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Findingnemo

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Quote from: Jet Cash on September 20, 2020, 04:00:24 AM

Voting means that someone has to preselect the candidates.
I thought it might be best just to run a thread where people could suggest suitable members for a reward ( not themselves ). Then I would reward the most popular, provided they are in my ignore list

, and there were no obvious objections. Other members could use the list to give rewards as well of course.

Good idea though but when people hear merit as rewards then they will come up with useless topics with a highly constructive first post along with a source at the end that is what I don't really like.

Jet Cash

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Voting means that someone has to preselect the candidates.
I thought it might be best just to run a thread where people could suggest suitable members for a reward ( not themselves ). Then I would reward the most popular, provided they are in my ignore list

, and there were no obvious objections. Other members could use the list to give rewards as well of course.

LoyceV

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Quote from: Jet Cash on September 20, 2020, 03:31:09 AM

I'll offer 25 merits each to the 4 posters who are voted to have made the best contributions over the next week.

Who gets to vote? Everyone?

Rikafip

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Quote from: virasog on September 19, 2020, 06:47:22 PM

Does this chart shows that the most active users on this forum are from Russia ? They have made more than 10,000 posts in a month of August.

That chart just shows that by far most active local board is Russian, and it's like that pretty much every month.

Quote from: virasog on September 19, 2020, 06:47:22 PM

Can I have the full data of all the countries and how accurate is this data ?

Data I am using for these charts comes from @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard, an excellent tool where you can find various info for each local board, things like most merited posts, most merited topics, users etc.

Since March 2020 I am making Brief monthly overview of the local boards activity where you can see local boards compared.

Quote from: Jet Cash on September 19, 2020, 09:09:55 AM

I'm starting to notice that several forums, including Bitcoin Talk, are not as active as they were a while ago. Also many of the threads and posts seem to be of lower quality. I would have thought that the lock downs would have increased activity, but maybe people are playing games and watching Netflix instead. I'm increasing my domain development, so maybe it is just that I'm spending more time on the net, and getting impatient. Has anyone else noticed a slowdown?

Part of the problem might be that younger generations are less likely to join forum, they prefer Discord/Telegram. Another factor might be that forum software is outdated (even though I personally like it as it looks like others forums I am using for many years), there is no things like mobile phone support etc and that also can affect amount of new people that are joining, while older ones are getting bored/tired. I am very active on 2 other forums (not crypto related), and situation is pretty similar in that regard.

Jet Cash

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Well lets see if we can get things moving again. We need to stop obsessing with the stats, and start to develop interest in crypto, the economies, changes to fiat currencies, and various other currencies. I had a go with my threads on selling domain names for Bitcoin, both assets are increasing in value, and I'm surprised that there isn't any interest.

We have it in our power to improve things, so lets start making some interesting posts. I'll start with a stimulus thread, I'll offer 25 merits each to the 4 posters who are voted to have made the best contributions over the next week.Do you think 25 is enough, or should I make it 50.

The Sceptical Chymist

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Since I put Polo7 and Bitcoin SV on ignore, this part of page one of what my "unread posts" looks like:

I have a lot of sections on ignore, mind you. Gambling, Bitcoin Discussion, and the entire altcoin section--but man, it really seems like there haven't been a lot of really interesting threads as of late. And as I said before, I thought it was me losing interest in the forum. It's not, though. There used to be tons of threads that I could voice an opinion in (and that was with all those sections on ignore anyway), but now it's like a desert.

erikoy

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we are still here actively participating in the forum discussions. May others had been inactive for the moment because of their reason but it will just be for the moment and everything will be back to normal again.

Quote from: lovesmayfamilis on September 19, 2020, 11:25:38 AM

Frankly speaking, participation in bounty campaigns was not limited to one account in the past. Each bounty hunter had several alternatives. Today, bounty requirements have become tough, and a lot of people on the forum are tracking cheating. From here, you can calculate the real number of people that could have been on the forum in the past, if by that time you apply today's conditions.

