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I have observed that the Nigerian local board is being infiltrated by foreign aliens. They are not people we do invite for our contest or for contribution but by people who create new alt accounts and join us here to seek information to validate their hatred for the flourishing Nigerian community.

Their mission is to prove to the forum that the successes recorded by the Nigerian community over the past few months are not genuine and that Nigerians are bad people. They openly abuse Nigerians and our gains in the general boards using their main accounts but come here with their alt accounts to act as friends and people that care.

If we don't do something about that, we will wake up one day with a post in the reputation tainting the image of the entire local board with accusation and even our senior members will not be exonerate because if the image of the Nigerian local board is tarnished, their reputation will be eroded.

Action Plan

• Let us impose a strict use of the Naija pidgin because that is like an identity and anyone who tries to use translator will easily be caught. Language, they say, is an identity
• Proposal for the use of our local dialects in communication. We have Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Ogba and many other languages, let people use them to post to shield us from foreign aliens.

Meanwhile, if you cannot speak the Naija pidgin or any of the local dialect, there must be a way to identify you as a Nigerian.

Note: I made this post in English so that everyone including those aliens will read and understand.

For this matter you get my support 100% because with wetin dey happen now we don get so many people wey no be from Naija we dey among us and dia mission na to collect our info and data come use am finish the reputation and growth wey we don get for forum. Dis proposal no supposed waste time again for our brothers and bosses to approve because with wetin dey happen now, plenty of our people go dey fear to post for local board because we know know who be who for the local board again. Make we use our local naija pidgin all of us sabi speak am make we no pretend.

Where is the proof?

Where is the proof?

Like this one? Massive alt farm of my country - 10+ accounts. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5564918.msg66025764#msg66025764)

Why are you afraid?


We can not use Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo and other local languages because we have discussed about this in the past and we all agreed not to use any of them.

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Cutting off one's head is not the cure for one's headache.

With due respect, I no need prove anything to you Sir and if you no fit notice wetin I dey talk, which is disappointing, just pass. My proposal no go kill you, na for us to have identity. Other local boards have ways they identify people wey dey use translators to infiltrate them na why them dey easily catch person wey enter their board to fish merits and farm account. E dey wrong if we also protect our own? If all of us here dey blow Oyibo language, wetin be the need of giving us a local board? Wetin dey local about our board as e dey now? Oga you self think before you talk.

You don come again with your falling hands comment. Afraid of wetin? You no supposed dey so negative all the time, abi na you holy pass? Person go dey reason how we go make progress as local board and protect the gains wey we don get wey even make you merit source, you dey carry negativity dey follow the person. The post na all about account farming? Shebi u dey active for reputation board, you no dey shame when them dey call your people all manners of evil names? You think say if everybody for your country bad na only you go holy? The day Oyibo go remember you, you go understand beta. I no go follow you argue again.

Moreno233 this thing way you talk like this make sense well well, me self I no even no the reason why we dey always write with English for this our local board no be say we no get language oo we get the one way everybody dey understand well well which is pidgin, so why we go dey write for English everytime, abeg make all of us here agree say na only pidgin we go dey use here if you write for English make moderator delete am.
But Moreno233 I no support make we dey write for Igbo, Yoruba, hausa for here the reason why I talk like that be say if person write for Igbo Yoruba or Hausa person no go understand and e no make sense like that so make we only use pidgin way everybody understand very well.
And again if you no dey understand pidgin that one concern you oo because you no go tell me say your country common language way them dey speak everywhere na something way you no understand, you no fit go other local board con they tell them say you no understand there language but say you from there say make them dey speak English them no born you well to try am so anybody way won bring that kind thing come here no try am, just respect yourself.

#Only pidgin must stand.

Nigerians and their wahala. I see people that want only local languages to be like Boko Haram that dislike Western education. They are not Boko Haram but they are extremists is what I mean. They are self-centered and see things in their own way and want things to be in their own way.

What rubbish is this? Did I post that I am holy? But I am neither a bad poster nor afraid of anyone monitoring my actions on this forum.

You know me, you registered your account since 2021 but you did not know anything about this topic that you brought up. If you know about it, you would not have brought it up at all. It has nothing to do with the progress of our local board. If you do not have skeleton in your cupboard, do not be afraid. We have progress and become the highest poster per local board but you people are still complaining.

You don't need to get overly dramatic about this. He simply shared his opinion and asked you to support your claims with evidence. If you have proof, you should post it in the thread.

Regarding Alt Infiltration You should know that no matter what rules we implement on the local board, we cannot completely solve the problem of alt account infiltration here.I personally haven't seen this happening recently. The last time I saw it, I reported it and the post was deleted and the user haven't tried to post on the lb again.

If you have strong evidence of this happening, please create a thread on the reputation board about non members of the local board. There is a specific forum rule that covers this.The forum is open to everyone. There is no need to worry too much about what oyibo say. Just make sure you do not violate the forum rules.One important thing to remember is that no one is above the law on this forum. No matter how good your reputation is, if you break the rules, you will face the consequences. We all know this and should try our best to follow the rules.
 
Regarding your suggestion for a strict language policy, it might not be possible for local dialects. We don't want threads here that no one can understand and that therefore get no replies. But then I agree with you about Pidgin because everyone in Nigeria can speak and write it.

