Topic: New forum? - page 3. (Read 20463 times)
Haha, I wondered when people like this would show up on the thread.
Seriously, talking about embezzlement? Come on...
What happened?...What happened? The new software was made, and it was publicly announced that the money from the forum donations will be invested back into the forum. Why aren't you ranting about moderators getting BTC from the advertisement funds, gotten from auctioning ad slots?
FTFY Seriously, talking about embezzlement? Come on...
What happened?...What happened? The new software was made, and it was publicly announced that the money from the forum donations will be invested back into the forum. Why aren't you ranting about moderators getting BTC from the advertisement funds, gotten from auctioning ad slots?
Haha, I wondered when people like this would show up on the thread.
Seriously, talking about embezzlement? Come on...
What happened, happeneed. The new software was made, and it was publicly announced that the money from the forum donations will go towards the development of the new forum software. Why aren't you ranting about moderators getting BTC from the donation fund?
Seriously, talking about embezzlement? Come on...
What happened, happeneed. The new software was made, and it was publicly announced that the money from the forum donations will go towards the development of the new forum software. Why aren't you ranting about moderators getting BTC from the donation fund?
Waiting to see when the new forum will be 'released/opened' 
.... I think the software will be better then the actual (SMF).
.... I think the software will be better then the actual (SMF). Yes.
They can buy one or more ad slot instead using the sig. campaign 'method' to promote their startup/site, I'm sure the spam will end ...
They can buy one or more ad slot instead using the sig. campaign 'method' to promote their startup/site, I'm sure the spam will end ...
There aren't too many ad slots available. Plus they are expensive.
I can promote my own site in my signature. That can't happen if signatures are removed and I have to look at an ad slot.
Just find out my very old thread become to the No.1 thread of "New forum software" section. But year past, do we have any time schedule of the New forum?
The beta is up(not public yet) , so some more months and you can have the new forum you've been waiting for.The beta is beta.bitcointalk.org , if you want to test it out, you have to reset your pass to be able to access it though
Just find out my very old thread become to the No.1 thread of "New forum software" section. But year past, do we have any time schedule of the New forum?
I thought about removing signatures, since that'd really clean things up, but I decided that signatures (and especially sig campaigns) are too important to the culture here to remove.
I think the culture would evolve just fine. It certainly would help control all the spam posts.
Yes, maybe a test it's the better thing. Block the signature or limit the characters and see if the spam will end or not.. (I guess : yes of course !).
They can buy one or more ad slot instead using the sig. campaign 'method' to promote their startup/site, I'm sure the spam will end ...
Yes ,the spam will of course get reduced by a significant amount but why would you advertise on a site which has lost 80% (or more) of the original (at present) traffic ?---snip---
when there is nothing you can do bout it while not knowing every bit of it then it's better not to post bout it, unless you want to troll. 
Of course he had no right to "use it for whatever he wanted to" since he raised the money promising it would be used for a specific purpose.
And this purpose is? All that is said on the Donation page is that "all profit is reinvested into the forum and the community". By having a new forum made, he's fulfilling that.Even if he was 100% honest and did not use the funds for any personal enrichment
What personal enrichment does theymos get out of paying for new forum software to be made?I also like that you removed the part about the theymos shill. At least you realized you were being an idiot there.
Thank you for confirming you are ignorant or a shill. Maybe you are a Theymos sock puppet?
I have one question though, when did theymos learn Croatian and a bunch of other languages? I guess he used the BTCs for language classes. /sarcasm
If he had extra he should have refunded it since that mission was well covered by a fraction of the money. Or ask the community what to do instead.
Did the donators sign an agreement/were promised in any way that theymos would not be in charge of what use he finds for the money?He did what he thought was best, i.e making a new forum software.
Edit: You do know the difference between donating and paying someone to do something right? Anyway most of the BTC were donated at times when the price was very low, which is why everyone could afford donating the BTCs, pretty sure if the price had been that low none would have any argument about how theymos managed the money, but wait for few years, BTC price goes up, everyone starts screaming how unfair it is that theymos is handling the money
The beta is a joke, right? What features are there that required spending hundreds of thousands of dollars over picking any old forum software platform? Was the feature called "sweet kickbacks"?
