Bitcointalk's important historic changes - page 2.

tranthidung

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Bump after a long time!

Today, I updated this topic, with two more big things:

The forum name. Who invented it
Chronological changes of forum admin roles
Please read details in OP
Anyone can help with the post for the time Cyrus becomes a second head admin, from a global moderator, please help

Pmalek

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Quote from: tranthidung on September 20, 2021, 09:40:11 AM

I tried to search the use case of Archival board in Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ but failed (not sure why). Anyway, the short description is

Archival: Old stuff.

The Archival is used as a testing ground by some members. I have seen campaign managers and ANN thread creators post threads there to check how they look before creating the official thread in another section of the forum. I don't know if the use cases for Archival changed throughout the years, but here is what theymos had to say about it in one of his posts:

Quote from: theymos on May 04, 2015, 08:53:05 PM

Old threads don't need to be moved to Archival. Just lock them. Archival is meant to be used by moderators in only a few rare situations. (Though I don't mind if you move your obsolete topics there if you want to for some reason.)

It was never intended to be a graveyard, but theymos doesn't mind that it became one. Maybe someone else has some more information about the "rare situations" it was supposed to be used for.

tranthidung

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Quote from: Pmalek on September 20, 2021, 07:51:58 AM

The original post by theymos dates back to 2015. It's this one:

Quote from: theymos on June 14, 2015, 03:26:11 AM

I can manually make threads self-moderated (only I can do this), but I only do this if the thread is extremely long/entrenched and the OP is trustworthy, since you are not allowed to delete any posts made before the topic became self-moderated.

Thank you. I will add this info into OP.

Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on September 20, 2021, 07:55:24 AM

Wouldn't that be irrelevant? Archival is basically the trashcan where dead threads go to die, so it's not as if members can create threads in it--and they certainly wouldn't be worried about whether those threads were self-moderated or not. Someone correct me if I'm wrong there.

I don't know but it seems your opinion is correct.

I tried to search the use case of Archival board in Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ but failed (not sure why). Anyway, the short description is

Archival: Old stuff.

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Quote from: tranthidung on September 20, 2021, 05:38:54 AM

I am not sure why theymos did not mention Archival.

Wouldn't that be irrelevant? Archival is basically the trashcan where dead threads go to die, so it's not as if members can create threads in it--and they certainly wouldn't be worried about whether those threads were self-moderated or not. Someone correct me if I'm wrong there.

Pmalek

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Quote from: tranthidung on September 20, 2021, 05:38:54 AM

Do you give me a quote? I can not find it.

It took me a while, but I managed to find it. I remembered that I merited the person who shared the quote, which made it much easier. Upgrade00 quoted theymos here.

The original post by theymos dates back to 2015. It's this one:

Quote from: theymos on June 14, 2015, 03:26:11 AM

I can manually make threads self-moderated (only I can do this), but I only do this if the thread is extremely long/entrenched and the OP is trustworthy, since you are not allowed to delete any posts made before the topic became self-moderated.

tranthidung

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Quote from: Pmalek on September 20, 2021, 05:19:53 AM

Quote from: tranthidung on September 19, 2021, 04:53:03 AM

You can not convert a non-self-moderated topic to a self-moderated topic.

A regular user can't, but theymos can and he is the only one that can do it. But only if there is a valid reason for it. This was discussed yesterday (I don't feel like searching for the thread) and someone shared a quote from theymos where he mentioned that he has the ability to make such conversions. However, only posts made after the conversion can be self-moderated by the OP. Posts written before aren't affected and can't be deleted.

It's interesting but reasonable because theymos can make a self-moderated topic in Meta board. Cheesy

Do you give me a quote? I can not find it.

By the way, I found that not only Meta & Archival, but a few other boards that don't allow self-moderated topics. I am not sure why theymos did not mention Archival.

Quote from: theymos on March 14, 2013, 02:09:28 AM

Quote from: gweedo on March 14, 2013, 01:51:57 AM

Self-moderated topics? Can you say what boards this applies too? This is going to be bad if it is on certain boards, cause some people can edit threads to benefit them, I really hope it is just the off-topic board.

The excluded sections are Meta (except for this topic), Scam Accusations, Important Announcements, and Auctions. Tagged scammers can't use this feature. You don't have to participate in self-moderated topics if you're worried about manipulation by the OP.

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Quote from: tranthidung on September 19, 2021, 04:53:03 AM

You can not convert a non-self-moderated topic to a self-moderated topic.

A regular user can't, but theymos can and he is the only one that can do it. But only if there is a valid reason for it. This was discussed yesterday (I don't feel like searching for the thread) and someone shared a quote from theymos where he mentioned that he has the ability to make such conversions. However, only posts made after the conversion can be self-moderated by the OP. Posts written before aren't affected and can't be deleted.

tranthidung

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I write an explanation on self-moderated option for newbies

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If you want to make a self-moderated topic, do it at beginning. Click on Additional options, and choose self-moderated. Do it firstly before you compose content of your topic, because after a long writing time, you will forget to choose the option.
You can not convert a non-self-moderated topic to a self-moderated topic.
Convert self-moderated topic to non-self-moderated topic
- YES, you can.
- How?
  - Move your self-moderated topic to a board in which this option is not allowed.
  - Archival or Meta
  - You should use Archival board for this purpose because Meta is for important discussion about the forum issues, not for your own issues, and for such conversion purpose

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LoyceV can whitelist users as I see the announcement Remove Proxyban (evil fees) - get whitelisted for free

There are guides and rules in that topic, you must read it. Not all applicants will be whitelisted, obviously. It breaks the main purpose of Whitelisting if all applicants can easily be approved.

