This is a bad idea because not all Newbies come here to scam. Many newbies come here to post the link of their services and come with a marketing point of view for their legit projects. We cannot disallow newbies to post the links. There are other methods to tackle the scam by reporting and tagging which is also efficient method.
Afaik newbies aren't already allowed to post in the marketplace section?
I'd maybe add not letting newbies lock their own threads either as soon as they're created
I suggested this on the other thread where the scammers created multiple topics across various boards and locked the threads immediately after making them to censor any reply;
A suggestion is to restrict topics from being locked until xx hours after it was made. This could be limited to brand-new/newbie accounts
This would not really affect the regular users and if they do get the answer to their query quicker than the restricted time they can report their posts to be locked by mods.
There can be two new rules implemented for Newbies account which can solve most of these issues. First newbies should not be allowed to create a self moderated thread and secondly newbies should not be allowed to lock the thread for 48 hours. Completely denying to lock the thread created by newbie can also lead to spam posts so 48 hrs is a reasonable time.
Yeah mods are pretty responsive to thread locking and once someone gets an answer, people don't really have much of a reason to post unelss they can see the problem hasn't been solved... And a 12-48 hour window would seem reasonable as *most* requests are resolved within that time.
This does not mean that the old methods no longer work, on the contrary, if we believe the research that says that only one scam who used the name
Elon Musk achieved as much as 215 BTC in less than 3 months. And it's just about sending a certain amount to an address with the promise that you will get double the amount back.
I was thinking more the scam that was documented quite a bit on the meta section yesterday where users have to install plugins and such. Some novices to cryptocurrency may come here thinkng they know a lot about stuff when really they're probably the most at risk.
There's the curve of perceived intellect v actual intellect that goes a bit like having a sheer climb, a sheer drop off and a steady climb back up to below original perceived intellect. Thus it'd be making the drop quite a bit less dramatic for malware scams or similar.
It might be wise to have some kind of warning above every post written by a newbie, and to protect those who are not logged in, maybe newbie accounts and their posts should be hidden?
I had thought of something like this but I'm sure the investor based games board has this and some newbies just won't read what's directluy in front of them if it doesn't look like part of the thread - maybe it could be preseneted as part of the message like is done with PMs...
It would be abused or misused, even by those who have earned lots of merit with high report quantity/accuracy. For example,
1. posts which suggest that certain faketoshi might be real Satoshi
2. suggestion by newbie that looks like misleading/fake suggestion, unless you actually understand the topic
I don't think a 4 hour block on posts would do very much. I also had a draft of my response to this which said that this could be stealthily implemented so no one (or very few) actually know about it.
(slightly off topic: for all we get people talking about how they want bitcoin to be fully anonymous - and tbh it would be an improvement - it's kinda ironic loads of people want to know who the original founder was. Although I was probably curious at first).
Not allowing users to post link is a great suggestion!
Not possible though. A newbie could always skirt the rules like posting as such:
link.com
link[.]com
"link.com" (remove quotes)
...and the list goes on.
EDIT: Forgot that post was a sarcasm
I label my sarcasm on this forum.
However, I did realise the suspicious link removed tags are still in force in a lot of the forum (but it doens't pick up everything - hence why I thought it was an idea to make this thread).
Unless you're saying your post was sarcasm.
Also trying to block out a dot will end up with people having trouble following the link and might make them wonder why someone's done that in the first place...
Am a little bit outdated but isn't this what the giant red flag system at the beginning of scammy topic is for?
I imagined the topic was about hiding the reported posts in your side to avoid reporting it twice by mistake.
I thought these warnings were only given in the marketplace, where newbs can't post. Also warning messages and trust flags aren't completely obvious (though I check people's feedback on a person rather than anythign else so I might not be the best to ask about this one).
A newbie (or anyone) scamming is not a reason to report a post, and posts reported as such will be marked as bad.
I have about 8 reports to prove otherwise and I'm not an avid reporter.
I might be supportive of the ability of certain users to be able to override the "lock" status of threads opened by low-level users, if the purpose is to warn about a possible scam, or high risk proposition.
This is another potential solution that might work too. Although it might also be abused and commenting on a topic might desuade a mod from deleting the topic (but I dunno).
