Topic: Any reputed member or merit sources here? (Read 510 times)

Some of my post from local board also deleted recently the reason I don't know why yet but it was considered when someone reported it so you need to who report if you see a spam post soon you will get an attention from a global Mod.

When Benson went out, I began reporting posts myself. I have about 40+ unhandled posts still with about 230 ish good reports. And I've noticed that although my reports outside this board are handled well, but reports from India are never seen.

We can still use report to moderator button even if there is no separate moderator for us because global mod can interrogate and make decisions on the reported posts.

Need to get united and standout among other local boards.

This I strongly agree. So then what are we waiting for. Let us all unite and together we can cleanse the Indian sub and begin a new journey.
Let's plan accordingly and decide how we can achieve good discussions, awareness and development of Crypto.

Looking forward to the initiative you are planning to bring in pawan.

Those communities are huge and people have connected over a long time. I think this also has a lot to do with our work ethic as Indians. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people are wary of directly associating themselves here.
We also need a few path-breakers from the initial days. Benson was a decent guy of course but I think he is yet to recover from the backstabbing he got from that phD guy who had the private keys.

Its about trust and integrity. It is sad that we as a creed of men have become so morally bankrupt that one man cannot trust another man. This lack of trust and integrity seeps into all walks of life. Even if someone is doing something good, there will be a few people always trying to pull them down.

Yet, for all the gloom, let us hope for the best. I am sure there are a few bad apples everywhere, in every nationality and community. With certain laid down principles and good examples, we can all be better together.

India is second most populated country but still lacing the community for cryptos,there are very few members need to support each other rather than hating for some reasons.I see serious trolling is also against the forum rule so you can report him if you feel in that way for a ban.

The issue of why this section of the forum does not see much activity is kind of summarized here in a different reply of mine


So if you want quality discussion, first let's ostracise the trolls and butthurt worms that the Indian community attracts. There is no unison here.

Go to the Turkish board or the Spanish or even the Phillipinian board, you raise a finger against one of the older members and everyone starts defending them if they aren't guilty of anything.

We Indians aren't like that. Maybe not the entire billion of us, but how much of our population even knows or cares about Bitcoin that they find their way here?

I don't think its quite appropriate to reveal nationalities of so many reputed and recognized members.

The Indian board has been kind of idle for so long which is one of the reasons why I don't post much on here.
But I do see some traction these days and so thinking to encourage discussions in this board by making some good quality posts.
Also, I am about to start something new related to crypto and if things go well then may be I shall link that to bitcointalk as well.

FTFY Legendster..

I have had heisenberg read and merit a few of my posts. Not endorsing myself, LOL,  but I think his sense of judgement is fine..

Its really good to see this discussion. I agree with Heisenberg on the few members that he has identified. I think the problem is that the initial adopters from 2012-13 disappeared all of a sudden with the prospects of exchange bans etc. Like everything good that we get in this country, the initial few took crypto and mostly used it to fool the gullible among us. Well, i guess i should say the gullible AND Greedy. Serves them right probably.

The real issue is that no ecosystem evolved here at the Indian sub towards doing the stuff that mattered for crypto when it could. The main moderator Benson, started his own exchange until it went down because of the backstabbing friend. How many other crypto startups did we have in India which were something more than exchanges?? No trustworthy source for information on mining hardware and software, no discussion on P2P trades using crypto, No marketplace to speak of. I am yet to see anything of this sort. I will be glad to know if i am wrong but from what I have seen, the initiates didn't really do much in terms of spreading the love when it comes to Bitcoin.

For someone like me who joined in 2017-18, the crypto scene in India was a mad rush defined by greed and scams. Then came the ban hammers and people were scattered in the wind. No single person is responsible for this but the community as a whole that really didn't have anything to show in terms of contributions to BTC ecosystem as a whole. A few sprouts of ICO funded startups had near the Ethereum craze but died a quick death after the Banking regulations.

This has been the sad story of crypto so far in India. Like i said elsewhere, we just have to stay afloat now and see if there will be another crypto dawn to come. Till then, the forum is a good place to hangout and just discuss.
Good to know you guys. I am a small merit source and will be looking to distribute merit to newer accounts. I am sure our legendary friends don't need it. The problem is very few new members make merit-worthy posts.

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Another thing that i wanted to say was that, an Indian moderator doesn't really have to be fluent in a lot of languages. Most of the discussions are in English or conversational Hindi. What is needed is the conviction and commitment that the Indian community can actually get somewhere with crypto rather than just trying to make a fast buck.

We need far more developers, enthusiasts and artists than bloggers and community managers. The way this ecosystem evolved in the west is that there were well-meaning people and geeks who hoarded tens of thousands of BTC in the initial years. When the time came that BTC really grew up in value, they decided to start ways to spread it to other people (Buying coins, art, funding tech startups, hardware manufacturers etc.). The Indians who caught up early and hoarded these BTC, either started exchanges (Like our erstwhile community manager) or used it to earn money by P2P sales or trading.

