Topic: Help end this phase for Nigerians @Theymos - page 2. (Read 948 times)

Silence is also sort of an answer but that of course doesn't mean that you shouldn't keep trying and reminding forum staff about your case.


I asked the same thing some time ago  in Request for Nigeria local board, which is like their main local board request topic (imho, they should focus their efforts in one thread only) and looks like CryptopreneurBrainboss already contacted those in charge but I didn't find out whether he got any reply so far.

Have any of you from the Nigerian local thread PMed theymos or Cyrus to speak with them and see how they feel about your request? They have certainly seen the thread, but you should ask the admins are there plans to create a Nigerian local or not. Ask them what you can do to help and which sub-boards you would like to have.

There’s been no response from the moderators. I want to believe this thread is in the right board and is visible for moderators to see and do something about it. I don’t know if we will get a Yes/No response or simply silence. For me, a Yes or a No, this isn’t the right time will be sufficient. Silence gives us hope that our request may be heeded today, tomorrow or the day after!

It is no new news that Nigerians in there every day life wants to win. Even with a government that isn't supportive of its citizens and admist exploitation and the marginalisation of its people and resources, Nigerians still seeks a means to be independent and earn scares means without government interference.

Also looking at the fact that Nigerians on the forum continues to exhibit an uptrend in participation of forum activities. It would be the forum being fair to help Africa's leading and one of the worlds globally recognised bitcoin adopting nation by its people a place on the leading cryptocurrency forum.
A local board would be a big boost in the unification of Nigerians on the forum, growth of cryptocurrency that would extend to our locality as well.

Regarding what I have put in bold, I think it is the other way around. Most of them gamble more than they should.

But yes, that thread should not be considered a reason to create a local Nigerian board. On the other hand, this one created by Brainboss, could be a reason to consider creating a Nigerian local board:

Nigeria (Naija)

We can see that the thread has comments daily, although I suppose that if a local board with several sections were created, the movement seen in the thread would be diluted.

I hope you get your own local board because you really want it. But please don't use posts made in gambling boards as a reason why that should happen. I am not familiar with the post quality in that particular thread that you linked to, but many other discussions in the gambling boards have the same problem. The people posting there have no idea what they are talking about. They don't know much about sports, they probably don't watch it either, and they don't gamble. Check out the amount of spam that is generated every weekend when most of the football action takes place. There are hundreds of posts about half-time and full-time results, who scored the goals, and in what minute. You will rarely see someone make a comment about a particular situation that happened in the match where you would see that the person actually watched it and decided to share his thoughts.   

Another benefit i noticed as regards Nigerians having their local board was when i discover the large numbers of Africa football fans at the gambling sections who on a daily basis engage on football discussion and this thread was created by cryptopreneurbrainboss and i can see how active the thread has been, this means that we could as well get more members into our Nigeria (Naija) thread as well if granted a local board were all discussion will be suitably discussed at a course.

• The statistic supporting a local board for the Nigerian community have been laid out already and in several posts

• The problem with communicating through a local thread has also been expressed as it reduces the flow of discussions as well as maing it a difficult read,

• The solution to this problem would be a local board with possible child boards which would give more legitimacy to the community, connect more Nigerians on the forum and make it easier for information to be passed around.

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I'm also requesting theymos to consider the plea of the members of the Nigerian community for a designated local board.

This is also my major problem in the local hangout, this has made participating or commenting on old topics very difficult, even when one has something very important to contribute, contributing means bringing up an old discussion to mix with that which is currently being discussed at the time , and this honestly doesn't feel right or make any sense, even doing this makes the user  feel/look odd and outdated.

So, with my whole heart, I join in this appeal, we the Nigerian community plead with you @theymos and to every other person(s) whom it is their decision to make, please listen to our plea and give us a local board for the Nigerian community and Africa at large, this will aid our growth as well as the growth of this great forum.