Definitely right, It seems that most active here are the bounty hunters. Bounty hunters are spreading awareness to the internet. It became rampant actually before the implementation of rank and merit system. I was a jr. member that time and one of the users that gets demoted to newbie from not earning a single merit. It was tough time because the implementation did not reach me and I was not expecting for it to happen. Still I find way to reach at my current status.

Quote from: Eureka_07 on September 19, 2020, 10:38:08 AM

I really hope that some worthy bounty to come up and atleast give those bounty hunters what they deserved.

I have wrote something about the bounty hunters all blame to bounty hunters I am also after the welfare of those who are promoting bounty projects following the rules and regulations of the forum. I just wish that bounty hunters and all users wearing signature will get financial rewards they deserve as well.

dkbit98

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No.
It only shows local sections, and russian have most posts, and that is normal if we know size of Russia and it's population.
Most posts are in english language.

virasog

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Quote from: dkbit98 on September 19, 2020, 04:19:36 PM

Quote from: Rikafip on September 18, 2020, 06:22:43 AM

If we look at our local Croatian section we are doing just fine and we are active and making more or less good posts, and have normal discussion.
As for rest of the forum it is true that quality and quantity of posts has gone down, and I don't see many new genuine people joining the forum.
Young people who are into crypto never even heard about Bitcointalk, and I am directing them to join here, but often times they can't register in forum (evil fee or try later).
We are near 2021 and we do need changes to keep up with progress.

Does this chart shows that the most active users on this forum are from Russia ? They have made more than 10,000 posts in a month of August.
Can I have the full data of all the countries and how accurate is this data ?

FIFA worldcup

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Quote from: Jet Cash on September 19, 2020, 09:09:55 AM

I'm starting to notice that several forums, including Bitcoin Talk, are not as active as they were a while ago. Also many of the threads and posts seem to be of lower quality. I would have thought that the lock downs would have increased activity, but maybe people are playing games and watching Netflix instead. I'm increasing my domain development, so maybe it is just that I'm spending more time on the net, and getting impatient. Has anyone else noticed a slowdown?

You may see an overall decrease in the forum posts and activity because of the new system in place. Now you cannot rank up with only activity and many account farmers have left the forum.
I think the current activity of the forum is more likely a genuine one and consists of users who are actually interested in the forum. Although there may be some account farmers still exists but those numbers are decreasing.

andulolika

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Been years people quitting this forum for obvious reasons, it is a shame from a perspective but thank satoshi bitcoin is decentralized.

CarnagexD

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Quote from: Findingnemo on September 19, 2020, 01:55:36 PM

Even since the introduction of merit system we could see drastic change in the activity on bitcointalk which is probably due to account farms stopped their working. Cheesy

Account farming has been reduced lol didn't we have that user who got almost 100 accounts connected? the are crushing the bounty campaigns back then earning thousands of stacks when the project succeeded, it seems quiet now huh.

Quote from: Findingnemo on September 19, 2020, 01:55:36 PM

And since the lockdown people got kore lazy including me so spending time on starring the videos over doing something productive or learning something.

I feel it too, it feels like I woke up everyday just to waste another time of my life. I quite lose interest in gaming these days, which I thought would save me from being bored, then it gets boring every time I play Sad

I'm not used to this

DaveF

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tvplus006 has a thread with monthly stats, although it was not updated for August:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/statistics-bitcointalkorg-5206041

Without any hard numbers all I can give are seat of the pants feelings.
I left some comments in the other thread about why I feel some people might have left here.

With what other people have said about the Covid / work from home thing I can also add that people working from home might be doing more "wandering" around the net.
I know I was about to post a reply to something here the other day but wound up looking for dinner recipes and never came back to post.

So more time on line, and possibly more time on forums but just more / different ones.

