Topic: As A Bitcointalk Member - page 2. (Read 928 times)

If you remove posting then even prominent member shouldn’t be called prominent since all their contribution is an the form posting. Forum is alive because there’s users like us that keep posting that gives activity to the forum because if only few posting here then it’s very hard for the forum to stay alive.

Our activity in the form of discussion to make the forum interactive is the best contribution we can give here. Those exceptional contribution such as being good on technical discussion is just a higher form of contribution but still our normal post that interact with other user is still counted.

For me though, I do not know what you mean by some people having the title "prominent" by their name, but what I do know is that, each and every one of us here, regardless of rank, merit, or activity, are in one way or the other, contributing to the general activity and global ranking of the forum.

Even those who simply visit the forum, spend some time reading a post of two, have been counted among the visitors of the forum for that day, and the higher this number, the higher bitcointalk is ranked globally in terms of most popular and most visited sites worldwide.

Yes I absolutely agree with you on keeping the Forum clean by staying on course, not going against the rules and regulations because by going against it the forum would be in total mess. But when you start keeping the rules and regulations in check don't you think you need something more outstanding to make you recognized by many in this Forum at large?
Why I'm saying that is because we have 95% of the Forum members who only come here, obey the rules make quality post and then dash offline. At least that's their main concern. I know what I'm thinking is not what others are thinking but adding extra positivity is needed to show much loyalty to the Forum, because this community has ways of elevating people.

Keeping the rules of the forum is good enough for the growth of the forum, what the forum require from members is to abide to the laws of the forum and this will be better growth from the forum. The purpose of the forum is to make quality discussions and if members of the forum can make quality discussion it will affect the growth of the forum for good. Any member who can do what is needful of the forum by keeping the rules it is the best development any member can contribute in the growth of the forum.

Countless numbers of contributions and developments that are well identified, if you remember well how the selection of merits sources are, forum moderators, staffs and DT as well, this are people who have done something tangible to the development of the forum to have deserve holding such title or position.


Though you've already stated that aside posting, but i think that posting aspect of it should be the most considerable one because there's nothing you can do to the forum without you first posting it, through your post you can suggest new ideas, this is totally different from posting to fulfill a signature campaign requirements, that is just by the way, there are many people on campaigns and are cotributing well to the forum growth.

You can also consider user like powerglove, who has been always consistent in bringing new technical ideas to the forum and this is because he's very good at that, some other members bringing varieties of contest, learning kits, news updates, signature campaigns, community awards, lending service and every other consistent development i may not remember are also part of what makes this large community keep growing, not to even talk about bitcoin discussion itself, which is the main purpose for this platform.

These set of members that make post without minding if the post is making any sense or not are the types we have more in the Forum than the ones who take their time to make a quality posts.
They don't care about what goes on in the Forum all they know is make post and go off, they can't be seen showing much dedication to the growth of this Forum and that's where I believe some members don't want to be in (the less concerned members). With the other members who give us something to learn from, I'd say they should continue because the newbies have so much to learn from.

I honestly can't say that I am a user who has contributed much to this forum - but I was taught to contribute from day one even though I was still at the backward order among the other contributors. I don't need anyone's credit or confession for what I've done for the forum - but one of the most useful things for the forum is reporting spam and low quality posts as well as rule breaking posts from some users which in turn can make the forum look cleaner.

Not all reputable users are forum gems - some of them got them because of trade between users, others got them because of their active contributions as knowledgeable users. You just need to be yourself instead of thinking about how to be someone else - it's a good way to appreciate the only person you see when you're in front of the mirror.

There are two type of members in this forum, the members who just make post not minding if they make any sense or not and then the forum members who are very careful and intentional with every post they make. Many prominent and high ranking members of the forum are know for their quality contributions, so they are not just posters. By regularly contributing meaningfully to this forum, we contribute to the growth of the forum

OP, this topic: [Voting 2022] Bitcointalk Community Awards 🏆, can be a basic reference for you, in assessing someone who you think is more prominent and the best in this forum, whether they are someone who is considered a: hero and so on.

Here are the results: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.61693732, which has been done by some members who have earned nicknames and advantages in this forum.

From the two data and sources above, you can see and assess what they have done, so that they can achieve something that you think should be done and achieved, but you need to do what you need to know is: for the community here, maybe it is more appreciated by other members who are here, rather than you having to force yourself to do something you don't actually know. do the skills you have, that's better.

This is a discussion community everyone here has a contribution in one way or the other, the growth of this forum is a cumulative effort of the community, even newbies have contributions, without them asking about a subject, there would be no discussion to explore.

There are members who extend more on their contribution these are knowledgeable people who contributed a lot on specific subjects, they go further by doing research so they can come out with the best possible answer, thus making them prominent members of the community, honestly for me, rank is not the parameters for becoming prominent members there are members I admire that are lower ranks but their contributions are enough to consider them prominent.

Don't take posting so lightly. Without people posting there will be no twitter, no reddit, no websites, no blogs, no bitcointalk — nothing for search engines to gather data from. Can you imagine empty Internet?

Any thing that user does contributes to the forum, even if they are mere unregistered visitor, I have no idea about SEO stuff but I'm sure it helps in it some way.