No doubt say aliens no dey among our midst for this our Naija local board to monitor wetin go fit be the main reason why we dey grow so fast, even though we no get any concrete proof to verify that. But when eh come to this suggestion wey you O.P just give above about we prioritizing the use of pidgin for communication. Eh still no be bad idea on the contrary. Because I personally dey always use both pidgin and the normal English for my communication for here. And as such, for me, I go saw the only way to remain safe for this forum is to treat every user as an alien until you don see the person physically, or had a certain level of business or mutual communication, to avoid stories that touch the heart tomorrow.

I don't know the specific case mentioned by OP , but I should admit that there is a lot to learn from your local board even if I am not from Nigeria.

Free suggestion =
add just a local rule/moderated topic/etc if you make some of these initiative and want restrict participation. thats all.
there is no sense to bans "foreigner aliens" (that sounds really bad ;D ) as a form of principle.

bitcoin is bordeless. bitcoiner should be the same (aka we are all satoshi). personally I have always invited foreigners to join my giveaway topic in Italian local board.

Let me use English again to answer you Mr Charles. You are too negative minded for a decent conversation and this will be my last response to you. My post was all about giving us identity which language is one of them and even the best of them. I gave reasons why we should find an identity else this place will eventually be taken over by foreign aliens. Ops, are you saying that you are a Nigerian but can not read and write in pidgin or there is more you are not telling us? Why are you so bittered about my proposal? Your style of subtly attacking me and accusing me is old-fashion. Let us face the discussion and its benefits, stop acting like mr saint without dead body for him cupboard...person way carry bag wey fish full fit no know say the other person carry bag wey meat full. Face the discussion and stop deviating and if you have nothing to contribute, face front.

Thanks for your contribution and I love the way you put it. If you read my post carefully, you will understand where I said that people from other boards are welcomed but they should come openly and not to come using their alts accounts and pretending to be Nigerians yet go to the general board to speak ill about our progress. The other day someone called us all manner of bad names in the reputation board yet came to the local board to create a thread about interest free loan as a way of helping Nigerians. There was one that could not even hide his racism and if we all communicate in English here, nothing stop such person from creating account and infiltrating this board. We love other races and cultures even in the local board and in our country that is why foreigners are working and living freely in our country with some even inter-marrying.

Constructive posts merged by moderator

Or should we have two separate boards where one boards will be English and the other for English posters? This will only lead to division and that is not good. That is not even going to happen.

Let us assume that you are lying.

You are lying. Proof that you are not lying. You need to mentioned the alts.

Their is no need  for us to start having misunderstandings between our self, as a matter of fact we are all brothers and one Nigerians, is a simple thing that we can resolve between our self without arguments.

Secondly, privacy they say is power, If we all can understand and write pigin language very well then it's fine, however let's try and keep to the rules and regulations that govern the forum so we wouldn't have issues from our end.

@OP
We have seen similar issues in Italian board (people pretending to be italian by completing random translations).
Of course yes this is a problem - it leads to scam - plus all users that want join forum initiatives will find it really hard everything.
About the "reputation issue" that you are mentioning, racism has no sense on the internet... it's sad to read about these issues here on the forum :(

This one no go happen. Nigeria na diverse country way get tribes and dialects, if we bring this tribe leg come here e no go tay before we go start to see another problem. OP I understand why you reason like this, but you go consider many people sabi write for their local dialect? And how many people go understand wetin you write. So if person post for Yoruba, that comment don be for strictly Yoruba speaking persons and that na something way you no want for a growing community.

OP this is the umpteenth time that a proposal for the Naija pidgin English have been made in the local board. However, i learnt that any member of the forum can make posts in any local board of the forum inasmuch as they can speak the language of that particular local board fluently without using translation tools. To be honest with you, we can only encourage members of the local board to use the pidgin English to make post in the local board but proposing for a strict adherence may not be possible in the sense that the pidgin English do not have a unified wording because many people write the pidgin English differently which makes it difficult to understand every pidgin English written in the local board. I have come across many pidgin English in the local board that i find difficult to comprehend what was written. Again, not everyone can write the pidgin English even though they can speak it fluently in reality.

This is a free forum with little to no restrictions to users so if you find any suspicious activity by a user who is trying to spy on the local board, you have the right to raise a thread against such person so that members of the local board can do some investigations to know the true intention of such person and probably tag them.

This can only be possible if sub-boards are created for each of the 3 common languages we have in the country but proposing that it should be used in the main Naija local board doesn't make any sense to me.

It seems there was some drama in reputation that OP is referring to. There’s so much going on these days in reputation board, it’s hard to keep up. I wouldn’t pressure OP to call out the suspected alts since he’s not 100 percent certain that they are. He might also be afraid of the backlash he might get from the main accounts.

OP raise an issue wey dey important. Instead of to begin cause drama and dey attack each other we suppose make contributions. If you dey against the suggestions give us your reason. If you dey support am also tell use why.

This issue of people come dey claim say dem be Nigerian no good. We dey welcome everybody but no claim say you bi Nigerian wey you from another country. So that you no go go shit outside and the thing go come dey smell us. For people wey dey find evidence, check this thread.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5562720.msg65935702#msg65935702

For me I go say make we leave the languages pidgin and English as eh dey because some good foreigners dey also enjoy the good food we dey cook here. Eh no good to restrict the language make dem no follow chop again.

But I go like moderator to add a pinned message to all visitors to tell them say make them to claim say dem from Naija if na lie.

