Threads that don't belong in the gambling section and other shenanigans

[hilariousandco]

That thread is really a Sports discussion and nothing to do with actual gambling.
It happens a lot in the gambling board.

But I'm curious 

Is there a specific board for sports base discussion aside gambling board? I think all sports related topics are being published and discussed in the gambling board? If that's not the case, then a lot of topics do not belong to that board.

I can say more than 80% of posts in the gambling board (gambling discussion to be precised) are not about actual gambling but about different sports and league discussions which are the dominant discussions with high numbers of posts.

Is off topic the right place to have discussion about sports or we need another board to handle that?

There is no dedicated board for sports. There probably should be but it would likely kill both boards. People only post in the Gambling section about Sports because they can easily get paid there but if there was a Sports board then people probably wouldn't post in there much if they can't get paid to do so, especially if it was a sub board of Off topic. If it was in its own section in Other maybe people would still post in there as long as campaigns paid for such but would they? It might just end up being treated like off topic is with most campaigns not paying for posts there.

[LTU_btc]

But I'm curious 

Is there a specific board for sports base discussion aside gambling board? I think all sports related topics are being published and discussed in the gambling board? If that's not the case, then a lot of topics do not belong to that board.

I can say more than 80% of posts in the gambling board (gambling discussion to be precised) are not about actual gambling but about different sports and league discussions which are the dominant discussions with high numbers of posts.

Is off topic the right place to have discussion about sports or we need another board to handle that?

You have a point there, most of topics there isn't directly related withgambling, but there is close relation as people discussing results of games and talking about upcoming games. While topic about Football stars and career of their children - it's a bit more difficult to relate this topic with gambling.
Maybe sports discussion board would be solution which would make situation a bit better, but somehow I don't believe that theymos is going to make it.

There's a way, but I doubt the admin will consider this. Maybe we could have child boards for sports betting discussions. We could have 3-5 popular sports as child boards. So the hierarchy would be something like this.
Bitcoin Forum > Economy > Marketplace > Gambling > Gambling Discussion > Sports Child Boards A/B/C

I don't think that we need separate child board for every major sport. One child board would be enough IMO

Also, I have another idea. What if we limit the league threads by only allowing 5 to 10 of the strongest/top leagues? We can make the league selection method a bit more objective by using a third party points system like Opta Power Rankings [1]. For leagues outside of the top 5/10, we can merge them into a "Rest of the World Leagues Discussion Thread".

No offense, but this idea doesn't sounds good. Discussing multiple leagues in single topic would be huge mess. And I actually like these separate topics of smaller leagues - it attracts less spammers, unlike topics about major leagues like EPL or La Liga. Mostly people who are genuinely interest about these leagues is posting there.

[snipie]

Also, I have another idea. What if we limit the league threads by only allowing 5 to 10 of the strongest/top leagues? We can make the league selection method a bit more objective by using a third party points system like Opta Power Rankings [1]. For leagues outside of the top 5/10, we can merge them into a "Rest of the World Leagues Discussion Thread".

No offense, but this idea doesn't sounds good. Discussing multiple leagues in single topic would be huge mess. And I actually like these separate topics of smaller leagues - it attracts less spammers, unlike topics about major leagues like EPL or La Liga. Mostly people who are genuinely interest about these leagues is posting there.

Actually there is a dedicated topic about rest of the world competitions created by me in the past to avoid seeing side leagues being popping up for several weeks then disappear and all the mess happening around. It is called "International Football Prediction and Discussion Thread ⚽" https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5466153.0. It is not that active comparing to the other topics and the rules in the OP aren't strictly followed but less spammy than the others.
I converted also UEFA Europa and Conference Leagues topics to self-moderated to reduce the amount of spam and to get reports from people there.
The gambling section could be improved. It requires a lot of efforts from everyone.

[FinneysTrueVision]

If it was in its own section in Other maybe people would still post in there as long as campaigns paid for such but would they? It might just end up being treated like off topic is with most campaigns not paying for posts there.

Most of the casinos that advertise here have sportsbooks. If they wanted to get traffic, I would think that a specific sports discussion sub-board would be included as one of the paid sections even if it was an Off Topic child board. But then again, campaign rules are inconsistent and don’t always make sense. Posts in the Altcoin discussion section aren’t paid in some campaigns even though most gamblers use altcoins these days. 

[Jostern]

People see Gambling discussion is full of football topics so they thought it is ok to post any football related bullshit there Gambling discussion should be renamed to Football discussion and the rest.

I think I saw this thread in the gambling section, I wanted to write there, but I did find the thread somehow lacking an interesting conversation, some of this people just creates thread about football all over the place, I’m a huge football fan, some of the topics I’m seeing are totally unnecessary.

The gambling section doesn’t need to be renamed to Football Discussion because there are other sports discussions there, I think the reason why you see so many discussion thread about football is because football is the most popular sports.