BitcoinTalk Profile Guide

[welovedcrypto]

Here I am going to tell you how to use BitcoinTalk Profile. Definitely this guide is for Newbies who don't know how to edit their profile.

Profile can view only after login  



After entering on Profile page You will see below page.



1. Profile Info: Here you can find profile related information.
                - Summary:  Summary is the your profile page. As shown in above image
                - Show Stats: Currently this page is disabled.
                - Show Posts: This shows previous posts of user.
2. Modify Profile: Setting are available through which users can modify their settings and preferences.

Account Related Settings
                

                 - Username and Name: The username will show here which used while registration and name are same too.
                 - Hide Email from Profile: Users can choose if they want to show their email address to anyone or not.  If ticked then no one can see your email address.

Reasons behind hiding email addresses is to protect your account better. It can be called as preliminary protection for user accounts. There are so many attackers, whom will find email addresses and send phishing links to email addresses. When they find you, you will be under risks of phishing attacks.

                 - Online Status: Users can choose if they want to show their Online status to any other users or not. If ticked then anyone can see your online status.
                 - Limit IP retention: This will put limits on future login and users can check last logged in IP address details here https://bitcointalk.org/myips.php
                 - Choose password: Users can change their password here.
                 - Secret Question: This is like a second password. This helps you to reset your password in case you forget your password.
                 - Current Password: To change all above setting users have to enter their current password.

Forum Profile Information
                

On this page users can change or add their profile information like Birth Date, Location, Gender, AIM, MSN, ICQ, YIM, Website with Website Ttitle,  Skype, BTC address and any other contact info. All this information will show on users profile page.

Look and Layout Preferences
                
                  
                        - Theme: This setting is currently disabled.
                        - Time Format: Forum time is visible on top of this forum. Users can change format of time from this setting.
                        - There are other setting under this setting are users can stop seeing signature and avatar of users.  Enable child board of sections. (Check setting page for more info).



Notifications and Email
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                Users can enable and disable notification setting from this setting page.

Personal Message Options
                          
                        - Ignorelist: Here users can add username of users from whom they don't want to receive any message.
                        - Most Important, by default this setting is disable "Allow messages from Newbies"  when you tick this on setting page then you will only start receiving messages from "Newbies" users. By default users are not allowed to receive messages from "Newbies"

Ignore user options
                  
                        - Ignorelist: If any users do not want to see any users post then they can add username of that person here.
                        
Ignore Boards Preferences
 
                        - Ignorelist: Select the section which you didn't want to see again.

3. Summary: Here users can view all details added by them under their profile setting. Information may different from the view of own and other users. If you check your own profile then you can see your email address on summary page but if any other user view your profile then they may not see your username (it depends on setting saved by users.).
                  - Signature: Signature codes can be added under your profile setting. Only Jr. Member and above can add Signature on their profile. (As I am Newbie I am not able to add signature and also not able to view signature setting area.)
 
4. Pictures/text: On forum "Pictures" stand for "Avatar" And text  can be added. Things can added through Profile setting page (as I am newbie I am not able to see this setting area.)

5. Additional Information: "Show the last posts of this person." by clicking on this users can check their last posts, not only their the users can check anyone's last post. And in same way any users can see their or anyone's last started thread by clicking on "Show the last topics started by this person".


Suggestion are highly appreciated.
        

[1715567664]

1715567664

[welovedcrypto]

Suggestions are adding here.

Hi,

Thank you for you post, however, you can simply go to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=help;page=index and find almost everything you needed and even more:  . You don't need to be login in to see that help options. I posted a quick link below, so others can try it as well.



[1] Introduction
[2] Registering
[3] Logging In
[4] Profile
[5] Posting
[6] Personal Message
[7] Searching

[Baofeng]

Hi,

Thank you for you post, however, you can simply go to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=help;page=index and find almost everything you needed and even more:  . You don't need to be login in to see that help options. I posted a quick link below, so others can try it as well.



[1] Introduction
[2] Registering
[3] Logging In
[4] Profile
[5] Posting
[6] Personal Message
[7] Searching

[Husna QA]

-snip-       

Why did you move this thread from Beginners & Help to Meta?
Isn't it more suitable if posted there...?

-snip-  however, you can simply go to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=help;page=index and find almost everything you needed and even more:  -snip-

Some of them have changed from the standard help menu, e.g.:

[hd49728]

                - Email: Users can choose if they want to show their email address to anyone or not.  If ticked then no one can see your email address.

I recommend you to emphasize one point on register email address. Users should choose "Hide email address from public?". Reasons behind hiding email addresses is to protect your account better. It can be called as preliminary protection for user accounts. There are so many attackers, whom will find email addresses and send phising links to email addresses. When they find you, you will be under risks of phising attacks.

[welovedcrypto]

-snip-        

Why did you move this thread from Beginners & Help to Meta?
Isn't it more suitable if posted there...?

I am still not sure where I should post. I think this is the best section for all types of members newbie to legendary.

                - Email: Users can choose if they want to show their email address to anyone or not.  If ticked then no one can see your email address. Reasons behind hiding email addresses is to protect your account better. It can be called as preliminary protection for user accounts. There are so many attackers, whom will find email addresses and send phishing links to email addresses. When they find you, you will be under risks of phishing attacks.