Baba, rest. So nah bad thing to ask for something wey dey necessary for the local board bah? Oya those other boards wey dey speak their languages, why some users wey from their no dey kick against am or see using the dialect as a way of being stunted? The thing wey dey pain me be say you of all people follow dey cap the pidgin and also bin dey champion for the creation of a local board but e don finally come, you come wan "English" am. Nobody hate to speak proper English for here but some of us dey do like say if we speak the pidgin, e go reduce our steeze.

E good as you drop the link so that people go get idea of wetin dey happen for our local board. I been no even know say all this things dey happen. E don clear say these guys won dey take advantage of merit threads for this board na why them dey come here.
No need for that one. Everybody know the forum rules and them know wetin right. Anybody way them catch say dey lie na him own reputation e dey spoil and e go see the result for trust page.

To out rightly stop the usage of normal English on the local board is something i would not buy into even though it is something that if adopted can help create a sense of identity for the local board.

let us not forget that there is nothing different from the local board and the kind of thing we do in our normal life here as Nigerians. the same way it is difficult to tell a typical Nigerian to strict to pidgin or good English is the same way it is hard for an average local board member to stick to just a single language viz aviz. pidgin.

there can be clauses that we can put in place to help dictate external infiltrators for instance, every local board member can be made to introduce himself on the introduction thread using pidgin English to at least show he understands pidgin but even at that we have to be open to accept the fact that not all of us has the ability to efficiently write using pidgin in a manner that the next person can read and understand.

No be today di proposal to de make post in pidgin English inside dis our board don de surface, wen I still de new for dis forum our senior men for dis board don talk, argue about di matter many times. Me sef I don start thread den wey I propose for di use of pidgin English for dis board say di slang na our identify but in di end di consensus be say we fit to use pidgin or English. I prefer to use pidgin English for dis our board because e de give me a feeling of originality wen I de make posts dat na why I still de post for pidgin till date.

For my own humble opinion I for say make we leave am as e be make everybody de at liberty to either use correct English language or pidgin English to make dem post so far dem communication de understandable to di community. Instead of strict adherence to pidgin English make we wey like am continue to de use am, be di change dat you want to see. If more Nigerians de use pidgin to make dem posts e go de better dan making it a strict rule, maybe di sweetness go encourage posters wey de use English to change dem minds.

We no go fit to blame any foreigners wey decide to de make post for our board because na we allow am, if all of us de yan with pidgin dem no go fit in. Imagine make I enter Russian board, wetin I want to post for there because I no understand dem language. We no fit to stop anybody wey no be Nigerian to make meaningful posts for our board, if we no want dem den make all or most of us de freely yan with pidgin. But if we see any poster weda na Nigerian or none Nigerian wey de go against forum rules we suppose to report such accounts.

Moreno233 posted this:


This is still different. I know some people may hide to earn merit from Nigeria board, but we still do not have evidence of what Moreno233 is saying, and he brought no evidence yet.

Or let me ask the question in another way. Which alts did he thinks are the alts of some people on the general board acting like they are our friends on local board with alts but using their main account to badmouth us?

There can no be evidence or he should proof it.

Ọmọ, you can get blood pressure o. No rest but agitate more on what you will not achieve. We can easily know the local board Boko Haram that are terrorizing the local board. Look for more excuses.

Bring evidence is a simple question.

Even with evidence, nothing can be done about it. Just post good and hide no skeletons.

Op dey very correct for this en thread and even though say this Pidgin we dey talk no be everybody go fit speak am or cope with am but I believe and I think say e dey good make we dey use am let's say like 80 or 90 percent go dey okay, I fit no  know the reason why some people no fit speak pidgin but the only reason I fit remember wey go make person no fit speak pidgin na because of environment wey the person grow and also sometimes the school dey go to but regardless e good make we use pidgin as a general language since Nigeria no get general language, some people say our general language na English that is so funny because it's not even though we do consider it and if we check other LBs I no sure if any of those LB dey use any other Language apart from their language. So I concur with you @Op.

This talk about we to they use only our pidgin English carry talk for here, sometime like this been don come up before but eh no really hold water with plenty people way no support am and dem give their reason, me if eh possible for us to keep this local board for level way be say at least eh get some thread way as eh start up nah only pidgin we suppose carry community for their till eh finish, if who no fit keep up with pidgin make eh just avoid the thread too nah just my opinion.

As for other local language me no support that one unless say you want make this our board make some thread full here way to reply am self no go hungry even who they hear the language, some they hear their language but dem no go fit read am finish if u carry am make sentence, no be all too fit write with their local language, language too many for this our countri.

You just rush to answer question wey no tally. My dear, I no give two cents on how you view me or think say I just dey waste my time dey agitate. Nah una type go rush conform to the rules wey the other people go bring but go come get strength for where una brothers dey. Wetin concern me with wetin Op talk in terms of alts and the rest. I answer you based on the aspect of promoting pidgin for the LB and not because person wan cover him tracks. Try dey assimilate the thing person dey try pass across first before you rush guns blazing to counter. Bro, your beef nah with op because him never bring proof to back him claims, no come dey blindsided by your desire to rid this place of alts to come dey use am misread wetin others dey try yarn.

I read all what you posted and I noticed that your post was completely baseless.

Why be say Nigeria things dey always dey different I fear oo, I just go other local board for this forum guess what na only Nigeria way no dey use there local language others they use there own language, yes we get different languages for Nigeria but God come help us we con get one language way be pidgin way everybody for the country dey understand very well and we no dey use am, watin dey difficult if we decide to use pidgin for this our local board.
Make we get identity, I just no like the way other people dey enter our local board anyhow and we no fit enter there own e no make sense at all, if una way be senior men say e dey okay for una e concern una one day una go see the reason for this but by then them go done see us finish.

