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I will be locking this thread, for now, thanks to those who drop and post their idea, opinion, and reviews I will just update this thread when I got a domain hopefully in a week, unfortunately, the domains that I research and found interesting are not available, those are good domains for a local forum in my country and its unfortunate that they are parked.
 
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Is it good for local forums to include other interests to attract more traffic,
Yes, it's good to get more topics going. If limited to only Bitcoin discussion, that could be monotonous and boring. Monotony, they say, kills interest. Getting other interests apart from that on Bitcoin will surely excite and energize posts and opinions. For instance, there are members who come here without having the faintest idea of what Bitcoin is. Such members should've somewhere to start from while grappling with discussions on Bitcoin.

Yeah its really boring if we can only see generic post and generic replies coming from different people but I guess the administrators already solve this issue that's why off topic boards in every local section exist. So that people can post those bitcoin or crypto unrelated stuff there. But unfortunately not everyone us using that board since most of off topic board is not monetized or their post is not counted that's why we see those off topic boards have less human interactions.
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Is it good for local forums to include other interests to attract more traffic,
Yes, it's good to get more topics going. If limited to only Bitcoin discussion, that could be monotonous and boring. Monotony, they say, kills interest. Getting other interests apart from that on Bitcoin will surely excite and energize posts and opinions. For instance, there are members who come here without having the faintest idea of what Bitcoin is. Such members should've somewhere to start from while grappling with discussions on Bitcoin.

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we all know Bitcointalk is an international forum dedicated to the promotion of Bitcoin, and being the first makes them the number one forum about Bitcoin...
No one is disputing that and I believe the major reason it remains number one and top over other fora isn't because it was the first to be created but because of its post and earn opportunity. I'm yet to see another forum that's like this forum in terms of such incentives.

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And do you have a local Cryptocurrency forum in your country?
Nope, I wouldn't say there's any of such in my country, Nigeria. However, we do have many P2P groups on WhatsApp and Telegram.
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The lazy ones are the one who go to Facebook and the rest social media, bitcointalk is like another world on its own they need to study before being conversant with the platform and those who are already deep routed into bitcointalk may likely finds it very difficult to cope with other social media. For instance, someone like me finds it very difficulty to start putting my eyes on those local site and social media because I always pay much attention to this forum.

Ehh, stop over glorifying Bitcointalk. Let's not act as if Bitcointalk is the go-to place if you're smart and research-oriented and all that — because most people here don't do research either. Very evident due to the amount of low-quality posts.
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It will delay the growth of the site, because it won't be focusing on a specific content. Google love sites with similar kinds of contents, it shows the site is enriched with bitcoin knowledge.

That's not what I know about how Google interacts with a site, Google valued the age of the domain, and unique content, so a blog with PR4 and the blog deals with the Economy and blogs about a phone that topic about a phone will rank up because the topic is in a PR4 blog because it satisfies Google parameters, so I can give you one example we have this forum about Bitcoin and there is one topic about
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UAE is the biggest buyer of Russia's gold
we can't connect UAE and its gold on topic about Bitcoin but it shows up in the first page for the keywords UAE is the biggest buyer of Russia's gold that's because there is a discussion about UAE buying Russian Gold here in Bitcointalk.

It's not about specific content, it's all about parameters

Maybe we can have a section about celebrities here in Bitcointalk after a few months all those topics will land on the first pages of Google.
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we all know Bitcointalk is an international forum dedicated to the promotion of Bitcoin
Although, Bitcointalk was created for Bitcoin purposes. However, it is later used as a cryptocurrency forum and as a platform for information related to the blockchain, cryptocurrency, announcement of new or old established blockchain projects, and announcements.

if you're going to launch a local forum is it good to add other interests like local news, local celebrity gossip, local sports to attract more local users.
The idea is good because is it wonderful for people to have what they enjoy in their spare time within the crypto ecosystem cause it will make them enjoy the time spend more and it could also woo more new users at some point.
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From what I have understood that you are going to make a forum totally different from BTT just like a new website with different domain name. Am I right? Or I misunderstood your statement. Because their is no need to buy domains etc. If you wanted to make your own board for local community here on this forum.

