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Title: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: Zoomic on September 13, 2023, 10:13:50 AM
There are confusing things about this forum, hence the title of this thread. I will need clarity by older members with sound knowledge of the forum. But then everyone is free to write or respond, but it should worth it.

After creating censoring foul words  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5465860.0), I learnt many things from old members of this forum, especially LoyceV (you shared external links for me), philipma1957, Rikafip and lots more. I understood the uniqueness of this forum as it concerns freedom. I ignorantly requested to be deprived the freedom I should enjoy. In the same manner I feel that hundreds of other users are ignorantly requesting theymos to retrieve the freedom we enjoy at large in the forum.

Let me discuss this in the following sub headings;
Altcoin wallets child board suggestion
Someone created a topic (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5466457.0) suggesting that a sub board for the above be created. The suggestion is actually one of those that might not be considered. But then, I read where other forum members told the OP that "Here is bitcointalk, if he desires such a board he should create an altcoin forum and establish the board". This is discriminatory or rather telling theymos that he was wrong to create the altcoin section. I learnt that Ethereum project started from this forum. If altcoins are as bad as projected, why do we have the boards in this forum?

You came to this forum to earn
This is another phrase that is used against newcomers. Did anyone join this forum to recreate the forum? You will see someone wearing high paying signature and yet will frustrate a newcomer trying to rank up because they perceived the newcomer came for money. Maybe theymos will have to deactivate signature campaign let's see how many people will remain active here genuinely.

Merit fishing
You will see someone with thousands of merits accusing another person with 5 merits of merit fishing. I mean there is a merit system, it should not be a crime if anyone makes posts to earn merits in order to rank up, whether they fish for it, hunt it or the merits locate them (which is very rare.)

Bounty hunting
Bounty hunters are treated as menace in the forum. Once you are known as a bounty person, you will be treated as an anti-bitcointalk. But the bounty section is in this forum. If I am not mistaking, bounty should be the means Satoshi or theymos promoted bitcoin. If someone want to share links and get paid for it, they should be left alone to do it.

This is about freedom, let us allow everyone to enjoy this freedom at the confine of the forum rules and regulations.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: EarnOnVictor on September 13, 2023, 10:31:23 AM
Altcoin wallets child board suggestion
Someone created a topic (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5466457.0) suggesting that a sub board for the above be created. The suggestion is actually one of those that might not be considered. But then, I read where other forum members told the OP that "Here is bitcointalk, if he desires such a board he should create an altcoin forum and establish the board". This is discriminatory or rather telling theymos that he was wrong to create the altcoin section. I learnt that Ethereum project started from this forum. If altcoins are as bad as projected, why do we have the boards in this forum?
The person is on point. This is a Bitcoin forum, altcoins included are only privileged.

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You came to this forum to earn
This is another phrase that is used against newcomers. Did anyone join this forum to recreate the forum? You will see someone wearing high paying signature and yet will frustrate a newcomer trying to rank up because they perceived the newcomer came for money. Maybe theymos will have to deactivate signature campaign let's see how many people will remain active here genuinely.
Don't mind those who display such if they are in campaigns. If not for the money, why did they join campaigns?

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Merit fishing
You will see someone with thousands of merits accusing another person with 5 merits of merit fishing. I mean there is a merit system, it should not be a crime if anyone makes posts to earn merits in order to rank up, whether they fish for it, hunt it or the merits locate them (which is very rare.)
You can't compare this entirely, and note that merit farming is bad, it encourages low-quality posting and cheating. It's also obvious that those with thousands of merits are doing far better in the quality of their posts, especially on the general board. But the issues happening in local boards are the reasons why I can't entirely disagree with you.

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Bounty hunting
Bounty hunters are treated as menace in the forum. Once you are known as a bounty person, you will be treated as an anti-bitcointalk. But the bounty section is in this forum. If I am not mistaking, bounty should be the means Satoshi or theymos promoted bitcoin. If someone want to share links and get paid for it, they should be left alone to do it.

This is about freedom, let us allow everyone to enjoy this freedom at the confine of the forum rules and regulations.
Do you know bounty hunting very well? You will know that it's a desperate approach and they often have links and affiliates that could propagate and distribute fake information and scams. They are not so honourable if I must say. More so, their activity/task is outside the forum.

Personally, I don't discriminate if they write well, but try to investigate, these bounty hunters don't post quality. Fast earning is in their minds, and often write low-quality posts. If not, their posts would naturally attract merits even if it's little.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: FatFork on September 13, 2023, 10:37:59 AM
This is about freedom, let us allow everyone to enjoy this freedom at the confine of the forum rules and regulations.

Yes, people have the freedom to express their opinions. So what are you ranting about?


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: Saisher on September 13, 2023, 10:51:05 AM

Maybe theymos will have to deactivate signature campaign let's see how many people will remain active here genuinely.



Why not set an example take out your signature and do the things you do now, like ranting in this forum. the ones who should say this are those members who do not wear signatures and just do it for the passion.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: LoyceMobile on September 13, 2023, 10:53:58 AM
If altcoins are as bad as projected, why do we have the boards in this forum?
One word: freedom! Posting about altcoins is allowed, just like it's allowed to warn people that most of them are only created to make the creator rich. They created their own because they were too late to get Bitcoin early. After that they hype it, and get rich. That includes centralized Ethereum.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: Zoomic on September 13, 2023, 11:05:51 AM
This is about freedom, let us allow everyone to enjoy this freedom at the confine of the forum rules and regulations.

Yes, people have the freedom to express their opinions. So what are you ranting about?

Not actually about freedom of speech, but freedom of one's speech shouldn't be in such a way to make another believe they lost their own freedom or they never had the freedom.

