If there was regular (eg. weekly) content, this might be a good way of attracting good new users and making existing users feel more engaged in the community.
Are we struggling for traffic or something?
Topic: Bitcointalk.org YouTube channel? - page 3. (Read 2388 times)
Are we struggling for traffic or something?
A YouTube channel for the forum which would be dedicated to providing vital information on the world of cryptocurrencies is a laudable idea. Some of the topics discussed here especially those related to mining and the blockchain network are really technical, videos can help make things simpler. We are more than two million members on this forum so imagine even half of us get to subscribe to the channel, it would be really interactive with the video presence.
Is this idea dead & abandoned or we can think further on it?
It’s still open for discussion. The thread just died, it happens. Post whatever you want (within reason and the confines of the rules).
Is this idea dead & abandoned or we can think further on it?
The idea is good. However only educational content should be used, in my opinion. Otherwise, the channel could face criticism for biased contents. Also, don't forget that Youtube isn't a platform you have a full control over it, you can expect to see someone trying to hijack the channel.
If you're really interested with video content for the community, why not host it yourself with the forum ( a subdomain for example or a video board here)
As for the funds, why not make it based on volunteering. If someone is interested to make videos for the community it should make it without any incentive.
If you're really interested with video content for the community, why not host it yourself with the forum ( a subdomain for example or a video board here)
As for the funds, why not make it based on volunteering. If someone is interested to make videos for the community it should make it without any incentive.
I also have the same opinion with him. But I have more positive thoughts.
The idea of creating a youtube channel is pretty good.
We can use the youtube channel as a form of advertising for the forum and bitcoin to the community know more than.
Here we can provide the latest news about Bitcoin as well as knowledge of Blockchain.
The third request is to do everything to try to find a woman to be responsible for the project or at least for the presentation.
Why? That seems like an extremely PC, SJW thing to request given that the whole crypto space seems to be dominated by males.Or makes good business/traffic sense. Most men are simple creatures and are far more likely to click on a video if there's a woman in the thumbnail. I'm not saying it should be a woman and don't care either way, but just stating facts and I don't think it has anything to do with being PC or a SJW, arguably even the opposite if it is done just for clicks/views. I think a better option would be to have a mix of all genders including those who identify as non-binary gender-queer pansexuals and attack helicopters.
Agreed. I think we should be trying to get on top of the spam and lack of action regarding the multiple issues here (ICO sig spam, shitposting farming, lack of mods/admins and redistributing workload, accounts not getting recovered etc.) before anything else.
All this could be easily solved. I suggested one: Instead of removing signatures, blacklist the signatures of shitposters. Give certain mods the ability to whitelist/blacklist signatures(thoughts?). That'd ruin their lives. They'd come back,yes, but if high ranked shitposters can't earn shit, then we'd only have to deal with lower ranked members. And this might warn the new ranked members.It can be easily solved, but not without action from theymos which is the hard part. All of these are things that have been suggested before, and theymos even agreed to signature blacklisting problem campaigns but it just never happened (likely due to him not having time to look into these things). I still think we should tackle those issues first before any youtube channel is started.
Recently the idea occurred to me that it might be cool to have a bitcointalk.org YouTube channel. It could contain things such as:
- Bitcoin information
- Summaries of recent high-quality posts
- Summarized crypto news, but from a neutral perspective, without any pump-and-dump
If there was regular (eg. weekly) content, this might be a good way of attracting good new users and making existing users feel more engaged in the community.
Does this sound like a good idea? Is anyone interested in producing this content? I suppose we'd need at least someone with good camera presence, someone skilled at video editing, and one or more script writers. I might be willing to dedicate some forum funds to this.
- Bitcoin information
- Summaries of recent high-quality posts
- Summarized crypto news, but from a neutral perspective, without any pump-and-dump
If there was regular (eg. weekly) content, this might be a good way of attracting good new users and making existing users feel more engaged in the community.
Does this sound like a good idea? Is anyone interested in producing this content? I suppose we'd need at least someone with good camera presence, someone skilled at video editing, and one or more script writers. I might be willing to dedicate some forum funds to this.
I'm interested to be part of this project.
I agree, it sounds like a great idea because Youtube is the main social network if we talk about real traffic. In the past year I developed some nice video editing skills, so, that could be my contribution to the project, I even can make one of those nice 3D intros for the videos.
Tell me more about what do you have in mind, you want it like a tv program with sections? or short videos about a single topic?
By the way, I was thinking about one representant of each language, at least all languages from Local forum sections. I would be proud to make this for the Spanish section, I have a good camera presence and can make the translation from the English videos to Spanish.
So, if you decide to do it, i'm in!
The idea is good. However only educational content should be used, in my opinion. Otherwise, the channel could face criticism for biased contents. Also, don't forget that Youtube isn't a platform you have a full control over it, you can expect to see someone trying to hijack the channel.
