Topic: Request: New Local Board for Pakistan (Urdu) - page 9. (Read 4750 times)

What Cyrus has advised 6 years ago, to go for the 600 pages in our local thread, we have achieved it today 

Yes, our local thread has now 600+ pages finally. I think we are now very close to a local board.
I know this is not any criteria but still, this means that we are very active as a community.

Yes this is really a good idea. Not even Pakistan's community members the others who have free space for signature who support us and think that the Pakistan's community deserve the Local board.
This may help us more and as you say it will show unity.

I also hope others will also wear the signature if they are not in any campaign.

This is excellent work being done by one of our members to design such pretty signatures for the Pakistan local board. We are all very much excited and hopeful to get our local boards in 2023.


Almost every one of us has worn this signature who is not in any campaign. I wish people outside the local thread can wear this signature if their signature space is free and show unity in our cause for the creation of a local board.

We are active in our thread and improving more.
Still waiting for the announcement from administration. And I am pretty sure that we will get our local board as soon as possible.
And many of us has wore the signatures and all of has changed their personal message and we are requesting for our local board.

I am very sure the administrator will consider this request very soon. All we need is keep this thread active. Meanwhile the Pakistani community has become more active as their total number of posts for Dec 2022 are 305, which is more than Nov 2022 when there were 282 posts.
It's the only most active community that has no separate board.

I think there is no set criteria for the creation of a local board and hence it is never told publicly or officially. For example, if it was publicly stated that you need to have this many active members, these many posts, these many merits, etc, then maybe the local thread participants may try to engage in artificial discussion only to achieve the numbers.

But since nothing is told about the eligibility of the local board, it seems that forum admins want to create the local board on the natural activity, and it is good in my opinion.

It makes no sense for them to say, at least all, the criteria used. Because that could facilitate the vitiating of these same criteria, or at least try to do so.

On the other hand, in my opinion, the criteria used go far beyond the information we all have access to here on the forum. It is possible to collect a lot of information about the forum internally, which only administrators with access to the backoffice of the server have access.

Oops! That was my mistake I was thinking to write "We are even deserve for local board. "
There was a mistake by me. I have edited my main post too.
 And you are right this big ? on the management they are even not telling the criteria too.

How did you know that you are eligible for local board and it is not given you?
That was when I was si frustrated about the whole issue of getting a Nigerian Local Board. The admin was so silent till I asked similar questions like yours. But a much more senior member told me that theymos may not be able to say any criteria so that you won't go and falsify it.
The best thing is to go back to your local hang out and put your minds together and increase your activity. Yours could be next.

I am surprised by the silence of the management.  I don't know why we have to wait so long.  We are even deserve for local board.  Again we plead that we be given a local board if not at least told what our requirements are and what we have to do to get our local board.

We are waiting for the announcement from management.

I hope in the end your request can be granted by the forum adim. Nigeria has had some success with it recently, and I have no doubt the success of other requests for other local board including Pakistan. Maybe it's only a matter of time until this request is granted, I hope as soon as possible because I don't think I can find a reason why not support this request.

Good luck brother, and I hope that next year you will announce that success.

Thank you joker_josue yes now there is no turning back
We will keep working on it and we also have our telegram Pakistan Bitcointalk Community Chatroom almost all of the current users are part of it with 60+ members now.

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I don't think that should be the case since bitcointalk is based on SMF. It should be very straightforward to create a new board. But yes regarding management and assigning moderators means giving more work to admins. 

Also when all the discussions in the local board are in native language it is not possible for moderators to cash spam any possible scam early on. Unless it's reported by native speakers themselves.

So this might be the reason why theymos is reluctant to create a new board that often.

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Thank you so much BitcoinGirl.Club your kind words are so encouraging for us.

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Exactly and specially when discussion is in the local language it's almost impossible to get any noticeable merits.

Regarding our request for the local board, the main reason is our Urdu language community. Urdu is the 10th-most widely spoken language in the world and being the national language of Pakistan many users who can't speak or not fluent in English will stay away from any constructive discussions. 

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I have seen this thread before but never paid attention to the birthdate, if you look closely on the cosmic scale of bitcointalk changes it looks like  Pilipinas, 日本語 (Japanese) and العربية (Arabic) boards were created as recently as yesterday around 2016/2017.

Keeping this in mind along with the newly created board, our wish seems to be coming true sooner than expected.

Few more local boards have been created since 2015 (excluding Nigerian ofc), you might wanna check History of local boards.


Where exactly I mentioned merits in my post as one of the criteria for a local board? Quality>quantity" has nothing to do with merits btw.

Since 2015, i have seen only Nigerian board being created recently. I am not aware if any other board is created since that time.

Lots of discussions and active participation can be one of the reasons for the creation of a local board, don't think a lot of merits should be the criteria or it can be if we are looking for quality.

You have registered on the forum back in 2015 so how many how new boards addition you have seen from @theymos till then? It's not that if there is no drawback they will have it implemented on the urgent basis and they will take time considering lot of factors.The Nigerian community has it's own board after years of request and actively participating in the local thread discussion with lot of merits as well so @theymos have a separate board for them now.So now same is the case with Pakistani board as well and if @theymos find it suitable he will make addition for it if he find it's needed otherwise they can keep their request bumped and community support in future.

Imho, the main reason why those in charge are not so easy with creation of new local board is because many of them are now either semi-dead or dead (take a look at Japanese board whihc was the last created before Nigerians got their own) so they want to be sure (as much as possible) that the same thing won't happen with new ones too. Regarding moderators assignment, I don't think that's an issue as some other local boards don't have their own and function pretty good even without it.


While I do think that you deserve local board sooner than later, you should be prepared for a longer wait and you shouldn't get into pessimistic mode if you don't get it within few weeks or even few months. Imho, you should have started this topic years ago but better late than never.


Quality>quantity.

Waiting for days and weeks seems reasonable but Pakistan local threads do not deserve a wait for years. I am saying this because we are very active in our local community and deserve a local board sooner.

Once we get the local board, it will increase the activity also and I am sure it will turn out to be the most active local board.  Just like we stand out among local threads, we will show our impression among local boards also.  

There are few local boards which are not very active (I dont wanna name any). Like they have last post 15 to 20 days back or in others its over month since last post is made. If you see Pakistan thread then its very much clear that its active since last 3 to 4 years. With time more members are joining in and the activity will increase. Lets just be patient and have faith in admin aka theymos.

You must be not a regular in forum related discussions or you would see admin usually takes time (long time) before implementing anything that is new or any request. I am sure he does his own research before agreeing with something and he manages his own time in it. In this particular case for the local board, they need patience. The proposal has been given already now wait few days, weeks, months or even years to get it approved.

Exactly, wake up and you will find the desired board.