Yeah sorry, its 2am and I didn't proof read my post. My bad.

All of the moderators have orders from the administrators to move threads solely about Bitcoin XT to the alt currencies section. Threads involving both Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin XT are allowed to stay in Bitcoin discussion.

Will be listing contents on Ebay tomorrow. Get in touch with me before its all gone! Though, I will list the Ebay links and accept Bitcoins for payment.

Daily bump. EBay listings will go up on the 13th of no one is interested. Will post EBay links here as well, and Bitcoin will be accepted.

I'll pass. I don't feel we would have much to talk about besides the forum, and I feel that would be rather unpleasant.

This thread was originally posted in Computer Hardware, so.... context.

Very popular with drunk college kids. One of my jackass buddies hopped on it for the first time, and went down a 40ish degree hill. He survived.

I think the use case that was developed for the SBU was for people with a commute, so its really not a kid's toy. People that need to go a couple miles to hop on a train/subway or whatever, can ride the SBU, and take it on the train, and get to work from the closer station. Here is Adam Savage from Mythbuster's word on the matter

https://focusdesigns.com/2009/12/adam-savage-sbu/

*edit* for you young bucks, pickup lines are cheesy. Riding up to someone on a SBU is like the modern version of riding up on a white stallion.

Daily bump. Prices dropped for the last time. Everything is set to what I'd expect to get for listing them on Ebay, after fees and shipping costs. Will end up listing on Ebay if no one is interested in the next few days.

I feel the same way, the trick is to not care what anyone thinks and carry on. The people who complain the loudest are those that know nothing of what goes on. I'll address the OP first, and then move on to the additional things the thread has brought up.

As far as anonymous moderation. If you want any work done here at all, it is a necessity. For everyone person who wants to know why something was deleted, or just wants an answer from a moderator, there are 20 who just want to yell. I don't have anyone on my ignore list or pm ignore list, but that would surely change without anonymous moderation. As far as oversight, Admins have a log of who moderates what. If someone is out of line, Theymos/Badbear will clean house faster than someone can make a thread in meta. They have the greatest motivation to keep the forum staff honest. Why have a jerk representing their forum?

To the other issues. I'm not sure why whether english is mprep's first language or not is important, if the basis of your argument is a spelling/grammar/phrasing error it must not be that important. I've challenged those that speak the loudest to bring up a clear case of favoritism, nepotism, or selective enforcement. I have yet to have anyone get back to me. I'm not arguing that there isn't room for abuse, but I don't understand why people have an issue with something that hasn't been an issue yet. I extend that invitation out to anyone by the way, show me a single case. I do ask that you research it yourself first, don't just repeat someone else's words.

As far as scams go, you can't blame mprep for not moderating your scam reports. It is forum policy to not moderate scams, there are a lot of reasons behind this. If you want a wall of text I'd be happy to provide it, but this post is getting long as it is.

Moved to dev and tech. Bitcoin discussion was an alright place for the thread to be, but you are likely to get better discussion in this section.

This topic has been moved to Development & Technical Discussion.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1083961.0

The thread most certainly belongs in the Alt Coin section.


You are promoting an alt coin/dev your post has very little to do with Satoshi in relation to Bitcoin.

Interesting theory, but users vote for everything. If the Honduran government puts out a fork of Bitcoin, its up to the users to decide whether or not they want to use it. Whether Gavin or the Core devs or whoever is participating in forking is successful is completely to do with survival of the fittest. If the Bitcoin users like Gavin's idea better, then it will become the dominant fork, or vice versa. I'd say that is probably the greatest form of representation. We represent ourselves.
Miners are providing a service. They process transactions, and people making transactions pay for that service. Again, you can choose to include 0 tx fee if you want, but just like in real life, if you want a service done for you for free, expect to wait. You are also free to become a miner yourself.
Core devs are groups of individuals who build on Bitcoin. If you don't like what they are doing, as I said before you can choose not to use their work, you can choose to work on Bitcoin yourself, you can really do whatever you want.

