Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ

[sarata15]

Hello!
please explain me what it means Full Member?
I need to know for how many posts and the time at the forum I'll get this rank?
Thank you

Q: When can I add an avatar to my account?
A: Once your account is ranked by Full Member

[InvoKing]

Hello!
please explain me what it means Full Member?
I need to know for how many posts and the time at the forum I'll get this rank?
Thank you

Full member is a rank where you are required to have 120 activity + 100 merit points at least.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2766177.0 for more informations.

[crypt0j0e]

Thanks for this information. I've noticed not all threads show their rules so when i first started out i had to figure out the hard way after seeing my posts were deleted because they lacked substance. Overall, i'm impressed with this forum, it's a treasure trove of information!

[CryptoWind]

with respect, but imho, insults are unavailable in any forum. At least in section where important things are discussed.

[IBXNetwork]

This post solved most of my doubts respecting why some post of mine were deleted, I know realize my mistakes. Ill now search how the member system works and what can a full member do compared to a newbie like me

[ALEX JAHID]

This post solved most of my doubts respecting why some post of mine were deleted, I know realize my mistakes. Ill now search how the member system works and what can a full member do compared to a newbie like me

Maybe something was wrong with your post, so the moderator deleted your post.

[TheBeardedBaby]

What is needed to add something to the rules??
I already started a thread here with request to add the use of homographs to be forbidden in the rules.
I have opened a Poll, too.
Is there anything else I should do?

[TranslateIntoDutch]

Hello everybody, I translated the original post by mprep into Dutch. You can find the translation here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4606921

Hopefully this translation will help some people to better understand the forum. I'm glad I could contribute something to the forum by providing this translation. If someone has questions about the translation, please let me know!

[RJX]

Hello everybody, I translated the original post by mprep into Dutch. You can find the translation here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4606921

Hopefully this translation will help some people to better understand the forum. I'm glad I could contribute something to the forum by providing this translation. If someone has questions about the translation, please let me know!

It does and it should be stickied.

Thanks for your work!

[mprep]

Hello everybody, I translated the original post by mprep into Dutch. You can find the translation here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4606921

Hopefully this translation will help some people to better understand the forum. I'm glad I could contribute something to the forum by providing this translation. If someone has questions about the translation, please let me know!

Added to the list of translations, thanks.

What is needed to add something to the rules??
I already started a thread here with request to add the use of homographs to be forbidden in the rules.
I have opened a Poll, too.
Is there anything else I should do?

Considering that the homograph ban would be sitewide, you're going to have to convince theymos.

[chipr]

So are there official guidelines?

I am looking for the rules relating to just opening a Bitcoin Forum account, limits (to one account per user), or any other requirements.

For example, I am a current member and have only ever had one single Bitcointalk account.

I am actively participating in 2-3 coin projects at the same time and some are very insistent that I wear their signature, not for any particular bounty or rewards necessarily, but for loyalty purposes. Two of the coins are beginning, or have been, in a slightly bitter rivalry as one seems to have almost copied all of the features, graphics with slight modifications, of the other coin community that I have been with longer.

The only solution I can think of, which is a pain in the rear, is to open a separate account dedicated to one of the coins... in addition to this account if allowed, or bail on one of the teams. There is no bad intentions in thinking of doing this as it is not to spam, or break any other rules, it is simply an option that may, or may not, exist to solve this dilemma for now and keep my status for one that requires at min. Jr. Member accounts (they don't want Newbie status accounts posting on their ANN perhaps to avoid spammy 1-2 word comments, like "I love $Coin", or "when moon?").

[TryNinja]

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It's not against the forum rules. Officially, you can have as many accounts as you want.

The real problem is what you do with those multiple accounts. If you're going to spam, don't even bother. If you are going to break any campaign/bounty rules (e.g: don't join with multiple accounts), then you also have a problem.

[chipr]

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... If you're going to spam, don't even bother. If you are going to break any campaign/bounty rules (e.g: don't join with multiple accounts), then you also have a problem.

Right gotcha! Thanks for the reply...

So it may not be clear as can be from my post, but there is no intent on my part to do either of those actions, or anything otherwise not permitted.

If I dedicate one account only to interact with one of the coin communities that I belong to, say Coin1, then all posts, etc. done with that would be in regards to discussion in their ANN thread mostly, although I'm free to make general posts in other threads of my interest. It isn't like I would be making more comments regarding Coin1, just by having two separate accounts to do so, I would register a new account with Coin1 since they do like us to remain active. This way one cannot have multiple accounts for anything like that as is the same for accounts on Twitter, etc. all aiming to support the same organization.

It is more work for me and also means starting from scratch with a newbie account, so I will have to work my way up, but primarily build up this account that already exists.