But I think you can not directly gain board for your local community but you will be provided or allowed to make a topic or thread in which your local community members will reply and have conversation. Just like our community.

If you wanted to made another forum dedicated to local community then either your local community will spend time there instead of here or if you wanted to make local community here on BTT if you have none then it is good idea to make one. But as per your voting I think mostly people are not in favor of making other topics in your local board such as politics and celebrities.

Because you are dedicating this forum of yours for Crypto enthusiasts which means other topics becomes non related so it is better to not add them at start. Maybe if you observe the traffic is lower then your expectations then you should include other topics too.
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I have a thread about this in my local community but I would like to ask the whole community

Is it good for local forums to include other interests to attract more traffic, we all know Bitcointalk is an international forum dedicated to the promotion of Bitcoin, and being the first makes them the number one forum about Bitcoin, if you're going to launch a local forum is it good to add other interests like local news, local celebrity gossip, local sports to attract more local users.

The strategy is to get other people with other interests in the forum to get them to know about Cryptocurrency which is the main theme of the forum.

And do you have a local Cryptocurrency forum in your country?

I would like to highlight that I am launching a local Cryptocurrency forum there's a misinterpretation of my post I should have included this, anyway got a few domain names and we are in the selection process. 

I do not think that we should include other things in the forum which have absolutely nothing to do with cryptocurrency. Bitcointalk is not a general forum for whatever, its a forum for Bitcoin first and (other) cryptocurrency second. Sure, we may have sub forums which have less to do with cryptocurrency, but they are always deeply intertwined with it.

Also, I do not see a need to attract more users. The forum is doing really well as it is.

If anything, new people coming in that have no interest in cryptocurrency in the first place might dilute the very essence of Bitcointalk itself and make it into "generaltalk". Although on the other hand, we might create interest in crypto for people who were not interested in it before. But thats not a good enough argument to overhaul our image.

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It will delay the growth of the site, because it won't be focusing on a specific content. Google love sites with similar kinds of contents, it shows the site is enriched with bitcoin knowledge. I understand, you'd want uninterested crypto folks to stumble upon cryptocurrency and pick interest. It's difficult to convert the entertainment traffics into bitcoin lovers, they'll remain completely passive about crypto. Although, few people can be converted, yet the site will suffer from distractions. The growth of your site is the first priority, so any feature that can dwindle the success of the site you're building should be removed.
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That's good, but it's unpredictable how many users will be absorbed before knowing how much interest local netizens have in entertainment topics. And tbh, I don't think people would take that long to intensively discuss something like that in a forum. From the many social media and news platforms that I know in my local area, the average visitor only makes 1 comment and then leaves, and so on.
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@OP, Let me know if you already established your local forum. I think Symbianize is the most popular forum in PH that has a mini crypto board.

It's good that you know Symbianize is a good model for what a local forum should be, it's customized to local needs many people think that a forum is not good unless its monetize for users but I still believe that there are people who take their interests to another level by being an influence in their niche, I've seen forums that are still going for many years with members having thousands of posts and there are no incentives being members.

We are still contemplating the name and the language that will be used will be in a native language.
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yeah, it's good to have a variety of topics/interests on a forum to keep people engage on other things and not just talking about cryptocurrency(it's not that there is something about it), but having those varieties doesn't mean it would attract more people or traffic to that forum. what I am saying is, while including more topics/interests on your forum is good, you'll still need more than those things in order to actually attract more traffic to your forum.
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Nope — because there's no way that people will be using Bitcointalk for things outside of bitcoin/crypto. Platforms like Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/Reddit/etc already exist for those purposes. Bitcointalk will always be a niche community.

The lazy ones are the one who go to Facebook and the rest social media, bitcointalk is like another world on its own they need to study before being conversant with the platform and those who are already deep routed into bitcointalk may likely finds it very difficult to cope with other social media. For instance, someone like me finds it very difficulty to start putting my eyes on those local site and social media because I always pay much attention to this forum.
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Nope, its not bitcointalk anymore if you put local news,celebrity discussion and other more. It became showbiz talk if you add stuff like that.

Bitcointalk should be Bitcoin and crypto topic only. And beside you could just start that discussion on out of topic section regarding on what topic you want to discuss.

