It was the Bitcointalk forum that inspired us to create Bitcointalksearch.org - Bitcointalk is an excellent site that should be the default page for anybody dealing in cryptocurrency,
since it is a virtual gold-mine of data. However, our experience and user feedback led us create our site;
Bitcointalk's search is slow, and difficult to get the results you need, because you need to log in first to find anything useful - furthermore, there are rate limiters for their search functionality.
The aim of our project is to create a faster website that yields more results and faster without having to create an account and eliminate the need to log in -
your personal data, therefore, will never be in jeopardy since we are not asking for any of your data and you don't need to provide them to use our site with all of its capabilities.
We created this website with the sole purpose of users being able to search quickly and efficiently in the field of cryptocurrency
so they will have access to the latest and most accurate information and thereby assisting the crypto-community at large.
Since a user has to be logged into the forum to see others' profiles and trust page, will that user's name and avatar be displayed at the top of the archived page?
Name: yes. Just like Trust summary for LoyceV. Avatar (and other images): maybe. It's going to be much easier to only copy the page, without saving images. I don't see a problem with avatars though, archive.is shows them.
Trust ratings are not moderated, and their value/accuracy is dependent on the viewer's trust network being reasonable. So they definitely shouldn't be indexed by search engines, at least: exclude it from robots.txt or use
Fair enough, I can do that
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I can't currently think of any other issues resulting from mirroring them if they're excluded from search engines.
Trust ratings are not moderated, and their value/accuracy is dependent on the viewer's trust network being reasonable. So they definitely shouldn't be indexed by search engines, at least: exclude it from robots.txt or use
I can't currently think of any other issues resulting from mirroring them if they're excluded from search engines.
Since a user has to be logged into the forum to see others' profiles and trust page, will that user's name and avatar be displayed at the top of the archived page? That's the only issue I would have with archives allowing pages to appear as they do for me when I'm logged in. Maybe your archiving tool can incorporate Suchmoon's stealth code.
As for whether it's allowed or not, I really don't know. I noticed other forums of which I'm a member don't display trade ratings in "guest" mode. There might be some privacy concerns for those who've left the feedback as well.
I often use archive.is to archive a page, and several sites offer something similar. However, those sites view the forum as guest, which means Trust isn't shown.
I'm thinking of creating a site that archives user profiles or Trust pages on request (reason why). This means that data which currenly is only available after logging in, becomes available to the internet.
If you republish forum content, please add a tag like in the header, pointing to the first page of the original topic so that Google doesn't get confused.
Before I create this, I have one question: Is it allowed to publish Trust feedback publicly? Many users including myself have posted screenshots or quoted trust already.
Later on, I might expand this to archiving forum pages including users' trust ratings. I won't make Investigations public. I'll still archive them when requested, so that (when needed) users can ask what was archived via PM.
