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There are too many forum boards, which in fact not needed. Like Bitcoin Dissussion - all child boards - Press, Meetups, Important Announcements. In Important Announcements - all threads are outdated. Or in Meta - New forum software and Bitcoin Wiki - threads are also outdated. And much more forum boards need deleted.
Good example - In Important Announcements first page newest thread is from 2018, majority from 2013.
Much less forum boards can give a lot more info for members, which is not so complicated and not outdated.
Hope forum admin give me higher rank for good suggestion.  ;D

Funny how some forum members are asking admin to add more sub-board like Cybersecurity and NFTs to the forum and yet we have some that wants to remove some.

It’s true that most of those boards don’t receive enough post update to consider it an active board but if the admin should delete the board what will happen to the thousands of threads that have been created there? To me, if a board is not useful to you or you don’t relate to the topics that are being created there then just ignore them and focus more in the boards that you want to learn from.

Maybe this is the first time I read someone ask to reduce the number of boards in this forum :D

It's not bad @OP, but I just always see a thread asking for adding more boards.

I think these thread aren't entirely for discussion, imagine if the thread in Important announcement moved to Bitcoin discussion board where it's really active everyday, no one will see that announcement except the administrator pin that thread.

Pin so many thread isn't really good too, so with the current boards we have is still fine.

The problem is that in the small and outdated forum board, can be also important thread, which can be missed.

If threads in Important Announcements will be moved to Bitcoin discussion board, which is active every day, it will be just fine, and everyone will see it, if it is important announcement.  

It's rather unique suggestion. But rather than delete, IMO it'd be better if certain inactive board under Archival board instead.


It'll be buried quickly, unless most recent important announcement pinned.

You might wanna read  FAQ: Everything you need to know about forum 'activity, account ranks and merit (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2766177.0) to get an idea how can you reach higher ranks.

For starters, use default letter colour because red one is annoying af.

If something is outdated, it doesn't mean that it still doesn't serve its purpose, and if something bothers you so much that it stings your eyes, then simply ignore that board and you won't see it at all.

As for the award, someone can always nominate you for rookie of the year, and maybe in the future there will be a special badge for that achievement ;)

I just voted to have a board for cyber security and yet you are here asking admin to delete some boards I nominate you to become a super mega legendary with 100k merits  ;D for this idea.

So many discussions here are already indexed in the search engine and if deleted the search engine will penalize the forum, Just pick the board that you want to be active, and if you don't want a board you can collapse the board by clicking the - sign after the board name, there's no need to request to delete.

Not every users want to reply in the same thread because it's considered as mega thread and some users are avoid to post in mega thread due to campaign requirement. Can you find is there any thread which created since 2011 and still active in the first page in Bitcoin Discussion board? don't count the sticky thread.

However I don't see any reason why you should use red color to post.

You are new so everything are too much for you. This forum is 14 years old not 14 days, 14 weeks or 14 months. The baby who born 14 years ago he or she is now a teen. Everything in this forum is history and you don't alter your history.

We are good with everything we have. Thank you.

I will say that too to bitcoin discussion child boards. Most people are not visiting the boards but the boards are important. But there are some boards that should not be existing on this forum. Example are mycelium board and bitcoin wallet for Android board. Those boards needs to be ceased and let people post about the wallets on wallet software.

Why we need in Archival board Chinese students with majority threads in 2011 ?

Thanks for nominating me as super mega legendary with 100k merits. So I think, you can give me some merits.  ;D Cyber security board could be very nice idea. A lot of malware all around.

Actually, it's the opposite – on smaller boards, you can easily find important threads because they stick around on the first page for longer. All these boards you mentioned serve a purpose and should stay, even if they haven't been updated for a while. Take "Important Announcements," for instance. If you read the description, it says, "Only VIPs, global moderators, and administrators can post here." So, it makes sense why there aren't many new topics, but every new post will definitely get noticed.