The OP is suggesting this off topic on other forum that he is planning to launch on our local. He is not suggesting to add this off topic on our local board in Bitcointalk but some local board already have this off-topic thread and even the global has the off-topic board dedicated for other subject from Bitcoin. Even theymos consider the possibility of accomodating this kid of topic here in the forum to become open for anyone.

@OP, Let me know if you already established your local forum. I think Symbianize is the most popular forum in PH that has a mini crypto board.
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You can very much have a section which you feel will attract other users just as we have Off-topic and Politics & Society. You cannot guarantee that people will use those boards and they definitely cannot be the main attraction on the forum if the theme is a crypto forum.

I will recommend you just include an Off-topic section and everyone can make whatever post they will want, be it celebrity gossips or sports news (which could be in the gambling section as we have here).

Do not expect people to be attracted by one thing and then switch to another, there are already so many gossip blogs and sports outlets.
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I would like to ask for apologies to everyone there's a misinterpretation and it's my fault I should have included that I am launching a local Cryptocurrency forum there's a misinterpretation of my post I should have included this, anyway got a few domain names and we are in the selection process.
Hopefully, we'll launch next month, will be using SMF but the theme will be customized to look local.

I think I should move this thread to the project development section.
Since you are talking about a new platform which has nothing to do with bitcointalk should be moved to appropriate section as you said project development section maybe a good fit.

Attracting users who doesn't have the interest of cryptocurrency will not bring long lasting traffic to the platform, it can act as initial boost but only people with actual niche to the platform will engage into discussions.
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Is it good for local forums to include other interests to attract more traffic, we all know Bitcointalk is an international forum dedicated to the promotion of Bitcoin, and being the first makes them the number one forum about Bitcoin, if you're going to launch a local forum is it good to add other interests like local news, local celebrity gossip, local sports to attract more local users.

If we are to consider the forum like bitcointalk, there are other opportunities that comes after this aside the bitcoin discussion that is the main objective for its creation, you could also discover some recent news updates, varieties of boards that can best for any discussion matter such as politics and society board, local boards, economics, services, and many other boards where there are other opportunities there whereby people can advertise their services, get offers and make promotional campaigns etc.

The strategy is to get other people with other interests in the forum to get them to know about Cryptocurrency which is the main theme of the forum.

It's not that bad for an idea, but we have to include every necessary requirements that may be needed in doing this, the moderation alone isn't what is that easy to achieve, this is one of the standards that a platform like this has always got as an edge over others where shitpostings and scam are prevalent.
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As already pointed above we have some off topic boards and serious discussion as well on the forum to have geniune discussion apart from bitcoin and market but if you say about local news ans celebrity stuff then I am not going with that option because this forum is place for sensible discussion related to bitcoin and crypto market as a whole.But we already have lot of social media platforms like Twitter where you can have these discussions not the forum.

You know why it's most famous and growing forum as there were many other crypto related forums but don't have this much user count that Bitcointalk have because of the community participation and good knowledgeable information being shared but if we add such topics it would automatically increase spam posting with people discussing all the information about local stuff which is not needed in general sense.The forum was never intended in that manner so we should carry it that way only.
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Is it good for local forums to include other interests to attract more traffic, we all know Bitcointalk is an international forum dedicated to the promotion of Bitcoin, and being the first makes them the number one forum about Bitcoin, if you're going to launch a local forum is it good to add other interests like local news, local celebrity gossip, local sports to attract more local users.


It's good to include them but I don't think is a guaranteed way to gain people's attention more especially we that are dedicated to this forum, it could be difficult to looking into other local sections or like devoting time to read about celebrities etc why much interest is being channeled and focused on bitcoin discussion. I think this could help some of your local board users since they are from same locality with you they might be interested in reading them especially the newbies can dedicate their time to read some local news and eSport updates.
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Speaking not just about crypto forums, but all forums in general, almost all of them have off-topic boards or boards for other discussion. But usually it's not very important part of forum, located somewhere near to the bottom of it. So, I don't see any problem if you will add it to your local problem. But I really doubt that it can help you to attract more users to your forum.
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I would like to ask for apologies to everyone there's a misinterpretation and it's my fault I should have included that I am launching a local Cryptocurrency forum there's a misinterpretation of my post I should have included this, anyway got a few domain names and we are in the selection process.
Hopefully, we'll launch next month, will be using SMF but the theme will be customized to look local.