-Dave

dkbit98

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Quote from: Rikafip on September 18, 2020, 06:22:43 AM

If we look at our local Croatian section we are doing just fine and we are active and making more or less good posts, and have normal discussion.
As for rest of the forum it is true that quality and quantity of posts has gone down, and I don't see many new genuine people joining the forum.
Young people who are into crypto never even heard about Bitcointalk, and I am directing them to join here, but often times they can't register in forum (evil fee or try later).
We are near 2021 and we do need changes to keep up with progress.

CryptopreneurBrainboss

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It quite obvious and the merit system has alot of contribution to the decrease in activity on the forum. Before now an account farmer could easily spam his or her way to higher ranks using multiple accounts posting randomly on the forum and it'll appear like the forum is been engaged by different users not knowing it's just a cycle of account farmers. But with the introduction of the merit system the activity becomes useless if you don't have the required merit needed for each rank.

Assuming we didn't have this system put in place before the lockdown probably the forum would had turned into something else and become inhabitable as there won't have been any quality discuss left as a result, driving away quality contributors.

Slowly the activities will come back up, lets just give it time, just have to support @Findingnemo thought too because personally I notice some reduction in my productivity. The lockdown did make us more lazy than productive and it'll require some time to return to normal.

Findingnemo

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Even since the introduction of merit system we could see drastic change in the activity on bitcointalk which is probably due to account farms stopped their working. Cheesy

And since the lockdown people got kore lazy including me so spending time on starring the videos over doing something productive or learning something.

LoyceV

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Quote from: Jet Cash on September 19, 2020, 09:09:55 AM

I would have thought that the lock downs would have increased activity, but maybe people are playing games and watching Netflix instead.

Maybe they used to use the forum in quiet hours in the office, and now they're stuck working from home with the kids around. This must be valid for at least some people, I have a hard time being productive when they're around.

Quote from: crwth on September 19, 2020, 11:50:28 AM

I thought that it's always better to use the number of online members in the forum rather than seeing the post count

I check active users occasionally, and I didn't keep exact records, but it seems to be quite stable.

Quote from: notblox1 on September 19, 2020, 01:06:13 PM

they switched to telegram and twitter.

And Discord. I don't like either one of those platforms. It's all just a big flow of messages without the structure of different boards and topics.

notblox1

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Quote from: Jet Cash on September 19, 2020, 09:09:55 AM

I'm starting to notice that several forums, including Bitcoin Talk, are not as active as they were a while ago. Also many of the threads and posts seem to be of lower quality. I would have thought that the lock downs would have increased activity, but maybe people are playing games and watching Netflix instead. I'm increasing my domain development, so maybe it is just that I'm spending more time on the net, and getting impatient. Has anyone else noticed a slowdown?

I also noticed exactly the same thing and I would agree with you. Sometimes I have really hard time finding some good quality topic or discussion to join.
Post quality is way lower than usual, maybe because of multiple things like covid or some people just don't use forums like before, and they switched to telegram and twitter.
Maybe it is time to shake things up and change some forum rules.

tranthidung

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Same data above, but I played a bit and categorised them by weeks.
No multiplier in those plots.
Statistics fluctuate but not actually in a downtrend (as shown by the time-series plot in previous post)

crwth

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I thought that it's always better to use the number of online members in the forum rather than seeing the post count, new topics, new members, etc. Maybe that could form a better perspective on it. Maybe a lot of people as well have been focusing on other things that is necessary for them to continue on living especially with the economy today and just read. When I'm AFK and on my mobile phone, I mostly read topics but too lazy to type on my phone because I'm slower compared to keyboard typing. Maybe it's just me, lol.

It's also possible that since you have been more exposed to the forum (spending more time on the net) that you think that the activity lessened but in reality, you just noticed it more but it's still the same.

Maybe tranthidung could provide also the members online or something. For additional data and variable. Shocked

Quote from: Jet Cash on September 19, 2020, 11:41:26 AM

I would have thought that people would have been interested in ways to earn money online, and that is why I started my domaining thread in serious discussion.

It's definitely the aim of people now but what I think what hinders them is themselves. they want it fast or just too lazy to do it and doesn't believe much that you could earn money online.

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