Topic: How Would You Make Bitcointalk Better If You Were The Boss ? (Read 636 times)

You may still have to handle with plagiarism reports on a case-by-case basis.
Plagiarism is prohibited, but what if current forum contributors forget that they have violated this rule in the past without realizing it, is the permanent ban or will you consider other things based on your interpretation?

2FA is good for security, but I think face detection is bad for security because many users really care about their privacy. Remember there are users using this forum via TOR from day one, they are privacy-concerned people, but if you ask them to apply face detection on login then that means you will kick them out from forum.

For the latter I agree, because this is a bitcoin forum so displaying bitcoin prices in real time is good as a new feature.

Thou, everybody have said everything i had in mind which i would have done if i was the boss of the forum, ranging from taking plagiarism seriously with automatic ban, banning accounts with more than 10 negative trust from D1 and D2, and implementing 2factor authentication and face or fingerprint recognition for logging in, and most importantly implementing the Bitcoin price feature on the top left side corner of the forum "close to the avatar", where users could easily sees the current price of Bitcoin, since this forum is all about Bitcoin, so implementing the Bitcoin live price feature will be the best idea so far

I've read a lot of proposals, and a lot of them have already been tossed in the trash. Very soon, this one will join them. I originally suggested that Bitcointalk be made open source and free to contribute to, similar to how Bitcoin features and protocol are regularly upgraded. However, I later discovered that new forum software has been under development, and I have never heard any significant updates regarding the progress.

Scams are not moderated, and making trades on the forum are high-risk activity. My best recommendation is to address this by ensuring a perfect lightning network on the forum. Users only need to create/generate their seeds outside the forum(offline manner) and use a single private key to open a channel in the forum, two people can use the channel to send bitcoin within themself without running away since two of the users are required to closed the channel, in no other circumstance would anyone else have access to the keys except when the forum becomes compromised and that is what I feared the most.
I've been contemplating this, and that's the best shot I have right now to address the problem of scams. While it would lower the incidence of forum fraud, my biggest concern is the possibility of keys being stolen. I sincerely hope there is another solutions available.

I figure that it would be a question of going through the multiple suggestions made over the years, seeing what seems reasonable and feasible, classifying them in accordance to priority, and allocating the resources to do so. Having said that, which is simple bird's eye theory, I would likely initially focus on two key elements:

1.   Determining what to do with Epochtalk, and being forthcoming with a feasible high-level roadmap to deployment. If it were to be scrapped, well so be it, but one should know what software any suggestion is going to be implemented in before anything else, and avoid the development of Epochtalk from dilly dallying any functional evolution.

2.   Give a high priority to what can be done with this: search engine optimization for local boards. I believe a lot of growth is still feasible through Local Boards, and I’d prefer to be wrong after trying than not trying at all.

People here have already shared some interesting proposals I had in mind, specially concerning two factor security and new ways to handle scams/plagiarists, so I would share my proposal which I believe noone has mentioned till' this point on this thread:

If I had some power on this forum I would set a maximum time threshold for ban appeals to get an answer, so people would not need to necro their appeal threads. I would be something like, giving the banned user a reply to their appeal case within 4-8 weeks, maybe even assemble a team to handle appeal cases which members would rotate/change to keep it as unbiased as possible.

Happy to know that yahoo62278 share in my view. I would not romance scam for any reason. In my post I proposed permanent ban for scammers and red tag for plagiarists.
@CryptopreneurBrainboss, you said that plagiarists do so to complete campaign quota, earn glory they don't deserve or to gain merits. If 1 or 2 DT members tag the plagiarist account, his purpose of committing plagiarism would be defeated thereby rendering the account useless. It's worth it.

Theoretical in it. I don't think people are thinking about specifics since it's just basically asking what do you think the priorities are.

The thing is, as soon as you put this into the rules it almost legitimises bounties offering in Bitcoin, which isn't the impression we want to give. If we went down this route, we'll likely have to go the route of requiring escrow, and then there's the issue of which escrows, since putting it in the rules will validate certain escrows, which again is something we want to avoid.

These are the four things I would change:

1. I am sick and tired of scammers being pardoned. Scammers wouldn't be welcome in my forum. The same people deciding who to ban for X and Y reason can also ban scammers.
2. I would spend some of that forum money to pay for a decent mobile app for those browsing the forum with a phone.
3. I would introduce a feature that allows switching the OP of a thread. In case OP is inactive, someone else can take over. If OP is sick and tired of moderating and updating their thread, they can give someone else mod rights.
4. Bring your girlfriends/boyfriend to the forum day.
 
That way they can scam the bounty hunters and not pay them any Bitcoin because the way it is now, they don't pay them any shitcoins. Joking aside, I understand what you are saying and a long time ago I proposed security deposits for bounty campaigns. It didn't catch on, but I still think it's not a bad idea despite everything. You want to run a bounty? No problem deposit a security deposit in BTC or ETH with an escrow, do your thing, pay what you owe, and your security deposit will be returned. 

Considering that there's always a possibility that our accounts could get hacked, this is a terrible idea for us and a wonderful idea for hackers!
^{- Why risk such things for fewer clicks?}

It won't ^{[it puts everything on the line]}!

