Why are there lots of accounts that seem abandoned?

[Frankolala]

Illness can make a user not active as some illness are lifetime illness, private reasons and lost of password as aforementioned can make the user inactive both high rank and low rank.

As for newbies some of them lost interest due to in the urge of getting merits and if it didn't work out the way they thought this can also discourage them since they came to the forum thinking is a place to make money. OP are you thinking of leaving someday the forum is an open community where people come in and go out when they are tired of the place. In this forum privacy is first

[Despairo]

There's many reason why they're abandon their account, it could be they got negative tag because they're cheater, illness, dead, busy, migrate to shitcoins etc. Of course you can't know the reason except the account tell it to everyone or you contact them in personal message, but what's the reason we need to know their reason? life goes on, there's an old users will leave this forum and at the same time there's a new user create an account in this forum.

[MainIbem]

This sometimes draws a lot of attention, because the previous owner of the account does not always return from an awakened account.

I think if such happens, there are some thing to be considered although I don't find it to be a genuine reason which are:
1. Posting partain
2. Posting in another local thread from the previous
3. Lack of spelling or inappropriate information
4. Posting to gain merits ( which I call it to be eye service)
5. Random meriting
6. Partially change of mails or password (which are not enough reason because the real own might change password or emails)

[suzanne5223]

This is an independent forum and it is also like a marketplace where people come and go when they reach a certain destination.  Therefore, it's hard to know the reason why a certain high-ranked user account was abandoned years ago if the user is not your friend or someone from a local thread who decide to share some of its private information that will lead to her absence on the forum just like how Pandukelana2712  did.
Having said that, we both know the world was hit by the Covi-19 during the interval mentioned by the OP which lead to the loss of life of many people worldwide.

[Lucius]

There's nothing wrong with someone losing interest in an online platform. People lose interest in things at different paces and for different reasons. However, one thing is for sure: the cryptocurrency market is growing, and forums like BitcoinTalk are still at the center of this market.

It's not just a loss of interest, but various life situations that simply force some members to change their lifestyle and redirect their time and energy elsewhere. The OP is thinking in a way that is wrong in the sense that someone created their account just to profit from the forum, and then suddenly abandoned that account. And at the same time, he does not take into account that not everyone is here exclusively for profit and that most of the accounts he mentions were created long before the merit system - which means that their owners did not have to invest in them anything more than their time.

As for your thinking about this forum as some kind of crypto-currency center, I think that is not correct considering how many active members we have that give some value to the forum compared to all those bounty hunters who together are worth absolutely nothing.

For the new generation, the concept of a forum is not something attractive, and that is why most of them spend their time on various social networks where, frankly speaking, they will not learn much and have a much higher chance of becoming victims of a scam.

[Shamm]

It reality it depends on the person behind that account because the last decision in the owners of the account and also we all know that there are many reason why they abandoned that account like they are busy in real life which they don't have extra time to focus on the forum or else the user of that account don't have any interest in this community,   and also what other said above the owner of that account died.

[isaac_clarke22]

For the new generation, the concept of a forum is not something attractive, and that is why most of them spend their time on various social networks where, frankly speaking, they will not learn much and have a much higher chance of becoming victims of a scam.

True. Not just from the "concept" but also from how the site looks overall.
I might go a little off-topic here, but I am 90s guy and I had used old sites before like MySpace and Friendster. Surely new generations would not really like those sites since they do not really look "modern" unlike what we have these days. This forum felt like the OG sites before like I mentioned that I would endlessly appreciate.

Knowing that this forum is also focused in crypto is a plus for me and not just because it is sort of giving me nostalgic feeling of the OG sites.

[Lucius]

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This is the philosophy that the content is not so important, if it is not integrated into something colorful, shiny with hundreds of emoticons and the possibility that you can delete each of your messages and of course all this on your smartphone. There have been tons of inquiries over the years on the topic of mobile app for this forum, which only proves that we will have a hard time attracting some new kids to join us if we don't provide them with what they want.

I think everything will change when we get a new forum, we just need to be patient a little more

[Stalker22]

for your thinking about this forum as some kind of crypto-currency center, I think that is not correct considering how many active members we have that give some value to the forum compared to all those bounty hunters who together are worth absolutely nothing.

For the new generation, the concept of a forum is not something attractive, and that is why most of them spend their time on various social networks where, frankly speaking, they will not learn much and have a much higher chance of becoming victims of a scam.

You are probably right. Forums were the place to go for years and are filled with a ton of valuable information to back it up. Unfortunately, they are nowhere near as influential as they used to be. Though that doesn't mean that forums are completely useless in 2022. There are various social networks available on the internet, but imho, the best way to get advice on a given topic is by using forums. You just can't find the same level of quality and information elsewhere. People take their time to write a post, or reply to one, which means that the quality of the content is usually better than on other sites. You can go back and read their posts at a later date, which is another advantage of using forums.

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I think everything will change when we get a new forum, we just need to be patient a little more

On the other hand, I agree with you about the new forum software. It's about time that the forum get a new, modern design. The current one looks like it was made in the early 2000s. It's boring and outdated, which is not at all helpful in making the user interface appealing to younger generations. I hope that the new design will be more modern, engaging and intuitive. I also hope that the new design will help to increase the activity on the forums, as it's something that we all want to see happen.

[Davidvictorson]

I've been going through the forum lately and I've seen alot of accounts that seem abandoned and I've been tempted to know what really happened to them.
I've been seen some high ranked up to hero ranked accounts and so much low ranked accounts that seem abandoned with last login showing over two to three years ago and I really wanted to know if the forum has any provisions to check up on its members either through email or whatever means if a member suddenly stops appearing online.

