Annoying.


Annoying x 10.
So, or you have two alts accounts or the second poster was just copy-pasting a crap answer... You both should be banned for shitposters, and for spamming the forum.
My ignored list is growing fast!!!

(This is a self-moderated thread, so please, do not enter useless quotes in here, for they will be erased and you will be put on my ignored list.)


Given the recent news about the leaks of personal data on Facebook, I've questioned myself many times about why people don't seem to care about their privacy and other's one.

When you upload a photo or video into a platform, you are sharing not only your face and identity but the faces and names of the others around you. This is kind of annoying how many persons are willing to share any data with any platform, but even more annoying how they share other's data with no previous consent.
It is sadly common when you ask those people about their privacy, they usually answer with the "I have nothing to hide" common phrase. But, I ask:
- Having nothing to hide means to share everything?
- Have you questioned yourself about what you share and why? I mean: this is really necessary to take a pic of the coffee you are drinking, including the people and the place with and where you are at that moment?
- Do you care about the other's privacy when you upload a pic or a piece of information into platforms as Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube? Do you even ask before uploading other's information?
- Why do you share all this data? What do you want to achieve by sharing everything?

What I want in here is to understand why people are willing to share anything in their lives, for I can't. I don't have any Facebook or Instagram account, for I despise anything related to this kind of social interaction. For that, it is really difficult to me to understand why the people are so interested in sharing anything in their lives, and, also, why they don't care about other's life's when sharing also their activity. This is a huge social problem, from my point of view.

So... what do you people feel about your own (and other's) privacy?

I agree. We can use the forum as a platform of knowledge, far more accurate than the common media. But I also agree with the point that we don't need a new board, but make a better Politics&Society board by posting something new in there. The Trump hair is not of my concern, but you can also find some good topics on the board.

We are many people in here from many different countries. The debate can become something amazing if the people were willing to make a great debate, instead of posting anything for gaining activity. By putting shitposters in ignore you can have a clean Politic&Society board, well, maybe not the whole board, but at least you can have some good insights in there.

The best way to contribute to cleaning the forum is by opening some good threads and reporting the useless quotes, maybe it can works also in your giving-away merit desire.

Ummm... I can translate some of the best topics in the Spanish board, or maybe you can open a Spanish section in the fit to talk and we gladly (my girlfriend is a better teacher than me) can teach step by step the Spanish basics. It will be amazing to speak about the two languages, for we can learn much more if we compare the expressions of one and another. Also, you have many Spanish speakers in the fit to talk forum, so maybe it can works...

Regarding the topic, tell me if you are interested and I can search out some good posters so we can give merits to them.

Ignored. I hate when people scream.


No, man, this is not Facebook, we don't "like" anything in here.
If you want to reward anything, you can use merits, but as long as the topic is really useful, insightful or "--ful" in any way.
Of course, you need to earn merit first in order to can give away more merits.

Thanks for that, a really necessary topic. If you wish, we can share in here good posters to be rewarded with merit, or you can open another one in the section you think to be the best. I, like you, spend much time in searching for good posters, and this is quite difficult, more and more each day.
To be honest, I usually find many good posters in the Spanish section, in which the discussion is used to be rich and amazing for many users in there, but I will try to find something good in between all the crap and scammers in here, just say where to send you the data so you can give them some merits (I'm almost merit-off).

It is said that common sense is the lest common of the senses, and I totally agree. Red trust is somehow personal, you can get it due to a misbehavior or a misunderstanding, but this is rare. Here in the forum, there is something truly important: to build your own image. You will see many respectable members with a big mouth and green trust, for they have earned the respect of the others.
So, earn the others respect by using common sense:
- Do not spam.
- Do not beg for anything (as merits, or any kind of recognition).
- Earn a place in here by making constructive topics, by informing yourself before even answering any question.
- Never copy-paste anything.
- Never ask for money or such.
- Never trade with merits or give merits to someone who doesn't deserve them, it doesn't matter if this person is your own mother.
- Do not reply a post with an unsubstantial line just because you want to increase your activity.

Just earn your place in here. Do not forget this place is about learning and discussing bitcoin and the blockchain technology. So avoid topics like "Are you fear of death?", or "Do you like the green color?" and crap like that.
Just use the less common of the senses and be aware of where you are.

There are many uses and they are in progress, for instance, for medical records, for public enterprises... I recommend you to read the Chapter 9 of the 2018 Joint economic report of the US, they make a debate about crypto, about the blockchain tech and how it can be used: https://www.congress.gov/115/crpt/hrpt596/CRPT-115hrpt596.pdf

Also, it will give you a general idea of what are they thinking about regulations and how the blockchain tech is seen by the US Congress.

