Is it time to have a Corona virus sub-board?

[Jet Cash]

The virus seems to dominate a number of boards here, and the discussions are getting repetitive, and even boring in some cases. We seem to have two camps - those who believe the globalist Pharma propaganda, and the open minded who have done some research and thought about the situation. It seems that neither camp will be able to convert the other, and in a few cases, members are having to resort to personal insults to replace their weak arguments.

I think it is debasing the forum, as it is affecting many other forums and news sites. Bitcoin, DeFi and global economics are far more important, and it would be handy if we could get away from discussions about a minor infection that is being used to distract the world from the really important issues.

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[Coyster]

I don't see threads about Corona virus outside of the politics and society board (where it should be) so imo, it's not getting in the way of other 'important discussions' in other boards and sub-boards, there are few threads about covid-19 in the economics section too, but in how it relates to the economy and Bitcoin, which it does in a big way btw. Whilst any low value thread on covid-19 should be reported to the moderator.

[Makkara]

We seem to have two camps - those who believe the globalist Pharma propaganda, and the open minded who have done some research and thought about the situation. It seems that neither camp will be able to convert the other, and in a few cases, members are having to resort to personal insults to replace their weak arguments.

I guess you belong to the latter, top notch informed 

[Jet Cash]

And start another covid thread?
Nah! Covid is so last year - even the name says it.

[bakasabo]

What will this sub-board look like? Like a junkyard for topics related to Covid-19? Or any topic where covid-19 is mentioned or discussed anything that covid-19 has impact on? A big part of altcoin announcement topics can be moved there, as covid was one of the most popular reasons to put development on pause and hide from investors behind this excuse.

[hilariousetc]

The virus seems to dominate a number of boards here, and the discussions are getting repetitive, and even boring in some cases. We seem to have two camps - those who believe the globalist Pharma propaganda, and the open minded who have done some research and thought about the situation. It seems that neither camp will be able to convert the other, and in a few cases, members are having to resort to personal insults to replace their weak arguments.

I think it is debasing the forum, as it is affecting many other forums and news sites. Bitcoin, DeFi and global economics are far more important, and it would be handy if we could get away from discussions about a minor infection that is being used to distract the world from the really important issues.

Can we have a conspiracy board for those who feel everything is a conspiracy? Maybe a board for Left Vs Right. Right Vs Wrong. Atheists Vs Religious. Bikers vs Scooters. Flat Earthers Vs Square Earthers. Anti-vaxxers vs Vaxxers. I don't know whether this is a serious request or not but we don't need a sub for this. It'll die down as soon as covid does. At best we should probably start trashing duplicate threads if there's nothing new in them.

[Jet Cash]

Put all the posts into one thread. There isn't much new coming out. Well, except for governments squandering money on vaccines that should be funded by the pharma companies.

[suchmoon]

I wish all of BADecker's shit would be merged into one thread but a few attempts to report them didn't succeed. Other than that, I've made my peace with the efforts to make everything about COVID-19. Bitcoin goes up, down, or sideways - obviously sick with covid. Trump farts on Twitter - but but but what about 180k people he personally murdered. Some moron doesn't know what escrow means - it's obviously the fault of Chinese communists who made the coronavirus in a lab.

"Ignore" works for the most part.

[Jet Cash]

I've got some people on ignore, but unfortunately many of their posts get quoted.

[Upgrade00]

It's a pandemic and almost everyone would have something to say about it, reporting would help, but this could lead to Meta getting flooded with complaints of deleted/thrashed threads.

As a last resort, you can mentally ignore such quoted replies. I rarely put profiles or boards on ignore, but I still filter the content I read and engage, the fact that it's visible to you doesn't mean you have to assimilate or reply to it.
It is annoying to see, but if less people fed trolls and conspiracy theorists with 3 pages of discussions, there would be less of such threads at the top of various boards.

[bitmover]

Can we have a conspiracy board for those who feel everything is a conspiracy? Maybe a board for Left Vs Right. Right Vs Wrong. Atheists Vs Religious. Bikers vs Scooters. Flat Earthers Vs Square Earthers. Anti-vaxxers vs Vaxxers. I don't know whether this is a serious request or not but we don't need a sub for this. It'll die down as soon as covid does. At best we should probably start trashing duplicate threads if there's nothing new in them.

The binary board 
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[YOSHIE]

I often see topics about Covid-19 on certain boards, but I rarely read, feel a little bored, repeated discussions.

Instead of arguing about the covid-19 case, in the forum, I took the decision to keep one link about covid-19, which has updates every time on case by case each country.

I will monitor every moment here:Reported Cases and Deaths by Country, Territory, or Conveyance, Maybe, can also be used by other people for information for themselves, rather than making a topic that is repeated.

sub-board: covid-19 boring.

[Little Mouse]

If these threads are related to bitcoin or cryptocurrency, I think they are okay to be posted but they should be on economy board only I think. Otherwise, they can be sent to offtopic discussion. Creating another board for covid is less important than creating a local board for Bangladeshi user.

[Jawhead999]

No needed, it should be moved to Off-topic section IMO.

[xxjumperxx]

Exactly, as said by the posts above me I dont see why we should have a sub board for Covid19 where the main subjects are Bitcoin and other Crypto.

It should be off-topic.

[Insanerman]

No needed, it should be moved to Off-topic section IMO.

Nah.. some of the COVID-19 related topics are having a correlation with either Bitcoin or with the cryptocurrency in general and most is about its effects, outcome, and affected changes in the crypto-world. Hence, moving such to off-topic isn't a fitting idea nor a better way than the OP's idea. But if the OP would pursue such board, then it would be on the Off-topic subsection if ever- as it generally started as a physical world problem yet only affected the crypto-world by the people it affected, and primarily having no connections with the crypto per se.

[NeuroticFish]

No needed, it should be moved to Off-topic section IMO.

Yup, "Off-Topic" or even "Politics & Society" can have all of those.

[Harlot]

I don't think we need one especially if we think about how the coronavirus has changed our way of living it is inevitable to see it being mentioned in several topics especially things related to the economy. Just as long as the thread is on topic and it is created in the right section I don't see it violating anything in our rules. But for off-topic posts related to COVID-19 purely and is on the wrong board I think reporting them or just moving it to the off-topic section is a good solution.

[Peanutswar]

I think this is not necessary because I think it will fit on Economics or Politics & Society because most of the time the content is "How does it affect"

Also, the COVID is just temporarily, not all through the years we have COVID so this is a recent issue after a few months for sure this is not the main topic again.

[DooMAD]

I'd rather not have one, purely because that would be yet another sign that this shit is never going away and it's a depressing thought, heh.

Please let me keep my fantasy and continue believing this is just a temporary thing.