I recommend you to emphasize one point on register email address. Users should choose "Hide email address from public?". Reasons behind hiding email addresses is to protect your account better. It can be called as preliminary protection for user accounts. There are so many attackers, whom will find email addresses and send phising links to email addresses. When they find you, you will be under risks of phising attacks.

I just added your content on OP. Hope you don't mind at all. 

[hd49728]

I just added your content on OP. Hope you don't mind at all.  

You are welcome, but you have to leave a source of my post, or use quote block. I suggest you to use quote block to avoid plagiarism, and you have to edit your OP as fast as possible to avoid risk of permanent ban due to plagiarism. In my opinion, it should be the best if you use quote block. I saw you deleted that part in the OP, but if you really want to add that content, posting it inside quote block is fine. You don't violate forum rule by using quote block.

[rosezionjohn]

I am still not sure where I should post. I think this is the best section for all types of members newbie to legendary.

This is more suited for beginners and help board.
You also said it yourself.

Definitely this guide is for Newbies who don't know how to edit their profile.

[xtraelv]

The forum already has an extensive guide here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=help;page=profile

[hugeblack]

You need to modify the images so that they appear to all, do not paste the image link but the extension.
Use this:

Code:

paste this URL ----> https://i.imgur.com/P2eGjlS.png
not this ----> https://imgur.com/P2eGjlS

                - Limit IP retention: This will put limits on future login and users can check last logged in IP address details here https://bitcointalk.org/myips.php

Thank you, although I visit this link hundreds of times, I didn’t notice this setup, does the forum keep IPs for more than a month?

[welovedcrypto]

You need to modify the images so that they appear to all, do not paste the image link but the extension.
Use this:

Code:

paste this URL ----> https://i.imgur.com/P2eGjlS.png
not this ----> https://imgur.com/P2eGjlS

                - Limit IP retention: This will put limits on future login and users can check last logged in IP address details here https://bitcointalk.org/myips.php

Thank you, although I visit this link hundreds of times, I didn’t notice this setup, does the forum keep IPs for more than a month?

Thanks will change image links.

No forum does not keep IP for more than a 30 days.
You can read about that here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5151357.msg51367859#msg51367859

[hd49728]

Generally, it might be better and more helpful, if the thread moves to Beginners & help. I do agree that your thread belongs to forum issues, that Meta board created for, but B & H board will help the thread become more helpful, especially with newbies. You should consider about it.
This one is incorrect. The forum does store your IP logs, but it does not publicly gives you data of your IP logs. It is for safety, I guess. I case your account hacked, hackers will only have data on your IP logs within last 30 days, which will play as barrier because hackers do not know your past IP logs, longer than one month. Then, if you are real owner of hacked account, you can provide your past IP logs (longer than 30 days), and other evidence to recover your accounts.
If you notice, you will see this one in your profile page, in Account Related Settings:

Limit IP retention:
Reduce the retention of your future logged IP addresses. This will make it far more difficult to recover your account if it is ever stolen; make sure that your email address is correct and that you have staked a public key.

[welovedcrypto]

Generally, it might be better and more helpful, if the thread moves to Beginners & help. I do agree that your thread belongs to forum issues, that Meta board created for, but B & H board will help the thread become more helpful, especially with newbies. You should consider about it.
This one is incorrect. The forum does store your IP logs, but it does not publicly gives you data of your IP logs. It is for safety, I guess. I case your account hacked, hackers will only have data on your IP logs within last 30 days, which will play as barrier because hackers do not know your past IP logs, longer than one month. Then, if you are real owner of hacked account, you can provide your past IP logs (longer than 30 days), and other evidence to recover your accounts.
If you notice, you will see this one in your profile page, in Account Related Settings:

Limit IP retention:
Reduce the retention of your future logged IP addresses. This will make it far more difficult to recover your account if it is ever stolen; make sure that your email address is correct and that you have staked a public key.

Moved
You can check your IP Logs here: https://bitcointalk.org/myips.php  (off course only when you online).

[welovedcrypto]

Bump for newbies 

[ZaraCB]

                - Show Stats: Currently this page is disabled.
        

Why always this show on my profile?

[DdmrDdmr]

<…>

Because they are disabled for everybody. They were disabled at some point at the end of 2018 (see User stats are disabled? or unable to understand the stats), due to a DDoS attack, that led to @theymos disabling them.

I haven’t found the reason why they were kept disabled thereon (whether the reason is due to a vulnerability, or they were left disabled due to performance).

They used to look like this:

It’s not really an error. @hugeblack has indicated to you that the statistics on the profile were disabled deliberately, and have not been available for some years.

If you are curious as to what they displayed, it was something like this:



https://web.archive.org/web/20171125182850/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=35;sa=statPanel

[Btcbeginners]

Thanks for the guide buddy

[LTU_btc]

Bump for newbies 

I think you have to update OP before bumping it, because now I see "bitcointalk.org image proxy" error in place of images. Visuals is important part of your guide.

[Annisa_crypto]

I think all the members have already mentioned every step but if someone is very new to this forum without sign in they can go through all board and after they are confident and have some knowledge about crypto and after that, they can join the forum.

[Wenbing]

Is it possible to edit one's username and email used during registration?