I think I should move this thread to the project development section.
It turn to be worse than it was because you're trying to become a competitor for inviting your local users to participate in your own forum. Not sure if it's can work because many users are actively in this forum because of the signature campaign, so you need to have such marketing to make people interested.

Maybe the forum administrators will not really mind about it since they said we have freedom to speech and there's no rule they will delete anything about competitor related stuff.
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I would like to ask for apologies to everyone there's a misinterpretation and it's my fault I should have included that I am launching a local Cryptocurrency forum there's a misinterpretation of my post I should have included this, anyway got a few domain names and we are in the selection process.
Hopefully, we'll launch next month, will be using SMF but the theme will be customized to look local.

I think I should move this thread to the project development section.
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It might look good at the start, meaning people who are not from English-speaking countries might get to know Bitcoin through this on your local board, but in the long run, it might deviate from the main purpose of creating this forum. Just as the Name sounds Bitcointalk,  preferably that discussion should be in line with what is happening in the Bitcoin and crypto world.
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I have a thread about this in my local community but I would like to ask the whole community

Is it good for local forums to include other interests to attract more traffic, we all know Bitcointalk is an international forum dedicated to the promotion of Bitcoin, and being the first makes them the number one forum about Bitcoin, if you're going to launch a local forum is it good to add other interests like local news, local celebrity gossip, local sports to attract more local users.

The strategy is to get other people with other interests in the forum to get them to know about Cryptocurrency which is the main theme of the forum.

And do you have a local Cryptocurrency forum in your country?
This is a bitcointalk, not KimKardashianTalk Cheesy
Btw some big local communities, like German and French boards already have an off-topic and local news section. But there is not a big demand on them. If we turn bitcointalk into Reddit, we won't be able to increase the number of customers because Bitcointalk is very old in terms of web design and functionalities. 99% of young people aren't going to leave Reddit or Twitter and come here for that purpose.


I think the aim of forum owner is to let it be alive on its own while it can. If this forum becomes a combination of Reddit, Stackexchange/Stackoverflow and Slack, then it will attract a lot of people. This will take a lot of money, time and intellectual resources.
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People who are in this forum must know about crypto and are interested in crypto so local board don't involve anyone new in crypto. not all may be proficient in English and may not understand well in this case local board can help those people to understand a topic better as there are postings in local language. People come to this forum knowing about crypto then no one comes to this forum without understanding about crypto and without any purpose. So I don't think the purpose with which you opened this topic will be served
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Is it good for local forums to include other interests to attract more traffic
  • Does local forums mean local boards in Bitcointalk or do you imply about other forums in your nation?
  • I am against this idea. Because as a forum, you have to moderate it and if you add so many things in one forum, you have to moderate different things which overwhelm your knowledge, skills and time too. It also makes that forum like a mess and it does not serve any specific user type. For instance, I did not join this forum to learn about gold, how to invest in gold, how to secure my gold bars.

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we all know Bitcointalk is an international forum dedicated to the promotion of Bitcoin, and being the first makes them the number one forum about Bitcoin
This forum is a biggest one for Bitcoin community, not because it is a first one. It is indeed because it has big brains behind, first Satoshi Nakamoto and later some other head admins, moderators and users. Strict rules are other contributors for the forum success too. Like when they saw a spam wave in 2017 ICO, they raised their voice and theymos considered a few months before a merit system was kicked off.

Forum admins, moderators and members are resources, precious ones for its success.
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Nope, its not bitcointalk anymore if you put local news,celebrity discussion and other more. It became showbiz talk if you add stuff like that.

Bitcointalk should be Bitcoin and crypto topic only. And beside you could just start that discussion on out of topic section regarding on what topic you want to discuss.
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Don't we have that option on the forum? Look at the "Off-topic section" topics and how much rubbish there is, just as there are a lot of discussions on the "Serious discussion" boards. I do not see the need to discuss the lives of the stars, so they are discussed enough wherever possible. On the contrary, I avoid it, and the forum is the only place where you can take a break from this noise.
I don't think that Bitcoin needs to be popularized in this way; it's more important to have people who purposefully go after knowledge, not to be like their idols.

