The mining sections are an unholy mess

[Operatr]

Newbie posts everywhere that belong in the Mining Support forum, but litter Speculation, Hardware, and everywhere else instead. The board is choking on mining newbies with "im new how do I mine?" questions every other post, which is not a bad thing in itself, but having it all over the board is chaos. Can we get a Newbie Mining section to curb this? Or mods could do their jobs and move those posts into Support at least? Or bring back the Newbie section and put a mining subforum in it?

There is no difference between Custom Hardware and Hardware and need to be merged, which was discussed somewhere but never done.

Group Buys is a disaster. This forum is the main market for most of the gear out there and it is getting really difficult to browse, and I think should be divided into: a Market board for straight up "cash for hardware" sales and group purchase organizers, and another for cooperative/hosted buys. That may not be the best solution, but the point is I think some division is in order. The mining hardware markets could be their own sections in the actual  Marketplace boards, which would be a more logical place for it anyway.

There are some ways to go about this, but as it stands at least to me, the mining boards are an absolute, near un-moderated clusterfrak, and should be cleaned up and better organized.

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[tysat]

Have you been reporting these posts?

If there in a section I moderate I'd be moving them to the right place if they've been reported.

[hilariousandco]

I think this is another good reason for the newbie jail. At least in the newbie section they don't annoy any one and usually will get their question answered by someone willing to help without annoying the rest of the forum with the same old questions.

[MiningBuddy]

If you put in as much effort reporting posts as you did to whine in this thread the world would be a better place.  

[BadBear]

Yeah the complaints always seem to be from people who don't report anything, just want to sit on their high horse and complain.

[Welsh]

Yeah the complaints always seem to be from people who don't report anything, just want to sit on their high horse and complain.

They'll learn one day that after reporting a post is beneficial to them and it normally gets resolves within a few minutes.

[Operatr]

Yeah the complaints always seem to be from people who don't report anything, just want to sit on their high horse and complain.

Reporting every single instance would be a full time job, no thanks.

What high horse? I simply see a few issues that could be addressed.

My suggestion was to alter the structure of the forum a bit to simply cut down on mis-posted stuff instead of wasting a lot of time reporting posts. But if you mods would rather complain about my complaining instead of offering your own ideas to improve the forum, so be it I guess. Good to know Bitcointalk has such a pro-active , supportive staff  

[jarhed]

I nominate Operatr for position of Moderator.