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1  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How can I become a non-Newbie? on: July 12, 2011, 04:11:15 PM
…I will drive my point home and yet somehow become a junior member instead of a newbie.
2  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How can I become a non-Newbie? on: July 12, 2011, 04:10:50 PM
And with this and my next "all-posts-are-equal" posts...
3  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How can I become a non-Newbie? on: July 12, 2011, 04:09:13 PM
As I see it, the problem is that requiring people to have a minimum number of posts for entry into the forum does nothing except for causing people to spam the "newbie" boards (and what a welcome that board name is).  It doesn't prove a minimum level of understanding of Bitcoins, or require nuanced discussion, or anything else - in fact, nuanced discussion tends to be *discouraged*, because there's better places on the boards for that where the "newbies" can't participate.

Cue a hyperactive board, filled with lots of very quick posts because everyone is trying to get their postcount up so they can participate in real discussions.  People who *don't* pass that barrier don't enter the boards; so in fact minimum post counts to get past the newbie board promote board-spammers over lurkers who might post far less often.

I can see the point behind require a minimum number of hours, but minimum number of posts on a mixed-topic board has to be counter-productive.  It doesn't do anything to promote real discussion or a welcoming community unless moderation is actively enforced.
4  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: MtGoxTrader for Mac on: July 12, 2011, 02:55:51 PM
Good answers - glad to hear you're moving towards the keychain; also make sure nothing ever logs those credentials, debugging traffic or not.

It's probably worth mentioning stuff like that on the site, might reassure some people Smiley
5  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: MtGoxTrader for Mac on: July 12, 2011, 02:34:27 PM
Hiya,

Nice little app!  If I was being picky I'd say it's an odd mix of fonts across the interface, but otherwise looks pretty nice Smiley

However… this is an app you're asking people to entrust their MtGox login details to.  What assurances can you give us about security?  I assume MtGox make you use a secure connection to the server, so I hope that isn't an issue, but what about the app itself?  Does it store the login credentials you give it - if so, does it use its own store or use the Keychain?  As this appears to be a closed-source application, how can I be sure that this application isn't secretly a trojan capturing account details?

Understand that I'm not trying to criticise you, but that you will need to have (good) answers to security questions.  I wouldn't trust a third-party website with my MtGox credentials, so why would I trust an application with them?
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