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

[Hispo]

People here have already shared some interesting proposals I had in mind, specially concerning two factor security and new ways to handle scams/plagiarists, so I would share my proposal which I believe noone has mentioned till' this point on this thread:

If I had some power on this forum I would set a maximum time threshold for ban appeals to get an answer, so people would not need to necro their appeal threads. I would be something like, giving the banned user a reply to their appeal case within 4-8 weeks, maybe even assemble a team to handle appeal cases which members would rotate/change to keep it as unbiased as possible.

[DdmrDdmr]

I figure that it would be a question of going through the multiple suggestions made over the years, seeing what seems reasonable and feasible, classifying them in accordance to priority, and allocating the resources to do so. Having said that, which is simple bird's eye theory, I would likely initially focus on two key elements:

1.   Determining what to do with Epochtalk, and being forthcoming with a feasible high-level roadmap to deployment. If it were to be scrapped, well so be it, but one should know what software any suggestion is going to be implemented in before anything else, and avoid the development of Epochtalk from dilly dallying any functional evolution.

2.   Give a high priority to what can be done with this: search engine optimization for local boards. I believe a lot of growth is still feasible through Local Boards, and I’d prefer to be wrong after trying than not trying at all.

[Cookdata]

I've read a lot of proposals, and a lot of them have already been tossed in the trash. Very soon, this one will join them. I originally suggested that Bitcointalk be made open source and free to contribute to, similar to how Bitcoin features and protocol are regularly upgraded. However, I later discovered that new forum software has been under development, and I have never heard any significant updates regarding the progress.

Scams are not moderated, and making trades on the forum are high-risk activity. My best recommendation is to address this by ensuring a perfect lightning network on the forum. Users only need to create/generate their seeds outside the forum(offline manner) and use a single private key to open a channel in the forum, two people can use the channel to send bitcoin within themself without running away since two of the users are required to closed the channel, in no other circumstance would anyone else have access to the keys except when the forum becomes compromised and that is what I feared the most.
I've been contemplating this, and that's the best shot I have right now to address the problem of scams. While it would lower the incidence of forum fraud, my biggest concern is the possibility of keys being stolen. I sincerely hope there is another solutions available.

[CryptoHeadlineNews]

So what about you ? How would you make Bitcointalk better if you were the Boss ?

Thou, everybody have said everything i had in mind which i would have done if i was the boss of the forum, ranging from taking plagiarism seriously with automatic ban, banning accounts with more than 10 negative trust from D1 and D2, and implementing 2factor authentication and face or fingerprint recognition for logging in, and most importantly implementing the Bitcoin price feature on the top left side corner of the forum "close to the avatar", where users could easily sees the current price of Bitcoin, since this forum is all about Bitcoin, so implementing the Bitcoin live price feature will be the best idea so far

[Falconer]

if i was the boss of the forum, ranging from taking plagiarism seriously with automatic ban,

You may still have to handle with plagiarism reports on a case-by-case basis.
Plagiarism is prohibited, but what if current forum contributors forget that they have violated this rule in the past without realizing it, is the permanent ban or will you consider other things based on your interpretation?

and implementing 2factor authentication and face or fingerprint recognition for logging in, and most importantly implementing the Bitcoin price feature on the top left side corner of the forum "close to the avatar", where users could easily sees the current price of Bitcoin, since this forum is all about Bitcoin, so implementing the Bitcoin live price feature will be the best idea so far

2FA is good for security, but I think face detection is bad for security because many users really care about their privacy. Remember there are users using this forum via TOR from day one, they are privacy-concerned people, but if you ask them to apply face detection on login then that means you will kick them out from forum.

For the latter I agree, because this is a bitcoin forum so displaying bitcoin prices in real time is good as a new feature.