If altcoins are as bad as projected, why do we have the boards in this forum?
One word: freedom! Posting about altcoins is allowed, just like it's allowed to warn people that most of them are only created to make the creator rich. They created their own because they were too late to get Bitcoin early. After that they hype it, and get rich. That includes centralized Ethereum.
That's correct. We know that majority of the altcoins are scam and only intended to enrich the creators. But we still have a few genuine ones. Besides I can be correct to say that bitcoin was once a shit coin, when it was worth many figures less than a cent. But today bitcoin remains the king of crypto. Tomorrow is had to predict.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: Jawhead999 on September 13, 2023, 11:06:55 AM
@OP I think you should learn how to use ignore button if you can't accept user that saying opposite with your thinking.

Since you blame users who're saying other user create a merit fishing thread, do you supporting a cheater who create many accounts to milk this forum?

Why not set an example take out your signature and do the things you do now, like ranting in this forum. the ones who should say this are those members who do not wear signatures and just do it for the passion.
There are many hypocrite in this forum, sometime I wonder if they're really unaware what they did or they're very very stupid.

Besides I can be correct to say that bitcoin was once a shit coin, when it was worth many figures less than a cent.
Only the price that is the factor of a shitcoin? lol, you need to learn about decentralization.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: LoyceMobile on September 13, 2023, 11:10:11 AM
[Besides I can be correct to say that bitcoin was once a shit coin, when it was worth many figures less than a cent.
The word shitcoin didn't exist when Bitcoin was created. Being a shitcoin has nothing to do with the price.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: Zoomic on September 13, 2023, 11:24:25 AM
Since you blame users who're saying other user create a merit fishing thread, do you supporting a cheater who create many accounts to milk this forum?
It seems that you missed the last words of the topic
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This is about freedom, let us allow everyone to enjoy this freedom at the confine of the forum rules and regulations.


Only the price that is the factor of a shitcoin? lol, you need to learn about decentralization.
Not only price. And there are also decentralized projects that failed. Even if you know the ability of the team behind the project, have read the whitepaper and road map, it may still fail.
The topic is not about altcoins, I am not defending altcoins but I am saying that altcoin promoters or lovers shouldn't be segregated. Besides many of us defending bitcoin as if it is in a war with altcoins may have their portfolio to be more of the altcoins.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: aioc on September 13, 2023, 11:47:14 AM
Besides I can be correct to say that bitcoin was once a shit coin, when it was worth many figures less than a cent. But today bitcoin remains the king of crypto. Tomorrow is had to predict.

Where did you get this idea? nobody calls Bitcoin a shit coin when it was first created it applies to altcoins or any Cryptocurrency that wasn't Bitcoin
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What Is a Shitcoin?
The first time we heard about shitcoins was in 2010 when Gavin Andresen “coined the term” to describe altcoins or any cryptocurrency that wasn’t Bitcoin (BTC).

https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/its-shitcoin-day-in-the-cryptocurrency-universe-84cbfbdfd47c

It's okay to enjoy your freedom of speech here as long as you are posting the right information or you are just propagating fake information.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: Hatchy on September 13, 2023, 11:52:14 AM
Op, Everyone has freedom on the forum but yours ends when you violate the rules.
Sometimes its best to ignore unnecessary replies made by some members as it hasno possible effect on you.no board on the forum is useless, there were all created for a reason.but all altcoin discussions or participants has no business with the other Bitcoin boards so its better they stay there to avoid such discrimination.i still don't get why you are so upset mate.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: 348Judah on September 13, 2023, 12:12:12 PM
I ignorantly requested to be deprived the freedom I should enjoy. In the same manner I feel that hundreds of other users are ignorantly requesting theymos to retrieve the freedom we enjoy at large in the forum.

How many has he acted upon, if you must be a member of this forum, then you must learn to be tolerant, because lot will vebsaid concerning you and against you, but you have to concentrate in other not to let that affect your stay and growth on the forum.

Let me discuss this in the following sub headings;
Altcoin wallets child board suggestion
Someone created a topic (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5466457.0) suggesting that a sub board for the above be created. The suggestion is actually one of those that might not be considered. But then, I read where other forum members told the OP that "Here is bitcointalk, if he desires such a board he should create an altcoin forum and establish the board". This is discriminatory or rather telling theymos that he was wrong to create the altcoin section. I learnt that Ethereum project started from this forum. If altcoins are as bad as projected, why do we have the boards in this forum?

Do you actually have to be moved by what everyone says, if i may ask you, how many if these things said by various forum members have been put into consideration by Theymos, you have to understand that this forum is a large community that comprises of people from different background, culture and ethnics, do your own and leave the rest, don't be moved by what others are doing because you may appear being distracted to loose focus, concentrate on what brought you, every other thing is secondary, maybe that's why this forum is called bitcointalk, it allows everyone to talk his own.

You came to this forum to earn
This is another phrase that is used against newcomers. Did anyone join this forum to recreate the forum? You will see someone wearing high paying signature and yet will frustrate a newcomer trying to rank up because they perceived the newcomer came for money. Maybe theymos will have to deactivate signature campaign let's see how many people will remain active here genuinely.

Theymos is not the owner of those signature campaigns, but can decide to stop any form of adverts in such regard, but come to think of it this way, is the comment made affecting the progress of the forum? aren't some people depending their life income on that? If it had been that effective then maybe someone like you wouldn't have been placed with the opportunity to join a signature campaign when they had scolded on you, lastly, most of these newbies, try to check into the reason that led to what they received, you will discover they are wrong and were being corrected.

Merit fishing
You will see someone with thousands of merits accusing another person with 5 merits of merit fishing. I mean there is a merit system, it should not be a crime if anyone makes posts to earn merits in order to rank up, whether they fish for it, hunt it or the merits locate them (which is very rare.)

What they want is for making a post with neutral and open mind not to phish merits, then in doing so merits csn come in, but when it's showing that you're attempting to phish merits, they will know, despite that, you owe your merits because you earn them, you hold no one accountable as long as you're not abusing the merit system according to the expected standard.