That's exactly what the Archival board is for.


By the way, it's considered disrespectful to write whole replies in a different font color and avoid making multiple consecutive posts. Read the forum rules (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0).

If a board is going to be deleted then how about moving all the threads in other board or in archival then rename the board to whatever board a forum member is asking or requesting for?. if a forum member is requesting for a local board then the name will be the name of the country. Anyway, I don't see a problem with not deleting a board oe sub-board since the threads will be moved to archival board if it's no longer necessary to be displayed in the board. All I can say about it is very much the same as RECYCLING things that can be use again for other purposes instead of just throwing it out. I don't know if moving boards is possible and deleting or moving threads that's in that board doesn't take a lot of work and effort. Well, just saying my opinion and all.

How will that affect your learning here in the forum? In your stay here in the forum there are boards you’ll never get to participate in. If a thread seems useless to you does not automatically mean it should get removed, if you don’t want to see the board then just collapse that section.

Btw, I don’t know what actually makes you think using red & blue text will make your post more readable, if at all it’s doing the opposite it makes me just want to put you on ignore, not gonna lie.


If you’ve been a member of this community for a time and you actually took out your time to explore the forum properly it won’t take you much time to locate news because by then you’d be able to know what each boards are for but if you’re the type that just registered an account and started chasing after merits that’s when you’ll experience issue locating boards.

Find something that is worth for discussing. It's not interesting at all.

You are still new to the forum and know a very little about the culture. When you are a community which is new to you, take your time to learn the culture then adopt. If they find something worthy in you they will receive your message. Prove your worth first.

It's your problem if you have a limited capacity to accept information in your brain, If you have a limited capacity to learn then go on another forum where there are only 5 boards let's see if you can find one, and about your request of higher ranking, I think admin should create one for you and named it forever Newbie because of your limited thinking.

This forum is about Bitcoin discussion and do you really think that Bitcoin Discussion board is not necessary?
 - On Legal childboard, we talk about what laws are enforced or planned or what's going on with it. Is that not really necessary?
 - Meetups childboard is about Bitcoin and Blockchain meetups. To be honest, this is the place where a lot of innovation ideas are born, where a lot of people make a friend, start a business, find a job and so on.
 - Important announcements - the word Important tells you everything.

Probably Press childboard is not really necessary but overall, we don't have outdated boards, we even need more boards to attract attention of people and make this forum more popular.

Why? Because it is part of the history of Bitcoin and this community!
Do you erase the history of your country because it is already old? I do not think so. Why delete or hide the history of this forum?

Attention, this is not just the history of this forum, it is the history of Bitcoin itself. Because no matter how many communities there are about crypto and Bitcoin, Bitcointalk will always be the central point of Bitcoin.

You could say that the sub boards could be merged, and bring everything together in the same place. But doing so would only cause more confusion in busier locations, and in turn make accessing the history more difficult. The way is not to reduce, but to increase. For creating more child boards, in order to start gathering historical information. So as not to get mixed up with new information. Will this be necessary? It really isn't something important to do. But, it might be something to look into in the future.

Therefore, each board in this forum has its own story, which combined makes the history of Bitcoin and the forum.

It’s a piece of history. Old boards can be used as reference to existing updates and it’s really good reading the old interactions way back the early days of Bitcoin since they have a lot of optimism for the current situation that is their future that time.

The forum will just save some space when the admin delete those which they can easily compensate if they upgrade their storage while deleting it is just like removing past history on Bitcoin.

Adding more board is appropriate rather than deleting. You can use ignore board preferences (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u= 3559595;sa=ignoreBoards) feature on your settings if you don't want to see specific board that you mention so that your own specific problem will be solve. We have no problem about that old board though.

What a lot of abuse being directed at OP for what is an entirely reasonable suggestion.

