandmymomknowabout hit one dollar on day?

All over the forum there are people replying with "that is why we need altcoins" or, "mypatheticshitcoin could solve that" problem.

The official website of most coins is a topic on this forum trashed with formated text 1996 style. Heck, I see things like:
"uselessfesescoin solves that problem they have been hacked, but they are relaunching the coin and this time is going to be awesome" leaking outside the altcoin forum.

Kill with fire I say. Let us talk bitcoin, we have no use for refined stupidity that originates on young teens sitting on their moms basement.
 

[hilariousandco]

All over the forum there are people replying with "that is why we need altcoins" or, "mypatheticshitcoin could solve that" problem.

The official website of most coins is a topic on this forum trashed with formated text 1996 style. Heck, I see things like:
"uselessfesescoin solves that problem they have been hacked, but they are relaunching the coin and this time is going to be awesome" leaking outside the altcoin forum.

 

The best part is when you question what makes their coin so great or unique, and 9/10 the best they can only come up with is it has a great community and devs behind it. That's it.

[dewdeded]

The best part is when you question what makes their coin so great or unique, and 9/10 the best they can only come up with is it has a great community and devs behind it. That's it.

These are very solid reasons and correct answers to the question.

[hilariousandco]

The best part is when you question what makes their coin so great or unique, and 9/10 the best they can only come up with is it has a great community and devs behind it. That's it.

These are very solid reasons and correct answers to the question.

Really? But everybody says it about every coin even when it's not true.