Bounty hunting
Bounty hunters are treated as menace in the forum. Once you are known as a bounty person, you will be treated as an anti-bitcointalk. But the bounty section is in this forum. If I am not mistaking, bounty should be the means Satoshi or theymos promoted bitcoin. If someone want to share links and get paid for it, they should be left alone to do it.

This is about freedom, let us allow everyone to enjoy this freedom at the confine of the forum rules and regulations.

No onenis holding anyone down, you should know that this forum is not a bounty forum, it's bitcoin discussion forum, bounties together with other boards were allowed to make it all fun to be with, morr than the 90 percentage ofbthe bounty hunters are not posting anything that has to do with bitcoin, why should they earn merits on bounties, most of them are scammers and trollers, why should they be trusted.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: examplens on September 13, 2023, 12:20:37 PM
You came to this forum to earn

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Merit fishing

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Bounty hunting

Yesterday I wrote something on this topic in a topic in B&H, I don't know if something like that prompted you to start this topic.
The way you wrote, you generalize this attitude and it sounds like it's a rule. So, nobody here has anything against making money on this forum, collecting merit or bounty hunters. Everything is acceptable here, the problem arises when it becomes a priority and some basic rules of the forum are violated. Official or unofficial regardless.
So, newcomers only because of potential earnings, most often they create a bunch of spam, useless and off-topic discussions. It can be tiring for older members.

[Besides I can be correct to say that bitcoin was once a shit coin, when it was worth many figures less than a cent.
The word shitcoin didn't exist when Bitcoin was created. Being a shitcoin has nothing to do with the price.

The name shitcoin probably has something to do with the fact that most altcoins last one to two years. Now let's look at the altcoin section, how many of them are still active even though they were created more than two years ago? Some do exist, but the interest in them and their value are in the range of statistical error.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: FatFork on September 13, 2023, 12:49:02 PM
Only the price that is the factor of a shitcoin? lol, you need to learn about decentralization.
Not only price.

Then, what other factors did you have in mind when you said this:
"Besides I can be correct to say that bitcoin was once a shit coin, when it was worth many figures less than a cent."

No, you can't be correct in saying that because nobody in their right mind called Bitcoin that.

The term "shitcoin" was first used by member ribuck back in 2010, when he perfectly predicted what would happen in the following years:

...it would have to be better in some way other than just "I started the new chain, so I've got a lot of the easy-to-generate-at-the-beginning-coins."
You say that now, but if bitcoin really takes off I can see lots of get-rich-quick imitators coming on the scene: gitcoin, nitcoin, witcoin, titcoin, shitcoin... Some of them are sure to attract users with promises like "Why use bitcoin, where you can only generate 50 bitcoins every few months? Use shitcoin instead, and you'll get 51 shitcoins every 2 minutes".

Of course the cheap imitators will disappear as quickly as those 1990s "internet currencies" like flooz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flooz.com) and beenz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beenz.com), but lots of people will get burned along the way.

From that point on, the term "shitcoin" was a synonym used for all the clones and copycats of Bitcoin, with no real purpose, that followed.

I am not defending altcoins but I am saying that altcoin promoters or lovers shouldn't be segregated.

Why not? Even those altcoin lovers (God forgive me for saying this) have the right to speak their mind, and they do have their own space on this forum. The Altcoins section is there mainly because all altcoins are basically spin-offs of Bitcoin, so they're connected to Bitcoin and blockchain tech in some way. But let's be real, that doesn't mean the altcoins talk is super crucial for the whole Bitcoin ecosystem.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: PytagoraZ on September 13, 2023, 01:50:09 PM
This is about freedom, let us allow everyone to enjoy this freedom at the confine of the forum rules and regulations.

I'd like to comment, but you've already answered your own question. So what should I talk about...


But I'm glad you made the post and I'm sure it wasn't an easy thing, you put a lot of thought into making this post. I also post often and often receive criticism, but I am still alive today. That's the good news  ;D


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: The Sceptical Chymist on September 13, 2023, 10:50:04 PM
OP, you might have noticed that I talk shit about bounty hunters and sig campaign spammers and the like, but understand two thing:

1) I have signatures and avatars on ignore, so unless I check a member's profile manually I have no idea if they're participating in a bounty or campaign.  The shit-talking I do is based on years of prior experience with people who are incentivized to post on bitcointalk.  Let me ask you, have you been on any other forum and seen a new member create a thread asking how they can rank up or make good posts?  I seriously doubt it, and if you say you have I'd like to see the evidence. 

Many older members did not come here so that they could get paid to post, even if they're doing so now.  If someone came here due to their curiosity about, or passion for, bitcoin then why wouldn't they want to get some extra BTC for what they'd be doing already?  That's true of a lot of old-timers.

2) It is without question the members who participate in bounties or bitcoin-paying sig campaigns that aren't selective about who they accept that are responsible for most of the garbage posts here, and it's the reason why Bitcoin Discussion (which should be the best section here) is infested with low-quality posts.  Campaigns and bounties primarily pay for posts in English, but this is a global forum and for many members English is probably not even their second language.  So what happens?  People who can't write English to save their lives come here to try to earn a living by writing the most insipid nonsense ever written in the history of discussion forums (except for the ones that still allow "+1", "great post", and the like).

Wonder why the merit system was introduced in the first place?  Go back to December 2017 in Meta, and you'll probably find that there were a bunch of threads about forum post quality.  It had been a major issue for years prior, but it hit its boiling point right before Theymos dropped the merit system on us in Jan. 2018.  And let me tell you, senior members were not a big part of the problem unless those accounts had been bought or hacked.