Ignorant statement right here. The money was well spent and theymos had every right to use it for whatever he wanted to. The new forum is much better than what we have right now. +1 Totally ignorant.
Not "hundreds of thousands of dollars," MILLIONS of dollars.
The beta is a joke, right? What features are there that required spending hundreds of thousands of dollars over picking any old forum software platform? Was the feature called "sweet kickbacks"?
Ignorant statement right here. The money was well spent and theymos had every right to use it for whatever he wanted to. The new forum is much better than what we have right now. +1 Totally ignorant.
Not "hundreds of thousands of dollars," MILLIONS of dollars.
Pretty small amount if the group of developers that you're hiring isn't half brain dead. Not "hundreds of thousands of dollars," MILLIONS of dollars.
Yes.
They can buy one or more ad slot instead using the sig. campaign 'method' to promote their startup/site, I'm sure the spam will end ...
Or they can spend their BTC more effectively by running a sig campaign , where they get thousands of posts per BTC, or spend a relatively less amount on faucet advertising etc. Forum advertising(or even sig advertising TBH) is a waste of huge amount of money for nothing. They can buy one or more ad slot instead using the sig. campaign 'method' to promote their startup/site, I'm sure the spam will end ...
--snipe--
Yes, maybe a test it's the better thing. Block the signature or limit the characters and see if the spam will end or not.. (I guess : yes of course !).
On the other side,most of the Gambling sites or any new bitcoin related Start-ups approach the forum for advertisement of their products.Vaguely,Signature Campaigns are the easiest ways to do it (apart from promo giveaways).Do you think such Start-ups would still approach if they're unlikely to get as much exposure after stopping the signature campaigns?
Yes.
They can buy one or more ad slot instead using the sig. campaign 'method' to promote their startup/site, I'm sure the spam will end ...
On the other side,most of the Gambling sites or any new bitcoin related Start-ups approach the forum for advertisement of their products.Vaguely,Signature Campaigns are the easiest ways to do it (apart from promo giveaways).Do you think such Start-ups would still approach if they're unlikely to get as much exposure after stopping the signature campaigns?
True, I'm generally unaware of a site which doesn't have signature campaigns running on the forum(Not a sarcastic comment). --snipe--
Yes, maybe a test it's the better thing. Block the signature or limit the characters and see if the spam will end or not.. (I guess : yes of course !).
On the other side,most of the Gambling sites or any new bitcoin related Start-ups approach the forum for advertisement of their products.Vaguely,Signature Campaigns are the easiest ways to do it (apart from promo giveaways).Do you think such Start-ups would still approach if they're unlikely to get as much exposure after stopping the signature campaigns?
I thought about removing signatures, since that'd really clean things up, but I decided that signatures (and especially sig campaigns) are too important to the culture here to remove.
I think the culture would evolve just fine. It certainly would help control all the spam posts.
Yes, maybe a test it's the better thing. Block the signature or limit the characters and see if the spam will end or not.. (I guess : yes of course !).
The final theme definitely won't be this orange color. I think I'll probably start out with something vaguely blue as a callback to this forum, and see how that goes.
An option to change themes would be great as well. BTW should we discuss the bugs, new features etc on the beta forum(couple threads created by mods, dedicated to that subject)?I think the culture would evolve just fine. It certainly would help control all the spam posts.
You'd be surprised how long it takes to slowly get off from being paid for posts, something like a drug really 
I thought about removing signatures, since that'd really clean things up, but I decided that signatures (and especially sig campaigns) are too important to the culture here to remove.
I think the culture would evolve just fine. It certainly would help control all the spam posts.
Just took a look at new forum.Fast and Sleek Design!The End of Signature Campaigns ?
Signatures are going to be added back in at some point. Maybe the height limit will be smaller than here, though. I thought about removing signatures, since that'd really clean things up, but I decided that signatures (and especially sig campaigns) are too important to the culture here to remove.
The final theme definitely won't be this orange color. I think I'll probably start out with something vaguely blue as a callback to this forum, and see how that goes.
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