If you're really interested with video content for the community, why not host it yourself with the forum ( a subdomain for example or a video board here)
As for the funds, why not make it based on volunteering. If someone is interested to make videos for the community it should make it without any incentive.
If you're really interested with video content for the community, why not host it yourself with the forum ( a subdomain for example or a video board here)
As for the funds, why not make it based on volunteering. If someone is interested to make videos for the community it should make it without any incentive.
Youtube is an excellent way to get new users. There's billions of people in Youtube that would never bother finding the forum by themselves on Google. In a way Youtube is the new Google, a lot of people just search on the Youtube bar and consume audiovisual content and cannot be bothered with Google anymore.
Im sure that if more people knew this is the original forum and satoshi posted here, they would become really interested. It's a good selling point, I would definitely market that to get people into my forum, no other site can claim that.
Also being aware that you can earn some satoshis posting is also a good selling point, and they will have an incentive to do good since as you ascend your account you can get selected for better bounties, I don't see anything wrong with marketing that side too. If you don't do it then Roger Ver will do it and get all the traffic into his forum.
But I would definitely prioritize on account recovery setup and help everyone recover their accounts above the Youtube channel project.
Btw; I would also like to see more usage of the Twitter account, a lot of times the site is not usable, it would be cool to know what is going on.
I have thought of something, and I remembered this thread. There are people in my country who are conducting different types of training and seminars, and of course, charging money with it, and they are giving the essential thing about Bitcoin, and in general, that's what the purpose of the event. I have met some people, and they don't even know bitcointalk. I know this is one of the most informational places to know what bitcoins are or technically everything related to cryptocurrency.
Is having an account here make you credible enough? The experience and activeness here could explain a lot and increase their credibility. Like putting on skills and achievements in a resume, adding the "account level" or something. How they interact with this community.
Is having an account here make you credible enough? The experience and activeness here could explain a lot and increase their credibility. Like putting on skills and achievements in a resume, adding the "account level" or something. How they interact with this community.
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Although, creating a video for the rules would be a decent idea, and could be implemented along with the registration message. Its not something that a lot of people will be that interested in. Bitcoin news, and other things are just going to get more people coming to the forum. Whereas the rules are for existing users or users already looking to sign up. Its a good idea yeah, but not for the angle theymos seems to be looking at, and thats driving more people to the forum.
Well, I guess it could just be the start, like a super short video clip probably. I'm not really sure, but it could act as an orientation of some sort. Probably advertising about Bitcoin and making bitcointalk the central capital of information about cryptocurrencies, etc. Although, creating a video for the rules would be a decent idea, and could be implemented along with the registration message. Its not something that a lot of people will be that interested in. Bitcoin news, and other things are just going to get more people coming to the forum. Whereas the rules are for existing users or users already looking to sign up. Its a good idea yeah, but not for the angle theymos seems to be looking at, and thats driving more people to the forum.
We all know that almost everything is already in YouTube. Probably some parts of it are talking about BTT, how they make money of having and account etc. Probably the best thing in my opinion is to make a video about the rules and have an official video to help and understand what to do and not to do, although it’s pretty obvious already but you know that some users are lazy to read. (Sometimes it’s me also)
Although, creating a video for the rules would be a decent idea, and could be implemented along with the registration message. Its not something that a lot of people will be that interested in. Bitcoin news, and other things are just going to get more people coming to the forum. Whereas the rules are for existing users or users already looking to sign up. Its a good idea yeah, but not for the angle theymos seems to be looking at, and thats driving more people to the forum.
I'm hoping new members are not required to subscribe bitcointalk.org youtube channel as a pre-requirement of registration if theymos start a youtube channel 
These days every YouTubers asked to click the notification button
These days every YouTubers asked to click the notification button
Given the number of threads in Meta over the last few days/weeks/months complaining about the state of the forum, the ridiculous levels of bounty spam, asking for more mods and suggesting about 100 other ideas for improvement, would it not be wise to focus on the forum first before taking on a new project?
Agreed with both hands and diversification is good but when we are going to do so many experiments wouldn't yield maximum benefits in any of the trials. Is anyone interested in producing this content? I suppose we'd need at least someone with good camera presence, someone skilled at video editing, and one or more script writers. I might be willing to dedicate some forum funds to this.
Andreas Antonopoulos has his talks and Q&As on YT and they seem to be attractive and up to date. You want something like that? IMO, he's a great candidate to be the forum's representative.I'd love to see a channel made by theymos. It would be called ask theymos and people would be able to post questions in a forum thread that would be then read aloud by our one and only and answered on camera. Voice only would do, like they do in some podcasts. I can already tell you that this would have ten times the popularity of that proposed post summary.
I might be willing to dedicate some forum funds to this.