Don't get discouraged if you see a lot of shit-talking, though.  Any new member can establish themselves if they really want to, and I've seen that time and time again.  But I wish it wasn't as rare a case as it is for that to happen.  Most newbies are just here because they heard they could earn money online.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: Pokapoka124 on September 13, 2023, 11:17:19 PM

Bounty hunting
Bounty hunters are treated as menace in the forum. Once you are known as a bounty person, you will be treated as an anti-bitcointalk. But the bounty section is in this forum. If I am not mistaking, bounty should be the means Satoshi or theymos promoted bitcoin. If someone want to share links and get paid for it, they should be left alone to do it.

This is about freedom, let us allow everyone to enjoy this freedom at the confine of the forum rules and regulations.
Before drawing your conclusions and casting blame fingers. Can you show me one bounty hunter whose posts are constructive and on-point? What you will find is a bunch of generic posts in altcoins discussion and wall observer threads. The idea that older members set out to bully or degrade newbies is not true. I’m not disputing that sometimes the replies may be harsh but if that gets you down I wonder how you made it through life all this time.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: philipma1957 on September 14, 2023, 02:24:50 AM
There are confusing things about this forum, hence the title of this thread. I will need clarity by older members with sound knowledge of the forum. But then everyone is free to write or respond, but it should worth it.

After creating censoring foul words  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5465860.0), I learnt many things from old members of this forum, especially LoyceV (you shared external links for me), philipma1957, Rikafip and lots more. I understood the uniqueness of this forum as it concerns freedom. I ignorantly requested to be deprived the freedom I should enjoy. In the same manner I feel that hundreds of other users are ignorantly requesting theymos to retrieve the freedom we enjoy at large in the forum.

Let me discuss this in the following sub headings;
Altcoin wallets child board suggestion
Someone created a topic (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5466457.0) suggesting that a sub board for the above be created. The suggestion is actually one of those that might not be considered. But then, I read where other forum members told the OP that "Here is bitcointalk, if he desires such a board he should create an altcoin forum and establish the board". This is discriminatory or rather telling theymos that he was wrong to create the altcoin section. I learnt that Ethereum project started from this forum. If altcoins are as bad as projected, why do we have the boards in this forum?

<big snip>


This is about freedom, let us allow everyone to enjoy this freedom at the confine of the forum rules and regulations.

Some altcoins belong and are absolutely needed for crypto to continue.

The vast majority are terrible garbage and do not belong.

I am more inclusive of Pow coins than I am of Pos coins.

I like the bitcointalk has an alt coin section and have posted hundreds of photos (now dead due to Imgur)

I am particularly fond of Scrypt and the LTC/Doge merged mining L7 machine  built by bitmain.

Some disagree with me and want all BTC and purity of it and it alone.

I tend to think of them as exclusionist's and let them be as much as I can.

This does not mean I like the 1000's of altcoins that do exist. But I do recogonize some altcoins are decent.


https://coinmarketcap.com

lists a lot of coins.

 last I looked over 9000 coins.

   
9129

Liquidity Money


9130

SOLANA 2.0


9131

POWER


are the last three on their list on page 92

I am sure under 200 of these coins have worth



Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: Don Pedro Dinero on September 14, 2023, 02:39:12 AM
Maybe theymos will have to deactivate signature campaign let's see how many people will remain active here genuinely.

To be honest, what you just said is a load of rubbish. At the time it was considered to ban signature campaigns or disable signatures but to stop the spam problem in the forum where you had a lot of people writing rubbish to rank up and earn money.

As theymos is smarter than that, he came up with the idea of the merit system, which reduced the spam problem a lot because before it was introduced people would rank up simply by seniority, and many would just do it by writing rubbish one-liners in mega-threads and stuff like that. I was on the forum during the changeover, when the merit system was introduced, so I could see what happened.

What you call genuineness I'll explain it to you: if theymos ends with the signature campaigns today, tomorrow traffic would be reduced so much that you wouldn't even recognise the forum. I've seen other forums die but for other reasons, and that's when you go there and you think about replying to a thread but you see that in most of them the last reply was a few days or even weeks ago.

On the other hand that would be giving away traffic to other forums, where the genuineness you are talking about would go, and if this forum is mainly to preserve Satoshi's writings I think it is better if it remains an active forum than if it looks like a tomb or a desert.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: philipma1957 on September 14, 2023, 02:49:14 AM
Maybe theymos will have to deactivate signature campaign let's see how many people will remain active here genuinely.

To be honest, what you just said is a load of rubbish. At the time it was considered to ban signature campaigns or disable signatures but to stop the spam problem in the forum where you had a lot of people writing rubbish to rank up and earn money.

As theymos is smarter than that, he came up with the idea of the merit system, which reduced the spam problem a lot because before it was introduced people would rank up simply by seniority, and many would just do it by writing rubbish one-liners in mega-threads and stuff like that. I was on the forum during the changeover, when the merit system was introduced, so I could see what happened.

What you call genuineness I'll explain it to you: if theymos ends with the signature campaigns today, tomorrow traffic would be reduced so much that you wouldn't even recognise the forum. I've seen other forums die but for other reasons, and that's when you go there and you think about replying to a thread but you see that in most of them the last reply was a few days or even weeks ago.

On the other hand that would be giving away traffic to other forums, where the genuineness you are talking about would go, and if this forum is mainly to preserve Satoshi's writings I think it is better if it remains an active forum than if it looks like a tomb or a desert.

I have to agree you I believe that more than 50% of the posts on bitcointalk are due to payment of bounties.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: NotATether on September 14, 2023, 08:07:58 AM
Altcoin wallets child board suggestion
Someone created a topic (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5466457.0) suggesting that a sub board for the above be created. The suggestion is actually one of those that might not be considered. But then, I read where other forum members told the OP that "Here is bitcointalk, if he desires such a board he should create an altcoin forum and establish the board". This is discriminatory or rather telling theymos that he was wrong to create the altcoin section. I learnt that Ethereum project started from this forum. If altcoins are as bad as projected, why do we have the boards in this forum?

There is already a gigantic altcoins board with different sections and anyone who wants to make comments to improve a particular coin can just state it on the coin's ANN thread instead of having a separate board just for suggestions (which is basically what Altcoin Announcements board is for).