According to the Congress "2018 joint economic report" Chapter 9 (dedicated to crypto), exchanges are controlled by states, so the laws about them are not federal. In the document, there is also a proposal related to crypto exchanges.
You can read it in here: https://www.congress.gov/115/crpt/hrpt596/CRPT-115hrpt596.pdf

I hope it helps.

One of the most interesting paragraphs on the article: "Drawing on the model described by Lessig in Code, the authors point out law is not the only tool to regulate blockchains. Governments can also employ more subtle tools, like market operations or social norms, to shape the direction of the technology. For instance, they could participate in mining operations on blockchain networks, like bitcoin, in order to control prices and vote on coding decisions."

I think they are already taking this path, in order to have enough crypto coins to maintain some control over the market. Besides, mining or acquiring coins is not the only way. For instance, in Russia, there's a new law regarding exchanges so all of them must ask for personal data to their users and provide the data to the government if asked.
There are many ways to control the blockchain-based "money" from governments. Maybe it is quite difficult to control the bitcoin technology, but they can control all the other necessary tech to have and use this coin, as exchanges or wallets. If you don't have a decentralized exchanger, then you are not using a decentralized coin in a decentralized way. That's the hand they're playing, I'm afraid.
Even so, new exchanges will be appearing, but they will be probably considered illegal, so the risk of having your coins in there is going to begin to be too high, due to the possibility of them being closed or banned. Nevertheless, this is going to take time for the governments to agree in one action.

Good debate, people. I think this is a book we should read...

What is happening today? Is the newbie's troll day? Maybe we should baptize the May 17th like that.
Look, man, if you don't like people with signatures, just ignore us. So simple!! Do you know how to do this?

Make the forum great again? Have you been here enough time to even know how the forum was? For many of the great users' in here have been wearing a signature for a long while!
Bah, whatever, it seems like the fool Newbie's day.

What is going to be your next request? To ban women?  Black people?
Congrats, man, you've written the most idiotic post I've ever read.

Also, not all the people in a signature is a shitposter, as well as not all those ones not wearing a signature are good posters. Just take a look at your own post history. I'm wearing a signature and I am from one of the areas you described. Will you ban me?

Today we have again the same: another leak in Facebook has exposed the intimate data of over 3 million people. Again, this has been possible by an app, but this time a personality one, in which some sensible data is involved.
Of course, there is a new investigation on the way, and it is probably quite old, for the app was developed in 2007.

Here the link to one of the papers (the new is everywhere): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5730671/Intimate-details-3-MILLION-users-exposed-new-Facebook-data-leak.html

This is another example of how the people don't care about sharing personal data, even when are related to their personal details and their phycological profile. Whatever Facebook is or not guilty (I think a further investigation should be done on Google as well) what concerns me, again, is the use the people make of such a site.
I don't have a Facebook account due to all the fake news spread in there as a virus, but I can't understand how people don't care even a bit in what they share and why they are willing to tell a platform where do they eat, who are their relatives, where do they go, what do they like...
- Are we living in a society obsessed with obtaining some pathetic "likes"?
- Can the surveillance be stopped in any sense when is your own brother who, happily, takes a picture of you and put it on a platform for everyone to see it, telling the world where and when did you be?
- All those scandals, will awake the people?

What do you think about Facebook and those scandals? Do you believe there is something going on against Facebook? Or, on the contrary, do you believe this is well-deserved and they must be closed down? Why are the people willing to do such tests, to share anything related to their intimacy and their relative's one? Is that the "Brave new world" we are bulding?

1.- Look at the top at the screen. Localize the "search" button. Introduce "merits" in it and read all the topics answering the matter, for there are hundreds already.
2.- Do not open a thread with a long-answered topic.

- Explore the forum, read, read and read.

Precisely, referral of the kind of Ad. fly and such are the ones that can make your account to be banned on the Youtube if you receive some denounces for that, sorry for my lack of detail.
If you have a Steemit Dtube account I believe this is going to have a better feed. Anyway, Youtube is a great platform if what you want is just to share your knowledge and share links to your personal site, for monetizing the video you will need at least 1.000 subs and more than 4 hours of visualization. The more subs you have, the more you appear on the feed of the YouTube.

Adsense is the platform related to monetization and they ask you all your personal data. On the contrary, in Dtube you can get SteemCoin by the voting system and you only have to provide your cellphone.