This also is one of the main reasons that BTC is considered shady and a Ponzi in India. Most notably, after demonetization, when a lot of unscrupulous lawyers, doctors and "professionals" had no way of settling their hoarded cash, the BTC ambassadors spawned out to tier-2 cities and sold them BTC as a means to take care of their money. These people made a killing and some more as the prices boomed 4X.
The other major story involving BTC in India was from that Son of a bitch Bhardwaj who fooled people right, left and center with his cleverly designed websites.
The close-mindedness of Indian bureaucracy is legendary, yet we as BTC enthusiasts, we only have ourselves to blame for contributing to this negative image.

I had no clue you were Indian. This only goes to show the level of disconnect among Indian members here in the forum. Back in 2013 / 14 everyone knew everyone. Now this space is almost dead.
About you reporting posts, I don't doubt what you are saying. But does reporting bad posts make for strong grounds to become a merit source?

In any case, if you do become a merit source, I wish you spend your merits without any biases.



No and it does not matter anymore. What's done can't be changed.

We might have people who can possibly be a merit source once they done good job at finding the worthy posts but currently we have 131 merit sources and atleast half of them will be only for english sections and others might concentrate on the local but when it comes to India 20 more regional languages so do you think theymos will allocate 20 members here?

I don't recall the incident where we spoke in this forum before. Did we? Or are you pointing to the Wallet name suggestion topic of yours?

That's not true, What makes you say so? I am an Indian and can read and write 4 of the major Indian Languages including Hindi. The problem is that, I have a hard time in understanding Hindi if they were written in a typical rural accent or in it's purest form. I read each and every post being made here in the Indian board and report them if I feel they are contributing spam to the board and would merit them if I feel like the post is contributing positively to the board. Till now I have reported around 600-700 posts just in the Indian board and most of the spam have been trashed by moderators.

I don't care a shit what our developing country does to the crypto as a whole. I am not a trader as majority of the Indians do nor I am a believer of get rich quick scheme as the people of India think what Bitcoin is. Most of the people lack basic knowledge about crypto and majority of us think like they are a stock market sort of shit.

I am a developer and predominantly a tester of bitcoin code to learn more about the tech and what it does to the more centralized Indian economy we are facing right now. We have localbitcoins, coindcx to buy btc and binance to trade btc for other alts and this forum to discuss about the world crypto adoption.

We as Indians are still in the initial stages of the adoption and the result is that we are still hunting for bounties in this forum through fraudulent translation spam activities. I do agree to the fact, I along with most of the other people joined this forum for bounties but later changed realising the true point of crypto. But we as majority of Indians are still hunting for shit bounties and spamming the forum. I exposed the translation spammers to trash these idiots and the result was that I was tagged by a low level shit posting Indian for scamming.

@legendster you are a great forum member who is an Indian which is hard to find. So does amishmanish,avikz,Avirunes,Joel,webtricks,Virtual Miner,r1s2g3,erikalui being one of the top notch posters of Indian Board. If I don't apply for merit source nor if I don't spend majority of my merits in this board the posts of you and other people who strive hard to help this board for betterment would never be recognizable. If I give away my merits for the Indian posts, people would be interested in joining quality discussions and certainly contribute to the board as a whole.

Why is it not possible to have merit sources for every language? Buddy there are enough Bengalis in India that doesnt even exist in the country where Bengali is the national language. Same for Tamil, Nepali, Andamanic languages, and north eastern languages.

As the country progresses into the internet age, more of these speakers will come online, and nearly all of them will have something valuable to say.

Indians got betrayed by trusting and it happens for centuries so they are trusting jio and even governments supporting them blindly.

India don't have any single language to represent the community but also it is impossible to have merit source for every language but atleast we need to have a merit source who have a good knowledge on Hindi and English to support here.

I've had a run in with Heisenberg, he has a flawed sense of judgment and although I will not hold that against him as he did rectify his course of action. But the fact that he is not Indian and can only read English and not any other major Indian languages, I don't think he is the right person to represent this community. Although he can definitely become a merit source citing any of his other accomplishments.

It is sad and pathetic to see the state of cryptos in India, not only on this forum, but beyond it. As has always been the case in India. We are late in adopting tech. And cronny companies like Reliance is killing the whole ecosystem.

Indian board doesn't have any moderator so every childboard filled with spams and most reports were unhandled so the spams need to be trashed if we want to see the worthy posts.

Well I guess its pretty easy to spot a genuine post, if it comes from someone who has been around for a while, and isnt shilling something, its a proper post.
In any case if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. I dont see how a merit source would help if the content isnt worthy of merit.

I said we need to start giving merits when we see worthy posts,then we may need merit sources.I saw that thread as well hoping from some good decision from admins.

Okay that's a progress, hopefully he'll get it.

And we can start spamming him, haha jk ofc.

I know what Merit Source means. Check BOLD texts.
BTW Heisenberg_Hunter applied for Merit Source, Indians may get one.