I don't think I'll be here for the auction end, though I'll be back 12-24 hours from then to collect payments.

I don't have a problem with people selling forum accounts to Tor users as long as the price is significant enough to deter people from repeatedly evading bans (maybe 0.25 BTC). I might add this feature to the board itself at some point.

You can use local thread rules if you don't want free discussion in your topics.

No. This would get in the way of free discussion. Most people are bad moderators. The OP sets the initial conditions for discussion and then loses all control over the topic. OPs do not own replies by other people.

It's fine if it's locked.

Unlocked cross-posts are OK only in "Newbies", "Important announcements", and the local sections.

BitcoinEXpress asked me to clarify: I only know that the forum account DannyMaddox is BitcoinEXpress. I don't know anything about real people named "Danny Maddox".


IP evidence shows only Allan74 as an obvious possibility, though there could be more.

Yep. BitcoinEXpress is DannyMaddox and MicroCashMike.

Most of the Christians I know barely know who Muhammad is. So I'd say that this is fake, or at least a very rare occurrence.

His spirit was trapped in this forum and he continues to annoy us from beyond the grave.

It's a good idea and I'd love to have it (with some additional features), but I don't think it can be done well with SMF.

Thoughts on how best to do it:

Some tags (the current boards) would be listed as they are now on the front page. Additional less-popular tags would be shown in a categorized list elsewhere. A tag cloud could also be made available.

An "ignore topic" feature would be a good complement so you don't keep seeing the same topic you don't care about on multiple pages.

It'd be cool if users could define a number of "tag mashup" pages. Each page would list topics with any of several tags, and topics with certain tags could also be excluded from the page. Like a page containing topics with the tag "development" and "mining", but not "alternative clients" or "alternative currencies". If a topic matches multiple tags, it would only appear once on the page.

A separate report feature for incorrect tags would be nice. The reporter could add or remove tags from the current set for a topic, and moderators would see an easy summary like "+development, +mining, -discussion".

Clearly you don't want to be shown new replies to your posts. You should use the watchlist feature instead.

The counter only updates occasionally. It's still being tracked continuously.

That would be good. The tags would need to be admin-defined, though. Tag systems where posters can come up with arbitrary tag names make it hard for readers to find stuff, since posters often choose strange and incorrect tags.

This'd be pretty hard to add to SMF (and probably most forum software), though.

I don't see this. Are you sure it's in SMF 1.1.x?

Is the audience meant to be sympathetic toward the Koreans or the French?

I've looked into setting that option by default, but it wasn't obvious to me how to do it. It looks like it might be difficult.

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They aren't.