Topic: Let's make bitcointalk great again. (Read 712 times)

: what do you think needs to happen for our forum to become popular again?
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Personally I think you've raised a thought-provoking question! Despite the fact tht am just barely a few weeks old in this forum.  It's great to see your dedication to the forum and willingness to explore ways to revitalize its popularity.However, considering some these strategies can aswell go a long way in revitalizing the forum....

1.Content quality and relevance: Encourage users to create high-quality, informative, and engaging posts, focusing on valuable insights and discussions.

2.Community engagement: Foster a sense of community by promoting user interactions, recognizing contributors, and hosting events or contests.

3.Modernization and user experience: Update the forum's design and functionality to make it more user-friendly, mobile-friendly, and visually appealing

4Guest blogging and collaborations: Invite experts and influencers to share their insights, and collaborate with other crypto-related platforms.

5.Clear guidelines and moderation:Establish and enforce clear rules and guidelines to maintain a positive and constructive environment

I think by implementing these strategy, the forum can potentially attract new users nd regain its popularity. What do you think? Do you have any specific ideas or suggestions?

Domain authority of Bitcointalk is high and this is the reason every project likes a backlink from the forum. The discussions help their sites to rank up in Google.

The administrator is not interested in money. The forum already have so much money that we can buy an island. The forum is popular for project marketing team and the forum members.

Bitcoin forum is a non-commercial one and it has no need to advertise any where. Advertisement nowadays is very costly and even Bitcoin forum has budget for operations, paying staffs for their moderation jobs, it does not mean the forum need to pick pocket money for advertisement on the Internet.

With very different structure than social media, what do you expect that advertisement will help Bitcoin forum gain massive exposure and new users?

Incompatibility between Bitcoin forum and other social media platforms is big minus for any paid advertisement program.

That solution can work but I have reservations about it, I feel like if the incentive to join is only about money, I'd say that it will also attract people that doesn't have anything to contribute here. Plus, there's nothing that can be done in terms of increasing the incentives because the forum isn't that renowned around the Internet so it's really difficult to justify the money that's pumped on signature campaigns, we're already lucky to still have some signature campaigns here advertising here, it's not a matter of incentives to joining I think, this is just my opinion but I think that what we need is more visibility of the forum to the surface of the Internet, it's not enough that we're at the top search when searching for "Bitcoin Forum", we need to put in some ads on other websites, I think that's what we lack here but I'm not trying to say that's the only solution, maybe there are some and maybe this solution that I'm getting isn't even good with the staff and administrator.

Then you should create a business proposal for this forum, by explaining how to monetize it and what need to do to achieve it. Because you need to cooperate with the administrators, as they're the one who have a big impact and could make "this business" become successful.

But, I don't see theymos as someone who want to make this forum become business or he might be not interested with business, because he removed forum ads just because the forum already have enough money to fund the server and moderators. I'm not saying he's wrong though.

I would consider making Bitcointalk the best place to do business. We all see how many communication platforms are gradually gravitating towards greater convenience for business. For example, You Tube or Instagram would hardly have become so popular if it were not for the possibility of monetizing their content. Bitcointalk has a unique content monetization model. We just started talking about it, but for some reason we continue to be ashamed of it. Why is this so? This is not clear to me. Even bounty managers constantly remind you that the forum should be a hobby for you. But I think that we will face a gradual transformation in a completely different direction.

There has actually been some decline in the activeness of some prominent forum members since the ban of mixers in the forum; some of them left the forum entirely, while others are not active as they used to be.

The possible solution is that the current users should improvise by representing the prominent members that left by posting some quality posts and starting to give quality contributions, just as the past prominent members used to do, and we should make sure we are active and maintain the forum's reputation.

There is a section for gaming in the forum on the gambling board. You can also choose any betting platform that is being advertised in the forum to place your bet; most of them have Bitcoin payment methods for both deposit and withdrawal.

I don't feel like this forum has lost its popularity, at least since I was active from 2018 until now. Fluctuations in user activity can be said to be normal considering that this is a discussion forum that never binds any of its users. They may come and go and return whenever they want, but those who are interested in certain things will stay and continue their activities.

Most of the surviving users certainly have their own missions and plans. Maybe because of the business world or other reasons that support his efforts to make money. It doesn't have to be a signature campaign, of course others have their own reasons, including project development and whatever.

True, there are new members joining every day but problem is that not many of them actually stay on the forum for longer period of time and then add those old users who left or aren't as active as before and you get the current situation.

Afterall, you don't have to belive me or anyone else that says that there is a decline when you can simply head over to ninjastic.space and compare total number of posts in May 2024 with let's say May 202 and May 2022 and you will see what's the trend.  

Make it more open to discuss, share ideas, be able to criticize others no matter what the fu*k is their rank. Be yourself instead of being an ass sucker with the goal to rank high and become a DT member.

To many members use the forum to earn money instead of being selfless. Too many groupings. Too many power seekers looking for opportunity to show their power. Too many stalkers  stalking you to insult you either with a neutral tag or when they get a chance to give a red tag. The system is not bad but there are too many members who plans to use the system in their own favour and that is making things harder for low rank members and newbies, in some cases even high rank members who are independent and don't give a fu*k of any group.

It's a forum, not a corporate office where interns will be ragged by senior staffs. Stop the ragging culture, stalking culture, the forum will be a better place.

