How about a cloud mining sub-forum?

[Mabsark]

I think a cloud mining sub-forum would be very beneficial. At the moment cloud mining services are being promoted and discussed in the following sub-forums:

Securities
Services
Service Announcements
Service Discussion

If there was a cloud mining sub-forum it would be far easier for potential customers to compare services and make informed decisions, and cloud mining services could promote their services more effectively.

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[Muhammed Zakir]

+1. Even if it isn't implemented here, I hope it will be on New forum but will have to wait sometime.

   ~~MZ~~

[goozman96]

I agree. It's become a big enough thing to warrant its own dedicated subforum.

[RiverBoatBTC]

Yes it needs its own dedicated forum now

[cakir]

It should be under Mining Forum I guess.

Or it could be under Gaming & Rounds (because of lots of ponzis)...

[Parazyd]

Or it could be under Gaming & Rounds (because of lots of ponzis)...

Yeah, cloud mining went big, I also agree for its own subsection. In the mining forum. Maybe splitting some off the "Pools" section.

[newIndia]

I think a cloud mining sub-forum would be very beneficial. At the moment cloud mining services are being promoted and discussed in the following sub-forums:

Securities
Services
Service Announcements
Service Discussion

If there was a cloud mining sub-forum it would be far easier for potential customers to compare services and make informed decisions, and cloud mining services could promote their services more effectively.

Before this, there were 2 similar threads discussing the same...

i. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=875929.0

ii. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=875684.0

[Mabsark]

So, ckolivas made a poll asking whether cloud mining should have it own section, and people voted "yes" and then he refused to implement it because he thinks not enough people voted in his poll that only lasted a day or two?

WTF!

I'm sorry ckolivas, but that's complete bullshit. If you want more people to vote on it, then let the poll run for longer. This is the first time I'm even hearing of that poll.

[OmegaStarScream]

I think a cloud mining sub-forum would be very beneficial. At the moment cloud mining services are being promoted and discussed in the following sub-forums:

Securities
Services
Service Announcements
Service Discussion

If there was a cloud mining sub-forum it would be far easier for potential customers to compare services and make informed decisions, and cloud mining services could promote their services more effectively.

I couldn't agree more yeah , we should really add one since it's getting bigger & bigger on btc world
and i personally would like to know more about it , not very experienced on these things 

[LOBSTER]

We already had that thread, started by YOU:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=875929.0

[princesocapuyo]

That's a nice idea, I'd like it as I'm getting into cloud mining myself ^^
Did someone start another vote though?

[jambola2]

I disagree with this.
Cloud mining is not as different in its application/sale as compared to other services (We can split Marketplace into Digital goods because it caters to a different audience, but not exactly needed here). Would it even be very full ? One page of a forum has 40 threads, atleast on my screen, would it make sense to make a separate subforum for cloud mining which would most likely take up barely a page under the one thread per company rule ?

Secondly and more importantly, what if Cloud Mining doesn't stay as popular as it is today ? Ponzis were a dominant force in the Gambling subforum once and people asked for a new subforum everywhere. But now that they are dead, it would have been extremely foolhardy to create a new subforum for them. Instead of ending up with a couple of slightly active pages, we could end up with a completely dead subforum and what then.

To be honest, I would have said that Cloud mining belongs in the Securities section, wherein the target audience would be quite similar(In both cases the buyer wants to invest their BTC), but regardless, a new subforum doesn't really help.

[Slark]

I disagree with this.
Cloud mining is not as different in its application/sale as compared to other services (We can split Marketplace into Digital goods because it caters to a different audience, but not exactly needed here). Would it even be very full ? One page of a forum has 40 threads, atleast on my screen, would it make sense to make a separate subforum for cloud mining which would most likely take up barely a page under the one thread per company rule ?

Secondly and more importantly, what if Cloud Mining doesn't stay as popular as it is today ? Ponzis were a dominant force in the Gambling subforum once and people asked for a new subforum everywhere. But now that they are dead, it would have been extremely foolhardy to create a new subforum for them. Instead of ending up with a couple of slightly active pages, we could end up with a completely dead subforum and what then.

To be honest, I would have said that Cloud mining belongs in the Securities section, wherein the target audience would be quite similar(In both cases the buyer wants to invest their BTC), but regardless, a new subforum doesn't really help.

While I agree that Cloud mining is essentially service I also find it a different kind of specialized service. It is new service boom and a LOT of new companies want to try and host cloud mining services.
New forum section could only help finding and accessing those deals. So I would advocate to create cloud mining section.

[jambola2]

I disagree with this.
Cloud mining is not as different in its application/sale as compared to other services (We can split Marketplace into Digital goods because it caters to a different audience, but not exactly needed here). Would it even be very full ? One page of a forum has 40 threads, atleast on my screen, would it make sense to make a separate subforum for cloud mining which would most likely take up barely a page under the one thread per company rule ?

Secondly and more importantly, what if Cloud Mining doesn't stay as popular as it is today ? Ponzis were a dominant force in the Gambling subforum once and people asked for a new subforum everywhere. But now that they are dead, it would have been extremely foolhardy to create a new subforum for them. Instead of ending up with a couple of slightly active pages, we could end up with a completely dead subforum and what then.

To be honest, I would have said that Cloud mining belongs in the Securities section, wherein the target audience would be quite similar(In both cases the buyer wants to invest their BTC), but regardless, a new subforum doesn't really help.

While I agree that Cloud mining is essentially service I also find it a different kind of specialized service. It is new service boom and a LOT of new companies want to try and host cloud mining services.
New forum section could only help finding and accessing those deals. So I would advocate to create cloud mining section.

Read what I've said earlier.

We can make a hundred new service sections. Signature campaigns ? Okay sure. Scripts for websites ? Why not add that too.

I mean literally, these two (sig campaigns and scripts/website building) are more talked about in the first page of Services.

Way before we choose to do this for cloud mining, we have to do this for others and quite honestly, neither of these alone is distinguished enough to warrant its own subforum. I've said this before and I reiterate :- How would it make sense if all the cloud mining threads together took under a page, but consisted of their own empty subforum ? What happens when cloud mining becomes less popular ?

[goozman96]

I would argue that sig campaigns and scripts should also have their own dedicated subforum. They are all major topics that deserve their own place instead of cluttering up a huge general services forum.

[valvalis]

I think its better to keep cloud mining under services section.
too much scam in cloud-mining 

[LOBSTER]

I think one should forbid cloudmining except the providers which really can proof their hardware, mining address etc.

[HeroC]

I agree we should have one, just the hard part to agree on it where to put it under.

[moko666]

i think promotion of any cloud mining website should be banned untill they post proof of own hardwares
nowdays they are just running like ponzi sites
a kind of HYIp site promoting using name of cloud mining

[ASICSPACE]

You could include hosting as a subsection, that needs its own topic as well.

Who's with me?