For me I no too sabi write for pidgin and I Dey sabi confuse myself when I Dey write do pidgin but I go try Dey reduce the way I Dey use pure English Dey write for we local board. D Matta Dey important as you Dey talk am but some people go like argue you becuz dem for maybe get one or two things we them know them for but we no get am need to Dey somehow away from some kind tinz like when some people do something for outside this board dem go conclude say na so Nigerians Dey do and e get sentiment we already Dey ground but people go deny am, do make aliens no too sabi weytin Dey happen inside house……

My people say na inside rat Dey go bring outside rat make e see person house finish….. just understand weytin I Dey talk for the proverb….

We adopted pigin and English for the Nigeria local board because of our diversity as a nation, since majority of us don't speak the same language, and Nigeria is not like other local board that have a uniform language as a people, so for that reason English and pigin becomes very paramount to us, we can't force any of the two on anyone and beside we can easily clear out foreigner who pauses as a threat to the community.

This thing way you talk nah very nice thing, e go good make we start to dey write in pidgin language for our own privacy. E get why them call am local board, if pidgin language no dey recognize for here e show say we dey try make am turn part of general boards.
From the way I see this things, e dey easy to know account way be Nigerian and account way no be Nigerian. First, if the account never write in pidgin language before and if the account never send merit to none Nigerian except meri source or moderator, that means the person no be Nigerian. I done see person like that before for here and the person nah one of the people way dey give out loan in USDT instead of Naira. Anybody dey free to disagrees with me.

I still be new person here as most of una done dey here before me, I think the way to resolve this issue of the local board nah to create sub board for pidgin language. Because if e do happen like that, this matter of English and pidgin language matter go still come up.

Well, @OP, I understand your point of concern here, being that our local board is mixed of English speaking members and pidgin speaker too, it can be very possible for a non Nigerian to blend into the board without being noticed, but honestly speaking it's not also easy to write pidgin properly because you won't be able to read what the person has written.

So, I don't agree to the idea of forcing everyone to speak pidgin when it's not everyone that can easily read and write the pidgin or are you suggesting that any Nigerian members here that can not write in pidgin should not contribute on the local board again?

If there's anything to be scared of in the case of suspecting that someone could be infiltrating, my advice is that you or anyone should not attend to unsolicited DMs, you or any of the LB members should not break any of the forum rules. Since I came to the forum, got familiar with the forum, I have never broken any forum rules apart from the mistake I made months ago which lead to my account being banned but the admin heard my appeal after some good members too supported me, being that I didn't brake any forum rules intentionally, I received a second chance. So, if you don't brake the forum rules, you should not fear who so ever you think it's infiltrating. That's my opinion on this matter.

Oga Charles-Tim this your analogy no enter rationally with this matter on ground. Asking make we predominantly the write in pidgin for the local board no be dislike for any western language, na just to make the local board get that local outlook because normally this Naija board done too full with simple English languages than pidgin way better a reference point of identity for us. Reason am nah, sake of say the simple English come cover the entire local board, one day a visitor to the local board fit dey moved to question whether this board na another form of English board abi what.

To just balance things is by one choice , I think something like this has occurred before about us using only our local language (pidgin ) if I can find the link of the post I will edit it to mine . After the sharing of opinions we later agree to be using both pidgin and English languages. The truth is that is base on ones choice , you can choose to use English or pidgin , is just boils down to the poster like me I don’t have what am hiding , like that other day I made some post and I got corrected by a user from another local board and a learnt from it .

And the idea of using another dialect won’t be encouraging at all cause you are only directing your post to a certain fixed audience because is not everyone that can hear others dialect and stuff , and beside we all here to impact on eachother so how can we do that when we can’t even understand each other due to using different dialect.

Pidgin English is easy to speak but hard to write - what most of us wrote here are not Pidgin English but local slangs which is hard to read and understand. If someone from Port Harcourt writes in pidgin, other individuals who are not from Port Harcourt may struggle to read and comprehend it. Likewise for Benin and Warri pidgin. I can speak pidgin fluently, but I can't write it as well.


This will cause segregation - more than 70% of the members here are from the Niger Delta region. This will eventually lead to tribalism and all that. We don't want that.

It is only highly self-centered people that will think like that. There are many people among us that only post on local board in English, you people supposed to also respect that. The problem is not English.

I find it hard to read Pidgin, unlike English. It is easy for me while speaking it or chatting with someone, but in long readings like on this forum, it is hard for me.

 


Say we dey respect ona no mean say ona go come dey fall our hands dey pretend say ona no sabi pidgin today, when ona been dey write for pidgin that year, ona forget say everyt info wen u post here dey save. All this one wey I quote you na me write am? Abi na when ona dey build account wey ona Sabi pidgin as ona don be legendary and merit source ona forget where ona come from?

Nothing go cause any segregation, check this thread wey I get this info when all of uma dey nak broken, an na even almost everybody so make we no come dey fool ourselves now.






All this one no be pidgin? If you no understand pidgin how you carry write all this one abi na another person write am for you?
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You obviously didn't read my post very well - I never said I've not written in Pidgin at all ( even this year I've written so many short ones mixed with English). How many topics have you seen me write in full Pidgin English? Like I've said before, most of you don't know how to write good pidgin and it difficult to read and understand most of it.


Non-Nigerians are always welcome here. Always.