Yes it should be but when the channel reaches 1000 subscribers with 4000 watch hours it will help the forum when it comes to funds. YouTube will pay if the channel get monetised and it is very possible because the channel is about the biggest bitcoin forum existing. Only few forum funds will be spend I guess. When the Bitcointalk.or YouTube Channel monetised it help the forum or the forum will get funds from YouTube. If theymos already planned to create channel for bitcointalk then the content creator must be highly skilled with much experience in the Youtube channel and also need to have good camera,editing and speaking skills.
if you suggest the idea of making a youtube channel is certainly very good, but you have to re-clean this forum, because I see a lot of things that make spam, there are even some that make multi accounts, useful for making people believe in the forum.
Does this sound like a good idea? Is anyone interested in producing this content? I suppose we'd need at least someone with good camera presence, someone skilled at video editing, and one or more script writers. I might be willing to dedicate some forum funds to this.
Good idea. But, I believe, rather than relying on a single content creator, it would be better to crowd-source such content. I mean to say, multiple groups will create content and submit on a BitcoinTalk thread each week. The most merited one will be chosen and broadcast on Bitcointalk.org YouTube channel. Content creator of the winner may be rewarded by BitcoinTalk fund.
I might be willing to dedicate some forum funds to this.
Yes it should be but when the channel reaches 1000 subscribers with 4000 watch hours it will help the forum when it comes to funds. YouTube will pay if the channel get monetised and it is very possible because the channel is about the biggest bitcoin forum existing. Only few forum funds will be spend I guess. When the Bitcointalk.or YouTube Channel monetised it help the forum or the forum will get funds from YouTube. 
To do this, you need script writers and operators. It will also require mounting and and presenter. The channel will be easily promoted, as the forum has an audience
It would be cool if on this channel (or create several channels) there were news or information was duplicated in several languages. For example, in Chinese and Russian.
It would be cool if on this channel (or create several channels) there were news or information was duplicated in several languages. For example, in Chinese and Russian.
Given the number of threads in Meta over the last few days/weeks/months complaining about the state of the forum, the ridiculous levels of bounty spam, asking for more mods and suggesting about 100 other ideas for improvement, would it not be wise to focus on the forum first before taking on a new project?
Can't say better than you. @theymos, you simply rejected many ideas how to improve forum and solve existing problems without stating any reasons why it's not a good idea and now you're just planning to create new project? You can give some of forum money to creator of video, but why you can't hire full-time dev to work on new forum software for example or appoint more mods?
Maybe it's not bad idea to start Bitcointalk Youtube channel (well, it sounds strange - Youtube channel of forum), but not right now. Starting a new projects when we have so many problems sounds stupid. I think things like Youtube channel, reporter badges and other possible fancy additions to Bitcointalk are not really neccessary right now. All these problems like spamming, copy pasting, ann bumping, recovery of hacked accounts should be solved first of all.
Although I think it is a good idea overall, but I totally agree with the people that are saying that it should not be a priority right now.
Seeing the current situation of the forum, I don't think it would be good to convert your complete focus to something else other than the present problems that need time and work. Leaving a job that needs more work and taking up another task in your hands seems utterly unprofessional to me.
Currently, we don't really need more good new users, but we need to get rid of the bad old users.
Seeing the current situation of the forum, I don't think it would be good to convert your complete focus to something else other than the present problems that need time and work. Leaving a job that needs more work and taking up another task in your hands seems utterly unprofessional to me.
Currently, we don't really need more good new users, but we need to get rid of the bad old users.
This is an idea that requires full support, I have several ways I want to give before making a yuotube video, this tutorial:
The white car in front and followed by the other car behind beside the left and right ravine if we are proficient in the driving is definitely safe, well if we are not good at driving it must be the waiting gap ......
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Optimize Youtube video metadata
Here are the things that you can do Bitcointalk:
Video file name:
1. Use the most important keywords from the Bitcointalk Member video as file names.
2. Title (title): is the most dominant and most visible fact of the Bitcointalk Member video.
3. Description: Explain as clearly as possible about the video in the first paragraph.
4. Tag: Include relevant and accurate tags
5. Thumbnail: thumbnail is the second most important factor, which determines whether a Bitcointalk Member video is clicked or not
6. Annotations: Annotations are floating text that can add Bitcontalk to Bitcointalk Member videos.
This is a very good example, good luck ...
The white car in front and followed by the other car behind beside the left and right ravine if we are proficient in the driving is definitely safe, well if we are not good at driving it must be the waiting gap ......
??Optimize Youtube video metadata
Here are the things that you can do Bitcointalk:
Video file name:
1. Use the most important keywords from the Bitcointalk Member video as file names.
2. Title (title): is the most dominant and most visible fact of the Bitcointalk Member video.
3. Description: Explain as clearly as possible about the video in the first paragraph.
4. Tag: Include relevant and accurate tags
5. Thumbnail: thumbnail is the second most important factor, which determines whether a Bitcointalk Member video is clicked or not
6. Annotations: Annotations are floating text that can add Bitcontalk to Bitcointalk Member videos.
This is a very good example, good luck ...
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