I recall the many many issues with the politics forum, that place just needed to have subsections is all.

The mods on the forums do not have full access to delete posts.   I think it is maybe time to try to trust the staff a little and give them a chance to not turn this into a police state and allow them to actually moderate.

But without this place linking from Bitcoin.org, these things honestly do not matter, this is just a dying user base.  I stick around because I like enough of the established members.

His next trick.  Is to somehow do something to bring the value of Bitcoin itself back up to make his booty worth that much more, thus spurring heavy market activity.   Or that is just what I want to happen lol.

Karma system really keeps quality in check.  Helps bias stay out mostly and leave it as a good general news source.

Register Online Now 
Conference Admission     2 Bitcoins per person
Vendor's Display Table     10 Bitcoins per Vendor


http://bitcoinme.com/index.php/bitcon-2011/

With the price of Bitcoin so low, everyone who was just attending should be jumping on getting a table now for the hell of it.

Oh wait, I see it in check out now, bait and switch lol


The price to get in keeps on rising, everyone better get in now before you can't afford it :p

I would totally let Joel scam me 

Seriously.  Scammers though I have yet to stop me from trusting those who I already have had trust in based on their words alone.    Can't stop using all goods and services, otherwise the terrorists win.

Problem with threads?

Make a thread about.

Where?

Bitcoin Discussion forum of course.

Sarcasm?

Hell yes.  This thread reported.

I think your numbers are off.

"The Forum" is done.

People using these forums at this point are just old members for the most part until the next update in the SERPs.   Bitcoin.org does not wish for it's users to voice their opinions in the same place most development takes place.   Makes complete sense, separate the users from the makers so no one gets what they want.

These chat options are still linked from the official site though:
Guess not enough people used them or knew about them.

I thought Mt Gox Live = Official? http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/7/prweb8656007.htm

Why would they be wrong, and not claiming that the Bitcoincharts one is the wrong one?

How can one keep such steady pricing with such a crazy market.

Also, to adapt to mass changes in value over the markets, how immediate can your prices change?

This.  Reddit and all it's subreddit's have always been better than the ex-Official Forums.

Can't beat a built in user/comment karma system that everyone always wanted as a feature on these boards.


All you message board owners, make sure all links pointing to your site are with the keyword "Bitcoin Forums"

All you people wanting to just spam the people who are looking for Bitcoin discussion from the Official site, target the term "Bitcoin Forums"

Good idea.  A month ago.   People have been hoarding Bitcoin too much.  But this thread is super unrealistic at this point.

Well shit, someone better make a community so we can discuss and improve things, because right now Bitcoin.org linking to a Google search result instead of here is going to slow the influx of people having a place to let their interest in Bitcoin grow.

So if the theory is the userbase is currently the detriment, then it is downward spiral time, because it is just the current userbase that is on these forums and all newcomers are being directed to no specific place.

I want to say I wish the people who made that decision thought it through more, but I sadly think they did and just no longer give a crap about progressing Bitcoin so purposely disconnected themselves from it's general users.

The tin foil hat on me ponders if someone behind the scenes is a scammer.  Makes sense to not want to have a central place for people to corroborate information if you desire to keep people ignorant. 

Buttons? Avatars?  What kind of graphics?  For specific sites?  Users on the forums?

Or D, all of the above?

Also, I am not creative all the time, any ideas anyone has but don't know how to use the Photoshop, post 'em

I mention Bitcoin in many different circles, so far no one has ever shown enough interest to think anything other than "oh that is neat"

A family member I told says that Bitcoin would cause havoc, riots, etc if it catches on.   That family member is also super religious, not sure if they are tied together, but I am pretty sure a money that can unify the nations is part of the sign of the times.

Just checking the first few links.  Social.com has nothing up, but I think we all can see the value in that domain.  DomainName.com, smart, a person is paying their bills with that site and that was just bought a couple of months ago.   Aktien.de is new, will give it time to see what they are up to.

RunningShoes.com, this one seems like someone with a grasp of the value of a domain, and will probably succeed based on that alone, but I think that site could be coded for SERPs better, but visually they look like every other site that would do shoes e-commerce, they'll be fine.

I can go no further, most of these seem like decent buys.

Buttcoin is OG, has been around since before I was into Bitcoin.

How about you hire someone to do the data entry work?

I have no time for tech side of your site as far as programming, but I can make time to ensure orders are done.  I already see the name of BTCDeals being tarnished in other Bitcoin areas because of what seems to be the site taking a back seat to other projects or just whatever it is you need to do in life, which I understand and respect.

You'd have to give it to me in order for me to earn the money to buy it.  Unless it was that cheap, and by that, I mean I have about $20 to spare at the moment.

I might be able to bring a lot of e-Commerce help to the table to make it more attractive to just hold onto the site yourself and maybe expand. 

I still think he was a non-intentional "scammer".   Just a guy who has a lot of good ideas but needs to follow through with them himself before posting about them.   People are way too harsh on him, however his dealing and reactions to how people are to him could be worked on as well.

I would choose general choices that aren't references to things I don't fully grasp.  I know it is Aliens and Fallout we are talking here, but I am not versed in either

So I guess my choices are Movies or Video Games.  I am going games every time.