How Would You Make Bitcointalk Better If You Were The Boss ?

[SFR10]

How would you make Bitcointalk better if you were the Boss ?

In addition to other comments, I'd do the following things:

• Add "list of topics link" to "Additional Information" part of our profiles
• Add more sub-boards, even if there aren't enough threads to fill up the entire page.
• More local boards.
• An undo button ^{[I don't think I'm the only one who has deleted certain posts by mistake]}.
• An algorithm that helps in picking/delisting merit sources every month ^{[it might come in handy in covering more ground]}.

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[BitcoinGirl.Club]

Fun? Have you even been in the situation when you do not have your bypass link and you are trying to login from tor? Try.

Lol I will try.

You haven't ever? F*** you! 😘

I got the joke sis!

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I will let you stay confused LOL

Lol add a Silver coin to the gold ones.  

Big man will find something if he wants.

It's a lot more of the typical single-person owned online business than the Bisq-like decentralized platform.

It runs of Apache and has a phpMySql database. Theymos can remove the data anytime if he wants. The domain could be sold and the files could be removed.

[Welsh]

Speaking of which, do you know how long we'll be stuck with the current forum software? It's really outdated by today's standards.
What happened to Epochtalk? Why haven't we had any updates for ages?

I have no idea. I don't think there's been any official announcement publicly or privately to staff users. There might be some staff that are more in the know than others, but as far as I can gather most are out of the loop. I've approached it with the attitude that it'll happen when it happens. Like I've said, I'm not all that keen on the change, since I've come rather accustomed to Simple Machine Forums.

Plus, I'm generally not a fan of the more modern type websites, and from what I've seen so far I like the additional functionality considerations, but the look of the Epoch I'm hoping changes when we do change over to it. I guess there's always custom CSS.

[Stalker22]

Plus, I'm generally not a fan of the more modern type websites, and from what I've seen so far I like the additional functionality considerations, but the look of the Epoch I'm hoping changes when we do change over to it. I guess there's always custom CSS.

Honestly, I'm not a big fan of the current Epoch look either. Maybe I will just have to get used to it.
My only wish is that we could get at least a responsive design for the forum, as it is really difficult to use the current version on mobile devices.

[Welsh]

Honestly, I'm not a big fan of the current Epoch look either. Maybe I will just have to get used to it.
My only wish is that we could get at least a responsive design for the forum, as it is really difficult to use the current version on mobile devices.

I'm usually function over fashion though, and I do appreciate the direction of the extra functionality. SMF is really showing its age in terms of functionality. While it's decent, and we've got quite a bit of custom functionality added to it, it's written in PHP which is notoriously annoying to do anything with. PHP is quickly becoming redundant as developers look to alternatives which basically just simplify, and therefore increase productivity. So, I will admit we will likely have to move on at some point, and that will be met with some reluctance, but if we want to further the forum, and continue adding things as time goes on, it'll be necessary.

I imagine that was one of the main motivations for theymos. PHP is annoying, and they likely have plans which are quite difficult to achieve without breaking a ton of things.

[KingsDen]

If I am theymos, I would do one major thing, though it could be wrong to some community members but I believe that majority would like the initiative.

If I were the boss,  I would not allow known or proven scammers happily use the forum maybe just having few stashes of negative trust and then permanently ban user who copied some stuffs from the internet and forgot to insert links.

Well, plagiarist would be tagged while proven scammers would be banned.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

If I were the boss,  I would not allow known or proven scammers happily use the forum maybe just having few stashes of negative trust and then permanently ban user who copied some stuffs from the internet and forgot to insert links.

Well that'll go against the whole idea of a free speech community. Everyone should be welcomed here, and the caught scammers already have tagged and flags that display on any thread they create so if a users still falls victim after all the warnings made available to them it's on them and not the forum.  We should learn to make security our first priority in keeping ourselves and funds safe and secure in this industry instead of depending on the third party for protection.

