Topic: A call to order. (Read 268 times)

Your first comment was related to this thread, and I was able to read it because it was the first thing you posted, but you have now deleted after other people pointed out the relevance of the discussion and why it is a topic to discuss.


After that you used a better phrase in your description

They are both your statements, I did not read the discussion halfway. Do not make me sound funny.

The discussion is now off-topic, as a result, I will lock it to stop it from going on

The ideas in the OP dey good and uplifting if you ask me. At least e give both person way bring person and the person way them bring a sense of responsibility based on the image them go paint for themselves and the rest of our country people way kpogidey for here. Na base on watin man dey see way dey make man dey cry out. I fit recall when everybody been dey build one or two with bitcoin, but things with bitcoin, teach the blind how to work and invest in bitcoin, carry am kwa dey quote bible and those plenty things them. We fight that fight and now, e rear to dey see that kind thing again. Na small small but, people go follow up as we dey talk am when we see am.

Na just one thing OP wan address shah so, I no go say I really expect pass watin e don do and make we take caution kwanu, na the legit.

I am surprised that you were able to read about what we posted about child boards that is not that related to this thread, but you were unable to read this:

It is now you are using the correct sentence in reference, which is saying "make a better effort" for the benefit of newbies, than using the phrase you used in your first post which you have now deleted, which was "no effort post", like my intention was to spam, when it was far from it.

I will not have to express myself again: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.62582132

I think we should better than this. I only expected more.

That should be considered off-topic. You can report it and see if it would be deleted by a moderator.

Igebotz asked a question and I quoted him to answer and he even appropriate the link that I included that led to further discussion about having child boards.

I think a conclusion like this should be from newbies. If need be, I can point to discussion like this on the main board from well established members.

It is your topic, not mine. Sometimes I give people hint for topics I wish to merit. I gave you the hint to help guide newbies to put more thoughts on their posts. That was why I said, newbies will imitate us the legendary.

You are funny. Visit the English boards and see more of it. Where there are more discussion and more people, something like that can happen. But the best the OP can do is to lock the thread and that is discouraging enough. If reported, moderator will remove it. I do not use to report it if the thread do not build further with replies and if the OP lock the thread, but my aim of discouraging duplicate posts is achieved.

Exactly, make a better effort next time.

I saw you edited your posts and make it bulky, the reason I reposted this to quote what you posted.

I am not here to post what you expect. I do not understand what you mean by "no effort post", would you rather I write a very long text that newbies will not have the patience to read through?

I said what needed to be said in a few lines, expressing myself in the simplest way possible so that the message is passed easily. I have no intention of spamming.

I am doing what someone in my rank and in my experience in forum should be doing, which is helping newbies become better in the forum. On your own side @Charlse-Tim as an older Legendary member, you have diverted the attention from the point I was trying to make with your comment and because of that, a topic that should have be deliberated on so newbies can see the importance and learn from it, will no longer be so effective.

As you identified this, you have should have elaborated more on the topic as a forum where everyone contributes to make the discussion more educative.

If you had done so instead of focusing on what I did not add to my topic, maybe there would not have been any need for you to tell this user to lock this topic- https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/is-8000-monthly-payment-to-the-poor-the-true-solution-to-our-problems-5460816 because it was already ongoing.

They would have learned from this topic how to search for topics to know if they have been started before posting.

I agree with what the OP has said. One of the biggest fears I have for local board here with all the newbies coming up with their topics is that this local board shouldn't turn to Nairaland forum. There are too many topics that are similar. Personally I feel that We shouldn't have multiple topics that centered on the fuel situation in Nigeria. We should have multiple topics that discuss about Emefiele, FOREX, Road , electricity and poor infrastructure in the country. There should be a single thread and every new thing should be discussed under it. We can take a cue from El Salvador thread in the bitcoin discussion board. I know that what is preventing us from fully able to monitor and enforce this is the fact that we are yet to have a local board moderator. If the admistrator here can make any of us a moderator, the issue of multiple topics with the same theme would be a thing of the past.

