The Fit to Talk English project was created to help non-English speakers take part in the English sections of the forum. I hoped that we could gain some valuable insights into the emerging world of the crypto-currencies that will replace the dying fiat currencies. The first significant example is the Venezuelan Petro, and whilst this may have trouble in gaining acceptance, it is a precursor to the flood that will appear over the next few years. Bitcoin Talk has many members in countries that will be in the forefront of this revolution, and many of them do not have English as their first language. I believe that Bitcoin Talk will be the poorer without contributions from these members.
I am also of the belief that Bitcoin Talk will have to shake off its image as a trading ground for bounty spammers, and other discredited revenue sources from the crypto underworld. I don't approve of bot use to promote threads or posters, and I have recently had to moderate a post featuring this practice. The explanation of my moderation is quoted below.
The primary purpose of this forum is to improve the quality of posting in the Bitcoin Talk forum. Possibly the greatest problem faced by BT at the moment is signature spamming by bounty hunters, and the unfortunate reputation that BT has gained as an income source derived from low end activities in the crypto world. Bot promotions of threads and members is destroying some great platforms like Steemit, and we don't want to see this happen to the Bitcoin Talk forum. BT is the original Bitcoin information exchange platform, and I hope it will grow as government crypto-currencies such as the Petro emerge. To remain a credible platform, it needs to distance itself from the swamp of the alt coin scams.
The forum is there to help people to improve their English, and hopefully that includes modern Internet English, as well as the purer forms. Obviously if you are working on a post to start a thread in this forum (Bitcoin Talk), then it needs to be crypto related, or of interest to readers of the political board. If you are just chatting to improve your English, then there are a variety of boards that allow for a wide range of topics, and these include cooking,cars, traditional dances and many other subjects. It is even possible to post in your native language, and use Google to translate your post. We can then work on this to help you to create a post that will be of benefit to readers of this forum.
