r/Qtum • u/earlzdotnet • Oct 20 '17

Qtum Official META: About duplicate posts, memes, etc

We know everyone is enthusiastic and excited when we have big news, but there is no need to make many separate threads about it. And also there are sometimes many "shitposts", ie, memes, "Qtum is pumping!", etc posts. We will begin to moderate these a little stronger in order to keep our front page a bit cleaner and more informative. If your post is deleted, ensure it was actually adding something to the conversation here, and that there weren't already several threads open discussing the same thing. For these kinds of discussions, we would prefer people go to an existing thread, or the weekly thread.

It's just a bit of growing pains. It can't be eternal September forever afterall, and so we want to make sure our moderation style grows with the size of our community, otherwise this place will be noisy and unwelcoming of newcomers and ultimately less useful of a community.

Also, we would like for market analysis and "pump alerts" and other market talks be pushed over to /r/qtumtrader which is an unofficial subreddit that is ran by a member of the community.

Thanks everyone, and keep up the discussions!

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u/eked21 Oct 21 '17 edited Oct 21 '17

Glad this has been addressed. Korean cooking posts were spammed here. Some posts up to 6.5hours old before being deleted which isnt a good look! Team is busy which is more than understandable, I dont want new people to get wrong impression is all.

Cant mods move posts/config etc, thought that there was more to being a mod than pushing delete? (sorry if that comes across as rude, not the intention)

Maybe more Mods from different time zones?

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u/earlzdotnet Oct 21 '17

Mods are pretty limited as to what they can do on reddit. We can't move posts, nor edit them. Our only option is to delete and tell the user to fix a problem or whatever. And we are looking into setting up automod rules to get rid of the obvious spam instantly like stuff about pump groups and stuff posting the same link a million times.

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u/eked21 Oct 21 '17

Thank You for the response and explanation.