Good read. Who is next?
Are the questions fixed for all or you intend to mixed it up depending on who you interview?
How do you plan to maintain this thread by the way? I'm guessing members will be giving feedback on answers given by LoyceV and future interviewees but I'm not sure if that's your intention.
Edit: I'd nominate members who regularly posts on mining and technical boards.
I will select questions depending on the user's preferences. If the user is a miner, trader or investor, etc., then I will try to ask more professional questions. The topic will develop based on the interests and desire of users to participate in it. I like the idea, but I think you should keep the same set of questions for everybody. The only one that seems to be personalised is question 4. The rest could be answered by everyone. If people know what questions are in advance you will probably get more interest as people know what to expect and whether they'd be OK answering them. It will also be interesting to see everybody's answers to the same questions. Maybe people could propose another one or two questions that can be asked. |
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I've been storing user's penis-sizes on a spreadsheet, but it's only from publicly available data once someone has either publicly claimed to have an x-sized penis or sent me their size via PM (a user once threatened to rape me with his ten inch penis. I believe his threat to have been exaggerated but I can only take his word for it). I recently watched a documentary about Ross Ulbricht and Silk Road. One scene explains that this Bitcointalk post has finally put the FBI on Ross' trail. This raised the question for me whether Bitcointalk stores personal data (e.g. IP, User-Agent Fingerprint, Email etc) of its users and if it would pass this data on to investigating authorities in case of inquiries? Does Bitcointalk store sensitive user data and if so how long? Just think, if Ross hadn't of made such a rookie error he still might be a free man today. |
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I'm on the board practically every day. Any Global or Admin could have moved it, but I don't see any report in the queue on it either so I don't know what it was removed for.
Probably a clerical error? Deleting posts or replies that are not meant to be be removing posts mistakenly from the staff or MOD. It is clearly a hard job for them knowing a lot of posts had been made especially in bitcoin and altcoin discussion section. In my case, whenever I get posts deleted I will just leave it for I know how hard to maintain a section if you are a mod or staff. Just leave it to them how they handle the job and then let them also discover what approach should be done to maintain a good section or the forum. Sure, it can happen. I've removed a thread by accident before. Also, mods have different opinions. Sometimes a mod may think a thread is spam/low quality/a dupe and another won't. |
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I can use myself as an example here, I had made a thread called Max profit in crypto sites, biggest in industry? which seems to have been deleted from the Gambling Discussion board. The only mod of the board (hilariousandco) seems to have been off the forum for a week. So it's even not obvious who moved the thread as it must have been a staff member other than the person listed as the board's mod. I'm on the board practically every day. Any Global or Admin could have moved it, but I don't see any report in the queue on it either so I don't know what it was removed for. |
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What? How is this going to stop people legally being required to pay taxes? Is this not tax avoidance (illegal) as apposed to tax evadance (legal) - might have the two mixed up idk.
You have. Tax evasion is illegal and tax avoidance is using legal loopholes. Op is probably trying some sort of scam though unless he's got his own little avoidance scheme set up he wants others to utilise, but I doubt it. |
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They will both be marked as good. If one post is deleted all the reports against it will be handled as well.
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This would be very helpful as I often forget what month it is or when the new month starts. How about an email also every hour wishing you a happy hour so we know what time it is?  |
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I guess if newbies and few other low rank members will be restricted to get approval on their topic, we may somehow solve the hassles of frequent removal of topics.
I've suggested this in the past. I don't think it would be a bad thing if all new users are essentially shadowbanned until a mod has approved their post or account. It would at least get rid of bots pretty effectively. |
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1684035.msg16904309#msg16904309What counts as an unsubstantial or unconstructive post? There is obviously no set definition to what constitutes unconstructive posting as it is entirely subjective and is ultimately down to Staff opinion on what posts are constructive or not, but generally it is quite easy to spot a spammer posting only for payment. Spam can come in many forms, but a typical spammer's posts will often follow some sort of pattern which will be immediately obvious upon inspection and will usually consist of one or two sentences of rehashed opinion posted as fast as possible with the minimal amount of effort being put in. A quality/constructive poster will generally have no pattern to their posting history and will have posts ranging from one word to one sentence to several paragraphs and everything in between and this is what you should be aiming for. If you find yourself in a position where you are forcing yourself to reply to a thread due to your signature campaign then that's a pretty good indication that you're likely making unsubstantial posts.
Helpful suggestions:
• Firstly, just put some actual thought into your posts. Actually read the thread and the replies already posted. Often-times people will just read the title of the thread and post without fully understanding the topic or issue and make either irrelevant posts or say the same thing that has been said numerous times before.