This one is the most destabilizing of them all. Critical issues which require in-depth and concentrated dissections get lost even before conversations begin on them. Besides the point that yolking all together in a single thread makes it look haphazard, it doesn't bring out the best form of communication and information dissemination among users.

I know this is a mere hypothetical scenario but in reality life itself is a huge risk. Hopefully, it doesn't get to that.

You're a man of wisdom. That expression of yours wrapped in that adage is apt and Solomonic. Na better yarn you throw there so.

Thank you Smartvirus for this thread, I call it a remindal thread. When I became a member of this forum, many people were already requesting for the local board. Initially, I thought that since our thread is pinned there's no need for local board anymore, not until I saw how important topics get buried in the thread. It's very boring creating different topics under one thread.
Again, the existing Nigerian thread is self-moderated, we can lose it if the OP is attacked.
There is a Nigerian adage that says whenever a child cries and points towards a particular direction, if his mother is not in that direction, his father will be there. We Nigerians are crying and pointing your direction.

Incase you may feel there are no strong hands that will organise Nigerian board if given, let me name just a few among many of us;

CryptopreneurBrainboss
Charles-Tim
BIT-BENDER
Upgrade00
Coyster
Igehhh
Mpamaegbu
Pokapoka124
Smartvirus
And many more.
These are reputable and quality posters, who has contributed to the forum in one way or the other.
We Nigerians are looking forward to hearing the goodnews.

Nigerian local board is suppose to be justify because the numbers of people hooking up in their local board is due to give them liberty, before now the local community was not effective like before, with the turns of their users i think they deserve the board, but only challenges is that majority of them can discuss in English board.

I took a time to check the pages of the thread and i notice that they have many population who is active now. When Charles Tim created this type of thread last year i notice that they were lacking interaction.

So @ Rikafip is right, since this thread has been established by one person before other should queue up to drop their suggestions in same thread in the form of bumping thread instead of creating more and also end up with same agitation

All the statistics points towards how enthusiast Nigerian are in the cryptocurency space. Few months backs exchanges has been bringing our their trading statistics and Nigerian were also topping the charts. On the forum you can also see how active Nigerians are and many more users are gaining recognition for their works and ranking up in forum. Local board has many benefits then just a place for individual from the same geographical backgrounds to hangout. We now have higher number of established users that can guide the newbies coming in to the forum to help them avoid mistakes that are usually association with noobs both on and off the forum.

Glad to see that more users are showing interest in the struggle, I remember when many were hiding (avoiding to associate themselves with the country due to the stereotype on the net). We're more than you can imagine on the forum, and a local board would definitely bring us together. Visiting our local thread, you'll discovered people are beginning to lose interest in the conversation ongoing as multiple topics like Bitcoin, altcoin, politics & society discussion are happening at the same time. It's due time our cry gets heard.

Appreciate your suggestion, the local board request thread has been unlocked.

But isn't it better to keep that thread opened, share your sentiment about getting local board and bump it on the regular basis instead opening a new thread about exactly the same thing, like it happened now? If that thread wasn't locked, all this conversations would have happened there. Sure, someone might come occasionally and write nonsense/spam but you can always report it. Additionally, I would also share @igehhh's charts in that request thread of years on the regular basis, as another argument for your local board.

You are of course free to do do as you please, but I think that you would have better chances if you focus your efforts in one thread.


It's all about how active certain community is, and not about the size of the population. I do agree though that based on their activity here and amount of members they do deserve local board (and not just them, there is at least one more community that is very active), something I said multiple times in various threads.

The main reason (at least that's my opinion on the matter) forum staff might be hesitant regarding creating new local boards is because quite a few of them became either semi-dead or completely inactive. For example, the last one created was Japanese board back in November 2017, which used to be pretty active. Fast forward to 2022, and it's a ghost town now with few posts each month. That of course doesn't mean there shouldn't be new local boards opened ever again, but might be the reason why its been more than a five years since the last local board created.

