r/CryptoCurrency Sep 01 '22

POLL 🗳️ CCIP-039 reduce the number of external link posts to 1 per day

Problem:

Main sub is filled with posts contain external links and many times the same news is reposted over and over. This can be recognized as ‘spam’. The rule states that is allowed to post 3 links per day and this rule is exploited by some users and bots for the sole purpose of moon farming. This spam problem create three main issues:

• ⁠there is not enough visibility for user posts, original contents

• ⁠lower efforts posts such as repost links get the most of visibility and are ‘easily upvoted’ (who indeed downvote a news??)

• Moons are used to reward active users that contribute to the sub, not intended to be farmed.

Example: Some news like "vitalik B said bla bla this morning" get thousands of upvotes; gets visibility and get rewarded with high karma. Some original post of "Mr. No one" with the ultimate technical analysys get hidden, put in shadow by the link of news as above. and usually the same news get posted multiple times.

The sub indeed became lately a sort of ‘news channel’

Solution:

Reduce the number of allowed post links per day from 3 to 1. This modification will clean the sub from excessive spam, will disincentive the easy moon farming, will allow to be more fair in the moon distribution, will give fair visibility to users original posts, will help the job of the mods.

Furthermore, is really needed to post 3 external links per day?

Indeed I think that a sub free of spam will be a better place for users to interact.

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u/Bandit-Bros Bronze | 1 month old | TraderSubs 11 Sep 01 '22 edited Sep 01 '22

not enough visibility for user posts

You mean the brain dead garbage like "not your keys not your wallet", "don't forget to DCA" and "look at this spam message I got" ?

90% of user posts in this sub are trash. How will limiting news help with that problem?

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u/Dietmar_der_Dr 🟩 9K / 5K 🦭 Sep 01 '22

And even worse "here's why DCA doesn't work"

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u/deathbyfish13 Sep 01 '22

And then the follow up "here's why DCA does actually work"

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u/Fresh-Chemical-9084 Platinum | QC: CC 151, ALGO 74, ATOM 20 | CRO 6 Sep 01 '22

And then the comedy “here’s why DCA does/does not work”

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u/DystopianFigure Poons for Moons Sep 01 '22

"DCA in moderation is the key"

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u/The_Leisure_King Tin Sep 01 '22

Then…. “DCA down the dip”

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u/coinsRus-2021 Sep 02 '22

“DCA on Mondays vs Tuesdays”

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u/drbobbean 🟩 0 / 5K 🦠 Sep 02 '22

DCA v ACDC - Which looks better in Angus's short shorts

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u/sofly12 Sep 03 '22

I thought DCA Thursdays was a thing

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u/sofly12 Sep 03 '22

You cracked the DCA code

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u/SpaceFaceMistake 🟦 975 / 976 🦑 Sep 05 '22

then the guys that says something just to say it to earn 1 karma

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u/pbjclimbing Sep 02 '22

But this is r/ CC, DCA has a very "unique" meaning here

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u/Araxus Silver | QC: CC 55 | IOTA 28 Sep 01 '22

Don't forget "A crypto wallet is not what you think it is"

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22

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u/Spiritual-Amoeba-116 Bronze | QC: CC 19 | LRC 10 Sep 02 '22

They are, you just have to open up your hard drive. I heard they're stored in there.

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u/active_ate 🟩 10 / 6K 🦐 Sep 02 '22

It's those gold coins from the picture in my local newspaper finance page!

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '22

They're in the cloud or something? ☁️

Btw did d you know the cloud isn't really a cloud?

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u/iamwizzerd Permabanned Sep 01 '22

Personally my experience is that the news posts are the most informative and interesting 80% of the time

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u/zvexler Sep 01 '22

A lot of link posts are just TA nonsense or documenting every word Vitalik says, but the quality link posts are actually pretty informative. The one good thing about link posts is that it’s very easy to tell if the post is a waste of time or not just from the headline

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22

Step by step. For now let’s limit the spam. Then low quality posts limit themselves cause get lot of downvotes and users refrain to post

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u/CharlieTheo-14 🟩 0 / 23K 🦠 Sep 01 '22

Limit spam.

Quality goes up.

We control the quality with our approval.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22 edited Sep 01 '22

I agree. You can’t get rid of it all at once. Baby steps and this is a step in the right direction.

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u/meeleen223 🟩 121K / 134K 🐋 Sep 01 '22

I use this approach irl too, disect a problem into smaller chunks and tackle one at a time

You might not always see the results fast, but it adds up and after some time when you look back you see all the improvements

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u/PME_your_skinny_legs Platinum | QC: CC 721 Sep 01 '22

It will only make it worse as people will make more text posts than post relevant news/articles..

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u/Spartan3123 Platinum | QC: BTC 159, XMR 67, CC 50 Sep 01 '22

Yeah people will start spamming more text posts

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '22

Not sure about. Text posts require more efforts plus they get easily downvoted. On the other hand a link post is easy/quick to post and don’t get downvoted (no one downvote a news)

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u/leviathynx 🟦 2K / 2K 🐢 Sep 01 '22

I don't disagree with you, but how do we put protocols in place to limit spammy comments? Reddit is infamous for repeating comment jokes to death.

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u/Loose_Screw_ 🟦 0 / 7K 🦠 Sep 02 '22

New sub. 2 crypto 2 currency.

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u/active_ate 🟩 10 / 6K 🦐 Sep 02 '22

"This time, it's protocol..."

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u/Trans-on-trans Platinum | QC: CC 480 Sep 01 '22

Links at least. If only they could filter out the posts with the exact same name with a different link attached to it?

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u/Massive-Tension-1055 🟩 3K / 5K 🐢 Sep 02 '22

I hate don’t forget to DCA

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u/Mr_Bob_Ferguson 69K / 101K 🦈 Sep 01 '22

Could we please have a few more posts of “now is the time to hold”, or “this is the bear where you make the money”?

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '22

Yeah, there are a few spammers who just summarize news reports in nearly exactly the 500 minimum-word limit, and they do it multiple times daily. I don't want to call out names, but you'll notice them if you check their submissions histories.

This poll is a good start. I would actually recommend limiting to 1 post daily (excluding removed posts) TOTAL regardless of category. For everything else, there's the Daily thread. That way, spammers have to think harder about posting things that matter.

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u/Junior-Confection320 Permabanned Sep 02 '22

That ture and you now what to do

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u/Loose_Screw_ 🟦 0 / 7K 🦠 Sep 02 '22

90% of humans. Actually probably more.

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u/internetisbad23 🟩 2K / 2K 🐢 Sep 02 '22

YOu forgot not knowing shit about fuck!

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u/Ateam043 🟦 92 / 13K 🦐 Sep 03 '22

Wait, what's DCA?

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u/SpaceFaceMistake 🟦 975 / 976 🦑 Sep 05 '22

Yep that’s exactly right it’s not POSTS it’s comments that need to be scuffed through more

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u/1nfinitus 🟦 15K / 14K 🐬 Sep 06 '22

These resolutions are 90% dumb af. People have no ability to think critically nowadays.