Well, in our local thread Pakistan, we discuss everything, which includes crypto plus non-crypto issues/ information too. I guess the local community can contribute much better as compared to the threads like off-topic etc.
I do not know about other local boards but I will agree that you can discuss non-crypto stuff in local threads, and moreover, in local boards, it will be more easily to classify topics as different threads can be made there.

Also, in a local community, you can attract the non-crypto people to your local thread with generic topics and from there groom their interest in cryptocurrencies and bitcoin.
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Ask your local board mod, he will request the creation of such a sub-board from @theymos, and then the choice is for theymos to either create sub-board or refuse, but the local mod is responsible for ensuring that that board does not turn into spam. if the members of your board make high-quality posts, they will it will be easy to add more sub-boards. why they need off-topic sub-board, they can ask for New boards like Economics/Marketplace sub-boards which is better than off-topic.
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I'd say this is just a hidden way to increase post count for quota campaign Roll Eyes

AFAIK all campaign managers who are accepting post in local board don't mind to count post that don't have any relation with Bitcoin, crypto, project or the forum general. Discussing a local thing is more easier and people can create long post, so the managers will just count the post since it's long and looks high quality.

Either theymos want to add it, I don't mind. But I hope the signature space isn't visible on those kind board Roll Eyes
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I have a thread about this in my local community but I would like to ask the whole community

Is it good for local forums to include other interests to attract more traffic, we all know Bitcointalk is an international forum dedicated to the promotion of Bitcoin, and being the first makes them the number one forum about Bitcoin, if you're going to launch a local forum is it good to add other interests like local news, local celebrity gossip, local sports to attract more local users.

The strategy is to get other people with other interests in the forum to get them to know about Cryptocurrency which is the main theme of the forum.

And do you have a local Cryptocurrency forum in your country?

My local board (Indonesia) already has 'Off-Topic' subsection so all those topic you mentioned belong there, if your local-board hasn't had 'Off-Topic' section, I think there is no harm adding that. However tho, I don't know why people would want to discuss about celebrity and sports on a bitcoin forum, there are so many places you can discuss those kind of thing.
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Don't we have that option on the forum? Look at the "Off-topic section" topics and how much rubbish there is, just as there are a lot of discussions on the "Serious discussion" boards. I do not see the need to discuss the lives of the stars, so they are discussed enough wherever possible. On the contrary, I avoid it, and the forum is the only place where you can take a break from this noise.
I don't think that Bitcoin needs to be popularized in this way; it's more important to have people who purposefully go after knowledge, not to be like their idols.
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The strategy is to get other people with other interests in the forum to get them to know about Cryptocurrency which is the main theme of the forum.
It does make sense to add other non-crypto related stuff, but honestly I don't think that it will help much to attract users. Older forum users are already used to forums where they spent years (that probably have crypto subforum) while younger audience prefer other means of communication.


And do you have a local Cryptocurrency forum in your country?
We did have several attempts, but none managed to get any traction. By far the biggest and the most active crypto community (when it comes to forums) in my country usually hangs out in an already established general type of forum that's been around since early 2000s and that has dedicated crypto child board. That's where I heard about Bitcoin for the first time back in 2013 and where I used to discuss crypto related stuff until 2019 when I decided to join this forum.

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Nope — because there's no way that people will be using Bitcointalk for things outside of bitcoin/crypto. Platforms like Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/Reddit/etc already exist for those purposes. Bitcointalk will always be a niche community.
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I have a thread about this in my local community but I would like to ask the whole community

Is it good for local forums to include other interests to attract more traffic, we all know Bitcointalk is an international forum dedicated to the promotion of Bitcoin, and being the first makes them the number one forum about Bitcoin, if you're going to launch a local forum is it good to add other interests like local news, local celebrity gossip, local sports to attract more local users.

The strategy is to get other people with other interests in the forum to get them to know about Cryptocurrency which is the main theme of the forum.

And do you have a local Cryptocurrency forum in your country?

I would like to highlight that I am launching a local Cryptocurrency forum there's a misinterpretation of my post I should have included this, anyway got a few domain names and we are in the selection process. 
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