I understand the concept, if the 1mb blocksize is kept, people will have to compete to get their transactions onto a block. There are a couple of issues with that. It could make Bitcoin less competitive as a payment system. Someone with just a few Bitcoins could completely fill blocks in effect keeping others from getting transactions through. Would be a very cheap way to perform a DOS attack on the Bitcoin network. Far cheaper than 51% attacking.

I still haven't figured out why there is even an opposition. How much larger to increase the blocksize is certainly open for debate, but it is undeniable that at this point, it does need to happen, be it to 2mb or 20mb. Gavin's point of increasing straight to 20mb is so that they won't have to go through this again next year when 2mb is getting near its cap, which is understandable, but I'm sure there would be a way to start off at 2mb or whatever and increase it automatically at set blocks.

The "I'm only against this because I don't like how Gavin is going about this" is annoying. I'm not a Gavin fanboi, I just support whoever is right at the moment. If you work with a team of people who are unwilling to work with you, and you feel strongly enough that you won't drop the issue, you do what Gavin is doing. Who cares if a dev team has 1 person or 30 people, as long as Bitcoin users decide what fork to use, it isn't centralization. A fork wouldn't even be needed if everyone just started working on a workable compromise.

Bloat isn't the issue here, bandwidth could be an issue at 20mb, but again, the dev team could work out some feasible increase to satisfy everyone. There are already measures against dust transactions, such as minimum transaction sizes and transactions fees and such. If you don't want to fork the chain, you need to smoothly roll into the changes. If too much time is spent arguing, and we hit the 1mb cap before a fork is unavoidable.

Well first thing I want to address, is that the indicator isn't used for people to get competitive over. If you have 50 reports with 50% accuracy, that is still highly appreciated. Getting your score as high as possible isn't a huge concern. Though if you have 500 reports with 6% accuracy you are pretty much wasting moderators time, and should look at what you are doing and reconsider. That's not to say that I discourage people from reporting posts ever, but if your score is miserably low, might want to read some moderator clarifications on policies in meta.

I don't think the report accuracy feature is important enough to warrant additional features until there isn't much left to do software wise. If you have a question, send a pm to a moderator and ask. They will probably be able to give you a more thorough answer to a range of questions than you could extrapolate from accuracy %. Admins are always swamped, so my advice would be to shoot a pm off to the local moderator of the thread in question, or a global moderator. Always happy to fire off a pm to someone not trying to start some drama. Questions are a highlight of my day 

Not so much a bad idea as not being very necessary. Marketing discussion could go on a plethora of economy boards. Trading advice in trading discussion, bitcoin business also fits into a couple of the economics boards, or project development, service discussion, etc. Investing/finance is in the same boat as the others. Tax questions are in the legal subforum, and Mortgages and everything above that isn't Bitcoin related would go in off topic.

Definitely not a bad effort at getting new boards. None would be detrimental or annoying, they just aren't very necessary based on where you can already post. In order for it to be worth splitting a broad topic board, there must be so much volume of one part that it chokes out the rest of the board. Faucets became microearnings because they were spamming service discussion/announcement. Ponzi games were choking out the gambling section, so investor based games was made, etc.

I think you misspelled pimp. The max weight is 325 lbs. http://focusdesigns.com/sbuv3/tech-specs/

No

This is a feature some people are pushing for with the new forum software. If you have ever used the Eligus Bitcoin Mining Pool, since there are no accounts, and payouts are sent directly to whatever Bitcoin address you provide, you have to change account settings by signing messages with that Bitcoin address. I agree something like that at least for changing account settings or something would be neat. I think that would be very annoying to have to sign a message every time you want to log in, but required to change your password or something like that would be cool.

Glad you have it all sorted out. 

The "new posts have been posted" feature is so you can update your post accordingly if you are having a discussion with someone and they post new information while you are still writing your post.

Any time you "preview" something you are writing, it is saved to drafts, so if you are writing a long post, make a habit of previewing it from time to time.