Bitcointalk is Dying?

[tranthidung]

Bitcointalk has strongly been alive, instead.

Let's be realistic. Bitcointalk is dying.

Who controled it?

But this is a controlled decrease in activity.

Wrong!
Merit system launched to wipe out spammers, but it has actually help true bitcointalkers to have a cleaner forum.
Everyone got problems with the system. Please do not infer your case or others to all forum users.

The emergence of the merit system on the forum created by moderators in order to reduce the appearance of new users and create problems for everyone else.

Less bounties during bear market makes sense, but the probable more important reasons is spammers by now nearly unable to promote to Junior Members. Then, they gave up, and stopped creating new accounts since September of 2018. Some months later, November, October, they kept creating new accounts, but they soon realized that they could not rank up anymore.

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+---------------------+---------------+
| 30day starting      | registrations |
+---------------------+---------------+
....................................
| 2017-12-20 00:00:00 |        238433 |
| 2018-01-19 00:00:00 |        136872 |
| 2018-02-18 00:00:00 |        107237 |
| 2018-03-20 00:00:00 |         87087 |
| 2018-04-19 00:00:00 |         89659 |
| 2018-05-19 00:00:00 |         83999 |
| 2018-06-18 00:00:00 |         72430 |
| 2018-07-18 00:00:00 |         61360 |
| 2018-08-17 00:00:00 |         43451 |
| 2018-09-16 00:00:00 |         43516 |
| 2018-10-16 00:00:00 |         35335 |
| 2018-11-15 00:00:00 |         31502 |
| 2018-12-15 00:00:00 |         20733 |
| 2019-01-14 00:00:00 |         20046 |
| 2019-02-13 00:00:00 |          2763 | [PARTIAL PERIOD]
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In the year 2018:
Merit system is a big revolution of bitcointalk forum.
The demotion of Junior members and new requirements on that rank is the second revolution of the forum.

Is it spam? No. You have to admit it. I don't believe anyone who sings the praises of this system. But this is not the only problem. The decline in activity in the cryptocurrency market contributed to a sharp decline in the number of new projects. Previously, each forum participant could take part in signature companies and become a member of the cryptocurrency community without money. Now it's almost impossible. I think that the forum moderators consider their mission to popularize cryptocurrencies fulfilled and the number of users will be constantly reduced.

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[Pmalek]

Bitcointalk is not dying. Just visit the Development & Technical Discussion board or Bitcoin Technical Support. Not to mention the general B&H board and what you will see is that almost all users asking for some type of help get the appropriate help and feedback by BT members, sometimes in less than 1-2 hours. A community with plenty of members who are willing to help others by sharing their knowledge and doing research to come up with solutions to problems, is not dying in any way.

[TDC_Official]

Bitcointalk is the backbone of crypto world and this is the place where all crypto encaustic people gathered around. It will never die because it's just not only a forum, bitcointalk is thought, an idea, an innovation, and still it's in early age and keep growing. It's making people educate about blockchain technology.

[virendarnagpal]

Bitcointalk is not to die till the bitcoin is alive.  And I do not see any death of bitcoin in near future. 

Number of users / posters have definitely decreased and that is because bounty hunters are now away due to bear phase.  in bear phase bounty hunters were not getting paid because of no value for the coins they were earning.   so they stopped working / posting (as required for signature campaigns) ultimately the numbers of posts came down heavily. 

Due to merit system also several people could not earn a single merit and ultimately could not be promoted to junior member.  So they were not allowed to take parts in signature campaigns of various projects resulting they ran away from the forum. 

There is a circle to every economic activity..  after every bull phase there is bound to come bear phase and followed by bull phase again.  So when the bull phase will start; such people who have stopped writing here will start again and the post count will increase.

So there is no death to the forum; it is just relaxing from the pressure of bounty hunters (I have seen some people calling them shit posters)   

[TheBeardedBaby]

I think the thread completed it's purpose and it's time to be locked and let go.
Hope the OP will do this, otherwise I have to report it to avoid additional spam.

For all those tl;dr guys > The forum is alive and it will continue it's purpose in the future, too.That's it.

[Flash Cunt]

I think the thread completed it's purpose and it's time to be locked and let go.

I agree, and I gave you one of my rare illuminated merits for suggesting it.

Of course Bitcoin Talk won't die. Just wait until all the bankers start their crypto projects, that will set it on fire.

[erikoy]

Well probably this because of unfriendly user intetface. One will going to pay if having a bad IP address when regustering besides the ranking and merit system divides users in this forum. High ranks has a huge and good opportunities while low ranks are dying over a period of time due to merit requirement to rank up. Others will say that it is easier to rank up but in reality only few will be chosen as it depends on the merit they receive from.the merit source. Some.merit source are doing their best but because of the huge registered users it will be difficult for.them to spot good posts and merit it unless one user is eager to acquired it by posting constructive posts.

[aioc]

Nope I don't think so, in fact, this is still the go-to place to find relevant news and for feedbacks about news dropping of attendance is not an indication and there is no close competition so far, it will still the best Bitcoin forum.