It probably has something to do with Epochtalk being responsive in nature.

First for me will be to sanitize the Altcoin Board and put a severe check on how bounties are run there by making sure mods have a meaningful presence there.

Secondly, moderate scam activities. I don't get it when users say scam isn't moderated here while every other thing seems to be.

Thirdly, create a BTT coin that will run alongside Bitcoin as a pair. Make it a stablecoin.

Seriously, I wonder why that still hasn't happened. It's weird for a savvy site like ours not to have it 🙄

Relevant thread, Moving to Cloudflare. IMO it's unlikely Bitcointalk remove CloudFlare anytime soon unless someone with experience mitigating large scale DDoS give advice to theymos.

A few hosting providers have native (either on or very close to their internal network) DDoS protection. It's usually a semi-expensive add-on, but (IMHO) is preferable to joining the disturbing trend of putting more and more of the Internet behind Cloudflare.

For a forum that values decentralization, I found the choice a little incongruent.

But, I suppose it's easy to be principled when you're not the one paying the bill.

Edit: After reading the relevant thread (thanks @ETFbitcoin) I see that this decision was not taken lightly and that @theymos dislikes Cloudflare at least as much as the rest of us...

The first option I think of is the extra security option. There are a lot of hacked and sold accounts which later became a problem in this forum. Authenticator might be a good choice to be a security feature to be adopted in this forum.

Then from that, no newbies and jr members can access the bounty board to join and promote the altcoin project. Access will be unlocked once they rank up to a member or a higher rank. That's the limit that will probably have a big impact because it will encourage them improving the quality of posting. And one more thing, night mode would probably be a nice feature for user option.

I would add alert (mention/quotes) system and leave the rest as it is 

As boss I would introduce one of the important feature on bitcointalk forum and that’s (Send) and (Receive) buttons alongside our posts, helpful articles that someone posts, or something unique is done by specific user and we wish to donate them for the hard work.

Besides that, it could work as payment model on the forum. For example, paying out Service Providers on their threads. Like someone is offering Artwork, social media services, or even signature campaigns. One should get button just below their profile pic and be able to send one click money.

To make it far easier I would implement in-built forum wallet to store my bitcoins and be able to send it on one click option.

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This would be great help in the lending section also.
Once the transactions started to build up it would show the transferred amount of bitcoin for that particular and which will in turn help clients understand how much worth trust they could have on them.

For example, Dark Star as lender would top the list and can be shown under his profile based on transactions.

All of this in association with building modern forum features. I know many of them will say I can just go through my wallet and send money and shit but think about it as if you are working here and transaction features become way handy.

This might also help escrow service providers.

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Being forums leader I would restrict the number of sign ups that happen every 24 hours. This is to avoid junk accounts being created all the time. Though timing wont help much but it would slow down the process at basic level and mods would be able to track down similarities between two accounts on faster route. This is just to keep the forum as clean as it could be.

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More for the Forum Members:

As boss I think I must keep forums engagement to high adrenaline! Like I would host more competitions, challenges, and shows which will help forum members to gather and compete and play with it. This is to encourage the members to understand the crypto world since all the completions would be associated with the same.

I would design entire section for the same. Like (Bitcointalk’s Contest). Mods, staff and boss would be the one controlling posts here, I mean creating the topics etc so as to keep everything clean and focused.

So yep, there are endless possibilities to modernise the forum though it is still welcoming as it is today.

While it is in the forums best interest to keep the policy of staying out of scams, I would change that policy. If something is found to be a known scam, all accounts with said scam are perma banned as well as any and all threads related to said scam locked.

If I were the boss of this forum. then I will maintain the rules that already apply. because so far I like and comfortable with the existing rules. ( for now. )

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I will be adding or recruiting some Mods to be placed on the Board of Economy and Speculation. or on some boards that don't have a special mod yet.

and one more addition that I will add a special badge for users who have merit above 10000 merit. or it could be by adding a special Rank level for users above 5000 merit.

Plagiarism rule and ban nowadays are no longer in effect.

People can copy, paste 10 posts, get paid (if no one detects it) and no ban in any kind (post, signature, account).

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.60503952

Well that'll go against the whole idea of a free speech community. Everyone should be welcomed here, and the caught scammers already have tagged and flags that display on any thread they create so if a users still falls victim after all the warnings made available to them it's on them and not the forum.  We should learn to make security our first priority in keeping ourselves and funds safe and secure in this industry instead of depending on the third party for protection.

Majority of those that plagiarism has the intention of claiming that information that they're about to pass across as an original and received reward for them. The reward could be merit, monetary value from signature campaign they're enrolled in or a reputation for been a valuable (contributive) member therefore their punishment are well deserved.

If I am theymos, I would do one major thing, though it could be wrong to some community members but I believe that majority would like the initiative.

If I were the boss,  I would not allow known or proven scammers happily use the forum maybe just having few stashes of negative trust and then permanently ban user who copied some stuffs from the internet and forgot to insert links.

Well, plagiarist would be tagged while proven scammers would be banned.