People sign up on the forum for a lot of reasons. You may be surprised if you carried out a poll the answers you would get. And at some point when their objective is achieved, they stop visiting. I will focus on the techies and founders who sign up to get answers their technical questions and once they get a satisfactory reply they stop visiting the forum. I have also seen folks who sign up to get participants for the grad school research. Once they get the participants to answer their survey, they stop visiting the forum. I can go on and on but I believe you already get the point now.

[Lida93]

I believe many persons here have pointed notable reasons why an account could be abandoned but I just want to add that some might be maybe that the user of such account might have been engaged into something bigger and time taking that do benefit them alot and such a person couldn't just be at two places at same time and decides to let go of the account .

Perhaps, it could be a dream job and that has made them got weary of the forum.

[SatSniper13]

Many accounts that may be abandoned are from long ago... we might assume the account owner has a large balance of cryptocurrency and abandoned their old socials as a safety precaution... Many old accounts are also locked and it is very hard to get an account unlocked, especially when untouched for years.

[Sandra_hakeem]

We've got alot of dormant accounts; not because the forum suddenly became unbearable for anyone but you seeeee....we all have our private lives and plans to put into materialization so for this reason, alot have decided to refrain from the forum. Some haven't even had the chance to decide whether or not to stay; as dead quietly bully 'em into endless slumber.
I don't think peeps in here get any direct informations from anyone that goes inactive for a while; apart from some that knows virtually, an important personality in here, that's been trusted over time. If informations are given from sources like that, about a user inactivity, then we'll get to believe 'em.

Sandra 💇

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

I've been seen some high ranked up to hero ranked accounts and so much low ranked accounts that seem abandoned with last login showing over two to three years ago

Merit introduction might have also contributed to this dormant accounts. Merit was introduced just about 4 years ago which means before, you only needed activities to rank up and many of those dormant accounts you see got to their respective ranks mainly through spamming the forum. There wasn't much effort put into building their account so they can always abandon it when the reason for creating the accounts in the first place was no longer effective. Many created those accounts to participate in bounties as it was the hype of the forum years back.

But all that stopped or became less relevant 2/3 years back when projects started using IDO and IEO to create awareness about their projects and raise funds which means bounty became less or zero profitable as such all the accounts created for abusing that privilege became dormant. This is just one of the factors that contributed to those dormant account and they're basically ghost account and not authentic users so no need checking up on them If that was even a thing over here.

[nakamura12]

There are different reasons why there are lots of accounts that are abandoned. Death is also the case of why the account is abandoned as you can see it but it isn't abandoned at all if I say since the owner died (well you can consider it the same as abandoned). The other is it is an alt account that didn't get to ranked up due to merit implemented years ago. It could also be because the newbies who are introduced to this forum are educated in a different way like the one who told them about the forum taught them that they can earn money by joining bounty campaign which is true (most of it are scam anyway) and that might be the reason. It is also possible that the account's password is forgotten and the email used in creating the account is fake or not accessible because when you create an account, you can type any email you want even if it can't be accessed. Let's say, I create an account and I type abandonedaccount@gmail.com then it will still possible to finish creating the account.

[Lucius]

On the other hand, I agree with you about the new forum software. It's about time that the forum get a new, modern design. The current one looks like it was made in the early 2000s. It's boring and outdated, which is not at all helpful in making the user interface appealing to younger generations.
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I personally don't mind that the forum is the way it is, because to me the content is much more important than how the forum actually looks - although it would be desirable if we finally got a new forum considering how much money and time was spent on that project. And will it help us to get more new members who will not be just bounty hunters - that is a question that we will have to wait for some time to answer.

[Taskford]

I've been going through the forum lately and I've seen alot of accounts that seem abandoned and I've been tempted to know what really happened to them.
I've been seen some high ranked up to hero ranked accounts and so much low ranked accounts that seem abandoned with last login showing over two to three years ago and I really wanted to know if the forum has any provisions to check up on its members either through email or whatever means if a member suddenly stops appearing online.

Please pardon me if this topic has been discussed, and I will be glad if I'm pointed to it So I can know what happened, and hope I'm asking this in the right thread.

Many reasons for account owner to abandon their accounts and will list some of popular reasons below.

1. They didn't get any campaigns to join with and continuous declining by sig campaign managers what makes them tired to post here in forum.
2. They get red trust and they get discourage then abandon their accounts.
3. They got better life outside world and they choose to abandon their accounts.
4. Their life didn't depends on forum so they just come and go here.
5. They find this forum as a toxic place so they decide leave because they can't take the politics here.

To many other reasons which people can add up and we have individual reasons why we stay here or we decide to leave.

[isaac_clarke22]

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Ah yes, although I am okay with how the mobile view looks like anyway. It is not like I had any issues. Even in my freelancing career, mobile app or mobile-friendly sites has been taking over the web development so I am not surprised that it would even be a continuously inquired feature here in the forum.

I understand those "new kids" are looking for modernization of web applications/websites, but it should be known that keeping up with the technologies is hell of a pain let alone maintaining it.

[tvplus006]

I've been going through the forum lately and I've seen alot of accounts that seem abandoned and I've been tempted to know what really happened to them...

The reasons may be different, but we can say for sure that many accounts were blocked due to violations of the rules of the forum. But on the forum you will not find confirmation of whether the account is blocked or not. In order to find out whether the account is blocked or not, you need to use https://bpip.org

[Findingnemo]

I hope they're living their life, probably a break or they didn't want to participate in the discussion or the reason can be any. Well, there is no loss for the forum but for themselves cause bitcointalk is a place where we can keep up the knowledge about cryptocurrency and a lot other things up to date.

Some of the reputed members even left bitcointalk for various reasons for example the red trust queen Lauda but I guess many users are still surfing in guest mode or anonymous new accounts.