Check their topics, merit history — you'll come to know why they are prominent.

Op, People are here with different motives they must not be whatever you think they should be in this forum and to whatever title that should display beneath their username the commons were just staff and the rest but not assigning a title according to their input towards this forum, you should know that here is a school were we learn and teach people, if I am not mistakenly people do use here as reference place to what great news that holds bitcoin and it's deeper discussion as I can remember or recall vividly that here is one of the most reliable place to source out information that strictly talks about bitcoin and it's growth. Most people do not value title and especially users wants to remain anonymous without someone knowing their actions and capacity towards the forum.

I'm not sure I've seen any member with that title, except you're trying to hint us that theymos is cooking up something in that regard.

Anyway, talking about prominence; I think there are a few members here who've shown cause to that effect by the way they've carried themselves and made relevant contributions in helping other users get it going. Some have proved their trustworthiness and dependability over the years. It takes a lot to get people online to trust you in an anonymous forum like this. If anyone is able to do that, then they can be called prominent. Again, there are those who've developed one software or the other to ensure that this forum runs smoothly. Some are old members while others are new who just got on board and went straight to work like the user who created the "OP" tag that appears on every topic starter.

Their is things that's disgusting and unacceptable in any means, spamming and scamming is one of them, anyone who is identify that is involve in scamming I think that have a questionable character, so we can't stand to say that scamming is good in society or good in the forum...the thing is that people especially young youths seen scamming as one of favourable way of making money in which is admirable and acceptable.

Every individual in the forum have its goals and objectives of coming to the forum..people who make quality posts their terms and words is very formative, so they choose of making educative post in order to transmits information to people who is unaware of certain information, while some people educate people technically base on the information they use, such as coding and programming.. so forum is full of different talents of yours depending the area you know better is where you will concentrate and make your own discussions.

Some people who is here for weekly and monthly subscription in the forum is interested in any contributions that will be of help to the community, they only concentrate to meet up their weekly posting quota so you don't expect them to have something meaningful or positive to the community, it's when you have forum in mind or you are web designer or technical person it when you will be fully support to the forum.

But the major aim of this forum is to have you conversation with people according to the areas you know better in the forum, like many people engage in conversation they don't know anything, I think from my perspective it's prohibited involving in conversation you don't comprehend anything concerning them.

We have a lot of users who choose to stay that way, I mean by keeping things the way they are by not spamming or engage in scamming people but I'll ask you, do you think that's enough? To me is fine but I feel is kind of normal because we have many members who only choose to come online drop quality post and then they're off and you think that's enough contribution to the forum?


At some point haven't you thought about doing something that's different from all what you have been doing on the Forum? I know everyone have to do things according to how the Forum is but haven't thought of a way to see yourself well known by what you have done like DdmrDdmr (he's among the best), for doing something bigger than coming and getting your job done (posting) and you're off again.
Well you have your way of doing things on the Forum.

Op asked yourself while or the reason the bitcointalk.org is  created, the reason bitcointalk is been created is discuss and interact about bitcoin, so I know quite well that the impact a forum user can bring in the forum is to be innovative and ensure that it has not engaged in any act of illegality, so when you have not engaged in such act of illegality such as scam and spam in their forum you have contributed meaningful through your innovation.

Everyone will not be a dictator in the forum and everyone will not be a moderator, but everyone can a good initiator to the forum for the development and well-being of the forum, we have many disciplines in the forum, so as an individual been a helping hands of forum, that did not really mean that its an official position assigned by theymos .

So in forum everyone do things at its detriment, because its what you choose to do, so therefore I believe whatever you are doing in the forum is your personal assistance for the development and coordination of forum to keep moving forward for future.

You mean title a unique one? Like the event voting before. I doubt there are specialty about this. Being a user who contributed to a lot of discussion makes him a valued member of the forum regardless of his rank or hierarchy on the users which I doubt have any impact at all. I did shared on my locals some tutorials and even some altcoin related topics preferably retroactive airdrops and bounty before which I think some appreciated. Depends on someone will how they will recognise your effort here. Even tried to share some scam projects on that sections which i believe helped some to avoid with. Probably many shares their experience and contributions on different approaches.

What exactly do you expect of us? You’re the one who brought up the topic of members having a “prominent title” (which doesn’t exist btw) and yet you asked the rest of us to tell you how they got that title and the legitimacy of that title. At first, I was thinking you’re referring to badges but it dawned on me that you may be referring to popularity and fame. If you want to be a popular figure or a prominent member as you put it, you will have contribute more than the average member in bitcointalk. A good example would be the user Powerglove, his contributions set him apart from the crowd even when he was still a newbie. 

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Can I say I’m also a prominent member my community and this forum pls  done do many things over the years. Spent almost 9 years and counting with 200 plus days on this forum.   

Those names and more to be mentioned have done so many things to improve this Forum or to get it to this very height, they deserve it and is just something many need to learn from, like teach others how to go about business on this Forum to make is better.
You on the other can't really say you have done something but I believe from all you have said you guys do in your community I feel those that have gained much from your contribution will tell if you have done something or not, from what I have seen you work will definitely speak for you.