I personally don't know why people like you chose to be ignorant or negligent of what's happening, and you still choose to be blind even though it is visible that the quality of post in this forum has reduced, in a thousand threads create in a month, only 10 would be a wow kind of thread apart from querying and finding alts or dragging each other. Op is making a clear and conscious observation which I know for sure that it's true.

Just like you op, I feel like there is no much interesting things happening in the crypto space like before maybe it's part of it, however we can't complain it's not happening while we too are not creating wow kind of threads, so op lets start with ourselves and see if it works.

A lot of topics now are regurgitated or just talking about the same ol' things, but I can't think of one place that is 10+ years old that doesn't suffer from this. You could go as far as the older generation, what do they talk about? Usually, the same thing over and over. Maybe, they are reliving through you, talking about their glory days or just days they remember fondly. I'd even argue you wouldn't even need to go as far as the older generation it was just easier to make the point. We all talk about the same things everyday. I, you and everyone reading this post. Its only when you get many different perspectives that you get a discussion. However, a lot of things have already been discussed, however that doesn't mean there's not any new input. People change, ideas change and perception changes day to day.

I've personally seen Bitcoin go from something which is outright denounced on sight by everyone I meet, to the more computer inclined people only talking about it, to pretty much everyone I have ever known talk about it at some point. Alright, its usually still with scepticism, but 10 years from now we might have a discussion about the same thing, but with a different perception. They might in fact trust it more, and have new input.

So, yeah same sort of discussions, but a shift in mentality, new ideas or ways of thinking about something is all part of the evolution of Bitcoin and the forum.

New ideas are presented every day. This might get a lot of hate, because generally the hostility towards altcoins is a rather frequent opinion expressed (not without its justifications) but the altcoins are indeed new ideas. Bitcoin isn't perfect, and we have altcoins attempting every day to improve on that. Obviously, that doesn't mean that a lot of them aren't a shower of shit though.  

We've got mining changing every day, the fight against the rising costs of mining, to the point that the general user like me and you will be priced out, and dedicated mining companies are all to remain. New hardware, new ideas or just different ways of going about things like group "solo" mining where you get a small group of people, point all their miners to the same custom pool and share the reward rather than joining a much larger pool or solo mining themselves. These are just examples, but before you were either pool mining or solo mining, because the costs of such were lower. Now, people are looking for ways to get into mining before its too late (due to costs) and maximising their profits and chances which usually means banding together in some way.

New ideas and mini discussions floating all around us. Unfortunately at times it does seem like we are wading through shite to get there though. This does come with popularity and ease of access. Bitcoin software is so much easier to use these days. 10 years ago, it was hard to setup a wallet, now its practically like any other bank account you might have for more traditional monies.

I must be getting old. I absolutely despise Twitter and how its laid out. I wouldn't know as I don't have twitter any more, but didn't they go away from chronological sorting of ports? To me that's counter intuitive. I'm sure it can be configured, but I'm sure I remember it going to the default not being sorted by new or something. It has been a few years though.

I'm sure there's some great discussion elsewhere. I won't say there isn't, but if you want a discussion where's the first place that pops into your mind? It has to be here. Reddit and Twitter I see more as news and reaction to the new, rather than getting into the very ins and outs of Bitcoin or related spaces.

When shitposters become future of the forum, it's what it is.

It's not only me complained about it, and with my experience as a member who had to fight hard to rank up with merit system since January 2018, I realized that ranking up in the forum in two or three latest years has become much more easily. I believe that many people saw the reasons and even comlained about that, it's simply a failure of merit system recent years.

Shitposters ranked up speedily, that's amazing for them but a severe failure of merit system and the forum.
After they ranked up, worn signature, earned money, their shitpost productivity increases more signifcantly, and make the forum worse.

The cycle continues, you know.

I think you're on to something. Lately, I've been Ignoring more and more users who "earned" a decent amount of Merit. In this topic, that's Odusko (earned 553 Merits) and Faisal2202 (earned 543 Merits). Both of them used fillippone's Merit giveaway thread, both of them earned most of their Merit in their early days, and both of them barely earned any Merit in the last 120 days:
Both never received any Merit from me, and both of them ended up on my ignore list when I saw their posts on the more serious boards.

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Odusko shows a very clear pattern:

The moment his rank was high enough to start earning money, he stopped earning Merit and started spamming more.

Threads quality has reduced in recent years because most of the threads are being created by newbies with insufficient knowledge about bitcoin. Take for example; the bitcoin discussion board, just check the first page and see the profiles that created most of those threads, they are mostly newbies so why won't the quality deteriorate.

I think you are wrong in this statement that i highlighted from your post because for the fact that there haven't been fascinating stuffs happening around bitcoin doesn't mean that the bitcoin discussion board should be flooded with low value posts. If there are no new things happening around bitcoin then the board should remain dormant. Maybe, it should have been that since nothing new is ongoing about bitcoin, no new threads should be created since most of them are just basically repetition of old threads.

Right, I’ve noticed this too. From what I’ve understood as a relatively new member, only the more experienced and genuinely helpful people tend to post in the Beginners & Help forum. I believe this section will become even more helpful in the future, because reading posts from senior and reputable members gives very good insights. We benefit a lot from their experience, learn new perspectives, and that helps us improve ourselves.

I think someone like you actually need to develop the culture of reading someone’s entire post before cutting half of that to actually suit your narrative. I stated clearly that the decrease of post quality on that specific board has even been happening far beyond that one month threshold. And yet again you buttress my point by saying only 10 posts are of quality while I stated clearly that post qualities were subjective, if they weren’t subjective how did you come up with 10 quality threads because I know me or someone would have actually said it’s not upto that number, or was I wrong saying something you perceived wrong might not be in others eyes, or we simply just go with your own opinion.


I actually wasn’t on that and you might have to through the post yet again, I was saying I didn’t expect less from that board because it’s my personal opinion that the board is actually losing quality more than even a month a go and most post there are actually recycled stories.

Yes it will be great that if there is nothing going around people shouldn’t make useless threads, i think we can all help by reporting those threads lacking quality

List of topics and members I ignore is growing every day, and that makes it easier to navigate the forum.
I think our local board improved slightly since we got some solid new members and some old ones came back.

Bitcoin board has silently and gradually morphed into News board.
I can still find some useful information there and I do post there sometimes, but not like I did few years ago.

You are romanticizing your words for some benefits, too bad you didnt got what you wanted. However, I wont follow you in that direction.
People like you are part of the problem you are complaining about. Reading through most of your comments, you are guilty of what you complain about.
You have been around here for some time, at least you shouldn't be dumb enough to know that many users only consider technical discussion as "quality" while some care more about political discussion, while someabout economics. Most ask questions, some challenge ideas. That diversity is the reason why forums actually work.

Judging from history, with the example you gave. There were low quality post in the past, just like now. If you think that the forum used to be some nonstop brilliance, then you were mistaken. The difference between the past and present is the number of users that has increased. The forum has far more users from 5 to 7 years ago. That doesnt mean thereis less quality, it only means that there is more in everything, including quality post and less quality post. By simple logic, both standard has elevated.

Stop being a hypocrite, raise the standard, elevate the discussions, and other users will join. Too bad even you cannot make the difference.

Yes, that's true, when we compare Bitcointalk to other social media platforms then without any doubt we see much better and very high quality posts than what we see on those social media platforms. I know there was a time when we were having even better quality posts but still even this day posts on this forum are much better than those of social media platforms.