This is our local rule no.2 ( keep this in mind before you write)

He probably has his reasons for making his suggestions but trying to completely restrict the board to just pidgin won't be as productive as it seems even worse to push individual language, I don't speak Hausa I don't speak Yoruba so if a person starts a thread in these languages I won't be able to participate in that thread because I wouldn't understand what they are talking about, to me it won't be any different from me trying to read a thread in a different country's local board which language I don't understand..make we sha try dey cooperate with each other for here, I no really see the need to come turn this small matter into big argument, check am out na, e no make sense at all.

This is what I also think, we will get more recognition if we use both languages as many other people that are not Nigerians are learning from what we are posting on local board.

Moreno233 you are an alien for saying this


If you see very good members Charles-Tim, igebotz, Mia Chole, other good members using English to post and you post this, it shows that you are an alien and that you disrespected them and you disrespected one of the local board rules.

Make Nigeria proud and make Nigeria great again than to think like you have nothing in your brain. Many of you are thinking like babies or like a primary school student, Moreno233 you are one of them.

Na you get the talk, na u don first open ya yash waa make people see. No be to yan okpata, if you say you be omo Naija follow me for the yanis make ora nile see. Na you dey cast us for public yet dey form brother, na where elders gather arrange, abi na your paleh tel you say me with you join? I dey see your kuru kele clear and when breez blow fowl opueh go open. I sidon kamkpe dey wait make you sama me your reply.

Why are people like doing like illiterates on this board? You can easily know people that are Nigerians easily if you check their posts on this local board. From what I have posted before on the about p2p, you should easily know that I am a Nigerian.

That manchi no fit samba you back watin you samba give am maka say e no go understand watin you dey yanam and that manchi no from this obodo 9ja, if that manchi from obodo 9ja e suppose know say no place be like home if you cast your home were you wan japa go, bro you no need babalowo to cap you say manchi no be 9ja.

Who is casting his home? You want to make local board a place you can do your account farming or posting spam? Your post is full of rubbish. I totally understand what all of you are posting and it has no sense.

Lolz 😂😂😂😂😂... Abeg make una two no make me laugh oh😂😂😂... Abeg.. I come in peace jare..

I understand the need for us as Nigerians to projects ourselves and what defines us as Nigerians on the forum, which is our special pidgin English. But I don't think that it's necessary because what is important when it comes to language is the message that is been passed. Whether we use strict pidgin English or we use our normal English what is important is that we all are understanding ourselves us this Nigerian board is one of the most active boards on the forum. So this call is not necessary for the success of our local board

You see ya life? shebi u say me with you join but small yanis I throw come ya corner you kpoof. Wetin concern this ya draw draw yakee with wetin me tok. Na ya hand you dey fall and as e be so, everi oma don see say you self no follow. We kpom kpi dey see as u go denge with this ya agama lizard. As I been yan before, na when breez blow fowl yash dey open. you shit for church wella and I wan cap you say you you leave Abuja enter sambissa untop this ya mission.

I can not say more than you will not be able to turn this board to this kind of spam post that you make just now. It is better you contribute something that we can gain from than to be posting like this. I am ashamed we have people like you on this board and forum.

I have also thought about using our local dialect to communicate here from the time I joined, I even started my first thread asking if it was allowed in any way
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5563858.msg65983012#msg65983012
But I didn't get any response for it, from that day till date I haven't seen any post here in any language outside from English and pidgin and I've actually come to understand the reason behind it, it will be hard for everyone here to participate if a thread was started in a local language so it's best if we just stick to the ones that everyone can speak and write.

Omo I have read through the thread and I must say I see no reason for the fight
When we supposed to be one.
Sorry e nor really dey easy for me to write in pidgin. So such rule go affect me.

I think some people don't really understand the essence of a local board.
Majorly is to discuss using languages your country can understand
And Nigeria being diversed in languages doesn't help unlike Spanish and French
But we have two languages that majority understands English and pidgin.
And I believe it's easier to read in English than pidgin. Sometimes the pidgin feels overdone.


I told myself pidgin would be more in this post but English Don full everywhere. Omo.

In summary according to the rule, Pidgin and English is the main language here
And local board isn't to prevent other people from eavesdropping or something
But to allow easier communication to those in our country that don't understand the language in main board which is English.


But plot twist, majority here understands English and there's nothing stopping anybody from using pidgin
It's just preference.

Omo make we no lie, no Nigerian pidgin wey be say dey hard to read and understand, the kind overdone na wen be say some kind street slangs com follow for the post, for how many years wey be say we don leave for the country, no pidgin go hard to dissolve.

I don read the content of dis thread finish and i laff to see wetin some people dey yarn concerning dis matter, wen i join the forum, na pidgin we take dey relate pass and na wetin mk here be local forum, i no go deny say me now don dey post mostly english for the LB but frm one view point, e no make sense.

Nobody go force or pressure anoder person to use only english but e fit becum wetin to agree on as Nigerians to work on promoting pidgin.

Despite the issues you have raised, we have to stick to both English and Pidgin. I fit write for the two of them and i do it so well. E get wetin i dey do quite often, and that is mix them both in one post. Just as i dey do now. That said, no be everybody fit do am, or do it as good as i can do it. So for them they either communicate in English or in Pidgin.

No be only for for our local board wey this thing dey happen, e dey also happen for other local boards. People go create new accounts and then use translators to post in certain local boards. It is an uphill task to stop that, and TBH, i would not bother too much about such actions. Neither do i think say we need a new rule to stop them.