The Press board is a cesspit of legalized plagiarism and should have been closed years ago. In Wallets we have a board for Mycelium which has had about a dozen posts this year, and a board for BitcoinJ which hasn't had a single post in over 3 years. The New Forum Software is a meme at this point. These boards shouldn't be deleted, but they should absolutely be closed/locked/archived/whatever.

Meanwhile we have had many threads over many years with almost unanimous support calling for the introduction of some kind of "Security and Privacy" board. There are literally hundreds of threads every month spread across multiple different boards which would fit more appropriately in to such a board.

Why should we have boards which get a dozen posts in a year but not have a board which would get a dozen posts in an hour? It makes no sense.

It's not at all contradictory to want inactive boards closed and want topics which are widely discussed across the forum such as security/privacy to have a dedicated board. That would simply be the forum keeping up with the times, rather than continuing to be stuck in the past.

Might seem like a great idea, but then again for the purpose of the forums history

I think this should be kept unless server space is becoming a problem then these are boards to consider for retirement.

Better yet, maybe archive these boards then have them deleted to free up some server space so that whoever needs to visit such can find an archive for reference...

Nice try buddy 👏

But everyone has to go through the available ranks to get to the top :D and prove yourself you can learn the forums etiquette to avoid playing the I didn't know this rule existed when you get a higher rank.

There are many unused boards but there is no reason to delete them. Press and Meetups section used to be functional, they are no longer required. Maybe they can be moved to Archival.
Just because the Important Announcements section isn't used doesn't make it unnecessary. On the contrary, it's a good thing we don't use it because it means there is no emergency to announce.

This is a good observation by the OP but I advise against it. We should rather find ways to make those less active boards to be better attractive. This is where I believe the CMs come in, they could help but not an obligation. If you've noticed, any boards the CMs regularly forbid in campaigns are the ones that suffer from much inactivity.

They could help in this regard even if the admin will not do anything about it. Reducing the forum boards is what I will never support, we even need more if possible.

I totally agree with the suggestion of @EFS and I must say that Important Announcements section is a useful one and those who call it unnecessary should better learn about it before saying anything. If there aren't many new posts in that board that really doesn't mean that we should consider it useless because if we view that board then we can see that only useful posts are present in that board. In that board only most needed announcements are made and I don't think that those kind of announcements take place everyday.

I also think that instead of deleting a board it's better to move those boards in archival because deleting of those boards in not going to be a good thing and it won't be any helpful at all. I'm also someone who mostly uses a few boards and that doesn't mean that all of the remaining boards are there without any purpose. I believe that each board of the forum is useful and if someone wants a board to be removed then that person is personally not a visitor of that board.

I we take @OP then he isn't a top rank member and posted something that isn't really a matter for newbie members. If @OP wants to get a better rank than he/she should learn about the ranks and merit system rather than creating a thread like this to get attention. Ranking up in this forum isn't difficult as long as someone is contributing good stuff to the forum.

OP, do you have a mom dad? Grandparents? Kids, grandkids? And probably have a family album and a family tree? How many times a year do you revisit your family album, if you have one? Once a year or once every five years? Why do you need it all? Throw it in the trash. It's unnecessary history of your family, junk. That's what I'm telling you. This forum is the history of cryptocurrency, its formation. Everything started here, and you want to erase the history of cryptocurrency (no matter how pathetic it sounds)? And if you don't have enough intelligence to learn how to use search or applications from respected users LoyceV, TryNinja, it's only your problem. The forum has nothing to do with it.

And yes, I'd like to tell you, first learn the rules of this forum, and then you will ask for merits and ranks. If you take someone else's text to post it on the forum (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5457690.0), learn to link to the source, and not write all sorts of excuses that the link does not work. It works fine for one reason only, because you were able to steal the text from there. And the mind to copy and paste the link was not enough?

Look, I calmly open the link to the source. I even made you a picture.

https://telegra.ph/Trading-Bot-On-Auto-Mode---12-Profit-Per-Day---Invest-Your-Bitcoins-06-26

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/09/10/mORhw.png

P.S. I apologize for being a little off-topic.