I don’t think we have any decline in the forum’s popularity because new members are joining the forum every day. Take a look at the beginner board, you will see that there are new members joining the forum everyday, this means people are knowing the forum everyday.
I will believe you that some users left the forum for good, while some users stop being active as they used to be just because of the end of mixer campaigns, but that did not stop them from sharing their contributions to the forum because most of them has already left so many important threads to remember in the various sections of the forum.

The messengers you are saying will never gain the traffic the forum will have because the forum is universal and have various sections to interact including using several languages in local bords.

There should be an entire board dedicated to gaming.

Some of the first people to mine bitcoin in history are gamers on their old-school gaming laptops back in the day.

Why is there no gaming board?

It's a massive part of internet culture, and bitcoin is money of the internet.

Many bitcoiners I know today are gamers and play games and use discord and all that.

Biggest changes are years ago, in 2018 January and September with merit system launch and demotion on Junior members without 1 earned merit, respectively.

• Merit & new rank requirements
• Enhanced newbie restrictions & requirements

There are some more changes like Trust, Feedback, DT system and community-led developments with contributions from PowerGlove and his SMF patches. Bitcointalk's important historic changes has some information for you.

People have many reasons to leave like they are rich and want to enjoy their healthy lives without connection to Internet and the forum, or they got diseases, needed cure, passed away, or they felt boring with this forum and abandoned.

Oppositely there ware people joined recently who are future of the forum. I remember that o_e_l_e_o used to be a newbie like me in 2018 but after some years, he is recognized as one of forum legends with his deep technical knowledge. Members like him might appear in future, stay positively thinking but I know such gifted people don't appear too often.

The rise of instant messaging services?  Say what, now?  I will grant you that discussion forums have lost a lot of popularity over the years, but that's been because of social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, and all those other privacy-destroying, soul-sucking entities and not what I think you're referring to.  Jesus, I remember when IM became popular back in the AOL days, which was what, nearly 30 years ago?

What's keeping this forum "great" is primarily the existence of signature campaigns and whatever other ways to earn money there are, and the popularity of bitcoin in a distant second place.  What'd make bitcointalk great again is if all the morons who came here just to wear some advertising in their signature but can barely put together a sentence, much less write 140 characters (or whatever the minimum amount is for whatever campaign) of coherent thought, would just go the fuck away and never return.

But I've been railing against those degenerates since I registered, and nothing's changed much.  At least we've got the merit system that keeps account farmers in check.  Yay for that.

I believe despite of the negative feedback observed by OP, I still think that the forum today has gained more positive developments than it was before. So I can’t tell exactly that the forum is losing already its value and is less great today, although many have left but we still have a lot of reputable and experienced members to count on. And when it comes to the current contents of the posts these days, I can still see they are still relevant to what’s happening in the universe these days, except for some newbies who are raising irrelevant and low quality topics which I think they can still find ways to improve in the future.

I do think as well that bitcointalk gets even more popular these days knowing bitcoin has become a hot topic in the social media. However, the sad part is that this forum has been full of spam posts because it’s obvious that newbies are mostly the thread openers these days, and creating some topics that are irrelevant to the forum. I’m not saying that newbies are no longer helpful in maintaining the good reputation of the forum, but if they will continue to make spam and off topic posts, I’m sure the forum will no longer attract new members that might somehow become the assets of the forum in the near future.

Bitcointalk is as popular as before because there are some searches about Bitcoin, mining, and cryptocurrency that I will do on Google, and the results I get always point me to this forum.The only thing that has changed as per the last topic I read is that the number of posts on the forum has reduced from what it used to be in the past; some old, experienced members have left too; and some old signature campaigns have ended. An example is the CM campaign, and the best change that they just recently discontinued their campaign. If the existing members continue to improve in quality topics and discussions and if some old members continue spam bursting, then the forum will just be fine. 

Based on the information I found, and I only checked for Facebook, businesses can advertise online casinos and online gambling in countries where such advertisement is legal. The advertised casinos probably need to be legit as well. But, they need to request permission to do so from Facebook and its owner company Meta. So, while it's allowed, Facebook and its owner need to approve the ads. My guess is that other social media platforms have similar rules.

There is no doubt that nature does its part, just as the price of BTC affects how low or high the pay rates in sig campaigns will be. In other words, many of us will eventually disappear from the forum, and I wonder if we will be replaced by some new people or AI bot farms that will chase senseless bounty campaigns and try to see who can produce more posts in the shortest possible time.

Already now the number of posts created by AI has a high share on the forum, and if nothing else the forum was really better before this technology existed - at least we knew that we were dealing with pure human stupidity and not with people who are so stupid that they think that AI will make them smart.

I don't know why social media platforms in Western countries don't allow casinos to promote on their platforms. Because in those countries, gambling industry is legal in most of nations. If their governments allow this industry by law, why they can not promote on social media.

Through the forum, I know that in Italy, gambling is not allowed or kind of restriction partially. In England, latest changes in policy don't allow gambling companies to advertise their brands in Premier League. Will it change in wider scale globally, it's really unknown future.

Are reasons of companies to advertise in Bitcoin forum because they are not allowed to do this on social media?
Not actually because I know many brands are advertise both on Bitcoin forum and on social media.