It's on the first page of Meta... It's been there for like a year at this point. It means I need to improve my marketing  Nah it's on me. I haven't been on the forum for most of the year. It works as good as in the past, but I've noticed a small glitch when I was counting the votes for a contest and now I've remembered to tell about it:
if I enable showing the earned merit and then I open a bigger multi-page thread all in one page ("all") - even this one - some (few) users will have nothing (no number) after "Earned Merit".
I was able reproduce this. Not sure if this is caused by slightly different layout of the "all" page and the extension is unable to figure out which users to request merits for, or if there is some sort of limit on the server side. The users that have the merit shown correctly are the ones that it has "seen" on a normal page recently, so it has their merits cached. Edit: it's actually a bit weirder than that. I was able to get it to load all numbers after a couple of refreshes but sometimes it doesn't show even the numbers that it already has (e.g. my OP of this thread showed merits but the last post didn't). I am one of those user! I can't see the earned merits sometimes. I have/had disabled all the userscripts, on/off'ed all the option inside the BPIP main menu, closed the tabs and reopened everything, yet it's missing. DT status is visible however.
Previously it was only on the megathreads, but now it's everywhere.
Are you also experiencing this when you click the "All" link or is this a different issue? Post a screenshot if you can. |
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There is a pending DNS change that will be deployed within the next few hours. bpip.org may be inaccessible for a few minutes or longer depending on how badly your ISP or browser ignores TTLs.
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Can we get an option in the extension settings to replace the forum search button with Talksearch?
I can facilitate API credits for you guys if that helps.
No idea what Talksearch is LOL but give me a week or two to finish the infrastructure changes I'm currently buried in, and then I'll need to bump Firefox extension version to manifest v3 and some other minor fixes to sync up with Chrome... and then I'll scan the thread for enhancement requests to figure out what we can or can't do. |
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9/13 10:02 UTC: Maintenance is starting now. The database will be read-only soon so as mentioned above some updates will be deferred.
9/13 13:03 UTC: Done. Let me know if you see anything wonky on bpip.org or in the data provided by the browser extension.
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BPIP will undergo database maintenance on Sunday, September 13, 2026 starting at approximately 06:00 EDT / 10:00 UTC. It may last ~ 3 hours. During this period the extension will display stale data, and occasionally may fail to load the data. Edit - maintenance completed: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5213618.msg67139063#msg67139063 If you experience any issues please let me know. |
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BPIP will undergo database maintenance on Sunday, September 13, 2026 starting at approximately 06:00 EDT / 10:00 UTC. It may last ~ 3 hours. During this period: - profile information will not be updated
- merits, modlog, seclog, and trust lists will not be updated
- some pages may briefly show errors
Updates will resume and catch up after the maintenance period. I will post here when it starts and ends, and if you experience any issues afterwards please let me know. |
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Pretty much anything you say on this forum has an implied "in my opinion" attached to it, unless it's a blatantly obvious fact, in which case the distinction wouldn't matter anyway.
The problem with that is that you can always use it as a defense for lying, and often someone would draw the line at some arbitrary point where many statements would be approved (as "your opinion") but many others would be disallowed (where "your opinion" crosses the line). The more you exaggerate an example for this, the worse it gets. Why is he allowed to lie about Bitcoin here without consequences but not about some senior user? Does it matter what exactly the lie is? Is it because Bitcoin can't defend itself that makes it allowed? What happened to free speech then? It's free until we don't like it? If the allegedly lying person is disruptive to the discussion of a specific topic then we have a bunch of forum rules (trolling etc) that should be applied, which obviously doesn't work in this shithole of a forum, but guess what... your red trust does nothing to discourage or prevent that sort of thing either. In this particular case though (alani123) I see a lot of hurt feelings but no particular malice. Having a different opinion or even being mistaken is not the same as lying, which implies intent to deceive. Is taproot important? Not in any functional way. While he did use "important" and it can be seen as a judgement (not that many will take it as this), it changes when it is coupled with "functional way". The interpretation of this can be many depending on the reader, one of which could be "taproot does not bring functional improvements". With taproot we are talking about facts, and the only correct assertion regarding it in the context that is spoken would be something like this: Taproot is very functionally important/has many functionalities/use cases but it is not important to me. Every other kind of interpretation is wrong. There is nothing to debate about that as taproot's functional importance is factually real (even if we are use the "judgement" word "importance"). If those functionalities or their importance are not obvious to someone, that doesn't change anything about it. If one is not familiar with the topic, one should not make assertive statements. That's a lot of... stuff. You ignored the implied "in my opinion" and added your own speculation to twist it into something nefarious. Is that the only way we're allowed to discuss Bitcoin features? Praise it before saying anything even mildly unfavorable lest someone twist it into a pretzel. That's some Nork shit, and not in a cool Australian way. |
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I only found out 2 months ago I've used Taproot without realizing it. I can't say it's very important to me  There is a huge difference between saying that something is not important and that something is not important to you. He didn't say " to me". Therefore, he's spreading misinformation against Taproot the same way that he is spreading misinformation about the LN. He has never contributed anything to Bitcoin, so therefore this comes as no surprise. Is taproot important? Not in any functional way. Pure lie, there is nothing to talk about here. Pretty much anything you say on this forum has an implied "in my opinion" attached to it, unless it's a blatantly obvious fact, in which case the distinction wouldn't matter anyway. Your example is particularly absurd. To any sane observer "important" is a judgement, not a statement of fact. |
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boy, I didn't give any red tags
Good for you. You're defending this kind of behavior though. I'm offended by that. Should I red tag you? Got it. Be nice if you want to scam people. That actually makes sense, and I'm pretty sure more people fall for friendly scammers than for unfriendly ones. Let's start tagging anyone who's ever been polite, because scammers are also polite!
