Topic: Suggestion on the Creation of Bitcointalk Entertainmnet Board (BTEB or BEB) (Read 34 times)

Bitcointalk forum is powered by simple machine forum and it's limited to such thing. You can look at it's features with the link I provided.

Creating a child board isn't too complex as Theymos (admin) can setup that at his will but entertainment in Bitcointalk is not what we are here for, if you want such entertainment you can use every other platform dedicated to it.

You never know what might be going through theymos' head but I highly doubt that anything remotely like what the OP proposed will end up being implemented on the forum.

I very much agree with what Solosanz says, to begin with the proposal seems to be ignorant of how the forum works now and what would have to be implemented and rather than a new board it seems that the OP is proposing another forum. If you like to watch videos and series this is not your forum, I watch them but it is not the most appropriate forum to talk about it, let alone watch them here.

Why it sounds like you suggest to create a new project instead of a new board?

You want people to watch movie in Bitcointalk like Netflix? you want people listening to music in Bitcointalk like Spotify?

Remember this forum not allow people to attach videos and sounds, you can only post the thumbnail and hyperlink to other website to watch the videos.

However, the administrator doesn't interested anymore in making money, hence he removed the ads banner.

I understand from the aspect of the adage which says, all work without play makes Jack dull, but this may not necessary be applicable on every situations, we have to be careful in other not to deviate from the main purpose of the creation of this forum itself, which is bitcoin discussions, talking about entertainment, we have series of activities like the contests which is more common and members of the forum participate, we also have the like of community award which members are permitted to apply or cast their votes and so many other activities as applicable on different sections of the forum like the reputation, meta, local board as well as speculation and so on, there are other entertaining boards like the gambling section, auctions, service discussion and so on, which i also think were quite enough to serve the same purpose of an entertainment, considering that many people have been coming with their various suggestions to the forum and not all will have to be considered except the admin sees a need for that as well as other members take on same.

I have no idea how this would sound in the ears of members but it has been a thought running through my mind to share with this great platform for some time now. Although I am not a developer to do such but I have been fascinated by this idea to be shared here. If this is not the right board for this post, moderators can move it to the right board as appropriate.

Possibly looking at having an entertainment section or board on this forum aside from the gambling board where members can just go have fun by seeing a movie, listening to music maybe joining a live premiere, or watching a documentary with historical events and happenings. This could be made accessible for everyone on this platform and if anyone is interested, they could pay in Bitcoin to download or watch a live premiere since this is a Bitcoin talk platform and people would like their identity to be anonymous but would be comfortable to pay in bitcoin with just their forum username showing which payment gateway would be fully incorporated through one's profile dashboard.

I believe this could be another major source of revenue for this platform aside from other sources already existing on this platform if there are any as members would want to make use of it as it is that most of these websites require one to register with their identity which not everybody is comfortable with but if here, members would make use of that section and it would see an increasing number in traffic here which would include entertainment industries coming to identifying with the bitcoin talk community and other partnership would take place. Not only that, organizations that have been wanting to adopt Bitcoin could see this as an opportunity to start rendering services here through sales of their movies and purchase of tickets which would have your forum name to be able to access it without getting one's real identity as it has been the nature of this platform as I observed.  This Board would be located in the Other section where the meta board, beginners, and help are found.

If Theymos could look into this idea and suggestion with the team of Bitcoin Talk developers, I believe it would go a long way to adding more value and features to this great platform and the possibility of this board becoming the most busiest and visited board on this platform as time goes on. The thread is open for further discussion and contribution to this idea by members who found it worthy to be established on this platform.