According to my observation, politics and society topics are much. If we request for politics and society board when the times comes, it would be given. The off-topic board would be the next to be requested for. But if both are requested for, I would be happy with that. If we should do it appropriately, we can first request for politics and society board which I know we would be given. But truly, we need off-topic board as well.

The thing just tire me as I dey see careless newbies dem just dey worry everywhere for the forum and e come be say dem be Nigerians. Anybody wey you bring here hold him hand way make him strong before you allow am they waka about. No just give am link make him register and you forget about am. Atleast dey observe him posting, review him account steadily so if him make mistakes make you be the first person to see am and correct am in time before him go get punishment for am. Him go learn like dat pass person when you just forget about am and think say everybody na you wey dey learn quickly.

See eh for this life everybody no get the same understanding capacity so e get some people wey you go use small pikin hand follow them and e get others wey you go teach them as mature men. Introducing somebody to this forum na very big opportunity you dey give am like dis so. No let am throwaway am because of small mistakes wey you for fit correct am but because you no dey observe am you no see am. I get people wey I bring here and if no bi say I dey observe them, dey for dun ban dem since but I fit strongly say I never bring person here wey dem dun ban and na because I teach dem well. Make we dey try observe dem as our brother talk so make we no spoil the good name wey we dun try get here abeg.

If that's the primary condition for getting an off-topic child board, we deserved it months ago because the majority of the topics on the board are off-topic. I can easily pull out more than 100 off-topics from the previous three pages of this board.

Well, OP you have make a good point concerning that off- topic which our leaders here has pleased with us to be patient that very soon off topic and other board will be included so that newbies will not be misbehaving with different off topic and low quality PostPost here. I believe with time those low quality Post and off topic will be a thing of the past because d newbies are ready to learn and anyone that refuse to learn we go force the person to were he or she belong according to our rules that governed this local board.

Well I think I have seen all that is going on here, my brother Charles-Tim you are absolutely correct on your suggestions. We were all newbies and we knew how it was to us when we started so trying to culture those that are coming to instantaneously act like you and I is something that would be too difficult because first, the forum is too large sometimes it might get them confused on where to place the right post or knowing where to start.

Like what I does most times, there are people who now above me and some within the range of Sr. During their time when I noticed some post they made are not up to standard enough or not directly to what the topic is saying I will inbox them on either whatsapp or pm. If I think the post is that bad, immediately they would come and edit their post. I didn't just report those posts because I knew they are up coming and needs guidelines despite they had their boss but all is for the progress of we 9ja because I love my brothers and anytime I noticed a poster is from my locals I do monitor to see if there's any lapses., So guiding and correcting a newbie is not bad rather a good thing to do to keep our board clean and pure as snow.

So lets learn to correct each others without any hate or signs of hotness to our words as I believe newbies needs our attention more than anyone here and at last it will be a ++ to our entire local board.

I loved the way you handled it, thank you big man

Let peace lead!

I am not certain about it. But the rule to have a child board is that the topics that people are requesting child board for should have been almost half or more than half of the topics discussed on the first page of the main board.

I just learned about this topic, and it's a fascinating read; you guys did some excellent work. I was also thinking that it's past time for us to request child boards. I messaged Theymos after his last response to my request to remove my Custom title, and I told him about some of our issues on our local board and what we needed. But thyemos will always be thyemos, and he prefers everything to be written down and posted on the Meta. Why do you think off-topic child board will not happen anytime soon?



I've had such an experience twice, so it's not worth it. I'm no longer interested in bringing or vouching for any user to be whilisted, but I still believe that those bringing users should start on the local board to try and give them the do and don't guidelines, as some may be greedy and will always try to take the short cut and end up on the wrong side. We will continue to have this problem until we stop forcing people with no knowledge of Bitcoin and who are unwilling to learn to come to the forum.

Possibly you must have had the experience but that does not mean you would leave a crying baby to keep crying all day long because if you do,the mother would bear the consequences if the baby falls ill. What am i trying to say, if this continues, it would not be an individual affairs but the whole of the Nigeria local board. So the earlier this is addressed the better for us. This not about leaving them to have their way but rather calling them to order.