Phew, luckily I can't ever be accused of being polite, definitely not a scammer. |
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People with such a terrible personality cannot be trusted at all.
when you have a shitty character, making trades becomes complicated and also very unpleasant
You need to pass the character investigation.
All this does is give you some small personal satisfaction of seeing someone whose character you dislike having a red tag (a bit more of an ego boost if you're a DT member because more people see it). It has little or nothing to do with actual risk, and with logic like that you're just asking to get scammed by a smooth-talking con artist. Getting offended on the internet is so 1990s, grow up. |
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The site has been down for almost a year.
Everything is fine, it's been rebranded. |
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Excuse me, I'm new here, is Satofan44 Lauda's new account?
One thing that will never change on this forum even as it slowly drowns in AI slop is the thin-skinned trust spam.
Someone said something unpleasant about Bitcoin - RED TAG THEM BECAUSE BAD WORDS ABOUT BITCOIN WILL LEAD PEOPLE TO SHITCOIN SCAMS!!!
Someone said something unpleasant about another user - RED TAG THEM BECAUSE SOMEONE WHO USES 4 LETTER WORDS CAN'T BE TRUSTED!!!
Even ChatGPT can't make this up.
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I have to be honest. When I first came here, I was surprised at how many different kinds of services were being advertised in the marketplace.
Besides casinos and (once upon a time) mixers, I found exchange representatives, VPS hosts, proxies, ad networks, gift cards, SMM panels, temporary email services, and even some art galleries.
And of course the token projects but I don't visit that section of the forum.
It makes me wonder, what other forums are there with this sort of versatility, great as advertisement venues? I know at least one, but obviously I would be open to hearing about others.
That's a weird criteria for a forum - to be an advertising platform. Other forms of social media are likely more suitable to this. For me forums have always been about discussions. If the forum owner wants to make some cash to offset their costs by hosting some ads - more power to them. But turning every thread into a never-ending billboard seems extremely counterproductive. It's great that Bitcointalk is still alive despite this but I wouldn't call it an example worth following. Having said that, some forums I'm on do have marketplace boards if it's relevant to the purpose of the forum. And ban scammers on sight. Another thing that's absolutely impossible here because reasons, while being common sense and not at all controversial elsewhere. |
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I expected worse, like something about Bears being the greatest team ever. |
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Well we could do what my other league's commissioner decided to do without input from anyone else and just make forced substitutions on inactive teams. Needless to say this proved to be extraordinarily unpopular.  Some kind of comedic shaming of the last place player is also a good way to go about discouraging the abandonment of their team. But I don't feel that would be right this year. Maybe it can be part of our next season's rules. I like Punishment #2 in this video and would say we should adopt it if it were not for potential opsec issues: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HoU1_Nrhg3sOh. A good punishment for us might be "you have to write 10 serious posts in Altcoin Discussion praising an absolute shitcoin" ... except for me that could actually be kind of fun Can I use ChatGPT to write it? j/k I'm ok with punishment, I deserve it. I have unused signature space so you can make me put something terrible there. |
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I frequent (or used to until recently but that's a different topic) a handful of other forums and none of them require me to wade through a pool of shit to get to what I want to read, or to watch my threads get drowned in mindless drivel. All of them nuke spam and AI slop on sight. It's not a controversial issue at all. I love Bitcointalk dearly but it is not a great place nowadays and getting worse.
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Google itself seems to be attempting to emulate a more human approach in determining its rankings to discourage SEO manipulation, which sounds good for us, in theory. It would be nice to be able to demonstrate that hiring spammers actually damages SEO. Ok, this make sense, this forum still needs humans but only to provide just enough "organic" content so that it's not completely blacklisted by Google. Otherwise the whole thing would be worthless. Either that, or capitalism is completely broken in this place and a bunch of idiots are throwing money away buying worthless ads. |
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Signature impressions for the service/product is the only point... I just have a hard time believing that people read an utter shitpost like the one above and then think to themselves "oh this casino being adverised in their signature looks interesting." Maybe that's exactly what happens though. IDK.
I thought it gives them an SEO boost if there is a bunch of forum posts linking to their casinos, even if those links appear under a dogshit of a post. Which ironically is getting killed anyway by search engines pushing their AI summaries. But there is no point for humans to participate, was my point. |
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His account says he has been on recently so I guess he just doesn't feel like talking to us.
My account has a script running that makes me look like I'm logged in when I'm not, don't trust it. Sorry guys and gals, I've been dealing with some tough stuff IRL, so haven't really been able to participate here or anywhere online for quite a while. Enjoy the easy wins! |
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Look to me it takes a lot of reading. Not 20 minutes a day.
20 minutes was my estimate for workload for a proactive moderator on an otherwise clean generic board, like Bitcoin Discussion. Doesn't need to involve reading everything. Even in it's current sad state BD has ~20 threads with new posts in the last 24 hours. So that's 1 minute per thread to skim the last page of it and kill any new spammers. Ok, let's say that's not enough time and you need 5 minutes per thread. But in reality that board should have like 3 or 4 active threads at most, I mean how many different BITCOIN DISCUSSIONS you could possibly have every day. Anyway, it's completely academic at this point, because this is clearly not the direction the forum is heading. |
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