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 Can the forum software be upgraded to add (OP) in caps after the user handle so to better know the original poster replies. I know that the original poster replies are written by his\her name but you have to concentrate to find the name of the poster. By adding (OP) just after the original poster replies, the human mind can quickly read the replies of the OP he/she only wants to read it.

I didn't find it necessary, why should we need to know which user is the Original Poster and which users isn't the Original Poster in the first place? When I want to reply someone post, I always read the whole posts to make sure I replied with the new idea and different perspective to contribute about the thread. Many users only read the Original Poster and the last post, then replied even his idea has been posted by another users.

I think if the Original Poster want to announce something important to make the readers didn't missed his post/announcement, he can easily post it on reserved post (below of the first post).

It can be doable or non-doable. You should know that the forum uses the SMF software that has some drawbacks in terms of new features and so forth. Even it is doable, I think it is unnecessary.

You don't have to concentrate too much. What you must do to find OP's username is click on the first page, scroll up to the opening post and get that username.

It is a must-do step even you don't aim at finding OP's username. It's unacceptable when people write post to do what they call as joining discussion but don't mind to read what is raised by OP. If they do care about it, they should read OP, the first page and get username already. In addition, to catch what's going on in the dicussion, they should read the last page(s) of that topic as well.

I don't think this feature is so necessary right now on the forums that it probably won't be considered by the admin when he replies to the topic. You should definitely make it a habit to pay attention to who the user started the topic was so you might not need more features to recognize the topic creator's replies on the next page on the topic he started.

But obviously I also don't think your suggestions and requests about improving this feature are too much, but maybe we should understand that there are a lot of things that were not added in a long time by the admin especially about some user requests. So don't expect too much, but voice your opinions and desires is important.

I think such a system can be useful, specially in sections where the spammy replies outweighs the number of informative replies.

Often it can be confusing to keep track of the OP's actual replies in the thread because the number of posts replying to the First post is more than a single digit number. Some of the threads in the "Bitcoin Discussion" and "Altcoin Discussion" are made with genuine "coffeeshop-debate" idea in mind but ends up being a influx of a Black Friday sale. :D

Hence I would support the "OP's" idea here.

I often find myself scrolling up, to see if a post was made by OP. In many cases the post deserves to be reported unless it was made by OP. Especially on topics from Newbies it's confusing.
So I support this suggestion :)

Since the current forum software that we're using has been heavily modified, I don't think it's worth the trouble to add that feature but having said that, it's worth noting that such a feature already exists in the new forum software ^{[AKA Epochtalk (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5158825.0)]}.

• e.g. check this thread (https://coinbistro.com/threads/0219b626-996c-49a0-ab97-22237d286ef3/posts)

Thanks for the replies. Let me give an real life example of OP system
https://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2415307/pg1

See how easy it is to view only OP posts!

So it is not good at all. Because if you only look at OP post, what are you actually looking for? In order to discuss in a topic, you must read opening post, a few first replies and first pages, then a few last pages. If you only read OP and jump to write your answer, you might write unnecessary answer because others already answer it for OP.

Usually when a topic has about 5 pages, answer for OP question is mostly given.

Me too.
I was thinking of at least an icon like a mic icon of OP in Reddit back in the days, but due to avatars and the coin logo corresponding the rank of the user, it might be a little difficult to see.
Sometimes when I read certain threads, I am looking for OP's replies if s/he is even bothering to discuss with the replies in the thread or just blatantly abandoned the whole thread. In case the latter happens, I usually either don't bother joining the discussion or just report the thread.

Op is the center of attention in every conversation. If Op makes a post that asks questions, it is needful to track the Op easily at the middle of the conversation to ensure Op has gotten answer to his/her question.
If it's a debate, it's necessary to follow up the Op as the debate ensures to see how he aligns and re-aligns as opinions and counter opinions are made.

The idea of indicating an Op is not a bad one. When you visit social media such as facebook, that feature is used, it's indicated as "author".
I think it's worth implementing, unless there will be a draw back because of forum SMF.

That's a good suggestion but it doesn't worry me that I won't be able to know if op posted in the thread again. All I do is I only read the username name then I'll know that it's the original poster. You will know that it's op that many forum user who discussed it with. If I ask some questions then many forum users will know that it's me who is asking for help or guide. It's not that I am against the idea but it doesn't matter if it's op who posted or not.

I tend to agree with the suggestion.
Sometimes it needs to scroll up when you forgot the OP name, it will help us if you don't want to memorize first the OP username.  Though the idea isn't necessary much at least, it's hassle-free for us as a reader how to easily catch up or determine the OP replies.