This guy just dey yan  upata for here, I don dey reason your matter since say you be oyokometer CCTV, if na lie I dey lie make you follow me Yan for we tipical Naija. If Dem carry you come cast this we board, tell Dem say you no see us.  
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Why am even wasting my time on you when you can't even understand what I am saying why do I have that feeling that you are an imposter in this local board because I haven't seen you speak pidgin here  before. Maybe you can prove to me that you are a Nigeria by speaking pidgin only will I even see you as a Nigerian.

What is the benefit of posting in Pidgin with you?

Just plagiarize or use AI, I will tell them that you did nothing wrong.

Since e be say the forum no set any embargo for people wey no be member of any local board, e mean say everybody fit make post for anywhere for the forum but e go become problem if person from another country go come dey intrude for our local board here to cause problem or dey carry small issues wey we go fit sort out for our local board here dey carry am go general board, e no make sense like dat because anybody wey get the interest of the local board for mind go make sure say e protect am instead of to become an informer or a rebel against the local board. For the fact say the forum no restrict anybody from making posts in any local board no come mean say we go dey watch outsider dey come our local board come dey scatter and cause confusion for here.

From waytin OP de talk, I feel say plenty sense de inside oh. Because, other local boards way no de speak English as their main form of communication go de use their own local language and that language Na something way only them go fit understand and speak. For we way get plenty language, Na our own pidgin be the language way everybody go fit easily understand, and e no de wrong if we implement am, as our form of communication for here.

The matter Na serious one sha, make moderator try get waytin OP really mean.

If you be Nigerian just write in pidgin to clarify say you nah Nigerian.
But if you no do am I go know say you nai be the alien for the Nigerian board.
Well, I no go dey surprise to see say you yarn say you no sabi write in pidgin language.


E no dey hard oyibo to insult person and this your comment just show say you nah one of them..

By the way make I just go plain with you, I been dey wait for your comment since so as I see am I just smile..

How you way just join the forum go know all about the Nigerian board to know who be good poster and who no be good poster?
E get plenty things way you need to talk.
And again make you go also tell the other of your crew say make them too start to dey write in pidgin so that we go think say them too nah Nigerian.

Before you do these things I talk, just try proof me wrong say you be Nigerian by writing with pidgin.

My pipo una don see say dis otondo nono wetting I dey Yan, this manchi no from dis we Kabal, if ona drag him leg ona go see say him no fit talk better thing apart from English. how peson go dey tok 1 tin him dey tok or Yan another. Make e no be say we dey Yan too much but 4 dis pidgin Matter we go cari qa posu dis winchy men Dem 4 here make wettin Dem kary 4 mind die. No be say na every matter we go Yan pidgin sha but the 1 wey go dey we important naim we go Yan 4 pidgin. Make we just try make e no be say we we no get wettin we go Yan wey oda Pepo no Sabi.

The brain you used to know that White people can easily abuse people, use the brain to know that I am a Nigerian.

You are wasting my time if you said I do not know what you are posting because you are lying.

If you want to post in Pidgin, it is better you post only in Pidgin while other people can post in English if they like to post in English.

Dis nah my last comment for this thread, but no reason am, you dey free to talk anything you won talk after this comment.but make you know say you never still proof me wrong.

You neither proved me wrong that I am a Nigerian. I will be glad if you will be able to prove me wrong that I am a not a Nigerian next time you post on related thread or on this thread.

Should we bet $200 😅

If I post in Pidgin, I will chop your 🤑💰 but if I do not post in Pidgin, you will chop my money 🤑💰

You may still be blind after a simple hidden proof.

If you do not get it, forget about it.

English is our official language as Nigerian. For office the official communication na English, for school na English, our news are broadcasted in English. English na our official language. Pidgin is our unofficial language but many the understand and speak am.
English and pidgin na language we use for Nigeria so e no bad if na wetin we use for this our local board because everybody understand am. Using our dialect go one put sand for our togetherness.

I apologize if I'm violating any rules by replying here, I just came here from most recent posts. By reading the most lf peoples replies and ops post's, I think you guys should able to expose the imposter. Cause most of the replies which were English but pidgin English I don't get 40/50% the context. So it's similar to English but not identical. Even broken english can be traceable, so I hope it won't be hard to discover the fake/translated pidgin language.

I'm adding this also, what is the statistics view from ops point of view. Cause you're implying that imposters are much more than the real Nigerians. What I'm seeing is that Nigerians are adopting the Crypto in very fast pace. Specially in web3 sector. In my social media platform X besides my local people there's 20-30% people's are reaching from Nigeria it's proof that how much the community is spreading.

Not denying there ain't any imposter, there might be some. So just cause of them don't enforce it to majority. Ig you giys could create an open criticism topic, where only suspiscion and the proof of most likely imposter will be posted, this way you guys can defenetly track which imposter came to farm merits and exploiting the forum.

And there is no restrictions that said no one can post in any local board, just it's about avoiding the translation. My English is poor, Only replied to this topic cause I found it interesting. But if you guys still think it's inappropriate to me comment here let me know I will gladly delete my replies from here.

You are not violating any rules at all, if you see a post that you can engage in our local board, we welcome you with full arm because it's all for the good of the local board. At least your post will be added to our monthly post statistics ;D

100%, Even with the use of some AI translator tools it is possible to translate and write in pidgin language.