You came to this forum to earn
This is another phrase that is used against newcomers. Did anyone join this forum to recreate the forum? You will see someone wearing high paying signature and yet will frustrate a newcomer trying to rank up because they perceived the newcomer came for money. Maybe theymos will have to deactivate signature campaign let's see how many people will remain active here genuinely.

Merit fishing
You will see someone with thousands of merits accusing another person with 5 merits of merit fishing. I mean there is a merit system, it should not be a crime if anyone makes posts to earn merits in order to rank up, whether they fish for it, hunt it or the merits locate them (which is very rare.)

The signature campaigns are obviously looking for users with a good reputation (= merits) to promote their service, I mean think about it - how many people are going to click on links from newbie accounts? Remember that newbies, Jr members and other low ranks have only a few posts on the forum, OR they have many posts but they are just concentrated on one or two threads (because if the posts were distributed on many threads and they are good posts, then they will no longer be newbies). So it is less likely that people will find their post through searching or browsing, and that is one of the major reasons why they pick people with a large rank like Sr. member.

Then you have people who want to make money quickly but do not want to put the time to make a good posts. When you already have the required rank and merits to join, if you are just making low-quality post then nobody is going to read that post, they will just skip it, and it will be to the loss of the service since the campaign will not attract new users. Even worse is that nowadays, people don't have to put any effort into using their head while making a post, they just use ChatGPT which will make garbage answers in relation to blockchain, which is why it was banned in Stack Overflow and other places, because it is useful for getting correct answers for complex questions.

And the people who do not have the required rank to join a campaign but are restless for making money will also exhibit these kind of behavior because they have no patience to make good posts, that is why they get called out because this behavior is not only bad for the forum it is also bad for the campaigns being advertised.

Bounty hunting
Bounty hunters are treated as menace in the forum. Once you are known as a bounty person, you will be treated as an anti-bitcointalk. But the bounty section is in this forum. If I am not mistaking, bounty should be the means Satoshi or theymos promoted bitcoin. If someone want to share links and get paid for it, they should be left alone to do it.

This is one that I don't understand, Bounty hunting is perfectly legal here, but there are too many people who register, make some plagiarism to get a few bounty rewards, and leave - or get banned first before they leave. Then they make more accounts to evade the ban to continue claiming the rewards. In short, it is creating a lot of spam that has to be cleaned up using Report to Moderator, but it is not true that all bounty hunters are bad.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: Gladitorcomeback on September 14, 2023, 10:40:02 AM

You came to this forum to earn
This is another phrase that is used against newcomers. Did anyone join this forum to recreate the forum? You will see someone wearing high paying signature and yet will frustrate a newcomer trying to rank up because they perceived the newcomer came for money. Maybe theymos will have to deactivate signature campaign let's see how many people will remain active here genuinely.

Actually sometimes a newbie didn't carrying much about Bitcointalk rules and  spamming so old experience use this phrase but yes agree that now mostly full member and little ranked up member also using this phrase. 90% member are now registering just for earning and as long as they don't break the rules, no problem

Merit fishing
You will see someone with thousands of merits accusing another person with 5 merits of merit fishing.


Good point and I think this is also answers to those who are against wall observer merit sharing.

Bounty hunting
Bounty hunters are treated as menace in the forum. Once you are known as a bounty person, you will be treated as an anti-bitcointalk. But the bounty section is in this forum.

If washroom is available in your factory and some workers wasting 8 hours in washroom and also saying if this is bad then why these washroom is the part of the factory, will the workers and manager will accept this action?

This is about freedom, let us allow everyone to enjoy this freedom at the confine of the forum rules and regulations.

You are allowed and similarly crictism is allowed here. kindly leave critics free to criticize .


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: Zoomic on September 15, 2023, 08:02:04 AM
OP, you might have noticed that I talk shit about bounty hunters and sig campaign spammers and the like, but understand two thing:
No particular emphasy on your person, it is a kind of common saying in the forum, especially from old users of the forum.

1) I have signatures and avatars on ignore, so unless I check a member's profile manually I have no idea if they're participating in a bounty or campaign.
Doesn't this defeat the idea of signature campaign in the forum? I mean, if everyone has signatures on ignore, obviously traffic won't be generated from the forum and companies will not want to run signature campaign in the forum again.

  The shit-talking I do is based on years of prior experience with people who are incentivized to post on bitcointalk.  Let me ask you, have you been on any other forum and seen a new member create a thread asking how they can rank up or make good posts?  I seriously doubt it, and if you say you have I'd like to see the evidence. 

I learnt that spamming was so bad years ago. Other forums, people likely ask about rules and regulations and not necessarily about how to be successful in the forum.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: tranthidung on September 15, 2023, 02:00:25 PM
Wonder why the merit system was introduced in the first place?  Go back to December 2017 in Meta, and you'll probably find that there were a bunch of threads about forum post quality.  It had been a major issue for years prior, but it hit its boiling point right before Theymos dropped the merit system on us in Jan. 2018.
theymos asked community opinion about it, with some possible solutions, one of which is to shut down all signatures in Bitcointalk.
  • Ideas for improving post quality? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2605767.0)
  • The he launched the merit system about one month later. Merit & new rank requirement (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0)
  • It reduces spam a bit but after shit posters adapted too it, they came back, so we have Enhanced newbie restrictions & requirements (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5030366.0)
  • Some more historic details in that topic (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5101718.0)
Visually, I know it recalls your pain with shit posting endemic in the past, before the merit system kicks off.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: Etranger on September 15, 2023, 02:25:04 PM
It's also obvious that those with thousands of merits are doing far better in the quality of their posts, especially on the general board.