After I saw this thread i did some research and i find out that Nigerians have a high number of cryptocurrency owners (after their government crypto restriction) than India, France, etc who already have their own local board.
I support the call that Africa (Nigeria) should have their own local board for the betterment of this forum and from what I see they have already produced a lot of reputable members for this forum.

In view of this request, I think its necessary Nigerians have their own local board owing to their contributions and represention in the forum so far.

A local board for Nigerians will also create a more sense of belonging to all Nigerians in the forum and Africans alike, and even to future African forum users.

I believe Theymos is a man of wisdom and obviously knows what it means for a group in a real society to have a feeling of sense of belonging within their ambient, "for the joy and self_actualization is one far fetch for such a people", so I literally believe that this appeal will be recognized and given the needed attention  in his person.

I fully support the request for a local Board for Nigeria, which I think theymos should seriously consider in view of this. I often interact in threads with several Nigerians on the forum and in view of their representation on the forum, the size of their country and the adoption of cryptocurrencies in the country, in my opinion a local board should be created for them.

It is not understandable that there are local boards for countries with much smaller population and not for Nigeria.

The is a very good welcoming request for the Nigerians-Africa in the forum. The struggle has been on ground, but the implementation was one of the issue. Our Epic Heros, Legendaries like
  Charles-Tim, Smartvirus, Cyrus, Cryptoprenuerbrainboss have been on this struggle to make sure that Nigerians-Africa (Pigin language) local board is created. The local thread boards that were created in this forum is hidden. And most of the newbies, Jr. Members, Members and Full members etc don't even know that such threads exist.  And also the local thread boards are so much haphazard that you will not even like to make comments there.  And the worst there is that, there is no way to create new topic thread. Most of the newbies that are from Nigeria which can't express themselves well in the English boards, can't even locate the Nigerian (naija) thread boards or the others. Personally, when I enter this forum at first, I was looking for a local board to express my experience and learn more, because most of my threads in English Boards were deleted based on lack of expression. But if it was in "LOCAL THREAD BOARD", I would have done better. And other newbies would have been doing well and learning faster.

Therefore, I am appealing to Theymos to look into this application and approve it to increase the Nigerians-Africa participation because most Nigerians are afraid to join this forum because of language barrier. When I told my neighbor about this forum, the first thing he asked me was, " I am not good in Writing English". And since he could not speak good English as I know him I also just left him alone.

Nigerians in this forum are more than other countries. Nigeria is the second to USA in Crypto adoption, that is, Nigerians youths use crypto Currencies most in Africa.   we need our board so we can freely without the fear of grammatical errors use our British-Nigeria language (Pigin English).

This is a welcome development. If the OP thread is good by the Administration of this forum, they should consider the thread and treat it with love. Love we stand, Development we Build.

I've been hearing people with the saying that Nigeria is the giant of Africa but i want to make a confirmation that it has also proven to be a giant in Bitcoin adoption and cryptocurrency in Africa at large despite the  challenges from the government and the financial institutions, this does not in any way affect we Nigerians and our commitments to crypto but instead increased active participation.

The bitcointalk.org forum have many Nigerians who have chosen to create a greater path with their influence on the forum and we all have been part of this better dispensation of knowledge and exposition this platform offers as well.

It excites me when i discover a thread was in place for Nigerians and any other African to engage in discussion in a similar manner of board discussion, which was created by one of the active forum member @Cryptopreneurbrainboss and supported by other and since then, members of the thread have been actively engaged on discussion before it was later pinned sometimes last year.

I see the need to obtaining a local board as very paramount because the Nigeria (Naija) thread have developed a large number of members and need to further expand the scope of discussion if giving a "board" whereby there will be sections to best make suitable contributions (child boards). I see having a local board will also enhance more members from across Africa at large on the forum into the Nigeria (Naija) local board.

Best luck wishes!
Nigeria (Naija) thread.