You want to fix the FUD problem on bitcointalk ? Easy, just integrate the jail for newbie accounts for 2 weeks like it was the first time. So they have to wait first before they can just make 1 million fake accounts.
But, i think you rather don't want that because you can't hide yourself when they do this.
You have made 3 successive posts, two containing accusations about motives.
Posters like you are the reason I made this utility. If you didn't think you had an audience here, you wouldn't make a post. You are leeching off my work and my product for your soapbox and accusations. Go create your own thread with your own work and then post your rants there once your product drives an audience. You'll see that no one stops you. That's free speech.
In fact, fork my product if you don't have time to develop your own. It's open source with a very permissive license. You'll find that I won't have any problem with what you do as long as you keep the license intact. I won't even come after you if you forget to put in "(c) 2014, deletebot All rights reserved".
I suggested a community blacklist and did not offer any accounts for the luser list. I singled out no users anywhere. Except for my bias towards XST, I don't show any bias here. I haven't spoken negatively of anyone or any coin. If this was about giving XST some sort of advantage, I would have kept it a secret and shared it with the team instead of making it as open as I could. So
please end your accusations and your questions of motives.
If a community makes a black list, it won't hurt free speech. Posters will reform the way they post to avoid getting on a community blacklist. That would promote civil discourse over time, which is something sorely lacking from bitcointalk at the moment.
There ya go now they want to stop people from question to much about a coin with blacklisting accounts.
What will get next ? Coin blacklist ? so you can control who gets your coins and who not ?
How in the world is this decentral if you create blacklists while it will favor scamers more ?
I see what you're saying, and I think it will be used for legitimate and illegitimate reasons. Almost every thread on these boards is moderated to some extent, so alot of legitimate coins will use this to delete or prevent FUD from known trolls. I think that is what is important to outline here, you have members that become thread banned but do not stop posting regardless of their status. A tool like this that will delete their senseless or baseless statements instantly is better than manually deleting them since it seems BTCtalk mods dont even do their jobs to enforce warnings/thread bans. Trolls clog up good discussion and can be tedious to sort out postings.
And like you said, on the other hand their may be scammers that might use this tool to keep hide their true intentions. However, that wont stop the community from opening a speculative thread where they can talk free of moderation. Most scammers delete comments anyways, so having a bot do it for them isnt really changing anything.
Whats ironic here is that most investors are quick to jump to the conclusion that moderated threads = scam, and it is up to the individual to decide whether their is any substance or legitimacy to the circumstances for moderation.