This is not always the case. There are many more merit sources concentrated in the general board, especially in the Technical support, in Meta, in Reputation. Everything there is filled with merits, because newbies write there the most, they ask questions to which a million answers are given immediately, because such questions have already been asked many times before. And the sources give merit for these regular answers. And most often they give it to heroes and legendaries, because they are the first to write the answers, because they have already written them many, many times.

While in other sections, on the contrary, there is a lack of merit sources. And those who write mainly there - in Local boards, in Altcoin Discussions, in Trading Discussion - receive less merits. But this is not always because they are worse in the quality of their posts. But because their posts are simply noticed less often.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: philipma1957 on September 15, 2023, 02:33:47 PM
OP, you might have noticed that I talk shit about bounty hunters and sig campaign spammers and the like, but understand two thing:
No particular emphasy on your person, it is a kind of common saying in the forum, especially from old users of the forum.

1) I have signatures and avatars on ignore, so unless I check a member's profile manually I have no idea if they're participating in a bounty or campaign.
Doesn't this defeat the idea of signature campaign in the forum? I mean, if everyone has signatures on ignore, obviously traffic won't be generated from the forum and companies will not want to run signature campaign in the forum again.

  The shit-talking I do is based on years of prior experience with people who are incentivized to post on bitcointalk.  Let me ask you, have you been on any other forum and seen a new member create a thread asking how they can rank up or make good posts?  I seriously doubt it, and if you say you have I'd like to see the evidence. 

I learnt that spamming was so bad years ago. Other forums, people likely ask about rules and regulations and not necessarily about how to be successful in the forum.

I have had somewhat of a love hate relationship with signature campaigns.

I have gone the route of ignore people.
I have gone the route of ignore signature’s
I have gone the route of ignore avatar’s

I have also decided to accept all of it and really admire the rarity of this forum allowing the degree of free speech 🎤 and signature’s that it does.

I have read many posts of the sceptical chemist even when he was only a pharmacist (sorry cant quite remember the old name) I used to think that a lot of his post were spot on.

In fact I still do. But in order to have the degree of free speech we have with the signature possibility for us all the sceptical chemist ideas and beliefs and practices need to be allowed and at the same time not practiced be all of us on the forum.

  I give theymos a lot of credit for having a good way of balancing the forum.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: Poker Player on September 15, 2023, 03:03:17 PM
I have had somewhat of a love hate relationship with signature campaigns.

I have gone the route of ignore people.
I have gone the route of ignore signature’s
I have gone the route of ignore avatar’s

I have also decided to accept all of it and really admire the rarity of this forum allowing the degree of free speech 🎤 and signature’s that it does.

Don't debate so much between love and hate because today they have more good than bad. In the old days when the merit system did not exist it seems that there was a big problem with spam and today there is still spam and posts that are not of quality but there are many others that are, and you just have to see the quality of the posts of the people who get paid the most.

On the other hand I know other forums where they write a lot of garbage and there they don't get paid, so this one is better.

 I give theymos a lot of credit for having a good way of balancing the forum.

I agree, sometimes it is easy to criticize from the sidelines but I think that overall he has found a good balance.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: NotATether on September 15, 2023, 03:10:58 PM
1) I have signatures and avatars on ignore, so unless I check a member's profile manually I have no idea if they're participating in a bounty or campaign.
Doesn't this defeat the idea of signature campaign in the forum? I mean, if everyone has signatures on ignore, obviously traffic won't be generated from the forum and companies will not want to run signature campaign in the forum again.

Only logged-in users can do that, not guests. And I imagine there are way more guests browsing random threads of the forum through Google search, per day, than there are active users - let alone active users with signatures disabled, since that option is not even enabled by default when you first register for an account here.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: Rruchi man on September 15, 2023, 03:11:14 PM
You came to this forum to earn
This is another phrase that is used against newcomers. Did anyone join this forum to recreate the forum? You will see someone wearing high paying signature and yet will frustrate a newcomer trying to rank up because they perceived the newcomer came for money. Maybe Theymos will have to deactivate signature campaign let's see how many people will remain active here genuinely.
The action of one person on the forum will not be enough to frustrate another person who does not want to get frustrated.

If you are a new member on the forum who joins the forum just so you can earn even when you do not already have any knowledge about bitcoins, there is the biggest possibility of you being a shitposter. If you have knowledge and you joined this forum to contribute your knowledge and earn in the process of doing so, you will not be accused of just being in the forum to earn because it will be clear from your contributions to critical discussions that you already possess knowledge.

The forum's main aim is for people to learn and contribute, when you obviously are not interested in learning at all all as a newbie, it means there will be little contribution from you that will help another person.  


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: Sexylizzy2813 on September 15, 2023, 06:52:52 PM
Merit fishing
You will see someone with thousands of merits accusing another person with 5 merits of merit fishing. I mean there is a merit system, it should not be a crime if anyone makes posts to earn merits in order to rank up, whether they fish for it, hunt it or the merits locate them (which is very rare.)

The Forum do have a system by which the merit flow but some of these users do abuse it, that's where it kinda looks like a crime.
Before that accusation comes I believe there would have been some dig up on those affected account, either they're connected or something. Take the case of @deadsea, things went South for him and up till now he hasn't come up to defend him self about being a merit farmer or something.
So I won't blame it in anyone with a huge amount of merit accusing those with little number of merit.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: CryptopreneurBrainboss on September 15, 2023, 07:27:41 PM
You came to this forum to earn
This is another phrase that is used against newcomers. Did anyone join this forum to recreate the forum? You will see someone wearing high paying signature and yet will frustrate a newcomer trying to rank up because they perceived the newcomer came for money. Maybe theymos will have to deactivate signature campaign let's see how many people will remain active here genuinely.