Even when it seems difficult to be done, that's a great idea. I just see a problem in detecting "good posts" in between such a daily amount of newcomers and new posters...
So, based on your idea, another one comes to me. Maybe merit sources can be chosen per area. I mean: not everyone loves to discuss society, and not everyone loves to discuss tech, for instance. So let us select the merit sources per area: for instance, Flying Hellfish can be the merit source in the Politics&Society area, and he can be dedicated to merit this section.
But, how many merits will the area receive? It just depends on how much activity the area has. If we select for instance a local board, we can make an analysis of how many users are in there, how many posts per month they are used to have, how much are they growing up, how many mods do they have... and etc. So the Smerit can be given to the local mods (or other useful users in the area), and they will share it in their local board only.
The meta section, again, the same. How many posts do we have per month? how many users are active in this section? how much is it growing? after an analysis of each section, we can determinate (approximately, of course), how many Smerit a section will need.

Of course, it is impossible for it to be constant. We can have a nice week, with many nice posts, and a bad one with none to be merited. But the common situation will be, at least, a couple of good posts per day (hopefully!!!). Being in communication with the merit sources in each area can be really refreshing to the system.
I also think this is necessary to have global merit Sources in order to refresh some areas, but it can be a way to refresh the merit system and to encourage people to make some good posts.

Just an idea...

Jejeje, muchas gracias, ahora sí lo entendí, pude regresar al que escribiste en inglés y por fin tener una idea más clara (efectivamente había puntos que no había comprendido del todo).
Creo que la parte central de tu propuesta es básicamente el problema principal de los méritos: ¿Cómo saber quiénes son excelentes en sus posts y no están siendo meritados? ¿Quién se va a echar esa enorme chamba?
Ahora bien, si no entiendo mal, creo que el punto de Theymos está siendo dejar al sistema estar un tiempo y valorarlo cuando quiebre. En ese post comentó que está teniendo problemas para encontrar buenas merit sources, entonces, ¿ no sería el mejor movimiento encontrar una manera razonable de seleccionar las merit sources? ¿ Puede hacerse esto a través de análisis?.
Me refiero a, por ejemplo, estipular las personas más meritadas desde que el sistema se implementó, como tu caso, y proponerlas como merit sources. Aunque ser meritado no implica, ni tiene por qué implicar, ser un buen "meritador", creo que es claro que el criterio expositivo puede funcionar como una de las fuentes de análisis primario. Los datos de los meritados están públicos y, por tanto, tiene que ser sencillo de abordar.
Por otro lado, me gustaría conocer la opinión de los moderadores locales. Porque sigo pensando que lo más sencillo es que ellos se conviertan en merit sources, puesto que seguramente ven buenos y malos posts por igual en su quehacer. Pero, al no ser moderador, creo que necesitamos esa parte, su visión,para hacernos un poco una idea más clara.

Cuantificar la calidad de los posts... suena casi imposible. Pero creo que se puede medir la calidad de los posters en un sencillo baremo entre actividad de posteo y calidad de los asuntos. Ello tendría que hacerse manualmente, me temo, pero de todos modos no creo que todos estén cualificados para meritar todas las secciones.
Me explico: hay personas muy dedicadas a lo social-histórico, etc, y ello no tiene por qué ser del interés de los dedicados a lo puramente técnico. Por ello, una vez más, concluyo que lo más sabio sería hacer merit sources a los moderadores por sección y que sólo puedan meritar post de su sección. Esto cambiaría el sistema, ya que se estipularían una serie de méritos a repartir por sección en lugar de por persona.
Si la sección referida es una board local completa con dos moderadores, habrá que hacer un análisis del número de posts por sección y estipular así los méritos atribuibles, precisamente para que no haya ni de más ni de menos.

 Creo que esto sería mucho más sencillo, prudente y efectivo que tratar de encontrar good posters manualmente.

pd. Dudo que hayas entendido algo mal jajaa

Totally agree with you. Since I have never had a big amount of anything I couldn't see myself being a target, but you're totally right.
Anyway, as it has been told ahead, to maintaining a low profile is one of the smartest desitions. Many people seems to like to show-up how much they have, this is not a surprise they become a target if they show-up in anyplace on the internet with all the possessions they have.

In my country is really common to have a weapon (even when it is illegal, but, you know, latin america...). I despise anything related to weapons but katanas so I have my own collection in the house. Anyway in here if they want to steal anything from you the most common "activity" is to kidnap someone you love..., so you're right, any of my measures is strong enough if you become a target.

Referral links aren't forbidden on the Youtube, but I don't think you will have any problem with a website link or a blog one.

Anyway, related to Steemit there is a platform called DTube, far more free and blockchain-related. Of course, you will need to have a steemit account.
They also have another one called DLive, the same principle but with live-videos.

Hope it helps. Let me know if you make your videos, I will be your follower for sure!

Really nice, you brought some nice remembers to me!!
I also would recommend all the posts Satoshi has made: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3;sa=showPosts;start=0

Very informative and useful, for it gives a lead of how difficult was to set-up the Blockchain Whitepaper and the creation of this forum since the very beginning. A nice read for those interested in the past and in understanding from where we all come.