I was thinking the same. A few weeks ago, BenCodie, I think, was running a thread of votes for cybersecurity. And I really loved that idea because of the great topics it would bring to the table. You have made a valid point about posts that are made on some thread that the OP wants to be deleted. But those threads can be moved to another section. But I do not see any reaction to this post by the OP.

This means that the removal or addition of some boards is not as easy as it is for us to remove and add some topics. I hope you understand my point, dear OP. (Joeyp) And joker_josue has already explained a lot in his post which makes 100% sense.

I think he already trashed them. No offense, dear OP, but we are all trying to emphasize the point that if some sections, topics, or boards are active but not consistently, then it does not mean we should ask moderators or owners to delete them. Because, first, they are not doing any harm to our posts. Second, their deletion will bring nothing, but yeah, it will free some space, but the topics created there are old, as Light_warrior tried to tell.

I did not know about his post history as I had not checked, but it is not surprising that a newbie just enrolled here and started to make some suggestions. I think it's one of the pick-up lines to get more attention, and dear OP, you really have one but try not to make posts like that that would encourage others to ignore you.

It's not wrong to ask suggestions but I do understand the point that there's no harm that a board or inactive threads to us and there's archival for that type of thread. If ever it will be deleted but In my opinion, I think it's much better if the board shouldn't be deleted instead temhe board should be renamed to another name like for local board if it's possible to move the board or other name that many people wants to discuss.

How about a stale thread board.

all old threads over 3 years without a comment go there.

Much like archive section but automatic after enough dead time.

Yes, there are many boards on the forum, and it is often difficult to navigate between them, but this is done precisely so that users stick to a given topic of discussion, and not jump from one subject to another, losing the thread of the conversation. Fewer boards will cause even more spam and disjointed discussions.

I feel like this is a good suggestion but may not be necessary since those boards op had mentioned are still very useful and being utilized, even though people don't normally post there do not mean that they are useless.

If you think those boards are not important, it will be quite understandable if you ignore them and focus on the ones you think are more useful and frequently visited everytime. I believe those boards are created for a reason and even though we think that the reasons are not yet being utilize, I think it's a matter of time when we'll going to feel their usefulness.

I don't know if it's the sun or the drink but I've read this as we can't regulate it so we should ban it!  ;D

I'm reading a lot and do a bit of posting in the Mining section, it was heaven on earth while Frodocopper was a mod there, you wouldn't have had a single idiotic spammy topic, everything was clean, spammer knew their post wouldn't last 24 hours till their sig quota count but now that he is gone we have a dozen topics with the same question "is it worth mining?" Heavy moderation can clean any forum.

While I agree that subboards that serve no purpose anymore should be archived I don't think one should delete boards just because of the inability to clean spam, rather than delete it why not simply disable signatures there and create some Barad-dûr version of the Ivory Tower?

This is an interesting idea and could be useful to have only active threads/boards displayed when browsing the forum.
What about is some post is made in an "staled" thread/board? Would you put it back where it originally belonged or what?

I don't think it makes sense to block them. First, because - fortunately - they are not suffering from spam. And it has a specific theme that can be used at any time.
Maybe moved to a less prominent location, but I still don't think it's something important at the moment.

What I think, and perhaps this changes the perspectives on boards and sub boards a little, is that there is more clarity about the subject to be addressed on each board. It's happened to me, and maybe it's happened a little to everyone, to have an idea for a topic and have difficulty choosing the right board to put it on. Therefore, I think the boards should be a little clearer in terms of what they exist for. Whether they are very or little active, young or old.

Either way, the cards that exist must continue to exist and not be blocked.




That's why I say that we are not in a phase to eliminate boards, but to make more appear. This would help to better reorganize the forum, and make everything easier for everyone.

