CAN WE HAVE AN ARCHIVE OF QUALITY INFORMATION IN THIS FORUM?

[Aponkye1]

There has been the general outcry of most forum members about the level of quality of posts that are made in this forum. This menace as I would like to describe it got so worst that certain restrictions had to be put within this forum by having a new ranking system. Most of us perceived that this measure by Theymos would help solve this problem but this has not been the case as some folks who sell merits have supplied some newbies with just a merit to allow them to continue spamming this forum. Let’s not forget that Bitcointalk Forum is the mother of all crypto forums hence there is a huge responsibility to keep this forum cleaned as best as we can.

What are the tasks involved in this Mission?
Let’s create a new Section of the forum that is viewable to almost everybody with only few users who can post into this section. The few selected users who can post in this newly created section of the forum would be Merit Sources and few trusted members of this forum. These group of people would surf through the forum on daily basis and collect all relevant posts and stuck them in the newly created section of this forum. I know perfectly this is a huge task but I believe that if we commit ourselves to doing this, Bitcointalk forum will be cleansed of the menace the huge number of low-quality posts.

The Possible Effects
With the efforts of the Merit Sources and other trusted forum members this newly created section of the forum will be stuffed with quality topics and posts where all forum members can visit and view information over there but only few are allowed to posts in that section. To avoid any accusation of segregation other forum members who are found of making high quality posts can be granted the access of contributing their quota to this section of the forum. Moderators can assist with this sort of recommendation.

I know this idea looks quite rusty but I am suggesting it here so that with your contributions we can further polish it up.

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What you propose can’t work in my opinion:

-   New sections are barely created.

-   Quality is subjective.

-   I can’t really see Merit Sources and a restricted group of somehow selected people, plus Moderators creating links and posting them in the proposed new section, and the result making sense on it’s own.

-   A good post may be an answer or a comment to a lame entry post. What would you link? The post on it’s own will likely be absent of content and the whole thread may not be too noticeable to be considered a decent thread to read.

The closest indicator now is merit, but that is completely subjective, and what one may merit others may detest. You can always “follow” the posts creates by some of the profiles that have better posting capabilities. Some people compile lists of good topics with a specific angle (@LoyceV and @xtraelv have threads like those running), but even those are not easy to maintain updated (or even retrieve for the common user).

Edit: @AdolfinWolf, the phising .to site seems to be down today (at least through my ISP). Let's hope it stays down.

[AdolfinWolf]

That sounds extremely time consuming, and in the end, pretty worthless. You basically want to make a section where "trusted users" copy & paste over "Good posts" from all over the forum...?

I don't think that's a good idea.

Something that might be smarter is to add certain keywords to technical discussion topics/improve how google indexes certain topics (Sometimes bitcointalk.to is indexed higher as bitcointalk.org, how is that possible?), so that people who experience the same issue can google their "error/issue", and find said thread. Just like stackexchange does.

[Aponkye1]

Well as i hard as it is to believe i guess you are right because this really looks difficult to do but as i said the idea is rusty. I just hope we find a way to curb this situation though.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

What are the tasks involved in this Mission?
Let’s create a new Section of the forum that is viewable to almost everybody with only few users who can post into this section. The few selected users who can post in this newly created section of the forum would be Merit Sources and few trusted members of this forum. <snip>

Ummm....no.  This wouldn't work for several reasons I can think of and probably many more that I can't think of.  "Trusted members" are sometimes not the best posters, and some aren't even active anymore.  DT members aren't an organized group and some of them don't even get along with each other, much less have the same opinions on what good posts are--and some DT members don't even write interesting posts themselves. 

Neither merit sources nor DT members get paid for being either one of those things.  Frankly as a merit source and a DT member, I'm not willing to do any more work to help the forum improve when Theymos won't implement some of the really good suggestions that wouldn't require more work for people like the above who don't get paid, nor for staff members who do get paid.

In my brutally honest opinion, OP hasn't been around here long enough to realize how unrealistic his proposal sounds.

[Aponkye1]

In my brutally honest opinion, OP hasn't been around here long enough to realize how unrealistic his proposal sounds.

Well it is true that i have not been here for long and i might not be aware of other proposals that have been suggested by other forum members in regards to solving this issue. I just thought that we still need to do put in other measures in place to curb this menace. So if anybody has any suggestion or proposal just air it. Maybe we can implement it in the near future just like it took a while for Theymos to finally increasing the ranking systems to help reduce the number of spam posts that are flooding the forum.

[shield132]

I can't understand what do you want guys from this forum. Well, let's create another section where only some people can post. Tell me, why do you think they'll post here instead of other sections? Or what will they post? Let's take for example achow101, he is moderator in Tecnical support/discussion sections, does amazing job by answering questions that we have. He knows much, helps us, has his own life too. There are some people like him so let them do what they do, there is no need of doing special sections and etc. You can use search function if you want to find some information on this forum.

[asche]

Maybe you can start by not typing your thread title in caps lock.
Seeing it like this I immediately assume your thread is low quality and that basically all your posts are as well.