But the question is, how to apply such a system to SMF which the forum used.

Alternative suggestion.
I've been currently using the chrome BPIP Extension (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5224821.0) to add further features that I liked, it's possible to add this feature on the BPIP chrome extension too while waiting for the result of the OP's proposal?

I agree with this, I think such functionality could be helpful, and I do not see any negative side to it. Sometimes it is hard to follow the thread, especially when it spans over multiple pages. It might be useful to highlight OP posts in some way to get the discussion back on track.


Theymos has done some weird shit on this forum, especially for April Fool's jokes, so I do not think this should be a big deal for him.  ;D


Also a good suggestion. I use BPIP Extension but I do not know how popular it is among the members of this forum.

i would like this. my watchlist is pretty big and i often come back into some multi page thread ive been following off and on for weeks and have no idea who the OP is at that point.

Thanks for the replies. I should have joined this forum back in may 2011 when i had first heard about BTC. Mined it and got free btc and then forgot about it. HDD crashed! it was bitcoin core .4.0 non HD wallet at that time.

Anyways thanks for the replies.

I see no reason why we shouldn't have this and I would like to see it introduced if it can be done on SMF.

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Alternatively, what you can do is scroll up to the first post. Copy the name of OP, hit CTRL+F followed by CTRL+V to paste the OPs username into the search field. It works both on Chrome and Firefox. Every mention of OPs name will be highlighted for you on the screen. After that, just pay attention to the left side where the usernames are written while you are scrolling down the page and stop when you see the highlighted name you searched for. You can also click on the up/down arrows if you don't want to scroll down manually. If the thread has multiple pages, click on the All button before.

To avoid quotes, you can search for the Activity or Merit count. In your case, I'd search for "Merit: 4069".

Nice tip. I have never tried that personally, but I will remember it for the future. I sometimes search for "merited" when I open a thread that spans across multiple pages. Especially in boards such as Bitcoin Discussion. Not all good posts are merited and not all merited posts are necessarily good, but it often shows if the OP got the help they needed.

like, dude, thats a LOT of work when im in a read only kind of mood.. especially in a multi page thread where i have to click to back to the 1st post to do that.

im lazy af and im sure others here are too.

I think this is a good idea, and I would add one more thing, many people who are not native English speakers or forum nerds don't even know what OP even means... true story ;)
Since I doubt forum changes are happening fast enough, it would be cool to add this to BPIP extension as optional settings, if developers have free time and if it's not so complicated.

OP is TS :)

lol as i forgot who the OP was i clicked back to see if the OP was a forum user named "TS" because of this.

tf  ;D

That's....actually a damn good idea, and I wouldn't mind seeing it implemented when the new forum software is rolled out.  Unfortunately there's only two problems: 1) You might not live long enough to see the new forum software rolled out, and 2) This suggestion might be completely ignored, as so many others have.

Yeah, you could make it your goal to pay more attention to who started a thread, but if it doesn't require a whole bunch of extra coding, why not add a feature like this that makes it much more convenient for people who might not even be that familiar with who's who on bitcointalk and might have a hard time remembering the thread starter? 
 
Good luck on this one, OP.  I forgot your name, but good luck anyway.

This comment just made my day :D

As I mentioned "previously (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5397661.msg60069257#msg60069257)", it's already part of the new forum software but instead of being in front of the username, it's placed beneath the avatar.

Update:
I do ;)

Damn, it's been a long-ass time since someone wrote that regarding a post I made.  It has happened, but oh so rarely.

Ah, my bad.  I'm 100% guilty of not keeping up with the new forum software development, since I've been hearing about it for so long that it feels almost as pointless to follow the section and post suggestions as it is to post in a section like Speculation--which is basically like a bunch of men with stinky feet all crowded together in a bathroom, masturbating like mad.  My typing skills can be put to better use elsewhere, know what I mean?

Woah Thanks for the positive replies! Lets make this thread viral and hope the admins support this idea.

ps: even if it is accepted i wonder why it took 11 years to implement! Btw do you get BTC reward for idea implementation j/K  ;D or not! :P

Was hoping any site staff or admin atleast replied.

My assumption is that Admin reads (most of) the suggestions in Meta, but doesn't have the time to implement the majority. A detailed response (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4893744.msg44432901#msg44432901) is rare.