Since I'm not of the mindset to spam or hack, I don't even know how to be a hacker, I hadn't thought of anything such as a 'non-legit' coin/organization that may encourage their user to spam other ANNs using multiple accounts (which seems the opposite of your example but more practical in effect).

The communities I'm talking about are not that naive -- they have you register all your Social Media accounts with them so that they can check on things, it would be impractical to use more than one account with one organization and likely you'd be banned.

Side Note:
As far as having more than one Twitter account, well you would only want to register one of them with any community that you belong to. Perhaps you have a business Twitter account, or personal one, and in addition you created one for the crypto community so all your non-crypto friends don't have to continually see your crypto postings. That as far as I know is fine, but I have only 1 twitter account mainly for connection to the cryptocurrency community.

The other abuse I can see, since it is discussed on the individual community's chat room or forums, is that people will create multiple signup accounts for those individual communities; especially if they are having airdrops.

That is a huge problem and I don't know of a better example, and just now as I'm writing this I thought of the connection -- those cheaters would have to create a BitcoinTalk account for each of their alt/duplicate accounts in said community so they would each appear active... that is akin to a Sybil attack; joining one group or organization as separate personalities and impostering as being several different individual users of said community. Automatic ban if they are caught.

Then those who are cheating by creating separate email accounts find they need to create separate Social Media accts for each of their multiple email (and linked) accts/false personas. That is basically illegal or against any rules and regs... that is not the same has having one personal/business email account and one for ALL of your crypto needs -- I think that is the type of abuse you are referring to.

[esmanthra]

I am looking for the rules relating to just opening a Bitcoin Forum account

Briefly there are two types of rules that you should take into consideration in a case like that:
1. Rules of the bitcointalk.org forum. These are listed here, in the starting post of this thread, and their observance is monitored by bitcointalk.org forum moderators. If something isn't mentioned here as prohibited, then it's not forbidden and doesn't imply forum ban or another "administrative" sanction.
2. Rules of particular bounty campaigns. These are listed in threads of specific bounties (or somewhere on their project's sites) and their observance is controlled by project creators and/or bounty managers.

So, regarding the forum account restrictions, we talk about first type. According to p.18 of these rules, on bitcointalk.org you can register (and use) as many accounts as you want:

18. Having multiple accounts and account sales are allowed [...]

(But you'd better not violate the other paragraphs with these accounts if you don't want to capture the attention of forum mods.)

While regarding the "multiple" participation in one bounty campaign, we talk about second type - and plenty of accounts according to these rules indeed is not allowed. But, if you'd break them, you'll be expelled from specific campain only, not from entire forum or whatever else "worldwide". Though you can also receive the negative trust for this, but that's a social rating and a different story.

[roslinpl]

Hello,

I have a little question

Can 'Members',  'Junior Members' & 'Newbies' put such a ⚡ character in their signatures? Sorry, but I cannot test it on my own.
It seems it's possible but I'm wondering, because it's filled with a color and I'm not sure is it excluded or not.

Best wishes.

[mprep]

Hello,

I have a little question

Can 'Members',  'Junior Members' & 'Newbies' put such a ⚡ character in their signatures? Sorry, but I cannot test it on my own.
It seems it's possible but I'm wondering, because it's filled with a color and I'm not sure is it excluded or not.

Best wishes.

Since emojis are part of Unicode, I'd assume they're treated the same as regular characters when it comes to signature restrictions. You can always make an alt account and test it out.

[roslinpl]

Hello,

I have a little question

Can 'Members',  'Junior Members' & 'Newbies' put such a ⚡ character in their signatures? Sorry, but I cannot test it on my own.
It seems it's possible but I'm wondering, because it's filled with a color and I'm not sure is it excluded or not.

Best wishes.

Since emojis are part of Unicode, I'd assume they're treated the same as regular characters when it comes to signature restrictions. You can always make an alt account and test it out.

Thank you very much for an answer,
I would love to merit it but I'm out of sMerits at the moment :-(. Thanks again!

Best wishes.

[CryptoPravda]

Hello,

I have a little question

How many times in my own theme I can writes word "reserved" ?
How many messages with this word(reserved) can be under my  theme?

Thank you.

[mprep]

Hello,

I have a little question

How many times in my own theme I can writes word "reserved" ?
How many messages with this word(reserved) can be under my  theme?

Thank you.

There's no hard limit but I personally usually allow 2 and delete the rest. They also have to be posted at the start of the thread. I may make an exception if I see a valid reason for having more.

[xandry]

9. Discussions in the main boards must be in english. All other language discussions should be posted in the appropriate Local board.

This rule seems to me had other text earlier? Now it kind of allows to communicate in English in local boards.
And, I think, we need to add clarification to rule 15 that it is forbidden to participate in onforum altcoin giveaways also.