New times, new themes, so maybe it's time for new boards. However, the old themes are not over, and their boards must continue.


Either way, this is just my opinion.

You're just new to the forum and what bothers you most are old and outdated threads in some selected child boards. Are you sure you know what you're here for ? We're asking to build (new needful boards) you're asking for breakdown of existing ones.

Those outdated thread are there mostly for the benefits of newbies like you OP, being informed about issues and announcements that are long before you in the forum should be regarded as a privilege.

Cause if we start deleting one board for being outdated we might end up deleting a whole lot of history from the forum, and where can we point to for reference  purposes if those sort of threads are needed to backup a claim if they get deleted as you've suggested.

Honestly speaking I know the forum is very varse and that they are Many boards and I haven't actually surfed most places as I only relate to where I fill comfortable with but something O_e_l_e_o really drawed my attention and that is the fact that a board here hasn't gotten any post in it for up to three years which if you ask is dormat enough to be deleted or moved to achieve like some users actually suggested because there is no substance or value what so ever that board provides.

You have your reasons for suggesting that such boards be deleted, and I don't want to argue against it because those who think alike may support it. What I will say is that when I first joined this forum, I was told that Satoshi was the creator of both this forum and bitcoin. I was amazed to be here, but what I appreciated the most was being able to look through his profile and see his early posts in this site, which gave me more assurance that I'm in right place to learn more about bitcoin.

If those old topics or threads from those boards were no longer available today, I believe we would have lost a lot of vital information.  Most forum members continue to reference interesting old posts that are pertinent to the topic of discussion, even when those topics have long since died or engaged in. I would prefer that all existing boards remain, since each has a role to play in the forum when the time comes.

That board contains lots of valuable content. Sometimes they can be used as references. It is true we already have too many boards and some of them have low activity and some of them are full of spam content but that doesn't make all of them useless. Maybe we can archive them but new members will never know where to find them.

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/09/10/mWe8g.png

Can you see these minus buttons? Just click them if you think there is too many boards and you do not want to see some of them. It will remove your stress. ;)

I don't agree that some boards need to be removed simply because they are rarely used - but I tend to agree that some adjustments should be made such as moving some unimportant threads to the archive. Most of the threads there are old threads - but I think there's a lot of historical value that's worth preserving.

Maybe all moderators can discuss it in a special moderator section and make some changes if necessary. But the best option for anyone who thinks it's not important is - ignore the board.

There will be no "many forum boards" they are there for their purpose.

Also, even having the best suggestion had ever been won't rank you up lmao.

You cannot say that there are boards that are no longer needed. It is true that there are many sub-boards that are inactive, but some topics are written from time to time, and the order and coordination of the forum must be maintained, which emerged as a result of the need to sort and index topics over the years and not as a result of a sudden decision.

Basically, these sub-boards were created for the purpose of indexing topics and arranging the forum into sections so that it is easy for the member to find the section in which he wants to write or search for a specific topic. Deleting subboards or merging them with the main board will result in loss of format and arrangement in the forum.

There have been multiple previous topics about the Press board. The whole board is low value trash which just serves to let people pad their post count for their campaign by simply copy and pasting an article from elsewhere, or for trash "news" sites like CoinIdol to spam with their shit articles. It's legalized plagiarism. I've reported the same bot accounts in that board literally hundreds of times each, and they are were never banned.

It would be trivially easy to clean that board up, but given there has been absolutely zero desire from admins or mods to do so over the many years this has been complained about, then we should simply close it. It serves no purpose.

This was suggested for the Press board already, but it would not stop the bot accounts owned by these "news" sites from spamming their links. Just moderate it properly. It's that simple. And if we aren't going to moderate it, then lock it.

Why? Why should we continue to have a board which hasn't been posted in in over 3 years for software which nobody uses, yet not have a board for a topic which is discussed around the forum multiple times each day?

Topics about security belong to offtopic board.
NFT topics belong to Alternate cryptocurrency board.

