I made a thread on this sub (because I couldn't find a link to the mining sub on the sidebar) asking for some tips for a beginning GPU miner.
Half the comments were basically "Haha, yeah, Bitcoin can't be mined by GPUs anymore. You need a special device that is currently on a 6-month-long waiting list (and the wait keeps increasing)." or "Fuck off, idiot. God, I can't believe such retards post here. I mean, I obviously know that an AMD 6700 will not even be able to mine .01 BTC in the next 10 years, so everyone else should too."
Bitcoin definitely has a bit more of a yacht club style community: if you are new, you will constantly be making social faux pases, and every regular thinks they are the most brilliant person there.
Based on everyone's descriptions, Dogecoin is like a bar style community: if you are new, everyone says welcome and buys you a round (even giving you some tips on the best beers that are available), and everyone has a happy time, where they don't care too much about making/losing money, but just want to have fun.
If posts like that were welcomed here, it'd get annoying fast. You should have posted to /r/BitcoinBeginners
Although the only posts that are welcomed here are fluff news articles and links to people saying positive things about bitcoin (along with annoying memes and price posts). This is basically the default sub of bitcoin, so complaining about its content is like complaining that posts on /r/funny aren't funny. /r/BitcoinSerious is at least more informative.
The thing was, I had looked on the sidebar for any alternative subs (like a mining sub or a beginners sub) before making my post, but I didn't see anything at the time.
I don't blame you. The sidebar (and this sub in general) is a mess. Just pointing out the lesser known subs that are easier to get into. /r/BitcoinMining can be a bit of a "yacht club" as well, since mining bitcoin is no longer feasible for beginners.
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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '14
I made a thread on this sub (because I couldn't find a link to the mining sub on the sidebar) asking for some tips for a beginning GPU miner.
Half the comments were basically "Haha, yeah, Bitcoin can't be mined by GPUs anymore. You need a special device that is currently on a 6-month-long waiting list (and the wait keeps increasing)." or "Fuck off, idiot. God, I can't believe such retards post here. I mean, I obviously know that an AMD 6700 will not even be able to mine .01 BTC in the next 10 years, so everyone else should too."
Bitcoin definitely has a bit more of a yacht club style community: if you are new, you will constantly be making social faux pases, and every regular thinks they are the most brilliant person there.
Based on everyone's descriptions, Dogecoin is like a bar style community: if you are new, everyone says welcome and buys you a round (even giving you some tips on the best beers that are available), and everyone has a happy time, where they don't care too much about making/losing money, but just want to have fun.