Majority of those that plagiarism has the intention of claiming that information that they're about to pass across as an original and received reward for them. The reward could be merit, monetary value from signature campaign they're enrolled in or a reputation for been a valuable (contributive) member therefore their punishment are well deserved.

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

Majority of those that plagiarism has the intention of claiming that information that they're about to pass across as an original and received reward for them. The reward could be merit, monetary value from signature campaign they're enrolled in or a reputation for been a valuable (contributive) member therefore their punishment are well deserved.

Plagiarism rule and ban nowadays are no longer in effect.

People can copy, paste 10 posts, get paid (if no one detects it) and no ban in any kind (post, signature, account).

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5405070.msg60503952#msg60503952

[Ahli38]

If I were the boss of this forum. then I will maintain the rules that already apply. because so far I like and comfortable with the existing rules. ( for now. )

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I will be adding or recruiting some Mods to be placed on the Board of Economy and Speculation. or on some boards that don't have a special mod yet.

and one more addition that I will add a special badge for users who have merit above 10000 merit. or it could be by adding a special Rank level for users above 5000 merit.

[yahoo62278]

While it is in the forums best interest to keep the policy of staying out of scams, I would change that policy. If something is found to be a known scam, all accounts with said scam are perma banned as well as any and all threads related to said scam locked.

[so98nn]

As boss I would introduce one of the important feature on bitcointalk forum and that’s (Send) and (Receive) buttons alongside our posts, helpful articles that someone posts, or something unique is done by specific user and we wish to donate them for the hard work.

Besides that, it could work as payment model on the forum. For example, paying out Service Providers on their threads. Like someone is offering Artwork, social media services, or even signature campaigns. One should get button just below their profile pic and be able to send one click money.

To make it far easier I would implement in-built forum wallet to store my bitcoins and be able to send it on one click option.


This would be great help in the lending section also.
Once the transactions started to build up it would show the transferred amount of bitcoin for that particular and which will in turn help clients understand how much worth trust they could have on them.

For example, Dark Star as lender would top the list and can be shown under his profile based on transactions.

All of this in association with building modern forum features. I know many of them will say I can just go through my wallet and send money and shit but think about it as if you are working here and transaction features become way handy.

This might also help escrow service providers.


Being forums leader I would restrict the number of sign ups that happen every 24 hours. This is to avoid junk accounts being created all the time. Though timing wont help much but it would slow down the process at basic level and mods would be able to track down similarities between two accounts on faster route. This is just to keep the forum as clean as it could be.



More for the Forum Members:

As boss I think I must keep forums engagement to high adrenaline! Like I would host more competitions, challenges, and shows which will help forum members to gather and compete and play with it. This is to encourage the members to understand the crypto world since all the completions would be associated with the same.

I would design entire section for the same. Like (Bitcointalk’s Contest). Mods, staff and boss would be the one controlling posts here, I mean creating the topics etc so as to keep everything clean and focused.

So yep, there are endless possibilities to modernise the forum though it is still welcoming as it is today.

[libert19]

I would add alert (mention/quotes) system and leave the rest as it is 

[BITCOIN4X]

The first option I think of is the extra security option. There are a lot of hacked and sold accounts which later became a problem in this forum. Authenticator might be a good choice to be a security feature to be adopted in this forum.

Then from that, no newbies and jr members can access the bounty board to join and promote the altcoin project. Access will be unlocked once they rank up to a member or a higher rank. That's the limit that will probably have a big impact because it will encourage them improving the quality of posting. And one more thing, night mode would probably be a nice feature for user option.

[PowerGlove]

1. Remove cloudflare

Do you have better way to protect this forum from DDoS attack?

A few hosting providers have native (either on or very close to their internal network) DDoS protection. It's usually a semi-expensive add-on, but (IMHO) is preferable to joining the disturbing trend of putting more and more of the Internet behind Cloudflare.

For a forum that values decentralization, I found the choice a little incongruent.

But, I suppose it's easy to be principled when you're not the one paying the bill.

Edit: After reading the relevant thread (thanks @ETFbitcoin) I see that this decision was not taken lightly and that @theymos dislikes Cloudflare at least as much as the rest of us...