There will be no new board for Cybersecurity and NFTs.

Ideally, yes. In practice, no. I've said this before about security/privacy threads:


If Off Topic was actually as advertised, then yes, it would be a great place for such topics. As it stands, no serious members who would have meaningful contributions to such threads would ever see them since Off Topic is 100% low quality trash and no serious members even open that board. Put threads like this in Off Topic and they would just be filled with the usual word spun, low value, meaningless spam.

Dude , the things of deleting board  kindly put side away. We want more improvement, by improvement we want more boards, new new boards, updates, I don't think there will be lack of people to discuss there.
Anyway I am not that the person to say anything I just said my personal things. And on the above already many user mention what types of board we need so I don't wanna repeat that again. Moderator are here the experienced member are here the admin are here let them thing this.

Security is a subject discussed in all crypto space  so can anyone explain to my uncultured mind why security topics are subjected to offtopic board. Am aware a sub board for security is yet to be created but of all boards why should security topics belong to offtopic boards (is it that security is irrelevant).

 I thought topics that belongs to offtopic boards are topics that are out of context to bitcoin or cryptocurrency.

I don't give a heck about NFT's but security doesn't sit well belonging to offtopic board.

Some boards could definitely be retired, but at the same time it's not really a huge issue. I've long said we should probably lock/archive the Press board as it's not really necessary and is mostly just spammed by sig campaigners looking for an easy post and most of the threads in there are just from crappy crypto sites and not notable press. You could probably get rid of the Important Announcements as well, but maybe it might be needed in the future. With that being said, most important updates just get announced in the News section at the top under people's avatars/usernames.

I totally agree that new boards should be created for content that is debated every day.
But to create these new boars, it is not necessary to delete the old ones or block them.

They may not even have movement for over 3 years, but that doesn't mean they won't be used tomorrow. It could even be from a program that no one (today) uses. But that doesn't mean that someone will want to try it tomorrow.

Now, new boards make sense, I totally agree with that, friend.  ;)

Op rather made a good suggestion but I am surprised at the level of criticism on Op. His suggestion must have come without flaws, which means it needs to be refined and not to be wholly criticised.
According to o_e_l_e_o, instead of deleting such barely used boards, it could be locked permanently. But on a second thought, why lock when no one uses them. If adding more boards will be heavy and lag the forum, the older and outaded ones should be deleted but if allowing old boards will not prevent the birth of new boards, they should be allowed.
The new forum software is a topic for another day.

Yep--but the old rule is that you can't please everyone all of the time.  That said, this is the first time I'm seeing a request to delete any child boards.  What we usually see is just what you said, people requesting subsections for crap like NFTs.

I don't visit most of the sections OP mentioned, so I'm not sure how active they are (I'm curious about the new forum software section in particular).  What I'm fairly sure of is that if Theymos lifted his finger to create a board or a child board, it's not likely he's going to delete it anytime soon.  But he's surprised me in the past, so don't take my post as speaking for him.

If a board is obviously a dead one with little chance of being resuscitated, then I would agree with OP that Theymos ought to nuke it.  That only makes sense, right?

Oh, what a surprise! OP is doing the same thing: Altcoin Wallet Board In Alternate Cryptocurrencies Needed - Why Admin Sleep ? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5466457.msg62830579#msg62830579)

Looks like someone took a wrong turn somewhere. You know, when you want to visit shitcoinstalk.org, but autocorrect redirects you to the wrong forum.  ;)

Some board may not be active or may look outdated as you think but contains some meaningful information which people could get reference at, deleting of board won't help to make here a better place rather it will remove some vital information that is kept on a record.
Yeah it's true that I have came across some topics request admin to add additional sub-board were some specific discussion would take place instead of posting them at the sections where it does not belong, however such topic can be revived if you think you want to make some of them active.
Basically I have found a topic that was created around 2013 after many years inactive some members found it useful and started posting back there again.

