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Title: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: UmerIdrees on December 30, 2022, 04:15:25 PM 2023 will start in about a day or so. There are many suggestions thrown every now and then to improve the forum.
What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023? Let's be precise in this discussion and list only a single change that you would like forum admins to make which can make the forum more productive yet it should not lose its traffic. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Welsh on December 30, 2022, 04:17:58 PM Reporter badges ;).
Self explanatory, but I think it would help with encouraging reporters. theymos knows this, but obviously has talked about how he wants to implement it correctly, and mitigate abuse of the system. I'd just like to see it implemented even if it's a very basic version. We'd likely have to have some very large tier systems though, as this forum is several years old, and some users have over 100k reports. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: tranthidung on December 30, 2022, 04:22:22 PM My only wish is to have an update for Epochtalk - a new forum software. As far as I know, since the last update, the new software was mostly done. Just need
Epochtalk.org (http://epochtalk.org/)
Last update The software is substantially complete. The main period of development was a while ago; the current work is mainly just maintenance & relatively minor improvements. Try running it yourself and you'll find that it's working, fast, and nearly feature-complete. The things blocking a transition from the current software to the new software are: - There hasn't been enough testing. I think that immediately after transition, a variety of small missed features, bugs, and performance issues would crop up. As a result, if the transition happened now (which is technically possible!), I'd expect the post-transition user experience to be poor for months while these things are fixed, which I don't want. - I am the only bitcointalk.org sysadmin and on-demand programmer, and I'm used to the current software. Furthermore, I need to frequently make changes to the current software, but each change I make might require alterations to Epochtalk, which is problematic. - The current PHP software, while ugly and sub-optimal in many ways, performs well, especially since I have extensively modified the backend to add features and improve performance. So I don't feel much urgency. - The data-transition procedure still has a few known minor bugs. We continue to work on these issues. I think that ultimately I may need to hire one or more full-time people, since a big problem is that the full transition is likely to create a ton of work which I won't be able to effectively handle alone. The software is not vaporware (it's long existed in a runnable state, and is currently basically feature-complete), and is not abandoned (look at the git commit log). If anyone is unhappy with the progress, I invite them to take the Epochtalk code and create a competing forum with it; since they won't have to worry about the transition issues, they'd have a much easier time, and their testing will also end up helping us. In short: If you want the software quicker, go run your own forum with it, and work to get any problems or missing features you find resolved via bug reports, etc. This would increase public interest, provide much-needed testing, and I might even hire you to work on bitcointalk.org when we're ready to do the final transition here. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Wapfika on December 30, 2022, 04:24:45 PM Forum bitcoin wallet and extra security such as sms & 2FA verification. I really like the idea of giving a tip to other user or pay services here without the need to access our main wallet and copy paste the address manually from here just to send someone Bitcoin in the forum.
And also a cool forum marketplace that user can purchase extra feature here in the forum such as custom title, avatar extra modification feature and other things that related on forum profile account decorations. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: shahzadafzal on December 30, 2022, 04:38:13 PM Mobile App please
Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: mk4 on December 30, 2022, 04:41:03 PM Mobile App please Doesn't even necessarily need to be an app. I just want better UI/UX for mobile. Heck, I'd be very happy even with just having a responsive UI alone. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: tranthidung on December 30, 2022, 04:42:31 PM Forum bitcoin wallet and extra security such as sms & 2FA verification. It was asked many times and theymos said it will be available on Epochtalk, not SMF forum software.Reporter badges ;). I revive those topics about reporting
Doesn't even necessarily need to be an app. I just want better UI/UX for mobile. Heck, I'd be very happy even with just having a responsive UI alone. Not what you ask but you can add either ;wap; wap2 ;imode at the end of URL link. It does not work for table but fine for texts.
Additionally, let's check this
None of these ideas are new to me. Even if I don't respond to suggestions, I do read them, and they float around in my mind going forward. If it's not already done, then there's some reason why. A big possible reason is that I'm the only person who does development on the current code, and my time is limited. Another big reason is that this is a huge forum with complex dynamics, and even small policy changes can have big effects which need to be thought through very carefully. An example: a bump button sounds good as a fix for certain very visible problems, but it also codifies a broken system. People would use bots to bump all of their threads constantly, giving "industrial" posters a huge advantage over casual posters. A captcha could maybe help a little, but there are services where you can pay a tiny fee to have captchas solved for you. (Which opens another question: maybe a comparatively tiny fee should be allowed as an alternative to having you solve a captcha.) A better solution would be to replace the concept of traditional bumping with something quite different, with different bumping models for different types of sections. But that requires further thought. If implementing a bump button was free, perhaps it'd be worthwhile to at least do it for now and fix a few minor problems with bumping today. But since it's a clearly-imperfect solution, this isn't even on my miles-long to-do list. I'm not going to respond here in detail to all of these ideas. It'd be extremely long. I will classify them as OK/maybe/no: Quote • A newbie welcome message or link to a welcome thread upon sign-up explaining the basic rules and links to everything they need to know including the full forum rules, helpful guides and FAQs etc. No excuses for not knowing the rules then. • Dedicated sub board mods for most boards that don't have any mods or non-global mods already assigned (Bitcoin Discussion, Beginners & Help, Off Topic etc). • More patrollers/mods who just handle sig spam or farmers. • Restoring the memberlist search and stats (very useful for finding huge farming abuses). • Enforce the sig campaign guidelines. If a campaign is spotted that is doing little to nothing and is abused en mass by spammers, farmers, bots and copy and pasters they are warned. If nothing changes then they are punished with such things as bans, threads trashed, signatures blacklisted site-wide etc. • A 'bump button' for the marketplace that only allows you to bump your thread once every 24 hours. Manually bumping by posting will then be disallowed. As mentioned above, posts by lower ranked accounts could not be able to bump threads thus curbing potential abuse. • A report queue for reported messages. Currently every global and admin are spammed by any reported message and half of the time when you go to handle it it has already been handled, thus wasting everybody's time. • More admins or demi-admins added to help with account recoveries and other admin duties. • A captcha added to a user's first post or two/three etc to curb bot usage (purchasing a Copper Membership could remove these). • Require email verification for new accounts. • Require email verification first before passwords/emails are changed. • A Beginners and Help board for the Alt Coin section (the bitcoin one is mostly swamped with alt coin and bounty-related issues). • Add badges as a reward for high reporters and/or merited users (some perks would also be nice). Maybe we could have a 'most merited' user of the month badge. Prizes or awards could be given at the end of the month/year for the biggest rats/grasses/ass-kissers merited users or reporters. • More options for self-moderated threads (being able to limit participation to certain ranks ie no Newbies or Juniors etc or banning certain users from being able to post in your thread at all to stop trolls and personal attacks etc). • Signature bans. Bans that remove the signature for x amount of time or even permanently (actually proposed by theymos but never followed up on). Being able to blacklist an entire campaign's signature would also be helpful for those campaigns that refuse to do anything about spam. • Certain sub boards shouldn't count to post count or activity (Bounties, Games & Rounds and possibly Off Topic). • Awarding merit doesn't take you to a new page. Clicking the merit button multiple times could pump up the merit one by one. This would make awarding merit much swifter and less annoying. OK in principle, would require thought/adjustment/implementation. Many of these things are more complex than they look at first glance. Quote • Charging ICOs a fee to make their ANN here. You could even get rid of the ANN board completely and give them their own sub once they've paid the fee. If there's no Ann board then there will probably be no paid bumping because it will be useless, but let them spam away in their own slum and squalor. • A dedicated Marketplace for the Alt Coin board that would be used for currency sales/exchanges and advertising/requesting services etc (the current one has no description and is being used as catch all for anything and everyting and not what it was intended for). • Requiring manually whitelisting of all new accounts before they can post. All new users will essentially be shadowbanned until they've been verified by a mod. This will eliminate 99% of bots and spammers before they even start. Spam threads can be trashed on sight before they even become spam megathreads. • Press board locked/archived as it's served its purpose • Some local boards have Press and Off topic subs. They should be removed as they're hotbeds for account farmers/spammers and are not necessary here. • Warnings in red displayed to lower ranked users when they go to post alerting them to the most commonly ignored/broken rules. • A sub board for highly merited users to encourage constructive topics only by users who have proven their worth here over time (or make the Ivory Tower merit requirement much higher [OMG ITS LIKE SOVIET RUSSIA GULAG]). Maybe. Quote • A publicly displayed 'banned' rank under a person's username for permabanned accounts (people are wasting both theirs and staffs time reporting already banned users and bots). • Implementing a redirect notice/landing page for when users click an external link urging them to double check the url for phishing and possibly warning them of the dangers of buying things from autobuy links and that they should likely use a trusted escrow etc). • Require at least one merit to become a Junior Member (bots will never rise past Newbie status then and can be nuked once spotted). • More donator ranks such as Silver and Gold Member that come with additional perks such as avatars and Full/Hero member-sized signatures etc (which will severely curb account farming and sales). You could also even have an expensive premium 'Platinum' rank (bling bling) that comes with further benefits (for example: image banner in signature, animated gif avatar, custom title, ability to change username etc). • Remove signatures completely from everyone (or everyone only has a basic signature) and to get one you either need a very high amount of activity & merit or: B) Buy them via new donator ranks (theymos did initially comment: "This may be a good idea. Though I do think that people who don't pay should be able to get a small signature." [though Newbie signatures have been removed completely since this comment was made]). • Posts from lower ranked accounts don't bump ICO threads to the top (which would then render paid bump spam useless). • Two report buttons/queues: one for sig spam and low quality posts and one everything else that is more urgent (hundreds of reports on spam posts are currently burying more important reports). • A new member rank after Legendary as it is becoming far too common now and will only become more so as time passes. I would suggest fixing Legendary at 960 activity and the new rank is double that at 1920. You could also make the merit requirement very high for this rank so it's only for the crème de la crème of users [OMG NAZI RANK ITS LIKE THE RICH KEEP GETTING RICHER]. • Additional perks for Legendary accounts or a higher rank if added (for example: custom title, image banner in signature, clickable link in personal text, access to exclusive sub board etc). • A captcha added to deleting a post. • Disallowing lower ranks from posting in Off Topic (this is bitcoin forum, why would they head to that board straight away other than to easily farm their accounts (alternatively, posts not counting towards postcount or activity there would also work). • If a post is removed then so is any merit awarded (I think some users are deleting posts to hide evidence of abuse). • More advertisement slots. This forum is badly under-monetised in my opinion and we likely lose hundreds of thousands in lost revenue to signatures and lack of ad slots and visibility. No. Or not yet. Or the idea would need to be significantly modified. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: aysg76 on December 30, 2022, 04:55:46 PM There are many requests we have at this time but one that others have said and discussed before also is a pop up box for newbies while registering giving them idea about forum and important links so they don't have to ask it in making lot of threads would be great addition to the forum so there are other requests as well but we need to wait for it.