I don't think that the OP has a statistics and besides, even if there are impostors they won't be higher than the number of genuine Nigerians who make posts in the local board.

Yeah, a good number of Nigerians on the internet are also into cryptocurrency so you don't need be surprised when you see a lot of them on X. The adoption rate here is really increasing and we are growing very fast in the crypto space.

This thread don dey turn to comedy. The kind of slangs I dey see here na only people from your area go fit really understand am. E just dey funny to me, e belike say na Odumodu dey write here or ph people.

I no know why una dey stress una self for this matter. If you feel like say this person na “illegal alien”, I no even know say people fit be alien for this forum. But if e matter to you well well you fit use the ignore button.

There's no restrictions - our local board is Open to the international communities -

Op, this thing na better movement for me and you in this our Naija Board, e good make we they use the language wey be say any other person no fit grab am if no be only us "gungu" wey dey here,why be say, e come be as if people wey dey other Boards just dey enter our Board anyhow and them they do weytin them like,and  when we Naija boys no fit go thier own Board they begin talk anyhow because say we no they understand thier language, so na very nice ideas you carry come, but when you think obout am the other way, E fit bring fight among us,because tribes plenty for our Naija, if not people from another board wey they talk bad about our Naija Board no go fit get chance talk.
The one wey they pain me pass na hem be say,anything wey happens bad na our Naija people them go they talk say do am, some other people wey they other Board no just like our Board sha, but we go still they grind am they go like that.

I like the idea of maintaining unique way of interacting in our indigenous language. I don't see the reason why we can't use our local languages to communicate here. I strongly support this motion. Let us begin to use our indigious languages and communicate, it will be beautiful. Topics should be written in one's native language, and those who understand that particular language should interact there, since we have various languages in our country. This It will also be a motivation for us to learn other languages in the board.

Omo no be small tin oo, walahi 9ja na cruise and here don turn one and e dey sweet my belle, dis we pidgin get vibe Sha as pipo don dey nak de ogbonge odumodu pH slang, e come even make the lb kpogide. If to sey we dey nak this kind slang tey tey, this men Dem no go dey onyoko dis we Kabal, e just dey vex me say we no get languaja wey pas dis one wey this pipo no g fit read am. E get one mumu manchi wey dey go for oyibo board dey go Yan upata say we dey run water deal, dat one no too pain me self I come dey wonda sai how home rat wey dey home go carry home mata go dey talk for oyibo board. Na dat tin make this topic come out. Dis manchi Dem just dey waka here like sai na DEA papa Kabal. Make we use we number 6 because dis men Dem no get joy o as Dem mission na to kum find who Dem go scaka him destiny. U no se wetin Dem do that guy wey get plenty dum? Dem tear am kpatakpata com dey find hu Dem go kpai 4 we board. Make we every oma no as e go tey nak him drum, make Dem no go tear am. Omo pidgin no be person mate sha because I no how much e take me to mix dis cement.

The cement way you mix fit still cast for AI. If person copy this your post put for AI make e translate you go shock you say the result go dey very close to wetin you Dey talk. I just try am na why I dey tell you. Anything way una dey do make una know say this na public forum, you no go fit stop other forum members from visiting your board. E no dey against the forum rules. Wetin dey bad na to dey use translators to dey post for another person board.

As e be say the post don raise plenty dust, my own be say make people dey use wetin them dey alright with. I know say e go better make we promote our 9ja pidgin small but e be like plenty people no dey see am for that angle na why them dey kick against am. The post don also show say true true people from other local boards dey come our board which is good, some of them don even comment and na people wey we know very well for the forum. The one wey dey bad na if person come here for another mission and not to enjoy hot topic like this one. My own be say make we dey try promote that pidgin small before the thing go die.

Whether dem don discuss am before or not no b the issue, the things wey don Dey sup now n before no b the same if u say u nodey see am then u blind or u Dey lie to ur sef.
If you check well no other local board Dey use English the way we dey use, we no suppose b local board if na still d same English we Dey use: most of the people wey dem catch wey infiltrate other local boards na cause say dem use translators to write their and AI nogo fit spik pidgin the way me n you go speak am, so we go know who b who.
The way things be for here our local board Dey open to everybody and e no nice so.

You did not even do simple less than a minute or some minutes investigation before posting what you did not know.

Is this local board not in English? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=89.0

But if there is no local board in English and Nigeria local board is in English, why complaining unnecessarily?

I will prefer not to post anything again about this matter but just know that this is a lost agitation.

This thin we you talk make sense wellah, but the thin wey dey día be sey, no be all of us de fluent to dey communicate with this our pigin , and we go speak the language we every body for this naija forum go understand. If we begin speak Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, and other local languages here, this our forum go de like people wey de build tower of Babel. When we no dey here ourselves again, confusion don come here so.

Wetin me i go suggest be sey, if any body identify any alien here or intruder wey won come know wetin de happen for this our local board, make dem identify that person and I think our senior people dem go take action.

Another thin wey I go suggest be sey, those people wey no too de fluent for our local language wey be pigin, when you dey speak your grammer, just do this local board favour make you add small pigin, at least dat small pigin go make us identify sey you belong here.

I been know say one day this matter go Pop up again. The matter be say even if say everybody wey dey here na Naija members, e for still make sense make we dey use more of pigin because e go help us to dey closer. E get some people for this Naija Local board wey never try use pigin for this board. Even our international based talents like Plumptre still dey try blow pigin to the entire world. For me I no know why people no go wan use pigin for this board and if you want make some people attack you, just try support make we dey use pigin for this board. For me, I no go look say anybody no dey support pigin and come dey fear to use pigin.

