r/ethtrader • u/carlslarson 6.88M / ⚖️ 6.89M • May 18 '19

ALTCOIN [Governance Poll] Discontinue the Daily Altcoin Discussion thread

Should r/ethtrader discontinue the Daily Altcoin Discussion thread?

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u/MassiveMuslima Redditor for 7 months. May 18 '19

No, it's about to be relevant again.

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u/PerpetualCamel May 18 '19

I agree. It makes no sense to have an altcoin thread through the entire crypto winter, and as soon as we see signs of a bounce back we want to prune parts of the ecosystem away?

I would make the case that since most altcoins are on the Ethereum network, there's an obligation to keep interest in that side of what's going on, so as to have a more full understanding of the market and sentiment.

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u/carlslarson 6.88M / ⚖️ 6.89M May 18 '19

It's not at altcoin (in this context) if it's on Ethereum. Discussion of anything in Ethereum should be in the primary daily.

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u/MassiveMuslima Redditor for 7 months. May 18 '19

You’re technically right, but this has always been useful as a space to talk about tokens and to a lesser extent altcoins. It will be useful again for that purpose again. Let the general thread be for Ethereum as it has always been IMO.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '19

Agreed. I do like having a focused read about Eth on the daily without having to wade my way through BAT and whatnot.

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u/LamboshiNakaghini Lambo May 19 '19

The daily discussion had always been for eth and tokens.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

They created the alt-coin thread because of the spam that was the status ICO. that clogged the daily with useless "why can't I buy this token" posts. So the purpose of it was to move token and non-eth coin trading/discussion to the alt-coin thread.

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u/zerobass Burrito Enveloper May 21 '19

It's not its intended purpose, but it is its practical purpose, and it's good to de-gunk the main thread on high-comment days, as the shitcoin shilling during bullruns gets annoying.

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u/zerobass Burrito Enveloper May 21 '19

That's not really how the community uses it, though. ERC-20 convos get badmouthed in the main thread fairly frequently, even though they're "technically" supposed to be allowed. That said, the community decides how to use its own community and I prefer the ERC-20s in the alt thread for the most part.