Doesn't even necessarily need to be an app. I just want better UI/UX for mobile. Heck, I'd be very happy even with just having a responsive UI alone. That would be big relief for mobile users and whenever I login from mobile device it's hard to explore the forum and write posts as I have to make it compatible to my screen for eyes comfort but see if we have it anytime and yes improvements are good rather then having extra app.Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: dkbit98 on December 30, 2022, 04:56:07 PM What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023? I think it's time to make forum update and make it responsive to work on all devices, especially for mobile devices.If epochtalk is ever going to be released than 2023 would be ideal time for that, but I would also be ok if everything stays the way it is now and I don't have any real complains. However, if changing software would reduce security of forum, than I would prefer we continue using current software. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: mk4 on December 30, 2022, 05:05:37 PM Not what you ask but you can add either ;wap; wap2 ;imode at the end of URL link. It does not work for table but fine for texts.
Those seems to be fine when you're only on Bitcointalk for viewing purposes though, as it seems like the QUOTE feature is missing on those 3 modes. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Oshosondy on December 30, 2022, 05:31:34 PM Reporter badges ;). I wish to go for this before, but with what you explained, I have a second thought, it can be possible that this can make other members on this forum that are not reporting now to start to report posts and many good posts may be reported which can become a problem for the moderators.Self explanatory, but I think it would help with encouraging reporters. theymos knows this, but obviously has talked about how he wants to implement it correctly, and mitigate abuse of the system. I'd just like to see it implemented even if it's a very basic version. We'd likely have to have some very large tier systems though, as this forum is several years old, and some users have over 100k reports. If posts are often reported effectively, I think reporter badges should not be done, theymos can just be making yearly post about good reporers and how they all appreciate their efforts. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Welsh on December 30, 2022, 05:38:55 PM I wish to go for this before, but with what you explained, I have a second thought, it can be possible that this can make other members on this forum that are not reporting now to start to report posts and many good posts may be reported which can become a problem for the moderators. Shouldn't be too much of a problem. They need good reporters to get the badges, and if they're reporting inaccurately they aren't going to get them. You could counter this problem by deducting bad reports from the good reports a user makes. The only issue I see with it is it could be short lived. Users will have the motivation in the beginnings to get the highest badge, and then unless we keep adding badges users will stop once they've reached he highest badge. If posts are often reported effectively, I think reporter badges should not be done, theymos can just be making yearly post about good reporers and how they all appreciate their efforts. But, yeah; users reporting inaccurately shouldn't be a problem. We've got enough moderators to deal with it, and it doesn't really effect the moderator much to mark a report bad, instead of good. There might be a few select users that could become problematic if they're just reporting everything, but again that's just counter productive. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Findingnemo on December 30, 2022, 05:53:30 PM One rank above the Legendary is my wish!
I believe it will be a good thing to do for the members who contributed a lot to the forum and also it will encourage the legendary to post more to reach that super recognition rank. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: LoyceMobile on December 30, 2022, 06:13:31 PM One rank above the Legendary is my wish. My wish is to call it Legend.Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: NotATether on December 30, 2022, 06:52:54 PM More lenient DDoS Firewall, after seeing how Cloudflare botched all the bots here. Is there not an alternative that provides the same protection (but lets our bots through), even if it costs some money?
Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: BitcoinGirl.Club on December 30, 2022, 07:17:49 PM What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023? Changing of Feedback system.Apply it only for trades. And feedback will be given or exchanged between only the two party who will be involved in trade. Before a deal, the seller create a topic with the amount he needs. The buyer pay it and update the topic with the trade information. Then a feedback window enable for both buyer and seller to leave feedback for each others. It could be a neutral or positive or negative. The current feedback system lost it's value. Forum members do not need an approval of others who will say "This is a good form member" or "This guy is a scammer" or "This is an alt account of mr. x". Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: DdmrDdmr on December 30, 2022, 07:23:21 PM I’d go along with an oldie (2019): Search engine optimization for local boards (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5170503.msg52006257#msg52006257).
That, or something along that line, to drive more traffic over to Bitcointalk’s local boards that have a substantial gap between their potential and their factual participation (i.e. the Spanish Local board is extremely lightweight in terms of participation, in relation to the amount of people that speak the language). Note: It’s rather a complex matter, with younger generations being prone to be less prosaic and more stuck to fast-paced social networks (that normally treat matters thinly), but the gap I referenced before seems something to at least try to tackle at some level. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: indah rezqi on December 30, 2022, 07:58:02 PM I don't want more changes, but maybe in terms of account security it can be improved. Right now we only have modest security, it comes down to how we have passwords and how we manage them, and apart from all that then increased security is one that I look forward to in 2023.
It doesn't stop there, forum also need to have a few other things like reporting posts with one click. Currently there are extensions that help, but of course when the forum has its own feature, it will be much more great. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: drwhobox on December 30, 2022, 09:35:53 PM What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023? Notification menu I don't mean it to be like a social media notification alert or anything. If anyone quotes me in their reply, the notification menu bar will show a simple number or sign just like the message menu. OP wants one wishes from everyone, so I will be happy to see this only change on this forum. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: PX-Z on December 30, 2022, 10:59:05 PM My only wish is to have an update for Epochtalk - a new forum software. As far as I know, since the last update, the new software was mostly done. Damn, everyone is deadly waiting for this, i really wish it will be available in the next year. But, but I saw the repository's[1] last commit was way back 2021? So what development happened for this year? If this is nearly done, announcing it for testing phase(on https://beta.bitcointalk.org/) will be the best thing theymos could ever done for the whole decade (as this development is nearly decade) next to deploying it. [1] https://github.com/epochtalk/epochtalk Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: virasog on December 30, 2022, 11:17:33 PM What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023? Why is everyone wants to change some of the features on this forum? Why aren't we happy with the current setup of the forum? If there was to change anything, theymos would have done it already. When the forum admin did not want any changes and think everything is perfect, why do we insist on the changes? My answer is that I am happy with the current bitcointalk forum and no changes are required. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: LTU_btc on December 31, 2022, 12:16:47 AM It's simple question, but it's not so easy to answer and I don't know what to say without thinking for some more time. In general, Bitcointalk is stuck in time, without going deep into details forum looks same like in 2010 and probably it's not that easy to implement changes to such old software.