[ABCbits]

1. Remove cloudflare

Do you have better way to protect this forum from DDoS attack?

A few hosting providers have native (either on or very close to their internal network) DDoS protection. It's usually a semi-expensive add-on, but (IMHO) is preferable to joining the disturbing trend of putting more and more of the Internet behind Cloudflare.

For a forum that values decentralization, I found the choice a little incongruent.

But, I suppose it's easy to be principled when you're not the one paying the bill.

Relevant thread, Moving to Cloudflare. IMO it's unlikely Bitcointalk remove CloudFlare anytime soon unless someone with experience mitigating large scale DDoS give advice to theymos.

[Mpamaegbu]

First for me will be to sanitize the Altcoin Board and put a severe check on how bounties are run there by making sure mods have a meaningful presence there.

Secondly, moderate scam activities. I don't get it when users say scam isn't moderated here while every other thing seems to be.

Thirdly, create a BTT coin that will run alongside Bitcoin as a pair. Make it a stablecoin.

Create a mobile BTT app.

Seriously, I wonder why that still hasn't happened. It's weird for a savvy site like ours not to have it 🙄

[SFR10]

To make it far easier I would implement in-built forum wallet to store my bitcoins and be able to send it on one click option.

Considering that there's always a possibility that our accounts could get hacked, this is a terrible idea for us and a wonderful idea for hackers!
^{- Why risk such things for fewer clicks?}

This might also help escrow service providers.

It won't ^{[it puts everything on the line]}!

Create a mobile BTT app.

Seriously, I wonder why that still hasn't happened. It's weird for a savvy site like ours not to have it 🙄

It probably has something to do with Epochtalk being responsive in nature.

[Pmalek]

These are the four things I would change:

1. I am sick and tired of scammers being pardoned. Scammers wouldn't be welcome in my forum. The same people deciding who to ban for X and Y reason can also ban scammers.
2. I would spend some of that forum money to pay for a decent mobile app for those browsing the forum with a phone.
3. I would introduce a feature that allows switching the OP of a thread. In case OP is inactive, someone else can take over. If OP is sick and tired of moderating and updating their thread, they can give someone else mod rights.
4. Bring your girlfriends/boyfriend to the forum day.
 

- Require altcoin projects to run their bounties with Bitcoin, not with their tokens

That way they can scam the bounty hunters and not pay them any Bitcoin because the way it is now, they don't pay them any shitcoins. Joking aside, I understand what you are saying and a long time ago I proposed security deposits for bounty campaigns. It didn't catch on, but I still think it's not a bad idea despite everything. You want to run a bounty? No problem deposit a security deposit in BTC or ETH with an escrow, do your thing, pay what you owe, and your security deposit will be returned. 

[Welsh]

Does Boss equal to Lead Admin like theymos, Cyrus ?

Theoretical in it. I don't think people are thinking about specifics since it's just basically asking what do you think the priorities are.

- Require all user to learn about Bitcoin and force them to sign a Bitcoin message, for ownership proof, stake it in an official topic of the forum

The thing is, as soon as you put this into the rules it almost legitimises bounties offering in Bitcoin, which isn't the impression we want to give. If we went down this route, we'll likely have to go the route of requiring escrow, and then there's the issue of which escrows, since putting it in the rules will validate certain escrows, which again is something we want to avoid.

[KingsDen]

While it is in the forums best interest to keep the policy of staying out of scams, I would change that policy. If something is found to be a known scam, all accounts with said scam are perma banned as well as any and all threads related to said scam locked.

Happy to know that yahoo62278 share in my view. I would not romance scam for any reason. In my post I proposed permanent ban for scammers and red tag for plagiarists.
@CryptopreneurBrainboss, you said that plagiarists do so to complete campaign quota, earn glory they don't deserve or to gain merits. If 1 or 2 DT members tag the plagiarist account, his purpose of committing plagiarism would be defeated thereby rendering the account useless. It's worth it.