Funny dude. But of course, you shouldn't stop at asking for just a rank upgrade. Ask to be made an admin too 🙄

This should be the way to go, archive the inactive boards instead of deleting them so that the forum doesn't lose any important topic in those boards.

I guess it was OP's way of drawing emphasis to the comments they made.

The whole inconvenience for the OP is that he is a newbie. Perhaps he previously visited other forums with bright banners and a lot of advertising, and now, having come here, he really likes to use colored fonts. OP, finding something on the forum is not that difficult. Try to learn about search methods; thereby, you will save time, as you put it, and maybe get up-to-date information today, as well as what it was like when the forum was founded. Sometimes such proposals cause irritation; you can notice this. People have been here for years, and everyone likes everything, and waiting for a reward from the admin for such advice is tantamount to waiting for weather from the sea. Have you heard the saying, "You can’t enter someone else’s monastery with your own rules"?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5276341.0

I think we need to add a dedicated domain name trading board. Domain names are perfect for Bitcoin payments, but the virtual sales boards are full of (to me ) useless stuff that keeps getting bumped ( does this still happen? ).

OP are you just coming or what?
Is it me or you complaining over something you know won't workout. Members are trying to get more boards and you want the ones that have been here even before you joined the Forum to be deleted? Hell no bro.
Come on and save yourself the stress and have a rethink, instead of deleting boards is best you say dead or old post that are not relevant to be deleted insteed

You may have raised a valid point on your suggestion to deleting some boards but if you look at it, I feel each board was created to serve a purpose and while you feel they may be outdated, some newbies can come on and find something useful from it. It's unfair to just wake up and suddenly brush their irrelevance when you're still practically a newbie. Hey, you might argue that change doesn't have to do with ranks, but then again, some things can't just be changed just because you feel an update is needed or you've got a brilliant idea how the forum should be run. So what, if this is implemented, what new upgrade will you be itching to implement? This leads me to believe you will completely revamp this forum were you in charge, huh? Maybe your role model is Elon Musk. ;D

Dude, there's so many ways to rise in ranks, not this pitiable excuse.

Maybe i should assume that someone like you don't have something to be posting there and you need to understand this that on this forum you can't be everywhere, you have to post where you think you have something to offer, I don't expect each boards to have that traction as you expected because of the specific purpose it was created, some are suggesting additional boards while other are bringing reduction in their numbers, everyone coming with his own risk.

I don't see any valid point in deleting some boards. Why delete entire boards, if there is an opportunity to archive or close topics that have become uninteresting, or have been answered those questions that were raised in them? The boards, in turn, are much more extensive and touch on a large number of topical issues. No one will delete them, it doesn't make any sense. It feels like the OP simply didn't want to search and figure out how the system works here.

So far board removing action is not yet taken so far. deleting full board will result in lose of so much data and there is chance that we would loss useful data also. There is option available for report to moderator , If you think that any thread should not be on this forum more than samply report it. If admin agree and feel like you, he will delete it .


It is not easy to delete all old post. many thread in service, bounties section are totally inactive and no chance of activity in the future but still these Thread are useful to check the scammers/alts and other useful information. similarly many threads, inactive for long time contains idea of members which is I think somehow helpful and shouldn't be deleted.

If anything happens to a board, sub board, topics and posts in that board will be moved to Archival board.

It those topics and posts are deleted, they will still be stored in forum database, offline. They won't be lost forever, first stored in live servers, later will be stored in offline backups.

About forum privacy policy (https://bitcointalk.org/privacy.php)

I know but I believe that if the head of the table wants something to be done about it, it must be done, they know how to do things in the right manner.
Is never easy but since the OP want us to do things to his own bidding then we have no choice than to give him what he wants or better still he should do it him self.
But to be frank with you, any thread that's not of use like those locked threads (I mean the ones that are not useful)  should be removed, that's what the OP should have said.