OP, just know you're on a forum that has users with different attitude so expect to see some users that uses the harsh approach to correct newbies and those that do it with love. The reason why people don't like those that only joined the forum because of the monetary benefits is because they become a problem to the forum. They aren't contributing anything to the growth of the forum and all they do is to look for activities and participate in giveaways to get merit to rank up then they start spamming to meet weekly quota for their signature campaign. If we allow everybody to do as they like we mightn't have a forum again. The more the spam on the forum increase the more the forum becomes unattractive to engage in discussion going on because you'll be reading generic replies and not any adding sense to the discussion.

Merit fishing
You will see someone with thousands of merits accusing another person with 5 merits of merit fishing. I mean there is a merit system, it should not be a crime if anyone makes posts to earn merits in order to rank up, whether they fish for it, hunt it or the merits locate them (which is very rare.)

They didn't get that amount of merit by merit fishing or spamming the forum with unnecessary threads that are just copies of things on the Internet that everybody can get their hands on. They got the merit by replying constructively to discussion going on, on the forum. A newbie that's using the forum rightly won't get attack instead he'll be encouraged constantly. Most newbies don't understand what quality means and all they do just annoying the order members because it's a continuous practice that we have seen before and the only way to correct those guilty of this is by telling them the truth. When they create thsie generic posts they're expecting them to be merited and when they're not, you start seeing them complaining of their quality post not been merited but what's actually happening is that, they're delivering low quality posts.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: Sandra_hakeem on September 15, 2023, 07:49:35 PM
I mean there is a merit system, it should not be a crime if anyone makes posts to earn merits in order to rank up, whether they fish for it, hunt it or the merits locate them (which is very rare.)
I wouldn't disagree on anything you said, if you didn't add this piece of sentence....for that reason, I've got 3 questions for you...
* Are you obliquely promoting merit fishing?? No? Do you have proves embedded in the above statement you made??
* What's your purpose in this forum?? To break the grand rule and soil the reputation of this whole community, with promoting a malicious act that's meant to frowned at?? Can you defend yourself based on the statement above??
* Do you know how many junk post we've been able to obscure, just by dimming an interest in merit fishers?? Are you not in support of this?? ... This takes us back to the 2nd question again - WHATS YOUR PURPOSE IN HERE??

Ps; I don't really know the type of peeps behind the "new era newbies" we've got today... OP, did you actually take some vodka or burn some weeds before making this post?? ... I don't even know how I missed your post...I'll be monitoring this account henceforth.

Sandra 🧑‍🦰


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: _BlackStar on September 15, 2023, 08:12:09 PM
Not everything we think is true is true, nor are other people's opinions. The thing is - don't insist that something you think is true must be acknowledged by others, that's freedom of opinion - unless they are talking about bullshit.

There is a lot of hypocrisy among forum users including how they judge someone just to make themselves appear bigger. But if you really think something is wrong and you have no power to change it - then I hope you don't actually start it for others. This means do it for yourself and ignore anyone you think disagrees with you - but again especially; if they're talking about bullshit.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: Adbitco on September 15, 2023, 08:47:29 PM
I have seen this post notifications but was wanting to be that free before I can come back here to reply you..
Usually op I don't think they are discriminating, permit me to use this words " the more you look the less you see", I think they are only trying to keep this forum free from spam post or shitpost and what you must understand is that merits system was also implemented to help keep the forum clean if you watch very well I came say activities has reduced. There are no much flooding of post or creating irrelevant posts and topic that is for the safety of this forum otherwise I don't think you would have enjoyed here as it's now.

Then let's talk about the altcoin wallet, naturally there's nothing wrong with the post but if you must
know that user had asked same question I think at the altcoin section correct me if I am wrong and you can visit his or her profile. Theymos didn't do anything bad to create the altcoin section but I believe the forum is a discipline place and everything has a belongings, meaning all questions has where its meant to be asked and if any of us post at the wrong place the admin and mod usually helps us to move it to the right section where we should post it.

I think it's just about understanding, no one is attacking each others or let's say since newbies aren't that patient to read post or even follow instructions they easily get knocked down but if you are a decent man or person whose aim is to learn and know things about this forum and how they works, common nothing stops you and no one will query you about what you doing.

The things you see as something not good or abnormal is normal because you are saying this because you are still at that stage, believe me or not if you pass this stage and it happens that you understand your left and right of this forum I don't think you could be saying all this anymore. You could have looked for something more better to improve this forum, between from my greatest knowledge so far there are some user who are one way or the other has impacted in this forum by rendering some tools which we are using now to explore this forum. So lemme correct you from that word you said no is to recreate this forum. Yes but they have added value to the forum which we are all benefiting now.

Do you want those users to be listed here so you could see their inputs to the forum?
I think when you are making of the forum always take notes of anything you are seeing then come ask who introduced it.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: Mpamaegbu on September 16, 2023, 04:21:38 PM
Merit fishing
You will see someone with thousands of merits accusing another person with 5 merits of merit fishing. I mean there is a merit system, it should not be a crime if anyone makes posts to earn merits in order to rank up, whether they fish for it, hunt it or the merits locate them (which is very rare.)
That type of prejudice has abated now unlike a few years ago when anyone below the legendary rank was seen as a merit beggar. I think that conception will get more blurred in time to come with merit offering threads springing up to help other users rank up.

Quote
Bounty hunting
Bounty hunters are treated as menace in the forum. Once you are known as a bounty person, you will be treated as an anti-bitcointalk.
I guess what you perceived as hatred for them is because of the level of unchecked activities and low post quality coming from that quarters steadily. Spam posts don't help anyone. You only need to look fleetingly there to know the level of spam that goes on. Most (I want to be mild with language, otherwise I would say all) of the bounty hunters don't even make constructive posts that can aid the growth of this forum because their aim isn't to. They're mostly interested in making bounty reports.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: Zoomic on September 18, 2023, 03:05:02 PM
1) I have signatures and avatars on ignore, so unless I check a member's profile manually I have no idea if they're participating in a bounty or campaign.
Doesn't this defeat the idea of signature campaign in the forum? I mean, if everyone has signatures on ignore, obviously traffic won't be generated from the forum and companies will not want to run signature campaign in the forum again.