Some topics indeed are truly spam. I can even point to one or two on the first page.

Having off-topic board is not going to happen for now, that is just the truth. The board we can have for now is politics and society but which I did not come up with enough reason to have it yet. This will give way to off-topic discussion. I like CryptopreneurBrainboss opinion that we can call it 'other discussion'.

Start reading from here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.62572758

If politics and society discussion board has been created, there would definitely be more off-topic discussion on the main local board. If it does not surpass other discussions, there would be nothing like a request for off-topic (other discussion). Although, it is what I like this forum to achieve. Because more boards more development.

I have introduced people to this forum that did not understand it. I believe you people would have tried that too. Not everyone are the same. I have introduced like two people before that I told them not to plagiarized. They are both graduates. But they plagiarized and got banned. You may introduce someone and the person may understand the forum, but the person may not understand it. Should I be blamed for those that did not understand what they were doing and later got banned? I have addressed this before, I hope people will understand. Because someone failed an exam, that does not mean the teach did not the the person very well. So I still disagree, based on my personal experience.

Even on English boards, people that brought other people are not talked about, they deal with the spammer or low quality posters.

Why are you so interested in the off-topic sub-boad? I've observed you always bring up this agurment everytime we discuss low post quality and spam. Having off-topic sub-boards is a requirement, but it shouldn't take away our ability to address and discuss how to lessen the high amount of spam by this new set of newbies. We were better off without them, and at this pace, I don't care if they all get nuked because all they worry about is politics and their petty daily lives. There is no willingness to learn or ask Bitcoin-related questions.


I'd agree with Cryptsafe in that I expected anyone introducing someone to a new area to at least familiarise them with the forum's basic guidelines. We expected them to know the essentials, even though we are here to help and protect them. If you look at at the hangout thread, you'll find that almost all of these newbies were introduced to the forum, while some are merely alts fishing for merit and activity count.

I know say we dey try our best, make we keep the energy going.

It is a good topic, but it was of low effort. We should show more effort like we show it on the English boards. I have seen Nigerians that created a topics like this in the past on beginners and help and of more effort. Let me quote him to explain better.

They are newbies, why not also teach them how to make use of this forum search engine and other search engine in your post. This will make your post better.

There are other things you can add that newbies can read and gain from your post. This would have made your post to be educative and informative for newbies.

This kind of topic should be create to discourage low quality posts and spams, but also to teach about what the newbies can do to achieve the kind of quality posts that you are talking about.

Please, if you can edit the topic and put more thoughts into it, it would be a good topic.

Then why are we meeting online on this forum to help one another? We need off-topic board and we may not get it until we get politics and society board. If a question is related to the main board on the local board, it would stay there, but if it is off-topic, it would be moved.

That is not totally correct. The way we post can help and shape things too. It is possible to tell a newbie everything needed but the newbie may still plagiarize, spam and be having low quality posts and be banned. You do not have to blame people that brought them to this forum, blame the newbies that are doing the wrong and encourage them if need be if they have not done something that you should report them for their post to be deleted or their account to be banned.

I believe OP is seriously concerned about the development of the Nigeria Local board hence this topic was created. Maybe OP noticed most newbies here and their posts most times does not align and in that cause it would be assumed they have no idea and guidelines on how things are done here and there is every possibility that they were unveiled by somebody and it is the duty and responsibility of whomever brought them to be able to guide them and making sure they do things right here when it comes to making posts. Possibly, they might take out time to do the needful after reading this post.

My best friend Charles-Tim, I understand your point but what op is saying is not totally bad because newbies are just coming to the forum and straight to the local board and the first topic you will see them dropping is Tinubu is traveling to Ghana for ECOWA meeting, that shows that the person who brought them to the forum is did give the orientation enough. So I will not blame the op too much because from him he is trying to make some corrections and not because he wanted to create the thread but because of the way newbies are spamming the board made him to call call them to order. So my man please don't see it from the other side but see it from the good side.

It has been in my mind as well do so. Though nobody is above mistake. Love you all.