NEED FOR THE USE OF PIGIN IN NAIJA LOCAL BOARD  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5557694.msg65758694#msg65758694)  was created and criticised as if say no be our identity again. I go only encourage some of our big men here make they no dey quick shut off points like this when we dey try encourage our own traditions.

I got suggest say, even if we no go dey use continuous pigin, make we modify the introduction" for newbies wey go make everybody wey just join to introduce himself with pigin first.

Make our oga them look into this matter well instead of to shut am like that.

For this talk wey you just yan ba!! I Dey your back like dele. I don reason this thing say why we go Dey do post with English and na pigin be our local dialect the matter really sweet me cus you talk my mind.

Makes more sense, this way everyone will have posted something in pidgin here at least once, it's not a perfect Solution but for a start it's a welcome development instead of arguing amongst ourselves here.
My own option be sat if any OP start thread with pidgin then make people way wan participate follow am up with pidgin to, if we do am like this then issue no go too dey, the same way way enough make sense to use English follow your papa talk when him use una local dialect e no go also make sense make person dey quote pidgin with another language and even though they dey very similar England and pidgin na different language for here so make we treat them like that

No be better thing say people fit just enter this place and get every information wey them need and I agree with you because the general language we Nigerians Dey accept na the Nigerian Pidgin language and e go better make we Dey try use this pidgin Dey write and communicate especially for this our board to increase privacy and the rest and this one no be matter of weda person get wetin to hide or not but for the sake of say make we Dey filter out Omo nija from people wey just Dey claim am.

I understand wetin you dey try talk here, we surpose get privacy small but the major problem why we no go fit use only pigin for here is that most of us here no sabi write in pigin, and if we manage write in pigin, no be everyone go fit read wetin the person go write because e go be cut an nail write up.
Then as for the oyibo people wey dy come disguise as naija people, I no really dy bothered if them no dy do bad and e go come be like say na Nigerian person, but if them dey genuine without causing us troubles, no be bad thing if them come around come put mouth for our discussion.

We should not impose for strick commitment of naija pidgin to the naija local board because you feel or notice that foreign aliens are entering the naija local board with their alts to get what they can use to tarnish the image of the naija local board but we should impose for strick commitment of naija pidgin to the naija local board because of all the local boards in this forum, it is only the naija local board that uses English language to communicate, and it makes it easier for foreign aliens to understand what is being discussed in naija local board. I concur with your proposal, but our local dialects should be removed out of the picture since we have few people that can understand Igbo, Yoruba, Ogba and many other languages. If people use those local dialects in naija local, they will bring confusion and make the naija local board not to move as it ought to move.

After going through various comments and suggestions of others, I realized it was my choice of the caption that trigged the misunderstanding. I should have made it as a suggestion to encourage more communication in pidgin and not strict adherence because some people find it difficult to communicate in pidgin. This does not invalidate my observation that there are  imposters in the local board. I had to make this explanation so that some people do not see it as rebellion because it wasn't but a suggestion that will help the LB and not cause confusion. 

With how the discussion of this matter is going considering what you said would have been the best idea so that nobody is going to feel they are forcing them into what they cannot do, this thread is a proof that this local board cannot be an entire pidgin speaking board because there has already been a division of mind and acceptance on this because a lot of people do not want the idea even with any stated reason, however let's all sticked to the normal way of our discussion were as anybody that loves writing in pidgin will also write while those with one they are good at should also do the same.

I for like add my one piece or two pence to the matter at hand. The idea of using one language wey be pigin for go well as per say na our local board and for we country to identify the local man na pidgin u go speak, that on em own na identity, as we get diverse tribes and languages na pidgin and English all man Dey speak.
For this thing to work out moderator and other old guys for the forum gats support am and I Dey see am say their mind no Dey there, make we no b like IPOB and Nigeria.

Some people don confirm say e get some good foreigners wey Dey visit the board so  for the sake of all the good Oyibo wey Dey come here make we keep am still open for everyone (English and pigin) but make we make am rule or mandatory say in every 5 posts you make for local board make 2 or 3 Dey for pigin, in every 10 make atleast 5 Dey for pigin, especially for newbies to full members.

Well, thank you for your ending note cus I was already going to say ask you why making a proposal to impose a strict pigin language in the local board in English, a proposal like this should come in pigin or any other Nigerian language we all can understand to show full support, using English to create a post that we all should be forced to start using pigin is like telling us to do something you yourself can not do and it's not right, but this by the way..

Your proposal na very good one to be honest, I fully support but the issue now go be those wey no Sabi write for pigin, and also can neither write in their local language as well, how those ones go con dey do am? Na where they issue dey be this one and na why some people fit no gree push this proposal even though say na good one.

No doubt this is a general forum, and people will always have opinion regarding every issue been raised. So on that note you actually don't need to feel bad for not using the right phrase in regards to this context. Because to be frankly speaking, me I no lie say we no get kurukere people for this we local board wey just dey monitor and observe wetin dey sub. But on that note, I guess this thread is enough to open people eyes say bcos you see a member wey dey follow you yan for we local board say na fellow country man eh be. But normally, me I have always been a fan of using both a mixture of the pidgin and normal better English for we local board. So I go encourage everyone to use both, rather than sticking to concentrate on just pidgin..

Please note, Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba language is not welcome here.. if not your post will be deleted immediately as off-topic.