In general, I'm fine with current state of forum. Offcourse, there is lot of room for improvement, like responsive design on mobile but I think it's difficult to expect big changes. In last few years we didn't had any big changes, and in general, what was last significant update. Trust flags maybe? What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023? Why is everyone wants to change some of the features on this forum? Why aren't we happy with the current setup of the forum? If there was to change anything, theymos would have done it already. When the forum admin did not want any changes and think everything is perfect, why do we insist on the changes? If it would be so easy to implement changes, probably it wouldn't had taken almost 9 years and counting to make new forum software. P.S. I'm fine with current forum, but I understand people who ask for changes. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: mk4 on December 31, 2022, 08:19:48 AM Why is everyone wants to change some of the features on this forum? Being "happy" with the current setup of the forum doesn't necessarily mean that nothing can be improved upon.Why aren't we happy with the current setup of the forum? *snip* My answer is that I am happy with the current bitcointalk forum and no changes are required. If there was to change anything, theymos would have done it already. When the forum admin did not want any changes and think everything is perfect, why do we insist on the changes? If Theymos didn't want to change anything, then he probably wouldn't have started the Epochtalk project.Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: WatChe on December 31, 2022, 09:52:23 AM The classical look of bitcointalk.org has its own swag.
If I want to see something new in bitcointalk.org in 2023 is the alerts like we have in facebook, gmail etc. Right now have to manually check whether someone replied to our post or not. If such feature is added to bitcointalk.org then it will ease out things. Apart from that I dont have anything in mind that I want to see here, as I said the classical look has its own swag. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Doan9269 on December 31, 2022, 09:52:50 AM I will want to see the forum in an advanced way bringing down the effect and roles of spammers whereby if one should be reported for cheating then it shouldn't be coming from the forum here, there should be an advanced measure to increase the sanity of the forum, i will also employ the admin to take a look into the merit sources available on the forum and accept new applicants and remove the old existing but inactive merit source come this 2023.
Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: decodx on December 31, 2022, 10:14:30 AM As a big fan of new and modern things, I'm eagerly awaiting the release of the updated forum software. From what I've heard, the new version has been in the works for a while now and is almost ready for prime time. It's exciting to think about all the new features and improvements that might be included in this update. I can't wait to see how it will enhance the overall user experience and bring the forum into the modern age. So let's cross our fingers and hope that the release of the updated bitcointalk software is just around the corner.
Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: UmerIdrees on December 31, 2022, 12:00:28 PM Oh wow, we have a lot of wishes from Epochtalk to Reporter badges , mobile apps , 2fa, security and a lot more.
When I started the topic, I had in the back of my mind that there will be people who will come and say, that one thing that bitcointalk should do is to stop the Signatures. Whenever there is a debate of removing spam from the forum, the idea of getting rid of signatures is always thrown by a few members. Although, I do not agree with this idea, but since no one asked for this change in this thread, so I guess people have changed their minds on it ::) Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: tranthidung on December 31, 2022, 02:27:24 PM one thing that bitcointalk should do is to stop the Signatures. Whenever there is a debate of removing spam from the forum, the idea of getting rid of signatures is always thrown by a few members. theymos had it in his mind too. Before the kick off of merit system and months later, he saw that the initial system did not work well so he enhanced it.Before the kick-off, theymos asked the community with some Ideas for improving post quality? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2605767.0) What are everyone's ideas for improving post quality? I have mostly ruled out: - Removing signatures or sig ads globally. - Requiring payment to wear sig ads. - Banning account sales. -snip- Initial system (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0) Enhanced system (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5030366.0) There is currently no such thing as a "demerit". I'm hoping that the positive merits alone will be fine. I could add demerits pretty easily later on if necessary, though. Due to excessive garbage-posting, you now need 1 merit to be a Jr Member. All existing Jr Members who didn't meet the requirement were demoted. Also, newbies can no longer set any signature or personal text. Do you want to ask for Demerit button in 2023? One more idea
Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Lucius on December 31, 2022, 02:34:47 PM In the fight against spammers, I would like to have a new rule - 10 or more posts deleted in one week would mean a temporary ban for 7 days, and three such bans would mean a permanent ban. I know there is almost no chance of that, but if a spammer reads it, he might have nightmares just thinking about it ;D
Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: DoublerHunter on December 31, 2022, 05:07:02 PM ~snip~ ^The recent change that I noticed is that there is an (OP) text next to the profile name who opened a post thread. But when it comes to software? Make it simple and the forum is fine with the current software. I agree with a few comments above, the forum is fine with the current setup if there are software changes, that would be on the new forum website, the Epochtalk.My answer is that I am happy with the current bitcointalk forum and no changes are required. Forum Rules may apply and we all know fighting spammers and scammers are the most priority among us here in the forum. As of now, Bitcointalk is fine, the merit system works fine and it is very effective, additional improvements could be us, or those who are actively reporting posts, we are thankful to the top reporters who deserve to have badges under their profiles. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Coyster on December 31, 2022, 05:27:28 PM When I started the topic, I had in the back of my mind that there will be people who will come and say, that one thing that bitcointalk should do is to stop the Signatures. Whenever there is a debate of removing spam from the forum, the idea of getting rid of signatures is always thrown by a few members. Paid signature campaigns are a tremendous part of this forum as regards traffic, we cannot argue with the fact that removing signature campaigns would definitely affect the forum traffic, i don't mean it would run it to the ground, but truth be told, many users wouldn't post quite frequently, and it is fine/normal/acceptable. There is nothing wrong with paid signature campaigns and suggesting to remove it to combat spam is quite too much to ask, spammers hardly ever make it into signature campaigns because they can't rank up due to the merit system, they are in one bounty campaign or the other, thus it is futile hindering the activity of good users who earn from the forum through their good posts, it might combat spam but it would be a pyrrhic victory.Although, I do not agree with this idea, but since no one asked for this change in this thread, so I guess people have changed their minds on it ::) Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Xxmodded on December 31, 2022, 06:21:04 PM Paid signature campaigns are a tremendous part of this forum as regards traffic, we cannot argue with the fact that removing signature campaigns would definitely affect the forum traffic, i don't mean it would run it to the ground, but truth be told, many users wouldn't post quite frequently, and it is fine/normal/acceptable. There is nothing wrong with paid signature campaigns and suggesting to remove it to combat spam is quite too much to ask, spammers hardly ever make it into signature campaigns because they can't rank up due to the merit system, they are in one bounty campaign or the other, thus it is futile hindering the activity of good users who earn from the forum through their good posts, it might combat spam but it would be a pyrrhic victory. I don't think any mistake about paid signature campaign and have little fault about participants post likely have spam, there are have way keep report their low quality post based on your viewed and I don't think here with many spam post make signature campaign is the mistake made many people not care about their quality post.Based on personal habit about post quality having and depending which viewed from some one, maybe when user A having bad opinion with low quality post, I think have different viewed by the other with not low quality post. Based on who see and have opinion about some one post could said with low quality or not. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: noormcs5 on December 31, 2022, 07:18:15 PM ~snip~ ^The recent change that I noticed is that there is an (OP) text next to the profile name who opened a post thread. But when it comes to software? Make it simple and the forum is fine with the current software. I agree with a few comments above, the forum is fine with the current setup if there are software changes, that would be on the new forum website, the Epochtalk.My answer is that I am happy with the current bitcointalk forum and no changes are required. Forum Rules may apply and we all know fighting spammers and scammers are the most priority among us here in the forum. As of now, Bitcointalk is fine, the merit system works fine and it is very effective, additional improvements could be us, or those who are actively reporting posts, we are thankful to the top reporters who deserve to have badges under their profiles. The change like (OP) text is hardly considered as a change in my opinion as we were expecting some really big changes in the new forum called Epochtalk. Though i am sure that there is no chance of emergence of Epochtalk in 2023 as there seems no recent development in this. What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023? Let's be precise in this discussion and list only a single change that you would like forum admins to make which can make the forum more productive yet it should not lose its traffic. You have asked opinions from others but you didn't tell me what improvement and changes you want to see in bitcointalk in 2023. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: OgNasty on December 31, 2022, 07:22:08 PM I can't imagine this change ever happening, but I'll keep suggesting it. :)
I think the forum should take over signature campaigns and distribute the funds more widely to members here. Rather than a handful of members making thousands of dollars a month on advertisements, I think it would be cool if everyone had the opportunity to make a couple dollars a week. It would be a nightmare to implement and I'm sure people would call for removal of signatures by bad actors which would take a lot of manpower and cause drama, etc. Not to mention there would be abuse, but I would love to see more members here getting an opportunity to snatch a piece of the pie. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Sandra_hakeem on December 31, 2022, 08:50:53 PM I can't imagine this change ever happening, but I'll keep suggesting it. :) Can you imagine the level of chaos that this development would cause?? Lmao.. what's gonna be the percentage differences between the ranks?? How would the members evaluate the payments schedule? Having that a casino could require limited slots?? RANKS ARE JUST NOT GONNA BE VALUED ANYMORE.... Cus anyone could just get registered and Begin to earn -- as much they make 'em post...lol.I think the forum should take over signature campaigns and distribute the funds more widely to members here. Rather than a handful of members making thousands of dollars a month on advertisements, I think it would be cool if everyone had the opportunity to make a couple dollars a week. It would be a nightmare to implement and I'm sure people would call for removal of signatures by bad actors which would take a lot of manpower and cause drama, etc. Not to mention there would be abuse, but I would love to see more members here getting an opportunity to snatch a piece of the pie. Well, I'm not really having anything in mind to be implemented; that doesn't mean Theymos hasn't got some plans undercovers -- I believe whatever he's implementing would give rise to the wellbeing of the forum -- as at next year, so I'll stick to that. Sandra 🧑🦰 Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: tranthidung on December 31, 2022, 09:28:03 PM I can't imagine this change ever happening, but I'll keep suggesting it. :) Merit system, its enhanced version and new rank requirements work well enough to make the shutdown of signature looks to be far from possible.The purpose of the forum This forum exists to provide a platform for the free (but ordered) exchange of ideas. If you have an idea to express, then it is probably possible to do it here as long as you follow the rules. A lot of people come here primarily looking to make money. The forum administration is very happy that people are able to use the forum in order to better themselves; indeed, one of the reasons for Bitcoin's creation was to break the artificial barriers which prevent so many people around the world from attaining prosperity. However, if your attempts to make money conflict with the forum's primary goal of enabling discussion, then you are swimming upstream, and you will not be sucessful in the end. If you view the forum as some sort of "job" where you complete some basic tasks and get paid, then you will almost certainly be disappointed, and the forum administration will not be sympathetic. If you do make money using the forum, then it will be through innovation and entrepreneurship, not any sort of mindless busywork. Quote I think the forum should take over signature campaigns You are belong to members who want to take down signature industry. Others I know are
Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: yahoo62278 on January 01, 2023, 02:13:01 AM 1 change I would like to see is the moderators enforcing the rules. Why have rules if noone is going to pay attention to them? I'll elaborate if needed but in general, enforce the rules of the forum.
Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Awaklara on January 01, 2023, 02:46:23 AM that one thing that bitcointalk should do is to stop the Signatures. would stopping the signature be better for the forum? if it does have a positive impact on the forum, surely there will be enough active members currently supporting it. although I'm sure it will annoy those already in business on forums.Regarding spammers, I think the forum has enough users who care about making reports moderators. let's hope it works well. if there's going to be an update in the year, I'm just hoping there's an update for Moderators who have been inactive on some boards. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: UmerIdrees on January 01, 2023, 07:09:29 AM You have asked opinions from others but you didn't tell me what improvement and changes you want to see in bitcointalk in 2023. Well, i would like to see that our local board is created in this year 2023. We already made a strong Request: New Local Board for Pakistan (Urdu) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5430735.0) and are hopeful to see it coming true in 2023. Regarding the other things that everyone mentioned, we have little or less hope as they would be implemented anytime soon but this wish for a local board seems likely to be made this year. That's what my heart says :) Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: CryptopreneurBrainboss on January 01, 2023, 07:27:18 AM Firstly I'll like to encourage the management of the forum to keep up their good work, they have done so well in the past and I have no doubt that the future will bring about more productive features implemented on the forum. A change I'll love to see in 2023 is the creation of more local boards on the forum. Everyone should have an opportunity to connect with their people on their own board and be able to discuss issues surrounding Bitcoin in their locality.
Secondly, more decentralization of source merits. While I must acknowledge all merit sources for the good they're doing in encouraging quality poster, I'll love if theymos consider topping up active merit sources that have little to share around even though it requires reducing that of those that have thousands to send around monthly and increasing the supply of those at the end of the chain. Personally I have drop requests (through DM) multiple times but the answer has always been 'there's no plans to increase the supply of merit' so instead some redistribution can do the trick. Happy new year to everyone, hopefully Bitcoin is nice this year. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: ZAINmalik75 on January 01, 2023, 12:36:22 PM The classical look of bitcointalk.org has its own swag. Bitcointalk didn't have option of alert like social media but if they add it will be best for user experience but in telegram there is a bot @BTTSuperNotifier_bot through this bot you can get every notification like merit , mentioned any many other, but first you have to attached this bot with your bitcointalk account and then add also all those topic where you want alerts, after than when every you have been mentioned or selective topic got reply you will be notified.If I want to see something new in bitcointalk.org in 2023 is the alerts like we have in facebook, gmail etc. Right now have to manually check whether someone replied to our post or not. If such feature is added to bitcointalk.org then it will ease out things. Apart from that I dont have anything in mind that I want to see here, as I said the classical look has its own swag. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: imamusma on January 01, 2023, 01:56:30 PM The classical look of bitcointalk.org has its own swag. Bitcointalk didn't have option of alert like social media but if they add it will be best for user experience but in telegram there is a bot @BTTSuperNotifier_bot through this bot you can get every notification like merit , mentioned any many other, but first you have to attached this bot with your bitcointalk account and then add also all those topic where you want alerts, after than when every you have been mentioned or selective topic got reply you will be notified.If I want to see something new in bitcointalk.org in 2023 is the alerts like we have in facebook, gmail etc. Right now have to manually check whether someone replied to our post or not. If such feature is added to bitcointalk.org then it will ease out things. Apart from that I dont have anything in mind that I want to see here, as I said the classical look has its own swag. https://i.imgur.com/Gh1ffWD.jpg Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Crypto Library on January 01, 2023, 02:31:10 PM What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023? The first thing I wanna see in forum in 2023 not only 2023 but I always hoped that the forum would bring the option of two factor authentication. I think nowadays most of us are victims of phishing in various ways and if there is two factor authentication I think it can be a bit more secure from this side.Also, there is one more thing I would like to see and that is to improve the responsive display aspect. Because it has been seen that many times when we create a post on pc it's all ok in pc but when we open that post in mobile the post became vice versa. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: ZAINmalik75 on January 01, 2023, 02:54:53 PM The classical look of bitcointalk.org has its own swag. Bitcointalk didn't have option of alert like social media but if they add it will be best for user experience but in telegram there is a bot @BTTSuperNotifier_bot through this bot you can get every notification like merit , mentioned any many other, but first you have to attached this bot with your bitcointalk account and then add also all those topic where you want alerts, after than when every you have been mentioned or selective topic got reply you will be notified.If I want to see something new in bitcointalk.org in 2023 is the alerts like we have in facebook, gmail etc. Right now have to manually check whether someone replied to our post or not. If such feature is added to bitcointalk.org then it will ease out things. Apart from that I dont have anything in mind that I want to see here, as I said the classical look has its own swag. I used it to get notifications of recent activity of user from bitcointalk. Personally I don't know about this feature of Bitcointalk so my apologies now I will used this feature to notify instead of any things else Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: digaran on January 01, 2023, 07:33:44 PM A NSFW board, and another rank called Mythical.😉
Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: The Sceptical Chymist on January 02, 2023, 02:56:53 AM <snip> Can you imagine the level of chaos that this development would cause?? <snip>I think the forum should take over signature campaigns and distribute the funds more widely to members here. <snip> <snip> Not to mention there would be abuse, but I would love to see more members here getting an opportunity to snatch a piece of the pie. If any member wants a piece of the sig campaign pie, they can try to earn a spot just like everyone else. This is a meritocracy here, not a fucking welfare program. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Maus0728 on January 02, 2023, 09:29:32 AM Perhaps a better merit system? I mean, whenever someone receives a merit for their reply to a thread, that user's post comes out on top! It's similar to showcasing whose response has the most substance or is the funniest, similar to reddit's.
But yeah! I think this is the most difficult to implement :D Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: UserU on January 02, 2023, 03:51:52 PM Perhaps a better merit system? I mean, whenever someone receives a merit for their reply to a thread, that user's post comes out on top! It's similar to showcasing whose response has the most substance or is the funniest, similar to reddit's. But yeah! I think this is the most difficult to implement :D How would that apply to multiple posts though? 🤔 Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: KingsDen on January 02, 2023, 03:56:41 PM The forum is fine and cool.
When I was new I user to think that there are many things to add or change in the forum. Even until now I used to protest that Obvious Scammers should be banned while plagiarists should be given red tag instead of ban. But I just understood that if a scammer is banned they can easily return with a new innocent account and continue scamming which may be more dangerous. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Little Mouse on January 02, 2023, 03:57:58 PM Forum bitcoin wallet Such a bad idea. A forum wallet means a web wallet which is very much risky when it comes to security. Why would we need that? Anyway, I would rather prefer a way to tip users through LN. By this, people would also experience some knowledge about LN and it would be more popular.One rank above the Legendary is my wish. My wish is to call it Legend.Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Mpamaegbu on January 02, 2023, 04:22:48 PM Reporter badges ;). Trust me, as easy and conspiratory as what I will say is, it's not far from the truth. If badges for reporting posts are given to members who report them, that will scare some users posting where they think these reporters frequent, especially posters who are less than average. There will be members who will consciously want to steer clear of intruding eyes just like a lot of low ranked members like staying away from Meta. Self explanatory, but I think it would help with encouraging reporters. theymos knows this, but obviously has talked about how he wants to implement it correctly, and mitigate abuse of the system. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Agwu on January 03, 2023, 06:46:21 AM My wish is for a member rank to start from atleast 5 Merits.
Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Rikafip on January 03, 2023, 07:00:05 AM Rather than a handful of members making thousands of dollars a month on advertisements, I think it would be cool if everyone had the opportunity to make a couple dollars a week. Everyone (and by everyone I mean all members who are capable of writing a coherent sentence) already have the opportunity to make more than a couple of bucks per week as there's more spots in signature campaigns than there are solid members so even shitposters are capable of making $200-$300 per month.But I just understood that if a scammer is banned they can easily return with a new innocent account and continue scamming which may be more dangerous. You don't think that's not exactly what scammers are doing anyway, after they get negative tag? Of course they make a new account to continue scamming so banning them wouldn't make then any more dangerous than they are now. As for me, I would like to see forum being more open to creating few more local boards (Pakistan for sure and eventually Bangladesh) as I don't really see a downsides of that. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: fortunecrypto on January 03, 2023, 02:29:32 PM A restricted area for higher rank members so they can share pieces of stuff, giveaways, or freebies no illegal pieces of stuff of course, and talk about things that are hidden in the public eyes, some forums have a restricted area and are exclusive for their top members only, another one is social media integration where your post has the option to share in your social media accounts.
Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: fennic on January 03, 2023, 04:02:30 PM 2023 will start in about a day or so. There are many suggestions thrown every now and then to improve the forum. There are somethings that I want to have in mind and re just listed below 👇What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023? Let's be precise in this discussion and list only a single change that you would like forum admins to make which can make the forum more productive yet it should not lose its traffic. 1. Bitcointalk Own wallet 2. Bitcointalk Forum own Advertisments system 3. Bitcointalk Marketplace etc. My mean was not that to make it a Wallet or exchange but add some extensions so that it could be so cool. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Welsh on January 03, 2023, 04:20:07 PM Why is everyone wants to change some of the features on this forum? As far as I know, theymos also has a rather large list of things they'd like to do, there's just some complications in implementing it, whether that's due to time restrictions or just because there's issues in the current implementation they've drawn up. There was a list that theymos commented on the various suggestions the community has made over the years. It's a bit like the reporter badges, there's issues that's prevented it from happening. I do think eventually we'll see them. Why aren't we happy with the current setup of the forum? If there was to change anything, theymos would have done it already. When the forum admin did not want any changes and think everything is perfect, why do we insist on the changes? My answer is that I am happy with the current bitcointalk forum and no changes are required. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: SFR10 on January 03, 2023, 06:49:02 PM What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023? All of the good stuff has already been mentioned by other members, so I'd just go with a simple one... Having the ability to use non-default themes again [e.g. BlackBox theme (https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=256663.0)]. I do know it was "disabled to reduce the attack surface (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=306878.0)", but perhaps the changes that were made in the past 9 years could provide enough protection to restore that feature [I'm well aware of the alternative routes, but I prefer not to use something that isn't "officially" part of the forum].Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: nakamura12 on January 03, 2023, 07:03:22 PM Not sure on what I would like to see in Bitcointalk if there would be changes made this year but if there are changes that could help us in surfing in this forum then that would be a great help in my opinion like the suggestion made by others being implemented or I don't what it is. As long as it will benefits the forum user then I would be grateful for that. Previously, I was happy that a suggestion is finally implemented where I can see which forum user is the op. I am looking forward to whatever changes made in the forum either from suggestions or the forum staff came up with. Badges is also cool even though I don't have any badge at all.
Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: robelneo on January 03, 2023, 08:24:01 PM Perhaps a better merit system? I mean, whenever someone receives a merit for their reply to a thread, that user's post comes out on top! It's similar to showcasing whose response has the most substance or is the funniest, similar to reddit's. But yeah! I think this is the most difficult to implement :D Not really and it's possible there is a package in the SMF script where members can vote for the best response and it will come out on top of the thread I think that would be one thing that I want to be added or changed members can vote for the best response and it comes out on top below the main thread, it encourages members to give the best possible response in a discussion. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: _BlackStar on January 03, 2023, 10:13:30 PM Because many newbie break campaign rule, especially on social media campaign, I hope that some restriction such as no longer accepting newbie in all campaign can become new rules introduced for every manager. I think this rule will save more time for cheater hunters who have been very persistent in trying to clean that section from cheaters. After all, it's not a limitation that makes newbie get jailed in this forum because at least they have to have the effort to post something that makes sense and rank up until they meet the requirements to join the campaign.
I'd really like to know how likely this rule introduced although I think one or two managers could limit the number of newbies in their campaign so far. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: joker_josue on January 04, 2023, 12:34:12 AM My only wish is to have an update for Epochtalk - a new forum software. As far as I know, since the last update, the new software was mostly done. Just need
Well, I've heard this idea of "it's almost done" for almost 5 years now. I question whether there is even enough interest or will to implement these changes. Changing a forum of these dimensions to a new script is not exactly easy. Not impossible, but very complex. Either way, you need a lot of will, which I think still doesn't exist enough. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: libert19 on January 04, 2023, 04:19:19 AM Mobile App please ...Heck, I'd be very happy even with just having a responsive UI alone. Do you mean 'fit to mobile screen' kind of thing with responsive ui? Cause except zoom-in/out, it's as good as desktop. For that particular zoom-in/out 'problem', you can use this zoom extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zoom-for-google-chrome/lajondecmobodlejlcjllhojikagldgd?hl=en) — it condenses the view. Works on Kiwi/lemur/mises browser (supporting chrome extensions on android). @tranthidung's method makes page read only, imo above extension is better alternative to that. Edit: For iOS devices, you can try [1]orion browser for ff, chrome extensions. I don't have an iOS device, so no personal experience about this one. [1] https://browser.kagi.com Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: krishnaverma on January 04, 2023, 05:21:34 AM Here is one suggestion:
When a member is creating new thread, based on data he has entered in title and posts, show him suggestions for already posted threads related to same topic. This will prevent multiple threads on same topic and save everyone's time. I have seen this feature on some forums. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: lovesmayfamilis on January 04, 2023, 05:42:15 AM Here is one suggestion: When a member is creating new thread, based on data he has entered in title and posts, show him suggestions for already posted threads related to same topic. This will prevent multiple threads on same topic and save everyone's time. I have seen this feature on some forums. If a participant knows how to use search, he will never do what you did. In your case, I even doubt your eyesight, since the titles of both topics are almost identical. A polite person would simply apologize and close the topic after noticing such a similarity, but you did not hesitate to continue your topic. It's very ugly and looks very stupid. Besides, there are no such coincidences. Having registered in 2017, but not knowing how to use the search, was a rather backward behavior. https://i.ibb.co/6g6p90C/Screenshot.png (https://ibb.co/RzLMrTw) [Guide] Searching effectively (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5276341.0) Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: WatChe on January 04, 2023, 08:41:29 AM The classical look of bitcointalk.org has its own swag. Bitcointalk didn't have option of alert like social media but if they add it will be best for user experience but in telegram there is a bot @BTTSuperNotifier_bot through this bot you can get every notification like merit , mentioned any many other, but first you have to attached this bot with your bitcointalk account and then add also all those topic where you want alerts, after than when every you have been mentioned or selective topic got reply you will be notified.If I want to see something new in bitcointalk.org in 2023 is the alerts like we have in facebook, gmail etc. Right now have to manually check whether someone replied to our post or not. If such feature is added to bitcointalk.org then it will ease out things. Apart from that I dont have anything in mind that I want to see here, as I said the classical look has its own swag. Ok thank you for telling me about that since I didnt have idea that there is such feature available. Unfortunatly I am not on TG so cant avail that bot. But it will be a good featuer if there is notification like thing that sends you a notification on your mobile that you got any activity in your bitcointalk.org account. I wish you would have told him about this one instead of just prompting him using a notification bot. In additional options you can also set notifications to -''notify me of replies'' before you reply to a post. I thought it would help him get notified when someone replies to his post or quotes him. He only needed to tick the points to activate them. https://i.imgur.com/Gh1ffWD.jpg Thanks to you also, since I dont have info about this too. You really ease out things for me. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Accardo on January 04, 2023, 09:45:51 PM Considering the numerous boards in the forum, I'd want a compilations of the best threads per week sent to every member's Dm. Best threads, which can be determined by the interactions and discussions in the thread, how meaningful and educative it is to users, can be disseminated in batch of selected 5-10 meaningful posts amongst all threads posted in that week, so that users that didn't participate in the thread can read them too. It'll help everybody to easily keep track of useful topics in the forum and boost learning too. Since the forum is mainly focused on learning, I wouldn't fancy any other feature other than the one that elevates more learning. Especially for the newbies who are not familiar with the boards on the forum, they miss out on so many useful threads in the forum, through this exercise; sending Dms of best threads in the week, would help them get across and know other sections in the forum. This will cost the forum nothing and would increase the rate of quality posts in the forum since members would want their threads to appear on the best threads of the week.
Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: libert19 on January 05, 2023, 05:48:52 AM ^ nah, good threads already get bumped to the top, plus not everyone is interested in all boards. If you say, we could implement further functionality where you can select the boards one is interested in then we have better suggestions here that should get the priority. I personally believe in-built alert system for quotes/notifications/merits is must.
Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Obito on January 05, 2023, 06:08:20 AM ^ nah, good threads already get bumped to the top, plus not everyone is interested in all boards. If you say, we could implement further functionality where you can select the boards one is interested in then we have better suggestions here that should get the priority. I personally believe in-built alert system for quotes/notifications/merits is must. Could work but the problem isn't that inconvenient for many forum users so it's a feature not worth adding. I would support you regarding notifications for merits/quotes although I think someone has made it already or I'm remembering something different.Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: libert19 on January 05, 2023, 06:45:50 AM ...I think someone has made it already or I'm remembering something different. It's [1] telegram bot. It works great however would prefer native functions. I wouldn't be surprised if there are people who miss discussions just because they aren't aware of the bot. [1] bitcointalk quote notifier (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5248878.0) Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Aanuoluwatofunmi on January 06, 2023, 11:49:49 AM Here is one suggestion: When a member is creating new thread, based on data he has entered in title and posts, show him suggestions for already posted threads related to same topic. This will prevent multiple threads on same topic and save everyone's time. I have seen this feature on some forums. I think this is a lapse from the user creating the thread because if he had first research about the topic or keywords to the post he's intending of before proceeding further, the search function will help to see relevants aspect talked about it, so i wouldn't advise while typing the title or content of the post to be popping up suggestions regarding the same post intended to, member's should understand that we have millions of words that could serve as keyword to each word input but typing a sentence or giving a clue phrase and searching it will help direct the search towards the specific aspect in question than pulling the whole suggestions of words. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: lovesmayfamilis on January 06, 2023, 12:58:22 PM A nice change would be to limit the number of accounts allowed. Can understand the need to create an alternate account for your other device, but creating a bunch of alternate accounts clearly hints at the bad activity. In addition, a false impression is created about the number of people registering on the forum; you can probably divide this number by half, if not by three. :)
Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: drwhobox on January 06, 2023, 02:20:51 PM A nice change would be to limit the number of accounts allowed. Can understand the need to create an alternate account for your other device, but creating a bunch of alternate accounts clearly hints at the bad activity. In addition, a false impression is created about the number of people registering on the forum; you can probably divide this number by half, if not by three. :) There is no need for an alternate account to use on other devices, I have multiple devices and I know most of us also have more than one device. If anyone wants to change the device they can just log in to their account to that device. It is that simple, there is no point to create another account to create and use for that purpose. Quote a false impression is created about the number of people registering on the forum; you can probably divide this number by half, if not by three. :) Also users who use one account for their activity on this forum will get motivated for a second account. We saw many alt account cases in this forum regularly. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Lucius on January 06, 2023, 02:28:20 PM A nice change would be to limit the number of accounts allowed. ~snip~ The problem is that you cannot impose such a rule even if you wanted to, given that people use VPN and TOR to hide their real IP addresses. Of course, many come across the evil fee, which is in some way a defense against the creation of large bot farms, but this fee can be paid, and some members have the option of removing it upon request. I, on the other hand, would like to see a rule that one can participate in signature/bounty campaigns exclusively with one account in one campaign, not as we have the case now with multiple accounts in multiple campaigns. Sometimes it's funny to see how one and the same person has a discussion with himself using alt accounts. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Solosanz on January 06, 2023, 02:38:02 PM I, on the other hand, would like to see a rule that one can participate in signature/bounty campaigns exclusively with one account in one campaign, not as we have the case now with multiple accounts in multiple campaigns. Sometimes it's funny to see how one and the same person has a discussion with himself using alt accounts. Did you mean if one person have 3 accounts, but only one account is able to participate in signature campaign while the other two accounts shouldn't join any campaign even though those both accounts are eligible and not cheating in the same campaign?I wonder which person it's who use 2 accounts and make a conversation with his own alt, although theymos said it's no problem if to have different personality, but I don't think it's right to create a discussion while the one who replying is his another account. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Lucius on January 06, 2023, 02:52:04 PM Did you mean if one person have 3 accounts, but only one account is able to participate in signature campaign while the other two accounts shouldn't join any campaign even though those both accounts are eligible and not cheating in the same campaign? I think it would be fair to all other users of the forum who have only one account and may not be able to get a place in a sig campaign because someone uses their alt accounts in 4 or 5 different sig campaigns. Of course, that rule will not change, nobody wants to officially be a policeman on the forum and investigate such things. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Edwardard on January 06, 2023, 03:19:18 PM I, on the other hand, would like to see a rule that one can participate in signature/bounty campaigns exclusively with one account in one campaign, This rule is already in there for most of the campaigns. Just like scams aren't moderated by the admins/mods, such things arent too. Thats why you got "campaign managers" for this job and most of them do well imo.. I think it would be fair to all other users of the forum who have only one account and may not be able to get a place in a sig campaign because someone uses their alt accounts in 4 or 5 different sig campaigns. If someone got 4-5 or more accounts just for the sake of participating in sig. campaigns, chances are they wont get accepted in any, since such users are mostly broken (i)nglish sh*tposters. Again, a good manager can easily spot them.Also, I believe most newbies who need technical help, forget about their account after their problem is solved and come back later again with new account with a new problem. Thats why you see many 1 post brand new accounts in the forum. Most are alt accounts of each other. If theymos starts IP banning ppl, they wont be able to comeback again for help lol. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Lucius on January 06, 2023, 04:19:08 PM I, on the other hand, would like to see a rule that one can participate in signature/bounty campaigns exclusively with one account in one campaign, not as we have the case now with multiple accounts in multiple campaigns. This rule is already in there for most of the campaigns. Does it make sense to cut someone's sentence in half just to write something that I know very well exists? If someone got 4-5 or more accounts just for the sake of participating in sig. campaigns, chances are they wont get accepted in any, since such users are mostly broken (i)nglish sh*tposters. Again, a good manager can easily spot them. What a naive way of thinking, as if anything other than filling all the spots in the campaign is important these days. If most managers looked at quality, most campaigns wouldn't be able to fill even 50% of spots, and that's a truth that everyone knows, but we can pretend that the rule of "5 merits in 120 days" is something that makes a good poster. You obviously don't know the case of a user who abused the CM campaign with 3 accounts for years until it was discovered? Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: joker_josue on January 06, 2023, 06:18:51 PM What a naive way of thinking, as if anything other than filling all the spots in the campaign is important these days. If most managers looked at quality, most campaigns wouldn't be able to fill even 50% of spots, and that's a truth that everyone knows, but we can pretend that the rule of "5 merits in 120 days" is something that makes a good poster. I also think it's a little exaggerated to say that 50% of vacancies were not filled in the campaigns. There are a lot of users who post with quality who don't even have a campaign, because they think the campaigns don't have quality. Because I think there is a market for all types of users and campaigns. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: kawetsriyanto on January 06, 2023, 09:14:13 PM One rank above the Legendary is my wish! I believe it will be a good thing to do for the members who contributed a lot to the forum and also it will encourage the legendary to post more to reach that super recognition rank. Is it really necessary, mate? I think it is not needed since we are able to know the members who contributed a lot from their merit numbers. Also, the members who have a certain achievement, have a special badge. For example: - taufik123 has a special badge as the winner of the art contest in 2019. - fillippone has a special badge as the winner of Pizza day in 2022. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: drwhobox on January 06, 2023, 09:54:23 PM I wonder which person it's who use 2 accounts and make a conversation with his own alt, although theymos said it's no problem if to have different personality, but I don't think it's right to create a discussion while the one who replying is his another account. The person who makes conversation with his alt account is a person with multiple personality disorder ;DIs that acceptable in this forum? Since only one account per person is allowed in bitcointalk or theymos give them privileges for their special needs. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Zilon on January 07, 2023, 05:42:58 AM What a naive way of thinking, as if anything other than filling all the spots in the campaign is important these days. If most managers looked at quality, most campaigns wouldn't be able to fill even 50% of spots, and that's a truth that everyone knows, but we can pretend that the rule of "5 merits in 120 days" is something that makes a good poster. I also think it's a little exaggerated to say that 50% of vacancies were not filled in the campaigns. There are a lot of users who post with quality who don't even have a campaign, because they think the campaigns don't have quality. Because I think there is a market for all types of users and campaigns. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Findingnemo on January 07, 2023, 04:50:32 PM One rank above the Legendary is my wish! I believe it will be a good thing to do for the members who contributed a lot to the forum and also it will encourage the legendary to post more to reach that super recognition rank. Is it really necessary, mate? I think it is not needed since we are able to know the members who contributed a lot from their merit numbers. Also, the members who have a certain achievement, have a special badge. For example: - taufik123 has a special badge as the winner of the art contest in 2019. - fillippone has a special badge as the winner of Pizza day in 2022. Why not? For example LoyceV earned more than 10K merits but he still holds the legendary rank as everyone who has 1K merits but this is a big difference in the numbers and how much they contributed to the forum. Ofcourse we can get it from their merit counts but if there is another rank with 2500 merits or 5000 merits criteria which will give the recognition for their contribution and also differentiate from 1K members, anyway I don't think theymos is interested in adding ranks but I just expressed what I would like to see. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: joker_josue on January 07, 2023, 05:11:59 PM Why not? For example LoyceV earned more than 10K merits but he still holds the legendary rank as everyone who has 1K merits but this is a big difference in the numbers and how much they contributed to the forum. Ofcourse we can get it from their merit counts but if there is another rank with 2500 merits or 5000 merits criteria which will give the recognition for their contribution and also differentiate from 1K members, anyway I don't think theymos is interested in adding ranks but I just expressed what I would like to see. From my point of view, this idea doesn't seem bad either. But looking at the forum currently, and seeing a lot of even influential users who haven't reached the Legendary level, I think there isn't much room for new levels to emerge. Now, I wouldn't think it strange, in the near future this could happen. I will find it normal and the natural evolution of the forum. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Daniel91 on January 07, 2023, 05:45:50 PM One rank above the Legendary is my wish! I believe it will be a good thing to do for the members who contributed a lot to the forum and also it will encourage the legendary to post more to reach that super recognition rank. Is it really necessary, mate? I think it is not needed since we are able to know the members who contributed a lot from their merit numbers. Also, the members who have a certain achievement, have a special badge. For example: - taufik123 has a special badge as the winner of the art contest in 2019. - fillippone has a special badge as the winner of Pizza day in 2022. Why not? For example LoyceV earned more than 10K merits but he still holds the legendary rank as everyone who has 1K merits but this is a big difference in the numbers and how much they contributed to the forum. Ofcourse we can get it from their merit counts but if there is another rank with 2500 merits or 5000 merits criteria which will give the recognition for their contribution and also differentiate from 1K members, anyway I don't think theymos is interested in adding ranks but I just expressed what I would like to see. I personally like your idea and support it. If enough members support it, maybe it will become a reality, why not? There are legendary members who became legendary before the implementation of the merit system, based solely on their activity and the fact that they have been members on the forum for a long time. On the other hand, there are members like LoyceV, who are really quality members who help everyone, and deserve a special rank that will highlight their great contribution to this forum and separate them from other legendary members, whose contribution to the forum community is not so big. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: CryptopreneurBrainboss on January 07, 2023, 08:02:05 PM @ Lucius meant 50% will not be filled if most managers were to consider reviewing post quality before and after accepting new participants. Some good posters become bad posters when they get accepted into campaigns, while some improve on their quality over time. The whole idea is not about personal choice of not joining a campaign because the poster assumes the campaign lacks quality, but the content of posters involved in various campaigns. But truth be told, most campaigns will be scanty if quality was really looked into. Are we going to act like top managers aren't doing their job correctly by cautioning users who reduced post quality just to meet up weekly post quota? And when they don't change they get punished. Have you seen Hhampuz, Trofo campaigns spreedsheet or that of Royse777, go review them and you'll see that steadily they give warning to their users about post quality and removes them when they don't change their ways, how do you think slots get opened sometimes in campaigns especially when no new campaigns (with better pay) are launched or accounts banned. When we make judgement since we love generalizing, lets not only focus attention on the campaigns or managers demanding too much from their participants with little pay (as this cost decline in quality) but lets also look at those doing their job very well and contributing to the activeness of the forum as even though what Lucius said is true so is the fact that without this campaigns the forum would had been half empty by now. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: OnZen on January 08, 2023, 04:37:00 AM In my opinion a new topic should be introduced in bitcointalk in 2023 . A basic topic should be introduced for newbies. Who want to increase their rank in bitcointalk. So beginners don't face much trouble and the topic will make newbies basic strong .
I think this topic should be about that : 1. Where to start the newbie ID. 2. Full use of post reply box. 3. Guide line for posting pictures. Etc etc.... Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: libert19 on January 08, 2023, 08:54:02 AM Markdown support: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5289926.0
Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Rikafip on January 08, 2023, 10:53:17 AM Ofcourse we can get it from their merit counts but if there is another rank with 2500 merits or 5000 merits criteria which will give the recognition for their contribution and also differentiate from 1K members, anyway I don't think theymos is interested in adding ranks but I just expressed what I would like to see. I sure hope theymos doesn't consider adding more ranks. So many people take this forum way too seriously (just remember those silly self-congratulatory topics that are thankfully not so popular anymore) and adding more ranks will just create extra craziness in that regard.In my opinion a new topic should be introduced in bitcointalk in 2023 . A basic topic should be introduced for newbies. Who want to increase their rank in bitcointalk. So beginners don't face much trouble and the topic will make newbies basic strong . Everything needed (for the start) for an average Newbie is already in the pinned messages in Beginners & Help board. Problem is that many totally ignore those which can get them into trouble (mainly not realizing forum's stance of plagiarism). Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: CryptopreneurBrainboss on January 08, 2023, 11:42:31 AM In my opinion a new topic should be introduced in bitcointalk in 2023, I think this topic should be about that : 1. Where to start the newbie ID. 2. Full use of post reply box. 3. Guide line for posting pictures. Etc etc.... That won't be necessary as everything you need to kickstart your journey on the forum has already been prepared by previous members. For example, with a quick search on or off the forum, newbies can easily find thread that beautifully explains how to do whatever they want to do on the forum. For the question you highlighted here are some threads for that. Quote 2: SMF Smileys & Bulletin Board Code (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=help;page=post#bbcref) 3: Guideline on posting images (with size adjustments), hyperlinks by (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3974517.msg37748469#msg37748469) tbct_mt2 And when they search and don't find answers to their questions, they can just ask then lock thread immediately they get the response that's helpful to them. Unless newbies by default will be redirected to the thread that you're suggesting when they register, it might be effective as you think. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: FatFork on January 08, 2023, 11:45:25 AM Ofcourse we can get it from their merit counts but if there is another rank with 2500 merits or 5000 merits criteria which will give the recognition for their contribution and also differentiate from 1K members, anyway I don't think theymos is interested in adding ranks but I just expressed what I would like to see. I sure hope theymos doesn't consider adding more ranks. So many people take this forum way too seriously (just remember those silly self-congratulatory topics that are thankfully not so popular anymore) and adding more ranks will just create extra craziness in that regard.I completely agree! The idea of more ranks just seems like it would create more unnecessary competition and hierarchy on the forum. I think we should avoid these pitfalls and continue building a community where everyone feels welcome. It's important to remember that at the end of the day, we're all just people sharing and discussing ideas online and trying to learn from each other. It's always better to focus on the content of our posts and discussions rather than getting caught up in the ranks and status symbols. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: AHOYBRAUSE on January 09, 2023, 09:36:16 AM I would like to see that you can add a profile picture before becoming a full member.
Just sad to see the empty box. It's not see easy to collect merit when you are not around the most merited topics. Just my thought . ;D Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Asiska02 on January 09, 2023, 11:32:32 AM Many suggestions have been thrown on this thread from different users which are mostly welcome developments that will make the forum more better for all of us to use.
My biggest change in the forum is to increase its security, there’s no point of us all being here if the security of the forum can be breached. I didn’t hear or have seen that the forum security have been breached before, or maybe in the past that I haven’t come across before. But improved security will be good for the forum. Technology is advancing and new innovations are coming out every time. I don’t know if there’s any better security features, but if there’s, it should be added to the forum for the future of the forum for us all. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Dr.Bitcoin_Strange on January 10, 2023, 11:38:37 AM I think there should be some pop-up option for categories in a report. Those options should be defining the state of the report, and the member reporting would have to select the option that describes what the report is all about before submitting.