Only logged-in users can do that, not guests. And I imagine there are way more guests browsing random threads of the forum through Google search, per day, than there are active users - let alone active users with signatures disabled, since that option is not even enabled by default when you first register for an account here.
I have read your post above in this thread and I think this is the second one. The first was somehow lengthy and everything in it seems factual. But in this post, you alleged that the number of non registered visitors mighty likely be more than the number of registered users visiting this forum on a daily basics. I doubt this, do you have any data to buttress your claim?


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: JollyGood on September 18, 2023, 05:09:58 PM
This is about freedom, let us allow everyone to enjoy this freedom at the confine of the forum rules and regulations.
Everybody should enjoy the forum within the rules, I think you will not find a single member that would disagree with the above comment.

This is about freedom, let us allow everyone to enjoy this freedom at the confine of the forum rules and regulations.
Yes, people have the freedom to express their opinions. So what are you ranting about?
Ulterior motives, perhaps? Or some experience where he was either accused or simply witnessed names being thrown around.

Maybe theymos will have to deactivate signature campaign let's see how many people will remain active here genuinely.
To be honest, what you just said is a load of rubbish. At the time it was considered to ban signature campaigns or disable signatures but to stop the spam problem in the forum where you had a lot of people writing rubbish to rank up and earn money.

As theymos is smarter than that, he came up with the idea of the merit system, which reduced the spam problem a lot because before it was introduced people would rank up simply by seniority, and many would just do it by writing rubbish one-liners in mega-threads and stuff like that. I was on the forum during the changeover, when the merit system was introduced, so I could see what happened.

What you call genuineness I'll explain it to you: if theymos ends with the signature campaigns today, tomorrow traffic would be reduced so much that you wouldn't even recognise the forum. I've seen other forums die but for other reasons, and that's when you go there and you think about replying to a thread but you see that in most of them the last reply was a few days or even weeks ago.

On the other hand that would be giving away traffic to other forums, where the genuineness you are talking about would go, and if this forum is mainly to preserve Satoshi's writings I think it is better if it remains an active forum than if it looks like a tomb or a desert.
The OP clearly is unhappy at aspects of way many of us view some members. Of the list he made which seems to detail ways in which some forum members frown upon certain activities or certain members, he has made a fairly accurate case to demonstrate members can be viewed unfairly and accused of being the very things he listed. However, the irony is that with what he quoted he has made the case those accurate assumptions when being accused of being the very things he is complaining about.

Yes, people have the freedom to express their opinions. So what are you ranting about?
Not actually about freedom of speech, but freedom of one's speech shouldn't be in such a way to make another believe they lost their own freedom or they never had the freedom.
It is an unfortunate fact but if the OP wants members to have freedom to express their own opinions without restriction to please others, then that same freedom works both ways.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: Eh Moo Nah on September 19, 2023, 04:55:12 PM

You came to this forum to earn
This is another phrase that is used against newcomers. Did anyone join this forum to recreate the forum? You will see someone wearing high paying signature and yet will frustrate a newcomer trying to rank up because they perceived the newcomer came for money. Maybe theymos will have to deactivate signature campaign let's see how many people will remain active here genuinely.

This is about freedom, let us allow everyone to enjoy this freedom at the confine of the forum rules and regulations.


to the extent that this kind of illegal activity still ongoing?

you talk about "freedom" - Check this link


Accounts buy and sell

 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5439652.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5439652.0)

Just a new update. lol.


Updated.


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: lovesmayfamilis on September 20, 2023, 06:56:27 AM
I mean there is a merit system, it should not be a crime if anyone makes posts to earn merits in order to rank up, whether they fish for it, hunt it or the merits locate them (which is very rare.)
I wouldn't disagree on anything you said, if you didn't add this piece of sentence....for that reason, I've got 3 questions for you...
* Are you obliquely promoting merit fishing?? No? Do you have proves embedded in the above statement you made??
* What's your purpose in this forum?? To break the grand rule and soil the reputation of this whole community, with promoting a malicious act that's meant to frowned at?? Can you defend yourself based on the statement above??
* Do you know how many junk post we've been able to obscure, just by dimming an interest in merit fishers?? Are you not in support of this?? ... This takes us back to the 2nd question again - WHATS YOUR PURPOSE IN HERE??

Ps; I don't really know the type of peeps behind the "new era newbies" we've got today... OP, did you actually take some vodka or burn some weeds before making this post?? ... I don't even know how I missed your post...I'll be monitoring this account henceforth.

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

OP is just another account with the character of a rebel who understands the word "freedom" and decides to speak out for the humiliated and insulted, in his opinion. Someone can sometimes express themselves in this way. And we can only answer all his demands by showing an example of how this forum is distinguished by its uniqueness. OP, if you think that the forum is very aggressive towards hunters for merit or fishermen for merit, then no one will simply accuse anyone. Bounty hunters rarely post from one account, which is why we see a lot of spam, as it is really difficult to post dozens of messages from ten accounts. Isn't it fair to point this out? Likewise, catching merit is sometimes so obvious that people simply cannot help but notice it and point it out so that the account owner does not consider himself more cunning than others. Are you ready to be deceived?


Title: Re: ...about bitcointalk forum.
Post by: 348Judah on September 20, 2023, 08:17:30 AM
Talking about bounty hunters on these forum, there are many reasons why they are not considered as a quality posters on this forum, you can imagine a user just having his registration done today and start to hunt after bounties the same day, no time to read the rules, make substantial contributions or even think of how to make a quality post to help the community growth as others are learning, this same bounty hunters are part of the reasons merit system was introduced, no shitposter, spammer or anyone who scams should be permitted to grow in rank, so if any bounty hunter is not progressing in this forum in rank or merits, that is because of the category he belongs to, i believe we should talk more on the active users and quality posters yet not receiving enough merits.