Why do we have childboards named Chinese Students and Кopзинa?

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These childboards are so tiny and imperceptibly located that I discovered them today.
Why do we have child board named Chinese Students? Rarely has anyone posted in that board and Chinese already have their own local board. I don't even understand what unites the topics in that section under Chinese Students name. There should be some story about that board and why it's archival right now. That's why I am creating this thread, if you are an old member and know story (I hope), please share.

Also, why is there another child board called Кopзинa? It's a Russian word that means Basket but on windows it's often used as a synonym of Recycle Bin. So, why is that childboard named Кopзинa? Any story behind this too?

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Am not a very old member from that time but you can find the reason for the creation of the Chinese student board from this thread

The guy (Nefario) behind the creation of the board said this, it was experimental

About a month ago I had all my students using bitcoin and they we're all over this forum, so we created this board to put them all.

I'll have a report on the whole thing for everyone to read in about 2 weeks.

and this

Sorry, mixture of slow and lazy.

3 Classes we're involved, with roughly 80 students per class.

The classes were broken into companies of their own choosing, each company needed a CEO and CFO
And that's all the rules really. The general idea being that they had to do business with foreingers for bitcoin (as at the time only Westerners had bitcoin).

When I started I did have lots of complicated rules, but that just confused everyone, so kept it really basic MUST MAKE BTC, marks given for genuine effort.

The total amount earned by all companies combined was 75btc in a period of about 1 & 1/2 months.

The largest being 31 btc by a single group.
Next being 16btc
10,8....0

There were 17 companies, only 8 of them had any bitcoin at all, the rest got nothing.

I had expected an internal market to develope where companies would specialise and people would be lent from one group to another for a price but nothing like this happened at all.

What did they do?

Apart from spamming the forum and pestering people here are some of the things that we're tried.

Translating Chinese jokes to English
Selling Mp3's and video's about Chinese culture
Making a Chinese cookbook and attempting to sell recipies.
Having a magazine about Chinese medicine
Making two homemade KungFu Movies (which were actually very good but no one bought)
Giving advice on how to enter the Chinese market, open a Chinese bank account etc.
Selling traditional Chinese Medicine advice.
Begging.

The most successful of these was translating jokes, so successful that it convered the majority of bitcoin for the first 3 groups (two of which saw how we it was working and jumped in).

Problems
Language, obviously many of the students could not write a clear advertisement to save their lives.
Understanding bitcoin
Knowing how to use a computer
Having a computer or internet access (most students dont have).
Product ideas.

In roughly the above order.

Of all the students involved about 20 really made an effort or took part. And it seems to be those from this group that are continueing to use bitcoin (after counting they asked for their bitcoin back).

In most ways I would deem this experiment something of a failure, it was poorly executed on my part, and most of my hopes (of developing an internal market inside the college based on bitcoin) came to nothing, but there were some minor success.

Most of the winning companies were in the same class, most of the failing ones were together also, it seems success and failure are contaigous.

Questions?

the board was then probably moved to archival after the experiment as it didn't serve any more purpose

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There were several threads about same question. A quick forum search could bring you these threads for example:

Why Did There Use To Be A "Chinese Students" Subforum?

grue explained it well.

Nefario taught an english class in china. he had some assignment where he got his students to do something on the forum. That's all I can remember.

About Кopзинa, xandry said in another thread:

This is quite an interesting topic for conversation... This is all the inheritance of the first moderator, under whom the structure of the Russian-speaking subforum was created.
Most of the subforums in the Russian-speaking section were created 12 years ago.

There was also a whole subsection for the trashcan: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=92.0
Great, right? When users lost messages in the entire forum after deleting topics, users in our section did not lose anything.

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Op logfiles had said it all so you don't have to worry yourself again. There is only one reason for someone to create a board for Students, or Education purpose. Mainly for teaching and learning purpose so for someone to create Chinese students child board means, it is for teaching newbies who are novice in the ecosystem to be aware that bitcoin does exist. And if the purpose of the board is not actualized the archive will be the best place for it.