My wish is to call it Legend. Legends are people who keep extraordinary remarks, and when I think of them, LoyceV always comes to my mind. There are a lot of legends on this forum. But there are also legendary memebers who cannot be called legends, but if that requested feature of adding legend rank is included, possibly all legendary ranks will become legends. If that rank is to be added, it should be based on merit > 30,000 and 7 green stars instead of the normal yellow 🟡🟡 Notification menu I don't mean it to be like a social media notification alert or anything. If anyone quotes me in their reply, the notification menu bar will show a simple number or sign just like the message menu. I agree with this suggestion if it can also be included. A notification to all members when they are being quoted in a thread. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: LoyceMobile on January 10, 2023, 05:04:48 PM Thinking out of the box: how about a new rank for only the users who make the Top N in both Activity and Merit? That way you'll lose that rank again when someone else takes your place in the Top N.
Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: digaran on January 10, 2023, 06:54:02 PM Thinking out of the box: how about a new rank for only the users who make the Top N in both Activity and Merit? That way you'll lose that rank again when someone else takes your place in the Top N. Right now, who is that member with top activity and merit?, is it you?🤣Like who is the richest man on earth type of categorizing. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Rikafip on January 10, 2023, 07:07:27 PM I think there should be some pop-up option for categories in a report. Those options should be defining the state of the report, and the member reporting would have to select the option that describes what the report is all about before submitting. There is already something relatively similar but not as part of the forum and instead as a browser extension, suchmoons's One-click mod report, not for the faint of heart (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5103488.0).Additionally, every time you make a comment when reporting a post, it is saved so all you have to do to get an option is to enter first letter of your report in order to get all of them. So for example, if you reported post by writing "Low value post", next time all you have to do is enter "l" in the comment section and it will offer you that, and all other comments that start with "L". It makes a difference when you are mass reporting, trust me. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: LoyceMobile on January 10, 2023, 07:34:31 PM Thinking out of the box: how about a new rank for only the users who make the Top N in both Activity and Merit? That way you'll lose that rank again when someone else takes your place in the Top N. Right now, who is that member with top activity and merit?, is it you?🤣Like who is the richest man on earth type of categorizing. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Welsh on January 10, 2023, 07:43:14 PM Additionally, every time you make a comment when reporting a post, it is saved so all you have to do to get an option is to enter first letter of your report in order to get all of them. So for example, if you reported post by writing "Low value post", next time all you have to do is enter "l" in the comment section and it will offer you that, and all other comments that start with "L". It makes a difference when you are mass reporting, trust me. This only happens if you've got the option for forms, and fields to be saved. I'm personally disabled that; however I do believe most browsers ship with this by default, and it might not be changeable in the settings, but rather through editing the JSON policies of that browser. I'm only familiar with Firefox, so I don't know the process of other browsers. However, I've heavily modified the policies of Firefox, and that's one of the options I did disable. Firefox might have this option accessible in the settings though, if I remember correctly so it's quite possible some users have disabled this. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: NdaMk on January 10, 2023, 11:29:32 PM I would like to see more ranks added to the forum rather than just the legendary rank. It feels strange to ask for that when I'm not even close to achieving it. It will only lengthen the time it takes me to get there.
I like the forum the way it is, but if there is anything that could be improved, I would appreciate it being added to the forum's overall use and experience. But for now, I want the forum to remain lively and educative for many years to come as the way it is currently. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: libert19 on January 14, 2023, 06:03:38 AM Thinking out of the box: how about a new rank for only the users who make the Top N in both Activity and Merit? That way you'll lose that rank again when someone else takes your place in the Top N. Exactly, adding new rank would just pave wave for wanting newer rank in future. I'd rather get behind similar idea where member has to earn number of activity+merit to keep retaining that rank. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: joker_josue on January 14, 2023, 08:16:55 AM Thinking out of the box: how about a new rank for only the users who make the Top N in both Activity and Merit? That way you'll lose that rank again when someone else takes your place in the Top N. Right now, who is that member with top activity and merit?, is it you?🤣Like who is the richest man on earth type of categorizing. The question in my view is, what was the probability of this top changing over time. This is because users with more years and more activity, already have a high number of activity and perhaps merits. So it would be difficult for us to see this top change if these users continue more or less at the same pace. Or did you have an idea in mind, for this top to have a higher turnover or probability of different users coming in? Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: Hispo on January 15, 2023, 01:56:18 AM I know it has been mentioned before, but I would like to see the forum including a small minimalist widget with the price of Bitcoin on live.
It does not have to be complex, just show the price with a reasonable refreshment rate and the change in the last 24 hours (if possible). This is the forum of Satoshi and the crib of Bitcoin after all, it sound appropriate. However, I would understand if it was too difficult to implement with the current forum software. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: DooMAD on January 15, 2023, 10:13:03 PM Next to the 'Ignore' button, it would be cool if it showed how many DT1 and DT2 users have that particular user on ignore.
Since the trust system wasn't designed to regulate spammers and trolls, this might be a good alternative. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: uchegod-21 on January 19, 2023, 01:06:07 PM To see merit circulate very well in the forum. There are good posts that go unmerited.
If merit sources are assigned to boards of assigned to ranks preferably it will be nice to spread merits. For example; The Sceptical Chymist, 50% of your smerits allocation should go to Hero members. Ratimov, 50% of your smerits should go to Newbies to member rank fillippone, 50% of your smerits should go to full members to snr members DdmrDdmr, 50% of your smerits should go to legendary members. Etc Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: fillippone on January 19, 2023, 01:15:06 PM To see merit circulate very well in the forum. There are good posts that go unmerited. If merit sources are assigned to boards of assigned to ranks preferably it will be nice to spread merits. For example; The Sceptical Chymist, 50% of your smerits allocation should go to Hero members. Ratimov, 50% of your smerits should go to Newbies to member rank fillippone, 50% of your smerits should go to full members to snr members DdmrDdmr, 50% of your smerits should go to legendary members. Etc Very bad idea. A top down request of such is totally against the bottom-up approach of merit system. Merit find way to good posts, eventually. Also, close scrutiny where a merit source allocates his merits make it similar to a job, which is not the case. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: FatFork on January 19, 2023, 01:40:12 PM To see merit circulate very well in the forum. There are good posts that go unmerited. If merit sources are assigned to boards of assigned to ranks preferably it will be nice to spread merits. <cut> I'm not on board with this idea. As Ratimov said, when it comes to sending merit, the only thing that should be considered is the quality of the post and the poster's contribution to the community, everything else is irrelevant and should be disregarded. Let's keep the process as simple as possible. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: joker_josue on January 19, 2023, 04:13:52 PM Only the value of the post should be taken into account, everything else is not important and should not be taken into account when sending the merit. Totally agree! Merits must be given for the quality or information contained in the post. It doesn't matter if the user is legendary or newbie, what matters is the posted content. Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: DdmrDdmr on January 19, 2023, 04:36:33 PM <…> If I had to distribute sMerits in accordance to a pre-set criteria based on Rank or else, then I’d probably stepdown from being a Merit Source. The idea is to merit what you find interesting at your own free will and time. Most Merit Sources will award sMerits regardless of the recipient’s Rank, and even take a kinder eye to lower Ranks to a certain degree. There are always bound to be good post that go unmerited, even for those that earn them frequently (check column %MeritedPosts some cases here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5434211.msg61579483#msg61579483) for example). What shouldn’t happen too frequently is for someone who consistently makes good post to go unmerited. If so, these are cases to bring forward. Note 1: Rather than delimit the way how people decide to award their sMerits, I’d always vouch for, were it the case, having more Merit Sources to introduce additional diversity in criteria. Note 2: This doesn’t mean that I find ranking-up numbers (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5432462.msg61566745#msg61566745) particularly great at all. Quite the opposite for the mid-to-high ranks in fact. Edit: <..>No wonder the last time I checked the generous user's thread you dropped deep down. Yep ... (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4523027.msg61559300#msg61559300)Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: BRINIRHA on January 19, 2023, 06:00:09 PM Overall I am comfortable with this forum system. And maybe for now I don't really expect anything to be added or nothing to be changed for now in this forum. But the ideas that have been put forward by some users do look interesting. But I prefer this forum to maintain the existing system and keep the simplicity that this forum has made me comfortable. even at this age I easily understand this forum.
Title: Re: What one change would you like to see in bitcointalk in 2023 Post by: uchegod-21 on January 20, 2023, 05:36:59 PM <…> If I had to distribute sMerits in accordance to a pre-set criteria based on Rank or else, then I’d probably stepdown from being a Merit Source. I didn't reason it from this angle before. Like the idea will limit freedom and make merit source of a thing look like a regular job according to fillippone. Also from Ratimov statement, I am surprised how people write codes to be making posts. Wi their posts be connected or readable to gain merits? No wonder the last time I checked the generous user's thread you dropped deep down. |