One more thing, you can send your Whitelist request one time. If you get whitelisted when you are newbie, later when you rank up to Full member, you will not be able to get another whitelisting.

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Bump after many months!

I only knew about the restriction on a maximum of trust feedback per one user. Updated OP too.

4. 5 trust feedback per user
It was applied since 2nd February 2019

Quote from: theymos on February 02, 2019, 10:50:26 AM

OK, new limits:
- You can't give more than 5 ratings to a single user.
- Your total sent ratings is limited to three times your activity, but at least 1.
- The comment length is limited to 600 characters, but each newline counts as 120 characters.

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It's been years since the merit system was introduced to the forum, I should have posted more so I could be a hero/legendary member before it got hard to rank up haha anyways it does not matter to me at all. Probably the change that got me bother sometimes is when I open links and I forgot to hit CTRL, it goes to different page and not tab Roll Eyes

Changes should be adapted, that's how we progress !

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Quote from: Saint-loup on May 18, 2020, 09:31:40 AM

You are really seeing that on a computer?
Could you tell us what browser you are using and what you have done to get that?

For me this works only if I hover over the date for specific post.
I tried with Firefox and Chrome based browsers and I am getting exactly the same result.

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Quote from: logfiles on May 17, 2020, 03:26:22 PM

Have you guys noticesd that the "last edited" note with the time stamp is now visible while browsing on computer browsers too?
Thou no announcement was made, this new change has been around for about a couple of weeks now.

In the past, this feature was only visible on mobile devices where hovering the pointer on the timestamp of the post to see the time when the post was edited is not possible.

You are really seeing that on a computer?
Could you tell us what browser you are using and what you have done to get that?

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Quote from: logfiles on May 17, 2020, 03:26:22 PM

In the past, this feature was only visible on mobile devices where hovering the pointer on the timestamp of the post to see the time when the post was edited is not possible.

On computer:
I don't see the change you mentioned. Maybe what you meant is after hovering mouse on the creation day of post/ thread, the latest edited day will be displayed. If it is what you actually meant, it comes from the past and is not a newest change.

On mobile devices:
The latest edited day is automatically displayed. No need for hovering mouse to see it.

Honestly, I don't know when it was firstly applied but it was an old minor feature.

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Have you guys noticesd that the "last edited" note with the time stamp is now visible while browsing on computer browsers too?
Thou no announcement was made, this new change has been around for about a couple of weeks now.

In the past, this feature was only visible on mobile devices where hovering the pointer on the timestamp of the post to see the time when the post was edited is not possible.

tranthidung

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I updated OP with a new section for the forum's domain name. The latest change comes from theymos. Domain name is the most important thing so despite of the section's very late creation day, I moved it to the second position. It deserves that position.

How to do private giveaways
This one will probably be implemented (from positive feedback the community members have discussed so far in that thread).

I noted it here and will updated OP when it will be officically implemented. The last reply of theymos in that thread gives us hope we will soon see its release.

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Quote from: hosseinimr93 on November 29, 2019, 06:37:55 AM

Seems that cannot determine the order of creation of different local boards using their Ids.
According to History of local boards which was posted by tranthidung, German board has been created on 09/10/2010 and Russian board has been created on 29/6/2011 while their Ids are 16 and 10 respectively.

Russian board was created first according to Veleor

Quote from: Veleor on November 29, 2019, 11:35:47 AM

The actual date of birthday of the Russian local is July 28, 2010

Quote from: sirius on July 28, 2010, 10:42:19 AM

It's interesting that so many Russians have shown interest in the project. Thinking about the Russian culture and society, I'm not completely surprised why. I'll make a new board, let's see how many non-English-speaking users we'll get.

The first topic in the Russian local.

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Quote from: Halab on November 28, 2019, 02:21:59 PM

Quote from: coupable on November 28, 2019, 11:47:44 AM

i don't know what non-English board has been created first

Funny, I asked myself the same question a few days ago. For that you can look at the ids of the local section.
For example :
Russian section: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=10.0 (id: 10)
French section; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=13.0 (id: 13)
Arabic section: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=241.0 (id: 241)

It will give you an idea.

Seems that cannot determine the order of creation of different local boards using their Ids.
According to History of local boards which was posted by tranthidung, German board has been created on 09/10/2010 and Russian board has been created on 29/6/2011 while their Ids are 16 and 10 respectively.

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Quote from: tranthidung on November 28, 2019, 11:22:19 PM

I listened to all your opinion, made another decent thread, so here you go, guys: History of local boards

That was amazingly fast !! But how you grab all this data in a very short time !! Organise it in a wonderful way !! You don't even seems to make a lot of edits after publish !! Anyway, this really amazes me bro.
Now, it just lacks that you add the link to local boards history here to the main list so to have a full organised list.

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Thanks @Bightening for pointing out my incorrect link; @coupable, @Halab and @DdmrDdmr for creative ideas.

I listened to all your opinion, made another decent thread, so here you go, guys: History of local boards

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