POST QUALITY VS QUANTITY

[ShowOff]

These quote would fit prior to merit system implementation not now.

No, even though a merit system never implementation, the quality of post should still be prioritized by all forum users if they wish to stay longer here and to avoid post deletion. The unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ states that:

1. No zero or low value, pointless or uninteresting posts or threads. [1][e]
2. No off-topic posts.

Merit/rank is necessary, and for that 'quality' is necessary.

because merit is a special need to rank up, the quality of the post is of the utmost importance and influence. The merit system has forced/ not all users to put their ideas and thought on quality post for rank up. Whoever want to be promoted rank, merit is required. We all already know how someone will be merit, so I don't have to tell you anymore.

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[2double0]

We see the same questions been popped up multiple times even being answered by more than thousands of different users where those users almost add no productive value to their content after the first, second or up to fifth reply of that discussion except if some other questions are asked by the newbie.

As it's better to post and ask than to search and make a 5min read for a whole thread. It does make sense now as it's always being repeated every year (or every other month?) And most of us are still being fed up and answer the same question over and over again.

To be very honest, sometimes when I reply to such threads where the same question had been repeated, I feel like I fed the troll. 
It is not our fault but either newbies or the old guys pretending to be newbies and making the same question pop up so to have a discussion sparked up but that is stupid. Nobody asks technical questions except a very few of them 'and I think they either had an account or they are more experienced in technicals of Bitcoin than us'.

[OgNasty]

Am I the only one observing bounty hunters replies and posts? Most of it are compliance and just posting to meet the required post to get rewards. In short, the post will be more likely a spam.

I think probably >95% of what’s posted here these days is completely useless as far as Bitcoin is concerned. This has turned into an online social community and is no longer a Bitcoin development forum. Trying to police it or complain about it doesn’t do any good. Change would have to come from the top. All you can do as a user is create a Bitcoin project and try to run it honestly and positively on behalf of the community to add value here or try to help others with aspirations of helping Bitcoin.

[actmyname]

I think probably >95% of what’s posted here these days is completely useless as far as Bitcoin is concerned.

Even just from a simple comparison:

Bitcoin Discussion (which is bad enough): 2326K Posts, 93.7K Topics
Altcoin Discussion (which is far worse): 3209K Posts, 100.1K Topics

I could exclusively report 90% of posts in the Altcoin Discussion section and they would probably all be considered spam.Low risk from bounty side + low payment + lack of oversight = low effort shitty posts + swathes of accounts posting the same bullshit.

[Welsh]

Even just from a simple comparison:

Bitcoin Discussion (which is bad enough): 232.6K Posts, 93.7K Topics
Altcoin Discussion (which is far worse): 320.9K Posts, 100.1K Topics

There has been positive changes with the Altcoin sections though, the implementation of the bumping system helped with reducing the amount of fake bumping or at the very least prevented most users from ever seeing it. So, despite it still being of lower quality compared to other sections in the forum, there has been improvements in the last few years.

Now, how we actually combat it further without stating the obvious; removing the possibility to run bounty campaigns, I really don't know. As far as I can see as long as these are allowed, and altcoins remain popular there will always be a spam problem over there.

Bitcoin Discussion still has its lower quality posts, and this isn't because of bounties, at least not primarily. So, its obviously an issue outside of bounties also, which means removing bounties probably wouldn't eradicate the issue inside the altcoin sections either.

[actmyname]

Now, how we actually combat it further without stating the obvious; removing the possibility to run bounty campaigns, I really don't know.

Bitcoin protects against spam attacks through the use of a transaction fee.Notice that the boards are just the discussion boards: the actual announcement section has nearly three times the amount of posts. That's some hefty posting. And then there's the bounty section, with 7.9 million posts alone spanning 13.8K threads: that's 500+ posts per thread - I wonder how many of them are useful?

As it currently stands, topic creation is free. I can create a token for free. I can use a Newbie account for free and I can hire free bounty marketing spammers for free. Thus, we get the NANO treatment.

[mediaBuzz]

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This has turned into an online social community and is no longer a Bitcoin development forum. Trying to police it or complain about it doesn’t do any good.
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Here is the real answer. Bitcointalk is now quite barely a bitcoin forum. People are using it as a tool to earn some quick bucks, as a juicy source (it terms of SEO) to get a backlink from, as a good way to earn people's confidence and scam, etc. I don't mean people who joined the forum with a willing to contribute have left, they are still here. But the shitposters outpopulated them.