I would like to know what community thinks about this:
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is available only to users having 200 posts and more.
I guess bitcointalk can apply this rule in 3 minutes, but think about consequences.
To lunch new coin, dev will have to sacrifice his reputation (or make 200 posts we all can read).
Lets see if these 5-6 devs making lunches everyday can handle this...
Mixed feelings about this. On one hand, I certainly wouldn't mind seeing less coins pumped out, and for the ones being released, more high quality coins. But at the same time, I'd probably be against this idea. The reason being, I don't think it'd really help.
First off, some coins probably would go to a competing forum for alt coin announcements. And some real devs would suffer because they couldn't make an announcement until that 200 post requirement.
But that's not the real problem. I think we'd simply get a sockpuppet problem instead. Devs would build up accounts, or hire people to make accounts, just to get to whatever requirement is needed. I can see people here simply hiring themselves out as 'account makers'. Sure, I guess it could cut down a small bit on new coins, but I don't think there would be as much benefit as people expect.
What we really need is more exchange accountability. If an exchange releases a coin with a hidden premine/shady code, they really need to be pay the consequences for not being more thorough -- when I say 'pay', I mean more bad publicity and therefore less profit for them.
There is also the issue of investors not really being accountable enough either. Way too many people buy up coins as soon as they are released on an exchange, even if they have tons of red flags, then complain they were scammed. Sure, there are way too many scams here, but in the end, greed seems to overwhelm people's good sense here too often.