I have another idea!. Have a down arrow next to a person reply which states"jump to next post of the user". An up arrow can also be used to see the users previous post in the same thread.

eg
https://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message5146777/pg1

see the top right corner where there are 2 arrows. IF you click the down arrow image, it will take you to the persons next post. Pretty ingenious!.
https://imgur.com/DiOgm4Y

That would be a useful feature, and faster than "CTRL-F username".

I was beginning to see the idea as unnecessary as one could easily focus on the usernames as displayed beside a comment when it's got to do with searching out the OP and that limits your search to going through 20 usernames on a page which continues until OP is eventually found. That was my thought exactly until I recall the tags as per award that was given to those that won certain contest in the forum like @Icopress from the pizza contest. Somehow, it made the user standout and one could easily spot that user.

This could be for various reasons, maybe the thread is trying to educate and a question was directed to the user for which the users reply is most necessary or perhaps, a user created a thread that arose suspicion and other forum users begines to interrogate the said user for clarity. Sorting out the users replies becomes easier that way.

The only down side to it comes in threads where one is expected to benefit a lot from other users by looking at there perspectives to it, you end up skipping most of the comments all in the idea of looking out for OP.
OP notation isn't a bad idea anyways!

I find both to be very useful as they could solve specific issues for users on the forum.
While OP notation solves the issue of recognising the posts of OP within the thread, the up and down arrow icons could serve not just for the OP but for all as well.

We know how some users takes a liking to some particular users posts, maybe see them for a role model or idol of some sort in the forum and probably, find posts from such users most useful, easy to understand and always tries to follow them up. (I know arguably, one could go to there last posts and study there posts but, it won't be topic based as the user might have made posts in between other threads as well). Therefore, the up and down arrow notation helps you to follow up a particular users posts in a thread.

Also, it would be an easy way to checking out users posts within a period for those who do statistics on how active individual user are on a particular thread. Rikafip and Igehhh does this on a monthly bases for the statistics on (Official/Unofficial) local boards that exists on the forum to determine individual/locale activeness and this would be a clear cut for there loads of work on loading pages and manually searching out the user of interest.

I am sure there would be other uses to this forum feature if implemented. It's a good one!

It's might not be necessary for everyone but such can be given attention for who cares.

I just came back to this forum after couple of months and i see my suggestion has been incorporated!!!

ADmin atleast reply to this thread please  ;D


ps: one more thing. CAn you make the (OP) in bold?

pps: any bitcoins as reward for this suggestion? ;D ;D ;D:P

For your information, its @PowerGlove who made your suggestion possible and he credited your thread in his post.
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5412983.0

There's a variety of design suggested by other members too, but for some reason the admin chose Style B which isn't an issue though. After all, it's an upgrade for God knows how many years.

i doubt, but perhaps the reward would be the honor that sparks an idea for other members to implement.

Your idea was taken by user PowerGlove and then he created a SMF patch. Theymos then added the patch. Job done.
By the way, I was thinking PowerGlove was the original idea provider LOL
However it's good to see you two had something common and one went beyond to create the codes.

Update:
LOL @Maus0728
Faster 🤣

I have one more suggestion which i had posted earlier.

I'm afraid that idea will be a little more difficult to implement (I hope I'm wrong). Unlike your first idea, this would require serious coding to add a patch like this to SMF. Maybe in BitcoinTalk 2.0?

I am not a coder or have knowledge about coding and I agree with FatFork that it will be difficult or need serious coding and many of the thread is that some forum user may post/reply in the same thread more than once. If someone can create a code that is not complicated or doesn't take too much work/effort to make the code that also work or there's a code already that is used already that work the same way and will only need to edit a bit/add more code then I think it won't make someone to put more effort or work to make the suggestion happen and possibly implemented by theymos plus it should be applicable/possible to add in SMF 1.1.19 just like the OP indicator implementation. What about the code that TryNinja used in his Telegram Bitcointalk Super Notifier? Then start coding which it will automatically add/make the link of the new post from the same poster into a hyperlink just like the example below and a code to display it in the top corner of the post that the forum user posted as suggested by OP. My thought of how it would look like if it is implemented ;D. Anyway, let's wait and see if PowerGlove would also create code for this suggestion as well.
⬆ (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5397661.0)
⬇ (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5397661.msg60953016#msg60953016)

YESSS. Thanks for opening the spark that will start the fire!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tg4jQAZ_cw

By the OP you can easily understand who the original poster means by this. Because you don't have to go back to the beginning to find the original poster donor, you can select by checking the OP text. Made this arrangement for easy selection so that we can easily select the original poster.

I ended up making a patch for this idea too; topic is here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5416941.0). Let's hope that theymos accepts it! :)