• If somebody asks a specific question and it gets answered adequately within the first post or two nobody needs to read another ten replies saying the same thing just reworded slightly. If you cannot offer any additional info or clarify/correct something then you probably don't need to post it.
• If you struggle with English it's probably best to try stick to your Local boards. Your English does not need to be anywhere near perfect and you will not be penalised for this but if people generally can't understand what you're saying then it will likely be considered unsubstantial or spam.
• Short replies are not always bad and long ones are not always good. Sometimes all that is required is a simple one word yes or no response, but stretching out an answer just to appear constructive usually has the opposite effect.
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You've posted in one thread that was trashed so that will account for one post missing.
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It's probably ok. There are many other users here that have some variation of satoshi in their name. I'd be more worried about you being sued by Craig Wright . |
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Sorry to bump this thread because I don't know where should I post about this case User pikkieI gave him seven days for unsubstantial posts. |
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Just report one of their posts, or the post with the evidence in, which is what some people tend to do.
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Some idiot is going on an unnecessary reporting spree. It's mostly pointless reporting the majority of old posts but if someone reports something then some mod will likely handle it. I don't think we should de-facto prohibit people from reporting all old posts but reporting low-quality posts from 5 years ago isn't really needed.
Mr Hilarious has been feuding with Mr Mprep for many many years about his posts been deleted. Can we get the option of seeing our reports that get marked as bad? I got a bad report yesterday for the first time in a while and I have no idea what it was for. I understand they're kept on the system for two weeks so I think it'd be beneficial if we could see the ones that have been rejected. This way at least people can learn from their mistakes and get a general idea of what should and shouldn't be reported.
I handled a lot of your reports recently. Guess I'm on a similar time line .I marked one as bad since you reported a thread in a Beginners section that actually fit there. That's it, I think. So hilariousandco has known for at least six years that mprep shows no mercy when deleting posts. Feuding with mprep? That's news to me. Marking one of my reports as bad doesn't mean he's heavyhanded. I have no idea what the post was so it could have been a bad report for all I know, or just a difference of opinion. How many votes does it take to delete a reported post?
It doesn't matter. Sometimes a post is only reported once, and other times it could be reported by numerous people. How many times someone reports it is irrelevant to whether it gets handled or not but if the same report is popping up in the queue it will probably stand out more. |
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I didn't remove them but they were reported as low value. I wouldn't take it personally as the same user seems to be reporting dozens of accounts recently for the same thing.
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Some idiot is going on an unnecessary reporting spree. It's mostly pointless reporting the majority of old posts but if someone reports something then some mod will likely handle it. I don't think we should de-facto prohibit people from reporting all old posts but reporting low-quality posts from 5 years ago isn't really needed.
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I didn't remove it but two people reported it as off topic/low value.
Can't the affected post be reinstated? Meanwhile I don't understand why this got deleted. Topic was about how we lost our Bitcoins. A reply of yours, quoted below, was deleted by a Bitcoin Forum moderator. Posts are most frequently deleted because they are off-topic, though they can also be deleted for other reasons. In the future, please avoid posting things that need to be deleted. Yeah, on an old laptop I used to mine BTC a decade ago.
Forgot to save the wallet credentials and it's gone. Can't remember what's the amount though. There's no report in the queue so I don't know what it was removed for or from where. Was it in a necrobumped thread or something? Lemmie just slow clap whichever mod did this: A reply of yours, quoted below, was deleted by a Bitcoin Forum moderator. Posts are most frequently deleted because they are off-topic, though they can also be deleted for other reasons. In the future, please avoid posting things that need to be deleted. Bump again - will remove previous bump shortly. (they didn't remove the "previous bump", rather just the updated bump...) <Slow> <clap> Is that why you've gone on a report spree this morning reporting undeleted bumps from years ago? |
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Friends, I ask you, what was wrong with this post? A reply of yours, quoted below, was deleted by a Bitcoin Forum moderator. Posts are most frequently deleted because they are off-topic, though they can also be deleted for other reasons. In the future, please avoid posting things that need to be deleted. As long as you obtained the wallet.dat file through legal means and didn't just copy it from a soon to be former friend's hard drive, then you can just drop the wallet.dat file into the relevant directory and wait for the blockchain to sync. You might want to backup your own wallet.dat first. I didn't remove it but two people reported it as off topic/low value. |
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This usually happens when a user reports your posts, as is what happened here. They were reported as unsubstantial one/two liners by someone.
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